skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about being squeamish. It's about having better options.

My ancestors (up to a generation ago) lived in a place that was a frozen wasteland for half the year (so no bugs for all that time) and basically subsisted off grains, cabbage in various stages of decomposition and products of animals that could actually survive long enough to be useful.

As efficient as it seems today to be able to farm crickets, for farmers a few generations ago it would have been much easier to simply keep a few cows, pigs, and plant things than waste time trying to catch crickets and grasshoppers who can't even survive the winter. There's a reason the cultures who do eat bugs do so opportunistically and don't waste a ton of resources on it.
I'm waiting for the reveal of what Apple does with state actors, and I am waiting for the evidence there can be anything close to 'sunlight on certificates' or other forms of transparancy around what they do. So, yes, we win when Apple fights for our privacy. What I need to understand is what we lost in this, and what compromises lie underneath, and how much the state(s) at large secured wins which we aren't winning on, they are.

Key escrow for instance. Insights into phone use. Monetisation of information feeds forbidden to third parties.

I still prefer signal to iMessage.
You are missing the point. Entities like National Enquirer are not like Gawker that was bankrupted by Thiel with his wealth might. These entities are funded by politics aka American GDP aka your tax dollars. As Bezos clearly outlined in this letter, Trump administration helped these people have very lucrative deals with Saudies to get their financing, very likely, US government doing some favors to Saudies in return. Even if Bezos managed to bankrupt them, they will immediately popup with new name pretty much next day, by same owners and would run in exact same way doing exact same things. You can't kill it.
What are the n most useful knots for sailors? Other outdoorspeople? Eagle scouts? All-round handy problem-solver types?
Very interesting. No obligation but if you're bored feel free to expand!
Because my partner gets turned on by it, and I enjoy doing that.
I have never argued against the benefit of paid parental leave. The claim that it is most people's dream life (A claim which you reject) implies that it provides some benefit to the people receiving it; otherwise, why would they opt to take it.

I made no claim as to the 'naturalness' of this right. I honestly don't really care, because that is completely non-germaine to my argument, which is that a year long leave leaves many companies vulnerable to the possibility of leachers like myself, and many others, for whom it's very straightforward to have a child every year or so. This is not a problem with shorter leaves. Most people cannot have two children in two months.
I doubt Bezos is going to stop at a legal thumping. He has the resources to destroy every dollar Pecker ever saw, ever dollar any of his employees or friends ever saw. I have little doubt many people in Bezos's employ have already developed multiple branch and sequel plans to ensure their boss never even has to acknowledge Pecker's homelessness in a cold city in winter.
Does anyone else remember when Google said it would put un-constrained funds into independent news sources to ensure un-biassed independent news was available?

Did that stop? Did it work?
Gawker destroyed themselves
And that's because the web wasn't meant to be an application platform. It got turned into one on top of html/css.
This is exactly what I'm doing right now. Small businesses are being thrown HTML files and told to figure it out, it's crazy.

So I do the opposite and take care of everything. Design, build, deploy, maintain and update. I'm not a designer, but I take cues from their logos, menu, etc. I run it in the nearest AWS region for low latency, optimize all the assets, http2, etc. I strive to follow every best practice, within reason.

For a craft beer pub[0], I pull their current beers on tap from the Untappd![1] API, so the beers are always up to date. I also made a beautiful responsive menu that works great on mobile, tablet and desktop.

Where I'm really lacking is in self promotion. I do great work, but putting myself out there and selling myself is difficult. I will get there, though!

I'm doing this all to land a job doing front-end web dev somewhere I can grow my skills more. I came to programming late, but it is my passion.

Any thoughts on my site[2] would be much appreciated.

[0] https://tangentcafe.ca

[1] https://untapped.com

[2] https://jeremypoole.ca

Edit: formatting
Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series features a library that connects to multiple parallel worlds, with the portals anchored by books in its collection that are variants unique to that world. e.g. an original edition of Grimm's fairy tiles with extra stories. The library is big enough to have an internal transportation network.
yep exactly that
My post, The Washington Post. ;)
I'm sorry, but how else would you write about this story? Is the NY Times just supposed to not cover it? The story is literally the post by Jeff Bezos, which they link to first in their article.
I have your same requirements, but on top of those I'd also like a service that is as robust as possible against SIM swapping attacks, since, for better or worse, the vast majority of the financial institutions I use only support SMS as 2FA.

I've heard that Google Voice is pretty tough to exploit, since they "lock" the portability of your number by default, and in general contacting Google support is almost impossible compared to the other carriers. For that reason, all my 2FA currently go through my GV number.

Though I also read that some advanced attackers have gone as far as faking porting documents to make the ported-to operator "steal" (unfortunately I don't know the right technical terms here) the number from the ported-from one, regardless of the locking, but I don't know if this would apply to GV as well.
gawker deserved everything it happened and more. https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1444591425984.jpg
How well does it do in production though and what happens when multiple algos execute the same trades? Does it cause the rest of the algos to adapt and change results? It makes sense to back-test together and work on it, but if it's proven to work, someone will create something to monitor volume on those trades and work against it. I'd be curious to see the same algo do 300% in production, and if so, then my bias would be uncalled for.
Dr. Drang on Apple SVPs
I don't buy that "buying your shit at huge markup from a local shop" is some great boone to a community. It's effectively a tax on everyone in town, subsidizing the one family that owns the shop. There are plenty of businesses that are more local-friendly, but household necessities aren't one of them.
I am struggling to think of a way in which prohibiting the sharing of such information could be made illegal. The checkpoints are publicly visible activities of public employees. The right to photograph and video record police when acting in an official capacity is well established. If anything, noting their location seems less intrusive and more likely to represent a protected form of speech.
It would be disappointing if Google and Waze capitulated to this demand. DUI checkpoints are unconstitutional and of questionable value.
Exploiting microtime moments in information flows is (in my view) parasitical on the real element of information-flow in markets. I don't think profiting in 10us of speed advantage seeing a thing, and acting on a thing, is itself market-informing and so it has to be (kind of definitionally) market-distorting.

algorithmic trading is market distorting. its not actually helping "us" with real value for our futures, funds, company value. Its not informed trade on real conditions, its trade on the mechanistic moments in trading message flows.

its a really bad feedback of second-order differential.
For me I get instant pot deals every day.
,,Or can't abstain from eating cake every other day because it'd offend their partner to reject something they made.''

This sounds crazy... though I'd never reject a cake that my girlfriend makes. She's a dietitian, 45kg (99 lbs) / 165cm, and I admire her discipline in restricting the amount of both fat and sugar in her diet (and the food she makes...you know cakes don't have to be that bad). She's my model for eating healthy.

At the same time I was 2-3 times in the U.S., and I went into a fast restaurant once, as I didn't know where I should go to eat (later I found out about Whole foods, that was my go to fast food location).

What was really funny for me, that you could buy 1l of coke, and you could refill it for free. I thought it's just marketing, as I wouldn't imagine any person being able to drink more than 1l of that sh*t. Guess what, I was disproved in 5 minutes. I mean do people really hate living that much in the U.S.?
Italian is the original fake Latin.
The NYPD have no legal recourse to do so regardless of their demands so it shouldn't make any difference.
I reported this bug when I worked at Google and tried to help the team fix it and they persistently ignored every effort. Still happens basically every time I search for a term in Google: it will show me articles about that for a long time no matter how many times I click show me fewer.
The Saud family won't spend a dime on this. What do you do with a dangerously incompetent employee? You fire them.
Also using AWS for the National Enquirer website including Route 53 for DNS https://twitter.com/ryanhuber/status/1093665718464327680
This seems like absolutely the right strategic move in his position.
This is one of those civil liberties issues that seems like such a flagrant violation of First Amendment rights that it is shocking that colleges even dare to try to stamp it out, let alone get away with it. (Filming of police in public is another one.)

But one of the reasons why colleges have moved in this direction is because of student complaints.

Having to walk through a line of street preachers, leafleters, protesters, political advocates, etc. every day just to get to class can certainly be a minor hassle. This is the era of safe spaces, and although it's totally cool to have safe-space restrictions in private places, it's totally not cool to do the same in public spaces.

Beyond that, having protesters with big signs and angry voices smack dab in the middle of the campus square can be embarrassing for school administrators, who are under pressure to make campus seem serene and idyllic to prospective students on a campus tour.

So it can be really tempting, both from students' and administrators' point of view, to put restrictions on this kind of speech and confine protestors and others whom the university hasn't rubber-stamped to certain out-of-the-way locations.

But the Constitution protects public speech even if it might cause minor inconvenience or irritation to students or administrators.
This. I, and almost every regular longhaul international flyer I see on comments/forums online say its the favourite experience inside the shell.

The 350 and the 777x may rank alongside. The 787 is only good in superior classes.

The 380 is by far the smoothest, quietest experience in the air for >10h flights.
The article sounds a bit naively clueless, like the world leaders don't know what genocides are and what could lead to them. They are the ones who approve covert and overt operations that start all the conflicts leading to genocides. They definitely know how war propaganda works and how and why genocides are made. They have no problem with mass killings to begin with and they definitely wouldn't want some model to stop them. Selling wars and genocides to the public is in their job descriptions.
Jeff Bezos has mentioned before that he tries to make big decisions from a “regret minimization framework”.
What makes you think they're not?

Reportedly, duck duck go are now serving over 1 billion searches per month. If they're earning, say, $0.01 per search from ads, well... you do the math. Not bad for a small startup company with 55 employees.
My understanding is that the consensus number used for eg retirement planning was 6% real (after inflation) annual returns for decades, but today (“secular stagnation” etc) I’d probably conservatively calculate with 5% or even 4%.
> I've told you about the kind of data they collected, how it was used

No, you've only talked about what currently happens when everything is working properly. What happens if the company ends up in financial trouble; to they have a Ulysses Contract[1][2] on record that binds their future ability to monetize all of this data? Without legal enforcement, we just have to hope this company will somehow resist the temptation that most other companies are not able to resist.

> what specifically about that data flow bothers you?

> it generates a UUID

That's obviously personally identifying, which it's a header in all of the analytics you describe. Just because it's synthetic doesn't make it anonymous. Once it's mapped back to other information - which is trivial if you correlate IPs[3] or event timestamps[4] - this type of analytics is only an INNER JOIN away from being merged into someone's pattern-of-life[5].

The problem isn't what happens when everything works as intended. You need to also prepare for when (not if) your data is merged into other databases, and what others might do with the data in a future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlN6wjeCJYk

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17170468

[4] Take a set of "UUID 1234... launched app" events for a common app that is regularly launched e.g. when someone wakes up (or whenever). Correlate those times to other times that also happen to be launched (or webpages/email visited) at similar times. What are the odds that two unrelated people just happened to open different apps [..., 2019-02-04T10:11:22, 2019-02-06T10:17:44, 2019-02-07T10:14:52, ...] (+/- maybe 30 seconds)? A unique identifier and a few high resolution (seconds) timestamps can easily identify someone uniquely when you have enough data points.

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-of-life_analysis
Also, how is it that the AMI guy misspelled this phrase in his email (added a "k" to the end). I'd think he'd be quite familiar with this term, given his line of work.
As Bezos states in his post, he already gets tons of crap from Trump and other idiots that he uses WaPo for personal ends (mainly because these other amoral characters couldn't believe themselves owning a newspaper and not using it as a personal propaganda outlet). He's wise to post this on a neutral platform and not give his enemies any more ammunition.
You might overestimate how much people care to pour into the National Enquirer. Or I might underestimate it, sure. Time will tell.
Well they have broken some amazing stories, they pretty much ended John Edwards career in the face of a lot of criticism. They broke their first in 2006 and followed up with the final is 2008.

so while tabloids can be annoying they sometimes are capable of breaking a story, usually only the sordid type, but those can be amazing
Wells Fargo is nothing more than a federally regulated crime organization, supported by the federal reserve and the American tax payer, but I digress.

This thread has primarily focused on redundancy and software architecture. That could be the case, but there is no better way to fight proxy war via hacking of banks. It’s a domino effect... pull your money out of the bank, the bank calls loans, then there is credit crunch, investors lose confidence in the stock, value lost etc... the enemy has secretly inflicted civilian problems across the economy. Distrupting the banks and the flow of money can lead to a revolution... or take your mind off of America’s enemy or diverting energy else where.
> cool legal system we have where you can literally pay to win

No, because he is not rewriting any laws. The laws are already on his side.

There is a deeper issue where parties without adequate resources may be provided ineffective representation.

The US legal system may have its flaws, but you should really see how the legal systems in some 3rd world countries operate. Those can be literally pay to win.
Contact you entered into was "assignable"
The Google News recommendations algorithm seems to have lots in common with the equally terrible YouTube recommendations algorithm. God forbid I watch one movie trailer in six months, now my recommendations are filled with terrible movie theory videos, and the awful bottom of the content barrel scraping some movie trailer explanined videos.
You're right. Mods should change the title
I'd love to go in the other direction. Force it all to be written in Haskell, or some other awkward thing, and have it so that the binary has to run comfortably in under a megabyte. Or heck, it's 2019, let's be generous and make that 10MB! Limit things to people who take their craft seriously, and filter out all of the half-assed woo-look-at-me money-chasing BS.

It's like, has this person even bothered to look at all of the noise in the app stores recently? The weeds are choking-out the fruit-bearing vines.
Reminds me of the Fyre documentary on Netflix and how he went back to scamming while he was on trial.

If you build a livelihood through morally corrupt means it's apparently hard to stop even after you get caught.

Not surprised to see Rodger Stone mixed up in this either while he's awaiting trial. Apparently, he knows Jeff Bezos' mistress' brother who is the prime suspect in obtaining the photos:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bezos-investigators-question-t...
Why don't you have design review and design sessions with the designer? This is the type of thing that we talk about on a daily basis (I used to code and now design). If the Dev or PM has a compelling argument, we negotiate, compromise or stop at each other desk.

I bet that the Ads is not his call but marketing :)
I used to love Google News's customizable sections- I would set those to Spanish-language international sections from other countries, and the different perspective was really refreshing and informative compared to what you see in the US International section.

Since the last re-design, Google News seemingly dropped the customization, and has devolved into an endless toxic carousel of US-slanted political opinion in most sections, half of which seem to come from pay-walled sources. I have lost all control of what I want to read, and instead have to rely on their opaque feed, most of which I'm not actually that interested in (I can only take so much politics).

Does anyone know of an alternative that's more like the Google News of old?
The Supreme Court confirmed the constitutionality of DUI checkpoints in Michigan Dept. of State v. Sitz [0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Department_of_State_P...

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/496/444/
Is there anything particularly embarrassing about them? All sounds pretty vanilla to me?
I think Airbus can survive this. The other aircraft are selling well. If they have to write down sunk cost it won't sink the company. Boeing has basically had to walk from the 747 and even the presidential flight will be using otherwise available shells (I believe)

QANTAS didn't survey its passengers to make this decision. Had they asked the recurring business flyer, I suspect the signal would have been different, even if the economic decision was to walk.

I am a frequent QANTAS passenger. I know from all my experiences and peers discussions, we prefer the 380 over almost any shell QANTAS flies.

I flew the original QANTAS 747 longhauls. They were fine for their day. They are significantly behind the ball compared to the 380 experience. The 350 will be a fine plane. the 787 is a compromised experience in the air.

(btw, it is QANTAS not Quantas: Its an Acronym)
Let’s not hasten the locking down of podcasts by using a Spotify link.

https://www.recode.net/2019/2/7/18214941/alex-blumberg-matt-...
Are you going to add C# support?
- Like SEO, the rules for ranking are obfuscated to prevent gaming (to a degree).

- Unlike SEO, the 'news' association for publishers comes with a standard of authority.

Imagine if it took ten minutes for OP to get their site listed and showing articles on the headline carousel. Now imagine how easy that same process would be for the waves of fake news blogs to spread misinformation. It's far from perfect but the process is not that quick and not that easy for newcomers for a reason.
It's Microsoft telemetry in an open source project that doesn't respect the setting set by the user. The lack of a reply as to why should probably set off some alarms for the average tech user when it comes to any project with Microsoft telemetry in it.
I give you points for writing well and not having the usual flaws. Maybe you could consolidate narrow topics into broader ones so each topic has new content each day. Think “tech” as a single topic instead of “Microsoft” and “Google” etc. as separate ones.

I would have said just give up because they are interested in big news sites, but they do include fake sources sometimes (or used to last time I looked) with lines like:

“The calamity of the day was highlight markered by insertion into the interest of massive public”

...which are obviously the result of some sort of gaming of the system. If Google could boot those out and include more real sites, that would be an improvement.
dailyahead.com is spamming HN https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dailyahead.com
This was Peter Lynch’s theory.

But that one piece generally doesn’t beat the market.

It can’t. In aggregate we are average.

I think your comments are true though. Risk tolerance plus a long timeline is good for long term returns.
This is interesting. I know that audio compression is also used by talk radio hosts. I know that Rush Limbaugh designed a special compression system that he uses on his show. He mentions it in this quote:

> The incorrect way to use a microphone is to put it right in front of you like this (leaning in close) and speak into it because you pop your P’s real bad, and that could be dangerous on certain words. We broadcast professionals turn it aside and speak across it so that our P’s do not pop. We don’t have to worry about anything like that, and with the compression that is built into our system here, I can move this microphone even further — well, you’re probably hearing me not quite as loud, but the presence is still there. As I move it in closer, it gets a little bit more present, but not really louder. Now, sometimes I do what we professional broadcasters refer to as eat the microphone. That is when I really want to make a point. I am eating this microphone. My lips are touching this microphone right now. There are any number of highly trained specialist techniques that we who are professionals in this business use.

Audio compression is why talk radio sounds like garbage even when streamed compared to something with a wider dynamic range like NPR. It helps give talk radio hosts that loud, booming voice which helps them sound convincing to their audiences.
Google News is particularly broken when it comes to financial news. Searching for the name of any major company in there will bring up perhaps a couple or so of relevant articles, and a deluge of bot-generated drivel based on their publicly available metrics.
unfortunately yes
Bezos is Bezos. What principle did Thiel who is not Hogan stick to?