skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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7. Robo Advisor Annual Revenue Growth (2016- 2018): 2.2%

6. Elderly Care Annual Revenue Growth (2016- 2018): 2.3%

5. Investing in Real Estate Annual Revenue Growth (2016- 2018): 2.5%

4. Beauty Tech (Customized, Personalized and Organic beauty products) Annual Revenue Growth (2016- 2018): 4.2%

3. Alternative-Protein Food Products Annual Revenue Growth (2016- 2018): 4.5%

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The goal of the archive was to keep anything from inside reddit (submission links, comments) available with the smallest footprint possible. (compressed 80MB, decompressed 1.2GB)

I guess you could run the archive tool with some extra parameters to grab external content, but it will substantially increase the archive size.
New Viking Assassin’s Creed Game’s Name Can Be “Kingdom”
Scaling a Company While Controlling Costs
> But this only makes bigger the problem of what to remember, what to forget and above all who and how should remember and forget.

And today, if the big search engines decide something will (no longer) be indexed, they can make it effectively unreachable.
I recommend discussing with a medical professional if you sweat. Sweat means inflammation, fever or slight fever. It could be nothing but it could be also symptoms of pre-diabetes type 2, cancer or other chronic disease.
Can we add (2018) to the title?
I've tried this; you can definitely pick up the IR light with the front camera of your phone. Rear camera has an IR filter in modern cameras or something.
Yep. And I thought I was the only one thinking Google's brainwashed web isn't representative of what's out there. It's not only the old stuff, though. I have a suspicion Google won't show you pages without Google ads on them.
A considerable advantage would be knowing that you shouldn't use a linked list in most scenarios.

The next best would be understanding that there are many different ways to do "linked lists", and it's important to control the choice. Software dependencies have a huge cost.

The next best advantage would be recognizing that if you need to reverse a linked list in practice, you're probably doing it wrong.

Writing a linked list implementation isn't hard. There aren't many things that are hard to implement. What's hard is making good decisions what to implement. No library can help there.
"is becoming" != "is". If it does, it might very well fall behind as inner conflict consumes too much energy.
Yep. Thought when reading it the headline OP's concern might have been that his friend was actually trying to scam consumers with crypto-based marketing scams, but it sounds like he's spending the money of investors with money to spare genuinely trying to build a solution a market quite likely won't want. Which is actually what a lot of startups end up being, regardless of how good their original idea sounded on paper and whether it involved blockchains and college students with outsourced tech teams or not. The tech ecosystem relies on some startups massively succeeding, not on none failing.

I mean, I wouldn't encourage the friend in the OP's situation, but I wouldn't see anything more than politely sceptical responses when solicited for feedback as appropriate (you don't have to pretend his band is actually great either!) or likely to make any difference. Of course, feedback can be a lot harsher if you expect that, wittingly or otherwise, a friend is in danger of breaking money transmitting laws or leaving charities out of pocket...
Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt
Same here. Airbnb’s response to this problem is still completely insufficient. They have lost my trust. And I used to prefer Airbnb over hotels.
One thing I find attract of anonymity is that a person can make statement without risking it being permanently associated with him for the rest of his life. He can test ideas, push boundaries, perhaps discover something about himself or his previous assumptions. We are only sharing information after all
You’re arguing pedantry and missing the point. Sex is not a need like food and water, you could say the same thing about any degree of human contact whatsoever.

And yet we know that humans isolated from other humans generally do not turn out well and sexual isolation is a very significant milestone on that spectrum.
The assertion that this is because "indexing the whole Web is crushingly expensive, and getting more so every day" is a bit flawed. Since old content is very unlikely to be updated, it doesn't have to be re-crawled a lot. I'm certain Google has a score that tells it how often the content of a given site is likely to change. This argument of expense becomes even less durable when you consider that DuckDuckGo, a company with an infinitesimal fraction of Google's resources, is perfectly able to keep that kind of content in its database.

I agree with the observation that this is about shifting everything to current data, because people overwhelmingly care about things that happened a few days ago. There used to be a long tail of users searching for old data and references, but I suspect they're fading away. Biasing the index towards recency also has legal advantages for Google, because delisting old content makes it less likely to receive takedown requests in connection with "right to be forgotten" legislation.
> But I've never gone to someone's house and seen their bathroom in that condition.

I broadly agree with your premise, but the nitpicky HN part of my brain feels obligated to point out that a certain amount of selection bias might be at play here. Public bathrooms are by definition places the entire spectrum of the public visits, and is probably a broader and slightly more diverse pool than the people whose homes you personally visit (unless you're a social worker, which you probably aren't because then you would absolutely have seen swathes of homes that a lot of people here would probably deem uninhabitable)

That said, you're not wrong : we've all witnessed friends, acquaintances et al behave differently from one context to another. I live in Norway, and the prototypical example that comes to mind is that kids / young adults here are significantly more belligerent and antisocial abroad than at home where they are subject to the Scandinavian brand of tut-tut judgyness. Basically the spring break phenomenon so it's not unique by any means.
I feel that the only reason this has made the news beyond the Linux community (there was also Business Insider [1] and The Inquirer [2] recycling this quote) is because of how fashionable it has recently become to hate on social media.

And while I share much of Linus's distaste for social media (although I am shocked to see he argues against anonymity), the way that papers are now running with this story looks like cheap sensationalism.

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/linus-torvalds-says-twitter-...

[2] - https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3073753/linus-torv...
I saw a random video clip yesterday where they clipped a red transparent card over the phone camera; turning on the camera flash, and scanning the room using the camera's video camera mode. The light from the phone reflected in small spy cam lenses, showing up as tiny red dots on the screen.
This author is in his own little bubble and doesn't understand the vast amount of blog-repost spam that google has to deal with. The way their algorithm most likely deals with this is a mixture of domain rank + tenure... how long has this copy of this article existed on this domain, and can we be sure this is the original copy?

The author says the article was removed in 2006 ("[...] posts, were not accessible anymore") and then he re-posted the article at a new domain in 2013. That means any copy/crawl/repost of the article from 2006-2012 is now the oldest living, and thus "original", version of the article. His 2013 repost was seen as just another blog-spam copy.

Google is not forgetting the old web unless we see evidence of content disappearing from the index that have been consistently hosted at the same domain & URL since their original posts. Unless you properly 301 your URLs to new locations and consistently host your content, it's a guessing game for the crawler to determine where the original content has moved to.
Show HN: Themer – a PWA for generating themes for all your tools
Most of the damage I've seen was from people who think they can write beautiful code, but instead write a slow overengineered framework and use clout to force everyone else's code into that framework. Sadly, these people are often smart and experienced. It's more of an attitude problem: they are not content with making a library that will sit at the bottom of the call stack, when they could instead make a framework that sits at the top.
Do you like the fact that Google can now create standards ?
They have an idea, put it in Chrome and then ask Mozilla to catch up and implement the missing tags.
About a year ago I posted a link to a collection of npm packages for use on the command-line, collectively called `themer`[1]. This link is to an offline-capable Progressive Web App that wraps the CLI packages and adds the capability to not only generate the themes but to more easily create your own set of colors with a tight feedback loop.

The PWA is open source[2] (as is the CLI, of course), features no ads/trackers/analytics (supported solely by Brave Rewards/$BAT), and takes advantage of PWA features like caching for offline use.

Hope you enjoy!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021874
[2] https://github.com/mjswensen/themer
With Blowtorches and Spare Parts, Massachusetts Man Fills Tesla's Repair Void
The problem with static analysis of the kind offered by Frama-C, is that many developers not even at gunpoint bother to use them.
Kwikplan (Trip Planner for Netherlands)
How would an attacker access your laptop’s filesystem if you’re connected to the same network? I can’t think of any way that would work unless your operating system is horribly misconfigured (maybe to make the entire filesystem a network drive?). And how would a VPN protect you here?
Not necessarily.

Different components could be made different companies. While flight controls and handling fly-by-wire could have been Boeing, the FMS could be (e.g.) Honeywell, GE.

The FMS, AFCS ("autopilot"), and (primary) FCS are three distinct systems per ATA iSpec 2200:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Spec_100/iSpec_2200

Things can be more blurred with fly-by-wire, but can still be conceptually separate.
Relevant article: How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear [1] and HN discussion [2].

[1] https://www.senteltechsecurity.com/blog/post/how-to-find-hid...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926264
Creating a data driven organisation does not (sadly) occur overnight
I worked as a graphic designer for about 12 years. I've been using Gimp at work (as a programmer) for light graphics duties. Mostly cropping and adjusting levels on images.

It's not been an easy transition, but I'm getting used to it. It's similar in function to Photoshop, but performing said functions is just different enough to make it challenging.
> Google certainly doesn't seem to value feedback at all.

As it is with most big companies that profit from ad revenue. They seem to consider performance indicators to be sufficient to know if a new feature is good or bad, instead of worrying about written customer feedback.
An Introduction to Beresheet and Its Trajectory to the Moon
The article makes it very clear he had planned to give up his career, and they had to effectively smuggle themselves out of the country. The government was tracking him so they knew who to grab if they nationalized the oil.
Dang, I’m going to have to remember “if we can all agree with my thesis, we’ve made progress in the discussion” for my next argument! That’s a great and intellectually valid way to participate in a debate, for sure.
Egress without the price tag: expanding Fastly partnership with Microsoft Azure
> It's exactly this attitude that has a chilling effect on all speech, no matter the subject.

No, it isn't. The lack of precaution and inability to decently set up a forum software is.
I had a Spectrum at the time but looking back, I'm impressed by the thoroughness of the manual that came with the BBC Micro. From connecting the leads to BASIC to ROM system calls to assembly language, in one book.

http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/BBCUserGuide-1.00.pdf
I thought Destin was actually manipulating the algorithm.
If the only type of comment you can muster is ad hominem attacks and posts telling me how you can’t be bothered to post then I can only assume that the real reason you’ve not offered anything more persuasive is because your don’t understand the topic enough to actually discuss like a mature adult.
At some point the panic would subside and they'd put their money back, though perhaps at another institution.
It means precisely what it says ... that your privacy is worth good money to them.
I maintain two web sites that date back to 2003. They are still very active (thousands to tens of thousands of uniques per day), but I and my users have noticed that only the more recent content (2012+) shows up in Google.

In a way I’m had to hear that Google is delisting the older content because I thought I was doing something wrong.

But it’s still frustrating for my visitors because every few months I get a message about how they can’t believe all the information there is on the site that they’ve searched for for years but never found through search engines but it’s all right there on this one site. (It’s something of a regional history site.)

I guess those sites have involuntarily become part of the “dark web.”
There's precedent for outright deprecating a package when others exist that do a better job of meeting current development needs. With Promises and node/browser cross compatibility being the biggest ecosystem shifts, there are a few newer choices that already meet those needs. Also, `request` in particular would be gross to upgrade since so many people rely on additional dependencies that add compatibility for things like Promises, retry strategies, etc., all with varying degrees of active maintenance.
Personally I think robocalls show the need to upgrade the phone protocols to something more robust and identifiable. The current system is very insecure and I would love an option for say certificate identification of callers. I am well aware a switchover would be messy.
The donation graph is misleading IMO, it doesn't start at 0 on the y axis.
Tell that to the guy that tried to create HIV resistance babies in China. He had a decent lab yet both babies he created didn't have ccr5 hit: the crispr missed target.
I can highly recommend John Berger's legendary documentary series Ways Of Seeing. The first episode explores precisely this issue - how our perception of painting is affected by reproduction. It has perhaps the most arresting opening scene of any documentary series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk
It could also mean your duvet is too thick, or that it's summer...
I can't even imagine the stress from public comments that comes from working on an open source operating system.

I don't use Mint but I'm hugely sympathetic to the devs who have to deal with the backlash from, of all things, a logo and website design change that they likely had little to no involvement with.
That massive ban-wave was pushed by entities such as Sky who don't have an interest in American sports streams
Yunify (The Netherlands) Is Looking for an Experienced C#.Net Developer
Not just about piracy but..

This is the usual pattern in online discussion platforms. Start free, advocate for free speech, then figure out you need to make money and you suddenly stop being a rebel and sink down to be the corporate sellout you always preached against. Reddit will eventually be replaced by something else and the cycle continues.
Gimp is a fantastic tool for developers. It does well the tasks that can be automated or thought about in terms of algorithms (rotate all images, resize, stretch levels to 0-255, etc.). Great product! Kudos to its developers.

It is, however, a lame duck to photographers (and I think many other artists) when compared with Photoshop. Those who want a visual interface to drag sliders around, instanly see how things would look and edit based on tight coupling with that visual perception still choose Photoshop. I have seen many, many artists try Gimp only to go back. Maybe Gimp does not need to be that tool for artists, but if it does its developer community needs to be more engaged with photography crowd.

As a data point: current Adobe licensing model is almost universally hated. If there were a viable option many users would migrate. I would (and I am just a hobbyist). And it is not for lack of trying -- they do try Gimp (and Liminar, and Affinity and such). But the fact that they curse Adobe but still use Photoshop tells you a lot about the fact that Gimp just does not cut it for them. My 2c.
The NS is government owned, but not government operated. They privatised and liberalised the public transport market during the neoliberal privatisation wave of the 1990s, despite trains obviously being a natural monopoly in their own market.

It later got split into the railway infrastructure (ProRail, which owns the tracks) and railway operation (NS, which runs the trains and competes to a limited extent with other train companies). NS runs at a profit, though may receive subsidies to run non-profitable lines, though other operators can also bid on those lines, and particularly in less densely populated, and therefore less profitable, parts of the country, some of these lines are run by other companies (usually either foreign owned or set up by bus companies).

Personally I think the real profit of a good public transit system should not be in money, but in public mobility. More people using the train also means less cars on the road and therefore less traffic jams. And being run for profit makes the NS care less about that aspect. For that reason, I'd prefer if they'd kept it state-operated and run specifically as an alternative to cars.
Yunify (the Netherlands) is looking for an experienced Front-end App developer
Angst about DNS Privacy and DoH / Doc
I worked with all of the cards mentioned in the article. It was a pretty sweet time, where the card manufacturers would happily send out a reference card.

Some things the article did seem to miss out on:

- You could have two Voodoo's in your PC for extra throughput (I can't remember the numbers). I seem to recall there was a ribbon cable between the two boards...

- The reason 3dfx ultimately failed was due to hefty lawsuits ongoing with NVidia about IP theft and headhunting the 3dfx staff.

During this time there was a mailing list (can't remember it's name) that existed and a lot of game devs operated in it, mainly around DirectX (v1 onwwards), but it was in existence much before that. All the card manufacturers were on it that I recall.
One day John Carmack posted a comment (I'm paraphrasing somewhat) how rubbish DirectX and Direct3D was. A month or so later glquake was available.

I think it was about 12-18months later Unreal (the game... before the engine) was announced as a demo on this list and we all thought: Awesome -- who the * are these guys!?

I'd like to say 'Good times' were had, but seriously, I burnt out due to the insansely fast changing pace of 3D dev during those times.
I would like to point out, that GIMP made a huge progress in recent years :)

I am the author of https://www.Photopea.com, which is the image editor with the second best support for GIMP files (XCF) after the GIMP itself :) In the latest GIMP releases, I really appreciate Editable Text Layers and the support for DEFLATE data compression, which makes XCF files even smaller.

I created a document with a white background layer and a simple text layer both as PSD and XCF, and then ZIPped it:

XCF: 8.25 kB unzipped, 4.03 kB zipped

PSD: 81.10 kB unzipped, 7.96 kB zipped
Just for clarification, Aseprite is "source-available": you're free to browse [1], clone and build the source for your own usage as long as you don't redistribute your build. There's even a tutorial for it. Official builds, of course, are paid.

[1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite
4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom in (at least) some quarters of the Internet as is possible.

Such freedom seems so essential to Internet culture that, in my opinion, it must be protected.
I’m not that well versed in gene therapy, but for pharmaceuticals the calculus is as follows: It takes billions of dollars and decades for a new drug to be put on the market. In addition to the cost, there’s the risk of the FDA not approving it. Once approved, the drug can essentially be produced for free. The government gives the company the right to charge whatever they want for a set number of years until the patent expires (including much of the research time). After that period, competition is allowed in.

It seems clear to me that costs and profits need to come from somewhere. But I wonder if there is a better system than just making each pill super expensive for a long period of time.
When web directories like Yahoo lost out to web search engines like Google, we lost something crucial. While search is good for answering questions you know how to ask, browsing was exploratory and led us to know what we didn't know. When it comes to learning a complex topic like mathematics, this kind of serendipity was very useful. There are some amazing resources on the web, but googling won't let you discover those.

Sometimes, the same idea is available in a book, in a TED talk, and in a podcast. Some of us are curating such resources categorized by topic / format / year / difficulty / estimated time. Our GitHub repo received 100+ stars in less than a week, so I thought it would be a good time to show it to HN. I'd love to get some feedback and critique from the HN community where I have learned and discovered so much.

Here's the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604295