skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a few Airport Extreme and Express in the past and I think they are awesome and under rated. They were rock solid. Never had an issue with them and they always performed great. I also trust Apple to do the right thing in terms of security.
You are right about the person itself.
But their assets are often hard to move.

I just dont think that rich people in general have an interest in a (serious) war.

I rather think conflicts are used to distract from other problems and create "unity". But not with the goal to make money.
Obviously some peope will try to profit from it while its going on and some will also lobby for new ones. I just dont thinks that this influence is that big
Most I believe were a CRT focused down to the letter size and a movable plate.
How do you balance reading about craft and practicing it? Also metathinking?
"Analyzing it... not so much."

Or maybe they have learned a few things by reading Sun Tzu.
What Happened After the GDPR?
Yeah, I had to quibble with that too. And I definitely play with my keys when waiting at the bus stop, or equivalents of that.

But it's not something I do to the exclusion of other things; it doesn't capture my attention for 10 minutes at a stretch; it doesn't interrupt my conversations or take their place.
I would hope that under such an intentional deluge, the court would accept that the reasonable turnaround time for requests would increase substantially.
> If we're keeping up with analogies, that's like saying someone doesn't expect what they say on a soap box to be heard by anyone. That's a false expectation, however.

That's my point. If "soap box speaking" was as common as tweeting or posting on Facebook or speaking to a friend in a pub, people wouldn't expect it to be different. When social media changed from "technology pioneers use it carefully" to "everybody uses it and rarely thinks twice before hitting send", the expectation of the average user shifts.

> while understanding anything on the other side of the line is fair game

I do agree: Fair game for any person. As soon as technology enters the game (scrapers, databases etc), it changes. Similarly, you can sit in a park and catch fragments of what the people walking by talk about, that's all right. If you're using a directional microphone to listen in on people on the other side of the park, that's not. A user doesn't expect to the target of a microphone or a webscraper/data mining operation.
Yep, that's how you "bleach" hair for hair dye. It's safe enough to put on your head, around your eyes... and heat for 15min before washing it out.
It seems like a biased list, but it's good that someone is collecting links about these incidents.
After I got mu PhD in the neuroscience of habit formation, I made an app to help people reconfigure their phone to prevent or dismantle exactly this kind of compulsive relationship with their phone.

Check it out here:
https://youjustneedspace.com/
MAUs were 2.38 billion as of March 31, 2019, an increase of 8% year-over-year.

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Cris
Well, it's certainly true that Gates and Allen developed Altair BASIC on a PDP-10 (under which operating system I don't know, but it could have been TOPS-10, and you are right that TOPS-10 is not a version of TENEX), but they didn't write MS-DOS; Tim Patterson, at Seattle Computer Products, did. And it's a straight copy of CP/M, not of TOPS-10. (Nor of TENEX.) Later development of MS-DOS happened at Microsoft, but I don't think Gates and Allen wrote any code for it; the last product Gates wrote code for was the BASIC interpreter for the TRS-80 Model 100, which shipped in 1983.

I don't think it's accurate to say, "the PDP-8 and -11 OSes would have been inspired by TOPS-10," except in the sense that they were also inspired by the IBM 360 and other systems — ideas did cross-pollinate, of course, but circumstances conspired to prevent especially strong cross-pollination in this case. The PDP-8 predates TOPS-10 by two years, so there is a substantial amount of software for the PDP-8 that could not have been inspired by TOPS-10 — including, I think, early versions of OS/8 — and RT-11 and RSX-11 followed OS/8 rather closely, especially at first. And, as I understand it, inside DEC, the small-systems folks (the PDP-7, -8, and -11) were organizationally separate from the large-systems folks (the -6 and -10), I think in geographically separate locations.
Mass concentrations ("mascons") perturb orbits of lunar satellites. The Lunar Orbiter is in a special "frozen" orbit in which the various perturbations cancel each other, with the tradeoff that this eccentric orbit is not optimal for photography.

EDIT: The auto-generated transcript feature enables one to read enough to decide whether or not to watch the video.
It might be more accurately thought of as teaching the pro-censorship side a lesson about the consequences of their own principles. Surely those who advocate the deplatforming of bad ideas, of all people, have no right to protest when the public decides their views are bad ideas and deplatforms them?
You can automate this - easily in most cases.
This is a very interesting list, especially the part about the GDPR increasing the attack surface and where the data gravity center is.

The part about "compliance cost" should be taken with a grain of salt. If you were compliant before, because you respected the users‘ privacy, the effort was relatively low.

The study about VC having dropped by 50% in the EU because of the GDPR sounds pretty weird to me. Unless of course there’s selection bias and we’re talking AdTech companies mostly.

An interesting number would be: how many people closed down forums and moved their discussion boards to Facebook?
DMX512 does that, too, and it seems even simpler to me.
sounds a bit like markdown tbh
The average human alpha wave, the most dominant brainwave, is 10hz. Coincidental that 10 fit in a second, I guess.

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/37/42/10173

Personally, I would prefer that seconds were slightly shorter (~.84 seconds), because then we could have decimal time, where there are 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour and 10 hours in a day. Mm, would be soo satisfying. Useless, but satisfying.
I've recently purchased a license for Bootstrapstudio for $60 and I want to send a vote of confidence. Does exactly what you're describing. I wish they had a bit more integration for templates for webapps but you can only do so much at the end of the day.

There are similar other offerings (one that comes to mind is reactstudio, but has a bit more going on there with code and flow.
Simulating Grains of Sand, Now 6 Times Faster [video]
Who’s Winning the Trade War?
Restyling Apps at Scale
Because.. that's not how any of this works?

You can't just transfer the assets of one company into a new one and let the old one go into administration with it's liabilities. The administrator will undo any such transfers and you will go to prison.
Popping the filter bubble: Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO, Gabriel Weinberg
I've read most of those books and they are all very nice and worth a read.

The fact that those recommendations are literally everything I've read in the past few years is probably another proof that we, in the tech industry, live in a big echo chamber and have no idea what the real world looks like. We all keep telling each other that every we do is great because, well, we don't know anything else.

It's a bit sad and I'd love to see some more diversity.
Especially in the light of:

"89,271 data breach notifications"

Very odd.
> I don't know, but I bet this has a lot to do with our relationship with the current US president's attitude and his trade tariffs.

It could also be a continuation of the German "Wandel durch Annäherung" policy ("Change by Rapprochement"). People you do business with won't shoot at you, and will generally be more willing to talk to you about human rights, nuclear disarmament etc than people you don't do business with.
> If you were compliant before, because you respected the users‘ privacy, the effort was relatively low.

Why? Don't you still have to build systems to be able to comply with user requests in a timely matter?
The way I see it, the ad industry “survived” just fine when relying only on print ads and other mechanisms that had no concept of automatically-logged impressions. Ad companies do not have an inherent right to abuse tech just because tech exists.
How is being anxious at discovering an objective value for oneself (“meaning”) egotistical? If anything, it is an external reach out of the ego and away from doing whatever you want.
I completely agree. We are launching a new web app/platform soon and have completely integrated the web midi and gamepad APIs, allowing you to control any piece of the software with any midi controller and/or gamepad, including devices like the new Microsoft adaptive controller, which supports many more types of analog switches.

One of my favorite parts of both APIs is that they don’t require focus on elements or the window/tab and are naturally multi-touch.

This allows you to rapidly speed through the interface and perform tasks.
I'm reminded of Wikipedia and drive-by edits. When each repo is so small (equivalent to a single article on Wikipedia, or even less), it seems like they should be part of larger organizations with a bit more bureaucracy and guidance?
Well maybe the companies should make it easy to extracts and delete people's data?

SV is full of people telling themselves how smart they are, and they can't come up with something as simple as this?
Is your comment meant to be sarcastic? If not, can you elaborate on why - of all possible options for the department who's primary purview in practice (in contemporary times) is the destabilization and/or destruction of other nations, you think this would be the most probable explanation for a mass scale analysis of 350 billion social media posts?

If that message comes off abrasive it's only because I am genuinely confused, but would like to know where you're coming from. There's always a risk of us living in our little bubbles and so I make every effort to try to see things through the eyes of others, especially when I simply cannot otherwise empathize with their views on any level.
sadly just a wrapper around Amazon AWS SES
I was strongly reminded of this yesterday when I wanted to send someone the PSK for a home WiFi network. It baffles me that I'd need root access and a separate tool to extract the PSK.

Are there any phone manufacturers that still let you root without potentially bricking the phone etc?
I have give a lot of thought to this. I bookmark a lot but its always hard to find information later on when you need it.

I came up with my own mental model “Make Knowledge Actionable”. With that, I find it is important to align knowledge you are saving with your goals. This means that someday I might need it knowledge should be kept in a different spot.

If I have some time, I have thought to build a system that lets me find information via mind map and different categories of abstraction.
Yes, social media conversations are more interesting, and you'll learn more.

But emotionally, they hold little value compared to face to face interactions.

But with regards to learning and information, there's often much better we could do than social media - for example good books, or at least summaries of books, hold an order of magnitude more value than most social media.

But the way social media and the internet manipulated our attention, does make it harder for us to read those.
Murray Cox, Airbnb's Public Enemy No. 1 in New York
Unintended consequence: because children are under the custody of their parents until they become adults, a parent could easily go in and demand the entire history of data a company collected from their child be provided; a gross violation of their right to privacy which some argue doesn’t even exist anyway.
> The study about VC having dropped by 50% in the EU because of the GDPR sounds pretty weird to me. Unless of course there’s selection bias and we’re talking AdTech companies mostly.

Could just be noise in the data?

Could be VCs determining that fewer products are actually worth pursuing if the main monetization model for everything is ads?

I dunno.
"Move fast and break things" is all well and good until you build something so big, so pervasive, and so dangerous that you can't fix it without turning it off completely.
There is nuclear next door in France. Just use that as baseload. Also you could build a bigger interconnect to Norway and dump excess power in pumped storage. Many of the problems with energy in Europe are to do with insufficient capacity in international connections. Add interconnects to the east and you can sell excess wind and solar to Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, etc. Improve the connections to Spain and you can buy Spanish solar in the early evening when your own has stopped producing.

Above all: stop trying to solve each country's problems alone, stop thinking that borders between countries are a problem.
Vim zealot here. Been tempted by org mode. This comment pushed me over the edge--I'm gonna give Emacs a try. Winces and waits for the world to explode
Try it again and watch the process closely. You'll get an additional prompt when you use F-Droid that doesn't appear with the Play store.
Sharia Court to Cut of Hand and Leg of 10, Stone 5 to Death in Bauchi
"It's written in C and not C++" hope to stay this way. I really like guile. My problem is that I am on windows.
This is important. Especially for us, the HN crowd. I believe we use disproportionally large share of flying. Please reconsider flying to conferences. The environmental-cost/carrier-benefit ratio is not worth it.
There's one key I've seen to DSLs that really work: scope your DSL with iron.

You should be able to clearly say 'This DSL can do X. It cannot do Y.'

(Then, if Y sometimes needs to get done, provide an escape hatch integration point to C et al.: but don't ever expand your DSL beyond the domain!)
Ask HN: Should I be worried joining as senior dev at new job if I'm not one yet?
I will be starting with a new company as a senior engineer working on full-stack web development in a few weeks.

I'm not sure if I'm under any signs of imposter syndrome, but I've been worried about being really judged and seen as a "senior" engineer at this new job.

I have done only 2-3 personal sites using React and had a year in a job doing actual web development. I would think of myself as at most a mid-level developer. I don't think I'm a "senior" developer yet.

I've applied to this "senior" position thinking they wouldn't have called me up but they did. The hiring manager had only one interview with me. There were no tests or anything, just a very very high-level and superficial technical conversation with me about the tech-stack I've used before and then I was hired. It was pretty easy.

Although I've taken up their offer, I'm really not sure if I can meet their expectations of a "senior" engineer. The last thing I want is they figured they made a wrong decision and decide to dismiss me in a few months for not meeting their expectations.

Should I be worried about this?
I've used LyX extensively and love it. I found that it made typing up lecture notes literally three times as fast. I can't imagine how I could have finished my PhD thesis without it. (Actually I can: with months more spent writing up!)

But I consider it to be a timesaving tool that's more advanced than regular LaTeX. Often you don't need to deal with the fiddly bits, but you still need to understand how they work. Especially if you get a compilation error (er, typesetting error?). They're much rarer with LyX, but because simple problems (e.g. missing brace) are impossible, when you do occasionally get one it's bound to be a doozy! Plus when you need a LaTeX feature that LyX doesn't support natively (rare but inevitable) you still need to know how to write it in LaTeX plus how to use LyX's math macros or modules language if you want to make it seamless.

I think this is why LyX struggles to get a big user base. Beginners end up getting stuck and going back to LaTeX. Advanced users see it and think "I don't need this – I already know LaTeX!"
Where do you stop?

At what price point or at which percentage of population do you stop?

Yes,this means super expensive drugs will be only for the rich.but I don't see any other way...
I agree. I was watching the first video in the article and thinking there must be similar standard protocols for IoT orchestration. I mean, anything that can be controlled and needs orchestration must have some kind of similar protocol?
110 Days of Early Multics Emacs History (1996)
I‘m not so sure about that. Sure, in theory this works, but if your data was shared with thousands of companies, how do you know it really was deleted? Furthermore, GDPR still has the thing that businesses are allowed to have a legitimate reason for keeping your data.

So far, as an end user, the GDPR doesn’t feel like anything changed at all. Facebook and Google still gather shitloads of data with zero control on my side. Cookie warnings on every website and loaded with dark patterns (link leads to link, leads to link, leads to link, leads to server timeout). I simply accept these popups and trust uBlock Origin to actually block the whole AdTech shenanigans, instead of relying on their popup bullshit.
Upvoted. I hope GP elucidates.
That's such a good idea!
I wonder if it's possible to configure something similar in Android..
I don't think it's when you sleep, but how much sleep you get on a consistent basis.
I do something close to the same, except each MD post is generated on request so I can update easily if needed. Probably not suitable for anything of demand, but my site isn’t!

I wrote a slapdash server in Go, stuck it behind Nginx, and can just add posts ad-hoc. Only requirement is I have to restart the server to rebuild the list of available posts in memory. After that posts can be edited at will. Post metadata comes from a four line header.

Deployment is pretty manual. Just store everything in a repo, pull changes in on the serving machine and run the Go server in TMUX.

No comments or anything, though. And I rarely write anything.

It was mainly an exercise for learning some Go. That may even change yet.

No repos to share yet as it’s not presentable but will gladly do the work to share in a gist if anyone’s curious.
I made a post elsewhere earlier today to demo Multics Emacs, and just so happened to link to the very manual that rms refers to in that quote - the "Multics Emacs Extension Writer's Guide".

https://lobste.rs/s/uwvpl1/110_days_early_multics_emacs_hist...
The reality is that private entities and external actors are already using data to figure out better offensive and defensive maneuvers. If the entities of your nation do not take similar steps, they are likely to be ill prepared to "serve & protect" you and your interests, which may include a fair and functional democracy.

Some may ask "why is the military involved" the answer relates to the fact that today's military have realized that foreign actors will weaponize technology (e.g. internet, social media) to serve their goals. To ensure that the goals of your nation are protected, the military has moved more and more towards the cyberspace.

Here are a few benefits that can come from such endeavor:

* Relief efforts - How do people react in social media before, at the time and after a disaster happens? How can social media be used to connect to the ones in need? How can X entity use social media to advise groups in a risky area (e.g. landslide) to diminish damage and risk of life?

* Trolls - Are there cues that can be used to determine when someone is a troll? Can that information be used to help society become more resilient in the future?

* Training - Can this research help dozens/hundreds of personnel to gain valuable know-hows and capabilities in the cyber arena? Will that knowledge translate in a more capable entity?

Another question to ask is whether X entity follows your ideological view and whether there is enough oversight. If the answer is no to either/or, then as part of a democracy, you should raise your concern with representatives & the people around you.
Just a bare desk and an occasional smart phone next to the laptop :(
Do people believe that children have a right to privacy from their parents?
How do you decide who to trust?
I've been thinking about a online bounty hunter service to do exactly this.

Next step - how to prevent Sybil accounts created by the bounty hunters from generating new mal-content on an industrial scale for bounty hunters to identify for reward.
Why would Facebook care if you haven't posted or even logged in for so long?
Not sure, if you are raising a child and they are hiding information or data from you that could be detrimental to their development or may imply intent of hurting or maiming others do you have a right to know about it so you can take action?

Could even be nasty in a case where separated parents have 50/50 custody and one parent uses GDPR to get data on what another parent might be doing with their child and build a case against them.
Sounds like Google is being unfairly targeted due to its success & cash reserves.
Probably it's ongoing in defense research, just usually not much comes of it and it's not published a lot. I did something tangentially like this if you squint at it the right way, maybe 10-12 years ago, for some defense research grant. It would shock me if they didn't have a dozen other parallel grants going with other companies at the same time, and more since then.
The article vaguely links Cambridge Analytics to GDPR. Is there really a connection or is the article merely trying to frame GDPR negatively by comparing?
First, if you cared about user privacy, you would store as few data points as possible.

Second, it’s very likely that you have APIs in place that can request all data for a user anyways. If you don’t know what data you have of your users, you don’t give a shit about their privacy, no?

Third, user requests are usually: a) what data do you store about me? B) Export all data. C) delete all my data (for real).
There are important differences here. One is the level of engineering effort, but another is the nature of the user of the DSL. Doctors, engineers, and SIGINT specialists are all types of people who are accustomed to doing some type of specialized technical work themselves rather than depending upon others to do it for them.
>Those are a joke. Considering what's going on, those values should be orders of magnitude higher.

Frankly, I think higher fines and more aggressive fining would even further deepen the business moat that mega businesses are already developing over small and medium.

The article already describes how the current regulatory regime boosted Google and big players 20-40% directly at the cost of small and medium (not in the top 100 or top 50) sites.

Frankly, I think European countries should just take the China approach and ban American companies because there isn't going to be a regulatory structure that works here, and they're only going to hurt their domestic competition by playing this stupid game.
Moving, twisting, and stretching meshes in VR
This bothers angers me:
>To implement MIDI-CI and MIDI 2.0, you need a manufacturers SysEx ID. A SysEx ID by itself is $250 a year

That would be a re-hash of the hobbyist USB VID/PID fiasco. MIDI synthesizers are one of the main non-activities which non-professional people have been doing. So many amateurs and educators whip up MIDI synthesizers in a few hours in a workshop or after work. And that is thanks to MIDI being a dirt-simple, unlicensed standard.

>You will also have access to the MMA Github which has code for MIDI 2.0 to MIDI 1.0 translation (and vis versa)