skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I guess it shows you always have to read stuff yourself before believing anything . Does this mean that if you run a site where people enter their health data you are not really bound by HIPPA? Makes me wonder about something like Apple Health? Are they bound by it when they receive data or only when they pass it somewhere else?

Not looking for legal advice. Just curious. In my company our lawyers tell us what to do anyway.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted so hard - while I think your list of requirements perhaps aren’t the right ones, I like the idea in general. Have a process where I can make assurances of some form that we’re good guys, and treat me accordingly.
As guilty as any american that benefits from taxes collected from products sold in china.
I feel like a better measure for the "size" of a tech company is number of customers, rather than number of employees. Considering software doesn't need a linearly increasing number of people to produce/support it as your share of the market gets bigger.
Depending on the wooden sign material,
and the desired life expectancy of the sign,
close kerning might leave a narrow bit of
word that could warp and chip away after
a few years of exposure to the elements.
I disagree. People are often (perhaps usually) a significant contributor to incidents and I like seeing that called out explicitly.

Internally, we want to know exactly who did what, when, and why they thought that was the right approach. We're pretty ruthless about getting those facts down; in exchange, we're beyond lenient on anything that resembles punishment of people (barring multiply repeated cases of extraordinarily poor judgment).

We don't publish post-mortems publicly (though we do internally); still, we generally elide names from the published docs (replacing with role names such as "Operator1", "SquadLead1", etc.), but internal to the teams, we really value understanding exactly what happened and don't shy away from understanding the specific people involved. It's not in any way a black mark on someone's record to have downed prod or made a problem worse. It happens; better we understand and accept that.
Do techies realize that the rest of the country deeply hates them?
Everywhere your industry goes, homelessness follows. Thanks to tech, California's homelessness is the worst it's ever been. Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, and Miami are also suffering from tech leeches.

Your industry is in the business of hobo creation and the only thing that gives me hope is that antitrust wipes you all out.
I stumbled onto this while looking (because nostalgia) at portable chess computers. An interesting section is on chess on the arduino: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Arduino#Chess_Programs
A Very Different Funeral (For Deng Xiaoping)
>ICOs are like lottery tickets

Not all of them, though maybe nearly all of them.

There is nothing at all wrong with using a crypto-system to distribute ownership of your business. The SEC is actively working to make this a reality. It is just a different market to do the same thing.

There is however so very much wrong with doing this outside regulation. Black market shares of your company are bad. Making up the nth new coin and selling its nonsense to the unwise in pump and dump schemes is wrong. In order to do so legally you have to be extraordinarily careful to completely divorce yourself from the US financial system and doing business on US soil.

Banks themselves are starting to use crypto-coins to operate. They're just a tool, when used in the right way they aren't an exciting anarchist revolution usurping The Man, they're just a different sort of database/API. JPMorgan is setting something up for business-to-business transactions because they think it could be a better replacement for the current complex frameworks they have for keeping track of money.

Most ICOs are like bad lottery tickets, but it's not the technology underlying it at fault.
Uh, because this isn't socialism. If Amazon makes a ton of money it's perfectly okay to want to make even more, and they have no obligation to make it possible for their competitors to survive.
Excellent postmortem. Great work DO team, and hope these problems get resolved quickly.
(forcing the cat to keep changing directions)

Ahhh ... there's a difference between this puzzle and the real world. In the real world a cat can't change directions instantaneously.

In the real world (at least as seen on nature films) the escaping prey is always forcing the predator into changing directions.

Does anyone know if a mouse can really run faster than a cat? I've got to believe that those tiny mouse legs are no match for the strides a cat can take. Isn't the mouse's only hope of survival to quickly get to somewhere (like a mouse hole) that the cat can't follow?
Are they free to consume more and more limited resources in doing so without fairly compensating the body politic for that consumption?

Or, put more bluntly: why must I and my children pay for them?
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf
By focusing on the Steam platform rather than on its own creative game productions, Valve has shared more creativity with the world than it could ever had accomplished on its own. It is a creativity multiplier. It's a tremendous success in business and the arts.
OpenID Connect implementations use iframes for logout, because that's what the spec says. Iframes are a third party context. The big Identity companies (Ping, Oracle, Microsoft) wrote the OpenID Connect spec. Google may be the odd man out (they are notorious for implementing logout poorly in general) but the biggest enterprise authentication services use iframes for logout.

There is a compromise here which works for logout which was commonly implemented for a few years - supporting third party cookie clear but not set. But Apple ended this norm.
On an Android. I like the idea, and am currently studying Korean.
The app is unusably slow, and hangs often. If you want my phone environment, feel free to pm.
no, most users are still probably under the impression that "amazon's choice" means more than an automatic algorithmically derived badge. the wording implies a conscious decision was made, but there was none

it would be better phrased as what it truly is: a badge that says "popular item" or similar. even "shopper's choice". the intent of the badge is to sell (as the article states, combat the paradox of choice)
This is tragic. Can anyone on HackerNews help them with advocacy or employment opportunities?
The literal foundations and functions of government are different between the countries, as are the rights that the residents have. It's like trying to copy a Windows program into OSX. You can't just use the .exe, the best you can do is rewrite the entire thing and hope the new OS will even support needs of the software. Personally, I'm really against the idea of just giving folks free stuff as a benefit. I grew up poor and my parents are on all the social programs you can think of, and none of them help in the way they're intended to. The government turns everything into an expensive cluster-f and doesn't ever fix the root problem. No, simple band-aids are not the answer.
I have not found this to be the case at all. The dev tools are amazing. I have not yet had the chance to use them with a webworker or websockets so I don't know about it compares with some aspects of chrome's dev tools.
Off-topic, but check out the moire effect on that image! It's only noticeable (to me) when scrolling, which is an interesting twist.
It's a bit of a shame that the shareware model has died out so badly. As a child of the 90s, I had all kinds of shareware games and sampler discs that got passed around; there was some great stuff like Carmen Sandiego, the various X Trail games, Dr. Brain, Math/Word Rescue, Mixed Up Mother Goose, Treasure Mountain, etc.

A nag screen showing the option to buy the additional episodes seems almost quaintly non-invasive today.
AWS is a 8,000 pound gorilla. This means throwing massive amounts of promotional credit at new accounts is often the only viable way to get them into the funnel.
Cool idea, I like the thought behind this app. Having tried a lot of other language apps, and not getting much use out of them but learning how to play a game (even after finishing), seems definitely more immersive imo. Just downloaded the Android version, will give it a whirl. If you have a support forum, would definitely give feedback and potential bugs.
Elephants May Sniff Out Quantities with Their Noses
China warns citizens against traveling to the US
> Talk is cheap. The same applies when validating any product and people tell you they will "buy" it. But when you ask them to pay, they are nowhere to be found.

I think the talk is less cheap when a person is saying that they WON'T buy something though. I'd contend that people are more likely to NOT buy something they say they won't buy than to buy something they say they will buy.

> Using your same analogy, this also means that I have chosen not to vote by not buying any of the luxury German of Japanese sedans.

I could have bought a Tesla but decided not to. There were many reasons but that screen was one of them.

> You are also not being forced to buy these cars, so why the vitriol?

Vitriol? All I said was I'm unhappy about the trend, wouldn't buy a car with it, and expressed that, in the likely vain hope that someone managing these companies is listening, because it's limiting my choice for future cars. Same as you're expressing your love for the design.

Also all the phoning-home is something I won't be a part of.

When my current car reaches EOL, I think I'll have trouble finding a newish car because of these horrible user-hostile trends.
As many as possible.
Wanted to point out that there are a few different firefox addons that allow you to suspend tabs which does unload them. I believe there is at least one with a timer to automatically suspend tabs as well. (sorry can't point out examples now)
"Live forever" here, I think, mostly means "Live indefinitely" — NOT "Live until the heat-death of the universe."

And if you get bored after 500 years, you can always opt out. I'd like to have the choice to see if I do like it.
Am I the only one who is astonished that the company suffers 50% employee turnover in the first year?

What an abysmal environment. Sounds like everyone is just lusting for money.
Microsoft-Proposed Tax Increase to Boost Number of WA CS Grads Becomes Law
Well, it can help if your boss's job description says they're responsible for your performance. Theoretically, that's why they're given the power to fire you in the first place.
Which dock do you have?

I've had issues with USB-C docks. I've had zero issues over four different Thinkpads (FC28 and FC29) with the Lenovo Thunderbolt dock.
>The company built and leased only a fraction of the more than 12,000 mobile units it had claimed were in use,

It sounds like you couldn't help but know.
If the attacker manages to get malware on the mac, they can also wait for you to do a login, and steal your 2fa code as you enter it.
The 10k hours rule is actually a misunderstanding from a paper on violin practice by Anders Ericsson. An error that the author himself explains in his book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. It doesn't mean that you can't learn something to mastery in 10k hours or less. It just means that 10k hours is kind of an invented number. Some skills require more time, some less, but all of them require purposeful practice.
I mean, yes and no. Every business exists to make profit, but most companies thrive when their customers are happy, not miserable. Many (but not all) microtransactions in gaming, particularly in the more predatory free-to-play models, don't exist for the good of the product, but to offer a relief to the player as the game applies more pressure and pain to try and force the player to cave and spend money. Even the "just cosmetic" microtransactions lean hard on techniques to get the player to spend as much as possible. Both sides of this aren't universal, some businesses are very much "minimum effort, maximum profit" without much care for the quality of their product, and some games take great care to not fall into predatory monetization techniques, even with microtransactions, but speaking generally, it's something that seems rather unique to the game industry.
> Which lags behind upstream in versioning and has its own quirks.

No doubt re-implentation will lag and will not be perfect (either buggy, or not buggy enough to match reference). The big question: is it AWS users shopping for DBs, or MySQL/Postgres/CockroachDB users shopping for *aaS services? I suspect the former outnumber the latter, and they will likely tolerate being behind the bleeding edge.
Cat Declawing Is Banned by New York State Lawmakers
There haven't really been pro-privacy options before. So no, no one has proven that it meaningfully increases sales. And it'll take years for it to show up in sales.

Doesn't mean it's wrong.
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Almost all of the privacy issues are about data being collected and used when the user doesn't interact with the ad.
I'm not sure I understand your meaning. Are you saying that buying a house delays retirement? I'm not sure that is really true.

Mortgage payments gets you equity on your home, which goes a long way in retirement. Rent payments disappear, and you will have to continue to pay rent when retired.
I’m surprised that Valve stayed so heavily entrenched in just microtransactions. I wonder how much money they could have made if they also focused on licensing out a newer source engine, and funneling source engine games into their platform.
That article is a brief political opinion piece. I wouldn't consider it an authoritative source.
In my experience, the SEC is one of the most reasonable and competent government agency.
I can attest to the basic lock-free spsc queues being far faster than a basic spinlocking version of the same queue, on xeon-class X86 at least.

LOCK'ed instructions (one might use lock xchg or lock cmpxchg) perform a full memory barrier, which has quite a few performance implications if there are any outbound loads/stores. Further, if the cache line containing the spinlock is in anything except an exclusively-held state on the writing core (it will usually be on a different core or in a shared state), simply acquiring the lock will stall for ~25-30ns+.

On the other hand, a simply spsc lock-free queue can hit <10ns per message with a latency about equal to the core-core communication latency.
Auto updates yes for security. But why would telemetry be important to the end user - especially for a “privacy focused browser”?
Think about it.

500 years ago it took Columbus and his crew of 88 men ten weeks to reach America in three 58 foot, 100 ton wooden
boats pushed along the ocean by wind. They had no toilets, ate boiled food with cheese and salted meats.

Today, 525 of us can travel on a 230 feet long, 600 ton flying boat lifted above the clouds crossing over the north pole from Los Angeles to Dubai at Mach 0.8 in 17 hours. We can watch movies, special order a kosher or vegetarian meal, drink fine wine while wearing complimentary socks and PJ's. For a few thousand dollars each.
> rather recent internet companies

As opposed to what, ancient internet companies? Amazon, Google and Ebay were all started in the mid to late 1990's. They are all over twenty years old. Facebook, as the youngest, is about 15 years old. How many people were even on the internet in the mid 1990's?

Edit: Or perhaps you meant tech companies pre-internet. But I think the fact that relatively young (although not really, even non-internet tech companies aren't that old) companies quickly rose to supersede non-internet companies (or those non-internet companies shifted to to be somewhat internet centric to not be left behind, like Microsoft) points towards more evidence for platforms (since the internet enabled platforms in a much easier way).
<rant>
The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for ReadLang for a while, but this lack of a feature has proven too frustrating.

I would have loved to have an app that runs the text through something like Google Natural Language API (https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/) and then use the results of _that_ for flashcards, noun-phrase translation, etc. Google Translate alone is just not sufficient.
</rant>

Of course, I have 10 pages worth of ideas about language learning and none of that implemented. So, kudos for trying to make at least something happen. Let the thousand flowers bloom and all that.
Chinese Artist Criticized Google and Xi Jinping. Now He’s Facing Harassment
I'm speculating here, but Apple Sign-In for Android would work just fine if the sign-in process was based on an OAuth flow where the credentials are entered into a web form. From the limited details I've seen that sounds like how Apple Sign In will work.

A service supporting alternate identity providers via OAuth (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Github) via a flow like this shouldn't have trouble with Apple Sign In from a web page, iOS app, or Android app.
Well to be fair. All AWS services aren’t available in all regions....
LabCorp: 7.7M Consumers Hit in Collections Firm Breach
https://arxiv.org/help/submit

It looks like registering for Arxiv involves naming your institution but it is not described as a strict requirement. Why not give it a shot? Take a direct approach. Try to mimic the tone they are used to and be respectful, acting like you belong can go a long way. I imagine that existing work would be valued over soft qualifications. If you have work that belongs there I can’t see why they would turn you away. Try the same thing with other publishers that interest you.
Nice thought but it's not just money. Motorsport is it's own world and you have to participate more than just throwing money at something.

Secondly, the Venn diagram of NASCAR fans and HN readers shows very little overlap. I am a fan but I don't pretend to think people upvoted me because I mentioned NASCAR. It's because I validated their negative feelings towards DC Solar by giving another example. Maybe bonus points for the quaintness of a family Watermelon farming business sponsoring the scion's racing career.
Doom 2016 was a nice tribute I suppose, but compare it to the massive success of Doom 1&2. It's not the same sort of cultural phenomenon. What I will give it though is it nailed the attitude. Doom 1&2 had a certain raw metal attitude, and Doom 2016 captured that well. I've never seen the HL series expressing attitude like Doom did.

What Valve really wants to avoid is a Doom 3 moment. When an old franchise is given a modern tuneup and the result is something nobody really thinks does the IP justice.
If MOND was dealt a near-lethal blow with the discovery of a galaxy that had no dark matter (implying that dark matter was a thing you could put in and take away, not a universal law like MOND), now that the anomalous galaxy is gone, does that mean MOND is back?
Colons in computer-science paper titles: considered unreasonably harmful
Whatever they evolved to, their contribution to Linux gaming is outstanding, so thanks Valve for doing it. Without Valve, we wouldn't have such rapid progress of Wine/dxvk, radv, OpenXR and other gaming related open stack.
> probably not nearly as competent

I'm not sure this is a good argument for Yahoo! being better for privacy. Sure it means they're less likely to keep track of your purchase metadata from emails but it also means they're more likely to be hacked again and leak all your emails to the world.
The Prius showed that there was a large market for green cars. The largest group of Tesla Model 3 buyers is former Prius owners.

Without the Prius to pave the way, Tesla would never exist, because nobody would have invested in an EV company without the Prius proof.
> I wish the term, "sophisticated investor" wasn't the official one

It's not. "Accredited investor" is the official term. "Sophisticated investor" is a higher finance-colloquial bar, typically requiring one follow institutional best practices (e.g. legal and risk reviews).
>How capitalism killed one of the best video game studios

Ahem, no. Capitalism didn't kill it. Had Valve tried to maximize revenue/income, it would either hire more people to develop those profitable franchises, or contracted the development out to another studio. At the very least, they could have sold off the rights to Microsoft or Sony and allow them to butcher sequels and movies.

Had capitalism won, we'd be seeing Half-Life 12, Portal 7, TF 10, CS 8, LFD 6, etc. There's a lot of creative property there that could have been developed to death. That they didn't do that says they'd give up on revenue (at least in the mid term) to protect those properties.
*the 45 minute cost
Looking at it from the point of operations of the affected company, this doesn't sound like minimum level of service. Instead, DO was the entire business structure of the company. As a company, if you're entire business plan depends on the services of a 3rd party, it is not unusual to go through extra steps to ensure 3rd party can't end your business. Running an internet driven company from a consumer service from ATT/Spectrum etc is suicidal. If your network goes down, they'll fix it when the get to it. With a business level account, they have much more guarantees to keep your signal hot. Running a POC off of a free tier of AWS/DO/etc is fine, but these guys were well past POC.
Editors won’t help if you cannot get words on the page.
Epigrams in Programming (Alan Perlis, 1982)
How can we reconcile a country that does this and also brings hundreds of millions out of poverty?

The same way Britain colonized India, but they made it whole too.
Why would someone already authenticating via an existing identity provider be affected by you adding an additional identity provider?

If you support FB login now and decided to add Google, for example, that doesn't require your existing FB users to do anything different. It should only affect new users who are creating an account and choosing to use the new provider. Wouldn't that be the same for Apple Sign In?

Note, I'm not taking a position on the strong arm tactics, just pushing back on your claim regarding existing users being affected by a new identity provider. That doesn't sound right to me.
My experience there sounds different than yours. I saw a cognitive behavioral therapist. At first we chatted a few times a day, then once a day, then a few times a week.

In between those longer breaks you can still write messages — and I did. It’s like having a journal that someone is going to read and help you figure out what you need to be doing.

As for HIPAA violations everyone does this. In the last week I’ve been to a dentist and optometrist and seen patient information displayed inappropriately on screens or on paper work left out at both offices. I’m not saying that HIPAA violations are OK, but Talkspace seems no worse than a brick and mortar office.

Perhaps I’m biased here. TalkSpace helped me get my anxiety under control. For that I recommend them to everyone. But if you have a hard time applying cognitive behavioral techniques like mindfulness on a regular basis I would not recommend them.
I would be shocked if any service in AWS was running on bare metal.