skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's leave syndication aside for a moment; I don't think it's unreasonable for a forum to have terms of use that you are participating in a public forum that needs to maintain integrity. If people just go deleting their posts then it screws up the public discourse. I've actually had the experience of building and running a forum that allowed deleting your content in this way, and we had to remove the capability as trolls used it in a specifically destructive capacity.

Now this position is certainly debatable, but I think it's at least a reasonable argument that you could take to regulators. Contrast that with the bullshit that Facebook, Google and a zillion ad-tech companies are doing with our data every day. You're free to object to the syndication of HN data, but personally I feel that is a distraction from the issues GDPR is meant to address, and I am hoping regulators feel the same way.
I managed to easily close the browser tab in Firefox for Android
Wrong on two counts. First because a monogamous couple has a virtually zero chance of contracting the virus and second because celibacy is evolutionarily indistinguishable from death.
One thing I distinctly remember about HIV in the early 90's is researchers saying that if we didn't figure out a cure in the next few years we would never find it. I think due to mutability. I'm not sure exactly what they based their assertions on.
Forbidding people from passing on wealth (or anything else) to their children seems inhumane - and wealthy people are still people with emotions and feelings.

Personally, I would sooner accept 90% tax to the rich&living, than 100% tax upon death.

Both are theoretical of course - there is no way to enforce them really without hurting overall society. There is also no need I think. A better solution is to make sure that wealth doesn't give too much unfair privilege, and that basic living conditions are guaranteed to everyone - we are getting closer to this every decade.
There is a larger issue of a level playing field. These kind of subsidies are a race to the bottom.

Instead of business growing the overall economy they shrink the economy by the amount paid out in subsides, since these businesses will be built anyway if not here somewhere else in the country that is a overall loss to the country. So you are actually subsidizing business on the national level, which is why businesses should not be allowed to cynically play off states against another.

Focusing on localized gains by the logic of 'something is better than nothing' misses the bigger picture and is misleading and disingenuous.

It's like if tax payers could be incentivized to file in different regions by competitive breaks to grow the local tax filing economy and revenue of various regions, that is a shrinking of overall tax revenue though it may be a rise for specific regions.
He might not be, but what about his son, or his sons son?
Yes, as long as your partner is doing it correctly too.

Many tragic cases involve women being infected by their cheating, promiscuous husbands.
Wasn’t any better in here in London in the UK.
Just spent some time looking through the source, and I must say it's refreshing to see a well-documented project for once.
Seems like an extremely reductive view to take: you can't use time and family to buy food.

Gender roles aren't so cut and dry any more. Given that, maybe outcomes should be considered independent of gender?
I don’t recall OWS as having any concrete goals or demands. Seems hard to achieve a goal without having defined one.
What if it's a high DPI gaming mouse?
"Oh Jeez", Morty-style.
The author is speaking about „internet scale“. I think he is describing renting a complete DC completely for your own because you are so massive.

All of these numbers make no sense if you are not someone in the Top100. I mean describing a cost for fiber through the sea? Come on... We‘re not all Google scale.
How does TOR really work?
My one month old account friend, using logical fallacies isn't going to convert anyone to your cause. whataboutisms, blaming cultural insensitivity etc DOES NOT WORK for a country that blatantly tells it's citizens "either support the party line or die" like china.
Complete biosynthesis of cannabinoids in yeast – Nature
If one person rolls a die and gets a six and another person rolls the same die and gets a one the person who rolled the six will claim it was the way they rolled the die that led to their success.
It's complicated because the real choice being made is masked.

And when an org develops a habit of pushing people out who can see the moral dimension, it increases the number of decision makers within the org that don't.

I know someone who resigned for similar Moral Reasons when we were working on a project for a foreign country. At the time, I am ashamed to say, lot of people laughed and attacked him for the reasons being "superficial".

Exec Mgmt's position was - we are doing things conforming to the "local laws". The thing was, local laws existed in name only. You could get away with whatever you wanted by bribing people or helping the wrong kind of people. And once you have managers in place who have no problem with that what do you think happens?

Fast forward 15 years and we saw massive fines and few people went to jail. This plays out constantly in companies.
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You're asking this question in an era where we've gotten into a trade war with China?

Because the CCP and its members are heavily invested in quite literally everything that isn't a foreignly owned business operating in China.
Communicating Sequential Processes [pdf]
TLDR: advertisement for the page speed optimization service provided by unbound.com.
I hope you saw onshape mentioned in the other comments
There is a difference between building an acquaintance, then friendship, and asking them out, and between offering explicit sexual acts right after/instead hello.
The 2018 keyboard is much more robust than the earilier ones. In 8 months I haven’t had to replace it at all (though I am close). I actually don’t mind the feel, just want it to work.

And the Touch Bar...if I could just disable the hypersensitive virtual escape key (I use caps lock for that) it would be perfect...all else can be disabled but not that botch, for some reason.

I guess I still use it because I find the alternatives even worse. Could be Apple Stockholm syndrome.
Bro, I guess you're a telugu guy based on ur username.
You were making a point - is it not fair for people to respond to the problems they see with it?
Shareholders have plenty of ways of impacting corporate direction that fall far short of hostile takeovers. E.g. lawsuits; the very fact that a public company has to provide more information about its finances. There's a reason Ruth Porat was brought on after IPO and not before.
the point is you shouldn't have to know what the port does, it should seamlessly interconnect. you shouldn't have to be thinking about wires etc. it's like how bluetooth somewhat seamlessly interconnects across generations of bluetooth. that's how all standards should be
That seems a bit longer than the 250 years or about 10 generations that I've heard on Thom Hartmann and from other sources.
Ask HN: Should I charge for my product (20k Users)
Hi HN,

I am looking for some advice, I am the founder of http://veed.io/ an online video editing platform. We have around 20K Monthly users and we have doubled that month over month for the last 3 with no marketing.

The site has been free to use while in beta and i believe we will be in beta for 2 more months or so. I want to start thinking about charging for the product in some way and this is where I need your help!

Our main competition adds a watermark to every video, you pay a subscription of $20 to have them removed. Simple. They are doing well and growing fast.

I don't want to add watermarks because I think they are ugly and ruins the user's video. I also believe it will give us a competitive advantage if we don't.

I thought about offering a PRO tools package to our users, but most of our users are entry level if they want more powerful editing tools they will go to some other product.

The other idea is to charge for cloud storage? But our users are not making complex videos. they are just cropping the video and adding text. Once they have posted the video on social, they are done.

I would really appreciate your thoughts and advice on this.

Thanks
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> submit research papers to prestigious journals

is not status seeking. Even if I have zero interest in status, sharing knowledge and/or getting feedback can be the main and even only goal.

The same is true of many things. You can have a blog where your goal is to share something or get feedback, not to get status. You can usually tell the difference or at least I think I can. You can be an entertainer (actor, musician, writer, animator ...) and actually have your goal as entertaining people, not gaining status. Even photos. I share 5000+ photos on Flickr. They are all marked as CC-BY. I'm doing it to contribute and share, not to get status. If they ever became popular maybe that would change. Mostly I use them for myself and once or twice a year someone tells me they used one and that makes me happy. I don't feel it's increased my status.

I guess I don't agree with the author at all that effectively everything in life can be seen as status seeking
They stop exponential growth, and that's a good thing in the end.
Unless you have a really conscious and socially adept mechanism to force a people to renew themselves, this sets in.

This is exactly the problem we need to solve as well if we ever manage to increase the human lifespan. Instead of society advancing one funeral at a time (c.f. Max Planck on science) as in the past, permanent change would have to come from every individual at a much higher rate than now.
A couple leads to answer you :

- Video advertising is not happy with only impressions and clicks metrics. In general, advertiser will want to know if their video played while in view from a human (or at least in view on a screen), and for how long it has played (or at the very least a rough estimate, like say how much midpoints).

- The concept of "impression" itself is often not very well defined, but counting it at "the server served a request with the video payload" is really a too optimistic view of things which leaves big holes exploitable by fraudsters. Having client side javascript playing at least requires additional software running, aka additional costs (if minimal) for fraudster.

- You can't really "just" monitor the user on the campaign landing page, since it's different sites involved, it involves different cookies, and actually reconciliating them is doable, but it'd require some work that the advertiser may not be willing or able to do.
Motorola 68000: Addressing Modes
I think this is the 3rd time I am seeing this on HN.
So Spotify in India is missing a lot of the big-name artists? That's a little sad as I always felt one of the the big benefits of Spotify is they seem to have EVERYTHING. Video streaming services like Netflix are a joke in comparison.
Wikipedia’s civil wars show how we can heal ideological divides online
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iPhone SEs (refurbished) are still available for the hoarding! I bought two earlier this year, and it made me sad realizing that buying two of them was still cheaper than buying one of their newer models.

I have a refurbished from January 2017 that is still performing flawlessly, currently at 88% max battery capacity.

I should get my hands on another 2015-era macbook pro retina though...
You Might Not Need That Recursive Function in JavaScript
> You know I lately think that, ok, we're mostly past the age of empires physically conquering one another, we're in the age of economic ebbs and flows of established countries.

Not sure.

First, the US did invade a lot of places in the last decades, and while they didn't officially turned the countries into US colonies, they still do have massive political and economical influence there, and benefit from the local resources.

But even if you discard this, it's assuming the future will be the same as today, which is unlikely. In the entire human history we never had a single day without a war somewhere on earth. The possibility that our countries will __never__ be at war again on their on soil is slim: we have many tomorrows to create situations where it can happen.

We massively consume limited resources in a close system. We destroy systems that regerate resources we need, a destabilize the balance our organisms a based on, and we have hugely powerful weapons. Conquerying one another is still a tempting solution to many problems.

E.G: India has more than 1 billion people, almost no water, extremly strong social tensions, hot borders, pollution in mass and the nuclear bomb. Anything triggering here can easily creep on to the entire world.
they did make demands[1][2] many of them such as reducing corporate power, forgive student loans, ...

But the fact that these weren't only ignored but didn't even result in a meaningful discussion is exactly my point.

[1] 10 Demands Being Made By The Wall Street Protesters https://www.businessinsider.com/finally-specific-demands-fro...

[2] PICKET: Occupy Wall Street protesters post manifesto of 'demands' https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/oct/3/...
Threat models:

* The ad server outright telling lies to get paid for nothing.

* The ad server not being trusted to validate that views are legitimate.

Client-side JavaScript can probe the DOM and execution environment for abnormalities indicative of automation.
> but you'd need a unique credit card per entry

What could go wrong?..

Aside from the obvious stolen CC#, there are legitimate services that provide you with a disposable per transaction card number..
Brain clue to 'broken heart' syndrome
I too was wondering how to "replace" my MacBook Pro, (I have one from work, but I want one machine to do my work on it). I've gone with Microsoft Surface Book 2 (13 inch) and I must say, if you can live with Windows, this is a good alternative:

The touchpad is nice (except from right clicking with 2 fingers, but I think you can change it with software), the hardware is beautifully made, battery lasts 12 hours (maybe around 8-10 with normal usage) and you get in a windows tablet too.

My only problem was the pricetag, 2.6k is kinda a lot, for the specs that aren't the best you can get, but it's good for development work, I can also play some games on it and use photo editing tools.

This was the only windows laptop that I really liked, (my previous was a thinkpad from 8 years ago).
Been there.

Wait several months.
"and got behind when the English started using machine labour"

What do you mean by machine labour here?

If you're referring to steam engines I think you're drawing a causal link that isn't justified.
The dates at best line up to early steam engines. They were massively inefficient and used for pumping out mines, they weren't exactly transformative to the nation.
It probably creates an unhelpful artificial environment. (Which is okay for teaching, learning, healing, etc.) But society supposedly tries to integrate women into higher paying fields. Those fields are not going to be all women.

Now, of course as we see from the stats, anecdotes and other hints, we're pretty far from a women dominated higj tech sector, but there is already polarization. There are already women run companies actively trying to hire only women. This is not constructive on the long run. Just as the X-gender-only conferences.

I'm of course interested in arguments that say otherwise, so if you have, please share them.
Careful on the mid-2012 MBPs... as much as I love that machine, they also have their own flexgate [1]. The internal SATA flex cables bend across the Superdrive and rub against the slightly abrasive back plate, so they have a high failure rate if you actually use your device as a laptop (eg travel with it, keep it in an backpack). Apple seems to have had a problem with flex cables for nearly a decade now.

My MBP 2012 has had 6 SATA flex cable replacements by Apple in 3.5 years (I bought mine in 2015). The last few repairs have all been ~3 months apart. It's easily the most unreliable laptop I've ever owned. Thankfully Apple did all the SATA cable replacements free as required by law in Australia.

That said, you should be able to find mid-2012s for about $450 - $650 US refurbished from mom & pop Mac repair stores. [2]

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sata-cable-problem-in-m...

[2] https://www.macofalltrades.com/apple-macbook-pro-13-inch-glo...
They never acknowledged the issue even though the issue has been there for quite sometime[1].

[1] https://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/09/03/study-sugges...
Bad design choices are a waste of time. Good ones are necessary. from an article about TOR as a great example:

Tor needs a lot of users to create anonymity, if Tor was hard to use new users wouldn't adopt it so quickly. Because new users won't adopt it, Tor becomes less anonymous. By this reasoning it is easy to see that usability isn't just a design choice of Tor but a security requirement to make Tor more secure.
https://skerritt.blog/how-does-tor-really-work/
> The slave owner like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson was in some ways like an extreme version of the modern liberal -- seeing the person of color as needing an authority to rule over them and provide them with things like welfare, access to education, etc.

You’re being downvoted because you chose to regurgitate alt-right theology to lay history’s problems at the doorstep of “liberal guilt”

The largest group of benificaries of public education? Whites.

The largest group of beneficiaries of welfare? Whites.
Someone used JavaScript in a way that's slightly less annoying than most capture ads. Moral panic ASAP!
What do you buy instead?
Make Your PWA Available on Google Play Store
I don't think that's what whoisjuan meant. The Chinese people who would be "victimized" by Google welcome the new search engine. Presumably, they would choose to use it because they want to. It is not productive to be angry on their behalf.
That felt to me like the US neocons thought their cunning plan[1] would separate Russia from the Sevastopol Naval Base. That backfired bigly. Me I can't think is any Russian Government that would tolerate that.

[1] With the utterly incompetent Sen Clinton running the State Department no less.
I don't see path dependence as explicit component of this model; "affirmative action style corrections" however are accounted for in the amplitude; they're part of the corrections that happen (or increasingly, IMO, overcorrections).
Or they could just use standard parts and make their machines more repairable.

I recently upgraded my MacMini Server 2012 with max ram and SSDs. My Air is still going strong, so this may be the last time I get a Mac. Which is too bad. Their older machines were really really nice. The new ones are kinda shit.

Had they just kept releasing the same models with upgraded specs and none of the crazy price increases and improvements we’d all be upgrading. I don’t even mind the soldered in stuff if the machine was reliable. I use and Air. Now their keyboards don’t even work.
Is it possible to break this down into a set of generic pros-and-cons?
But why can't a malicious server also serve up some JS that modifies the behaviour of the JS served by the ad network?
The opening statement of the author is really overblown and sensationalist. Only at the end of the thread did he admit that all data there apparently come from net cafes, but 1. there is no evidence that messages from private devices are being included in this database 2. one has to understand that China is vast, and each local authority differs a lot from the next one in deciding what it does. It totally wouldn't surprise me that the local authorities of several cities/provinces decided to sign a contract with this net cafe management software provider, who essentially installs a spyware on each net cafe computer and routes the traffic to the police. Doesn't suggest it's any sort of coordinated, deliberate action from the central government though. Comparing it to PRISM and NSA is highly misleading and irresponsible, and just putting a blanket word "China's" in the title is inaccurate. Sadly it's how most news stories are done these days.
Sometimes I find Reuters stories boring compared to all the superficially exciting news produced by everyone else. But these are the kind of stories that make me thankful they exist. That contrast, in distracting times, reminds me of what choices I make when I consume news.

Kudos to Mozilla for keeping things open. Holding on to your values, in cut throat competitve times is fucking hard. Mad respect.
The new video game Apex Legends hit 2.5M players in its first day, 25M players in its first week.

Not that this detracts from Spotify's accomplishment. It's just worth pointing out what's possible.
It put me off too for many years. If it’s any consolation there’s a lot more welcoming people these days. Tends to be the older hams and a section of black box operators who suffer from elitism. The younger lot (under 50) are totally different.

As for open source, this was probably the original open source. Lots of people build their own radios and still do and publish the designs for nothing. There are technical journals such as Sprat which cover this on old fashioned paper form. Software is mostly open now from what I have seen. Main tool these days for digital modes is a good example http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html - some people are using this with home build SSB transceivers and computer interfaces.
Seamless Data Fetching with Redux and React Hooks
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That might be the case, but I think for me, the prime thing that sets Google apart from, say, Facebook, is that I don't (or not as much) feel pressured into using their stuff because all my friends do so, but because it's genuinely good.

Which is less annoying for me, but not really the moral high ground for other issues. Still, it influences my view of them.
I can assure you the message is consistent internally with action. It’s not just marketing.

Disclosure: I work for Apple.
> you can't use time and family to buy food.

Yes, but you also don't need millions. Any measures of pay inequality will be skewed by extreme outcomes (as the distribution is floored), so people who decide they earn enough and prioritize time/family over further career progress will appear in statistics as "inequality" (edit: even though it's actually good that our society is so wealthy and productive that some people can afford to do that).
Bioinfomatics is where a lot of research will be going on. And that's a lot closer to JavaScript than it is to biochemistry most of the time.
Temperament is unrelated/orthogonal to inharmonicity. Temperament deals with picking frequencies for the notes that make up the scale within an octave.

Inharmonicity affects how you tune the octaves themselves. The reason a simple doubling rule doesn't work is a result of the properties of real physical strings which are not perfectly elastic causing the harmonics of a single string vibrating to be slightly sharp. To avoid "beating", the ratio of frequencies between two piano notes an octave apart needs to be slightly greater than 2.

This article is half of what a "what every musician should know about piano tuning" article should contain - it's the "set-up" part where you derive a nice simple rule that is widely known. The second part would then deal with temperament (first) and then inharmonicity.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-the-lifespans-of-an.... Thanks!
Are you saying that black people aren't suffering today due to slavery and Jim Crow? How do you explain that the median white household wealth is sixteen times that of black households? Or is that a leftist conspiracy also?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/03/26/the-racial...