skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to switch to Firefox but font rendering, especially in PDFs, is so much nicer on Chrome/chromium in my opinion.
> That's not enjoyment; that's an illness.

These are not mutually exclusive.
Anecdotally, I work with teenagers and none of them have a Facebook pages. It's viewed as a place for old people and parents.

For me personally, it's almost impossible to deal with. Way too many political posts from my friends and family.

It's probably best use for me is local events and an occasional major event from a friend/family member.

Still, I find myself going there less and less.

From a small business standpoint, it's just not worth the time, effort and money to advertise there. It's much more effective to focus on getting referrals with my current clients.

I really wish there was a paid social media service that everyone used. I would gladly pay $5-$10 a month for something that didn't sell my data.
Certainly a nice idea. Since dating falls under (albeit a light version of) the network effect, getting started seems to be rather difficult. I'll also have to give up all of my location data? Eh ... probably not a concern for most users.

I think some useful things might be marking spots most frequented by singles and somehow incentivizing location owners to get people to sign up. A great advantage would be that the friction for signing up is very low.

I'll check it out when I have an Android phone again, but honestly don't expect more than 10 people in my area to have even heard of it.
How do you suppose that Enron "weren't going to lie" on their quarterly flyings? This analogy is a bit rich.
Yeah, looks like I misremembered the degree of overvaluation.
That said, you have to compare it to valuations of dividend stocks (~15 - Apple, uh... OK, difficult. McD's, Procter & Gamble 25?!, Ford 10...) and growth stocks (~25 - Google, Microsoft, Facebook). Oracle is more of a shrinkage stock IMO...
Same here. It is used internally here as a written abbreviation, and we use it as a prefix in a numbering scheme to identify a certain category of defects, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it verbally.
I agree, but population growth continued, technology advance continued, wealth accumulated. There was no necessity to doubt on the superiority of mankind (those doubts increased after WW2, facing nuclear annihilation).
Now, in the worst case, climate change will lead to a massive population die-off on a global scale, due to starvation, drought and wars. And stall any progress in technology, wealth, society and culture, due to negative feedback loops, which are discovered gradually. This will finally crush the narrative of the superior man, which we all grew up with. I think the psychological effect of experiencing the limits of growth for the first time in modern history, is completely underrated. After WW1, people knew what mechanized slaughter is. After WW2, people realized the holocaust and the balance of terror. During climate change, people will experience the end of growth and expansion on a global scale, which formed the human mindset of the last 3000 years.
I mean, it's a minor quibble, but ripoff would make sense. Usury does not, in any way. It's simply a misuse of usury.
yea steamlink is amazing BUT as far as I know, it cannot be used for arbitrary desktop streaming. You can certainly stream games wonderfully, but that's it.
I’ve had my domains on transip.eu (or .nl for me) for years and have never had any issues.
JSYK, The New Criterion sometimes features outstanding criticism, but it also has an ideological bent. Both Tolstoy and Shakespeare are often labeled as “conservatives,” but that’s a reductionist treatment of them and their art transcends base politics. However, that the first sentence of TFA extols Tolstoy’s supposed conservatism is a clue to raise your ideological shields before reading further, lest you find yourself nodding along with a publication that invented the Edmund Burke Award and then bestowed it upon one of its commentators, Henry Kissinger.
Was hoping for a second there that they found the way not to include the serialized state (as json sitting inside the script tags) in the body of the html document (to make the page lighter), but no, that's not the case.

Anyway, it’s interesting how they separate the code for fetching data (making it a responsibility of one server) from the code for rendering data (making it a responsibility of another, Node-based, server). Which means that although they re-use the code for components, the code for data fetching logic must get duplicated.
not OP. But instagram, tik tok, vsco, snapchat
More and more frequently, Walmart online prices for the same items are comparable or even better than Amazon. Nowadays I search there first and generally prefer it.
AWS SAM nails this so hard.

They straight up have hundreds of pre-generated tests depending on what your functions input is, and you can run _every_ test locally.
Node.js – v11.11.0
Can only women locate men (resembling Bumble)?

Either way, couldn't this app be a handy tool for antisocial behavior? (anything from laughing at randomers to finding a victim of some sort of crime)
Indeed. There sure are a lot of accusations of FB lying in these comments, but it seems people have no problem upvoting much more obvious lies like "FB hasn't launched any new features in 2 years".

Whatever fits the HN narrative goes, I guess.
Please cite something specific -- as in, a specific document within the Snowden dump, a news article which reaches that conclusion based on multiple documents, etc.

Waving your hands and mouthing the word "Snowden" doesn't support just any defamatory statement you want to make about the government spy agencies -- and making up allegations cheapens the legitimate charges against them.
Kissing the wrong person could be a gateway to depression. I wonder how long it might be before one could sue for damage to their microbiome.
In New Zealand, the banks commonly require personal guarantees on this type of mortgage. As a result my friend declared himself bankrupt when 1. his co-owner stopped paying his share of the loan 2. the rent didn't cover the mortgage payments 3. the sale price was less than the purchase price. In other words read the loan documentation very carefully and think about the consequences in a worst-case scenario.
> why do we all drive cars?

...we don't?
"Boring" and "exciting" is inherently subjective. And you've literally just been told that someone doesn't find that boring.
This would be a lot more interesting if the user data were verified in some way, such that you could filter for X universities, or income level, or even SAT score type stuff. People are a lot more open to random encounters when the pool is prefiltered in some way, imo.
Owning the Smart Home with Logitech Harmony Hub
I think you have some very valid points :)

But, tech is not like basketball. If you automate an approach for exerting influence you can scale differently.

That said, I agree Western democracies are not that fragile :)

Honestly, I wonder why Russia dares poke the bear.. they are unlikely to exert significant influence -- but they are likely to be painted as villains and voters will remember that.
U.S. deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide hit highest level since 1999
"Record keeping of human society will only perpetuate and render privacy obsolete."

How do you think any true power will react to that kind of forced transparency?

"The law itself could eventually evolve to be more dynamic, decentralized"

How do you define law itself?
This is a great idea, but I fear it could be easily knocked-off as a feature for Tinder. Love the concept though!
Zuckerberg outlines plan for 'privacy-focused' Facebook
Well there are these, at my workplace:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183

That includes malware analysis, vulnerability research, and emulator development.
> You'll get ads better suited to you. The horror!

Plus all kinds of bonus disinformation based on the profile your data has provided!
I was wondering if they were talking about Jin, and yeah, it's the first line of the article.

Worth a follow, if not simply to see some interesting prototype hardware and tools pop up from time to time.

https://twitter.com/Jin_Store
Open up your circuit breaker box and touch the bus bar... or touch a live 30A circuit, and I think you'd disprove that one.

Not saying I agree or disagree with the line of reasoning here, but there is plenty of current even in a North American 2-phase house's wiring to kill someone pretty quickly, no matter how well grounded the system is.
> It's perfectly acceptable to be willing to (and feel obligated to) watch adds to support a program that you enjoy. Not wanting to support anything you consume isn't "fuck authority"

I was surprised by the parent post over this too.

By most standards I'm out towards the fringe of the privacy and anti-ad viewpoint; I'm willing to argue that most billboards are intrusive and bad for society. But even I actively whitelist ads when I'm regularly visiting some creator who relies on ads for revenue and has reasonable practices with them. (Not wanting malware is of course a different concern.) It's the place where I'm most willing to see ads; I'm voluntarily directing my attention to content that wouldn't be available any other way, and the ad payouts are going to the people making the content.

It's not just that anti-authority isn't the same as anti-monetization, the punk DIY aesthetic isn't necessarily either. Sure, fuck big record labels, the modern version is probably refusing to let content hosts and scrapers profit off what you make. Buzzfeed does not need to show ads alongside random pictures they swiped off reddit. But warehouse shows still sold tickets, Against All Authority printed their own merch to sell, most people didn't try to fight the power by pretending that artists didn't need money to live.
Can We Get Lent Wrong?
CO2 credits
NZ “Open banking” API specification released
The real scary part is when you only sometimes work on your car. You get to see all the mistakes the "pros" made. Missing bolts, over/under torqued lugs, and my current pain: replacing the battery 3 times when there's clearly a parasitic load that needs diagnosis.
While I love Slate Star Codex, just commenting a link in response to a written comment feels a bit snarky. It'd be a lot nicer if you could provide some preface, maybe a summary given the length of it, and just link to it as a source for your comment. :)
Couldn't you use Tinder for those same antisocial behavior? How is this any different?
It's rich that you created an account specifically to make this comment. Lying on financial reports is not uncommon and there are high profile examples, so a sweeping appeal to honesty on the part of a multi billion company caught lying in the past is foolish.
I'm shocked by the decrease in twitter usage (compared to other social networks) in 2017.[0] I have seen a huge uptick in friends tweeting, mostly in replies to Trump's tweets, and several times a week news stories come to the top of my feed purely generated by a single tweet of his.

[0] the credited article for the story, linked in the second sentence https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-n...
I didn't downvote you, but it comes across like you were trying to nitpick someone by pointing out a detail that isn't relevant to what they were saying.
> I should add, if I got diabetes and had to take insulin, I would be pissed to the point that I'd make it my sole goal in life to find a way to live without having to take insulin.

I feel like you're ascribing it to some sort of moral failing then that someone would turn to medication for help. These things aren't always under people's control.

> I'd rather get sick and fail than live with it forever.

In the case of type 1 diabetes that could literally mean death. These hypotheticals are very easy to lay out, but much, much harder to live with.
What about setting my hostfile to block sites that are known to track me? I'm not explicitly "blocking ads", just "blocking tracking", but a side-effect of this will invariably be that ads are blocked? Is it immoral?
The cost of labor doesn't behave like other things, because people spend their wages. Raising wages can boost aggregate demand, making more work for everyone, including low wage workers displaced by increasing productivity. Artifically increasing wages has the effect of forcing investment in productivity (rather than relying on the low cost of labor). Increasing demand also makes the labor market tighter, which boosts wages and encourages further productivity increases. Boosting wages for the lowest paid workers also has good distributional effects because wages have higher utility, are spent more, etc. Etc.
Not parent, but I am a college student at a large university in the US. Instagram is just huge, for the entire [university] population here. Snapchat is still used but not as common - Instagram is eating up Snapchat's userbase. GroupMe is used by the entire population for group chatting, and many males (especially more 'nerdy' guys) use Discord as the preferred general chat application.
What about https://www.gandi.net/en ?
Show HN: Integrating Packagr with Gitlab CI
Are you sure it is a good idea to publish this before you got your domain back?
A malicious reader could try to battle you and get the domain before you.
According to the dates and other information in the article, it is also possible he was hacked and someone else has the money.
Do they have deadlines in the US?

I've heard about US PhD students going on for seven years, ten years, fourteen years, and so on.

In the UK I had to submit before four years. If I didn't do that I literally just failed the degree.

I worked twenty-hour days for about a month at the end and then submitted with one day to go. Not even exaggerating.
Oh, I could certainly see that. I don't recall encryption/signing working very well in the best of cases. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest submitting a bug report (I think there's a button somewhere in the O365 web interface). ActiveX is very deprecated and likely will be removed from Edge as part of the move to Chromium (just my personal speculation - I don't know if that's the official plan).
"vuln" is pretty commonly used in the security industry
> Well in that context, red meat is obviously healthier if you know up front that the people in question are going to pile on dressing...

I think you're being too charitable accepting this analogy at all - somehow microservices are presented as something obviously and inherently better (salad) versus non-microservice approach (red meat).

If we're going down the route of silly analogies which are terrible way to argue anything, how about this:

Non-microservice architectures are normal diet of meat, fish, vegetables, grains and sugar which you can keep under control if you have any idea of what you're doing. Microservices are gluten-free diet - very popular for no good reason, it makes everything harder and you should only pursue it if you have very good reason to and you understand the cons.
Brave is based on Chromium and has a recent update.
This is going to be great for ReactOS, they're even open sourcing more of their UI components.
Yeah, that sounds less like a 'smart' AI gone wrong and more like a typical cheating AI. In this case, instead of an actual cheat it's just able to act at superhuman speeds. Similar to the speculated issue with the Starcraft AI. Even though that one was constrained in actions per minute, it wasn't really constrained the same way a human is.

In general, the smarter you make the AI, the more you have to work to give it constraints to keep it from cheesing the player the same way players often cheese dumb AIs.

In the case of an RTS, you can force the AI to manipulate a cursor and view area the same way a human does. Only give it partial information about areas outside the current view. Put limits on cursor manipulation. Maybe add a fudge factor that makes its clicks land randomly within X distance of its target, where X is based on the average speed the cursor has moved in the last half a second. That alone would make it harder for it to give orders to a bunch of individual units fast enough to out-micro a player, and you're really just giving it constraints similar to a human operating a mouse.
It does feel like social media as a whole may be peaking, or at least nearing full saturation. People can only take so much. And there are a lot of options these days.
I cannot walk around the city and determine who is using Tinder.

But with this app I can purposefully visit a place known to have a user.

i.e. real-world interactions have a lot more repercussions than cyber-bullying.
> It’s important to note that it’s not just splitting up your own transactions, it’s that it’s actually other people’s coins that end up in your destination wallets. As such, it becomes very difficult to trace

It was my basically uninformed impression that the bitcoin blockchain consists of a series of transaction records that look like this:

- Address xxxxx1x sends 10 bitcoins to address xxxxx2x; address xxxxx7x mints 25 bitcoins

That is to say, the records show that balances increase and decrease, but there is no actual concept of a uniquely identifiable bitcoin (with, say, a serial number) -- there are only balances held by accounts. On this model, it isn't possible to say that other people's coins end up in your destination wallets. Is that not accurate?

(The fact that you can divide one bitcoin into 100,000,000 satoshi also suggests that there's no such thing as an individual bitcoin...)
How did home cooking become a moral issue?
Cool! You should multiply the width and height of each chart on your marketing site by `window.devicePixelRatio` so that the graphs look crisp on Retina/HiDPI displays.
This looks real similar (in the idea) to an app I developed for the client of an old employer I worked for. Unfortunately, my employer went belly-up before it was completed. We were in the early testing stages, trying to work out a few bugs.

The back end was based on PHP and something called "Whitebox CSS Admin" template, and the app was developed using PhoneGap and JQuery Mobile (this was sometime around 2012).

It was very interesting to develop, and the first JS SPA I ever did (before I knew the term). I'm glad to see that someone has done something similar.

Good luck with it!
I'm the author and can answer any follow-on questions here.
v11n meaning vulnerabilitn presumably ;)
Sms codes are used anyway, to authorize transfers and changes in the account.
Surely they could choose to fund other companies?
Chuckled a bit at this. The other way to interpret it is everything matters

The doodle is a net win, because it makes people happy (and they can skip it if it doesn’t). The latency makes everybody sad. You increased net happiness in the world.
Slightly pedantic but Facebook Marketplace was launched in 2016 so the point could still stand.
There are different types of testing.

* Manual Testing
* Automated Unit Testing
* Black Box Testing
* Smoke Testing
* Functional Systems Testing

With varying layers of complexity... I would say that Unit and Black box testing can be much easier with microservices. Orchestrating smoke tests or functional systems tests is a bit harder.

It also can vary by application design and what tooling you have in place.
I disabled my Facebook account 4 years or so ago and didn't miss it. That said, I now have a daughter with an extremely rare genetic disorder. Although there are a number of databases out there specifically to help parents find other families with rare genetic disorders, we didn't find anyone until we resorted to Facebook. This is only one anecdote, but from my personal experience thus far, Facebook is still unfortunately the best place to find a needle in a haystack.
Virtually all of the complaints Microsoft receives about telemetry could be addressed by simply allowing people a global way to turn all telemetry for Microsoft apps off. If you want to support the improvement of apps by allowing this form of telemetry, you can leave it enabled. If you consider it a violation of your privacy, you should be able to easily turn it off.

There's a lack of user control and a lack of transparency. Even if you are a Windows 10 Enterprise user (lucky you, you can turn off system telemetry, unlike the plebes who run Windows 10 Professional), and you turn off telemetry for Windows as a whole, does that include the Calculator or not? Maybe it does. It's really unclear to most people.
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(for some reason I doubt that's true)
Inconceivable!

Not a native speaker so it could be wrong.

In German we have the word ‘Wucher’ which dict.cc translated to usury.

It’s generally used when someone makes an excessive profit by exploiting someone else’s weaker position. The German term fits this situation perfectly.
Actually, shouldn't "Uber-for-X" literally be the business model? Can't you abstract away the specifics for all the verticals, and let someone quickly spin up their specific vertical in a few minutes, leveraging producer/consumer data models, social ratings, feedback, fraud detection, etc.

Any reason why each "Uber-for-X" should be it's own company with its own custom built back ends and front ends?
Right, unfortunately the 'novus homo sovieticus' was mostly Mrs. Busybody snitching on the neighbors. Drats.
Do people know situations where its possible to not have PMI with a bit less than 20% down?

Ideally they wouldn't increase your rate then. I know SoFi has no PMI with 10% down but I believe rates are slightly higher.
I use Hexonet for my .de. It’s made for big portfolios but it works and they’re German.
Instagram is almost unusable due to the ads. Every 3 or 4 posts you see an ad. The only way Instagram isn't obnoxious is on the desktop, in a browser, with an ad-blocker installed.

I love WhatsApp, but they haven't found good ways to monetize it yet and one of these days they'll ruin it.
> Let's not pretend the NSA is fighting a war on terror. It's an economic espionage machine, and an assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution.

This seems to be completely unfounded, and out of line with my experience of the people who work there.

> they should perform their civic duty and do as the patriot Edward Snowden has done.

The truth is that you and I are part of a minority in the country: most people are actually vaguely okay with the idea of the government spy agency trawling through domestic networks looking for people trying to attack the US.

The NSA has owned the globe on a shoe string budget in response to a civic outcry about two decades back. They did their duty, as the people of the nation asked them to.

Now, you can argue that it was a poor national strategy -- that it's going to lead to a civic-society corrupting influence, and problems like parallel construction. But it's a bold allegation that people didn't do their duty because they struck a hard compromise that the majority approved of, but you personally don't.

> patriot

I wouldn't describe anyone who leaked legal spy programs or who took a laptop full of classified secrets to both China and Russia a patriot.

There were technical means by which Snowden could have better secured the materials, and there's the simple fact that he leaked a lot of perfectly legal military spy programs to the entire world, intentionally.

I'd certainly describe Snowden as an idealist, but he's not particularly a patriot.
I thought FB was integrating their messaging platforms? That seemed to make all the news rounds a month ago.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-insta...

[1] https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-on-whats...