skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a quick feedback, currently the front page has no indication what use signing up is.
Ahah - thanks for the heads up!
But you most definitely want to invest in them, since that's where the dollars are going.
prob outlook is hard to replace with gmail for their workflows
It’s only odd if you assume 100% of the surveyed companies have a CI and build infrastructure set up. Quite possibly some percentage is only using it for source control and doesn’t have an automated CI process in place at all.
I have never seen someone hold all of these opinions simultaneously.
This is completely spot-on (well, disagree some about the coding standards and best practices part) and just calling it an old fart rant is way underselling yourself :)

The irony is that the current/next generations who have never seen/used/built a non-stock desktop app will not know of this big-step-back that happened, and will think that this is how things always were.

With so much moving to mobile, this comparison is becoming more irrelevant though. And on mobile native apps are very much still alive, due to many of the reasons you brought up.
This is large companies must notify the authorities within days of such a data breach in the EU now - no room for "guessing" whether or not the companies should be sued over this type of fraud.
I wonder if this affected companies like IBM... I know for a fact IBM uses slack to talk internally about client billing, meaning if IBM was compromised the attacker knows what most of IBM clients bought from IBM.

Same applies to a bunch of other companies...
I don't even dislike the pitch, tbh. Rarely do I view these posts as innocent / without-pitch. So seeing the pitch is almost appreciated by me, as at least he's trying not to hide it.

With that said, I wish he'd have gone into more of a pitch - specifically why Keybase might be unable to suffer from this specific problem. Or at least, why the attack surface area is smaller with Keybase, etc etc. He goes into a bit, but not a ton, I could have used more.
It's relevant because as a security minded CEO...he did not even enable 2FA on his account.

Regardless of the issue, that still reflects very poorly on him.
I use NextCloud and it has this feature on the desktop. Though it may be a dialog box first to configure expiration date, and password, I don't fully recall.

Agreed about the public folder hosting. I remember memorizing my Dropbox user ID just so I could send people a public URL within seconds.
I think you parent means it in the sense of "feels entitled", not necessarily that they deserve it.
Replacing email with a seperate 'secure email' system would probably work, at least until idiots write awful implementations of the secure-email protocols.
Two in the UK as well (UK South and UK West) which is a serious consideration for a lot of organisations.
Instagram ‘tag cleaners’ are fighting against digital vandalism
It has nothing to do with Google

Some people might expect Google to detect and block black hat SEO techniques? And see this behaviour as Google erroneously miscounting links to pages?
Signing up allows you to add and upvote trends yourself.

But duly noted! I will make that clearer.
> It's usually more performant and is less of a security risk.

Source, particularly for the "less of a security risk"? (It might well be now, I'm not an expert, but a few years ago I'd have thought "no way").
GStreamer in Oslo
I have periodically checked to see if this site has remained up. A little background on this: SJ came out when I was in high school. I was at a loss as to what I wanted to do with my life even though I was still a couple of years out from college. SJ was released with a lot of fanfare and the TV spots mentioned the website. We were AOL subscribers at the time (yeah, yeah, yeah) and it made front page for months. I learned HTML from copying the SpaceJam website and running it on my Windows 3.11 machine. Lots of good memories there. Ever since I'd check in and make sure the site was still up. Every time I've checked, it's been there for me, reminding me that it was the start of my development career.
Believing and pretending that McDs and Walmart are dying off and unpopular is a different thing though.

Or things like "Everyone I know is switching to Whole Foods from Walmart, this means Whole Foods will take over in a year's time and Walmart will die off".
“The ballot box is connected to the bread box”.
You really should opt in to try the new client. I have. It’s identical to before unless you want to use the new file browser for search or something else it can remain closed.
Let me explain what my job is at Google:

I work in a larger team, but I always solve problems alone. When others have failed to solve something important they give it to me, and I always solve it quicker than them putting a team of staff-engineers on it would. Often my solutions are good enough that they make the whole team pivot in a different direction since it solves many problems for the wider organization. I often design new architectures in doing so, build frameworks etc which others then use.

Note that I am relatively new on the team, so it is not that I designed things which others don't understand. Instead I came in, started fixing a lot of shit and my responsibilities just grew. The most senior engineers on the level of senior directors noticed that I could fix a lot of things others couldn't so I get tasked with solving large problems which are blocking a lot of other efforts. Almost always it involves cleaning up bad architecture and implementing something which allows us to solve more problems. There is no point in pairing me with others, I can't teach them to work like me. However I can teach them to work with the code I wrote, but not to actually solve problems like me.

Would you say that having me on the team is bad? Am I toxic? I think I wouldn't fit into a lot of teams, but I still think that I can help a lot. If I weren't here they would need to put teams of people to achieve the same or worse results as me, or the work simply wouldn't have been done.
How can there be a big spike in the 'cattle' trend - https://trennd.co/trend/cattle - but no corresponding change on Google Trends - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... ?
The obvious question that no one seems to have asked nor answered: can a microphone detect this sound?
Income isn't tied to contribution to society though. And that's okay.
Surely we should be focusing on solving the environmental and economic problems of air travel rather than painting it as a decadent and reckless means of moving around.

I've yet to see any technology that is going to eliminate CO2 emissions from air travel whereas we have all the technology we need to get to zero carbon for pretty much everything else.
Have you considered Wire? What are your thoughts? Runs on many platforms, sign up with phone number or email, and of course e2ee.
Awesome! Thanks for making this, and for sharing here, and for open-sourcing it! :)
They built in Python interop so that you can use numpy in TFSwift
not the author, just a non-techy person who wants to try org mode without the complexity of emacs.
Subaru warning about making changes to vehicles
Microsoft is also getting some love because they've been doing right by the open source community and haven't ruined Github yet, nor does it look like they're going to.
Heck, even at a 10% discount. e.g. the IRS claims this is worth $65 million so there is an explicit offer to buy at $58.5 million and the IRS can make a bundle on the taxes and then on selling it for its "real" value.
It's interesting to see that topics like 'fentanyl', 'opiod' have done up.

Also 'criminal defenses', 'wrongful death claim' have gone up a lot as well - Perhaps they are related to spikes in searches for plastic surgery topics.

Also it's weird why almost all the topics on the front page are related to software development. It's like there is some kind of conspiracy to turn the world's population into software developers.
Fun fact: millennial households earn more than their parents’ did at the same age: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FT_18...
> I think we can better.

What kind of sentence is that? Maybe it's saying we can better perform some activity that was mentioned in the previous sentence? Let's look at that:

> Syntax coloring is very popular, especially with coders who still struggle with basic syntax.

So, "I think we can better...struggle?" Hmmm.

Perhaps the Crock would have done better with some English syntax highlighting such as the kind commonly found used in spelling and grammar checkers.
Your job is not "code writer".

When you first come into this line of work you will see your work as synonymous with writing code. Nothing could be further from the truth. Code is a liability, software is an asset
they failed to mention that malicious code was reading plaintext passwords though
The vast majority of people didn't buy Sound Blaster cards for their advanced 3D sound rendering, though. They bought them to play sound at a level more advanced than a PC speaker, which is what most had at the time.

Once motherboards integrated that there was no need for most people to buy a separate sound card. I know I didn't, especially when working out what you're spending your money on - video cards were far more important. But those, too, have become less important as integrated graphics have improved.
From the users perspective git is an application which you use to actively maintain a repo. Whereas Dropbox is more or less just a magic folder. Entirely different levels of convenience.
Yes, I do filter out any chaff, since the scripts I have crawling the web to generate keyword ideas aren't perfect!

Right now they're monitoring the obvious techie havens, but I'm looking to expand their coverage to be more comprehensive.
> the fact that 2FA would have prevented it.

Is that so? The article states: "If the attackers inject server code, 2FA or U2F or any Web-based security practice does little."
New York Selects Winning Bidders in Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Agreement
I'd like to see something like this used to display people's arguments in social media. Something like a mythical "machine learning argument analysis" process would look at comments and threads, then spit out something like Argdown. Then people could see what structure and flow different discussions have.

Could also be useful if there was such a mythical tool that could gently teach people to debate in a more logical manner. The user would write their comment, but before it is submitted, it is analyzed and helpful tips or edits shown to the user.

As an aside, I wonder how good grammar checkers have become since the Word 97 days? My grammar is utterly terrible and I wish I could get it proofread before I make comments.
Probably billionaires. The art collection the inherited alone was worth 1B. I can’t imagine the personal worth that comes with it.
> Also, many small towns have higher crime rates per capita than cities.

Per capita crime rates do not matter. What matters is the question "How likely am I to be the victim of a crime if I live in area X?".

Depending on the type of crime, you are around 4x as likely to be the victim of a violent crime if you live in a city[1].

Per capita rates is a statistical curiosity. Being 4x more likely to be shot is what people actually care about. When the population density is 10 - 100x different, a small difference in per capita rates is meaningless.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Ask HN: Pinterest for text?
I keep text snippets saved from webpages (thousands of them) and would like to present this collection online.

I haven't found anything good enough for this. Ideally it should be like Pinterest (or maybe Instagram) for text, an unlimited canvas of text previews (masonry.js style or stacked design).
A search function would also be useful.

I was thinking that this description is close to a blog but I'd like it to be optimized for displaying a lot of different snippets (as in Pinterest and giving the choice to the user to "peruse" through the entries quickly) but clicking on an entry should result in expanding into full content (again like Pinterest).
A Hugo blog offers a clean view of the titles (one after the other) but no preview of the actual content. Wordpress is optimized for only a posts per page.

On the other end something like Bret Victor's quote page is too simple and doesn't offer the "read more" feature:
http://worrydream.com/quotes/

Anyone has seen anything out there that matches my needs? I don't mind paid services.
I'm not sure what this is in response to, actually. I'm not expressing any particular opinion about cryptography. I have no opinions and I defer to experts. One thing that I have heard experts say is that we should be very hesitant to use new protocols and software in areas in which a maximum of security is needed.

So I have no opinion of Wormhole, other than to say that (1) it is new, and experts I have listened to in the past say to be wary of new approaches, and (2) it (according to its own documentation) has some rather extreme limitations that make it arguably not a good fit as a general purpose solution to encrypted file transfer.

> My thoughts about Signal and Wire are that I did a good job of relating in the post you're talking about what I think about Signal and Wire.

As I don't think I have referred to any post by you, I don't know what you think about those solutions. If you are referring to the Latacora article (I think you wrote it, but I'm not sure because it doesn't specify its authors), it says (IMO) very little about the merits of Signal and Wire compared to other systems, and nothing at all about the specific criticisms I made in my comment you originally replied to.
Only if it's directly receiving government funds or dealing on behalf of the government should there be any restriction on whom they serve. Most businesses don't directly receive government funds.

For example, it should be illegal for a charter school to refuse to accept a gay student because they receive funding directly from the government. Same with a vehicle emissions test business that provides registrations. Or a hospital that has an emergency room.

Every business gets some amount of benefit from government services, but that isn't the same as it being funded by or operating in behalf of government.
Slack gates a lot of its exfiltration security features behind enterprise licensing. Expect to double your spend if you want to try to prevent sensitive data floating around in slack.
Redis Cuckoo Filter Library
I think its fairly widely accepted that the Uncanny Valley principle can be applied to things like usability and design.

For example: https://medium.com/s/user-friendly/the-ux-uncanny-valley-cf3...
Haus raises $7.1M to finance home purchases by co-investing for equity
you have to be clear about whether this is the payment to a contracting firm or the payment to the contractor or if it is the “salary” that a typical employee from a company takes home.
lots of numbers are thrown around without any clarifications for the intent of misleading people.
also it must be emphasized that people outside the us typically rely on their home country’s universal healthcare so they will always will be able to undercut any us worker.
Outlandish Ergonomics – Original Desk Designs for WFH
Always go beyond the curriculum. The free courses out there are so similar, that it is not enough to differentiate yourself against others who have done the same course.

You also need to do more than just 'code' or 'program' these days in $CURRENT_YEAR if you are starting out as a new programmer.
it seems to be a backup for when they break keybase
Keybase developer here. Keybase does automatically update on Mac, and you can check if you're out of date on the CLI with `keybase update check`. Additionally, the "widget" popup from the system tray will display an out of date banner automatically.

4.2.1 was a bugfix release that only affected Linux and BSD, so we didn't push out Mac or Windows releases for it.
I was wondering this as I was reading the article. As a layman, seems like a very obvious question and I'm not sure why it's not explored in the article. Could an expert explain why?
I don't think this is the case. I remember seeing something about 3D sound in the card settings, thinking "that's not going to work with my 2.1 speaker system, must be just a useless gimmiky DSP" -- and never using it again. Most of my friends had the same experience.

Later on, I got a new computer and a much better speakers, and spent some time getting digital output to work. I used my motherboard for that, because at this stage, I wanted soundcard to be just a simple, stupid data sender. No DSP, no "advanced 3D sound rendering" -- the ideal sound card takes data from input (DVD) and sends them to speakers, acting as a dumb data pipe.

Same goes for "fancy CRT features" -- what is that exactly that CRTs can do that flat-screens can not? Other than duck hunt-style controllers, I don't think there is anything.
> I did formal (policy) debate and my goal was always to win. Are there forms of formal debate which are really oriented towards sketching out a complete argument landscape?

I don't think this exists yet, but it should. It may just end up with everyone arguing over what the meaning of "truth" is, but I'd still watch it.
Thank you I was wondering if they would set all of these mirrors up just for this event.
> Elasticsearch, definitely. I always recommend using it in hosted form and not running your own cluster. That allows you to focus on getting data in and out of your cluster instead of sinking time into doing devops.

I think everyone doing Elasticsearch well has to bring it in-house eventually. AWS's hosted solution is poor, Logz.io and ElasticCloud are expensive.

There's a 7-figure/yr Elastic Cloud customer I work with who is so tired of Elastic just randomly killing their clusters out of nowhere and having to spend basically triple to deal with it that they're bringing it all in house.
If they had contacted the IRS first they could have either gotten it in writing as valued at $0 or made the charitable donation ahead of tax season, lowered their gains, and sold fewer art pieces to pay their tax bill.
If you are serious about it:
After you learn the basics (what is a string vs an int vs a float vs a loop vs an if statement), grab a pencil and notebook and go through the CS50 MIPS manual ASAP and complete all of the exercises without using stack overflow. After two or so years of initial learning, I never felt like a real programmer, and never felt like I understood the "whys" of what I was doing- going through this manual (it's free online) changed that: you will be forced to plan out everything on paper, and really think about what you're trying to do. I can't think of a time investment that I got more return on than my time going through that manual.
SF is starting to have some issue getting lower wage workers to commute & work in the city.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-rest...
Subaru is warning dealers about making modifications to their cars, listing simple items like changing tires and wheels, they also mention adding larger tires and wheels and lifting the vehicles, but they specifically mention changing tires and wheels.

Subaru is requiring that dealers must identify and document any changes they detect because it could impact warranty coverage. If a dealer does make non-standard modifications they must indemnify Subaru.

I think I'm going to have a discussion with my Subaru dealer and get a copy of their warranty support and manufacturer indemnification letter when they replaced my tires with non OEM tires. I replaced the OEM tires with the same size tires, but they aren't OEM and they could impact vehicle performance and I need to know that my dealer will stand behind the change.

With all the technology on cars it's looking like the car industry is going down the Apple/John Deer business model. You don't really "own" the car, you just pay to use it, and maintain it, but you don't own it.
> The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, according to people familiar with its sales pitch.

They’re talking about NSO, which makes the Pegasus smartphone hacking tool.
Thank you - appreciate it!!

I actually hadn't considered OSS, which part of it specifically would be most interesting to see?
Murder is illegal, but that doesn't physically stop you from killing anyone either.

Banning facial recognition wouldn't prevent you from doing it, it would prevent anyone that doesn't run a crime syndicate from using or selling it.
I'm hoping the librem 5 goes well. I'm tired of Google and Fdroid, I just want to be able to pull up a shell and install whatever I want.
>In 2020, we expect to see Microsoft double down in three key areas to further differentiate from the leading tech giants: AI and ML (across the entire platform), data (infinitely expandable, cost-effective, and supportive of ODI), and modern workplace (productivity software)

What's so profitable about these areas? I see them as a potential black hole.
If someone is in a situation where their property's valuation cannot be evaluated by the sale of similar objects on the market, then they are without exception able to afford to pay the taxes on it. The story discussed here applies only to the extremely wealthy, and such people don't deserve any pity for having to contribute back to the society that allowed them to accumulate such wealth.
I figured out the adding trends after clicking on one.

Are the trends on the frontpage sorted by upvotes?
With the move to cloud services, governments may gravitate towards CentOS (which is based on RHEL)...
I expect he's referring to the web page running in a sandbox vs running an app locally with no sandbox.
> you can't even change the color of the mouse pointer/cursor from black to any other color that you desire

Is... is this really true? (disclaimer: I've never used a mac in my life)
I haven't watched the video but it looks like they might touch on that.
Great overview - thanks for putting together.
I'm a .NET developer and I'm very pleased with the direction the tech stack is heading, but man. Microsoft Teams is so much worse than Slack.

The UI is so much less intuitive, but worse, they haven't figured out scrolling. I can't scroll quickly through chat history -- it's always loading -- meaning it's much harder to get the information I want. On the other hand, maybe Slack takes up so much memory because it pre-loads everything.

But even more damningly, there are fewer emojis. Sometimes there is no emoji for what I am feeling.
Stop Writing Non-Semantic HTML, God Damn It