skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet from 10 years ago was also less likely to remember everything you do forever. Messaging between friends happened using services that didn't save conversation history server side, public chat rooms including IRC were rarely logged, blog posts had a minimal reach, and were largely pseudonymous anyway, making the connection with a real person more difficult. Perhaps this kind of lack of consequences drove people into complacency.
> If there are no routers or Volk phones nearby to hop to, you'll either not have service, have to use Wifi, or fallback to LTE if you have a SIM card installed and it has active service.

That does make the "Global Coverage: Our network is everywhere our users are" claim a bit dodgy, no? Sure, you'll have coverage in the middle of the desert—if there happens to be a chain of Volk phones from there to the nearest point with actual regular coverage... which is highly unlikely.
>It cost the last startup I worked for around two weeks of development time

You spent two weeks solving technical debt, which you had ignored because no one was forcing you to actually play nice with people's data and it was convenient to you to do.
Banks are subject to regulations and you don’t need to limit yourself to one.
Because nobody knows which ones they are. If the banks knew which small businesses would be around for a couple hundred years, those small businesses could probably borrow rather cheaply today.
You are confusing things here. This article is about the crash that happened 6 months ago. You are comparing one and the same crash here.

The recent crash is by Ethiopian Arilines. NOT Lion Air.
This redefinition of "friend" is one of my big pet peeves of social media -- not one specific site, but in general.

It feels like it massively cheapens actual friendships.

"Followers" isn't much better. Different word, similar implications.
Flip side, purely personal anecdote.

I arrived in London with nothing from post Soviet block country.

I was burned out within 6 months.

Then I started partying and one friend introduced me to Cannabis, I started doing it every weekend and made it a point to stay away from it during the week, so it doesn't affect my work in anyway

I managed do lot better, make better connection, climb the corporate ladder faster and make a lot of money

Now, I've my own startup

Not all my friends have been this lucky with their Cannabis use

What I believe is that Cannabis has potential to unlock some capabilities of your mind. Wether it unlocks positives or negatives depends entirely on the person and can't be generalized.
Those demographic correlates of race are already illegal as substitutes in similar domains (like qualifying for a mortgage). If they aren't illegal already for (e.g.,) landlords, it seems like an easy expansion of current regulations.
What motivates your desire to control other people?
It's quite obvious that things like soda and smoking contribute only negatives. Things like that can be straightforwardly managed and banned.
They should have given the incoming pilots a thorough briefing of: this is what went wrong, this is how the previous pilots worked around it, this is what we did to remedy.
> I'm more surprised by the story telling and narrative of the 14 year old author!

ITT: Everyone forgets about the blogging sites that were popular when they were 13 and 14.

2002 had lots of articulate 14 year olds, what happened with your experience?
Get over Here! An Interview with Chris Casamassa, Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion
Pretty awesome guy with some really cool answers. Spoke about getting the role for Scorpion, why he wasn't in the second movie, how the martial arts in the movies hold up to real life (he's a martial artist himself), and he also spoke about an anti-bullying initiative he's working on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
In Lisp an interpreter means something slightly different: it means an interpreter for s-expressions. It's not about a virtual machine interpreter or similar.

A Lisp interpreter runs directly the s-expressions. This is independent from the idea of evaluation. Evaluation could be implemented by an interpreter or by a compiler.

For example using an interpreter:

CL-USER 32 > (defun fak (n)
(if (zerop n)
1
(* n (fak (1- n)))))
FAK

Let's break into the function if the argument N is 0:

CL-USER 33 > (trace (fak :break (eql (first *traced-arglist*) 0)))
(FAK)

CL-USER 34 > (fak 5)
0 FAK > ...
>> N : 5
1 FAK > ...
>> N : 4
2 FAK > ...
>> N : 3
3 FAK > ...
>> N : 2
4 FAK > ...
>> N : 1
5 FAK > ...
>> N : 0

Break on entry to FAK with *TRACED-ARGLIST* (0).
1 (continue) Return from break.
2 Continue with trace removed.
3 Continue traced with break removed.
4 Continue and break when this function returns.
5 (abort) Return to top loop level 0.

Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other options.

CL-USER 35 : 1 > :bq

FAK <- FAK <- FAK <- FAK <- FAK <- EVAL <- CAPI::CAPI-TOP-LEVEL-FUNCTION <- CAPI::INTERACTIVE-PANE-TOP-LOOP
<- MP::PROCESS-SG-FUNCTION

CL-USER 36 : 1 > :n
Interpreted call to FAK

CL-USER 37 : 1 > :lambda
(LAMBDA (N) (DECLARE (SYSTEM::SOURCE-LEVEL #<EQ Hash Table{0} 41B01C37FB>))
(DECLARE (LAMBDA-NAME FAK))
(IF (ZEROP N) 1 (* N (FAK #))))

You see above the actual s-expression being executed for that stack frame. It's not executing any compiled or translated code. It's actually interpreting the source directly without any such step.

If we want, we could inspect, alter it with the usual Lisp functions and continue running.

CL-USER 39 : 1 > (fifth *)
(IF (ZEROP N) 1 (* N (FAK (1- N))))

CL-USER 40 : 1 > (setf (third *) 2)
2

CL-USER 41 : 1 > **
(IF (ZEROP N) 2 (* N (FAK (1- N))))

CL-USER 42 : 1 > :c 1
5 FAK < ...
<< VALUE-0 : 2
4 FAK < ...
<< VALUE-0 : 2
3 FAK < ...
<< VALUE-0 : 4
2 FAK < ...
<< VALUE-0 : 12
1 FAK < ...
<< VALUE-0 : 48
0 FAK < ...
<< VALUE-0 : 240
240

> I still fail to see what (Common) Lisp runtime gives over JVM

More efficient data representation, more efficient execution, saving and loading of images, tailored GCs, mixing compiled and interpreted (see above) Lisp code, deeper runtime inspection, resumeable exceptions, efficient stack traces, efficient function calls, fast startup times, etc etc.

Something like Lisp, which may have a bunch of very dynamic parts, is hard to implement efficiently on the JVM. Clojure is designed to map better to the JVM.
You are a life saver! Now they just need to fix the reputation for new users but that's a lot more complex.
Travelchime is collaborative, which google trips is not
It's the same kind of regulations arbitrage that powered Uber (& Lyft, though to a lesser extent because at first they tried to make it look like riders/drivers knew each other). The difference here is that the only people who really complained about Uber/Lyft was the taxi industry, which mostly was viewed in a neutral light at best. AirBnb seems to have managed to cause disruption both to the hotel industry as well as people who live near listed properties, both of whom are seen in a more sympathetic light than taxis.
But that's not an issue of cybersecurity, which is something like "Alice does not want Bob to access system X she owns, Alice follows standard procedure to secure it, Bob accesses X anyway."

In the threat model you've described, advertising and social media services were explicitly granting the agents access; they didn't circumvent the cybersecurity layer.

Edit: Maybe you can count it as social engineering, but that would only apply if e.g. Facebook is trying to enforce a policy of "No Russian election/political ad buys", but they don't seem to have a problem doing that once they decide to.
I'm not sure if you're saying that the fine makes sense or you're being sarcastic and saying it doesn't.
Oh I didn't know that! I'll have to try them out with my buddy's Pixel to see how the experience is.
Yes, that's a good point. Not obviously worthwhile at the time is not the same as never-going-to-be.
Alibaba open sourced their own JDK8
Indeed one of the best and easiest to read pieces of Postmodern philosophy. Also a great YT channel, been subbed for a while.
The scaled assistance you're referring to is the hydraulic system.

Airplanes are supposed to be light-touch because you need very fine movement control to balance the aircraft while landing. Think of the work required to move a pencil. That's about the level of effort a plane is supposed to require. But with the trim working against the pilot, the control required could be more like lifting a 50lb sack.

Yes, most pilots can lift a 50lb sack. Can you lift and hold a 50lb sack for, say, an hour? Not many people can.

(Without hydraulics, the forces would simply toss the pilot's body around. No possibility of control.)
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Similarly, my daughters are now 15 and 13, we never put any photos of them on social media, we used private DropBox or iCloud albums to share stuff with family.
Possible, although I know I thought they were nonsense before I got mine.
This comes in perfect time for my Europe trip planning with 3 friends from around the world!
Tried the Airpods a couple times.
Got myself a 20£ Taotronics bluetooth ones from Amazon.
Sound quality seems better on the Taotronics, battery life is the same and...they just work as well.
Let me explain how: bluetooth is enabled on my cheap android phone so when I turn on the headphones they bind automatically and guess what...MAGIC, THEY JUST WORK :D
And mine is about Reddit too :) (which follows the markdown spec pretty well actually)
Rich, powerful, corporations?

Is that who were suggesting?
I would have bought AirPods regardless of an audio jack (I love them to death), but am furious about the removal nonetheless. It isn't often that I find myself needing the jack, but whenever I do it's infuriating, either to have to go hunt for the adapter, or to just not have the ability to export audio at all in that circumstance.

It isn't often that we achieve a universal connector format with basically no downsides (how many iterations of USB have there been now?), but we actually accomplished it with the 1/8" audio jack, and it's exasperating to see that coordination equity be so "bravely" discarded.
> The big picture: Unlike television or radio, internet platforms that sell ads aren't regulated.

I'm surprised that this continues to the case, especially in examples like this where EXISTING regulations seem to fit pretty squarely with "new" problems created on tech platforms. There's some really interesting work on how differently tech companies are regulated from other kinds of companies (e.g., here: https://innovationforallcast.com/2019/01/23/amanda-lotz-what...)
You should add a Bitcoin option for checkout/reservation.
Informed consent and revokable consent are not novel concepts. The ability to prove consent is novel.
The illegal listings is crony capitalism. Hotels don't want to compete.

And tax evasion is a completely different topic, that is not why Airbnbs are shut down. Every industry has tax problems.
I think it helps that G-suite is mostly focused on a 90% set of features that most people need most of the time. As a result, you can't do absolutely everything in G-suite (and unimplemented features will be a showstopper for some types of users) but the result is a very streamlined and smooth experience for most of us. I still have to open up Office now and then but it's pretty rare these days--especially given that G-suite is now the standard where I work.
> I cannot imagine why I would ever consider an option that does not run on the Mac, such as WPF or WinRT.

For some applications cross-platform frameworks are good enough, Electron has become quite popular.

For others, native frameworks just work better. Works both ways, same for Cocoa. For example, it’s hard to integrate Direct3D or Metal into QT.
That’s very true, but my favorite thing about Airpods (and EarPods before then) is that they don’t seal the ear canal. I use mine almost exclusively while walking on urban streets or taking public transit, and I absolutely don’t want the lack of situational awareness that comes with in-ear headphones. The sound quality is good enough. When I want really good sound quality, I use my big open-ear headphones at home.
You should add this movie dialog collection: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_C...

Alot of projects use it!
> In my utopia world, i'd love to see basics of information privacy and personal security be taught in schools

Yes! This should be required, beginning in primary school and extended into high school.

Concepts like authentication, encryption, man-in-the-middle attack, why authentication without encryption isn't very useful for communication, etc — this is not "technical" (I hate this word; it is used as an excuse not to think). It should be taught as part of basic education.
sounds interesting!
Having used my airpods 2-3 hours every day, since release. I've found the talk time to drop to a little over an hour. It hasn't been too much of an issue for me as I just charge one bud in the case when it's low and swap it out with the other.
I would make a broader argument: don't post things about people without their permission. The friend you're quoting for saying something interesting didn't necessarily want to make a public statement. The random person caught in your picture might not want to share their location with Facebook.

I'm glad that you are thinking starting from your daughter, and I hope that the pattern continues.
Do you really want to hand over your private PGP key to 3rd-party company? I never ever won't do that. If I will use PGP key for web email service, it is only when the service provider gives a way to communicate with my local machine so that the email text is SIGNED IN MY MACHINE and send it back to the email provider, then send to the recipients. For encryption, it can be done with public key of the recipients.
I own a pair and as well as everything you mentioned, the killer feature for me is not dropping out. Every other pair of bluetooth earbuds I've had were constantly dropping out on me when running through an airport or if I decided to pace around a room on a conference call unless I held my phone just so. I've found the range on AirPods to be fantastic. I work from home and if I want to pace around the house while I'm on a conference call, no problem. I couldn't even walk around in the same room before.
Perhaps you should try stating the reason it was shut down.
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Yes. I own them. It’s not good. In fact most people say my MacBook Pro built-in mic sounds better.
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Here you go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/travel/airbnb-miami-beach...

> Airbnb and Miami Beach Are at War. Travelers Are Caught in the Crossfire.

> The Florida city, like others around the country, is trying to control the home sharing market. Renters often find out their weekend home is illegal when they get a knock on the door.
I don't need to trip a lot. 1 trip was enough to have positive effects (I did between 10-15 trips in a 2 years interval). Those effects included a profound desire to realize myself and to better adapt to society. Mushrooms gave me a kick in the a so I was able to work on myself. It opened my eyes but I had to do all the job of rebuilding my vision of the world and determine where I'm seeing myself in that regard.
3 years? These things are consumables. Toss them at least annually, they won't sound as good as new by that point.

[edit: Really? You guys expect 3 years life out of your socks and underwear too? If you use the hell out of it, even a wired pair that's a year old doesn't sound as good as a pair fresh out of the box.]
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To be sure, these aren’t Airbnb’s taxes, any more than Hilton “pays” taxes for its guests’ hotel stays. Rather, the officials sparring with Airbnb want the company to collect and forward the taxes from guests, much as hotels do.

So this is local governments trying to railroad an online information/marketplace/intermediation firm into becoming a tax collector. The local governments can't practically collect the taxes, so they're extra-legally trying to bully AirBNB into doing it.

Business models are changing along with the societal changes in communications technology. Governments are pretending to themselves that this isn't a society-level change they should adapt to. (How would collecting such taxes be much different from collecting sales taxes?)
It was the initial default before VCs have came in.
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Did anyone play Dune II back in the day? In a world where North America is Atreides, Russia being Harkonnen, the EU is conveniently taking the place of House Ordos (ambitious vying by disparate powers).
(2017)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14798211
Being an Instagram Influencer Is Hard Work, So This Guy Made a Bot to Do It
Because the reality of racial restriction covenants and redlining practices is that they weren't used to develop great locales; they were used to systemically exclude people of undesired races who otherwise had the means to live in said area.

This doesn't mean that ethic areas just melt away, though. Chinatown can remain Chinatown on the basis that they value being close to Chinese community centres and Chinese grocery stores more than the average resident, meaning they're willing to pay more and price out other people to live there. They can't remain Chinatown by literally refusing to rent to someone because they're black, though.

This allows ethic areas to remain if they provide a benefit to their community, but melt away to redistribute real-estate resources more efficiently if they don't.
It is indexed, just not to the damages, but to the revenue of the guilty party.

Other countries in the EU do this as well, even in personal matters. For instance, a speeding ticket is based off a percentage of your annual income. Why? Because if you make $200k a year, a $50 fine isn't a big deal, at all, but if you barely scrape by, $50 could break your budget for the month.
> Government and Corps are no different in the end.

The only difference between them is that a democracy, at least in principle, exists to serve the people. Corporations expressly exist only to serve themselves. Democracies may face corruption, but there's not even a principle to be corrupted in the case of corporations; in a free market they have no accountability to society.

I suppose you could call co-ops "democratic corporations", in which case governments and corporations are exactly the same, but from that perspective today's corporations would be analogous to oligarchies; they exist to serve their small circle of shareholders. So forgive me if I choose to put my faith in a flawed democratic government instead of oligarchical corporations.
After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again
This has nothing to do with hotels. That's a cop out.
[I've been sampling the right-leaning internet for a few years now to better understand it]

FWIW, the majority of right-leaning folks (at least in the US) are vehemently against things like population controls. Go read some of the articles on Breitbart or InfoWars and this will be clear -- most of their concerns involve the government (which is pictured as an ever-left-leaning entity) overreaching in its restrictions on civil life.

The power of social conservative right wingers has been waning for a decade or so now, c.f. Trump.
I find Windows to be more and more hostile towards development these days. Windows 10 may have a very impressive kernel but the UI (aka Explorer) is a nightmare of "simplified" screens. Something like UI spaghetti.

Windows search and windows defender constantly spin your laptop cpu fan to max speeds because, you know, nobody minds a noisy laptop that they are not actively using.

Windows updates are constant, slow, often fail altogether and completely out of your control. Your machine may reboot at any time so good luck with that long running task. It's like they shipped a swimming pool that was actually a sieve and they are madly patching it every day.

Windows doesn’t respect the users desire to put the laptop to "Sleep". It will wake up at any time and often just stay awake and drain the battery.

Windows has also become some sort of hybrid advertising and tracking device which you can, admittedly, disable although some things like the search listening service Cortana really does not like being disabled.

Not everything is doom and gloom however. The virtual machine engine HyperV is extremely fast and easy to manage making things like Android development is a pleasure. Visual studio keeps getting better too.
In our specific case, they're asking to bill us an amount which is higher than what we spent on Github, Slack and Google Apps all together, in 2018. This isn't completely fair because there's some growth to account for, but anyway it's very hard to justify such a price.
As an ideal it seems like a good idea. However, you need to grow a lot of food to avoid that dependence.

In terms of disaster preparedness having actual food stored is also much more valuable than growing plants that can’t be moved.

Thus, you’re either talking about a meaningless token, or a huge life commitment for minimal gain.
Thanks so much! Yeah, there are some great tools for composing, and some good stuff for individual features (RhymeZone, Hookpad, etc). I was surprised that I couldn't find anything quite in this category.
Nice, was just looking into this!
Yeah, let's force citizens to bow to their government masters and pay their "fair" share, while Big Hotel lobbies away, competes unfairly and gets huge tax benefits.
> if you wait long enough, CO2 will be removed by the plant life anyway so removing it is "free"

This is a very dangerous misconception and should not be spread around. It is like saying "I don't have to worry about my emissions, because someone else will clean them up for me". Do you have/support enough plant life to clean up your own emissions?
Or stickers so you don't mistake your personal MacBook for your work one (or worse - your spouse's).

Pair this with a long commute and stickers become a key identifying factor and stress reducer.
Great way to have your users label their own data to improve their ML models by tagging it as confidential or not.
The illegal listing is not just about hotels, it is about neighbors who don't want to deal with vacationers and parties and disruption.
HN had something on this a few months back, "12 Factor CLI Apps":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18172689
AirBnb is a terrible, terrible company. Most of their money comes from corporate-owned mini-hotels yet they advertise as a mom and pop shop.

At every turn their solution is to sue small towns and cities so they can continue to extract wealth from our neighborhoods.

Disgusting.
Avoid looking like a standard job ad. My eyes start glazing over when I see another cookie-cutter same-as-all-the-others job ad. At the same time, don't be so different nobody recognises it for what it is either.

That said, there's nothing wrong with a list of skills and technologies, but keep it relevant. In fact, maybe describe the technologies used as just that, rather than a list of requirements. I'm interested in the environment I'll be working in, both technical and social. But lists go at the end. Start with why I should even want to read this job ad: what makes this job interesting, and different from all the other identical jobs? What kind of problems will I be solving? What kind of value will I be contributing to society? What kind of company are you, and what kind of clients will I be working for?

Avoid the usual checklist of meaningless buzzwords. I know that I need to be a team player when I'll be working in a team, or that I need to be independent when I won't be working in a team. Just tell me I'll be working in a team, but tell me a bit more about the team.

Focus on what makes this job different from all those other hip agile casual tech companies.