skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a strong anti-facebook bias

I can tell you from own experience that Facebook's dark patterns are incredibly frustrating at best, and at worst come off as malicious to the end-user.

For example, I refuse to download the Facebook app. When using the mobile website, it often shows me as having new messages. Clicking the notification then redirects me to download the app. Requesting the desktop site, however, shows no notifications and has no redirect.

How am I supposed to trust a company that puts me through that? Is it a bias when they actually lie to me almost daily?
Thanks! Marketing and sales in the security space was traditionally always fear-driven - “Buy our product. If not, you’re going to get breached”. An ROI would be built using an “average breach cost”.

Today Sqreen is inbound-driven and the marketing/sales process is focused on the positive of how to make security better and more transparent, rather than attempting to stoke fear or play up the negative side.

We never had to build any dubious ROI calculation. Tech audience usually understands the need for security and we present a technical solution that is transparent and easy to use and deploy.
Toronto Startup Founders Now Have a Hub to Learn from Each Other's Experience
"This really strikes a nerve because in 40 years of programming, most of my problems have not been with building code myself, but with trying to figure out what my predecessor had written. I bet I've wasted 20 years of my life refactoring the crap of others who would have benefited greatly by reading posts like this one first."

I also curse a lot about code my predecessors have written but I bet my successors will curse at my code too :-)
Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
That makes sense.
I wonder how much a slot would cost compared to regular airfreight? I'm not even sure how much the regular Amazon freight service costs compared to regular truck freight.
Apple Bans Gab from App Development After Company Makes Antitrust Case to DOJ
> I think the main reason why this makes me so angry is because it's Berlin, again, doing something fiscally irresponsible that the rest of the country is going to have to finance in the long run.

This is perfectly stated. Not looking forward to possible SPD+Grüne+Linke coalition in Bundestag.
This is a terse comment with not a lot of context, but I think it is misleading to say the "market is broken" as it suggests that the market mechanism is at fault but in reading these comments it sounds like the government regulations are the source of the problem.
Market for vegan burgers that have the same health effect as non-vegan burgers is vegans (including people who try to become vegans). Because if it tastes the same or worse as meat costs about the same (usually more), what is the reason to buy them instead of normal burger or something like falafel.

Market for vegan burgers with better health effect than non-vegan burgers is vegans+health concerned non-vegans which is much larger than vegans alone.

Market for non-vegan burgers is always non-vegans. Being more healthy can affect the standing of particular non-vegan burger among other non-vegan burgers, but is unlikely to attract many vegans (which is an order of magnitude smaller market anyway and couldn't have high impact on the larger non-vegan market).
Honestly, I think it's crappy engineering, too. You can't throw this on the feet of generic execs or regulators. The behavior with AoA sensor disagreement (and the treatment of malfunctioning sensors) seems wrong. MCAS should have had failsafes around the number of trim adjustments it could do.

You can talk all you want about how regulators should have required recertification, how Boeing shouldn't have just strapped a couple of higher bypass ratio engines onto the bottom of a 737 in the first place, or how it information about MCAS should have been presented.... but in the end, it's possible there would not have been accidents (or maybe more of them because of unexpected stalls, we'll never know) if there had been sanity checking of response values from either of the AoA sensors and if MCAS capped how many times it could trim.

edit: it sucks to work on critical systems. In case it comes off differently, I feel badly for those involved. Nobody gives them credit thousands (more?) times a year an automatic flight control system engages and saves hundreds of lives without any passengers knowing. They ended up making MCAS because of decisions made outside of the realm of their control.
Maybe they are to uniformed members of the military. I've never once seen a civilian use, display, carry, or talk about a challenge coin. They typically get thrown in the back of a desk drawer and forgotten about. We literally have no use for them whatsoever. They don't even make good paperweights.

I have a stack of fourteen of them. Most of them I was given for spending thirty minutes giving some random officer a tour of the lab. They're not exactly hard to get.
Sure. Honestly, how much utility does 2 day shipping really have? Is it really enough to justify the increased emissions of flying a package across the country instead of using a more efficient method?

Of course that's not really Amazon's problem. We really need more reasonable taxes on fossil fuels that make it cost-prohibitive for Amazon to rely on air shipping.
Of course Google uses it to drive their own ad engagement. Say you want to look up your flight info. Instead of going back to the original email, you have all the info in the assistant. Instead of seeing rental car ads from the airline, you get them through Google.. You get to check out attractions in the city you're visiting through Maps.. it's obviously not all 1:1. Google isn't so pushy with their ads. They like to be subtle. But yea, they clearly get to serve more interesting ads by hijacking these workflows.

Slightly less obvious what they do Amazon toilet-paper receipts. Often things can just be aggregated into really good business intelligence. They could data mine what shows netflix is recommending, etc. I'm honestly not sure what kind of protections they offer in terms of extracting aggregate data from email. It's creepy so they'd keep it mostly internal.. but I'm sure they would have found some really interesting ways to use it.
Terraform too
> 3. Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by making a coin better than all the other coins. Other people are still free to make their competing coins.

But how do you define “better”? Bitcoin has shown you can have non-consensus about very basic things like the ledger and all chaos breaks loose. And what if it’s a large corporation driving non-consensus?
No, it will be much less as seen from the ship.

Seen from Earth, it'll be around 13 years (takes a year to got close to c and another to decelerate - that is two years to travel roughly a lightyear, then 11 to travel 11).
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That would be unusual. Most websites fall over due to a DB bottleneck long before the backends or HTTP servers see significant load.
Better that the current citizens have reasonable living conditions...

What makes current citizens more deserving than the people who want to live in Berlin but won't be able to due to policies which reduce the supply of housing?
Eh, this should be no big deal. The passenger cabin shouldn't be doing any crumpling so you're fairly free to throw metal at the problem. All the mods are in the rear and there's no airbags for rear impacts (most of the job of crumple zones is to buy time for the car to detect it's actually crashing and deploy airbags) so any difference is gonna be minimal. Maybe the roof structure is compromised but once again that should never crumple so you're free to throw metal at the problem. Obviously there's more details to it than that and there's more and less elegant ways to "throw metal at the problem" but that's more or less what real automotive engineers do when a cabin design needs beefing up. Sure the lack of complex simulation software for this build might have left it with some Achilles heel but plenty of cars leave the factory that way too.
Individual Chinese, Russian, and Saudi billionaires generally invest heavily in US based investments (real estate, stocks, bonds, etc..) as a hedge against the political and legal uncertainty in their own countries. The US at this point is basically the safety deposit box for the world elite, and until that changes I highly doubt there will be much interest in coordinated economic war against the US. There will be some posturing and saber rattling though.
What’s so good about owning? Renting is way better, if it’s affordable:

- I can move out when my life circumstances change.

- I can move out when the district changes.

- I don’t need to take a credit just for living somewhere.

- I don’t need to worry about people renting my apartments.

- I don’t need to worry about maintenance.

If you have the money to buy fine, but for most people renting is way better.
Americans, Europeans, East Asians are the most scientifically productive people on the planet.

https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...

Estonia: population 1.3m, Articles: 15.8

Slovenia: 2m, Articles 38

USA: 327m, Articles: 19,838

Japan: 126m, Articles 3,033

Iceland: 0.3m, Articles 26

India: 1,339m Articles 951

Pakistan: 197m, Articles: 27

Democratic Republic of the Congo: 81m, Articles: 0

Iceland produces as much science as Pakistan, a country 656x bigger.

Pakistan CO2 output: 1t per person.

Iceland CO2 output 12t per person.

USA: 15t per person

Yes, the average Westerner probably uses 10x the resources of the average person in the 3rd world. But the scientific outputs are hundreds of times bigger.

We should be saying to countries like India, Pakistan, Congo: you are destroying your environment, for the sake of what? What are you contributing to humanity to justify your use of limited resources?

As the population in poor countries increase, their challenges will only worsen. Countries like Pakistan and India have taken advantage of science and technology developed in the West to reach their current populations. Given that we are using the Earth's resources so much more productively, we have a right to instruct the rest of the world how to manage itself.
Naval on (Killer) Drones and Second Amendment
Once as a co-op for IBM, our manager at the weekly described a severance package.

I immediately tried to take it.

At a later meeting, when the package was modified, he started out with, "mcguire, you are not eligible."
What is the relevance of funding your competitor? Amazon is so huge that the AWS fees you pay them are a drop in the ocean, and will have negligible effect on the (relatively tiny) unit of Amazon that's competing with you.

More concerning would probably be the possibility that your AWS service would be suspended or otherwise purposefully disrupted.
The key here is the ability to exchange it for other coins. If Libra partners can block exchanges, they will use that power as soon as they are requested to by regulators.
So true, just 3 decimal orders of magnitude :-). And it would eliminate their holdings in 5 years if they were to stick to it.
How many people took it?

I'd probably take it on the spot. I mean, if morale is that bad already it's like you're getting a bonus for leaving. Might as well!
Thank you! Sqreen can be deployed on any cloud or on-premise platform. The agent just needs to communicate to our infrastructure (to send security metadata to your dashboard).
.Net should be available early next year.
That is incredibly unethical and standard behavior for Facebook.
That's a pretty poor argument. Functional programming isn't as popular because it's more difficult to learn, not because it's not as good. Sometimes the easier, almost as good solution is better than the technically superior option, especially if you need a ton of people to learn.

Functional programming is certainly better in a lot of ways, but Google wasn't trying to build a "good" language, they were trying to build a "good enough" language, which is why it doesn't really innovate, but merely pulls in familiar features into a simple package. Go isn't the best at anything, it's just good enough at several things, and very simple to learn, and that's exactly why Google uses it.
Like Apple and Google's behaviour? Ah I see.
> 1. The world could use an online independent currency

and how exactly does having a stablecoin backed by facebook and a consortium of other vc/bank funded corporations achieve this?
If more people want to live in an area, why should we stop them? What good comes from denying people that opportunity?

I'm asking this to find out your definition of overpopulation. Because the people that want to move here don't think that's the case, and I certainly don't think that's the case given how low population density is throughout the Bay Area.

And since high density walkable neighborhoods are healthier for people and the environment than car dependent sprawl, I think that we are actually underpopulated.
It works reasonably well in the rest of Germany.

As for it not working in Berlin, I have a hard time to come up with _anything_ that works there, so my hunch would be that the housing market in Berlin is broken not because of rent control, but because it's Berlin.
> They also would have called you crazy for saying you wanted to turn lead into gold with alchemy.

Which is doable but exceptionally expensive.

Not a strong argument against the ship unless you're calling it a waste of money.
ctrl - will decrease the font size on your browser. (ctrl + increases; ctrl 0 resets it to the specified size).
Nobody is expecting Rust compile times to ever match those of a language whose premier guiding principle is fast compile times, but the question is whether or not Rust compile times can become fast enough to keep Rust programmers satisfied. I'd say that programmer attention span is generally sufficient to tolerate iteration times of five seconds or less for interactive editing. Who knows if Rust will manage to get there, but the Rust developers I've spoken to seem to earnestly believe that an order of magnitude improvement is possible (over the course of several years of development, however).

I think what people are trying to get at in this thread is that they'd be happy if their Go compiles took 0.5 seconds instead of 0.1 seconds, if it also meant that it lessened the need to manually employ the techniques in the OP. Of course, keeping such tradeoffs within reason is a difficult prospect.
You're right for online conversations or around people you don't know. Within friends groups or people that know you well (long-time coworkers) it's an effective tool, at least in my experience.

The hard part is not getting taken out of context by someone that overhears your conversations, so you should still exercise caution.
I flatly assert that the Amish are like the thousands of other weird "traditionalist" isolationist minority subcultures who have existed throughout human history. None of those ever made it to "billions" either, and lots of them were even more pro-procreation than the Amish. If the Amish were a larger population, they'd have to mingle more with the rest of us. They make a big deal about their rumspringa, but their culture will not survive repeated mingling. Video games are fun. Tinder is fun. Air conditioning is comfortable. Let the robots pick the turnips.
To maximize reach, have you explored what would take for a first-class Redis wasm [1] implementation, maybe pairing it with Terra [2] for Lua scripting.

[1] http://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/exec/index.html

[2] https://github.com/zdevito/terra
Put another way-- it extends the service mesh to mobile clients.
Airbus didn't even had the chance to bid on that order so chances are the order was cooked between UK-US governments. Walsh says "I believe the aircraft is safe" though all of them are grounded and Boeing is yet to fix it...
Those dumb f@cks trust me with their money...
There was a company in the past which, for all intents and purposes was the government of an entire subcontinent. The East India Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 and lasted until 1858.
This is called 'market cannibalization', when considered from the opposite perspective where amazon is competing with their customers. It's definitely considered bad for business, for precisely the reason that customers will look for other suppliers.
The rental freeze does not apply for new housing.

(Wohnungsneubau wird vom Gesetz gänzlich ausgenommen.)

https://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2...
DPDK and Solarflare Onload are conceptually similar since they're both OS bypass network stacks. DPDK is open source and portable but lower-level and more complex to use while Onload looks much easier to use but proprietary-ish.
Ask HN: Best Shared Host in 2019?
Hey all,

I need to find a shared host for a PHP project I'm working on. I would deploy on Heroku but I want it usable 24/7 for low cost (Heroku can get expensive FAST if something is left running). I figured an old style shared host would be much cheaper for my case than a full cloud provider. Also needs to be US based (even better if it's in WA state - I'm in Seattle and would love to do business with someone local).

Anyone got any ideas?
> and that requires changing peoples' minds

Yup, and that is straightforward, if time and money consuming. Changing zoning isn't enough: making an area denser without appropriate matching infrastructure investment isn't going to go well. If you want the next Tokyo or Paris (or even something significantly smaller), you need Tokyo or Paris' infra.

Then the next problem is that people can't stand each other. People don't want neighbors because neighbors are a pain. It's a problem everywhere, but in the west, the US has it particularly bad. I don't know about Cali, but in a lot of cities the building code is a total joke, and Americans are known to be LOUD. City rules are rarely enforced properly, either. So the only option you have is to prevent neighbors from moving in in the first place. That's easily fixed: better construction quality and clearer, enforced rules that make coexisting easier and nicer, alongside investments to keep the area from going down the shitter.

Do that for a while, and people just won't mind. Having moved from a dense city in another country to a medium sized American metro made me "appreciate" why NIMBYs are such a problem here. Living near people can become a nightmare real quick if you're not lucky.
The main things to remember about certificate rollover from experience are:

- Publish the signing certificates ahead of time in the metadata before using them.

- Install any new encryption certificates on your service (supporting old and new certificates) before publishing the certificates in the service metadata.

In terms of SAML testing, https://samltest.id/ is useful for short-term testing of both IdPs and SPs.
Git comes to mind as well, I can go to Bitbucket or Gitlab and upload my repository with its full history in seconds. Or my own self-hosted repository if I wanted.

I don't agree with grandparent for what it's worth, just thought this might work as a reply to your question.
The "market" would like to fix it. But it is not allowed to. Because, well, politics or: "people in power" :-)
I think Valve were already forced to go 64 bit on MacOS. At a certain point I have to imagine that releasing a 64-bit client will be the path of least resistance.
The shopping centers, offices, and hotels have political clout and organized professional influence on the government.

Average joes, especially those who want to live in the city but cannot afford it, do not get a seat at the table.
You own the car (the hardware), and lease the software. The fact that the hardware is incapable of running witoutu the software (which is constantly phoning home to Tesla) is where you run into problems.

Tesla historically doesn't want bad press due to accidents caused by "bad physical changes", and so carefully control it. To get a Tesla back up and running once it's been "salvaged" has historically required a full inspection by a Tesla approved shop.
Presumably she also fronted the tens of thousands of dollars this project cost...
The article is also missing an important context, Giant is a Taiwanese company. A lot of the world's high end bicycle are built by them in Taiwan.
For downtown San Jose they need to be mid-rise since that area is in SJC's flightpath. I don't think they'd have much choice in the matter.
You don't need slow motion camera, it's enough with most normal catch the worst offenders in the store if they have those led display sets where you can see the lightbulb lit. Just shove the camera real close to the lightbulb and watch the stripes. If no stripes, put it even closer (almost touching) and if it's still ok, buy it :-)
You can send out binary patches / deltas though?
They need to upgrade anyway due to MacOS changes that are coming
What about issuing bonds and using rent to pay off the bonds?
This is not a real problem in Berlin, not at any scale that it matters.

Berlin receives 30.000+ new people every year and builds only ~1/3 of the necessary flats. It just cannot work this way.
What do you call the chicanery that companies like Vonovia are doing except evil speculation?

Yes, heavy demand with slower increasing supply will result in higher prices, but we're talking about homes here, not iPhones. People can't afford a home any more, it's inhuman to just let them be bled dry or get kicked out in the name of real-estate profit.

Your critique's puzzling especially because this law only applies to existing buildings
That's not an argument. People say the same thing about voting or polution, it adds up. Also, AWS is not a smart part of Amazon, AFAIK most of their profit comes from it. They sell products for cheap, so they can push competitors out to keep growing and then they balance the loss with AWS profits.
More details on the German Wikipedia article (it can be translated): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietpreisbindung#Mietpreisbrem...

Interestingly, legislation like this was in effect from 1945-1988 in West-Berlin.
I think kludge is the more appropriate term here. A hack isn't necessarily a bad thing, but kludgey code is certainly not something I'd like sicked on my family.
2 things about a virtual currency :

- people may finally be able to "sell" their personal data

- it may help to remunerate artists and content creators on Instagram
Yes. Not only do they do that for men, but Elon specifically, and even calling him out on taking credit for work that an uncredited woman working for him did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18093145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19636499

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20078510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812261
A new currency is what makes it easier to be an objector. Why do you want to be tied to only the dollar?
We hired three Fiverr workers to write about Fiverr’s IPO
MAX doesn't have a freighter conversion program yet though.
> So they hired a 3rd party consultant to write down their values and they had these posted all over the walls.

My previous employer did something similar with a word they invented -- except it was really just a synonym for efficiency.

The CFO got so excited that he had a bunch of posters printed out and handed out smaller versions to the supervisors. The supervisors all thought it was embarrassing but none of them had the guts to say that to the CFO.

To this day they still list that fake word in all their job postings with a little blurb about what it means, completely unaware that most applicants will probably spit their coffee out laughing at the absurdity of it. I think it might even have its own page on their website too...
By a fun coincidence, I stumbled on the r/roguelikedev subreddit this weekend and they are just today starting a "how to make a roguelike" read through. (It is a different tutorial than what you linked.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/c1xj5b/roguel...