skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google, Facebook, and probably Amazon, have better data than intelligence agencies of the 90's could've ever hoped for.

Putin was being made fun of back in 2012 or 2013 when he was saying that the Internet is actually a tool for the US Intelligence Community. Shortly after that some of Putin's cronies took direct control of VKontakte. As it so happens, Facebook was advised by a boutique investment bank called Allen & Co when it acquired Whatsapp for what was considered to be a huge sum ($19 billion) [1]. One of the managing directors of Allen & Co back then was none other than George Tenet, former Director of the CIA. [2]

I also believe that Skype's acquisition by MS (for what was also considered as a huge sum back then, $8 billion) was in part a covert operation to help the US Intelligence Community. Shortly after the acquisition MS got rid of Skype's p2p architecture and reverted to using one big centralized communications system, which by all intents and purposes made it easier for anyone so interested to control and check what was being discussed on Skype.

[1] https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/facebook-whatsapp-puts-all...

[2] https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/allen-co-the-invisibl...
When I last read up on this, which admittedly was over a decade ago, head parking was just a matter of locating the heads over an unused region of the platters. The head still goes through a landing and takeoff cycle, so the head still sees physical contact. It's just avoiding doing it over the data portion of the platters.
Thanks, I thought there should be something like this.
Ask HN: Tracking tutorial progress?
I'm often watching tutorials on Youtube or following along a blog post when I get interrupted and have to try and find my place again next session. Does anyone have good hacks or tools they use to save progress and avoid wasting time?
In other news, Americans rediscover the Jewish/Muslim way of burial.
Yea, the haptic feedback wasn't supposed to be there for the push/pop/back button. It's a bug, I already fixed it and submitted to Apple, it will be available in an update tomorrow.

I will be adding a setting to change font sizes in an update. I can also add a different row view with the comment and upvote count more prominent.

The home page items are the same endpoints which HN has as can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

The classic as per HN uses the same ranking system, but only counts votes from very early/older users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Their domain name is listed for sale for $1,000,000 according to the link at the bottom of the page. Does that mean this project is dead or are they just amenable to changing the project's domain?

I would imagine at that price point that any domain is at least negotiable, so why list it?
It's a really interesting concept between an RTG and a full-on small fission plant. Basically, a tiny, simplified, nuclear fission generator. There's a link at the bottom of the page. Something I learned about today!

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201600...
But my point is that, comparatively speaking "behave like a faithful person" is a fairly open ended assignment compared to attaining nirvana, circumcision, forgoing beef, or literally earning one's way into paradise.
How to approximate any dataset with a single parameter [pdf]
This liverpool and Manchester City teams are setting the bar very high for what sports is going to be in the future. There is no way teams would go entire seasons with just one defeat (against each other) without paying attention to every tiny opportunities of success.

Case in point, in preparation of next weeks champions league final, Liverpool are at a camp simulating Madrid weather and pitch surface. Even if they don't win, the knowledge they gain and the precision data they obtain for next season is crazy!
Very few people argue that intelligence is a "social construct", though the position taken by scientists and philosophers in the area is that race and gender are "social constructs"; that doesn't make them not real, though - but it does mean they're only about as real as money. A kind of objectivity obtained through many subjectivities.
> There are almost no incentives for us to flag transactions on our own (unless we're being super humanitarian)

I like how you frame avoiding profiting from crime not only as being humanitarian but actually as being super humanitarian.

To be honest, I find your comment quite frightening. I think bankers viewing being honest as a humanitarian act is in and of itself a much larger problem than faulty software.
Modern desktop based on Mini-STX (2018)
That's a good idea, I can add that filter option in an update!
Yup... a shitty app written in X is a shitty app where X is any language, platform, or framework. You can write non-shitty apps in Electron/JS but you have to actually pay attention to resource use, reducing dependencies, styling to match the host platform, etc.
Oh my god. This is a great idea. Thanks!
China also makes NYPD uniforms.
Show HN: Network Watchdog by Embrace
This tool is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Inform, though. The 'programming' part is still done in a regular old language like Swift. The tool finds and/or generates snippets for you and plonks them into the Swift code you're actually writing.
Back in the day, Google itself used spreadsheets as the backend of small pages (e.g. customer success stories). The reason I know that is because I found a few spreadsheets that were writable by anyone, and ultimately led to cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities in google.com. I reported a bunch of those to their vulnerability rewards program.
>Javascript isn't actually that bad of a language

Well, the basic parts are not that great. Plus, it has almost nothing of Scheme (nothing more than e.g. Python has of Lisp), that's just an old wives tale. It just has closures and that's it. Scheme is a Lisp, whereas Javascript isn't [1]. Not sure what Brendan had in mind when he was inspired by Scheme, but the end product is nothing like it.

Coercion rules are crazily bad. No integer type is stupid. Prototypal inheritance nobody much cared for (where nobody = very few). An empty array is not falsy. And several other stupid decisions besides.

The only reason it wasn't that bad, is that it wasn't big enough to be bad. It was just a handful of features plus a tiny (and bad) standard library (some math, some string stuff, etc). Everything else people had to build on top (and usually the did it badly).

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isn...
I mean, I guess I'm not sure where to go with this. You won't put down better than 4s to 60 daily driving any more than you would put down 200mph in the same circumstances, because you'll have a V10 roaring at you the whole time and literally everyone on the street will be sending hateful thoughts your way.

But if 0-60 is most important, I'd look at things like that SRT-10 (which makes it in 3.7s stock) or maybe even soup up a CTS-V, which can hit it in 3.3 with some work. Granted both of those, with modifications, will probably wind up closer to $25k than $20-- but who knows, you might get lucky.

Despite that, I maintain my original position: these are far, far beyond just being "nice" cars, and unless you can get a nice computer system for less than negative $80,000 there is no way to get such a system for even one hundred thousand dollars less than these cars, let alone several hundred thousand.
I've always liked this comic: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2017/12/07/improvements/

> In our quest to improve the service for you, the user, we're making it worse.

> It was great before. It's going to be terrible now, but you're going to love the changes.

> We asked our investors and they said you're very excited about it being less good, which is great news for you.
But it is strange that there is a lot of discussion about the slippery slope of what happens when this tech falls into the wrong hands. Meanwhile there is relatively little discussion about things that get us closer to the government actually being the "wrong hands".
One way to look at Stackoverflow is that it's a gigantic index that maps "intuitive plain English" to "non-intuitive exact syntax".

A good exampe of bridging this mismatch is "git" commands. A lot of questions about Git are just translating natural English into the "secret decoder ring" lingo of Git.[0] E.g. "How do I undo a commit?" isn't something obvious like "git undo". Instead, it's the more cryptic "git reset HEAD~"[1]

A lot of the programming grind is like that. You know the English words for what you want to accomplish but don't know the exact programming syntax to make it happen. So this app is sort of like putting Stackoverflow lookups with copy&paste directly into the IDE.

In contrast, the existing "insert snippets" functionality in Visual Studio[1] or IntelliJ have abbreviations to help find templates of code but not quite the rich natural language of Stackoverflow. I wouldn't be surprised if future versions of those IDEs incorporate something like Metacode.

[0] so many "How to...?" in the most-upvoted questions tagged [git] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/git?sort=votes&pa...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/927358/how-do-i-undo-the...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/code-snipp...
It's always interesting to me to hear people complain about the "laugh track" in shows like BBT, but then herald Monty Python as if it were some paragon of comedy, considering it also contains a "laugh track." I'm not speaking about your comment in particular; I have heard from many folks that they hated BBT because of the recorded laughter.
I don’t follow. Good nutrition doesn’t lead to poor fitness afaik.
The key is that said "less dystopian" uses commoditize the technology that the governments can use to spy on its citizens without even spending any major amount of r&d investment. Hell, Alexa in a TV and you have a 1984 system - willingly installed by consumers, no less. A 1984 system that for all intents and purposes can be converted into a surveillance system per secret court order.

The recent crackdowns on TOR darknet services are also frightening. While I'm not shedding tears for child porn distributors, the inevitable message that comes across with the monthly takedown press releases is "we can even get those with the best experience in using cryptography and hiding tools, how do you expect to organize resistance in case government goes the China way?"

Maybe parts of the US could provide resistance given that many people have enough private firearms to make sure any kind of government intrusion will result in unbelievable bloodshed, but disarmed populations like many European countries? They will have no way to voice any opposing thought anymore. We already see this in Hungary where Orban's friends have all but eliminated free independent press or in Turkey where tens of thousands get arrested for "terrorism" charges.
That is not a very exclusive club.

Airbus A380, Boeing 717, Boeing 787, Bombardier CRJ700, Airbus A340. And I'm pretty sure there are more.

Let's put it in perspective. Boeing has built over ten thousand 737s. Airbus has produced just 265 A350s.

Heck, at the moment Boeing crossed 265 737-MAX-8s in production, they might very well have had zero fatalities as well :)
For the purpose of viewing, refrigeration prior to the event is preferable to embalming.
I'm wildly skeptical of this. Do you have anything I could read to better understand it? From where I'm sitting, this isn't Sabermetrics, chiefly because football isn't a series of set pieces with very clearly defined plays and variance of individuals. You sound pretty confident in what you're saying though so I'd be genuinely thrilled to be shown how idiotic my supposition is!
The United States isn't very united when it comes to these things. Living in the Northeast where a city might have 10 hospitals and dozens of clinics is very different than living in rural Mississippi. There's a reason those of us that live in developed parts of the US call it "fly over" country.

tldr; overall averages for a country like the USA are pointless
Ah yeah you're right. I knew they couldn't be destroyed by an autoclave, and I misunderstood what exactly those do. They're only pressure and heat above boiling (120*C).
ug, honestly I don't want to go down this rabbit hole now, but there's no contradiction between "actually being that way in real life" and making money off of projecting a negative stereotype in mainstream culture.

There's real bored obsessive housewives, black inner city gangsters, Mormons with large families, and yes, even people who act a bit like Sheldon. But the thing about culture is that negative portrayls accentuate those behaviors and supress their contrasts in general cultural visibility. The portrayls of male homosexuality has everything to do with a particular cultural expression and shoeboxing in western culture.

And like the big bang theory, there's a fine line and tension between exposure and acceptance of a subculture as a good thing, and a mockery/caricature.

obviously I'm all down on the negative side, i feel bbt is unwatchable but I knew other nerds where I used to work who liked it. It's not my place, but given my similar negative feelings towards hyper-gender- portrayls of femininity (and that's generally what's emphasised in mainstream portrayls of gays) celebrity and fashion, and the gay people I do know IRL (we're not in America), i almost feel offended for them.

At a higher level though, I'd point out that using YouTube as an example of where someone 'seems the same as their character' is highly flawed. By now, I would hope everyone assumes all celebrities are playing characters all the time in all media. it's literally their product...
I agree, at least when it comes to overspecialized roles in large companies.

If you didn't get to actually Do anything, are you really a rocket scientist anymore? Does it feel the same? Does it make you excited to do your job?

Your day sounded pretty amazing to me. Well done!
Normally I'd be very sceptical but this just seems like a shortcut to googling the thing you need from stackoverflow and shortcuts are nice.
There are plenty of human traditions that don’t use a western-style cemetery.
> ...people in a position of power... profited from pretending to be people who had none, while simultaneously reinforcing stereotypes that help keep them powerless.

Anti-intellectualism is a very real force in American politics, with a sizeable power base of its own. To some extent, I think we can indeed blame shows like BBT for things like, y'know, having Mr. Orange Man (who used to be on frickin' reality TV, as we all know) as POTUS.[0]

[0] (Not that Hillary Clinton was that much better, either. We were quite lucky to have Barack Obama as president for eight years, he was a lot more sympathetic to the sane, "intellectual" outlook on policy than the average politician in the US!)
I don't think Pogba's problem is style. During and even after Mourinho's reign most of the time Pogba looks like someone who couldn't be arsed to play for MUFC. He has been extremely lazy in tracking back, goes missing in games.
looking at webflow, i have flashbacks (not sure if the good kind) of macromedia fireworks in the 2000's.
A framework is usually just a library for language L. Often it's extensive and serves a single broadly-defined purpose.

A programming language implementation for a language P, written in language L, usually denotes a function in L which maps strings representing programs in P to effects (interpreters) or to programs in yet another language (compilers).
Sure, some people do. I laughed because it was funny, and I was the the type it was mocking.
Even legal-ese can be ambiguous. If it weren't then courts would never overturn other courts' rulings.
This reminds me of a scene in the book To Kill a Mockingbird where some old white ladies are talking about the poor people in Africa while they treat their own Black servants poorly.
I'd prefer it to be "Show HN: Communicate with humans by writing code instead of using natural language"
Change is inevitable, even if uncomfortable.
Is Burger King offering to pay off student loans?
> The latest police brutality incident

You mean it doesn't fucking matter to YOU and people like YOU!

It sure as fuck matters to the people on the receiving end.
It searches stack overflow and inserts the top answer in your chosen language as code
Programming languages have to be implemented in something.

It is traditional to implement the language in something quick, and then start compiling/interpreting the language in itself as soon as possible (Now you have a very big test suite for free)
Yes, every assignment of a non-Copy type is a move. (Copy types are basically primitive ones like ints, so not vectors etc.) The compiler prevents you from using the old variable at that point.

Since Rust always enforces that a move is a memcpy, a vector reallocation is just a realloc() like in C.
When you’re in a city, particularly an old one, try visiting a cemetery. It’s nearly always nice and quiet and generally there is someone or something of interest.
It doesn't matter to the long run view of civilization, as I already clarified. The premise of your criticism is also pretty silly - China's high tech surveillance platform matters substantially less to me personally than whatever it is that Trump is up to.
> It's just rare that someone has an higher than 10% ratio. I've seen them upwards of 20% with the current algo.

Is it 10% for any one post?

My question is, in a rolling 30 day period, are 10% of all followers overall liking posts, or any given random 10%?
Congratulations to https://twitter.com/sehurlburt ! ...who is also a font of interesting and insightful business advice and life/growth thoughts
Thankfully government and application of technology by the government have no correlation.
Browser-Update: Unobtrusively notify visitors to update their browser
It doesn't cost that. Probably been approached multiple times and got tired of replying, so they've set a prohibitive price.
I agree with you! Static typing and more broadly static analysis can help catch some types of backwards incompatibilities. The intent of my comment was to highlight complementary techniques that can minimize the reliance on static analysis as the primary tool for keeping code in sync with dependencies. Alone, any one technique is not particularly fool-proof.
then there is a difference between general immigration and war refugees
Vox is nothing like infowars. There is really nothing redeeming about infowars whatsoever. Vox can be a mixed bag, but can still inform and make you ponder.
I admit, I had no idea there was a reboot, and I don't know who Ted Allen is :p
Looks lovely, but crashing when trying to login. It simply quits.
GitLab introduced their Pages relatively recently, maybe three years ago. The other two (Netlify and GitHub pages) are a few years older. I also vaguely remember something about it first being available in GitLab's enterprise edition, and later on being ported to the community version.

Not saying that there's anything wrong with it in particular, but it arrived a bit too late to set the standard for anything. People compared it to Netlify even when it was first announced.
"We'll save $500k a year in licensing costs and don't need to re-negotiate a contract to update our architecture" has worked for me.
Thanks for the link I'll have to get my hands on a copy.

Edit: I read the preface and I had no idea about the disgusting behaviour exhibited towards the Tibetan protesters in Canberra as the Beijing torch passed through[1].

I'm on my way to work and it is actually making me feel ill.

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2n1fjt
I’ve been waiting for an app to support “mark as read” to avoid seeing the same stuff again. :(
Women are known to be filters. That's why they occupy hr positions, and they're encouraged to behave like filters.

Recently got interviewed by a man who worked as a recruiter, and I felt more empathy, more calm, less uppity.

Maybe men are on the defensive, but maybe men are more capable to handle a potentially stressful discussion with a man because they have the same gender. Same dynamic might apply for women interviewing women.
Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
Then he will become an idiot, without capital, whats your point?
That's strange, would you mind emailing me from the app using the "Send feedback"? I would like to troubleshoot the issue to fix it.
Flagging my comment is even more telling...
North Dakotans have the same amount of voting power as Californians and Texans. It's just that they have to share with more people.

If you have a gallon of pistachio ice cream and a gallon of vanilla ice cream, the pistachio eaters have the same amount of ice cream as the vanilla eaters even if more people like vanilla than pistachio.
The concept that one has to contend with is the assumption is order to get $N in compensation one has to provide >$N value back to society. Ex: I make $100k as a engineer, I am actually building >$100k in software per year...

By restricting ultra productive people to a capped return we're effectively disincentivizing these people from providing additional value once they've hit their cap.

additionally you can forsee the fixed per capita cap will be gamed. $250M for me, and for my spouse, and each next of kin, and each parent / uncle aunt etc. Suddenly neopotism is all over the place.
Either you don't understand the traditions you are trying to reference, or the methodology approved.
"The Machine Stops" by Forster sent me for a loop back in high school.
Will do right now.
Ask HN: How would you validate an idea for SaaS product?
I've heard of many SaaS companies building the products first and then try to sell it only to fail later due to lack of demand and customers. My question is how would you validate an idea for SaaS is worth pursuing with enough demand and interest from customers?

Not asking for a complete strategy but a general idea of where to start at.
The funny thing about this post is that BBT is full of misogyny, homophobia, and racism. Like, chock full of it. And yet the most frequent complaint about it is about how mean it is to nerds.
Based on the context, it's pretty clear to me that the parent comment was not referring to accessibility in the a11y sense, but more of the "Slack is a private company and therefore inherently closed and evil" slant.
If you itemize your taxes, investment interest expenses (such as margin loans) are deductible against your net taxable investment income, with carry forward of unused amounts. So it nets out to zero.
I’m someone who picks up new languages easy - regardless of their paradigm - and this is honestly the first time I’ve spent 10 minutes going through a languages documentation and still not been any wiser where to start. That is an extremely odd programming languages; fascinating too.

Kudos for actually being able to use it.
> The premise of your criticism is also pretty silly

Hardly, it's the sentiment echoed by your statement that is prevalent throughout tech circles. Out of sight, out of mind.
And if you’re looking for something a bit more lightweight take a look at Surviving Mars, and the newly released Green Planet expansion which adds terraforming to the game.
Yes - this is one of the biggest issues in the proposal. Apple's browser will be in charge of all the attribution logic. This could create very perverse incentives for any browser company. For example, if Google wants to make their ads look effective, they can use Chrome to mess with the attribution and no one would know.
I toyed with the idea that corporate business analysts (who write requirements for products then hand to developers) could just write in a different syntax and pass them to a compiler that makes:

1. database tables

1. API CRUD endpoints with validation / sanitation

1. screens with input fields

Most of the corporate work I did was very similar to this. It was either a batch job, a UI screen, or an API that talks to some other service.