skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reports are that he liked to throw dinners and parties with glittering attendee lists. I could see a guy like him wanting to have a few pet academics at such affairs, in the same way he'd want to have some artists -- partly just to liven up the conversations, and partly to signal that he's cultured and respectable.

And of course there are always some academics (like Ito, it seems) who can serve as bridges into other worlds, by doing things like bringing him into investment opportunities.
Well certainly the type of felon matters, no? Epstein's crimes are particularly heinous.
Who Hosts Hate on the Internet?
I think Trump got a lethargic population engaged in politics the same way a fire gets me engaged in fire drills - holy shit, we need to pay attention because someone set the house on fire.

And you're supporting the Forum, talking about how "letting anyone talk is good" - but you missed the caveat: Not all talk or opinion is equal. Terrible opinions and thoughts must always be challenged in public. That is the critique of Rogan. No one is saying that Alex Jones literally should not be allowed to speak, but that letting him speak to your curated audience of millions, without challenging their horseshit, makes you an enabler to those bad ideas.

Bad ideas as judged by me. And most people. Stop with this moral relativism line about how everything is equal. It isn't.
I'm wondering why you merely couch this as accepting money from felons, when you know full well that Epstein was not only a pedophile, but ran an international sex trafficking ring.

We aren't discussing insider trading or possessing controlled substances.

You would have to decide if you find it immoral to accept a donation from a specific person, based on your own moral code and how the person behaves and live with that.
Thanks! AFAIK Show HN allows to post only ready products you can have acces to. Burnout.so is not ready yet...
Can't wait to try this! I used miro.com in the past but it has a paywall. Congrats on the launch.
Here's kinda the problem though: you can buy a /24 on the open market for 6.5k. If you rented out all 256 of those for 1 dollar each per month, you'd break even in a little over 2 years. Instead they sell for 2 bucks per month.

Now, either there is some huge risk that ipv6 undermines the value of ipv4 address space in that time span, or I need to start buying up /24s and renting them out.
I'm overall a fan of what Rogan does but I think you picked a poor example for #1. He destroyed Mencia but every time the well-documented joke theft of Amy Schumer has been brought up, he has refused to directly call it out.
I know it's been mentioned but Splitwise is an AMAZING app/webapp. I've used it with friends on vacation (uber rides, hotel/airbnb, dinners, etc), I've used it with roommates (electric bill, rent, etc), and now I use it with my boyfriend (rent, groceries, utilities, furniture, tools, etc).

I find it really helps me as I HATE talking about money and asking for it (even when I'm owed it). This way I never feel like I'm paying in more than he is and he doesn't feel like he is paying in more than me. Some months he "pays" his portion of the rent by just buying all the groceries or buying something else we both agreed on getting and it all evens out. Because of this we rarely have to actually settle up but when the balance gets out of wack by like $500 one of us will just venmo the other one and record it in splitwise.
> lying to your audience

I am pretty sure the scale should be always put somewhere next to the heat map so the audience can make their own judgement. A rainbow colormap gives you more depth than a single or dual hue one, I think that both have their merit depending on the data to visualize.

> Also, Turbo doesn’t give a fuck about colorblind considerations whereas Inferno and Viridis does.

There is a whole section of the article dedicated to that.
yes/no/no/no, which will force mozilla to say no.

Do our part, switch to and support firefox.
Taking action by removing it from the trusted CA list is principled and consistent. Explicitly blacklisting it is activism.
What problem, specifically, are you trying to solve for?

Given all the other constraints on the product, how does making a binary protocol fit in? What trade offs will be made if they used a binary protocol?
I don't like promoting conspiracy theories.

Now that that's out of the way, here's a doozy:

https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/jeffrey-epstein-money/
Did you read the article? If you read between the lines is really tells you what they think of user's privacy. Apparently their systems was never designed to allow deletion of data, and they had to do investigations just to figure out what the different teams were doing with it. There is no way they found everything.

If I was investing a a GDPR complaint, this article contains a lot of information that would be useful when asking questions to FB.
Thanks! That's much appreciated.
> Merely knowing/being friends with the guy though should not be reason for disgrace without further evidence of anything bad on one's part.

I think being friends with a convicted child sex trafficker should be cause for disgrace. That's something most normal people would not do.
YouTube has been censoring sports-combat-robot videos (AKA "battle-bots") from YouTube because apparently their animal-fighting-detection algorithm is mistaking robots for animals. Battle-bot fans are pissed and are testing alternatives to YouTube.

Google has been under pressure by politicians to "clean up" violent and privacy-related content, and it seems they decided that false positives are a smaller risk for their business than letting riff-raff through.
Yeah. I asked because I really like Python's libraries in general, but I found Flask to be so-so, and I just recently worked on a large project in Django, which I hated. I was hoping there was some kind of up-and-coming framework in Python I didn't know about.
> Im gonna feel really bad breaking the QUIC / HTTP/3 news. Cuz google totally wrote the new transport layer. They wrote the last one too (SPDY HTTP/2.)

This would presumably be news to everybody involved.

Google's QUIC ("GQUIC") isn't very close to the IETF QUIC standard under development. The IETF went with TLS 1.3 as the cryptographic foundation (which didn't exist when Google built GQUIC) and most the details have changed considerably. You can definitely see a family resemblance, but for Google this was a proof of concept hack and for the QUIC WG they're building what is probably a successor to TCP. It's the difference between a five year old's doodle of a house and the plans you need to submit to get someone to approve it and then build the house.

The chairs are currently not Google employees (they work at Fastly and NetApp) and the editors on the main transport draft aren't Google either (Mozilla and Fastly). There are Google people in the room (such as Adam Langley of course) but there are people from the other browsers too.
I was even going to say it was a missed opportunity for gittyup but maybe giddyup is better for TM avoidance!
The most requsted feature is integration with GitHub. What do you think it is missing?
I'd say Genode fits the bill. The cool thing is that parent processes have complete control over the services their children access and can block them, replace them, delegate them, etc.

https://genode.org/
Do you ever read the New York Times? He’s on the board. He’s also connected to half of SV. Check his Flickr account for the portraits.
Thanks! Not sure how we missed that.
Also, sometimes people are walking in dark clothes on the road. Maybe their car broke down. Maybe they're trick or treating. Maybe they were out later than expected. Regardless, demanding other people dress like the world is a construction site so you can drive fast is impolite.
I think they are trying to protect a billion dollar ecosystem which is their App Store.

Apple's App Store earns developers something like 50%+ more revenue than equivalent apps on Android. No small part of that is due to the ease of piracy on Android.

I do not see any contradiction, nor any "bait-and-switch". The operating system and a kernel are not the services engine which keeps their company running. Open sourcing that code doesn't imperil their primary revenue streams.
Death of a Nation 2018 [video]
I'm somewhat surprised that Mozilla went this route, because I recall during discussions, there was concern that explicitly blacklisting a country's root CA could lead the country to simply fork and release its own nation-state browser with the root CA trusted. That would be bad for everyone for many reasons, not the least of which being that the nation-state forked browser would likely be perpetually behind the main branch in terms of bugfixes and security updates.

Maybe because Google agreed to do the same?
I see no witch hunt here, nor any accusation of anyone in the lab of being a child molester. You call this an example of the degeneration of public discourse, yet it contains none of the qualities you find "ridiculous."
Yup. The specific stuff released here is LNAPL[1], which is basically the light liquid components like alkanes, benzene etc. which all flow right along at the highest point of groundwater. They've been going directly into the groundwater and probably drinking water for over a decade. These things are toxic and carcinogenic. If not for the fact that ongoing pollution and spills have rendered the gulf of Mexico a hypoxic dead zone, this would probably be the biggest direct loss of life expectancy from (direct) US pollution.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...
Can inspect a binary protocol in a text editor? Or do I have to go hunt down a hex editor?

Can I use the protocol with simple command line tools or do I have to spend several hours coding up a protocol handler?

Will implementers be more or less likely to fuck up their implementation of a binary protocol?

How will you version the binary protocol? How will you maintain backwards compatibility?
Thanks! We'll definitely stick to "they" in the future!
> Every language brings a JSON parser

Yeah more or less that's true, but in typed languages especially it's pretty inconvenient (unless you circumvent the type system or dump directly into a hash table, but that's usually bad).

> It's easy to debug

There are tons of corner cases re: parsing JSON [1]. Plus things like canonicalization and duplicate keys are pretty confounding.

> You also don’t have any overhead for parsing in JavaScript based editors like VSCode and Atom.

JSON isn't JavaScript and parsing it with `eval` is super bad practice. And there is indeed parsing overhead [2].

[1]: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php#4

[2]: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript#benchmark
What’s the Difference Between Copenhagen and Everett?
Web Game Development in JavaScript. Those will be done in whatever game engine and compiled into webassembly.
Epstein wasn’t just any felon. He was someone who was systematically using his wealth and influence to rape children and get away with it. If you accept charitable donations from him, you are increasing his influence and assenting that his crimes were not a big deal.
Your mixing logic between the issue of a "one world" and a solution that lays in the conceptual boundaries of nationhood.

A world green police sounds great (better than a world oil reserve police atleast) but that requires a world government to come up with the authority and solution that does not result in suffering.

It's not going to work if the country you live in is secluded from the world and is exploiting the resources of the world for the commodities and relative fortune.
Tensorboard: Chrome Extension of hiding empty scalar/panes
And SDK Man, which is fantastic:

https://sdkman.io/
Spider-man: Could this be the END?. As DisneyMarvel disagree on a deal with Sony
Actually, no. It is far less robotic in practice and works quite well because once the schedule is better known and controlled, developers can go home on time every day. The whole crunch mode thing is effectively eliminated.

Pivots get into work at the same time, work together all day and then get to leave at the exact sane normal 8 hour work day. Every single day. Sounds like a great job to me.
Woah, WTF.

It had more votes than any story above it, except one, and the votes to comments to time ratio was all better on this article.

Someone at HN really hates North Dakota, doesn't feel like a coverup is something techies should be talking about. Frustrating.

23th place and falling.

https://imgur.com/a/yRz9FrW
Google, Mozilla, Apple Block Kazakhstan's Root CA Certificate to Prevent Spying
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Im more making the point, that if google doesnt implement a standard, it dies. Google has defacto control, even without running the show.

But fair enough, to say they wrote it all is a mischaracterization of events.
Thanks for including ARM optimizations and using meson. I'll try to use this with my tablet UI app.
Linux vs. Z/OS for Mainframe
> Mozilla doesn't think the state should meddle in your relationship with them, or the rest of the Internet.

I don't want to have a relationship with Mozilla. I use their browser to communicate with other people. The browser is merely a tool, and I would expect it to allow me to communicate with anyone I want (as long as it's technically feasible), not only people that Mozilla approves of.
It's worse, the specific stuff released here is LNAPL[1], which is basically the light liquid components like alkanes, benzene etc. They all flow right along at the highest point of groundwater. They've been going directly into the groundwater and probably drinking water for over a decade. These things are toxic and carcinogenic; they don't even put benzene in gasoline any more because just being around it for long enough will give you leukemia.
Let’s not forget that it’s an allegation against Marvin Minsky, not a proved event. He’s not even alive to confirm or deny the charge. As someone who was around Minsky, I have a very very hard time believing this for a number of reasons.

Our culture has gotten to the point where an accusation is enough in the court of opinion. It’s good that these issues have brought awareness to places where victims have been otherwise minimized in the past, or have been proof less of the action despite it happening. And that’s a tough thing. But occasionally these accusations are proved to be false. I think we’re getting carried away here, at least as far as Minsky goes.
JavaFX included in builds from here (branded "Zulu FX"): https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/

(select JRE FX or JDK FX from the dropdown I guess - they've changed the download page recently)
It runs fine on my Mac, the only time it seems to spin up the fans is for Youtube videos. It wouldn't suprise me if Google has done something to make Firefox not work as well on Youtube as they have done before.
Do Containers support segregated browsing history yet? That's what I've liked most about Chrome profiles. I can have a "personal" profile and then a "work" profile that doesn't comingle the browsing history. It's convenient when on a screenshare--the URL bar's type-ahead won't reveal your personal browsing history.
For telecom, Comcast probably shouldn't own NBC. Or at least, the FTC should do their job as a competition monitor and use teeth to make sure NBC content doesn't get preferential treatment on Comcast cable/Internet properties.
One more reason is the lack of liquidity in the CEO job market.
A Revisited Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project
Can we talk about Brave? Its impressed me immensely, and BAT is a profound new approach to monetization on the web. in the context of this article its the only salvation i see; much like telegram for messaging, it provides a privacy and performance focus that makes it infinitely better than the bloat of chrome at getting you around the web; And without the ads and tracking. Awesome.
>I wonder if humans have a cognitive bias where when we're getting money/resources from someone we "un-see" things that could damage that relationship?

Don't assume it's merely about the money. Many people respond equally well to offerings of sex servants...
Have heard that Silicon and Germanium have 4 bonds like Carbon does. Follow the periodic table down.
As others pointed out, this goes beyond mere association. It involves being present at his houses (and private island) where multiple underage victims of sex trafficking may have been present. Some of them had extensive and repeated contacts with him, and a few (so far) have been named (though of course this is as yet unproven) in private lawsuits as having participated in sexual assaults. So yeah, given the scale of the potential crimes involved, some
scrutiny is well deserved.

It’s also depressing how all these prominent men (and yes, it’s all men because Epstein didn’t like having women around for their intellects, and because they may have figured out something was amiss) never questioned any of this, because Epstein was rich.
I find that I can enjoy any book based on the quality of the story and writing, I don't require it to fit into my own perspectives. If I did, I wouldn't be able to enjoy almost anything, as no one has my particular perspective.

You are right about Asimov's style, it hasn't aged great. But he was an intellectual at heart, so his writing fits his personality.
Dunno about Joi Ito - his biggest claim to fame prior to directing the Media Lab seems to be as a venture capitalist who invested in Flickr, Kickstarter, Twitter, Six Apart, etc.

The Media Lab has a long history of innovations that you've probably heard of: E-ink, Formlabs (3D printers), RockBand/GuitarHero, the touchstick on IBM Thinkpads, OLPC, Lego Mindstorms, and Scratch were all developed there.
The problem is with the binary attribution. Either you're an author of everything in the paper or you're not an author at all.

Software world solved this issue with version control systems like git. And if scientists write papers in latex or other text-based formats it's trivial to use version control system for that too.

Then when you quote a fragment you do "git blame" on it, and you see who created and edited this fragment, so you can quote only the relevant people instead of authors of the whole book.

This would make it much harder to abuse quotation rankings.

Additional benefits - when a paper is found to contain manipulated data or other errors - it's trivial to check who did it, so only that person's career is done.
Red Hat also provides binaries built from the unmodified OpenJDK source here: https://adoptopenjdk.net/upstream.html -- which could be downloaded without developer account.
Wow, yeah, I've never had that issue with NFC on the card, using my Garmin watch, Apple watch, iPhone, etc, most places I've traveled (Canada, Norway, NZ, Aus, continental europe.. Germany and their weird credit card hatred notwithstanding)
Im on mobile and dont have the link but you can easily get the list of airport codes - just google about.

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Whats interesting about the airport codes (the three letter designation) is that they are commonly derrived from the plot of land or field they were created on. Sometimes even the name of the land owner.

Oh here you go:

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/history-airport-codes-logic-le...
> When both Bernie Sanders, Ben Shapiro, and __Alex Jones__ happily go on the same podcast and have civil discussions, you're doing something very, very, right.

Those three people have diverse political opinions, but are also basically just 3 white males. Rogan doesn't really provide a platform for "anyone" - only a place for people who (generally) appeal to someone on the heterosexual white male spectrum. Sure, he had some women and minorities on his show, but mostly just white males. That's not diversity.
Other than assuming his accusations are flawed, how else would one "take into account" his motivations?
I don't know the current (post-ACA) situation, but the short answer about the US's emergency care laws is "sometimes".

For instance, suppose you trip and fall, and in catching yourself, shatter your shoulder joint.

The emergency room would be obligated to keep that from killing you -- making sure the bone fragments weren't going to sever an artery or anything, stitching up open wounds and the like.

The emergency room would not be obligated to restore you to (as much as possible) functioning. If you need an expensive 20-hour surgery with a team of specialists to put all the pieces of your shoulder back together, well, that's too bad. Sure, your shoulder will heal into an immobile lump without treatment, but it won't kill you, so not actually an emergency.
Swapping would be faster. I recollect that Tesla had such a system. Not sure where it went
>Our culture has gotten to the point where an accusation is enough in the court of opinion

That's true. On the other hand, out culture was for far more decades (nay, millennia) to the point that people could not care less about such accusations, and the power figures could do whatever they liked...

Also, it wasn't just an accusation in the "court of opinion", but a deposition to an actual court.

"In a deposition, Giuffre, née Roberts, claimed she was trafficked to MIT professor Marvin Minsky, who died in 2016 at age 88, as well as former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and money manager Glenn Dubin, whose wife, Eva, is an ex-girlfriend of Epstein’s."

Still, it's not proven and I'm against the "court of public opinion", at least in more shallow cases (e.g. Woody Allen). But here it's at Weinstein and worse level.

I can see some fake-victim badmouthing a powerful figure to bring them down. Or to blackmail them. Or for revenge (e.g. from a bad relationship, etc). So I'd understand it if e.g. it was fake accusation just against one person.

But it seems too much for a fake-victim to name names of several people, and powerful people at that, on top.
But most will be covered by the insurance company, or not?
Most US cards simply don't have PINs (or the card owner doesn't know the pin). I had to ask to assign one to a CC before I traveled, but then, it was never requested. I just had to sign.
Actually, hating on PHP is much older. Heck, if we are to descend into depths of history, let's go straight to the unix haters' handbook and let's find out just why the most ubiquitous and popular server operating system sucks on the most fundamental level.
Good that they are taking action, however blacklisting that specific CA cert seems like a hacky band aid fix. This is going to end in a cat and mouse game and again shows how broken the whole CA system really is. What I whish they would do is block all “enterprise” CAs and restrict verification chains to end in a list of a few white listed CAs. I understand how disruptive this would be, but in the end it would result in better security for everyone. There are no legitimate reasons for breaking end to end encryption in my opinion.
As for UNIX philosophy of stringing together lots of general purpose commands to get the desired result - the nice thing about that is you don't need to know programming, and it's very convenient for one off scripting.

I beg to differ. It's a workflow by and for programmers, or at least people who think like programmers.
If we polled all smartphone owners and asked them how much they would pay to be able to own their phone in the way that Stallman owns his computer I'd bet a large amount of money that the median would be 0 cents and the average would be less than 1 cent. This isn't just a question of caring less. The huge majority of users do not care at all about this.
You're very welcome. I'm glad it happened now, but at the time, it was a flamewar to rival all flamewars.