skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> once you establish that it's "defining someone's identity", then disagreement with that person is "denying their right to exist", and so basically violence

Hyperbole doesn't even begin to describe this.
Disney heiress ‘livid’ after going to one of her family’s theme parks undercover
I think you have a sadly distorted view of the world. How do you believe that money paid affects your surroundings, really?
Perhaps because if it were really a tech anti-trust summit, ISPs would be the chief topic. Or at least discussed somewhere. So a better description is tech contribution shake down.
The best advice I ever received re: PowerPoint was: "Don't present with PowerPoint. Use it to create a PDF from which to present."
I'll revise my statement to "it seems too high"

Here's the article from our local paper that talks about it:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Almos...

The citation number is only a measure of the people who were caught, I'd venture that thousands evade paying daily.

Our transit system needs that money.
They actually use road bikes for these, though they're versions that are now called "endurance bikes". They're a pretty popular segment of road bike sales now. The two biggest models are the Specialized Roubaix (named after the race of course), and the Trek Domane. Both are basically road bikes with relaxed geometry and some compliance features to reduce/absorb vibration so the rider doesn't get tired as quickly. And of course wider tires, typically 28 or 32mm, but this has actually become the norm these days for road bikes anyway. (23mm tires used to be the norm, but that's gone out of fashion now, as people have decided you don't gain enough in efficiency with such skinny tires to make the downsides (punishing ride quality) worth it.)
average of 2-3 hours of meditation practice every day

Wow, that is insane (in a good way)! how long did it take to reach that stage?
So exhausting watching people argue that trust is no longer necessary when they're simply pushing the trust around. You have to trust someone at the end of the day, and it's more practical to use the law to trust them (and enforce that trust) than cryptography.

If I want to decentralize my storage, I would replicate data between multiple cloud object stores (Backblaze, S3, Wasabi, etc, a library to abstract PUTs and GETs) and pay them for their service. I trust them, but can verify each is holding up their end of their commercial agreement (similar to RAID block scans, but with object hash verifications). They aren't randomly going to yank their storage node of the network like a home NAS device or other consumer level storage device, because it's their business to be available.

A superior solution has yet to present itself.

Sidenote: The blog post is holding cloud provider data egress fees up as an example of exorbitant bandwidth pricing; this is true, but only from cloud providers. You can get bandwidth extremely cheap from non-cloud providers or through other means[1].

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ (random example picked from Google search)
Repl-Style UI
Indeed. Sorry! If you notice such disfigurement in the future feel free to email hn@ycombinator.com and we might get to it quicker.
I’m a somewhat (?) unusual situation where we are a Java shop in which I persuaded the group a few years ago to move to an SPA on top of web services (REST, JSON) architecture...

That said, I’m using the Maven plugin which runs the Google Closure compiler to bundle my js files (and strip white space, but not name-mangling). Seems to get the job done.

Note: most of the files are just a few large “IIFE”s to be concatenated together, rather than “modules” or such, as we had a requirement to support IE11, and were initially sticking with ES5 style.
There is more than one crackpot. Sometimes putting them both in the same space online can result in some epic flamewars. Sometimes they merge their beliefs together. It's fascinating stuff.
I'm not sure I fully understand. Would you mind expanding on that?
There are dozens of such bots, ones that promise they honor robots.txt but spam your server with nonsensical requests, requests for pages that haven't existed in a decade and are happy to ignore rate limits.

To be honest, robots.txt is not for these kinds of bots. These kinds of bots are either malicious or incompetent. But more importantly, they're 100% useless to you as a website operator. They offer no SEO benefit, drive no significant traffic and simply consume resources.

The answer, sadly, is to hit them at the web server / load balancer / reverse proxy layer and just bruteforce all these bad actors away.

They'll never stop trying, though. Checking some NGINX logs for some of these bots that have been blocked for years, they still knock on the door over and over again.
That raises an interesting question: suppose a business has one employee who needs a service dog and another who is allergic to dogs. Both individuals can be accomodated individually, but there is no realistic way to accommodate both without creating "undue hardship" to the business. Who wins priority?

This may be an unrealistic scenario, but it's at least an interesting hypothetical.
Thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9490723

and originally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921440
If they stick with RSS, they won't have to write/test a new feed format and parser. RSS (and the podcast extensions to it) are pretty battle-tested at this point.
Scala 3 Is Coming: Martin Odersky Shares What to Know
An interview with Margaret Hamilton
I'm not sure of the potential for growth on either end that podcasts have. Certainly they remain popular with more educated consumers, but I wonder if it's a case of being unable to see outside of your bubble. On the other end, podcasts have always been super cheap to make. That isn't going to change. Most people have historically just made them for fun or out of passion.

There's probably little hope in growing a platform of highly produced podcasts that supports a bunch of creators, regardless of who does it. I think think these efforts will crash and burn. But this isn't a problem for the people who've been recording on a Zoom and paying $5/month to host their libraries for the last 10 years.
Is this yet another case where they only look at salary, and not total comp (article doesn't say)?
Initially I would agree, and then it was all about thinnest, un-repairable, soldered laptops.
I used their podcast connect service recently and it is so basic and bad.

I agree if they cared about podcasts they should start with enabling all podcasts. Walling off accessibility podcast audio streams is dumb precedent for such an influential player to fuel.
Taller fare gates are in test at Richmond BART station right now.[1][2]
The regular lane works OK, but the fat people/wheelchair lane has problems.

NYC just puts in very strong stainless steel turnstile cages 8 feet high.[3]

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-s-new-stack...
[2] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/BART-Fare-Evaders-Caug...
[3] https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cagelike-subway-turnsti...
This was extremely evident in the slow response and poor communication during the recent Salesforce outage.
Que google releasing their verison: audio adwords for podcasts with optional subscriptions to remove the ads.
It would also be nice instead of just focusing on sugar, nestle focused on not using child labor in their cocoa sourcing process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershe...
Am I the only one who saw the name and thought this would be about the Node.js prolific module author?
Link to the repo with code and libs https://github.com/ryfeus/gcf-packs
>We see evidence of increasing ability to build larger and larger pyramids over time in Egypt.

That's not totally true, is it? The first pyramid was Djoser's pyramid in saqqara in about 2650BC. The first true pyramid was build around 2590BC (around 60 years later). The largest and greatest of the pyramids was built around 2570BC (only about 80 years after the first pyramid). Things really went downhill from there, but the Egyptian civilization lasted for another 3000 years.
This crossword is available in NYT Crossword app, I just loaded it!

I'm going to try to solve it both ways. :)
Hipaa Compliance for Startups
Anyone have any experience with AccountableHQ? Or any recommended tools/companies for reinforcing security for HIPAA compliance that is focused on startups?
China's Economy Slows to Lowest Rate in Nearly 30 Years
Now let’s try to break the record for the most rockets landed simultaneously!
Psychedelics Take the Ted Talk Stage for the First Time
Is a top tier MBA considered positive from Silicon Valley investors ?
Is a top tier MBA considered positive from Silicon Valley investors ?
This reminds me of the holy Grail (for me anyway) of a file containing its own hash
At least once one becomes a doctor, he doesn't need run on that leetcode treadmill whenever he changes his job. Nor does he need to worry about being laid off, since beancounters want to reduce expenses.
I was more referring to the feature where if you already subscribe to a feed, you can get the URL from either the right-click menu or menu bar menu. Although I remember there being a way to get the RSS feed from the Apple Podcast webpage for the podcast; is this what you are talking about?
This is, in my opinion, rather problematic from a security point of view.
The mind illuminated by culladasa is a very comprehensive book that guides you step by step through all meditation stages
Ok, we've changed the title to mostly the subtitle.
Substack seems like a not-horrible acq target for Medium, if Medium has the funds to buy it. Many content creators appear to trust Substack and trust the potential to earn money on it. The acquisition would be worth it for the trust alone.

The model for paying content creators seems interesting, but I'm really curious what the market opportunity here is. My guess is that it's not that high... so it seems likely that Substack would consider inserting ads into the free newsletters.

However, if they pivoted to other mediums like video, then maybe there's something here. People will pay really little for a blog post emailed to them each week, but they'll pay a ton more for great video content.
Rebuilding Jane Austen’s Library
There's probably a few qualifiers:

1. What environment you work in: a large corporation vs small technical startup

2. What your ambitions are:

* Bluntly, if you want to be a very, very good coder who gets left alone and is largely handled/insulated by management, gets client requirements translated to and from them, that is certainly achievable by focusing on strictly technical skills. You can advance and be respected within that particular niche.

* If you want to be a solid team lead or manager who actually solves their team member's organizational problems / abstracts the organization challenges away from them; understand and trully aid your client; interact with various parts of your and client's organizations to make a larger change or lead a larger project; then a communication skillset is of course crucial.

It is almost tautological that to effectively communicate to various groups (programming peers, other technical personnel, management, business, clients, users) you have to be good at communicating to various groups :-/

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As to what's difficult to acquire, again, it can be argued both ways. My wife is a tremendous communicator but technical abilities would be hard for her to acquire. At the same time, quite certainly a large amount of my technical colleagues and co-workers would and do clearly struggle to acquire communication skills.
Or put another way, I'm personally in an environment with technical skillset out the wazoo (which is important and respected and appreciated), but communication skills are rare and prized.
Abuse concerns and “does it need a blockchain” cynicism aside I find all of these “crypto” cloud computing projects fascinating. I highly recommend playing around on their testnets. Storj and Filecoin are also competing in the storage space, and BitTorrent is vying to be a CDN alternative.

SONM aims to be an EC2 competitor, and interestingly requires ID verification to participate in their testnet due to the clear abuse potential of unattributable internet-connected VMs. (which exist in plenty of other places anyways since at present date, hosting providers have no KYC requirements)

Will the sharing economy extend to computing resources? I’ll stay tuned.
More regulation of Facebook. I mean we don't normally let companies or individuals create their own currency right?
> focus on technical ability, that’s a hell of a lot harder to come by than “powerpoint skills”.

I don't know, actual presentation skills seem to be rather hard to come by. Just because someone can crank out presentations does not mean they actually have any skill in it.
Scotland has highest drug death rate in Europe
Actually, quantum mechanics allows this
Those problems STILL exist? That’s what drove me to Overcast many years ago.
Yes, this is absurd, but I've seen this play out over and over again right in front of my eyes at Google.
I've been using Slim launcher lately. These sort of launchers definitely have a place and have helped me stay distraction-free.
Do you purchase subscriptions to news websites, or do you follow the archive.is links on HN?

Of course I didn't purchase Overcast. There are better free alternatives.
Depends on how it's implemented though, does it not? Eg, I can encrypt a file and give it to 10 people and they'll be clueless of what is in it, yes. But, because of how I encrypted it it is clear that the contents are the same on those 10 people.

So if I am busted and my key/etc compromised, it is possible that those hosts are compromised as well.

This says nothing of Sia's implementation, just that encryption itself does nothing to prevent a party from being prosecuted from illegal content.
I find the concept of "Illegal Content" conceptually questionable. Authorities do not care much, I assume, if you possess illegal content. What they care about is if you share illegal content.

Say you have a pro-democracy pamphlet on your hard-drive in China. If they find it they would imprison you no doubt but they don't care so much to look for it, and it is hard to find if you never share it with anybody.

SIA provides private storage so if your only crime is possessing illegal content but never sharing it with anybody no big deal (I would assume). But if you share it then SIA can not protect you because the exchange must happen somewhere outside of SIA.
Can't they use a drone nowadays? cheaper, less polluting and can fly closer without disturbing riders

That's what they use in sailing races
A day inside the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification)
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...
Call Quality Monitoring in a Call Center
The next step is to fight the idea of "illegal content". Bits are just bits, some just upset the elites, just like nipples.
This.

Droning over PowerPoint != Communication Skills

(most people holding PowerPoint presentations are blissfully ignorant how bad they are at it)
I have to applaud Amazon Fresh for their innovative packaging (vs. e.g. Google Express)

Handle paper bags instead of boxes, frozen water bottles instead of freezer packs to keep things cold, everything packed tightly but not bulging.
The idea with Sia is you upload to not one, but several people, you pick the level of redundancy you want and if you can't get the file you want from any given one of them, they pay the price and you get it from someone else.
The only references to nuclear are in relation to the Iranian nuclear deal. Do you have another source that shows the Obama administration allowed the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia?
That still doesn't say anything about climate change. It's all about rate of change of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Greener in terms of forests is a temporary sequestration, greener in terms of farms is a net negative since the carbon is soon returned to the biosphere and we expend a lot of energy in the process. Just to know the earth is getting greener or browner is not enough information to say anything about climate change.
Amazon Grilled by Lawmaker on Conflict Claims: Antitrust Update
I use PDF for high-level conversations. It appears more polished.

I use PPT for low-level conversations. You can double click on graphs to see the numbers.
Proving Hitchcock Right, Bird Attacks Are Turning Violent This Summer
>He also discounts the whole balance thing stating that you balance on a horse. Not true you sit on a horse you don't balance on one.

Have you ever ridden a horse? You have to have balance to avoid falling over. And if you have ridden one, it sounds like you've never ridden English-style.

>Further the horse is firmly planted on the ground on four legs.

Only when it's standing still. Try riding one while it's jumping over things.
More useful for what application? Other than a novelty, why would anyone need a reserved spot?
Just incidental that an overwhelming majority of tech giants' employees pledge allegiance to the left, while having unregulated, monopoly control over information dissemination? When was the last time an ISP de-platformed someone for their politics?
Otherwise encrypted illegal content is stored on everyone's computers, and technically makes them potential felons. And thanks to the magic of the blockchain, it's indelibly recorded forever.
Makes it easier to identify high value packages.
These user reports take weeks to months to get triaged, making many rather useless.
There is also a mirror on the moon, placed by Apollo 14 (IIRC).
Does anyone else see Apple buying DDG in the near future?
I don't like where media streaming is headed. This is what everyone is doing:

1. Create a distribution platform. Users pay $14 a month to stream all content. Everyone is happy.

2. Once successful, start creating exclusive content.

3. Content creators on your platform start their own platforms and take content off of yours.

4. Now users are paying $14 for 6 different distribution/content platforms. Might as well just call them "channels". This is no better than cable.
How long till we get an unedited hacker news post that links to itself?
Couldn't the same thing happen with AWS? You encrypt an illegal file, store it on AWS, then get busted? Why would those 10 people in your example get in trouble but not AWS?
Ask HN: How to level up the system desining skills
Sincerely interested in leveling up the system designing skills, what are your suggestions for this.

It not for interview purpose but I guess having a sound understanding will help those as well.
> since people for whom that's the case will self select out of working at offices that have pets.

Which is exactly my point. In my opinion, it is a waste to exclude 10% to 20% of the workforce to entertain the few people who really want to bring pets to the office.

There's also the important to mention fact that adult-onset allergies exist. Allergies can appear suddenly and you would end up with an employee who needs to leave the company for medical reason.

Some people might not be made aware of the presence of animals until it's too late to turn back.

This has happened to me in the past. I only was made aware of the presence of a dog late in the hiring process. They had me tour the office and it's only when the dog randomly passed by that they told me "and this is [dog name] our office dog".

Suffice to say I'm not working there - and dogs don't even trigger death inducing symptoms for me (cats however do). I may have skewed perceptions of my own value, but I think it is their loss.
Is that significance also counted on Google scale? :)
We've talked about these classes of problem from time to time, a lot of ideas have been put forward but what's the solution?

If I have a multi-tenant system, and no one customer is dominant (always causes problems IMO), my 'biggest customer' might only be 4% of my traffic. There are a million things that can go wrong that make this customer's experiences different from everyone else's, from getting my sharding solution wrong to small-C n^2 issues (and a whole lot of space between for nlog(n) problems).

If I'm doing 95th percentile calculations that will not show up in my metrics. If I have a larger customer that's 10% of my traffic, almost half of their users could be having issues before my alerts go off.

And then there's explaining to your boss that 5 9's across twenty interacting services is around 99.98%, and that's only if degradation in one service doesn't cause failure in another.
> Hosts on Sia do not have to worry about building and maintaining enormous datacenters, employing thousands of employees, and marketing their services. They only need to worry about providing reliable storage capacity to renters on Sia.

I would expect that building large datacenters and employing people to manage them is exactly how you go about providing reliable storage capacity.

And while it's true that providers don't have to worry about marketing or branding, well... the flip side is that they can't do any marketing or branding and need to compete in a market where the product is completely commoditized.
Show HN: A program goes through imgur albums and finds all duplicate images
Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?
Gosh, why is it so hard for you to reread the comment thread? So much letters to attack the same straw man.
My address also kicks off this issue in Apple Maps. I live on XYZ Street, it will send you off to XYZ Road on the other end of the city.

I never reported it as I just immediately went back to Google Maps, but I'll do that now, good suggestion.
Ask HN: Tell me why this auth system is a bad idea
EDIT: It has been pointed out that slack already does essentially this, which gives me hope.

I’m no security expert, and it’s probably about to show.

I’ve had an idea for a simple passwordless auth system bouncing around in my head. I’ve seen similar ideas floated once or twice before but don’t see it used anywhere, so I’m assuming it’s not as good of an idea as I think it is. The idea is essentially to use a password reset flow for all logins, not just when you need to reset your password. So it goes something like this:

User prompted for and inputs email address
Server sends them an email with a randomly generated key. The key expires in a short period (5-10 minutes) or after first use, whichever is sooner.
User inputs key (possibly automatically by clicking a link in the email).
Server verifies the key, generates a random token, and sets it in a cookie/local storage which is valid for a reasonable session period (a day or two, maybe a week).

Advantages:

* Very simple to implement. Few moving pieces.

* Authorization can be handled by associating resources with lists of authorized email addresses, so technically users don't need an "account" in order to "login" and access the resources.

* User doesn’t have to remember a password. If you can prove you control the email address, you’re authenticated.

* No passwords to hack/phish from the database.

Disadvantages:

* If someone gets control of your email address, they have complete control over any service relying on this system. However, I don’t see this as different from password reset flows which rely on email (ie Slack’s magic links).

* User has to open their email every time they login.

* You tell me.
While I think this is probably a net good, at what point does my computer stop being my computer?

What if I want to keep something Apple dislikes on my machine?
Those who want no added sugar can always get the 100% dark chocolate.