skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They use a different mechanism: manpower.

Can you tell me what you are basing that on?

From my long experience with browsers, Google is beating the other main browsers primarily due to competence. Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla have huge teams, and each has their own marketing advantages.

0. Competence at security. Chrome is unbelievably secure - although perhaps this says more about Google tooling and culture than the Chrome Dev team. My impression is that Mozilla and Microsoft have struggled to be secure.

1. Competence at fixing bugs. Chrome absolutely creams the competition here (I have much experience with this. Chrome is amazing, Mozilla is middling, Apple and Microsoft are hideous).

2. Competence at avoiding regressions. Chrome seems to be fabulously reliable software considering its complexity and development velocity. Safari and Edge have given me many many headaches with odd breaking changes.

3. Competence at delivering to wide range of hardware and OS versions. Chrome has hardly given me any problems with Android or multiple Windows versions. I wish I could say the same for Chrome's competitors on their respective OS. Safari only has to deal with known hardware and OS version, yet I regularly discover weird composition faults. I don't know much about Firefox here.

4. Many other organisations break down with large dev teams: Google breaks that trend. That's institutional competence.

> And ultimately, Google employees have control over what gets upstreamed and which contribution gets rejected.

So alternatives? Community edition run by W3C? Socialist version funded by a Google tax? Tongue in cheek, but you seem to imply we should tell Google how to run their operation differently.

As to the issue of DRM, why are we blaming Google for the DRM agreements that economically it had little choice to accept? Everything I have seen implies that the copyright barons are forcing Google to support it. Out of control DRM is our collective failure to control some powerful copyright lobbies. I am not a fan of DRM (or huge copyright terms).

I too am sad that other browsers are failing to compete with Google. I especially want to see Mozilla succeed. But I think we should recognise the skill of the Chrome Dev team.
Is it also fair if they give you a lower rating because they dont like your voice or hair or how you dress?
If you are on the EC2 instance where you can do ps, you can already access the secret key and access key by just doing:

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials

But of course, you still shouldn't specify them in your code.
It was eBay indeed which introduced me to this system. eBay is just a symptom though. The problem is fundamental, that a rating does not tell much. Because what you rate 3/5 someone else rates different. Its the same with movie reviews and game reviews. You'd need to read the review in order to understand it. I do that on e.g. Amazon (and my conclusion is often: this writer is clueless).
Yes, I'm in a medium-sized city in the US. Uber and Lyft operate here, but they don't seem to be as popular as taxi companies (at least, I see far fewer of them than taxis).

I know that two of the largest taxi companies in town have just increased the number of drivers they have.
If it weren't that big a deal, Google, Bing, Baidu, etc. wouldn't go through the hassle of setting up the infrastructure to make instant loading with AMP possible.

The competitors (proprietary non-web systems like Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News) are instant. If AMP weren't also instant, it wouldn't have a point.
The properties of the general medium and of exchanges themselves would provide value if built upon. At the core of of the value proposition is the value derived from more efficient human coordination.

- Giving certainty about the properties of the token asset to the user. Whether trading the exchange or in use at a service which accepts the token, the user verify what the token actually does. And what might change! Reduces risk of policy-change by owners and managers of services.

- Giving control of the token asset to the users, or at least a verifiable level of control. Reduces risk of interference.

- Securing the token asset, protecting the asset and related data. Reduces risk of loss.

- Enabling easy integration or migration to other smart contract systems, due to token standards like ERC-20 and ERC-721. Reduces risk of vendor lock-in. Powers beneficial second-order effects.

- Enabling composability. With primitives like various kinds of tokens and "exchange" addressed and standardized, new layers can be built, new configurations found. Creates value by reducing steps for users as they engage with each other within token-based smart-contract systems.
Companies could also just provide good photos under open licenses above board. Sure, no guarantee your pictures will get taken, and the marketing agency doesn't get to talk how cleverly they avoided getting caught by Wikipedia editors, but that's the kind of thing that makes people unhappy about your contributions.
No I don't have to do that. The onus isn't on me. I don't know where you came up with such a silly idea.
> With LUKS, you'd want to backup the locked partition, perhaps as an image. And that's just a binary file.

I don't think the files get backed up encrypted, they get backed up decrypted, and are encrypted at the filesystem layer only.

It isn't as if you can't put encrypted data into Dropbox, this is just about filesystems.

> What about ext3, xfs, etc?

To my knowledge these are not supported filesystems, but there's probably an official doc stating this somewhere.

> Encrypted files (7zip, GnuPG, VeraCrypt, etc) behave just like normal files, right?

Sure, throw them into a Dropbox folder and they should upload just fine.
Most schools are just like jails: you are forced to be there, and forced to be there with people who don't want to be there either. A good recipe for disaster as soon as the group becomes large enough. And don't expect the guardians/educators to do anything when someone picks up on you.
Scientists spy on superbugs to see how they outsmart our antibiotics
Proof of severe and chronic respiration and dental issues are available at the WL file repository.
Those papers include a stressing letter from a doctor stating he needs to go to a hospital albeit can't.
Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server
Kiwi Syslog Server
As strange as it may seem, blind people can be quite good at resizing images.
I wonder what MS will do with Edge(Chromium)?

I've been using it for couple of weeks now as a secondary browser to Brave (separate sessions etc) and it is looks and behave like a normal Chrome.

Hope MS fight this.
I know this is contentious, but I think the problem might be that you're using a razor-thin device with extreme thermal throttling problems. I experience no such slowdowns on a 2011 Acer econobook with an i5 and 4gb ram.
I recently setup Pihole as the DNS server for my entire home network and said farewell to my Adblock extensions. It's glorious.
"It would be good, for example, the app to overweight low ratings from young women - with almost no tolerance for 1-star ratings from that group."

This is sexist and ageist.
Independence for, or expansion into, ancient Northumbria and Mercia perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia
It depends if you're learning for pleasure or for your career. ;) When I bust out my algorithms/data structures books, I find myself engrossed much like I imagine people get with a good novel. So many times I say to myself, "Whoah! That's so cool!" because of how elegantly/efficiently a problem can be solved that I had never even considered.

My favorite so far is Skiena's "The Algorithm Design Manual". I especially love the computational geometry section.
Foursquare has been licensing their data to Microsoft for millions at a time: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/04/foursquare-cuts-15m-deal-w...
By fling, do you mean the two-finger horizontal scroll to move back and forward through history? If so, I miss it too.
I feel like that's giving Uber far too much credit.
Yes, gaming scores were inflated indeed. This gaming magazine from the 90s called Hoog Spel [1] never gave ratings to games. Instead they gave a summary of plus and minus points. Such a summary takes slightly more time to read (but not a lot) and gives the reader a good idea on the positive and negative sides of the story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoog_Spel
I'm interested if the company which would fire a random employee for 3 strikes would also fire a VP-level employee. If they don't, then it's just BS, not security, given how much more access a VP level person has.
> Just as there are phones other than Apple's, there were computers other than Wintel boxes

Well the specific numbers matter, don't they? Microsoft had a massive overwhelming monopoly whereas iOS has healthy competition in Android.

> I see nothing wrong with society demanding more accountability from those with more economic importance.

I don't disagree, but why should we specifically target Apple's app store rather than say, for example, passing a law that prohibits selling locked down hardware that prevents the user from installing whatever software they choose?
The US becomes more self-parodying by the day.
My story. Our “science” teacher in sixth grade was trying to teach us how to convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit. She taught us: “the freezing point of water is 0C and 32F. So what is the boiling point?” She called on me, and I answered: “212F.” She says “no, 132F!” Class laughed. My ears burned and I mumbled something about getting it mixed up with the melting point of lead.

I’ve never been able to forget that one. Okay, so people make mistakes. But temperatures are like a basic fact of everyday life. Do you really think water boils at 30 degrees hotter than it gets in a hot day? And do you trust these same people to teach your kids about World War II, the Constitution, evolution, climate change, etc?
This is the most "not The Onion" thing I've seen in a long time, which is saying something
That’s exactly it
There are a number of Southern US towns that are completely under water after Tennessee Valley Authority and Georgia Power started to dam up the rivers (the ones that weren't hoisted from their foundations and moved). None are this old or historic though.

There are quite a few ancient cities under water, although most from natural chances in sea/river levels than through man made changes to the river.
Sure. Here is the link - https://github.com/melezhik/Sparrow6

I can't change it in the post itself.
.responding to jedberg

1) "Look at Portugal"

Ahh, yes, the Portugal example.

I'm sorry but selling drugs is illegal in Portugal.

Do you think that you can import a ton of heroin willy nilly and 'it's call cool'?

The 'example of Portugal' continues to prove my point!

Portugal has taken some nice steps towards how to handle addicts etc, but fundamentally - Portugal continues it's 'war on drugs' with a slightly different tool set.

By the way: weed is still illegal in Portugal.

2) Music.

The music industry as we know it almost vanished, and it's taken on a completely different form.

The same has not happened in video content production.

Madonna (and others) abandoned trying to make money from sales, and they moved to 'touring' instead - because of privacy.

Do you see Brad Pitt at your local theatre 'because he can't make money in film or TV'?

No.

So 'DRM' is working in video, the industry is alive - the obvious reasons have to do with the nature of how we consume music, vs. how we consume video.

And it's not a happy story for content-creators in music. 'Making a living' in music is really hard, and they've been pushed into all sorts of commercial activities.

Thankfully - music production is not hugely expensive. A 'great album' can theoretically be made very cheaply - so we'll continue to get great music.

'Avengers' will cost $300M to make there is no way around it.

The level of cognitive dissonance on this issue is stupefying.

Again - I understand that there's elements of issues of freedom, and there are also many studio execs who are deluded, some are greedy - but there are real factors at play here that cannot be denied.
That's because the riders have always dumbed down the 5-star system into a binary "one-star-or-no-star" system since the inception of Uber. Uber thus had no choice than to set the cutoff at this number.
I interviewed with Outschool a few months ago, happy to see them here!

They're a wonderful team. I've never seen a group of people with so much positive chemistry before; I've started asking more culture-centered questions in my interviews since then, now that I think about it.

I think it's the best kind of team to front an educational endeavour and it's one big reason I believe in them. It's easier to have a healthy classroom environment if the providing workplace is healthy too.
To everyone downvoting, the headline was edited. Previously it said that only Chrome Enterprise edition has ad blocking.
People are not nesessary in those photos. They are obstructing the view.
I respectfully disagree for the large part. My own brain seems to have no issue coupling functionality to visual design. Yes it's probably less optimal for novice-to-expert transition than having colour variants, but conversely it also gives stronger immediate affordance as to what subreddit you're using..
Chathamization linked to a graph of energy use per capita in the US, showing that it peaked in the 1970s. In 2015 it was 6804 kgoe per capita, well below the peak of 8438 kgoe recorded in 1978.

CO2 emissions are a decent proxy for primary energy in our present fossil-dominated era, and when accounting for CO2 embodied in imports, the US does look worse. But it doesn't make a big difference:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...

"Despite the large total of CO2 imports and exports, US emissions are only 6% higher and Chinese emissions are 13% lower when CO2 transfers are taken into account."

If the energy/CO2 really should be increased 6% to account for imports, that would put American energy consumption at 6804 * 1.06 = 7212 kgoe per capita in 2015, still lower than in the 1970s.
Or we could turn education into a common good, instead of a for-profit system.
VictoriaMetrics, a fast time series database written in Go
This is what happens when you don't have psychologists or similar quantitative people who handle human data on your team.

I've studied psychology and CS and the difference in how they treat ratings is stark, CS GoT nothing on us! (yes, I did that, I'll get myself of stage now)

A psychologist is paranoid when it comes to quantifying human data. How paranoid you ask? I'll try to capture the sentiment, but I'm sure it's way worse than the following paragraph.

Psychologist: Should I go for a simple yes/no? Well that could useful, but it could also be that I leave too much data on the table. Let me look at tons of research on this topic (hello Google Scholar! Long time no see). Well, if I do 3 stars, then the middle option also becomes a neutral option, which means I'm skewing the data, so I might have to go to 4 possible choices then. Then again, people are more used to the 5 star rating, so that has a plus for usability, but then you'd have the same issue as a 3 choice rating. Maybe I should just use a 7-likert scale type of thing? And obviously, it's also the case that this is an ordinal scale. The property of 1 < 2 < 3 and so on still holds, but the property of 1 + 1 = 2 doesn't. Do people really mean with "2" twice as big compared to a "1"? Are they able to quantify such relationships on any scale? Perhaps quantitatively minded people on a 3 choice scale, but we'd need to do studies about that, but the average user probably not -- still need to do studies about that (and hello Google Scholar, here we meet again in the same paragraph).

CS or UX person with no research background: ah yea, let's do a 5 star rating, that seems cool :)

It's on you Uber.

It's really on you.

Hire psychologists / socially minded statisticians.
It's a dishonest rating when you know that a 5 means normal experience. Then you are just making a point. There is a time and a place to make a point, but for stuff like tipping and star ratings policy changes are the best course of action; not hanging individuals out to dry. If your the only person not leaving somebody tips(and I hate tipping) or giving them 3 stars you're not changing the system, you are just being an asshole.

EDIT: I mean the royal "you", not you specifically. Also, I have been the a'hole before :|
Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Twistlock
Pretty simply, the answer is to tip them more. While that might not be a publicly visible gesture, the driver will certainly appreciate it.

Many apps, including Uber, now also give the option to commend the driver for things they did well (e.g. cool vehicle, smooth driving, great conversation), which is also an option to express specific positive feedback.
Sorry I'm not actually sure what they're called but for each release, list the date it was released in a <td>.
(I am an engineer who worked on this feature)

The docs are indeed viewable without JS[0] (in a limited way) but the default experience relies on JS to render text.

We don't render all content on the page at once for performance reasons, which is (as a sibling speculated) the driving reason for overriding cmd+f/ctrl+f by default.

I hope to write an engineering blog post soon about how we build the Stripe api docs, with some focus on the performance and UX tradeoffs at play here.

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/api?javascript=false
Concrete adds a lot more bulk and makes them visually oppressive. I’ve always hated how they did the elevated Metro lines (hulking concrete structures high in the air, requiring climbing up long escalators with multiple mezzanines), versus the L lines which are organically integrated into the neighborhood.
And I thought that Nación bank was awful because I couldn't buy USD or units in the investment fund!
Firefox is often faster than chrome for me on my 2015 MacBook air
I think I was reading microservices but I was imagining services and that's why it seemed like a lot. I guess it depends on the granularity of the decomposition.

I agree, scale and automation are two important factors when decomposing architectures. I think it would be really valuable if systems could decompose themselves to some degree, based on scale and other factors, without much of an operator's intervention.
Why are they listing Instagram and Snapchat as competitors to their native camera app? Neither of those are camera apps. Also listing competing apps is kind of pointless when iOS doesn’t offer any way to change the default apps for any of these features? For example, I would like my own 3rd party Gmail app to open any taps on any links which are emails. But it doesn’t and there is no way to change the default. Same for maps. I want google maps app to be the default but there is no obvious way to do that.

It’s almost as if apple is either skipping over the argument we are making on purpose or they just don’t understand the argument for allowing alternative app stores and changing defaults.
I'm having the exact opposite experience with Chromium: Sometimes, two to three tabs (regular websites, no videos, no fancy stuff) already make it freeze. My Firefox, in contrast, runs smoothly even with dozens of tabs open.
There's an underlying assumption that economical growth has anything to do with physical limits. Economical growth is a lie we tell ourselves so that innovation has its incentives, while everything else that's there because it must be there (because it will always have a demand), such as energy (but also food, real estate, etc.) just piggybacks with a similar 'fake growth' that really arises only from the fact these things are just as valuable as before. The threat for the lack of supply is just enough to keep businesses that can't really 'grow' still grow. It will still be exponential growth so long as the leading innovation companies are growing and everyone else is just corrected for inflation.
Uber had the choice to drop the 5-star system and replace it with a thumbs up/thumbs-down system, or a minus/check/plus system, or a “click this if your ride sucked” system.

Uber had lots of other choices, too.
I wonder if maybe future space dwelling people will look at living on planets like we do at living in caves.

What I feel would be missing for me is the scale and freedom of living on an earth like planet. It might be different if one is born and raised on a space station.
Amazon Textract – An Early Look
Always surprised how few people realize this. Yes, on a random OS with no binary builds by Google I can have the Chromium browser. It does not have the ability to watch Netflix, though. To get that you need to run a Linux binary chrome in a Linux API translator.
I would say that a significant number of pictures taken on iOS are taken with those two apps.
“Advances in efficiency or energy production aren't going to be stopped at some point because people are worried about someone buying up all the energy.“

That wasn’t really his point. His point was that even if energy itself is cheap there’s a floor to how it is valued relative to the total economy for such a vital commodity. If you don’t like the buying it up argument you can also think along the line of delivery cost, capital cost etc. Bottled waters are not free, e.g.
Ask HN: What will be the cause of the next recession?
What do you think will be considered the "cause" of the next recession? I'm not asking for a prediction on when it will happen or how bad it will be, but what "parts" of the economy are most vulnerable, and most likely to cause systematic problems leading to an overall slowdown?
This is just vandalism. It is like painting your ad illegally on the walls of buildings and boasting that you invented a "smart trick" to get your ad placed for free.
There are some websites here that close down on sunday due to religion. Bank transfers used to be delayed in the weekend until monday, but i think they fixed that
Sandboxing is poorly documented, especially the parts where you can customize the list of rules you’d like your application to use.
Opportunity cost can't justify public school. Seems to be a large waste of time, super authoritative, and mentally damaging to many.
> Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?

In one way, it's pretty easy to answer: if firing offenders results in real costs from successful phishing efforts decreasing more than the cost of hiring and training people and any side effects from worse morale... then yes.

But unless you're working with state/military secrets where lives could be at risk, or on the security teams of financial institutions where a mistake could lose tens of millions of dollars...

...then probably not.
Also Spotify.
Sure, I'm by no means suggesting deprecating roads. They still serve an important purpose and will always be important for the 'last-mile'. Roads however have significant constraints since you can only build them in two dimensions.

The premise of Boring Company is that by building smaller tunnels, they can build them much more cheaply. Commutes could be more efficient, and city traffic reduced substantially if people could take tunnels across the city instead of drive.
IEEE, a major science publisher, bans Huawei scientists from reviewing papers
The other large binary blob in the non-opensource builds, apart from DRM, is the wifi network detection module.

It will look at what wifi networks are close to you, and Google finds out your physical location that way without your computer having a GPS chip or a cellphone network chip (Google has the full database of the center of gravity for every wifi network from the streetview cars, so the information of which network is how strong for your computer allows location by something like +- 10 meters).