skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A button that looks like a physical real world button that I'd push, with a clear text label beneath it, is less cognitive overhead for me than an abstract squiggly icon with no border or text that I have to interpret.

Bonus points if the icons are hidden inside various hamburger menus sprinkled across the interface - Atlassian I'm looking at you.

I shouldn't be forced to learn some designer's personal visual symbology to use an app. It's hieroglyphics.
Sloppy science bears substantial blame for Americans' bad eating habits
“It is very hard to make text illegal” - literally any kind of illegal content can be encoded as text trivially.
"I don't like it" isn't my argument for OpenPGP being legacy, and there's nothing in this thread to suggest otherwise.
Sure, but how many founders out there are addicted to various kinds of self-harm, be that drugs, working for 20h/day, lack of healthy eating, not leaving the office for weeks at a time...etc.

Point is, it's incredibly easy to engage in destructive behavior, especially if you've got the mindset of taking things to extremes.
Cannibalistic theft in a business suit. It's always sold as cheaper and then charges citizens as much as possible later because the state-subsidized monopoly is a business first, not a service.
AI generates infinite fake faces
PGP, which is something you have to explicitly install, is a badly flawed way to encrypt files; it has a poor password KDF and you should look at how it authenticates data.

Install something better.
> The taxi experience in cities other than NYC, Chicago, and SF got a million times better.

It wouldn't be fair to NYC and Chicago to compare them to SF. In my mind, the completely horrible broken experience of the SF taxi system was what created Uber & friends. I've been living in SF pre-Uber and having moved from a big city, the taxi system just drove me nuts, I could not understand why it was that fucked up. If it were as good as it is/was in NYC, prob we would've never seen Uber.
People don't really care about that, it's just businesses appeasing advertisers for brand safety after they're already mainstream and need to make revenue.

Censoring/moderating at the platform level just gets in the way and leads to inevitable conflict over who gets to decide on "distasteful". Give users the proper tools to follow and ignore others and it'll work itself out.
You know what would be a great YCombinator call for service: develop a very low cost drug-testing device to test for fentanyl / heroin / cocaine /whatever... and light red or some way to warn from use
General deterance. It makes it clear to others that destruction of evidence can be far worse than the crime you are attempting to hide.
It will learn even unsigned code after enough time, but future versions may or may not keep your earned reputation. The certificate is a good idea.
The fact that anything anyone posts, no matter how hideous, will end up being saved on my computer, is a non-starter for me.
> Yup! Aether is basically a nicer, decentralised Usenet.

Maybe you should add support for NNTP clients to make it even more like an updated Usenet.

I wish things like Reddit, HN, email servers, and everything else that handles threaded discussion would provide an NNTP interface. That would let the user use the same program for all of these things. They could still provide web interfaces for use in browsers, but those could internally use the NNTP interface.

I suppose this would be hard for Reddit and some of the others, because it would be hard for them to show ads over the NNTP interface, but for anything that is not ad supported give me NNTP.
Are you referring to an Outlook PGP add-on or SMIME?
If you find Pascal and C equally confusing using pointers, then maybe the problem is that you find pointers confusing, not so much the language.

Pointers are not very intuitive. You have to have a clear mental picture of what you're doing, and think very carefully about each step to make sure that you're doing what you think you are. I'm not sure that any language can save you from that. C might actually be better than Pascal, though, because it does less to try to hide what you're doing from you. On the other hand, Pascal does more about trying to keep you from doing something stupid.
It is more than a property crime. In canada/uk/us it is destruction of evidence. It is conspiracy after the fact. It may be harbouring a fugative. Those would all attach to the original grand theft. She could be looking at serious time should prosecutors go that route.
The crackdown on anime content was the way bigger news to me. But that might just be my filter bubble.
I've been a professional software developer for over 25 years and in that time I have seen very few "computer science" related problems that needed solving.

Sure, it depends what type of work you do. E.g. if you work on limited power embedded devices for the medical industry your work as a developer will probably lean more towards the comp-sci end of the spectrum whereas if you're building snazzy browser based UI's with React.

How well you perform with Project Euler problems has absolutely nothing to do with how great a developer you are or whether or not you could consider yourself a developer because of it.
I’m really excited about this. Finally, can seamlessly connect to all my DO droplets, in the US and EU. Thanks @zx2c4 for releasing this.
This is the same question ask asking why multiple companies make maps. Yes, some may be better, but having multiple means that if someone starts to misbehave (being inaccurate, slow, whatever), a user has alternatives. Regardless of Google not connecting to your personal IP or other PII per your link, DNS is still a business endeavor for them and gives them a considerable advantage to their search rankings. Some people are not okay with that. Note also that it does not suggest they can't use that traffic to show you ads in some capacity.

To be clear, I use 8.8.8.8, but I understand the aversion. Google is a data vacuum, and being forced to give them more data than they are entitled to is a valid concern.
Only part of the argument with ad blockers is speed. The rest of the argument is trust. So, how do you make money?

As far as I know, ublock Origin has no profit motive whatsoever. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes this is very common. Most people I know use a bank card, which is powered by Visa's payment network, and ran as credit.
Wave+Coupon+Presidents+Day+Savings
The Chernobyl reactors were built after Fukushima. It was a really, really old plant, that had already gone 10 years past it's intended lifespan, but they kept it open despite that because they didn't have a viable replacement source of energy.
"Why does it matter if that connection happens via 8.8.8.8 or some other IP resolved by a different DNS server?"

By controlling the DNS server, user can early point doubleclick.net, google analytic to 0.0.0.0. That might be why google wants to control that in the Chromecast.

It is a continue war between Jedi the Hackers and the Empire. The young Anakin Skywalker - Do no evil Googlers have felt the (share holders) power of Dark Side. The power felt stronger as the G stock price kept going up.

BTW, one can also config a raspberry pi / openwrt device to have subdomain ip of 8.8.8.8 and still resolve the doubleclick.net or all other tracking websites to 0.0.0.0.

May the source be with you.
No, enemies of the western world and those who have the same values as us such as Korea, Japan, Chile, Brazil, Botswana, etc.
Maybe just a person who solves problems by writing/creating software.
I'm surprised, because there's a couple of local stores that have a purchase minimum for credit cards but not debit cards (I'm in NYC). Also, I remember Jet.com used to offer a (very small) discount if you paid by debit card specifically, although I think they've stopped that in recent months.
The irony of the drug war is that all the resources spent, FBI corruption in closing down silk road is what makes the drug cartles richer and overall drug procurmeent more dangerous. If there is anything crypto currency was good for it was that.
What do you mean by, "and only then this challenge came to an end."? You simply stopped calling him?
Tell HN: I miss the chatrooms of the 90s
I recall the days when IRCs and even AOL chatrooms were all the rage. Back then, I was able to join and chat with a group of people for almost any topics, be it, #nba, #movies, #math, #sql, etc ... you name it. There were always people, helpful ones too.

And now, the only thing that comes closest in chatting is Reddit/Twitter. It is more of a QA forum though and not really real-time.

Oh the good ol' days, anyone here miss them too?
I was amazed that someone could steal so much art and imagined a sophisicated and expert professional thief with a brilliant mind for security and a taste in art. But apparently he just picked it up off the wall and walked out the door with it. You can't get away with that at most grocery stores.
This editor looks fantastic.

Have you shared the code anywhere?
A fun thing to do with this would be to slurp the lyrics from one song - the beats from another, some other stream from another and remix the “threads” together into something new.

Basically a giant equalizer that allows you to dim or brighten each channel from multiple sources.
You have to masquerade at your router. Or at the vpn. For example https://ba.net/adblock/vpn/roku-chromecast-fix.html
Nobody is going to do the rounds to manually check their friends’ mediums, tumblrs, hacker news, reddit posts, for every friend.
All the things you mention are incerdibly damaging, but not necessarily the same thing. not leaving the office, not exercising, poor diet are all symptoms of things like working 20 hour days. In my mind that's the alternative to drugs, which is an escape from not being able to disengage from your startup.
> All of these strike me as more plausible motivations for unpaid internships rather than wanting to shape society.

Again, nobody made the claim that the goal is to shape society.

> With these internships, it's possible that the person in charge of hiring interns decided an easy to way to have impact is to reduce the salaries of interns. They do it and at the end of the year claim in their performance review "reduced the cost of the intern program to $0 while not compromising on quality". Great, here's your bonus.

There are legal requirement for what you must do to offer an unpaid internship.

The most likely result is not a bonus, but being reprimanded / fired for switching to an illegal internship program and exposing the company to unnecessary liability and loss of reputation.

If that hiring manager is able to do this at zero additional cost while adding no legal risk and suffering no reduction in quality of work.... well they deserve that bonus.

However, this is a work of fiction and as such does nothing to support your argument.

> They offered an unpaid internship as a gopher because they were stingy and knew people would do it anyway.

You are stating this as a fact, do you have evidence for this? I find it equally plausible that the Kardashians were intentionally trying to select for fans who are loyal, devoted and well off enough to accept an unpaid internship.
This is the case for the regular internet too, isn’t it? My comment lives in a cache file in your temp folder.
European Military Indistrial Complex is weak compared to American.

The US is constantly engaged in unconstitutional wars, and on top of that there's fixed demand for resources by American military bases in the EU (including Germany), so business is good.

The EU is constantly engaged in silly "progressive" spending so taxpayer money is wasted through other channels (such as various EU development funds and foreign aid).
It sounds like his family had a history of addiction, so to suggest that his career as a tech founder caused him to overdose is a stretch. I believe though that cofounding startups and dealing with the spotlight and drama are stressors that could trigger someone to seek drugs if they are preconditioned to abuse based on family history, but even stressful situations in a more “normal” career path could easily do the same.
They mean: only after befriending the cab driver did the challenge of getting to the airport become easy.
Those booted off enjoyed an additional hour of free time on average

What to people who spend an hour or more a day on Facebook actually do there? I log in once or twice a week to look for pictures from my family and maybe wish someone a happy birthday (which is a pretty shallow interaction since I only do it when Facebook tells me to).

But what do people do when they spend much more time there? Read and respond to posts?
Tencent investment and the discussion on moderator censorship:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/apu3oz/with_the...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19151922
1Password X actually handles this without having to hit the button twice.
Rather than solving this issue with technology, I think policy is the way to go here. If drug use was less stigmatized and not criminally punished, people who feel they are using too much drugs don't feel afraid of seeking help, allow us to reach them quicker and earlier.
Looks like a very simple and clean user experience, definitely curious to try this out. Is encryption between peers currently supported and/or planned?
I was under the impression that was factored into the 2–3%. Not true?
>Let’s Encrypt for code signing can’t come soon enough.

AFAIK that will never happen because authenticode signing certificates are all essentially EV certificates, because they require verification of an individual's (or company's) identity. That's very expensive to do compared to DV certificates that letsecrypt currently issues, which have essentially $0 marginal cost.
I think you have it backwards. The moderation came after reddit, youtube, etc became mainstream. It didn't become mainstream because of moderation.

Reddit, youtube, etc became extremely popular precisely because they weren't censored. But once they got huge, corporate and political interests took over and you got censorship.

It wasn't the "mainstream" that demanded moderation and censorship on these platforms, it was journalists and politicians working for powerful interests.

The problem with voat, gab, etc are manifold. Firstly, their owners aren't pushing content and making the site more interesting. People forget that the creators of reddit, youtube, etc initially worked hard to provide content on their platforms. One of reddit's founders did an AMA a while back explaining how most of the content on reddit in the beginning were linked by the founders and then their employees. It took a long time before reddit became popular enough for it to be entirely user generated. Secondly, voat, gab, etc are trying to break into a saturated industry that already has large monopolistic competitors. Reddit, youtube, etc didn't have that. Sure digg existed but they weren't in a monopolistic position and there was plenty of space to grow.

I hope they succeed but they have a much more difficult task trying to take market share from established companies. If they do succeed, they'll face the same problems that reddit, youtube, etc faced. Journalists and politicians hounding them to censor content at the behest of powerful interests.

The fundamental problem is still there. I'm still not see how any of these platforms have solved this problem. Reddit and youtube were just as devoted to free speech until journalists and politicians started spreading propaganda and attacking them. If reddit and youtube folded under pressure, why would voat, gab, etc be any different?

People forget how reddit staunchly defended free speech for years. If I remember correctly, their motto was "free speech platform". They aren't that anymore.
https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obse...
Whenever there's a second person in the frame, they're inevitably deformed, nightmare fuel.

Some of the better faces are pretty convincing though. I suspect we'll soon be seeing fake dating site profiles using these faces, as they won't come up in reverse image searches like TinEye, which can often be used to spot fakes today.
I like how using the term “animal cruelty” isn’t hyperbolic, but using the term “vegan” is.
Google will be shutting down Toronto on Jan 2019. People get all you need out of Toronto before that date.
> you'd need to lock-up half of the European aristocracy...

Is that bad?
I've had to face death at a young age. It may be their decision to make, but it's a decision I firmly believe is worth criticizing because it's unhealthy. For years I was in denial of my father's death and my family had trouble discussing his passing.

I came away from that incident realizing that it is never a good idea to lie or deny death. Discussing it early helps you and your family prepare and makes the years afterwards less traumatic, as you don't feel robbed of your time.
DHH the founder of Basecamp, and creator of Rails talks about this constantly on Twitter. He talks about the importance of living a balanced life. Also written many books about work / life balance.
> The USSR responded quickly and it took just 8 months to entomb the reactor.

At a gross cost to human life[1], and in a way that leaves the problem there - work is _still_ to contain and clean up the reactor. There are good reasons for not doing the same here.

The sarcophagus was never intended to be a permanent solution, and was unsuccessful in completely containing the accident: Sr-90 and Pu-239 were leaching into the surrounding water table, and some have suggested that the rainwater and remaining nuclear fuel posed the risk of restarting the nuclear chain reaction[2].

[1] death figures are controversial, and vary wildly, but 600,000 people were involved in the cleanup, some of whom will have been put at risk.

[2] https://outline.com/fTk4GX
No strawman, just an observation that it is far easier to see the excesses of those far more wealthy than us than for us to see our own excesses compared to those far less wealthy. The 10X numbers were just categories, which were inferred based on the various items mentioned (yacht ownership vs yacht club, etc.)
I think the parent comment is referring to more than just the ‘standard’ recreational drugs — I know lots of founders who abuse amphetamines to maintain the habits you describe.
I just stole all 4 of my banking passwords this way :/
Internet Privacy: Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection [pdf]
And me@example.co could be the email of another user, so you'll never be able to login with yours.
Why do you think it's open source? I didn't see sources anywhere on the site.
You know what slows down browsing the internet?

Ads.
Do you have a direct link to the paper?

It doesn't look like it refute's the OP's point that the top 1% of people sorted by income are wage earners.

The abstract seems to be talking about "top income' (i.e. sort people by income and fetch from highest to lowest until you have 1% of all income in the US), which is a different measure.

But hard to tell without the paper.
Performance benchmark on mdds R-tree
I’d agree with Uber making a big positive impact, but without the iPhone, there is no Uber. I’m not sure many remember the challenges to ordering a taxi/booking a ride pre-Uber. The problem though is it is very much like the airline industry pre 2014. It is a challenging business model with a lot a capital and resources required to make it work. Ironically, Travis probably could have sold Uber Eats to Amazon now and the self driving car unit to GM! But, a pre-ipo company probably doesn’t have a great initial business model when they feel that it is necessary to pivot from it.
From the article:

> Some might not have made the same decision, believing that the girls had a right to know they should savor diminishing moments. But Marla didn’t want her girls to savor; she wanted them to sail, and that meant less information—not a lie, but a lacuna. Marla refused to let family time together feel too precious, too heightened, too sad.

and...

> Our girls have talked often about their mother’s sacrifice and said to me without prompting, “I am so glad I didn’t know what Mommy was going through. I would have worried every single day.” In these past two months, they have reassured me again and again that not telling them was the loving choice.

It's apparent that your experience, valid and valuable as it is, does not compare. Not at all, not even remotely.

If you ever have to make a decision like this, God forbid, you may well make it differently, as Mr. Mehlman says. But given your distance from the Mehlmans in personality and situation, I honestly don't think your evaluation of their actions can be relevant to anyone except yourself.
Trying to use the california department of motor vehicles website logs you into google. This is not analytics. You also cannot make an appointment with google services blocked (you get "server unavailable")
Yes - it’s encrypted-only. It does not allow any plaintext communication.

The way nodes talk to each other is plain old HTTPS (TLS v1.2). So I’m definitely not inventing my own crypto here, I’ve tried very hard to avoid that. The content on a node is public though, so this is transport encryption.
Right I just looked again and they have an online tool for building assistants or something but it does seem to run offline.
I think it’s a good idea to have robotic weapons to augment our military. If we have to fight, use everything to our advantage. But let’s not kid ourselves. Today the tech would easily be defeated by a sophisticated enemy (such as China).

We need people manning the machines, lest we fall victim to things such as jamming radio signal.
See the comment by the author with a link to the github repo above me in the comments. The repo contains an AGPL license file (though I suppose he is free to change that).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19176835
Many times I've thought about writing a specialized tool for that but I think the complexity easily becomes ridiculous.

That said, Excel/LibreOffice works really well for me when lots of numbers are involved. Otherwise project management software, split decision into multiple tasks and do research as needed. (Writing in Wiki)

As others pointed out, don't overthink. On the other hand, who cares, if you think it's worth it.
Thanks. Will you offer a synchronous version in the future?

Since asynchronous means that you can lose previously acknowledged writes when the primary node crashes, which forbids many use cases (for example, most things involving money).

And Postgres already offers synchronous replication modes.
Former Coke Scientist Accused of Stealing Trade Secrets for China
The Kochs are active executives within their companies, which is a huge % of net worth. Wikipedia states that their stakes were worth $1.1 billion in 1983 when the brothers took them over, obviously they are worth vastly more now. It's not like they're rentiers who never worked- they still created most of their current wealth. This seems to be true for a number of 2nd generation wealthy.

If r > g is true- why are the large majority self-made entrepreneurs? Wouldn't the compounding effect of inherited wealth make say the Rockefellers top the list by 2019? I couldn't find them in the top 100.

The broader point is to use actual data versus empty theorizing from first principles. While I don't personally agree with what you stated above, you're already miles ahead of Piketty by using real-world data that we have on wealthy families vs. extremely broad theorizing on stuff like 'r always exceeds g'
https://github.com/nehbit/aether
Test strips for fentanyl are about $1-2 per strip, and many other test kits for other common compounds are also pretty cheap. I think the issue is the availability and knowledge (how to test properly etc.).