skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we will be releasing the app for Linux and Windows in the next few weeks. Electron is enabling this. Just make sure you have your RAM upgraded, and you will be fine :)
Not all impact needs to be at-scale. Perhaps you can make a difference outside of work, and/or at a local or individual level? While the systems crowd that congregates on HN may discount this kind of "last mile" effort, it can be deeply fulfilling (we are social animals after all) and have life-altering positive effects on recipients.

I don't know if that speaks to your situation at all. Either way, I wish you (individually) self-understanding and happiness. ^__^
When Zappos was acquired they made a big deal about keeping their unique culture.
Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14675431
Have you tried going to church and making babies?

Serious question.
Never leave a job before you have another. It is much harder to get a job when you don't already have one. It puts you under pressure if finances start to run out, employers think you might have been pushed out and are unfairly suspicious of those unemployed.

Ask your boss if there are any new projects in the pipeline.
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> When AI services and physical robots can solve every problem in a better way than humans against every metric possible, there won't really be a need for humans in the workforce.

That logic assumes humans want to share equitably the ownership of robots and their benefits.
> They don't care about how the banking system works and who controls the flow of money

That's because the person controlling the flow of money hasn't taken enough away from them. History has plenty of examples where a centralized controller went "too far", causing a mass exodus.

This is very hyperbolized, but consumerism and society today is truly reminiscent of a rat inside a cage with infinite sugar water, cocaine, and a steady supply of new mates.

---

As for Libra, what is Facebooks plan? The only way I can see them winding up on top is if they make the "next Bitcoin" where they own like ~10% of the supply, kinda like Satoshi. I don't see Libra working if it's centralized.
I do hope you are right
> why the author says this is difficult to do securely? macOS has a simple facility for handling custom URL schemes

So does all other operating systems and this has been a thing for at least a couple of decades. This is not the problem.

The problem is that this feature is severely locked down in all modern browsers, precisely due to the security risks involved.

Relying on this feature in a critical user interaction path is a guaranteed way to get flooded with support-requests.

Disclaimer: have replaced custom protocol with other solution in end-user facing production projects.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11573172

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617633

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14669913

Many other articles (but not many comments):

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story...
Cracking the Uncrackable Code
I'm afraid I don't know all the details. This article has some info: https://thenextweb.com/in/2019/02/01/heres-why-amazon-cant-s...
Hosting a web server on localhost is the equivalent of adding a backdoor on your customer's machines. How does a product team even reach this decision?
Very telling that his article is hosted on facebook.com instead of libra.org.

It kind of proves that the separation between Facebook and Libra is nothing but a lie.

He just doesn't get it and he never will.
If you plan on taking it seriously at some point (Own your own place and want hard-wired gear, switches, and outlets), I would highly recommend Indigo (https://www.indigodomo.com/) and Z-Wave. The OSS tools are not something I'd trust my property or life to, especially if you need to manage things like Water Valves, Garage Door Openers, Locks and Gates. They're also full of bugs and once you start to add hundreds or thousands of devices most solutions start to break down or become unmaintainable (constantly editing JSON or XML files, etc)
Are you really lost if you can recognize you're lost?

I always figure the point of spiritual malaise and existential wandering is to prune away the false hopes and beliefs that keep us mildly entertained and encourage us to seek out eternal hopes that provide daily rejuvenation. Ecclesiastes is always a comforting read whenever I feel that way:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&...
Why the Why Matters
IMDB surprised me, but everything else was a brand I didn't recognize/care about or I already knew.
We have an app called mobile pay in Denmark, which I guess is similar to Apple Pay in that you link a credit card and it lets you send money to friends or pay for stuff. It’s owned by our banks and it works most places a credit card wouldn’t, like in small stores that can’t really afford to have a credit card terminal. That’s it’s main uses, sending money to friends or buying things. Only they also have an API for the web, so you can now pay for things you buy in more and more online stores.

I use it a lot. It’s never been easier to collect expenses from board game nights, and when I recently bought the first Harry Potter book (in Danish for my daughter) I didn’t have to enter my credit card information.

I think that’s what Libre will be, only global. I don’t like Facebook, but if they actually succeed at this, they’ll become the easiest way to pay for things on a global scale.
UNIX timestamps are normally stored as 32-bit or 64-bit signed integers, not as floating-point. If you want better than 1-second precision, then the type "struct timespec" (specified by POSIX) gives you nanosecond precision. Fixed-point types can also be used in languages that support them.
The difference between an amateur and a professional web developer
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Am I the only one seeing the pattern here. Most security loop holes I have witness have existed at the cost of providing a better user experience.
Blog post too, which seems to be somewhat different: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2019/07/08/response-to-video-...
> build a replacement for OpenSCAD

I am very interested in this.
Sony Pictures Buys Nurulize, Virtual Production Software Startup – Variety
It doesn't do verbatim verification, but this is one of big outstanding features and it will be done shortly.
Do people actually use access time for anything?

I occasionally do full-text searches on system files, and this resets access times on all files. Thus, I cannot imagine using a script which cares about it.
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Meditation.
> who don't share your ideas would not be invited

So, an echo chamber.
Yeah, I submited once on HN about this project two years ago. Since then quite a few new features have been added and some improvements are made. So it's time to expand the user base a bit :)

Now cicada shell is still have some issues, but overall it's quite usable. I hope it could be useful for people who are seeking simplicity and speed in daily use of the shell.
"Oopsie" -- Facebook Marketing Department
That's correct, and part of my point. If they used CORS headers correctly it could both be secure and not require a crazy image hack.

The image hack seems like a lot of work to go through to make an app LESS secure.
If you want to have Jupyter Notebook support then I suggest using Pelican. There's a plugin specifically for parsing Jupyter Notebooks, and you can also write simple md files. It's a bit more complicated to start with than Jekyll (meaning 2 afternoons instead of 1 :)) but it really works for me.

Source: I've been using Pelican with the said plugin for my personal website for the past few months.
Might I suggest, with sincerity and humbleness, that the question is a very good start and maybe it's not uncertainty holding you back but fear?

Where do you go when you keep asking "I'm dying, not much time left, is it worth it?"

I mean, is it?
(very off topic) @robomartin - Would you be ok to email me (justin@postgresql.org) re that Open-Source Leg project from a while back?

Can't see your contact details anywhere, so using a comment here instead. ;)
I didn't say nobody ever runs into dead bears. It's just not that common, even amongst folks who spend a lot of time in the bush.
> it can happily expose people to content that makes them a worse person.

I'll just assume you meant "most people" here, because otherwise it's not an useful argument.

Then this would only be true if one of the following applies:

a. The position you consider "better" can't withstand criticism. (Which I'll just assume you don't believe.)

b. Most people don't want to be a good person. (Probably untrue.)

c. What constitutes a good person is not consistent in your circles and most people have a different understanding. (Unlikely?)

d. Most people can't think for themselves.

Assuming you believe d., let me tell you that most people are probably smarter than you think and are indeed able to think critically. Don't extrapolate from a few noisy but bad examples of humanity.
No, it doesn't support this type of usage. It's a very niche scenario and there are some hairy usability issues with it, especially post-backup.
> At the end of it all there will be nothing but the heat death of the universe.

I'm as non-religious as they come, but I often wonder about this. Any time I spend even a little bit of time thinking about this stuff, I always find myself turning to the thought that, if that truly is all there is, then why does anything exist at all? Like, even on the level of energy/matter. My brain just can't get past the logic of, if there truly isn't anything here at the end beyond a dead, near-infinite void, wouldn't it have been cheaper and simpler for literally nothing to ever exist? Why go through the hassle of all this matter creation?

It's just a really stubborn blocker for me. I get sort of stuck there and kind of throw up my arms and get to living as if some of this must matter somehow. I'm not saying it does. But the fact that matter exists, as opposed to there just simply being absolute never-nowhere-nothing, keeps me questioning.
http://archive.is/GjLRp
> Is this really a blockchain? It’s not open. It’s not decentralized!
> While the initial mechanism by which organizations can run a node and become a member of the Libra Association, is definitely not as open as, say Bitcoin, where anyone can participate in the consensus algorithm, the Libra Blockchain is absolutely designed to be open.

They skip the first question: Libra is not a block chain. It uses Merkel tree accumulators for updating the state of the database, so it's definately not a block chain, it's just marketed as one.
> Ultimately she benefitted from patient teachers and a nurturing environment

All of the calls to alternate education methods fail to recognize the weakest link in the education system: teachers. Teaching methods are not designed just for kids but also for teachers.

Almost any method will work wonders with good teachers who know when to wait, when to push, who are competent and empathetic. Methods need to be tested and proved to work with below-average teachers to be considered a solution.
Libra indeed, is such a huge win for 3rd world countries because cross border payments are way to expensive plus if you're starting a tech startup with hopes of earning from US, or Canada, it's impossible because Stripe, or Paypal are not supported, so they're left out. Libra is great for Startups with global ambitions :)
Is POSIX relevant today?
I'd think that overwhelming majority of the shell scripts would require either Linux or BSD dialects.

And if one wanted to limit my shell scripts significantly, I'd limit myself to commands supported by busybox's "ash" shell -- this is a limited shell environment which is pretty widely used in initrd's and embedded devices.
I first heard of this book on McWhorter's podcast, in a fascinating episode titled Why We Stopped Teaching Children How To Read [1]. Highly recommended!

The book has been fairly useful for my child, who at times doesn't want to do more lessons but at times churns through a dozen lessons at once. Overall, we're very pleased with it!

1: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2017/0...
> I'm not sure what you're referring to. I've successfully launched and played Wine games with Nvidia proprietary drivers in Gnome with Wayland.

How exactly, when it's not supported: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/NVIDIA

There is currently no accelerated GLX support when
running a GNOME Wayland session no top of the NVIDIA
drivers, meaning X11 OpenGL applications will use
software rendering.
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Well this is the first time I feel like my side “project” is worth mentioning on HN. Unitsofsound [1] is a course that teaches reading, writing & spelling using a syllabus based 100% on phonics.

At least that’s my layman’s understanding, we have a number of SME teachers that guide the actual product development, my dad and I just build it.

I thought I would share here just in case anyone is interested, and would love feedback for the new (non flash) version, so if you would like to try the home version for free get in touch and you can become a BEtA tester in the near future.

[1] https://www.unitsofsound.com/
It is at very least a pain to set up, specially on Windows.
> some of these apps might be using these vulnerabilities without even being aware of it, as the offending code is in third party libraries

I'll assume by vulnerabilities you meant to say exploits. Given that: True but so what. This is criminal behavior. Using criminal libraries makes you complicit and a co-conspirator.
Have you seen the historical forecasts on interest rates compared to what actually happens for a couple of decades?

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

http://www.brfekoxen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/riksbank...
Yes there are several companies that do this. TeloYears is one. They use a blood sample to index your telomere length (actual length) against other people your age (expected length). One of the outputs is a percentile rank for cellular age. While this can be useful information, there are a couple issues. One is that you can’t reliably predict expected lifespan simply using telomere length. The other is that it is over $100. You already know if you’re healthy and have good genes. I guess it could be used for benchmarking to see whether your telomeres are on the right track.
I use uMatrix, and I've seen localhost show up as a domain a site tried to connect to quite a few times. I never gave it too much thought since I block all non-first-party resources by default anyway, but I now realise it could indicate the use of tricks like this to attempt to communicate with some other process running on my computer. I'll now make sure to look closer whenever I see this. I bet Zoom isn't the only one doing things like this.
>Implying that all who do not agree with you are racist is a bit of a weighty allegation.

Quite the contrary. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not one of his racist sycophants.

>> mansplain away his racism.

>Please don't use this term.

Every one of his racist sycophants I've ever encountered have been men. Perhaps his Sex Tips for Geeks don't make him and his ideas as attractive to women as he thinks they do.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/

>>Affirmative action _is_ racism, by definition

>This is a point agreed upon by many.

Many who have an extremely simplistic, distorted understanding of what racism is. That doesn't make them right.

>In summary, you make generally good points, but adulterate them with a political message hostile to many.

If anybody wants to ignore the objective facts I've presented because I hurt their feelings by implicitly criticizing their political beliefs by associating them with Eric Raymond's racist beliefs, then that's their problem. If they don't have a problem with the hostile political messages that ESR adulterates all of his arguments with, then they should be able to tolerate mine too.

Perhaps they should read ESR's Sex Tips For Geeks advice about Avoiding the Curse of Oversensitivity:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/oversensitivity.htm...

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If you use a library that engages in criminal activity, you are legitimately a criminal as well and should be held accountable.
I'm always fascinated and curious about language learning. We seem to just pick up our native language so easily as we're growing up, but it seems difficult to pick up a new language with the same ease later on.

I don't have kids, and can't remember what my reading ability was at 4 years old, but I thought when I started reading that I started out by identifying individual characters and trying to sound them out piece by piece? I can't imagine that I built my native language using the whole-word system, but at the same time, that may explain all the spelling tests that I used to do.

I have been learning a completely new language (Polish) for a while now, but I started with learning the sounds of the language first (and how to pronounce the written language) which set up the framework for learning words and phrases later on. I couldn't imagine starting off with learning whole-words. That being said, I think once you have the basic framework start up, you naturally move on to whole words, sentences, and eventually become free with expressing ideas.
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Please don't be snarky and please don't post shallow dismissals here.

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Well, we still need to replace all the floating point hardware in everything. So not exactly free...
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, or snark. And especially please don't post personal attacks. We ban accounts that do that.

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I wanted to see if there's anything like- 'We are not doing this to see end conversions of our Ads i.e. whether one clicks the Ad and buys the same in the a physical store'.

Like Google did(doing?) with Visa/Master card data.

Closest related statements I could find in the blog,

>while Facebook, Inc. owns and controls Calibra, it won’t see financial data from Calibra

>More commerce means ads will be more effective, and advertisers will buy more of them to grow their businesses.
> If the app can get around the permission system - it’s a vulnerability in Android

That's the same argument as saying that if someone can use a baseball bat to smash in the window to my car, it's a vulnerability in the auto manufacturers glass manufacturing and should be their fault and not that of the car thief. It's an absurd and ridiculously nonsensical argument in defense of criminals.
How to Get Free SSL Certificate on AWS Certificate Manager for Your Domain Name?
This is the pattern of applications continuing to be deeply flawed and heavily advertised as long as you can be bought for a billion by IBM/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/TechOverlorfOfTheYear and finally get into a stable enough state so that they can be part of the infrastructure when a full-features open source version emerges.
Excerpt:

"The sparks occur because of a little-known fact: all the world is a gigantic electrostatic generator. There is a flow of charge going on vertically everwhere on earth. Thunderstorms pump negative charge downwards, and the charge filters upwards everywhere else on earth. Depending on the height of your circuitry above the earth's surface, depending on the area covered by your wires, and depending on whether there was a thunderstorm above you at the time, there might be a fairly huge DC charge on your electrical distribution system. This charge might be several hundred volts; enough to zap computers and delicate electronics. Or... it might be many tens of thousands of volts, enough to create enormous sparks which jump across switches and leap out of wall outlets, wall switches, across transformer windings, etc. Your electric power system is acting like a sort of capacitive "antenna" which intercepts the feeble current coming from the sky and builds up a huge potential difference with respect to the earth."
The problem with children is that we don't have an EEPROM erase function which works. So, every individual is an autonomous experiment of one, with no control and no repeatability: It is impossible to ever answer the question "if I had done this differently, how would things have changed"

I say this, because in matters of learning, the pedagogy, the mechanisms, especially when it comes to the learning of language and written language, is HUGE. Some of it is burned in (Chomsky) and some of it not. Some of it relates to age. Some of it relates to sound vs shapes. Its not simple to say "because I did this, it works for a vietnamese person" because the scripts and intonations and a whole bunch of stuff are different.

How well does it work to teach Chinese to people assuming left-to-right scanning when chinese ideograms can be read up to down? Or how about when its boudustrophon? How many written works assume left to right, and actually make little sense for a right-to-left reader?

In many economies, and I include my own (Queensland, Australia) the whole word vs phonics debate became hugely political. Its riven the early education community: It is now actually quite hard to have a rational conversation about teaching and learning in early childhood now.

Maths ability is similar. Start talking about rote learning and the "times table" and watch people foam at the mouth.

Kids have amazing models of abstraction in part wired in. This is why "I shutted the door" happens: its not because grammatical errors are in the child: its because rational abstractions Shut -> Shutted happen in the model
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This is either an advert for NoJS, Wikipedia, or both.
I'd be interested to learn more and chat. I run a startup that, like Unitsofsound, is in the literacy/dyslexia space. Contact via my website if you want to chat! www.beelinereader.com
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They are really not. They may be considered "common knowledge" in your circles.

You can find plenty of detailed rebuttals to the theories you subscribe to and I invite you to seek them out and consider the other side of the argument.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and especially ideological flamebait to HN? It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it.

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