skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there! This is a great site, and I'm sure it must hurt to let go of the project. The fact that you're looking to sell the project "fast" suggests to me that you might be in a bit of a tough spot. The fact that you care about being fair tells me you care about this project.

I've got a couple of suggestions.

1. If you are in a tight spot financially and need to sell the site due to some emergency, come clean about that to your users. Let them know that the site they love is in trouble. It may help give you a little infusion of cash that will allow you to keep the project going for a bit longer.

2. If selling is still in your playbook, you need to demonstrate your property's value. Right now your list is untapped and therefore I couldn't tell just how many of your users are buyers. You need to do that work for your buyer.

I see you have a Patreon, and that's a great start, but it's not necessarily compelling enough on its own. If I were you, I'd start with affiliate marketing.

Think about what your audience has in common. If they are classical music listeners, the odds are high that they either play an instrument themselves or want to learn how to play one.

For those who want to be a musician, the answer is obvious: become an affiliate for high quality music instruction courses online.

For those who already are musicians, you might have a better sense of their problems than I would. Maybe they're more interested in better equipment or instruments. Perhaps they are more focused on monetizing their music, in which case it would be a good idea to take a look at courses online that focus on the business side of music-making.

If you created the site I'm seeing online, perhaps another thing you could do is connect music instructors with music students by giving instructors the chance to sell their lessons on your platform in return for a percentage.

Another source of potential revenue could come from in the form of grants. Find a local university (perhaps your alma mater?) and see what the music department says. Other than teach and research, professors pretty write grants for a living. They may have some ideas for you.

If you are yourself a musician (and especially a music teacher) you may be able to create your own course and sell it online to your listeners. You could create a "beginner's guide to Classical Music" and teach people about it.

Classical Music also shares quite a lot in common with film scores; you could monetize by allowing your users to sell their music to film makers who need music.

I hope some of these suggestions help. Good luck!
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!
I'm using chromeos as my primary computer. However I also have a Linux workstation at my desk.

So chromeos is more my mobile/meeting computer.
Base sensory perception is way more subjective than objective. Two people will simply taste differently, and there's only so much you can do to bring legibility and objectivity to the table. The surface area of the physicality with the brain is too large.

Color on the other hand is measurable and regular across humans to a far greater extent, such that we can measure with a fairly high degree of accuracy just how color-blind a person is. That's what's seductive about it.

You don't have that with other aspects of sensory perception.
This is a scarily similar story of how I ended up in F#. I'd reached the peak of C#. Every possible best pattern and practice (including the ones that were still a few years away) I'd already done them and perfected them. I was so high up on the peak of the C# mountain that recruiters could no longer understand me, employers could no longer understand me, co-workers could no longer understand me. I could no longer function on projects and teams this way. I ended up doing almost nothing except "R&D" for the teams I worked. None of my R&D ended up in the product. I wrote specs, whitepapers, all sorts, something to try to contribute. Nothing seemed worth the hassle. Toward the end probably a couple months had passed where I'd made no commits, and had barely typed a single letter into Visual Studio. I became an imposter and a pretender - my self confidence took a huge knock. I quit and went back to what I knew best. Building my own businesses with a trusted old business partner. Some of the R&D I did in that last team was in F# and I chose to use F# in my new venture. I directly attribute F# as having had literally pulled me out and saved me from that year of burnout. And made me completely unlearn everything that was wrong about software development and relearn it the right way. The transformation took about 4 months and I'm now 5 years since that time and I never look back. The thought of going back to C# and all that crap ... I think I would rather earn money smuggling drugs or something.

I think the lesson is: If you get burnt out, try changing your tooling for something more modern. If it ever happens to me again - I will try to have the clarity of mind to do it again.
> I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passed may be worse than the current situation).

The GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation -- an EU regulation that came into force last year) provides for this and has potentially very large fines to back up the regulation. Obviously it only applies to EU residents (or businesses) but I've heard that California is getting their own version of GDPR -- though I haven't looked into it. Facebook implemented the "delete your account" option that actually works in response to this, as well as giving explicit and opt-in consent to whatever tracking they use.
The vast majority of the user base that they care about doesn't even know there's anything to say sorry for. If you would use this tool, you're worth much less to them anyway.

addendum: If this bothers you, I would strongly recommend just jumping ship now. There's almost no incentive for them to change and no sign of one on the horizon. If you're not getting enough value from them right now to accept the data they keep on you, you'll be happier just giving up and moving on early.
Something I think was left unsaid here is that airlines are starting to take over more of their own engine maintenance to reduce costs. The engine makers have secured huge margins with their maintenance contracts for years and the airlines are looking to bring this in-house.
Guide to Low Code Development
As someone else said, if you're in Europe you can send a subject access request after sending the deletion request.

That will tell you what data they still have about you.

You can't _know_ they've deleted everything if the subject access request comes back empty, but it puts then in the position of having to actively break the law to lie about whether they've deleted your data.
Minor side note: do not put garbage into the answer boxes, use a completely random but plausible answer. One attack vector that is enabled by using random strings as response to "security" questions is telephone support: "I definitely did not answer that question, I just put garbage in!" Sadly, sometimes that works.
"In March 2015, NASA scientists reported that, for the first time, complex organic compounds found in DNA and RNA, including uracil, cytosine and thymine, have been formed in the laboratory under outer space conditions, using starting chemicals, such as pyrimidine, found in meteorites. Pyrimidine and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) may have been formed in red giants or in interstellar dust and gas clouds, according to the scientists."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite#Meteorite_chemistry, which cites https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-ames-reproduces-the-buildi...
CRUD Operations Using Vanilla JavaScript
Show HN: Devlids – Gallery of Stickered Laptops
I think "big data" companies realized that people simply were unaware of the extent of the tracking and showing them how much they're being tracked would make for terrible PR, potentially much worse than any publicized data leak. It turns the tracking from some abstract concept into a very tangible list of actions being recorded potentially forever.

Take that guy who managed to get a dump from his Spotify data thanks to the GDPR for instance: https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1025024813889478656/

I'm sure we all knew Spotify tracked us but seeing how much they track is pretty crazy to me even though I'm pretty sensitized to these privacy issues.

I expect that a full dump from Facebook would be at least as verbose if not more. I don't think they want the users to see how the sausage is made.
I remember when Microsoft was fined for not offering other browsers to users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft... . Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default, and it seems like nobody cares :/
"market for lemons" is a great term, just in case people aren't aware of it.

I was introduced to it by this good piece on Medium:
https://medium.com/@thogge/one-mental-model-to-rule-them-all...
(I'd appreciate if anyone posted links they like better).

I'm not sure I understand it applying in this case. Bad candidates are always looking for a job, but good candidates rarely need to look for a job. (So, job applicants are largely lemons). Good companies have lower turnover, so rarely need the positions filled?
DevLids.com is a gallery of stickered laptops from tech/design/science-related fields.
The Dark Forest idea is based on those axioms, so if you believe the axioms hold in our universe then the book conclusion holds.

The video argues many points, an important one are

1 you can't stay hidden, advanced civilizations will detect you or can send probes to destroy any viable solar system,

2 if you try to kill everyone else you will eventually find someone bigger then you so maybe the strategy to make alliances is better, you will have a better chance surviving in an alliance when you eventually meet something bigger then you.
Netflix is one of very few examples where I expect the upcoming Marzipan iOS -> Mac app conversion to be decent.

If the quality of Apple’s own Stocks/News/Home conversions is anything to go by it’s not going to make for good software. But I’d take it for offline Netflix viewing.
It's because people using Linux don't go onto malware websites for consumerist monkeys.
Depending on what GP meant by "decaying", I can see two answers.

If they meant decaying in the "climate change is destroying the world" sense, then presumably the idea is that we've learned our lesson and won't destroy the next rock the way we have this one. Debatable, but at least the next rock is unlikely to have dead dinosaurs for use to dig up and burn.

If they meant decaying as in "the sun is eventually going to swallow us up", the presumably we will spread humanity across a bunch of decaying rocks, and continually migrate for the most decayed to newly formed rocks.
Individuals often have little control over these things, and they are indicative of deeper cultural incentives. Without transgressing some, nothing will get done in many orgs. I see it a lot in big money VC backed startups, much less so in bootstrapped businesses. It’s important to be non-judgmental of people doing these things and simply leave or master Machiavellian moves to clear a path to promotion as other players are, eg. via optics or rallying support to oust “toxic” rivals for the good of the team.
Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
I was on HN this morning and my 2 yr. old son asked me "What's that orange thing papa's looking at?"

I answered "It's a place where people can talk to each other about things they find interesting." He didn't get it, which makes sense since it isn't really a "place" and there are no visible "people" here.

So I figured I would propose it to you all, how would you explain HN to a 2 year old?
It's remarkable to me how complex board games, like our society at large, have become over the past few decades. And the messages that are conveyed by the games. We assume the current state as "normal" but actually points to the remarkable progress of our society.

I'm playing "Chutes and Ladders" with my four year old, which is a direct derivation of a popular ancient Indian board game.

And I love the title of the Soviet game mentioned:

"Tuberculosis: A Proletarian Disease, Look After Your Health! The New Hygiene Game"
Show HN: An Electron+React Boilerplate for Minimalists
Market share of Chrome OS is significantly less.
9. Refuse to do any maintenance and only work on new projects.

10. Hide your actual productivity. IE: get done with your coding tasks in half the time, leaving other devs have to fix all the bugs that QA kick back. (This is probably a managerial issue, actually, but perpetuated by devs who do # 9.)
Trump’s AI Initiative Falls Short on Immigration and Ethics Issues
you may be surprised at how much it's improved in Riot 1.0, but ymmv :)
I think it dates back to Joel, here's another good take on it: https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
Yeah. Did you actually try calling someone with any 2 of these clients?
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My "conspiracy" theory is that tech companies would be like this too, except it would literally be impossible to fully staff your CS team on elite bigshots.
A few months ago I went through and deleted all of my Facebook content from 2005 through 2010, except for a few pictures. It took 5+ hours to delete each item individually. A tool to assist this would be very helpful! I’m sure I’m not the only one who wrote a lot of stupid posts and uploaded a lot of embarrassing (and some slightly incriminating) photos to Facebook in college that they don’t want saved forever.
OVH Releases CDS: Continuous Delivery Service and DevOps Automation
Can you please give more details?
Honest question here: Do you have any concerns regarding privacy?
> That's just another argument that humans are truly a race of barbarians.

relative to what? we don't know how violent alien species are. they could be very peaceful in comparison, but it is just as likely that they are more violent than we are.
It's used everywhere chalkboards and differential equations/integrals used to be used.
Judge: I’m doing a show [Silicon Valley] about the tech world. Now, they’ve gotten rid of cubicles. They all brag about their open work space: “It’s all open.” I think a lot of people want cubicles back. People want some privacy. I think people try to keep dressing up work as something that’s not work. I think that’s almost more annoying than just the work itself. That’s carried on since Office Space came out. In general, no matter how workplaces change, human beings will find a way to be annoyed by other human beings.
How my Friend's Phone Got Stolen in London and Ended Up in Somalia
FB post links to https://medium.com/syncedreview/oxford-university-ai-policy-...
also see the healthy reddit clojure discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/as16f6/transcript_...
Routing tracking traffic through a subdomain that proxies through to the third party is already a thing. And my adblocker, at least, already blocks that too.

It's not death anyway; it's just that blockers will have to adjust to blocking bits of third party content.
the memories feature makes for a nice deletion tool, but i know the posts are just being hidden
> since he’s overseas, can’t get the fallback SMS

Why?
I don't understand the appeal of cloud only/mostly computing for non-trivial use cases. It's probably that I care a lot more about Internet hiccups getting in my way than most. To me it'd be like having a smartphone that only unlocks when there's a signal.
It is possible to consider them different categories of things. XMPP solves the IM problem but conferences with lots of users are a bit awkward if you use a XMPP MUC server. Conferencing is to some extent a bag on the side of XMPP. You would probably be better off just using IRC.

Matrix is primarily about dealing with the issues of conferences with lots of users... I see it as more of an improved IRC than a replacement for XMPP.
What’s getting older is Americans obsessed with privatizing every little aspect of their lives to the most dishonest greed-obsessed person in line, then complaining when those aspects of their lives, deprived of all democratic intention, are ruled by the sudden wims and wills of various dictators.
Absolutely not worth the time.
I've given up and just started giving the same answer for all security questions.
Don’t languages like F# remove much of the verbosity of a type system? In fact, we’re finally loving away from that verbosity in general. Swift, for example, lets me write declarations like this:

var done = false

let language = “russian”

let languages = [“english”, “french”, “german”, “russian”]

let dictionary = [1:"english", 2:"french", 3:"german", 4:"russian"]

The types are implied. The use of ‘let’ means immutable.

I believe F# goes even farther but the verbose typing of a generation ago is almost gone.
DNA gets its fidelity from the machinery that maintains it, i.e. chromatin, repair enzymes, polymerases, topoisomerases. All of these evolved around the idosyncracies of the genetic code and have perfected themselves over billions of years - more if you count all of the lives of individual organisms put together. Now you want to break that basis and somehow think you will improve things?

As for increasing data density, again, do you suggest converting computers to ternary to do the same?
I doubt it. Apple don't care about having a high percent of the market. They're happy so long as they have the high end in their pocket. That's where the big margins are.

They're happy to leave the high volume lower end to the likes of Samsung.
How much are you selling it for? I am interested
I dislike JSON, but it's a step in the right direction from XML. XML is an inelegant, verbose, over-specified mess, a relic of 90s thinking. JSON is definitely an improvement.

HTPP's fine, I guess. It's certainly available everywhere, and saves one from writing a bunch of tiresome parsing code. But that's really an indictment of the current state of our technology. Popular languages should make it easy to read structured data out of a socket (with some sort of max length to prevent DDoSes) & write structured data to a socket. Since they don't, HTTP is an okay compromise. It's a bit heavyweight, but it gets the job done.
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This gets me wondering. What kind of incident would be required to provoke public outrage over Facebook? Something that would bring public awareness re their data collection policies? Or is Facebook Just Too Big To Fail™ anymore?
They're all software companies. Software is "tech".
I'd like to add his article 'Is marijuana as safe as we think,' which uses his usual brand of correlation=causation and use of anecdotes to cast doubt on cannabis legalization.

If nothing else, it's strange behaviour. If I were accused of being a tobacco shill, I would avoid writing articles with conclusions that align with tobacco industry interests...

Disclaimer: I have a chip on my shoulder about this, and I cancelled my New Yorker subscription over that article.
I read somewhere (I don't remember where) that when you're a CEO and all your friends are CEOs, you start to compare yourself to them and want to make as much as they do.
What Happens at a Firearms Training for Teachers
I love Hyperfiddle, but I'm not good enough to use it.
> Also, why a limit of 8 colors and 12 icons? Why not an arbitrary number of colors and user definable icons?

This commonly called the paradox of choice. Satisfaction is often higher when choosing from a limited set of good options than choosing from a large set of options with varying quality.

(YMMV, it is also used as an excuse for being inflexible, or for forcing bad options on users a.l.a. a false dilemma, and to be honest I'm not sure how to tell the difference as an outsider)
I should also point out that most of the linked video quotes a statement by Facebook about what they promise to do with your data.
FWIW, it will unlock when there is no signal. I unlock mine with my phone using Smart Lock (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6160273?hl=en).
Third party scripts shouldn't exist either.
wondered when or if they would bring this back
the display is quite square, there will be black stripes bottom and top with most videos anyways.

For reading: notch fits the status bar, so no text should scroll behind it.
There are others like the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) from Apple. The ones that are in the open are more like full design systems meant for internal use and prestige. You can find a list of systems on this page: https://adele.uxpin.com

To use shadows for the z-index and layers is quite common these days though, many systems use them. Flat could be just a step after "inset" and before "raised" within a system like that, something you use for normal backgrounds and stuff that are part of the background.

The most basic element in a design system is essentially just an empty frame/box that could hold a shape and color, and optionally a shadow on a shape. This frame could become anything.
And a computer is just a thing that allows assholes to broadcast their opinions.
http://beta.trimread.com/articles/113
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I even just wish they had a simpler "View As non-friend" feature.
Pardon my ignorance here, never worked on this kinda program before, but isn't is actually hard on complex databases like Facebook to actually remove data, better just to mark it as unviewable?
You're absolutely right, but I dont see what is wrong with that. When you build high-density luxury towers, it creates capacity and fewer people "push out" into bordering areas. Contrast this with the Bay Area where the lack of high-density luxury towers causes people to push miles out and buy homes. Would the Bay Area have a housing problem if there were ~20 more luxury high rises Palo Alto? Seems to be that would greatly relieve the upwards pressure on the locus around Palo Alto.

Also, forcing people to move into low-density homes seems regressive. It can be an option.
I got an Acer C720A 5 years ago and tried to do that. I sideloaded linux on an SD card. I was able to do web dev and hybrid app development (I worked for Intel at the time). It worked fine for what I needed.

I got my wife a Samsung Chromebook 3 and she uses it for her job as preschool director. Being able to install Android apps is great. I feel like I could use that machine for most of my personal projects. I would NOT use a remote development tool; try to do it all locally when you can.
Watching from afar, it seemed to me that the catalyzing event for NY's startup scene was the collapse of the banks. The big banks had a lot of very strong tech talent, for whom it was a huge financial risk to leave and join a startup (because the salaries were so high at the banks). It wasn't until the banks collapsed that that talent was released. Prior to that, NY had tech companies, like any major city does, but was not one of the leading centers on the east coast at all.
I've always known it as snakes and ladders.

Chutes and ladders would make more sense though. It was never clear to me why you would fall down the snakes.

Edit: It appears Chutes and Ladders is a branded version of Snakes and Ladders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders
No it wasn't. It was about giving them taxpayer money to do it.

Not that many people here care much about limiting development in general, especially in dense center city areas like the East River waterfront.

People were pissed that we were considering giving money to the richest guy in the world to do something that nearly every company seems desperately interested in doing anyways, namely locating businesses within a half mile radius of midtown manhattan.
Sites use third parties to provide various functionality. If you block them, the site can appear partially broken. I assume Mozilla has been testing and working on minimizing breakage.