skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Equifax breech data was never sold. IMO, this leads me to believe that it was a state-sponsored theft. A great way to sort out who works for US state agencies, where they live, how in debt they have, and the fun things they can do with their SSN. https://gizmodo.com/report-stolen-equifax-data-hasnt-been-so...

These attacks seem credit card-centric. I am one of them.
That’s actually very useful, thanks, I wasn’t aware it did that!
Author here

Yes, on most linux systems its closer to about 375 kB right now with the default build. For some reason it is much smaller on macOS, and can be smaller when built with -Os, and even smaller when built without the assembler, peg, or in-binary documentation. You are right, it used to smaller but grew as I added more features.
I mean, there's a two minutes hate against China on the front page of HN almost every day.

Unless you believe China is the sole source of evil in this world (and I'm sure some do!), there is clearly a bit of nationalist bias

Oh, neat, I'm shadowbanned :)
FWIW I remember this question being posed about our batch (Summer 2012) which had ~80 companies in it.
Another data point: My university has a mandatory ethics course, and it also has a reasonably low attendance, light workload, pass on a short essay.
and then how much does it cost after the 2 months? and how hard is it to unsubscribe? and how many people subscribe to read a couple of articles then forget about it and end up paying hundreds of dollars in money drained away in drips and drabs in recurring credit card charges?

I like journalism, but it would be really nice to have a better model (I'd even go with pay per article). Subscriptions that you may or may not use have always been a dark pattern, whether it's for journalism or apps or gym memberships.
Heh. I'm curious why there isn't some kind of mechanical trap that works well enough. 12 hours to hunt and catch one snake seems hard.
Just a friendly FYI, "sow" means to plant a seed, or an adult female pig/other animals (pronounced like "now"). "Sew" means to "join, fasten, or repair (something) by making stitches with a needle and thread or a sewing machine."
I've had similar experiences with Levi's. I think they're symptomatic of the fit not being great around the thighs. (Or maybe planned obsolescence, who knows?) I've switched to Urban Star jeans from Costco -- they're much more comfortable (2-4% Lycra), arguably look nicer, cost less than $20, and also last me longer than Levi's.

PS: For those worried about Costco membership costs, just buying a couple of these jeans every year (compared to Levi's) is kind of breaking even on a Costco membership ;-)
The model where information is published is going to have to change.

Until it does those who are stuck in the old economic model will suffer.

The concept that you can contain information and retain some value in the distribution of it is obsolete and asking people to pretend that model will still work is silly.
I need to disagree here, what good is a review section if you can only post certain kinds of views about the product? What would the intended use be? I personally think the downfall of review sections in general is the score system. I believe the score systems sort of undermine the reviews themselves. Yet, I obviously understand why they are used and that they are 'useful' for people.
Are there any phones/tablets with built in grip? Or is that too much of a transgression aginst holy rounded rectangle?

The only thing I can think of is yoga tablet.
I chalk it up to wanting an attractive title. The information is not actually secret in that the reader or writer is bound to keep the information secret. Rather, the knowledge was previously difficult (to some degree) to come by, and is now co-located, thus lifting the shroud of secrecy (by obscurity).
There are externalities to mass consumption of clothing though, from the resources needed to grow cotton, dyes, transportation of goods across the planet and sweat shop labour.

Through to disposal where discarded products will either go to poor countries to be resold, or thrown into landfill.
I agree with paying for journalism BUT think about just how important is this particular piece is.

Edit: the last 'is' added.
Yeah, that's one language, and I'm really not sure they went far enough.
Thanks. Not knocking it, was just curious. It's certainly still small for what's delivered.

Probably smaller than the typical blog post on medium.
As someone who has sat through a bunch of demo days: No I don't think it's too big. It's a lot more diverse now. Back in the day, everything was a software startup. Now they have a bunch of bio and hard science and bigger startups that have longer cycles.

Not every investor will invest in every space they cover, so having two stages probably won't be that big a deal. Even if a firm invests in multiple categories, they probably have partners that specialize in different areas and will go to their respective stages.

From what it looks like from the outside, they are basically running multiple parallel tracks that get the added benefit of sharing a timeline and having founders in totally different areas to talk to as well as founders in their own area.

Seems like an advantage for everyone.
ML is different from statistics. If you want to learn more read Breiman's Statistical Modeling: Two cultures.

AI is real and is a legit field of study, of which ML is currently very popular, so some articles conflate these two. But it is far from bullshit. If you want to learn more read Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach.
After the initial corporation, legal and accounting setup there’s actually little paperwork that really needs to be done and can actually be quicker than the 9-5 equivalent.

ie: if I need a new computer I just buy it and attach the receipt to the bank statement tracked by my accounting software and my accountant takes care of the rest, versus having togo through some procurement process involving making a business case for my purchase, filling in the expense report, getting that report signed by a manager, etc.
I see maybe 1 article every 3 months that I want to read on there. Must I subscribe for this? I'd much rather just skip the article; It wont cause me much unhappiness if I do.
Google keep
Tags, reminders, checklists, etc
If the story was a 20 second clip I would sure hope it's hosted elsewhere and I don't have to buy a full subscription.
Another perspective is if it isn't that important, there's little need to read it, much less going out of one's way to bypass a paywall.
> For the entrepreneur, the larger class size dilutes you. Yes, the incubator can scale mentoring reasonably well, but the visibility and prestige of pitching at Demo Day is going down.

I don't think that's true. For one, as an entrepreneur, you get access to a bunch of people going through the same things you are, but in totally different areas, so you get a greater diversity of opinion. And as for dilution, I don't think that's the case either. They have a lot more investors now, more than they can accommodate, so there is no shortage of attention.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. Any specific concerns that I can help with?

You might want to check out our new Redux Starter Kit package. It includes utilities to simplify several common Redux use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once:

https://redux-starter-kit.js.org
Perhaps what you really mean is that technical recruiting by Big Companies is broken?
I've had very good luck with cobblers for fixing hiking and camping gear. They have all the heavy needles and so forth needed to do repairs of thick materials. (And I suspect most are not completely overwhelmed with work.)

There are also specialty places that do outdoor equipment repair. Rainy Pass in Seattle was a name given to me for a backpack zipper repair but a friend ended up doing it for me.
Oh, nifty. I didn't find a page to track keyboard status, but here's http://www.tactuallabs.com/ .

A depth camera can give rough finger height[1], and multi-camera care and kludgery can do even better, but, that last little bit, of high-speed high-reliability millimeter-ish is-it-touching-the-key-yet/still-or-not contact determination, is something I've not seen well addressed.

Given this unicorn-like keyboard, I wistfully note that having pressure sensing would be very nice too...

FWIW, I also note one way a company can easily support linux, often overlooked, is to provide only an as-is unsupported binary-blob library with any secret sauce, and leave it to the community to link it, wire it to IO systems, and deal with OS variants. The payoff, for a product throttled in part by community innovation and/or adoption bootstrap, is that while linux is often a small market, it's a highly-disproportionately innovative one. For this keyboard, the envisioned market may be mostly gaming, and thus mostly Windows. But it might be a youtube "look at my neat hack" video, which prompts some game dev to support it.

[1] https://frl.nyu.edu/multi-touch-with-realsense-camera/
Interesting tidbit from the article—apparently flightradar24 doesn’t show business jets or military planes.
I believe many products are designed to fail, or they are not using robust enough computers?

Many products are so complicated, they don't make sense to repair. I have found the "experts" are many times learning on your dime while trying to fix your appliance. I won't get started on Automotive repair.

I have a relative whom buy two Bosch washers in three years. She still likes the brand, and even recommends them. And she's not wealthy.

It's almost like people are hypnotized? Put a few qismos on the product, which just add to the complexity of the product, and usually add another fail point. I have seen a important electronic systems wired in series.

It's fine if you have the money I guess?

And there's always the guy whom claims new products actually last longer than old stuff. "It's just a myth the new high tech stuff doesn't last."
You mean cure FOMO? :D
Like in humans?
There seem to be real difference in how Jeans are made. I wish I understood the specifics. Wrangler Jeans tend to be pretty durable. Many other brands struggle to make it 6 months. Does anyone have any idea what the difference is here?
“Every civilian airliner is equipped with a special device — the so-caller ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) transponder”

Not true actually: in the US, ADS-B isn’t required until January 1, 2020 [1].

Also, FR24 uses radar data in the US (probably because not all aircraft has ADS-B) [2].

There are also sites, such as ADS-B Exchange [3] that provide unfiltered flight data...very helpful for tracking military flights and such.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/#g2

[2] https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

[3] https://www.adsbexchange.com
I started checking Flightradar24 after seeing a few planes circle above my office building one day. Never knew that transponder data was so accessible!
Worth nothing that if you're in a area with poor coverage, Flightradar24 might be willing to send you a free receiver https://www.flightradar24.com/add-coverage

Page above also have a similar guide to this submission.

I mainly started contributing with data only because you'll be able to get a free business account with Flightradar24 if you contribute, which gives you longer history to view, and bunch of more map layers to use.
Are the mods able to change the link? This one is much better.
One straightforward magnet link solves the Netflix problem. The problem with the web is that running hostile code creates endless types of fuckery, and thus endless ways of sidestepping that fuckery.
WSJ doesn't paywall users coming from Google. Just search for the title and click the outbound link.
I'll try adding to the conversation by at least justifying why I like SPAs: clearly decoupled front-end/back-end logic, likewise parallel updates/deployment from different teams, back-end mocking, minimal data updates for DOM changes, easy integration with microservices, powerful front-end tools to deal with client feature creep (e.g. interactive widgets), reusable UI components, easy migration to multiplatform desktop apps (e.g. Electron), possible single language for everything (JS, rather than a mishmash of JS/HTML/CSS/Python/PHP/etc), easy integration with hybrid or SSR stacks ( Next.js, Gatsby, etc).

But all this is just rationalization for one simple fact: I'm vastly more productive building SPAs. I know the tools, and I can quickly deliver anything from simple sites to richly interactive experiences very quickly. I can go from SPA -> SSR (via, say, Gatsby) easily. But going the other direction from SSR to something interactive has been far more painful for me. That's why I default to SPAs and adjust from there.
Database Encryption
Anytime you rewrite 12 existing, working web apps in something new it is going to be a huge pain. The only sane way to approach this is the strangler pattern, picking one page/view in one app to rewrite, then another, hooking them up with some kind of client-side router, and slowly letting the SPA consume the old SSR pages.
That way you can measure the cost/benefit of each page before deciding it should be added into the SPA.
> In America, you're shut down and surveilled for demanding systemic changes to the system (just try to build a movement in the United States for a change of government; see where that gets you)

Have you tried? Did you know that the United States communist party has been in existence for a century? [0]

> (says, farming industry practices around the treatment of animals) - this will get you on terrorist watchlists

I'm not aware PETA is on terrorist watchlist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA
The age of prestigious incubators and accelerators is coming to an end IMO.

As we wrap up the 2010s, I feel that a lot of the entrepreneurial wave in this decade was catalyzed by the founding of mobile app stores, the network effects of expanding social medias and cloud services making software deployments easier than ever.

Incubators seemed well poised to help this flood of new entrepreneurs navigate the changing landscapes and get exposure to investors, but by now people have become more savvy and this is mostly a solved problem.

Investors are also well aware by now that incubators do not magically produce unicorns or even great companies, and are looking for better returns elsewhere. Demo Days are mostly a lazy way to sit and listen to a bunch of pitches without really giving a fuck. I know at one demo day a couple of investors spent most of their time talking in the hallway while founders pitched on. Investors know all your tricks to make your company seem more appetizing: fake appointments in your calendars, strategically chosen metrics, name dropping, paper trails, etc...
I would, if I could make a micropayment for an individual article.

In an environment where everyone consumes just a few articles each from a very large number of sources, it's not reasonable to expect a monthly subscription to a particular source just for the sake of reading one article. I do pay for an online subscription to one newspaper, but I'm not willing to go back to the days of reading only one newspaper.

I might put up with a reasonable amount of advertising, if it didn't track me around the web, attack me with malware, double my bandwidth usage and run scripts that bog down my computer.
The same meaning exists in English as well, as a verb. Commonly found in aviation.

The alternative meaning of "mentally-disabled person" is derived from this meaning, as their brain is "slow" / "delayed". That repo was absolutely using it in this latter sense - "WebM for retards".
Not necessarily. Yes, as a company grows and it works to hire faster, it’s probable the quality of hiring/recruiting will decrease. That doesn’t mean that startups or small company have recruiting perfected.
I must have expressed myself poorly. I absolutely agree that access to adequate nutrition is a class problem. What I disagree with is the notion that our food preferences are shaped mostly by considerations of class. I.e. that we desire certain foods because they signal that we are rich, not because they're tasty and healthy and 'natural'. I'm sure that might be true for some people, but not for the vast majority.
China views this is a matter of NatSec. Right or wrong they view it this way and states spare nothing at this. The extremely bad news is that China has virtually unlimited resources, in money, tech and manpower. And no one can stop them. Not via war, not via UN. Even if they hire a minder for every 2-3 Muslims the Chinese Gov will probably do it. But tech has made their job very easy.

My guess is that they think that by flooding the place with Han Chinese and making their (Muslims) lives miserable, they will break them.
It has the same meaning in English as well, but is rarely used aside from a derogatory reference to mental development.
Holes are a consequence of tight clothing. Wear loose pants and you’ll never get holes - even with thin fabric. My last pair of slacks I bought at a thrift store for $5 and they were still good 5 years later.
I find that a very interesting perspective. I've only used Huge phones -- Galaxy Nexus, LGv10, Note9, and find single handed usage effortless. I have typical hands for a 5'9" man. My 5'2" daughter also uses a big phone and has never complained.

On the other hand as a person who needs reading glasses, the bigger screens have been an absolute godsend, and when I try and use my older Ipod touch everything is miniscule -- especially the keyboard.

I guess it all comes down to preference. I've never thought of a typical US checkbook as being too big for anything, and these "huge" phones are about that size.
>Or, they kept excess puppies as food,

We’d find knife marks on dog bones at their refuse sites, from the butchering process, and dog proteins in their faeces. That’s how we know a lot of ancient populations practiced cannibalism.
LFTB is not made from mechanically separated meat. It is made from normal boneless beef trimmings. As has been pointed out in response to numerous such claims all over this thread.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/meat-... (look on page 26)
> Important to note that it is also possible for a technology to have more potential for abuse than good.

This is never the case independent of context.

You can imagine in a major famine that people may start killing each other over scraps of food. In that context a kitchen knife becomes more likely to be used as a murder weapon than to prepare the food that nobody actually has.

But nothing about the knife has changed, it's the context that has changed. And you don't solve the problem by banning cutlery and every other thing with a point or some heft, you solve it by resolving the famine.

You don't solve deepfakes by restricting information, you do it by adapting to their existence. Because they're not going away.
From Deep Learning experimentation to production-ready Model Building
> Amazon’s HQ2 bidding war exemplified that injustice. It’s time to end that economic warfare with a national solution that prevents corporations from pitting cities against one another.

That’s a truly odd statement from someone who directly participated in and then “won” that same bidding war.
Blocking ads for non-savvy/elderly users is definitely a security issue. It's reducing the chance that they inadvertently install malware or fall into a social engineering scam because "Microsoft Support" needs their credit card number to secure their computer.
I definitely view being forced to build a sane API as one of the perks of a SPA. Having worked on some PHP pages with SQL queries, HTML, CSS, & JS all in a single file you would be surprised how people fail to separate concerns when they aren't forced to.
"genuine, personal connections"

Isn't that kind of a high bar to jump over for this?
I was able to see our state police helicopters a while ago. The state has them marked private now.
that's the big issue with extensions : most of those that are interesting (to me at least) are also huge privacy holes.
Easily my favorite blog/follow of the last couple years is this guy in Montreal who posts all the quality old junk that people throw away:

https://garbagefinds.com/ https://www.instagram.com/garbagefinds
And he even forgot to mention the lack of syntax highlighting:

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1096939156935188481
Bill Gates: Textbooks are 'becoming obsolete'
I'm not frustrated because I don't rely any Google services.

I was serious, though. People would be less frustrated if they had that helpful reminder on sign up.

Obfuscating that GMail isn't a real product is just another one of their sleazy business tactics, I guess.
The distinction is that teaching how to build a car from scratch (builder) doesn’t teach you how to drive it any better (programmer). The proposal is to teach programming with “assume you have a car/compiler/filesystem” instead of always starting from first principles.
Sure, if you were part of the tiny fraction of kids who were actually tinkering with computers. Most weren't. I'm sure the overall level of technical competence is higher today.
Is there a site that offers truly open data, as in a download of all their collected historic data under a open license and without other restrictions (like having to query an API)?
Yeah that's what I'm currently using as well. I find the in-app editor is not ideal though. Takes more clicks to edit or create a text file than something like the built in notes app on iPhone.
Never thought of that and I've even had luggage repaired. As I said in another comment, a cobbler could probably have done it as well though I'd probably have had to order the zipper myself in that case.

I think with outdoor gear, there's actually a certain cachet to gear that's obviously well-used and battle-scarred :-)
It is SUPER hard to unsubscribe, they make you call and jump through hoops.
I have big hands and can hold any any phone, but prefer to use a Pop Socket because it is simply easier to hold the phone with it. I also like having a big screen. This guy is just trying to be a provocateur.
Once I got used to Vimperator, I found myself feeling like my functional IQ dropped by ten points without it. Tridactyl is rapidly getting to where Vimperator left off; I no longer feel like I'm missing anything. Deeply grateful that I don't have reason to swap to Chrome.
This doesn't always work ( i use it with my social bookmarking application. You need incognito mode mostly as well)
This is about scale. Technical recruiters sometimes need to be able to reach out to hundreds and maybe thousands of candidates at once, and making "personal connections" does not scale in this case.

Even if they automagically parse the keywords and plug them into a template, sometimes things are missed and mis-placed (Java vs JavaScript, etc...).
Marriage is a formal agreement between two parties with respect to the rules through which they will break up.
China data leak exposes vast hi-tech surveillance operation in Xinjiang
This is an area of light handed regulation. aircraft fitness compliance is far stronger. business practices in selling seats is an almost unregulated area, noting the warsaw concerto (sorry.. warsaw convention)

I suspect if it was regulated properly, the last ones standing would be the state subsidised actors. Nobody else is on thick margins.
Too big for what? Without some qualification, the question doesn't make sense. Is it too big for it to be worthwhile to YC itself? YC obviously doesn't think so. Is too big for startups to feel like they are getting a good deal? You'd have to poll the startups themselves and find out. Is it too big for investors? No, investors like having a big funnel.

As an investor, having 200 startups to comb through is similar to being an employer with 200 resumes to choose from. 200 resumes is better than 100. It's your job to filter and choose the ones you're interested in.