skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, the story was fine except for the doxxing. Personal details like his name and address should have been elided.

Edit: On the other hand, I'm fine with linking to the stolen courses and providing a list of the courses to the community.
But they seem to offer pretty much all the major cable TV channels yea? Isn't that going to cost $50/month if you go for a traditional cable company? Why would the price of the content decrease?

Disclaimer: Googler (not on YT)
The article was definitely informative, but quickly became vengeful at the end. Why go to such lengths just because somebody stole your content?

Edit: I realize that he was trying to make an example out of this person. It makes sense to do this to ward off potential thieves.
Isn't a child's phone a managed device? Using MDM for parental control seems entirely appropriate.
Even if Facebook-the-product dies[0], Facebook-the-company will continue to be around for a looong time. Even if they fall out of public favor, they have enough money, enough data, enough business connections, etc. to continue for a very long time [1].

Honestly, if somehow enough people actually manage to get mad enough at Facebook for it to potentially affect their bottom line, they would likely use Zuckerberg as a scapegoat and ditch him. People like to latch onto a single individual as the problem, so that stunt would probably placate a lot of people [2].

[0]: Even this seems very unlikely given how many deep ties they have into peoples' lives. Keep in mind that it is far from just a social networking tool or blogging platform.

[1]: Hell, they probably have enough money and blackmail data to do whatever they want. Including blackmail.

[2]: Witch hunts are more popular than ever :)
It's mostly subconscious/unconscious.

This is why some people make it look easy - the ones who you describe as "folks who are disciplined, are ruthless executors, are self-motivated".

It's not actually that hard for them, they're mostly just doing what comes naturally to them.

It may be they were able to develop these tendencies at a young age, or maybe it's inherited traits from their parents.

This is the dark secret behind the self-help industry; it usually doesn't work. At least not just by reading a book or attending a seminar or following a methodology.

Those programs will describe techniques that supposedly work for other highly successful people, but what they don't tell you is that those other people don't really need to follow any program, and the "discipline" they show is actually not the kind of discipline you're punishing yourself with; for the people who make it look easy, it just flows naturally, as their subconscious mind is just attuned that way.

Here's the thing: you can change your subconscious mind. There are specific techniques that enable you to do it. But they require consistent work over a long period of time, and a lot of patience with yourself along the way.

The main goal of such a program is to figure out just what it is you really want to do with your life - what objective is going to give you purpose and meaning and motivation, then to gradually remove the emotional/cognitive barriers that prevent you from working towards it with energy and focus.

One of the better known subconscious healing programs is NLP, but I have no idea if it's the best; I haven't really done it. I've done other things that are less well-known, and after more than 7 years of steady work, the results have been profound for me.

Search around for "subconscious healing" or "subconscious emotional clearing" and see what you can find.

Choose a program that feels good to you; ideally talk to people who have done it and ask about their results. Of course you shouldn't do something if the people running it or recommending it seem kooky or exploitative, and the field is a minefield in that regard.

But if you search thoroughly you'll find there are programs and techniques offered by really down-to-earth, decent people, and a solid number of authentic success stories to point to.

Good luck!
The closest London has to this is the Barbican from the 60’s, which is still mostly open to the public, or Georgian squares with gardens in the centre closed to the public, which still have road access between the houses and gardens. Large new developments like Nine Elms, Greenwich Peninsula and Elephant and Castle as far as I know always have public thoroughfares. I can’t think of any recent development that could be described as a superblock or a gated community.

London does have a lot more open space which is in fact privately owned, which limits your rights in that space, but that is a separate issue.
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The first comment of every story need not be "is this acceptable for HN?" Please consider carefully before posting this. :/

I would argue it's an interesting tale, it's about online scams, e-learning platforms, and payment platform issues. Whether you approve of the author's choices to dox the scammer or not, it's arguably valuable reading.
Well you don't want to see it but others might, they can have their own reason no matter how absurd its to you.
i blocked reddit.
Show HN: Lego-like text data preprocessor for NLP model (TensorFlow/PyTorch)
This is unlikely since not all projects use git and they seem to like to have the same workflow everywhere
65% of medicare patients suffering from a specific disease?
They have to drop the obsession with with CPU temperature too.

The 'gamer science' scene is obsessed with it, but cooling a processor to 40 degrees for the most part is just a waste of energy, which in a battery powered laptop, is important.

The reality is that these chips will run at 95 degrees for decades.
I'm oversensitive to this and my comment is sort of off-topic, but I've seen a fair bit of confusion, especially on China, where people fail to distinguish between the authoritarian government, nationals, and people of ethnic descent. This confusion has led to some awful comments, like "I obfuscate my code before sharing with my Chinese colleagues because they are here to steal." What does that even mean? Chinese by name? By accent? By passport and secret party membership? I'd almost prefer to see tropes, e.g. "Russian hacking" or "Chinese social credit score" than thinly-veiled attacks or blatant over-generalizations on entire populations.
Is this calculator assuming you’re going to retire on Social Security? Just like having loose lending standards for college causes inflation, not requiring higher retirement savings simply drives up housing costs in regions with high demand.
Strange, scrolls super smooth in both firefox and chrome on a desktop PC for me, much smoother than JS heavy sites. I can just grab the scrollbar and go anywhere and see the text fly by and respond immediately.

It's about 20k lines worth of fixed position text, pretty easy for a modern computer.

I wonder what the pixel 3 browser is doing differently, isn't it also Chrome? Pixel 3 surely has a better CPU than computers in the year 2000, and even then you could scroll through 20k text lines easily.
Network effect, economies of scale (i.e. it is MUCH cheaper...)
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> I'm kind of cynical about this sort of thing and I don't think the hosting really changes the quality of contributions.

Yeah. We've had this topic come up a number of times in the Wine project. We still use a mailing list and git-am patches for our contributions. We have a few hard-liner FOSS types who would strongly reject a GitHub solution (including myself), but a self-hosted Gitlab solution may be accepted. But in the end there just isn't much evidence that the change would be beneficial for the project. If you can't be bothered to figure out how to send an email or attach a patch to the bug tracker, are you really going to usefully contribute to Wine? It's an active topic of debate, but just being "easier to contribute" isn't clearly a good thing.
/r/Pyongyang is leaking
MySpace is holding on to users' profiles? When was the last time you went to a Myspace page? There might still be an active page with that user's name, but several years ago, there was a massive MySpace re-design and overhaul that totally wiped out (at least from public view) HTML customizations of profiles (which MySpace became famous for), embedded music widgets, the entire "About Me" sidebar on the left (where people listed all their favorite stuff, and personal info), the comments (in the comment sidebar that was on the right), blog posts (in the blog section), and countless photos and photo albums, seemingly just saving the profile picture and then some photos that were NOT put into albums. I know that because I went back to a list of MySpace links I had bookmarked from 2006 to 2009 and they are just about all useless.

Celebrity tweets aside, people generally make that sweeping overestimation about the permanence (or at least the public discoverability of) such stuff; as for Facebook itself, users have deleted tons of photos and even their own entire profiles, and typically it's the most interesting (juicy) stuff, e.g. when a girl is going through college and deletes slutty and mischievous pictures of herself from earlier years and parties and relationships.

(Side-note: you spelled "loses" as "looses," one of the most common spelling mistakes.)
Its facinating that this could cause cultural change on how most people relate with death. Interesting time.
Read a paper: A complexity measure (Cyclomatic complexity)
I wonder if they're also removing the apps used to control women's lives in Saudi Arabia.
I wrote a letter to a friend on the website because I honestly thought it would be amusing. But then at the address page I kinda stopped, because I didn't actually feel very comfortable with writing my friend's address and full name on a random webpage. I wonder if there is anything that can alleviate this paranoia?
Scams cost Australians half a billion dollars
this is pretty cool. I would love to see a service takes writing samples in your own handwriting and produces a letter that looks like you wrote it.
I remember using this service to send mail to an incarcerated family member about 7 years ago. Works great with ASCII art too!
Thanks for taking an interest!

The Companion server used in the examples (companion.uppy.io) is really only meant for demo purposes and hence throws CORS errors if you'd try to use it for your own website.

You have three options:

1. Disable Instagram/Dropbox/Google Drive. Then you can use Uppy without any special server components (it'll just upload to your Apache server or S3 bucket)

2. Enable Instagram and friends but run Companion on your own server. It can be installed as middleware into an existing Express server, or run as a Standalone server on a different port than your webserver.

3. Use Transloadit's hosted Companion server. Requires a paid subscription (but also gets you hosted tus servers for upload handling, and our encoding platform, all of which are globally distributed)
And the thing is Apple is not banning parents from buying something like AirWatch - a legitimate MDM software/service ($4.95 per device per month) - where the parents are in complete control of the profiles installed on their kids devices.
Antibiotic resistance as big a threat as climate change – chief medic
Termux Useful or Not
Is termux useful on android?
i mean for hacking purpose?
From: Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See

Excellent book, sad funny and eyeopening.
As a non-American, I'll second this. We do have older people talking about how promiscuous the new generation is (for any age "older people" and "new generation"), but that's about it. There's no generation labeling, and it does feel a lot like horoscopes.
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OK so the Amiga signatures were just a homage to an already established practice of doing this. Where there other machines of this era that had signatures too?
It is hard if you're lazy and irresponsible, like me. I wager the world is filled with people like me, this, I'm counting on "over engineering" to save me.
I started writing a bit about data redundancy [0] (in particular : password files thanks to pass(1)[1], and other taxes).

For mail, I'm betting that GMail will stay up long enough (+ I have a full IMAP copy on my machines). My 2FA recovery tokens are synced across machines, see [0]. Pictures' storage goes to Google Photos + my own Nextcloud. Contacts are synced on my Google account: if I lose my phone, I can still use someone else's to warn my contacts. There are also things like Find my Device [2]. I don't have anything Android-exclusive, banking in particular works on my desktop and laptop.

For death/whatever, my parents know whom to contact (employer, bank, etc.). I also share photos, documents, etc. with whomever it might interest, so nothing should ever be lost if it was meant to be shared.

[0] https://try.popho.be/securing-home.html#data-protection

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/

[2] https://www.google.com/android/find
One could argue trying to ensure the guy isn't able to continue doing this to other people is a public service. This is not someone who tried to rip him off, this is someone who has ripped thousands of people off as a business model. And it doesn't even just impact other online course developers, as the prevalence of this behavior might lead course developers not to offer money back guarantees or refunds.

The unfortunate reality of online crime, is the likelihood that he ever faces real legal repercussions for his actions is pretty small.
Checklist for engine failure at night:

* Speed - 65 KIAS (best glide)

* At 200 ft AGL: Landing Lights - ON

* If you don't like what you see: Landing Lights - OFF
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Have you looked @ Tandem's upcoming (2nd half of this year) ControlIQ for their X2 pump? It probably won't be as user-tweakable as OpenAPS. I couldn't convince myself to try OpenAPS for my 7 year old T1D. He recently switched to a Tandem pump and we are eagerly awaiting this software update.
This isn't enough to attack the pump in that way you'd still have to defeat the pairing step to make the pump accept commands from a transmitter.
Why do you keep posting this? How can I beat an Online News Spammer?
Squid skin inspires creation of next-generation space blanket
I really like thumbsup: https://thumbsup.github.io/

It generates a static web site, creates thumbs, etc. I just run it on my laptop and rsync to my personal nginx server. You could probably host the output directly from S3 or similar.
Or Quidditch leagues.
While the apps are atrocious. The apps from what I csn tell are just front ends for websites and services being offered. They don’t do anything on the phone itself that takes advantage of special permissions.

Of course they should remove them too.
Well, it depends. If one were to bump'n'dunk a freighter in Uedama this could be accomplished in less then 5 minutes.
Even more so if you manage to chat-PVP some more ISK out of the bumpee before the gank. Aaaaaand even more if you sell the freighter pilot a plastic wrap full of assembled containers that matches the size of the one that dropped (half of the collateral works great).
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> Why go to such lengths just because somebody stole your content?

Stole your content, along with hundreds of others with the intent to resell and profit.

Having been "scammed" by startup jagoffs refusing to pay similar sums of money, there's something primal about it. You want their head on a pike.
In the UK, the local equivalent of square dancing might be morris dancing, and yes, people regularly mock it as a silly pursuit of weird people.
I was being facetious, but I also love these kind of stories. Like the one last week about the guy sells onions on the internet. We live in a weird world.
https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
Oops, thanks! (been a while) Those are examples of units, but units are more generally "building blocks of 1" (if you apply a unit, there is some other unit that gets you back to 1). Thanks again for the correction.
I want to make a minor point that is not a critique but more a statement so first of all, congratulations on your success!

I think we as a society need to stop referring to single member entities with no employees (meaning a single, sole person) as a "company."

"Business" seems like a better term, or even just "product" if that's what you're selling. But "company" naturally implies multiple people, which lends credence to the business as it means the business can support more than one income.
From my experiences, this attitude is in a large minority.

I'm tempted to say this isn't bad, either. It is amazing what people can do retreading topics.
Apple doesn't make money from you spending all day on your phone. They would be fine if everybody would buy a phone, maybe a couple of apps, and set aside until there was a need.

You are mistaking them for Facebook or any of the other engagement-driven, ad-selling companies.
Criminal trials use "beyond all reasonable doubt" as their burden of proof. A criminal trial does not clear the accused of any charges. The jury may well think "he probably did it, and I would not leave him alone with my daughter, but the prosecution failed to prove that he did it beyond all reasonable doubt". Juries do not clear someone.

Guilty people are found not guilty, by design, every day.
Why?

Also there is https on the more sensitive parts of the site (login etc).
Apple defends its takedown of some apps monitoring screen-time
Yes and you’re free to get a real MDM solution where you control the profile. The other half is the VPN software. If people are so concerned with their child’s well being, how are they comfortable installing third party VPN software that can record, track and use your data?
Woah there buddy.

— Apple makes it extremely easy for anyone to start backing up their computer in a way that covers an array of scenarios from accidental or malicious deletions to full-on disaster recovery.

— It has everything to do with MacOS because the creation of backups happens within a MacOS environment and the restoring of backups happens within a MacOS environment. The only "firmware" aspect is the (relatively) simple boot-time keyboard triggers.

— Apple's solution to damaged devices is having a comprehensive backup strategy. If your plan is to recover data from a damaged device, you've failed before you begin. Apple doesn't offer first-party data recovery services, but there are plenty of third party services to handle disaster recovery situations. To the extent that they make it difficult for you to recover data from a damaged device, it's because they do robust on-disk encryption.

— Yes, any vendor "could" offer the same thing. That's exactly the point. They could. Most don't. That's the point.
Yea we considered this but then the rope hangs down into the counterspace beneath and gets in the way. Or in one case, hangs down and gets caught in the fridge when you close the fridge.
All single board and accessories sold on the Pine Microsystems Inc. (PINE64) store are entitled to a 30 days Limited Warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.

30 days it says . . . .
Personal plug: I'm working on PhotoStructure, after trying many, many open source photo projects (and being a committer for years of one of the most popular, "gallery.")

PhotoStructure is browser-based (using Vue), and scales to hundreds of thousands of assets over millions of files. Your library can be created on a Mac, saved on your NAS, then later opened and managed by a Linux box, seamlessly. Raw images have highlight restoration before rendering previews. Videos are auto transcoded for mobile and desktop web use. Corrupt images are detected automatically and culled. Image source sets are used to minimize network data and maximize viewing quality. XMP sidecars are imported for metadata. Importing aggressively coalesces duplicate images and videos using direct and inferred metadata, so even your downsized Google photos takeout will be deduped with your originals.

Once you've got a huge library, though, it needs a novel UX. Scroll-reverse-chron and a search bar shouldn't cut it. PhotoStructure has a couple novel and unique approaches to navigation, which you can read about here: https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

It scales down to odroids, and up to as many CPUs as you can throw at it, and self-throttles CPU during library sync so the machine is still useable. Installation takes under a minute, and updates are automatic.

It's closed-source because it's how I want to pay for my food and clothing, but it's a corporate mandate to open source in case of business closure, which is also explained in that blog post.

I'm sending out another wave of beta testers later today, and during the beta it's free. I'm giving heavy discounts to my beta testers that share feedback.

I'd love to hear what you think.
Thank you. I'd like to hear how that goes.

The thinking behind GraphQL was to allow for advanced filtering, supporting all the attributes we store without a lot of extra API work. The GraphiQL web interface makes it quite nice to explore the data and is bundled in and accessible at /graphql . GraphQL also has "subscriptions" which allows for pushing data from the server. The Apollo JS library I used also provides built-in extras like caching.
The cost of not being able to participate in pop culture is magnitudes higher than the cost of piracy in a country where the original isn't even sold. Relative measurements matters when measuring two choices, even if both are small in effect to the cost of something unrelated.
Not really if the intermediary (the developer) also has control/access.
From a technical perspective, bypassing the ORM is a great solution (and if you can get the number of queries down to one, there’s no longer any need for concurrency).

Unfortunately, politically, the kind of shop which fires a dev for choosing another platform is unlikely to approve a PR which bypasses the ORM (maybe also a fireable offense!)
I assume they read the author's name at the top of the post...?
Can't open the site because it blocks users with ad blockers.

Online newspapers have trained me over the last 20 years to need an ad blocker, without one they will serve up horrible experiences.

* The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites - The New York Times || https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost...

What's frustrating about all this, and I suspect it's somewhat relevant, is that I really just want to pay a flat fee to get all the content and never see another ad. And because Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Amazon, etc. can't agree... I'm left to go back to Rarbg -- who gives me easy access to content, for free, without making a fuss if I use an ad blocker or VPN.

Remember that video about Jeff Bezos talking about customer experience, and how it was paramount? Right, so I need modern Jeff Bezos to be like, "Hey, all the streaming services need to get their act together... what we're doing now is really shitty customer experience and we're making it easier for people to pirate than to simply pay for our services."

What's fucked up, I pay for Netflix, Amazon, and CBS... and still I'd rather torrent it so I can stream it from my Plex because I have no idea when Amazon will make changes to their content library, or Netflix will decide that I don't deserve true HD experience due to their bandwidth issues. So... back to good ol', never-let-you-down, BitTorrent... all because these content sellers can't get their heads into modernity.

Anyway the whole thing is fucked.