skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And did the spirit behind that gesture last? He then went and teamed up with the same Republican politicians he pledged to be different from, and gave the establishment a big tax cut.
IIRC Wells Fargo passwords used to be /partially/ insensitive. Like, just the first half was to_lower.
I still don't understand. Occasionally you need a phone number to sign up, but I've never needed a phone number to log in to something unless 2FA get triggered. But in any case, nobody else knows what phone number I used to create an account.
For the reference folks - this is coming from the guy who's wikipedia page [0] says "He was hired by Facebook to write a fast C/C++ preprocessor in D."

Not that I have had any doubts about how hard it is...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
> If you really must collect analytics data on my fans

...ask, but don't make it a requirement for things to work
Google uses Piper, that is vaguely inspired by Perforce workflow, but significantly less confusing.

Source: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/91kw4d/just_call_th...
Your idea of 'fun' and my idea of 'fun' are wildly different.
Who knows, maybe a giant octopus was looking for an easy snack.
It is an internally built versioning tool with similar interface as perforce
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
seems they're using Ember.js . Reason I love spotify so much is that it's available on the web, no need to be downloading native apps everywhere. Always bet on the web. also good to see, another web property using Ember. As a react dev, competition is healthy
I'd imagine they are responsible too, not just alone, and that Google is a much more attractive target for GDPR enforcement both because they're larger, have more money, are more visible, but also because they're directly facilitating the "different advertisers" sharing that info.

If Google ceases to provide them the means of readily sharing info then all of those entities will no longer be violating the GDPR, in the scenario anyways.
Wow, us Apple Music users have been waiting for this forever!
For anyone who's curious about how this product developed:

- April 2016: Apple releases Apple Music API

- December 2018: A third-party Apple Music web player is launched on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/playapplemusic-com (Created by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shivdhar)

- January 2019: Another third-party alternative, Musish, launches on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940407

- Now: Apple finally launches their own official player!

Makes sense with Spotify being so popular on web...
There's token based 2FA as well.
They have a billboard in Times Square right now, with some partner.
It's like NFS 3 (NeFS) in hardware! (NeWS for disks: A PostScript interpreter in the kernel as a file system API.)

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/nfs3_0.pdf

Network Extensible File System
Protocol Specification (2/12/90)

Comments to:
sun!nfs3
nfs3@SUN.COM

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2550 Garcia Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94043

1.0 Introduction

The Network Extensible File System protocol (NeFS) provides transparent remote access to shared
file systems over networks. The NeFS protocol is designed to be machine, operating system,
network architecture, and transport protocol independent. This document is the draft specification
for the protocol. It will remain in draft form during a period of public review. Italicized comments
in the document are intended to present the rationale behind elements of the design and to raise
questions where there are doubts. Comments and suggestions on this draft specification are most
welcome.

[...]

Although it has features in common with NFS, NeFS is a radical departure from NFS. The NFS
protocol is built according to a Remote Procedure Call model (RPC) where filesystem operations
are mapped across the network as remote procedure calls. The NeFS protocol abandons this model
in favor of an interpretive model in which the filesystem operations become operators in an
interpreted language. Clients send their requests to the server as programs to be interpreted.
Execution of the request by the server’s interpreter results in the filesystem operations being invoked
and results returned to the client. Using the interpretive model, filesystem operations can be defined
more simply. Clients can build arbitrarily complex requests from these simple operations.
What extension is this?
Before object oriented programming, before threading, GUI applications were massive co-operative multitasking C switches:

https://github.com/microsoft/winfile/blob/master/src/winfile...
Windows remembers my window locations when I plug back in. Using a Surface dock with two Dell Ultrasharps. Maybe as someone else pointed it on OSX, perhaps it's the ID the monitors are sending back to your Windows install and it doesn't know which is which because they don't have a unique identifier?
aka "Pull Request" in Github parlance.
If I Were President, hindsight is 20-20
Given a 5 day forecast to protect the nation which would take 10+ days to station supplies I might also read more into an NHC forecast. And as a citizen I would expect as much.

UPDATE: Got flagged, wonder would be said if storm past through the "5 day" forecast and hit Mississippi and Alabama. I ran from this storm myself and had to make decisions way in advance to give me time to protect my family. Sure, we had no problems but you all know about hindsight's vision.
Real expertise isn't a problem. A expert plumber is shown to be so by his actions. Nobody would install a leaky faucet and be able to call himself an expert.

An expert psychologist for example? Her patients can remain depressed, mutilate themselves, kill themselves and even kill others and yet she will remain an "expert" mostly on the basis that she was educated at a place that similarly ineffective experts have claimed is a good place for a psychologist to come from.

I suppose the trouble is experts by education got lumped in by experts by results at some point down the line.
That last bit breaks the site guidelines by being a personal attack and flamebait. Please don't do that on HN, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or how strongly you disagree. It leads to dumber, nastier threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20883656 and marked it off-topic.
36 year old male here. Using metformin to artificially lower my blood sugar level to help keep weight off and for life extension purposes (asked my doctor for a prescription at my annual physical, said "sure, go for it"). Highly recommend it.
One would assume that there is a difference between what is a "predatory" offering to irrational individuals, and what is a "predatory" offering to mostly-rational corporations. For the same reason that individuals gambling is considered not-so-sensible, but corporations holding liquidity in the form of investments isn't so much; or the same reason that individuals purchasing on a lease are usually being screwed, while corporations leasing e.g. equipment aren't. Unlike people, businesses don't tend to take these deals if they're sub-optimal for them. If they're taking them, they are usually the best solution, even after all the NPV calculations.
> It's very liberating to know you can do this. You can sleep at night knowing your confidential data is safe

If ransomware was able to infect the machine, then I doubt the data was safe either
Tying the information to their personal identity and/or local social structure seems far more effective.

The beliefs people seem to hold to most strongly, in the face of all evidence, are those that form their identity. The Dust Bowl farmer, who is a farmer, owns a farm, has a mortgage on the farm, has a family on the farm, and when the water dries up and the soil blows away doesn't know how to do anything else but farm all that much harder.

As an example -- the reference is one of the statements from a farmer faced with just that situation, and may explain a number of phenomena, including a pathological case of sunk-cost determinism.

What's your evidence that working for information helps with convincing? Because there's at least some evidence (above) that the exact opposite is true. Belief transcends all evidence and experience, or cost, including farm, family, and life.
Well, as I described here. Whatever semantic content we assign to it. I think I see your point - you mean the semantics of the script's creators? Yes, good point, and no not that cos we don't know anything about what they meant, nor likely ever will.

Any semantics we assign to it are a number (unicode value), possible collation (ordering), and the name (possibly other stuff, I don't know). So if we found more phaistos disks with punky-mohawk-guy on that, and we decided they were intended by the original creators to mean the same 'character' on all disks, all those glyphs would get the same unicode character. Scholars could then index them by the same 'character', look for relationsips between those characters they've established are the same.

More concretely, what a letter is in english doesn't link much to how it looks. For example, the uppercase letters here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gebrochene_Schriften.png are all english but to my eyes, each taken individually, are grotesques and some (like the capital 'H' in Textur font), are illegible to me. Literally I would not guess what letter it is. Yet they're all your common or garden alphabetical letters.

So the semantics are, whatever the 'H' looks like, we know what it is, how to sort with it, where to find it in an (english) dictionary, etc.

HTH (and IANAExpert)
last year's US Sudoku Team Qualifier was held online at some point. Possibly in May or July.

http://wpc.puzzles.com/ussq2019/
Also worth mentioning nnn, fff, and filet. All Ranger-inspired file managers that are faster and more lightweight (listed in order of ascending speed).
I don't think anyone would suggest that there's always a linear correlation between ad spend and conversions.

But are you saying that ads never influence decisions or actions? That seems.... impossible. Ads must work sometimes. The degree to which they may or may not, however, is extremely hard to figure out, as you note. The study that this HN thread is about doesn't shed much light either, other than saying that "people can sometimes have their decisions influenced." Same as always.

People can certainly change over time. 30 years ago, gay marriage would've been inconceivable by the majority of the US population. How did that change? Many of those same people who were against gay marriage are still alive! They must've been influenced by something - advertisements or not.
I've met three girlfriends on Tinder that I dated for more than a year.

Dating is always a crap shoot and there's nothing an app can do about it except expose you to volume and ensure you're seeing women who think you're attractive at all. I don't think there's anything I can know about someone that can predict if we'll have chemistry, and that's almost all that matters in the sense that it's not a choice for either person nor can you make it past a meetup without it. For that reason I'm interested in meeting basically any woman I'm attracted to, and that's exactly what an app like Tinder facilitates.

I've had zero chemistry with women everyone thought were perfect for me. And I've had long relationships with complete opposites. The question is simple: wanna grab a drink or not?

Dating isn't an easy problem. And the reality of it feels cold and cruel to begin with. Apps can't fix that part. There are always people out there who won't even give you a shot because of something out of your control, and that's a hard pill for some to swallow.
UI Stack. Only for Chrome though.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ui-stack/ijagboogl...
Finally. Live web clients are great - it makes it easier to reverse engineer, scrape data and build add-ons. Kudos!
I think that might be the dock drivers. I remember a universal dock vendor presenting that as a feature.
>The small cap stocks should be limited in weight by... their small market cap.

A lot of index funds include small caps nowadays. Not all of them because it's more difficult to track 4000 versus 500 stocks. Also the more popular indexes have usually been around for a long time and have fewer constituents.

>it seems that weight does not correspond to capitalization

Pretty much all index funds invest in the public float and it makes sense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_float
RIP Spotify.
Really nicely put together page.
"Sure, go for it" sure sounds like the next Opioid epidemic.
But the art of this is in getting all these details accounted for in a staightforward manner.
Search Guard's Response on Elastic's Lawsuit
Apple removed the ability of app developers to use the (somewhat) reliable way to deliver events to apps without alerting the user.

There’s API that lets an app to decrypt visible notifications, but it’s incredibly limited (it will crash if the process uses more than 5 MB if RAM, if I remember correctly). This presents unique challenges as the app’s code also takes up RAM.

There’s also an old API that enables developers to silently wake up the app in background, but it’s highly unreliable (it won’t work more than 3-5 times per hour or so). This one can still be used for tracking.
Exfiltrating is insanely more difficult especially of "the useful stuff" - and even then you have to sell it or use it to embarrass your target, it's pretty difficult unless you target people ahead of time - easier to just interrupt business.
There's no prohibition on controlling electricity as such, the most relevant actual prohibition (there are a few other justifications for particular circumstances) is on starting a fire, which prohibits turning on a light (which most devices involve) and also many ways of controlling electricity (e.g. a switch) violate as it a spark is created. Benefitting from a fire that's started before Shabbat is not prohibited, only the act of lighting it.

Regarding the loopholes, well, in Rabbinic Judaism the notion is that there simply can't be any loopholes there. Unlike laws written by humans, the word of God is considered axiomatically perfect and flawless - if you find a "mistake", that can't be a mistake, that's fundamentally impossible, God does not make mistakes. There simply can't be an accidental hole or a mistaken omission. The letter of the law is considered literally divinely perfect, every nuance or "loophole" is considered as intentionally placed there by an all-knowing being that knows all the future consequences of that nuance or "loophole". If God wanted the law to be slightly different, He obviously could and would have made it different, but He did not, so it should be interpreted exactly as written.
Metformin is fairly safe as far as pharma goes; it requires a high dosage to be toxic, and the primary side effect is gastrointestinal distress. It's also a cheap generic (~5 cents/pill, costs me $2/month). It would be unfair to lump it in with the opioid epidemic, considering the differences.

Would you not at least try to live a bit longer for only $25/year and a once a day pill?
Accusing others of astroturfing and shilling breaks the site guidelines. You don't know why other users downvoted a comment, and jumping to public accusations about that degrades this site badly.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. You've been breaking them a lot and we've had to warn you many times already.

We don't micromanage HN according to YC's particular investments in startups; what's in YC's business interests is to make HN as good as we can, because that's what keeps the community coming here. But if it helps, I don't think YC has any investment in Brave.
WeWork didn't decide their own valuation. Investors did.
Why not make it a crime to pay the ransom demand for cryptolocker attacks? This way the flow of money to these gangsters will stop.

If you get hit with a cryptolocker and you have no backup you simply lose that data. Or you can pay the ransom, get your data back and go to jail.

While this might seem unfair, it might stop 1000 other attacks because there will be no money in it. It would be for the greater good.
Ask HN: How to Guide a Junior Developer?
I recently started a new position as a senior developer in a small company. The setup is basically CTO/Lead Dev - Me - Junior Developer.
The junior is a newcomer with a non IT background. We do webdevelopment and I have a bit of a hard time to understand how I can lead him to be a better developer. He seems motivated to learn but has a bad intuition on how to do things the "right" way.
Happy about tips on literature or any practical advice how to guide him. We do Kanban style development with code reviews, CI/CD for context.
Tried to break down tasks together, to a point where I rather have implemented the stuff myself. I can spend roughly about 20% of my time to invest in him for a couple of month.
Lead dev seems happy to not be involved in the process as they have worked together for quite a while without any substantial progress on the juniors side.
Wappalyzer [1] is much better in my opinion.

And is available for both Chrome [2] and Firefox [3] as well as a Bookmarklet [4].

The extension that @pier25 is using seems to be available only on Google Chrome [5].

[1] https://www.wappalyzer.com/

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wappalyzer/gppongm...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/wappalyzer/

[4] https://www.wappalyzer.com/download

[5] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ui-stack/ijagboogl...
from now this is my decoy U2F key...
Yes. There was essentially zero upward economic mobility in those societies, except for the party elite. When only 0.001% of your society has any possibility of bettering their circumstances, innovation stagnates.

It is still true that most anybody can get rich in a capitalist economy if they’re some combination of smart, hard-working, or lucky. This causes lots of people to try.
Wow, that is really a huge number of repos. I wonder how many are just forks though.
Well yeah on land 750kg seems heavy. In water it's not really. A 50 foot boat/ship could easily snag that and drag it off. A larger ship might not even notice until they brought the anchor up.

As far as the dog piled parent, intelligence services are known to be loony paranoid and do really dumb stuff. Not to mention research and science projects are commonly used as cover. So sometimes the loony paranoia isn't misplaced.
ermogourd kids it's IRC, ferchrissakes. with oh yeah bots and file transfer and groups.

i heard they were throwing money at integrations with everything, had a bumpy ride scaling (mysql master-master ffs) and had vague plans for AI that'd help automate your org, not sure where that went. But the VC wants exponential or bust, so there you go.
This is so wrong. A payday loan is due on your next payday, no matter what. This loan flexes the term based on ability to pay.

The better analogy would be a fixed-cost loan with variable installments based on your income- a much, much friendlier loan structure for consumers.

What makes payday loans unaffordable is their structure, more than their cost. In California, a typical payday loan goes like this:

1- You write me a $300 check and date it for two weeks from now (when you get paid)

2- I give you $250 in cash

3- Two weeks later, I cash the check

If you had to borrow $250, what are the chances that you have $300 left over on your next paycheck? Zero. So really, it's:

3^- You come back to the store and say "don't cash that check, I'll get hit with a $25 overdraft fee."

4- I say "ok, give me $50 and I'll move your due date back 2 weeks."

5- You say "phew, thank goodness!"

6- Two weeks later, goto 3*

So the one-time payment is what makes it horrible. Even if they charged 0% APR and all you had due was $250, you'd still be hosed. An installment loan, though, where you pay $50 every two weeks for N months is clearly better, as proven by step 4 here.
Roundup (Herbicide)
Glyphosate
People were using APIs in a way that wasn't intended, so Apple built APIs for the new use case. Seems like a pretty good way to handle the problem, without requiring a bunch of people to verify code.
Thanks!

There's around 1k members right now. I stole the 10k catchphrase from The Listserve. Consider it aspirational!

Yes, people can be selected multiple times, but they must submit a post before they can be selected again.

No, I don't currently plan to release the posts. I might change that at some point but I'd want authors to opt in -- even though the license allows it without their consent I doubt everyone understands that.
Sounds like a challenge. I think the most interesting way to do it would be to re-implement enough of the Win32 API in OS X to make it run.

Unfortunately you'd get something that looks much more like a Mac app but maybe that would be a good thing.
http://archive.is/cUxGy
It is! I should make it clearer that the published email is just an example of what's sent out. There's been about a post a week since it's started.

edit: updated; thanks for the feedback!
Berberine is OTC. Not sure what relative risk profiles are. But yes, it's absolutely not comparable to opioids.
Found a C "goto" in that code, too - eek. Maybe there was a good reason...
Exactly. Keeping my knees together is uncomfortable (not enough padding), but having them offset while I'm on my side causes the top one to slope down toward the mattress twisting both knees and (even worse) lower back. It's a very common problem, and quite a market for specialized knee pillows. I use a simple tube, but the principle's the same: provide some separation and/or elevate the top leg to avoid twisting.
Putting more vehicles on the road means more deaths though. I personally think that people's obsession with getting things quickly isn't really sustainable and panders to parts of our character that we would rather do without. "I want it now" reminds me of Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka.
What I'm saying is that "genetically identical" doesn't matter; only the integral of all "contains the particular gene sequence from whose perspective you are analyzing selfishness" considerations matters. Which is to say, it's not the genome that's selfish, it's a population of genes that are all individually selfish, at the expense of other genes in the genome.

Which means that, if there's a trade-off that involves killing the current host of the gene, in exchange for creating a new host (a descendant) that has the same gene, but is otherwise more inclusively-fit because it has better other genes—then any given gene will "want" to take that trade. Thus the evolution of reproductive strategies that require the deaths of one or both parents.

Mate-guarding (and, really, sexual reproduction preference generally) can be understood as a desire of your more-fit genes, to kick out your less-fit genes and replace them (in your descendants) with more-fit immigrant genes, to build a more-inclusively-fit descendant where the gene has higher likelihood of continuing the next step of exponential-spread-to-fixation.
Ladeaufg, 29 – Yorfriends
I can't see any reason that Life360 would be using a VOIP API for location tracking when Apple's own location tracking APIs work quite well.
FWIW the vfx industry is starting to settle on a single format (again) - this might make more sense to implement than something more xml/web-ish... https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html
A Customized Stock Simulator App
The author has since written a longer book on how to write compilers (albeit in Japanese): https://www.sigbus.info/compilerbook