skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this suddenly made "get" the power of Haskell, which has escaped me for quite a while (not that I've ever actually written anything real with it). You can capture side effects _in the type system_. That is honestly brilliant.
Microsoft's own research on this area claims it's closer to 70%: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
I think what they should have done is add functionality into Chrome that would allow and encourage you to automatically import all the data in your Facebook account into Google+ and then post to both accounts.

At the time, Google had much more goodwill than today and there's a chance people would have used it just so they could use Google instead of Facebook.
I really wanted to like this article.

Unfortunately it came across as a pseudo-intellectual free-association of language, culture, stereotypes, history, philosophy, and humor.

It needs to decide if it's Dave Barry or educational. It just came across as a drunken loudmouth at a party with a grandiose theory supported by loosely accurate, loosely related facts.
should find a different business model

The model in which such few people should be accessing it -> lower demand -> lower prices.

I know, beating the dead horse and such. But that degree in interpretative native dance is doing little to help humanity.
The voice call SIM card is relatively less painful to obtain now. Previously you couldn't get it on a tourist visa, but now you can rent them from the airport (expensive) or buy them at electronics stores like Bic Camera and Yodabashi Camera.
"Providing open access to the technical specifications of consumer electronics would enable criminals to “more easily circumvent security protections, harming not only the product owner but also everyone who shares their network,” and
"On the other end, John Deere argues that access to the company’s proprietary software could be used to bypass emissions controls or safety measures"

Of course they're doing it all for our own safety. It makes me mad when people bring up security through obscurity as a reason for locking down devices. It's such a blatant lie.
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It even shows up as “agile workplaces” these days, where it most often manifests itself as open floor seating with no set arrangements—transient would be the best characterization. FTA, just another example of how the word’s lost its meaning, this time to the buzzword wars.
> The two names can co-exist

That's what I'm wondering the most actually.

I think the least intrusive way to do it is to introduce a literal clone of the product under a different name. Make it clear that it is the exact same things as the original.

What I can't find is any examples of anyone doing this. Also, not sure how would the mighty Google react to these shenanigans and if their automata won't decided to delist both products just because it looks fishy.
> this looks to be an elongation of the external occipital protuberance

Good call, that's exactly what they are. They buried all the actual science at the end of the article.

"The effect — known as enlarged external occipital protuberance — used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19th century, objected to its title, arguing that there was no real protrusion."
ColdFusion was great for one-off websites. It was not so great for code reuse. Before most places used source control, I worked with a guy at a major university who would knock out websites using CF and they loved him, but the problem was the code was unmaintainable and copy & pasted across all the sites such that whenever he had to fix a bug in his code, he would have to update 20 websites and make the change 20x. It was a disaster.
Tldr; unsafe memory management in a third party's software corrupted dates (under high load, due to garbage collection), causing transactions to fail or get reversed.
Show HN: Apres automates data labeling with AI
Right, I know that's the obvious response, but what's it really buying you? The rationale I always see is "the server could log the request and my password would wind up in plaintext". But the problem with plaintext password logs is that in a breach, a substantial number of those passwords will be used to credential-stuff other accounts. A breach already requires you to reset all your credentials for that service, and if you're using 1Password, those credentials had no other value anyways.
If it were just posting memes, there wouldn't be this fiasco in the first place. No, Russia didn't commit any crimes when it came to the propaganda, but the US also isn't committing crimes when they spread propaganda in other countries. Espionage, influence, and intelligence operations can be very effective without necessarily being illegal.

Also, propaganda aside, Russia did certainly commit crimes when it comes to the US politics-targeted hacking performed by their GRU and SVR intelligence departments during 2016.
Thanks for your work on this and good job not having to inject JS for so long.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been other nasty web stuff that required it.
> >...don't get it: why would you turn off your nuclear power plants, even if the grid failed?!

> reactors require triple redundancy for their power supply, including the grid.

Thanks for posting. I learned something interesting today.

I can imagine the consequences of a total loss of power in nuclear reactors...
Ask HN: Powerpoint Alternatives
I'm looking for a system to create two artifacts, a teacher slide deck and a student 'booklet' that contains the slides with notes. We could do this in Powerpoint by having two slide decks (one with the teacher content, one for students) but obviously, this means we need to keep these in sync. Before going off and creating a system by myself, I wanted to ask if anyone had any recommendation of existing systems that could be (ab)used. I have already looked at Juniper notebooks (not really useful for teacher comments, not easy to have nice graphics/transitions) and creating the content in a DB of some kind and then generating some pdf files using LaTeX (requires a lot of development, not sure about graphics/transitions). Any help is appreciated.
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I think the argument is that you spend energy to start your fingers moving and then you spend more energy to make them stop. But at least the way I type, what I think I'm doing is expending as much energy as needed to make the key bottom out, and no more energy than that.

I can buy the extra energy cost for walking because gravity is putting some force on there and you'd expend energy to counterbalance it versus just letting the ground push back.

But your fingers have exactly as much force as you put behind them yourself, so I don't know what's up with the finger-slammers. They totally exist though.

I was probably reaching with the foot-stompers comparison. Seems like a similar result, but the causes may well be unrelated.
How fast are Himalaya’s glaciers melting? Look at Cold War spy satellite photos
Deep NN surely gives people a lot of spaces to come up or combine ideas from other domain. The problem is people take what NN could do for granted without really look into the details. As long as you could invent some fancy architecture and interpret your loss, no one cares the black box part. The higher than usual portion of system that lacks of theoretical foundation is indeed worrying.
Exactly what happened to me. I accidentally left my phone in my pocket and did a load of laundry. My phone was destroyed and could not be recovered.I had iCloud backups, but that didn't do anything for Google authenticator.

Now it's been a nightmare to recover my accounts.
The article links to a status page - https://monzo.statuspage.io/
Slack's direct listing: what went down with its Wall Street advisers
Breaking [video]: The backstory behind the $30M Voice.com sale
The Vietnam War did a lot to destroy Americans' trust in their government.
I wonder how Apple gets round this?
I like your style!

So much making could be done. I'm in a ~4000sqft home right now and all I really want is a workshop with and office. I'd downsize to almost nothing if I could detach from the house and do stuff and thing.
Future, with computerized streets & highways (to assist self-driving cars) might help motorcycling.

In terms of statistics.

A non-trivial portion (34%) of motorcycle fatalities involves alcohol (at leat in US) [1].

Simply by not drinking and driving, one could reduce a chance of fatality by 30%.

In motorcycles fatalities ans serious injuries resulting from impaired driving, are much more pronounced, obviously.

Overall, though, if we continue to view transportation by well equipment and maintained motorcycles -- as 'injuries-only', then wouldn't we end up arguing that everybody is better off driving 5,000 tonn SUVs and trucks?

[1]
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-motorcyc...

(see
Drivers In Fatal Crashes By Blood Alcohol Concentration (Bac) And Vehicle Type, 2006-2015 )
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Absoluter Internetbenutzerfalscheindruck natuerlich.
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> they're keep some number of customers out of your terrifying, manual account recovery flow.

What is the ideal, secure manual account recovery flow for users? Having worked at a SaaS startup previously (where application login 2FA was mandatory for staff initially, but providing it to end users was discussed extensively internally before eventual roll out), it doesn't seem like there is an easy solution to have random user prove who they are if their 2FA auth goes south (no recovery codes, access to TOTP lost).
Tooting of own horn, so take with (sea) salt:

https://floathub.com

We've processed about 40 million AIS sentences so far (and really just getting going). More details on that here:

https://support.floathub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001334348-...

(edited because I always forget the indent = code convention on HN).
Private group chats. Already happening now.
I'm pretty sure he's just trying to get you to run the more performant kernel version on Linux, especially since the goal is to mainline it into the Linux kernel. I can't see a substantive reason for it to be a bad idea there.
You shouldn't, because you're a member of the early majority, late majority, or laggards, in Crossing the Chasm terms. Innovators and early adopters are more comfortable trying out a startup's offering that might be imperfect or might fail.

Most people are conservative like you. Your sheer numbers are why crossing the chasm is so important for the long-term survival of a new offering.
Interesting... I guess you could see a lot of SaaS companies as outsourced software development teams for the whales.
Azyure vs Azher?
> There are some Core branded CPUs that support ECC, including funnily enough the i3's.

Hell, there are Celeron and Pentium chips that they have it enabled on. Not because they expect desktop users to buy them, but because it allows them to keep their Xeon brand premium while letting OEM's like Dell advertise the T140 "starting at $549" (in a configuration nobody would ever want to buy).
Good point. Do you have the link to the Quora discussion? I'd be curious to see it.

There's a relatively small number of words that are common to human life around the world and of course there's going to be some coincidences. From the BBC article:

>linguists identified almost 600-shared parallel words between the two languages... the Armenian and Basque languages have a number of almost identical words relating to agriculture

600 seems a little high to be completely random coincidence and the article refers to a paper describing grammatical similarities, which makes stronger and stranger case than shared words alone.
I like the abstraction that web components provide. An encapsulated of logic, view, and namedspaced style is great. I can build things like a button with a loading icon.

But I can use Vue's component which don't care about the standard and just compile everything down to a plain JS, so it works well with any browser.

On the other hand, PolymerJS tries too much to utilize the web component standard. I didn't originally thought that this would be a bad thing.

Svelte does look good. I checked it out a year back and thought that Vue should've moved more stuff into its compiler if it could.
The invite strategy did work somewhat while they launched Orkut I think. The major difference this time was that FB was already well established, so artificially restricting access, meant people just ignored it and continued to use FB.
The sending bank is on the hook for that money when everything gets settled up, so it has a strong incentive to perform that debit.
I recently underwent a very similar experience at MemSQL[1] but for only 30K LOC. The pain points that led us away from Flow to TypeScript seem to be the same as the ones as Quizlet's .

Overall, I'm very happy to see more and more teams move to TypeScript as a direct consequence of its Babel 7 support. TypeScript makes more sense as a pure type checker and not as a full blown transpiler.

It's also interesting to see that their type coverage increased from 66% to 86% (ours increased from 88% to 96%). This pattern is probably because of better third party type definitions.

I still prefer Flow's Type Inference and philosophy over TypeScript's, but in practice TypeScript is much better pretty much any use case I can think of.

[1]: https://davidgomes.com/porting-30k-lines-of-code-from-flow-t...
hmmm you elsewhere, on a topic about the harrowing conditions of FB moderators, claim that "there's a lot of variance between individuals ... I'm not the kind of person that's particularly bothered by graphic violence. My opinion of humanity is dark enough to accommodate it"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20223267

maybe what you consider an ideal world or even positive outcomes or even onerous regulations are not what others have in mind, what with your "dark views of humanity" and all?

cause it sounds to me like you deeply believe in naturalistic hierarchies
I have (albeit not terribly). I've heard the "A" pronounced like in "appetite" and also like the "A" in "America" with the "zure" sounding like the "sure" in "closure".
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It could, but then it has effectively extended a loan to the sender. Would they want to do that?
Except that the rulers have relatives and neighbors whose sons and daughters are desperate to leave India. India has long stopped caring about Brain-Drain (well, they'll rot there for the most part), so this is likely to be a big issue.
Not sure why you are being down-voted. Congestion control is pretty central to how TCP/IP works. Deploying without it will basically DoS your network.
Can someone please explain how a valuation of $16B is arrived at? I mean, from the math above, they have approximately 250K ARR?
Well then it sounds like the option is pretty binary - change it.
I dont have a suggestion, but as a datapoints you could look at testacular => karma. It definitely took a while to complete, but was definitely done for similar-sounding reasons. You can use searches to see how long it took, if usage took a hit in the interim, even reach out to that team to see if they have any experiences to share.
For me, it's gone further: reading about other people being locked out of their gmail account with no recourse, because of that real names policy, is the reason I've never logged into Youtube (since, as far as I understood, to log into Youtube you had to have a Google+ account). I still watch videos, but never while logged into gmail (and as a consequence, I've never commented on any Youtube video, or posted any videos I might have recorded).
> BlackStart()

I love how the people coming from different fields invented their own word for "the process of starting a system through external intervention because it cannot support itself at this point".

Kickstart. Jumpstart. Bootstrap. And now I learned a new one: blackstart.
This

Also, "users will try to provision multiple devices with 2FA" well, you know, some services need a shared login. What then? (And no, in many cases you can't expect the user to use their personal login in some cases)

Shared accounts are a thing, and if they need 2fa make it so.

And yes, phones get robbed, lost, dropped into toilets, run over, their battery catches fire, they get irrecoverably damaged, a recovery scheme is needed for accounts.
Ask HN: I believe my startup is making fraudulent claims – what should I do?
I believe the startup I work for is making fraudulent claims about technological achievements and accomplishments in an effort to attract investors. We specialize in a technology field that is over-hyped and not well understood by the masses. The company is based in the United States.

Does the SEC whistleblower program apply here? Are there any other avenues for me to report this ? (Ideally in a way where I can profit, but not necessarily)
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'"Third option is to launch a clone of the product with a different name, use it for capturing the ad traffic and then direct it towards the original product. This seems workable, but also a bit too experimental for comfort."'

You might also have the option to twist the above - similar to what I did with my product http://exmerg.com. I created a copy of it at http://gridoc.com and directed the traffic from the old product to the new one. Users gradually started going directly to the new one (gridoc) and the original web is now almost forgotten.
We largely ignore it, until it actually becomes a project requirement, and then we learn hands-on.

If we are lucky, most of them die in a space of 5 years, and then you get to enjoy project contracts to port all those shiny apps to boring sound, long lasting technology stacks.
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I'm here too. Niche languages are great when you're a solo developer or own your own company.

If you have to work in a large company, you have to deal with other technologies and people you'd normally avoid. That usually necessitates a larger ecosystem.
you can deny a loan due to the applicant not being employed though, right?
There's no functional difference between the two codes in terms of account access. And I dispute the claims of 'audting'. No service cares. As long as you give a correct code then in you go.

So why use recovery codes and then have to keep them secure with the drawback of resetting up every lost account when you can put the exact same amount of effort it to storing and securing the original key and re-setup all accounts in a few minutes?

I speak from personal experience on this topic as to which is easier and how the effort to store and secure recovery/original keys is exactly the same.
Not for profit doesn't mean free from outside influences.
I suspect that yes, they would be actually.

It's one thing to say "Sponsored by Apple" and another "Sponsored, erm, by Q-Z-W-C-K-I, which is actually much better than what its name might imply". The less friction there is, the better. Especially for placements that last mere seconds.
> Major sites have begun to discourage the use of SMS and voice codes, which are thoroughly broken as second factors

Thank goodness. Cell phones and carriers are very soft targets.
If you give ownership without changing the organization that owns the package it then signals trust..

Usually, orgs won't be comfortable with this..

(B) is brilliant... We all know what EC2 and S3 is... If Amazon had just called these services for: compute and storage, there wouldn't be any brand.

Branding makes things easier to search for and to talk about.

All this said, these downsides might be worth it
Really? I never know if it's AZH-uhr or az-YOOR. I just googled it and apparently it's the first for US pronunciation and the second for the UK. https://english.stackexchange.com/a/26645
> I hope Intel will at least offer ECC memory for their consumer CPU's now.

They do (or did?). My home NAS is running a Sandy Bridge Intel Celeron with ECC memory. Support seems to be randomly distributed thought through the product line[1] though and obviously depends on the motherboard manufacturer to implement it as well.

In general, Intel has a problem with branding. Their product lines are confusing mess requiring looking up each specific part to get a list of features it does or does not support. There's little rhyme or reason to it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=22587440
Is the accent on the first or second syllable? Is the A pronounced "uh" or like in "apple"? I honestly don't know, having never experienced that word in verbal conversation, only books.

Though I don't think it's bad enough to be an example of OP's problem by any means.
Most of the statements they make regarding orderless autoregression, including statements about the "independence assumption" made by BERT, are misleading at best.
At least in my area, the cost of permitting and labor is such that it’s simply not worth building a house unless you can sell it for over $500k. Which means they’re only building large, 4 bedroom houses, most in the $750k range. The vast majority of prospective homebuyers cannot qualify for a loan that big.

Meanwhile the rent on a 2 bedroom apartment is more than a mortgage on one of those houses. So guess why so many people are renting?
I'm not sure if you read my comment right, it seems you have understood it exactly the wrong way round. I'm Scottish, saying that contrary to popular belief it is actually the south of England who make the most bizarre pronunciation choices in the UK

The guy in the video I linked is actually an excellent example of the "professional class", and should by conventional wisdom be the kind of pronunciation you should aim for ... but you'd be entirely wrong to do so.
My wife and I have a 2k square foot, 3 bedroom house, along with a kid (11 years) and a dog. (We recently moved there from the city) We're trying to figure out what we're going to do with all that space when kiddo is gone. Even though that's a way off, the likely plan is to downsize to a 2 bed in the city.
How about asking the other question: what made anyone think it would succeed?

Facebook was already dominant and Google+ offered nothing really compelling besides a half baked circles/groups thing that took forever to manage.

Google had no special social insight, just big-company confidence and a lot of engineers and dollars.
A sound type system shouldn't allow you to write such a parser function without either you lying in its implementation or having to use unsafe code.

In a year or two, once everyone has switched to use `unknown` instead of `any` in functions which at runtime return… uhm… unknown values, we'll all be much safer. Because we'll be forced to use proper parsers and validators.
I'm not saying it's reasonable, but I think these people are designing their house for peak capacity, not average. people with these kinds of houses might fly their entire extended family out for holidays (or several of their friend's families). they don't necessarily care that the place is empty most of the year; it's probably not their only house anyway.

obviously they hire people to maintain the place.
OP and an editor of the news site (Inkstone) that published the article.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments. It's getting late over here but we can answer your questions tomorrow.

For those of you interested, here's a link to the published research: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20171765 (full text requires a subscription.)

And here's a draft of the research (PDF): http://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/econ/documents/2018-fal...
why is that? two records have been updated in two databases. this isn't blockchain, there's nothing to enforce they are consistent (that I can tell)