skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't propose introducing the virus. I propose standing back and letting the virus run it's course, should it make it to the Americas.
The wealth figures for X percentile seem low. I wonder where he's getting them. When I Google it, 2.4M was the 95th percentile two years ago.
What command-line programming language interpreters are left when those are removed? You have the shell itself, but that’s hardly enough to write anything cool.

This feels the same as when Microsoft removed QBasic from Windows 98. So many kids at home missed opportunities to be exposed to programming from them on, until a certain Terminal application appeared in Mac OS X and began to pique young curiosity again (mine included).
You can host on Github Pages for free using Jekyll, which supports Syntax Highlighting of code snippets. You can buy your own domain name and point it to your gh pages site.
Web Design Nostalgia (1999)
No thanks, I prefer to downvote.
Amazon, reeling from regulatory hurdles, pumps $404M into its India business
80k/yr CAN be rich, it all depends on location. 80k/yr would be poverty in the valley, most of that money going to just having shelter.
This is nasty, but the unpleasant truth is that these schools are just rationally responding to public pressure and doing CYA. Every time there's a school shooter, the first thing the parents and media do is dig through his angry Facebook posts and go, "Look at all these red flags! Why wasn't anything done?". Well, now the schools are doing something. It's not the right thing to do, and it's not going to fix anything, but getting angry at the schools isn't going to cause them to change course: they're responding to public demand. You need to start talking to parents and educating them.
In my opinion, the easiest way to have personal influence on federal policy is to be willing to spend your twenties working for peanuts on the Hill. Those staffers are the ones doing most of the real work.
I think the HN bubble is far detached from the real world. If you own 100k+ of assets, most of the people in the world will see you as incredibly rich. If you own a house in the Bay Area even with a mortgage most Americans will see you as rich. Sure you might not feel rich because you have to go to the office each day and you dont have a sports car, but you are.

Median and mean wealth per adult, in US dollars.
USA: 61k
World: 4k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
Can anyone explain how Medium got to be so big, despite its drawbacks?

I mean, it wasn't launched that long ago, and it's not like blogging platforms were rare then. Was it the curation/discovery aspect? Or something else?
Electron. As if I need another app taking up more RAM than needed
What about:

- AGPL v2? it says:

> This is version 2 of the Affero General Public License. It gives each licensee permission to distribute the Program or a work based on the Program (as defined in version 1 of the Affero GPL) under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or any later version.

- Dually licensed software? Does this prohibit software licensed under BSD and AGPL? Granted, the only reason to do that is to troll Square.
I wish there was a filter for games that are playable on their own, not just the engine, don't need the original game files.

OpenTTD is successful because it's readily available, you don't need an original copy of Transport Tycoon.
That was harsh.

I've had friends AirDrop me stuff. I was pretty sure it was contacts only by default. Had to search in settings to find it though, sure enough, contacts only.
And the truth is most systems of any kind seem to fail from simple things that everyone could have prevented but overlooked. Wasted engineering. Best to think like the Arpanet was designed. Have a way to heal once things are normal, not work around the bizarre failures.
This is a good point. I was very annoyed when Reader was shut down but found Feedly and gladly pay monthly for their service.
Good luck getting a charge with the blackouts.

Also.. most of the ubers (aka taxis) that I was in were suzuki Wagon Rs.
Thank you!

Bug have been identified and is in progress to be fixed.
Every personal site I've ever seen looks worse than Medium. I don't want the "character" of a slightly different UI every time, I want the interface to get out of my way so that I can get on with reading the actual content. Medium does that (yes, subject to logging in, but you can do that once and forget about it).
> Money doesn't make a difference in grad school

It makes a very big difference in getting there.
App idea: log known Ring locations’ gps coordinates and direction and produce a simple Watcraft 2 style fog of war map.

Bonus: Stimulates PR.
I think a better way to say this is, are you a capitalist or not. Most people are NOT capitalists (don't own capital) that they live off of.
But the ones who sent you those links would care. They want you to join the community, because of the network effects: having you there makes it more valuable to them. Each person there finds is more valuable because of the other people there, rather than just dropping by.

It's the same reason people have one Facebook page rather than thousands of small social networks. Even people who also participate in the smaller networks with a specific focus also have a Facebook page for their generic, lowest-common-denominator activity.

You may want to do nothing more with the Medium page than read it and leave, but they're going to keep pushing you do more than that. Despite the network effect there is still room for a few very broad social networks because they suit different communication styles. That's why Instagram exists. (It's also why Twitter exists; I can't figure out the merit there but its denizens seem to like it.)

Medium is one other such niche, for longer-form content. Or at least, they'd like it to be. It's not yet so big that the network effects are obvious, and that's why I don't have an account either. I was also very late to FB, and I still don't like it. But I'm there because the network effect of having all of my other friends there made it a thing I needed.

You can stay out of it forever, but you'll continue to get pressure to join until either it dies or you do.
Thank you for the feedback. I've added it to the roadmap.
It's not without their permission, you have to enable it on your own, but I wonder if those WebRTC logs get spread all over the place and those contain customers' IP addresses.
> Without the experience of making and supporting such tools, you'll never acquire wisdom, or many useful skills.

There's nothing special about those specific tools. Instead, you'll acquire the wisdom and skills from the experience of making and supporting different tools. Ideally tools that don't already exist thousands of times over.
Five Eyes nations basically agree to not spy on each other's citizens and instead (potentially) agree to accept targets suggested by each other, and then feed back the resulting intelligence.

The text of the original agreement was released to the public recently but annoyingly you have to pay for it. This article[0] has an overview though;

> The two nations – linked by common bonds of history, culture and language – agreed not to collect intelligence against each other

Consider also the quote at the end of this article[1]:

> France wouldn't be welcome in the "Five Eyes" alliance in any case, a former top US official told SPIEGEL ONLINE: "Germany joining would be a possibility, but not France -- France itself spies on the US far too aggressively for that."

i.e. it is a prerequisite of joining the agreement that you stop any spying on other members' citizens.

Basically, if you are American, then only the FBI (or DEA or whatever) can intercept your phone calls, and they can only do this with a warrant from an American court, they may however, get this warrant based on intelligence supplied by ASIS, (in a way) at Australia's "request".

The main point is, Five Eyes is not a mechanism for those countries to side step their own internal legal requirements for surveillance - it is essentially the opposite.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/25/intelligence-d...

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/germany-impedes-...
Wow, 5 months is an insanely short timetable to ask people to migrate entire systems to another vendor. I’m surprised their contracts don’t have better terms.
> If you accept that some stuff is beyond our understanding

isn't that just an elaborate way to say 'give up'? I asked religious friends of mine about what god _is_, and the common answer is that it's beyond human understanding.

I don't believe that people should take things on faith, and accept that anything is beyond understanding.
If your operating system is AGPL3+, are you prohibited from using tools upon it to access any/all Square services for any reason? Are you in violation of every copyright agreement on your hard drive due to your failure to reconcile the AGPL3+ terms with the software licenses you are integrating with the operating system through installation and use?

I can see why they would want to explicitly decline to participate in AGPL infections.
> The death of Google Trips is part of Google's big travel revamp. The company recently launched the Google Travel website, which in addition to most of the Trips information, also serves as (wait for it...) a search engine for hotels, flights, and travel agency-style combo bookings... Google's message notes that "many"—not "all"—of Trips' features will "live on in other Google products." Apparently those two features are Google Maps and Google Search.

So... they've just reorganized most of the features to different websites, instead of keeping them locked in an app you have to download.

Doesn't seem that bad. I don't think this really counts as a noteworthy "dead" product, just a refactoring of features across properties.
I'm sure every generation says it - but working in tech and being a staunch advocate of privacy I can't help but think it really is different this time.

If my thoughts as a kid had been subject to outside scrutiny I don't know if I would have made it this far in life. Maybe I would've been better at hiding, but I think that is extremely detrimental to long term mental health.
I am also interested in medium for similar reasons but i am hesitant for 2 reasons:

- No access to google analytics tools (search console and analytics)
- emails capture is more difficult. You can still embed widget but user has to opt in.
Logically, cause and effect precede time. The concept of time integrates your perceptions of cause and effect. We observe various causes and effects require variable amounts of time, we omit the specific amounts of time, thus inductively identifying the abstract concept of time.
I feel this at odds with my personal experience, and I am a generalist
> However when people are being silenced and demonetized because they hold political views that YouTube doesn't like I feel that it's necessary in order to uphold the users constitutional rights.

User's have no constitutional right to political speech on a private platform. Their rights are not being violated.
Maybe a hyper loop..
Considering the consequences for that person had they displayed their penis on the subway unbidden, it's pretty surprising no legislatures have championed the case for Apple to implement reporting features to airdrop.
They are in no way equivalent to a public utility. This and the obsessive focus on whether google/youtube/facebook are a "publisher or a platform" are the most laughably bad-faithed and incoherent talking points I've seen in a while.
I guess I should have added a caveat that "my current lifestyle" needs to meet basic needs and make you at least relatively happy.
Dang could we possibly get a new title on this? The default one is a bit clickbaity.
Both causality and the "flow" of time are ultimately artifacts due to the fact that a "universe", by definition, is something thay starts out in a highly-ordered state and evolves away from it. The basic laws of physics are time-symmetrical, at least in a practical sense - they do not involve any distinction between "cause" and "effect".
Museum visitor cracks code to unlock secrets of mystery safe
It would have been more interesting if they could share deeper, nuanced arguments for setting wealth as the objective function. Sure, wealth past a certain point admits a lot of freedom---but what next beyond that point? But the utility function over wealth (x: wealth, y: utility) is sub-modular in nature. When the curve gets flat, what metric must one use to measure her life's worth? Is there even one as such? Having followed their opinions for quite some time, I know they must have some good opinions on these...
I have two questions:

1) From the POV of the patient, how bad / invasive is getting a biopsy? Wouldn't you always want the low-risk biopsy over having discovered a problem too late? From a public health / insurance perspective, I get that you're trying to lower costs and time wasted, which are sadly conflicting goals :-(

2) It's always been so shocking to me that the reaction to "we get false positives" is not "we need to pour money for research into much better diagnostic techniques yesterday" and instead it's "well I guess we'll just not look then".
That doesn't explain anything really. What I want to know is what actually went on behind closed doors. Everything else is corporate public relations. In these cases hearsay is often far more accurate and reliable than these carefully worded statements.

The statement implies that Samsung's hunger for resources had grown so large that there is no more room for the public hosting side of the business, but considering how high performance SmartOS zones are (bare metal performance), I find that incredulous. How is that even possible?

But do let us, for the purpose of this mental exercise, presume that Samsung has indeed such great hunger for resources that public side of the business has to go: surely a chaebol as large and as financially powerful as Samsung has the funding to keep both its internal infrastructure hunger and the public side of the business sated, and easily at that?

Another option could be that the public side of the business was losing money, but considering just how trivially easy and fast SmartOS zones are to provision, and how little financial resources it costs to run them (it costs me literally peanuts and I run my entire datacenter at my own premise and expense), it is hard for me to fathom what could have possibly went wrong there: this technology is so advanced and ahead of its time that even a single customer running on it would be profitable, a bonus, and Joyent has more than one customer...
Not just user freedoms, the freedom of other developers too.
Probably four. I'll ask next time I'm there.
If they are regulated, it should come as no surprise when additional regulation is imposed. And they are regulated.
The title is sensationalist. The product is not dead but rebranded and redesigned. It's the app that is dead. Google Travel (which is a web site) replaces Google Trips (which is an application) and is pretty much the same product.

Abundance of ads (or rather partners' offerings) on Google Flight is a fair point, however it's a bit ironic to see this shaming coming from ArsTechnica that itself relies heavily on ad revenue.
Any particular reason you still need Todoist even though Joplin can also handle some To Dos?
Notepad is best to write down day to day todo. It is very easy to use and easily available in any device. Now it has more features and you can quickly perform your operations.
I'm not saying they aren't, and that all narratives conceived in the west require them, but the Abrahamic (and earlier Zoroastrian) religions developed this sense of there being a definite beginning, middle, and end of everything, and that's not a concept universal to many religions.
It's interesting to me that most classifications put middle class at the point when you earn more then 50% of the population. You would think middle class should be defined as the 50% of people that straddle the middle of the income bell curve.
Just add it your site blocklist and life will be better.
The income levels are also way off on globalrichlist.com

$60,000 a year makes you the 11,425,788th richest person in the world? US median household income was $59,039 in 2016 and if there are 125 million households in the US, then that means you are only the 62th million richest person in the US alone let alone the world.
The offline content component of Google Trips is the best part though.
This is a very cool concept.
It took me probably a day of testing to convince myself because I really didn't find a simple example. I have simple atomic classes that create a set of columns I use frequently that solve problems that just a few years ago were always an annoying mess.

Grid requires no/fewer wrapping elements, solid outcomes (ie, code matches result more often than other layout methods from the start) and lots of minor properties for edge use cases. And this is just a summary of the benefits.
Thank you. It's planned (but no ETA for the moment)
Well, I can't:

To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings

Web & app activity Off

Google Trips worked fine. The fact that Google adds more and more services to try and convince me to turn this on[1] makes sure that I won't do so.

[1] Google Maps won't even let me store my home address without also opting-in; it worked fine without it for years.
You're way off base, median income in Silicon Valley is $110,373; 5x median income is not middle class by any stretch of the imagination. There is no city in the world where 500k a year isn't rich.
No, it was not cross address space. Actually the kernel was mapped into the high address space of every process (so it was the same address space) and the kernel mapped all of physical memory. So all of physical memory was mapped into every process' logical address space. This was OK because user processes didn't have the privilege to actually read those kernel pages. But Spectre+Meltdown bypassed the privilege enforcement to speculatively read any location and then bled that information back out via a microarchitectural channel.

The solution was kernel page table isolation. Don't map the kernel and thus all of physical memory into each process. However, this now has the overhead of mapping and unmapping the kernel pages for each context switch.
Might as well deprive them of normal social interactions and different opinions while you're at it. Personally, I'm glad my country does not allow such nonsense and hubris. Of course, it's a straw man, you can care about your children's education in other ways, and outside of school, too.
Hah, awesome. Well, you still have some options. Having a tethered WiFi hotspot open at all times with a silly name - it almost seems to have turned into a sort of contest on Caltrain who can have the most absurd hotspot name.
Is this any more or less valid for government? What does it mean to be a successful government? Ultimately I contend that if the majority of your populous is happy, you're a successful government. So is this any more or less valid than X-Factor being a popularity contest? I popular government is one that keeps the populous happy. So isn't democracy equally a popularity contest?

Or perhaps that was your point and I misinterpret your words.
Well, I see iPad always a 2nd Choice comparing it to a Surface.
With Surface you have a real computer plus the simplified version with some apps.
If you're crazy enough, you can install docker or virtual machines on a Surface, or have a full working Office suite for your needs.
When I see people using their iPads, they are always with the mail client opened, that's it.
If you haven't big pretending needs (e.g. surfing and email), iPad is a good choice.
If you need something more (editing documents, do some live demonstration, etc.), Surface is the right one
Is there a city that doesn't suck? Do the most amazing cities in the world still suck? Maybe it's not possible to have something that attracts and sustains so many people connected to each other without sucking. I'm not sure if I whole necessarily agree with this or not. It's just a thought.
The selling point for me to get into Haskell was how much better it's lowest bar is than pretty much every other language I've used so far. It's not perfect but it has a very good effort to power ratio.

For example, I have a database with millions of unstructured, schemaless JSON documents. The documents are mostly similar but the schema is defined by Javascript code that has been maintained and modified for many, many years and so the documents have many, many edge-cases.

I've dared my team to write a JSON-Schema document that could validate our format. It would take a lot of effort to get that going. And it would be verbose and hard to work with: JSON-Schema itself is written in JSON and there exists no tool that can understand the types in the schema, validate them, etc until you run the program on some documents.

Instead I spent a few hours and wrote a type that loosely described some of the more common types I've come across in Haskell. I used the wonderful JSON libraries to parse documents from our database using my small, limited type in a test suite. It failed initially but the type system pointed out where it was failing and why. So I added more cases to my type, improved the parser, until I could parse a handful of real-world examples.

From there I wrote a tool that scans the whole database, collects the parse results, and displays the top N parse failures with example documents to add to my test suite. I use the test suite to interrogate the parse results, add more cases to my type, extend the parser, etc, etc...

I've spent very little time working on this and got my tool successfully parsing almost 90% of the database. When I add new examples the type checker guides me as I interrogate the new case, fix the edge cases, and get the tests to pass. Once I can parse 100% of this database I can start writing a tool to migrate my messy data structure into a more clean, consistent one with a more simple parser and prove that the migration is total. And I suspect it will take even less effort to do that.

I'm not even leveraging anything more advanced than ADTs, type classes, and functions. For very little effort Haskell has given me the ability to solve valuable problems. Problems that scared other developers away using other languages.
That's wealthy, not rich. Rich people live off income, wealthy people live off net worth.