skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For me personally, it's almost impossible to deal with. Way too many political posts from my friends and family.

Bingo, that's what's doing it for me.

Before the 2016 presidential election, Facebook was fun. It was also a great way to get news.

But now, what I'm finding is that a lot of people on Facebook just don't know how to behave in a public forum. It makes it painful, because someone always knows someone who's a jerk online.

I really don't know what changed, to be honest. Did Facebook change, or did too many people come to the party?
Funny it took so long to get this research out.
The MEIZU note 9 launched in China
> and another to be spied on by people you regard as friends.

and with life or death consequences. Are people really comparing the KGB to Facebook and PRISM?
dragon.rocks, rocks. Your articles are some of the best i have seen on this topic. Thank you. I hope you write a book on this topic.
The earlier you start, the less life experience you have, and therefore the less wisdom you can apply to the problem of choosing your partners.
How 3M and DuPont made billions by exposing the entire world to a toxic chemical
> But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

Please no. I really don't like that convention and would rather you just type out the whole word if that's the alternative. Worse yet, for some reason you've decided to end in `n` rather than `y`.

How can you dismiss the first four letters as an "unnatural" abbreviation, and then suggest inserting digits to represent the number of characters removed as an alternative? I'm not following that logic at all.
> incentivizing location owners to get people to sign up

One way to do this is for the bars to somehow indicate they are on the network (a sign in the window kinda like grubhub, yelp, and others use today), and then allow them to put in coupons or something similar (points?) to attract users to the app (and their spot).
Docker and/or Dokku are pretty simple and easy to get running. When you outgrow a single-server deployment, that's when it gets more complicated. I like docker in general because it allows me to test/script creation and teardown, even locally.

The biggest short coming right now is that Windows support for both Windows and Linux containers (LCOWS) is really immature, and Windows containers in particular isn't mature enough at this point. I'm dealing with this for some testing scenarios where containers are simpler than dedicated VMs.
> The haves and the have-nots might be given new names: the demanding and the on-demand

It doesnt have to be split that way. "Living as a service" is our future, as more and more people end up living but also working on-demand instead of steady home / 8 hours. Technology was supposed to be the lubricant that would catalyze this conversion, and these startups might be just the beginning. Automation will only accelerate the trend, and in the end the platforms themselves will be commodified, because these services rely on physical proximity which inherently limits their network effects (hence why they subsidize their prices - a futile endeavor). I think attacking the model is not helping, improvement is what it needs.
It’s strange because thet are extremely good with bugging you about that: sometimes changes to every week and then to every day.
> Firefox's letterboxing support doesn't only work when resizing a browser window but also works when users are maximizing the browser window, or entering in fullscreen mode

Brilliant. All you have to do is change your window size for every site you visit.
relevant: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/15/grindr-location-info/
A quick google search told me that ~15% of American's take anti-depressants. Depression is quite common among the general populace. I think tech sector people have access to the health care they need to get the help they need.

I'm not saying you are, but to destigmatize that statistic a bit, ~60% of Americans need corrective vision of some sort, and 33% have high blood pressure. Just because someone needs help for something doesn't mean that anything is fundamentally wrong with them.
Facebook still has profiles on all 15M of them.
Amazon-JPMorgan-Berkshire Health-Care Venture to Be Called Haven
The predatory pricing of some registrars reminds me of the market for SSL certificates before Let's Encrypt.

I used OVH to register my domain names, and recently migrated them to Cloudflare.
OVH is a totally fair choice, but their web panel is pretty papercutty and the whole experience is more OK than amazing.

I moved so I wouldn't feel like I'm at the mercy of my registrar. I want predictable pricing, not the half-expectation that somehow someday my domain will be mysteriously lost or held hostage.
The thing with the visitor pattern is that it indeed is useful for many operations over fixed data. But the same holds for simple pattern matching. Inheritance (or rather subtyping) is useful for changing data but a fixed set of operations. But what the eff do we do when we have many operations on changing data? The expression problem still is an interesting problem, because a data structure that solves it would basically be the "gold standard".
A Message from Alex Trebek – Jeopardy
When I read that I immediately thought it was a bad decision on Facebook's part.

With all the negative press FB has been receiving, it would seem wise to dissociate Whatsapp and Instagram from FB in the minds of the public.
perhaps I'm misinterpreting the article, it's mis-titled, or both but Amazon seems to be removing the shoping experience of the kiosks within select malls, Whole Foods, etc. for things like Kindles and Alexa devices.
I'm assuming the "physical retail strategy" seems limited to these kiosks, only?
It does and using it in a dark room is worse than having background light. Fully avoiding artificial light after 8 is quite difficult but limiting blue light and bright light is easier.
Can it run on regular Android?
The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
Desperation move. Microsoft is probably looking at its internal Store numbers and realizing it is a failure.

I guess this is the final attempt. We'll see if it works.
What you should do is find out how the referenced vulnerability works and then exploit it to bypass administrator controls so you can update.
Ask HN: Anyone Using Google's “Speech-to-Text” Service?
I'm thinking about building a little test app that uses Google's Speech to Text Service, but since it involves money (yea you can do a bit for free, but generally speaking, there's a cost involved) I'm trying to make sure all my bases are covered before I do a deeper dive.

Basically I'm looking for something similar to the following functionality:

1. Client sends request with audio
2. App server receives request and forwards to Google's S2T API
3. S2T transcribes the audio into text and responds to the app server
4. App server responds to client with transcribed text

Would this type of functionality be available? Any help is appreciated.
Seems much less risky than a married couple purchase - friends are far less likely than couples to experience acrimonious breakups.
It is fast, responsive, has much better security history and architecture than all others, super convenient if you have multiple computers. I have absolutely no problems with Chrome, I already trusted my information with Google, so I always stay signed in as well, never had any issues.
Harold & Kumar go Crypto
it's a feature of the blockchain that you can track each and every transaction.
Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.
I deleted my account years ago, but ended up creating a fake account under a fictitious identity for the odd event organized through Facebook. I log in every so often just to see what's up. It appears to be a mixture of paid content and two random friends posting memes.

I have to think people are deriving some value from it, but I cannot imagine what it is.
Rust-lang came first
It's because vul-ner-a-bil-i-ty is being chopped in the middle of a syllable "ner",

"Vulner" is more pleasant than "vuln"
Are you sure that price is not set by DENIC or any other organization responsible for .de TLD?
Never had issues with Namecheap and their support has always been very helpful.
Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
didn't initially get in hits for that search term that were relevant, what am I looking for?
Zerocool and Neo do.
I thought about that before posting but I see no reason why anyone would want to even try.
I didn’t want to pay Namecheap’s fee so it’s quite clear I wouldn’t buy it from someone else either. Worst case I have to get a new domain..
Not true, an entity with control of >50% of the pool can. I thought such a pool exists
I've blocked ads ever since ad blockers were a thing. Facebook have finally managed to consistently get past uBlock Origin, and seeing ads in my news feed for the first time is really, really annoying me. They look similar enough to real posts that I read them automatically before I realise, which I find really disturbing. It's enough that I'm seriously contemplating not using Facebook any more.
I am always sad to see responses like this. Statistics is a very well-defined mathematical discipline, and any good research firm will use weighting techniques to adjust for demographic-based likelihood of response. The results they get from this are very accurate.

If you have concerns about Edison's methodology or application of standard survey weighting then I think that could be a fruitful conversation. But implying that 1,500 responses can't be predictive for a country of 350 million is woefully misinformed.
Don't you think it's also dangerous?

There were stories that US power plants could be made inoperable. Also how do you really monitor bad actors using those vulnerabilities to do other kinds of damages?

To me it doesn't seem cyber weapons are that easy to use, they're volatile, secret, can be fired very quickly without sound, and are very difficult to control.

So far one could say the security market was not big enough, and computers not widespread enough, so it was tolerable to let the 0day market open as long as the US has the upper hand, but as this market goes bigger, damages are going to show up more and more.

Having the upper hand in term of cyber warfare is one thing, but I have a problem with what the cyber warfare terminology. I'd rather live in a world where weapon trafficking is neutered, instead of a world where bandits can cause damages (small, but still damage).

I think the day is coming where higher security standards will be required by law, because the swiss cheese strategy won't work for long.

Also, I have doubts that the NSA can really keep the upper hand because they have more brainpower. The cyber warfare is not only the sum of the weapons, because anybody can be taught computer security and learn how to build weapons.
Do we have an estimated cost of switching away from DST? Programmer friend and I were talking today (re: Europe) and he said it'd cost a lot of money for everybody to upgrade their libraries.

I said that its a one-time cost versus those lives (I estimated 20 a transition, for 40 a year), and those lives win even with a very high return on money now.

Nobody won the debate.
TIL that IBD can mean Inflammatory Bowel Diseases as well as Initial Block Download.
There is a hard limit of 80ms per attempt, from the number of PBKDF2 iterations tuned for the secure enclave.
Back in 2015 two rogue U.S. Secret Service agents, Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force, were caught and sentenced to prison for stealing funds while investigating the first high profile darknet market the Silk Road. Shaun Bridges plead guilty for moving 1,600 bitcoins of seized bitcoins confiscated by federal authorities.
Note:- I have been off FB for the past 5 years or so.

As much as I hate FB and its abhorrent privacy policies, there are a very large population who do not care about privacy. I have some in my household who don't and FB's latest financial results prove it.
> Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.

Thank you for that, I am definitely stealing that phrasing.
actually, the entire point of blockchain is that the ledger is public. every movement of each and every bitcoin is public and can be tracked. it just takes time to analyze.
Until now you apparently haven't been keeping a busy person typing in chat into account. Now you can. This use case isn't unique to the vuln/vulnerability abbreviation, but plenty of others. Including confusing ones like "i left you a vm" (virtual machine? where?).
Indeed, I heard Lamport say at a talk (in response to a question) that he saw little or no applications of functional programming to the distributed systems problems he was interested in.
You're underestimating the effect.

Do some reading on the body's circadian rhythm. Every cell in our body is tuned to it and disrupting it has serious consequences.

You may not feel it because you're probably young and healthy. Give it another decade or two.
I don't think that is possible. I used early versions of IDA Pro on MS-DOS in 1996... and it had the core analysis and interactive disasm mode then. Ghidra seems to be based on this very concept, all the way down to the "XREF" labels. Even the sub-panels in the UI look the same: Imports, Exports, Symbols...
(edit: typo) FB has completely swallowed the Groups space. We are new parents and my wife connects with other new parents in a local group specific to our son's age cohort. FB Marketplace is also very useful, as other people have mentioned. I got off FB services a few months ago, but would join again if they had a standalone Groups app.
Are there that many rich physicists?
> If one understands principles

In that case, the hard part is already done.

Understanding the principles is what takes the most work, not writing or adapting the code.

In fact, understanding the principles is IMO a prerequisite for being able to successfully adapt the code.

Now, using something like TensorFlow in another later article is of course super useful. It also will clarify why TensorFlow is more confusing and why this article was written.

I find the article enlightening, and specific libraries like TensorFlow are just "implementation details".
Also in the article:

> Amazon is expanding its bookstores as well as its so-called 4-star stores

So this is more of a doubling down rather than failure of brick-and-mortar retail for Amazon. I'm guessing they want to offer an Apple-like retail experience versus renting out tiny corners of existing stores like they do right now.
> Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition

You're not wrong, but I find it a bit frustrating how much resistance I get whenever I try and suggest using Signal instead of Whatsapp. As far as I can tell, it has pretty much all the features of Whatsapp that I use, without all the spying.
Reminds me of the late Chartspree[0].

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20170201170400/http://chartspree....
I think a big part of doing a PhD is managing your own research.
I'll second the notion of Facebook Marketplace being a good new feature. You can even pay the seller in-app, which is handy.
This is how every industry progresses as software replaces hardware. I don't think it's fair to blame Tesla for it. A modern car is much less accessible to the home tinkerer than a car from the 80s, because it's a chip controlling the fuel/air mixture and not a valve on a spring, and so on. As a side effect these machines are much cleaner and safer than before, so I'm willing to accept the tradeoff.
I'm fine with this, but we must balance human efficiency and output against the well-being of the surrounding ecological systems. It can't just be about number of human hours.
I don’t spell passwords in my mind; I have muscle memory for the password.
Is the stuff not working in Firefox due to lazy devs too young to remember IE6?
The bank/exchange/etc that was entrusted to protect your dollars/bitcoin/etc. FDIC insurance is indexed to dollars but insures the value of your deposits. If someone robs a bank there is no way to reverse the robbery by invalidating the physical assets they stole be it cash, gold, bitcoin keys etc. This is not a problem most cryprocurrenties propose to solve.
TIL that Google Charts is shutting down. My first thought after seeing this was "how is this different than Google Charts?". Then I got to the bottom about GC shutting down.

I didn't use GC very much, but when I needed a quick chart it was super handy. Thanks for making this!
Twitter has been shamelessly deleting a lot of interesting right of center accounts (e.g Thomas Wictor, Imperator Rex) for no good reason, so a lot of people have given up on it for political discussions.

Jack Dorsey was on the Joe Rogan podcast with , of all people, his lawyer and got called out for censoring and gave a lot of non-answers.[1] if you read the youtube comments it's almost 100% negative on the direction they've been going with censorship on that platform and Jack's lack of candor as to what exactly they're trying to do.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Did I trigger some sort of HN Godwin's law by mentioning Americans outside the San Francisco/LA political bubble as a possible cause of Twitter's loss of popularity?

[1] https://youtu.be/_mP9OmOFxc4
You don't have to login.

Just added it to https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless
Smoking with David Hockney
That's what regular human conversation is for.
In another the-body-realize-it's-ok-to-open-the-floodgate moment, I would always get really sick after making it through some intense deadline. I think it's just the body finally realizing it's ok to stop constantly keeping everything in turbo mode rather than associating the causation backwards.
This article is innaccurate.

Here is the tracking by Ernst & Young (court-appointed) providing all the public information about these developments. The latest report on 1 March 2019 mentions nothing about a cracked laptop.

https://documentcentre.eycan.com/Pages/Main.aspx?SID=1445
At the very least, I do what I can for myself and my family. I should take that as a small victory.

I was talking to my uncle, a very smart man and a lawyer, about privacy concerns. He said something that will stick with me for years:

"You're like a prophet about this stuff, but like every prophet, you're 30 years too early for us to believe you."
To be honest, I think the daily builds are signed by B&I as well, so you can install them on production hardware provided you have valid AppleConnect credentials (which I think just authorizes the install). You just won't be able to debug the kernel, etc.
i was talking about neutrality in general (of which NN is a part)
I try enabling this occasionally, but it causes my zoom preference to be forgotten for each site after I close the tab. Seems to be intentional (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1369357).

I need zoom to not ruin my eyes - is it just too hard to mask the true zoom?

With the letterboxing, it seems like it would mostly not do anything when using a tiling WM with fixed splits. Does that sound right?
Cars get more connected, industry is trying to stay ahead of multiplying threats
That’s still a billion users too many.

I can’t wait to see the commodification and decentralization of the services fb provides. Identity, chats, content distribution and subscription, events etc.

My accountant still has an @aol email. I hope to see the same reaction to fb pages, events etc.
But how do you prove how much you owe?

If an exchange can prove it controls 10 BTC, great. But what if it owes 20 people 1 BTC each?
No I’m not, as I said in the article:

> Please note that I do not know if Namecheap or DENIC is responsible for setting this price.
This author makes a good argument as to why rooftop solar is a bad deal from a technical perspective, specifically with regard to system stability:

https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-s...

See the section on "Power Grid Stability and Rooftop Solar"
I was like that. Managed to get off of antidepressants for probably 6 or 8 years, and thought that I had an introspective enough personality that I could be aware of, and condition myself to, not have a recurrence which required going back on them.

It came on so slowly that I didn't really notice, and most people around me who you would imagine should have noticed also did not. I finally hit a breaking point, and started therapy and medicine again. It has completely changed my life around, and possibly saved it.

Would I like to live without it? Well, I would like to not need it, but if it is a given that I do, then I most certainly will continue using it. I've experienced the alternative, and there is nothing preferable about it.
... and proxies
Well he is smart to know to maintain his high success rate by admitting when he doesn't understand something and knowing to avoid things he doesn't understand. Awareness of ignorance is wisdom.
Alex Trebek announces he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer
I think we disagree about what a "tangible leak" is. I don't see it as tangible because it's eating into a tiny margin that you never should have counted in the first place. You do see it as tangible because it might make the attacker's job faster by several percent.

And that's fine, we can have different opinions on that part.

But "probably already short enough to brute force" is definitely not right. That percentage depends entirely on character set, not the length of your password. If your password is just numbers, then n-1 always has 10% as many combinations, whether your password is 5 characters long or 200. If you meant "probably already weak enough to brute force" that's not true either. Lots of passwords with mixed case and numbers and symbols are very short and pretty weak. Lots of passwords with only letters are very long and quite strong because they're made-up phrases. You can't guess the strength of a password just by knowing the percentage of [length n-1 combos] / [length n combos].
I am switching to Brave when sync between devices rolls out
Most people use Facebook these days to keep track of their acquaintances from various stages in life: high school friends, college friends, former coworkers, people you meet at parties etc.

In that regard it’s not very useful to teenagers who are already in the same building as their entire network every day (their school). Plus teenagers don’t want to hang out where their parents do. When I was in school part of facebook’s appeal was the fact that parents couldn’t get on even if they wanted due to the .edu email requirement!
TL;DR: Amazon has been experimenting with a bunch of IRL retail approaches. Some don't work as well and are being shut down; others are expanding.

And undoubtably further experimentation will ensue.
This is close enough to true for the purposes of this discussion, but in the general case you can only reliably track the flow of funds in aggregate, not the flow of any individual "coin." If addresses A and B send equal amounts of coins to C, C sends all of those coins to D, and D sends half of them to E, you can't really track the coins from A to E or from B to E. The transaction from C to D results in a single output that doesn't distinguish between funds from A and funds from B.
I read this as "for sure I do this too"
The cold wallet was empty.

Some other accounts on that exchange were set up "outside process", and it's not sure who owns those accounts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47454528