skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat idea! We recently stumbled upon the store information in OpenStreetMap and have been trying to decide what we want to with it. I think there are several interesting possibilities, but I'm mulling over whether they might be commercially viable.

You might get some more feedback if you don't require registration to test out your platform (I personally am not thrilled about creating yet another account just to try something out). A compromise would be to allow users to enter the query, and only see say, the top three results. In order to see the rest, users could be required to register. That way, people can test out the flow of the service before deciding whether to give you their email addresses.

I personally think your previous language of "bait" and such was cute. You have a pond theme, and you could commit to it further by having graphics like "fishing expedition" or a net to represent the catch. I'm not a marketer, so it's quite possible that manigandham is right. Nevertheless, I suspect that a single data point should not be enough to change your theming either way.

Hope that helps!
No it's not. Try to find another 7 DOF arm with 2 kg payload and similar envelope for less than $5K.
Why would Africans setup a company and incoorporate it in Germany and call it a Nigerian company
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I learned just some rudimentary Haskell. It tends to force you into a kind of bottom-up-test-as-you-go approach, which can work pretty well when you have no hidden state. The next time I wrote a shell script, I did it like that, and started writing much better shell scripts. It also surprised me how much easier that flow worked with the shell than with Python, even with Python's REPL. To do the equivalent thing in Python, testing functions nearly interactively, I had to do something like import module; reload module; from module import * over and over. At the shell prompt, I just kept hitting the up arrow to source the script I had just saved so I could try out the new function.

I wrote a trivial amount of Haskell, and it still changed how I write shell scripts, which I didn't expect at all.
What if the app and site are open source, but each city a private company or companies use the oss to create their own service. Then you have a decentralised system and the businesses add value by dealing with disputes and payment processing.
Not if the app and or website use certificate pinning or hsts and you want to use the device on a different network as well, e.g. phones and laptops.
I’m not saying it’s illegal, I’m just saying it’s a bad idea.
>I and millions of people who shop on Jumia do so cause it's convenient and provides a needed service. Until a few days ago, I had no idea it's a German company and its founders are french. Calling it an African company when it's not may be deceptive, but please don't say it's successful because Africans don't love local brands.

Speak for yourself. African brands are loved by Africans but are not treated the same on such platforms. Go to Jumia and see this Jumia Express madness. Basically a dumping zone for class C Chinese goods. Is that what you like buying? Says alot about your mentality. I hope you are not an entrepreneur.
Facebook doesn't limit itself to phone numbers. They're just a convenient data point to pin everything else they've gathered to your name.

And the thing people take offense in isn't the phone number directory... It's everything else that they not only know about, but also sell to unrelated third parties.
Anecdotally, things rings very true with me. I always try my best to 'get out of the hospital as soon as possible'.

And even from working at home ... the concept of 'dressing for the task' makes sense as well. We could wear literally nothing, but dressing for the office helps to put one in the right headspace.
The only time there's a shortage in a free market is when the government fixes the price. Then you've got alternating shortages and gluts.

In a free market, the price moves until supply=demand, i.e. no glut and no shortage.
Furthermore, since Tencent’s largest shareholder is African, does that make Tencent and African company?

This question is rhetorical.
Browser plugins are just fundamentally better because e2e security is preseeved and they have context information. They can be used with centralised management too.

But the mitm has its place. Hostile iot devices should be sanboxed.
It says in the story in the surveillance they can't make out the plates, so they don't know for sure it was his car.
If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough
Inertia at this point, but it started out as a help for billing clients when working onsite. A chunk of my work requires billable onsite visits and I was bad about tracking arrival and departure times as I arrived and departed.

At this point the software I'm using for mileage tracking covers that (and will show my route using a certain ubiquitous mapping system), but I still have that package generating kml files and uploading them twice a day.

Edit: looks like just over 5 years of daily kml files, likely mostly useful for showing just how few new places I go.
They do not claim to be a Canadian company for PR and media attention. Thats the difference. Secondly, Jumia really exploits Africans to make a quick buck, they sell purely Chinese grade C goods all this is not benefiting Africans. This is modern day cannibalization. (and they still aren't profitable).
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I believe REI has the same model as MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op) in Canada. In order to buy from them, you must be a member, which costs like than $10 once, and profits are distributed between all members. Something like that.
> A language where the program is constructed by editing a running process in-place with a debugger/IDE, then the process is "saved" as an executable.

Why do people want this? I honestly don't understand. The point of code as opposed to just doing stuff by hand is that you can edit the code independently of its execution. You can fully inspect it without running it, and without any weird crevices for information to hide in. The workflow where you sort of edit and save processes, like smalltalk images, seems like it would throw away those advantages.
The charges in question are still regarding those earlier leaks, though. One can reasonably argue whether they were morally right or not, or even that it's too complicated to simplify like that - but it has to be argued in that original context.
> They each hold just over 2% of the company’s shares.

Wow, 4% foreign ownership of stock by founders who operate a business entirely in Africa /s. Is this really the substance of this expose?

Especially considering founder stock isn't how the vast majority of how value is returned to society in day-to-day business operations. But rather through the value delivery of the businesses to consumers and paying peoples employees.

Even the founders living and operating in Africa would mean a massive chunk of their dividends/salary would be going back into the African economy.

There are a million ways companies can generate value to a region/continent. The idea that a company is entirely extracting capital/value from other countries, because the (4% minority ownership) founders are foreign-born and the corporation was registered in Europe is not how that works.

Just like how saying a couple guys from Boston, with a company registered in Delware, but their entire operations and business-model is based in California ...is not primarily generating value for California but Boston/Delware.

At most this could only potentially reduce the narrative about individual success potential of African business owners. But that doesn't make it any less an African business and a model that businesses can work locally. Which is all investors care about. Even in SV 90% of investors won't look at you until you've somewhat proven your business-model OR you have had past success + network. Rarely do they invest blind unless it's a trendy highly-well timed startup they are looking to gamble on in a first-to-market type investment... but even that is rare.

The authors claim this is merely dismissible by the founders 'melanin' levels doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. https://twitter.com/tmsruge/status/1117106622357299200
How about when it mistakenly decides the trigger word was uttered? Or when someone on the television or a YouTube video says the trigger word?
Also your phone connects to up to 7+ cell towers at once giving good location history to AT&T who then sells your location history as a product to law enforcement. We are tracked multiple ways. Logging into Gmail gives your ip and a less precise but overall description of where you are, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naspers

Naspers was founded in South Africa so yes its African. Its services and activities benefiti Africans so yes, it its African. Jumia on the other hand, unless you are from around here and have used Jumia, you will understand my point. Read my other comments for reference.
Unfortunately, "just try harder" isn't always the solution to this problem. Sometimes it's better to fail, catch your breath, and then select a different path.
But why did you connect it to your server? All joking aside, I thought the Alpha was supposed to emulate a keyboard when transferring data. Is that not the case?
The author is correct: JSON shouldn't be used for configuration files (or for anything else for that matter!), but not because it lacks comments, but because it's very difficult to construct a parser for it. (Just yesterday I had to compile and package jq because writing a parser of my own for it would be insanity).

Configuration should be done with operating system packages and shell scripting; then there is no need for comments, since the files for making the package are kept in a revision control system like Bitkeeper or Mercurial and configuration on systems never modified by a human.
Incomparable in what way?
Recent review from a performance in 2018.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23229
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> editing a running process in-place with a debugger/IDE, then the process is "saved" as an executable

I am currently working on a variant of the Smalltalk image concept that works this way, based on Objective-Smalltalk[1] You have documents in a live coding environment, and those documents can be saved as executables.

One inspiration is DropScript[2], which was an app that converted Unix scripts into (simple) MacOS X apps. Another is obviously Smalltalk.

> An iPad app that lets people draw dataflow programs with a pencil

Objective-Smalltalk also has pretty good dataflow support. Drawing would be a reasonable addition.

[1] http://objective.st

[2] http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/DropScript/
I note how you consistently avoid to discuss monetary compensation for investing my time into contributing. Yeah it pisses me off that you believe my free time is worthless and that you're just entitled to ask someone to donate their time without providing anything in return.
Quantum programming is getting more relevant and also more accessible. I suspect in the next decade there might be some need for it. Qiskit and Q# are both pretty prominent ones, I only have experience with Q# but I know Qiskit is pretty popular. It's pretty fun. A completely different way of thinking, that's why I enjoy it.
Yes, I think it's absolutely about securing profits. I've been downvoted to oblivion before when speaking out against it on HN before, though, so it may already be too late to stop this.
There is an interesting video essay about this phenomenon, using TF2 old servers and Overwatch new game matching as examples.

Errant Signal: Social Spaces & Payload Races - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj1haLcdI0
LMGFY

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
Ah the old days of having a wall and poking people
> Latitude/longitude is quite an inefficient and cumbersome way of representing points on a sphere

Using lat/lon absolves you of storing projection metadata
Who is Joey? Joe Hewitt of Mozilla fame?
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Yeah, I guess this doesn't use JavaScript expressions so it wouldn't have the weird stringiness and truthiness rules JS has, which is what I was worried about. Still, there are a lot of other issues with BCL.. I think I would rather see a piccolo style solution done with Skylark instead of BCL+json.

From reading the website I see it actually was inspired by gcl/bcl for kubecfg, so hopefully they used some lessons learned!
I don’t get it. Transparency is good, but if you do increase it a bit you are responsible for the whole worlds transparency or else shut up and sit down?
I'm as far from NIMBYism as is possible for a person to be [1] but the urban neighborhood growth curves seem to inexorably point to either of:

1. open air mall with prestige housing and office space (SoHo)
2. steel and glass mall with prestige housing and office space (LIC, Hudson Yards)

I know it's possible for there to be growth that is for people and not plutocrats. I live in the East Village and I love the density we have here but any attempts to upzone other neighborhoods to equivalent density seems to result in this kind of soulless mediocrity.

[1]: I support Tokyo style zoning, abolishing street parking and private vehicle traffic in urban cores, and would gladly have someone start building a twenty story apartment building next to where I live. If a majority of the units get allocated to poor families at risk of losing housing, even better :)
I don't think a website can decide to use public key pinning can it? But the client/browser can. Google won't let you route their traffic through a proxy (chrome does public key pinning for Google).
I hope they take inspiration from these folks and do a simultaneous takeoff, in opposite directions:

https://youtu.be/R5P70XtI4zQ?t=39
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I am working on Full-Stack Developer Job Board as a side project ( https://fullstackjob.com ).
Until this brings some significant income, after 5 years as employee I want to go back to be my own boss, as I was for over 15y before.
Now I have a question to you guys... Do you think it's better to offer my self as a person or as a company. I have a company page ( https://altafino.co.uk ) which is "impersonal". I will offer myself mainly as Full-Stack Dev/Software Engineer. How you guys do ? "As a Person" or "As a Company" way ?
I think many of those buildings are gone now.
Holmdel was a way cool building. Hands down beats any of the janky MDF abominations that current offices are.
Love the concept, but the name is far from being the best.

There's already a relatively popular tool for JSON processing called jq, whose name in some languages already reads like "jk".

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
If Riot kept around your session keys even if you were logged out I guarantee that a similar complaint would be made about it being insecure since it leaks keys.

I would also like to point out that e2e is still not enabled by default because of issues like this. If you enable it you should know to enable key backups.

Riot has supported automatic key backups for the past few months, and if you'd used that you wouldn't have had a problem (yes it should've existed earlier but there are a lot of things for the underfunded Matrix team to deal with). And the reason it's not default is because making such a system opt-out would also make people start screaming about how Matrix is insecure because "it stores your keys on the server".

I think in many respects, the people working on Matrix are going to get criticised like this no matter what they do. I note you haven't actually suggested a specific proposal for how to fix this -- you're just going on about design cinstraints and how Matrix is therefore a joke system. To me that seems to be more snark than useful advice.
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> A language with dependent types and borrow checking

I'm definitely interested in this! There are significant challenges here though, particularly with respect to combining dependent types with effects and coeffects! This is open research, but significant progress is being made, and I'm hopeful. I'm currently keeping an eye on https://github.com/granule-project/granule, which seems like it might have some interesting things to say about this.

Currently I'm trying to learn how to implement dependent types in my programming language, Pikelet: https://github.com/pikelet-lang/pikelet (currently doing a rebuild of the front-end in https://github.com/brendanzab/rust-nbe-for-mltt). I'm hoping that once I've done this I might eventually be able to start looking at implementing something to do with borrow checking in it, but who knows! The more I learn the less I seem to know! Always interested in chatting to people about this at our Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/pikelet-lang/Lobby

> Idris is perhaps the most famous dependently typed language.

I'd probably put Coq and Agda ahead of Idris in terms of being well known and established, but Idris is certainly pretty cool in how it tries to target practical programming.
From your linked article:

> For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. In order to download map tiles around you, show nearby stuff, traffic, etc they need to know where you are. So yes, that means they get your location.

But that has nothing to do with the sort of periodic background location reporting used in Location History that people are concerned about. Disabling Location History and not using Maps or other Google location based apps or APIs means they won't get your location.

Also note that there's no mention of play store access, phone calls or any other sorts of usages which seem like they shouldn't ask for location in that article.

They make a bit of a big deal about searching for "chocolate chip cookies" not requiring localized results, but from a technical perspective I think it's obvious that they just send it with the request regardless, they don't know . Trivial to disable if you don't want that though. In fact, both this an the Maps example will happen even on iOS devices as the article points out.

When I said I found those claims exaggerated last time I looked into it, this is exactly what I meant. They must get a lot of clicks by making this stuff out to be more nefarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude#Geodetic_and_geocentr...

“The definition must be accompanied with a specification of the ellipsoid.” etc.
You don't need a membership to buy from REI, but you do miss out on the profit sharing and other perks if you are not a member.
These days, I keep it simple with my small and short-lived groups and opt for a "benevolent dictator" model-- all violations reported to me, I can kick anyone out for any reason.

Whenever possible, inconvenience the people with money and make it convenient for those in poorer areas.

—

Or, How to organize an event in which you are surrounded only by likeminded people and immediately kick out anyone that thinks differently.

I hope within my lifetime we return to a interpersonal communication model of: “I’m a person, you’re a person’ sometimes we disagree or misunderstand each other, but we both will try our best.” The current trend of over legislating (by actual law or lists of rules) is becoming quite childish, in the sense that we are no longer treating people like adults.
Arathorn mentions this in a bunch of his Matrix talks (and has mentioned it on HN too I think).
It allows rapid productization by combining experimentation and development into a single process. The dream is to do something just once manually, and then have it automated with no further effort. This is why Excel is one of the most used programming environments.
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I 100% disagree.

I rave about JSON. I don't understand the rants with config files, but I could bet $20 that they _always_ begin with "but my comments!".

In the past I've promptly replied with (copied from my Reddit post):

Douglas Crockford said to use comments in json config files:

"Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser."

Which was at the following link before Google killed Google+

https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG...

Here's my flag solution with JSON config files: https://github.com/zamicol/jsonflag I've never read this "arp242.net" article, but my solution anticipates some of its complaints, such as environmental variables, and addresses them. What I mean to get at is that this isn't rocket science and the "deficiencies" of JSON are flexibilities left to be easily addressed by the programmer. JSON is a great level of complex without being too much.

Every time this comes up, I don't understand how https://json5.org isn't superior to YAML in every way.
If there was some deficiency with JSON5, just simply use JSON with comments. It's that simple.

JSON is one of the best things to ever come out of the CS disciplines. Moreover, JSON is a javascript subset. If json isn't sufficient, why not first try a different javascript subset/json superset before trying something more alien?
Article is just a blank page for me, even after turning on JS and disabling tracking protection. Luckily it's archived: https://archive.fo/Lxeqy
People have been sold a certain 18th-century German myth that the value a company provides is strictly limited to who owns shares in the parent company. Which demonstrates a severe misunderstanding of how businesses generate economic value to the regions it operates in through salaries to locals, improving locals lives by providing value through some service/product, taxation of property + salaries + VAT/retail sales tax + customs + municipal fees (parking, business licenses) + etc, etc, etc.

Additionally most of the revenue businesses make is reinvested into the company. For most startups that means 100% of the money. They are only extracted from startups to original investors at IPO or acquisition. But even then the company is merely just transferring ownership to other people. The entire business value mentioned earlier is still being generated.
Of the two problems solving teamwork and strategy probably has the most payoff for non game applications (OpenAI is after all a non profit with a broad mission).
Finally a public version of GCL/Borgcfg :-)

For people who doesn't know, GCL (Generic/Google Config Language) is a language that uses dynamic scope. You can define a `template` object with a variable defined as `external`. This way you can create similar objects by providing a concrete value for those `external`s at the time of instantiating.

The following paper was referenced in Google's borg paper and gives a good overview of the syntax.

https://research.tue.nl/en/studentTheses/gcl-viewer
Which election? Neither Hillary nor Trump were in favor of socialized medicine. Bernie was, but the rigged system made sure he wasn’t an option.
I've used it in the past when travelling abroad so family members can keep track of where I am. Like the OP, I don't use google, because of the creepiness of it all, but hosted my own as uploaded kml files. I set up a GPS logger to save my pos every 1/2 hour or so to keep battery usage light.
veggies are real cheap compared to meats. 1 pound of meat or seafood is 4-30 dollars wholesale versus 1-5 dollars a pound for veggies, so after markup, what are most dishes going to contain? Fillers: carbs and veggies.
Disabling registrations of new accounts, not deleting old user accounts.

However something that they are working on (which is a fairly complicated project) is making accounts migrateable between homeservers. Then, users would be able to seamlessly migrate their accounts off Matrix.org.