skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the shock of moving from Tokyo to London. Despite of London not being the dirties of the cities I saw in my life, the gap is huge. Litter is everywhere even when the trash bin can be found close by. People do not respect public places, walking with your shoes on benches is normal, no one removes their shoes anywhere (example: I even saw people walk with shoes on in the soft play area where small kids are crawling touching and licking everything around,) toilets in restaurants are so dirty that I try to avoid using them if I can help it, dog's poop on the pavement, tons of bubble gum on the pavement, too. The drop that overfilled the cup was seeing bunch of young people walking from pub to pub, one of them left with glass half of beer in his hand (red flag already,) drunk few more times, and threw the glass with the beer, what's left of it, in the flowery spot. In the city center, middle of the day. It's so depressing...
PIIs and biometrics are special. So if I upload my photo to LinkedIn, I want it to be available when viewing my LinkedIn profile, but I expect that any other entity that scraps it off LinkedIn can't process it without my explicit consent (thanks to GDPR). Similarly with other data that's about me, a person.

But all other data, I'd argue, should be fair play. If an e-commerce sites publishes a list of products and prices, I believe it's desirable for other parties to be able to scrap it and process it, e.g. for offering a price comparison service.
Good point! Found it difficult to get out all the ideas and features of the platform within the public discussion board system without being intrusive to people who just wanted to lurk. I've made some clearer routes from the landing to people who just want to browse as a guest.

My ideas for writing benefits would be both that people can make their replies and new threads as long/short form as they want.

There's also plenty of categories where we welcome blog style posts whether you want to write a tutorial, development log, share an achievement, etc. Self-promotion rules are relaxed because as an industry we're creators and I think platforms such as Reddit can really stifle this.
This whole situation with public data, personal information, data scrapping, GDPR and us putting our own info on various sites displaying them publicly and then complaining if someone collects them and uses them, has gotten out of hand :-(
I think I’ll have to side with hiQ on this.
Unity WebGL is definitely close to where Flash was. If anything WASM adoption is growing, it’s a respected standard. Once there is multi threading, heap expansion and streaming instanciation in iOS ... I’m going to guess 15, or 4 years from now, it’ll be the true spirit of Flash.

I’m not sure about a “dumber” design discipline though. Really it’s Windows developers being left behind, for a while now.
It might be your lucky day then, because this apparently amazing toaster was on HN the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164014

You can get them on Ebay

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=sunbeam+radiant+control...
DNS blocking doesn't result in a random server being chosen to get a 404 from it results in a connection error. Works fine for me as well, I'm just pointing out the 404 error didn't come from blocking the server.
Oklahoma earthquakes stopped after they banned wastewater injection which is related to (but different than) fracking.
I think the bread maker was ahead of its time.
Sold His Business for $100M and Then Raised $7M to Help Businesses with Spending
100% on the outer boroughs. This is a conversation about Manhattan...

> You mean past 60th

Yeah I counted the park busses in my head, but again, still good bus coverage. At least the worst case from 60-100 is literally a walk in the park.
I was.
The company went bust. Found another job within a couple of months.

Do you have any specific questions?
I feel like you can do pretty much everything with HTML5 and JavaScript that you could with Flash and ActionScript. The IDE for Flash had some nice UI abstractions but there's no reason that couldn't happen in a web IDE in 2019.
Distributing your website like a flash file/app as a binary is one missing feature I suppose?
Is that surprising? I thought that was the whole point of Costco, and other "warehouse clubs". Charge membership - sell the products at cost.
The thread is about what you would like to live next to. I agree with you, I would like to live next to solar.

With regard to powering our economies, I think we should just use a lot less energy. Turn the lights off, turn down the aircon, shut down the malls and find better ways to do things.
> I'm curious if this is actually computer literacy plummeting or if it's a wider population of students being expected to understand computers.

I don't think that's the reason. I did study with non-nerds and they had to deal with computers because they wanted music, or to read an article in the internet or print something with Word/Windows and install the printer drivers.

What changed now is that things are more "streamlined" and all the complexity is abstracted. Software companies have figured out that people struggled with files, so they removed them. This can make the average person less computer-literate since he doesn't have to learn much to be able to handle the computer.
> send stateless messages to one another

I would have thought that messages are ALWAYS stateless. It is the objects which have a state, not the messages.
The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s
It's better than sending URLs to Google, in my view.
Yeah the ideas of shooting into space or dumping into ocean are really asinine. It is a complex issue (waste storage).

We (the US) had a decent plan with the planned Yucca Mountain storage facility. But, you know, politics.
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>Is selling bulk items a way to keep "riff-raff" out?

Yes, bulk size prices can act as a secondary filter but an interesting mechanism is the membership cards are checked at the door and physically keep people out whereas bulk prices (even if low-income people don't buy them) don't accomplish the exact same effect. Membership gatekeeping at the entrance keeps the undesired shoppers away from the loss leaders of cheap $2 hotdogs & pizza, and taking advantage of the various free samples of food demonstrated at the aisles without buying anything. The door-based gatekeeping (as opposed to bulk prices gatekeeping) also minimizes customer shoplifting, etc.

There are also multiple levels of what "bulk" supply is. Is it restaurant-sized bulk (e.g. a gargantuan 4-gallon tub of mayonnaise) -- or a more modest family-sized type of bulk (e.g. 35-cans of Costco brand Kirkland soda for $7.99). Walmart sells 20-can pack of Coke for $16.00.

There's a lot of stuff that Costco sells that poor families could buy. Their bread is very cheap and one can buy 1 loaf for $5.00 instead of buying in bulk. Another person mentioned Costco gasoline is often the cheapest in town and poor people could save money refilling their car there.
Their Kirkland clothes are really inexpensive. I just bought a 6-pack of Kirkland tshirts for $12.97. Walmart sells 6-pack FruitLoom for $16.00. (I think you'll agree 6 count of tshirts is not a bulk supply.) However, to save $3.00 on tshirts in that one transaction and similar subsequent ones, one has to plan ahead and spend $60 upfront. If you look at businesses for poor people like cash checking services, payday loans, and "Buy Here Pay Here" used-car lots, a lot of low-income people really can't scrape together $60 and pay it now for the purpose of saving more than $60 in the future. Their budgeting is so day-to-day (literally "paycheck-to-paycheck") that they have to shop at Walmart which is often more expensive than Costco.

EDIT add for clarity: when you say ", $60 cash upfront for a membership fee is nothing compared to all the cash you need to buy bulk items upfront", you're using a middle-class income lens. E.g. I'm also middle class and I spend $7000/year at Costco which dwarfs the $60 membership fee. Yes, poor people can't spend that same way. Instead, I'm saying that poor people can spend much less (say ~$500/year) and still get more than $60 savings back without tying up lots of cash in bulk purchases like you and I would do.
After finding this https://github.com/Greenwolf/social_mapper, I strongly recommend against having a profile photo on linkedin. It has caused me to be far more careful about my presence on the internet.

In the post privacy age I don't want my personal opinions to come back and haunt me. I grow as a person but the internet remembers all. If I make a dumb mistake and it's published online that's not a problem for me in 10 years if that fades away. But people are collecting and correlating info now. I don't like it one bit. It means someone you've never met, in a country you've never been to could extort you. It's getting very scary.
As someone who has lived in Colorado for his entire life and is closely involved in local politics:

If your idea of "being socially responsible and improving lives of people around" is giving kickbacks to the local school to the tune of 0.0001% of your profit... I don't want to be part of your society. These businesses are absolutely anything but socially responsible.
This is a problem because you're talking personal data, not because of scrapping. Personal / personally identifiable data is special and special protections apply to it. But regular data would fare just fine under GP's proposal.
I was doing price comparison just yesterday and was pretty disappointed in what I found for Costco prices. I thought they were better.

Kerrygold butter is cheaper at Walmart.

Organic chicken stock is cheaper at Whole Foods.

Organic diced tomatoes at Costco however are very well priced.
The well operators would oppose. You know, a component of oil-arms lobby, those guys who made the Iraq war.
Yeah, and the nation that produces the world's cheapest electronics (and where all corporations are intertwined with government) is run by bad actors.
> the shorter I can make it, the more powerful Bel must be

Yes, well, until some limit, when the code becomes harder and harder and eventually too hard and concise, for humans to easily understand? :- )

I wonder if humans sometimes understand better, read faster, with a little bit verbosity. I sometimes expand a function-style one-liner I wrote, to say three imperative lines, because, seems like simpler to read, the next time I'm at that place again. — I suppose though, this is a bit different from the cases you have in mind.

Best wishes with Bel anyway :- )
IMO, nothing. What HTML 5 (and more specifically, canvas+js) are lacking is a complete timeframe-based IDE.

I personally find that mode of development distasteful, and I don’t share the author’s affection for this particular breed of "creativity," but anyway it was there and some folks liked it and there’s a real opportunity for someone who wants to reimagine it.
I wasn’t a big Flash user back in the day but I think our product Construct 3 (https://www.construct.net) can do just about everything Flash did, especially with the addition of the Timeline editor and scripting we’ve just added. I’m a little hesitant to overtly market Construct as the “next flash” as that I think would receive a mixed reception depending on your experiences with it!

Tom Fulp from Newgrounds has nice things to say about Construct, and we’re getting very positive numbers from other portals and platforms (some very big) that a lot of volume of games and good quality ones at that are being published with them using Construct 3.

I’d like to hear from more experienced Flash users if there’s anything Construct 3 can’t do that Flash could as it would likely be an important feature we’d be keen to add!
Yeah. Wendy made it clear that she would no longer pull that train. And nobody in the Perl community stepped up to do it in her place.
I was never a Flash developer, but I certainly admired it in its prime. The early versions could be installed simply by putting a 47kb DLL in the plugins directory, and in a time well before the HTML canvas or JavaScript with good performance, this brought dead web pages to life in a way that was very portable across browsers and operating systems. It was much better (lighter, simpler, quicker to load) than Java applets from the mid 90s.

It's easy to imagine the various security vulnerabilities could have been fixed by a more responsible/responsive company, and the abuse by advertisement companies should've been solvable with an ad blocker.

JavaScript, CSS, and HTML have come a long way in capability, but the mashup is much more distasteful to me. Flash was elegant despite its frequent misuse.
It's sourdough bread. It's way more filling then your average supermarket-bought white.
200 pages of theory to build up to ... SVM's??

TBBH, that's kind of disappointing.

I was hoping to see some sort of insight around deep learning stuff.
How about -

Banning all color in ads, all images/videos in ads, all ads in public (busses, billboards, etc), music in ads. Simply black and white text information (which is what YC adheres to).

Any step in that direction I support.
Of course they are. That's just part of the pendulum swinging towards centralization. Files, your files, are an obstacle to centralization so you should lose your ability to access them.

So no more books in your library, just access to books through a device under the control of some large - usually American - entity. No more music collections, just access to someone else's music collection. Ditto for movies, you don't have your own copies, there is just access on a pay-per-view basis.

And of course only the 'proper' artists, movie production houses and writers will be available.

I refuse to play this game. I have my own collection of music, books and movies. Yes, it takes up space. But that's fine with me, at least no billionaire will be able to dictate what I can read, view or listen to.

Extending this to your personal files was an obvious move.
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So, if I put membership fees under operating revenue, and then factor out their liquor store as special revenue, I could say they make a huge amount of their profit from liquor sales, and say Costco is just a big liquor store that sells food, merchandise and memberships for fun. That doesn't make much accounting sense.
"While not a smoking gun,"

Not? Really?
What else should be needed to stop that fucking faking fracking?
In Firefox, search suggestions are only enabled by the default in the Search field, not in the URL bar.
I'd say it's not only reasonable, it's also "carving nature at its joints". The reason scrapping personal data is problematic is because it's personal data, not because it's being scrapped - so protection should be applied from the direction of personal data regulations.
You don't even need any CSS for that — the title attribute alone would be sufficient.
> propitiatory

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/propitia...
Tartine by Chad Robertson was THE book for me. It took me from so-so sourdough bread, to amazing and consistent one that constantly gets praise and is a pleasure every time.
I don't think you do, in the same way no one learns the webster dictionary by rote.

OTOH, this is a fairly extensive and in-depth reference, which means that if - in the course of your studies or research - you hit on a topic you need to understand better, the book is here to be consulted on that specific topic.

And you won't get the "I don't understand that part" feeling when you read it because the part that's giving you a headache is likely explained somewhere else in the book.
I've never seen marked aisles aside from the number. I always assumed it's because Costco wants you to visit every aisle.
Electric and hybrid buses are much less noisy and pollute much less than their exclusively-fossil-fuel-burning counterparts.
The Knowledge - Lewis Dartnell

It changed my perspective on modern civilization and the necessity of global shipping & trading.
> if [NSLocale.currentLocale.countryCode isEqualToString:@"CN"]:

So even for US and EU based users the data is send to Tencent just because they enabled Chinese language support? Who programmed that?
Andrew Auernheimer, more commonly known as weev, got all of AT&T's ipad users' email addresses at that time, by enumerating all the possible sim-card IDs, against a public facing ATT website. He was charged and convicted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and sentenced to 41 months in federal prison that. His sentence was vacated after 13 months due to a technicality of the venue; that judge did not address the substantive question on the legality of the site access.

Weev may be an odious person, but everyone has rights in a court of law, even white supremacists.
You'll have to explain more slowly.

Are you saying that the way they account for memberships doesn't make much accounting sense?

(they break it out, page 37 http://investor.costco.com/static-files/05c62fe6-6c09-4e16-8... )
FISA courts, fusion centers, stellarwind etc.
I not in SV, but an EE working same place for 24 years. Been through 2 rounds of layoffs, stack ranking, etc. Still here. The older I get the less I give a crap. I have zero debt (no mortgage) and 6 figure college savings for 2x kids. I’m really just here for the health insurance and technical challenge. Maybe I’ll get lucky with the next round of layoffs and get a buyout, then start a job-shop or consulting business.
I shop at Costco despite the prices, because I like their ethos of treating employees well and business model that makes me feel like they wouldn’t cut unnecessary corners on product quality.
"99% probability is nothing" is innumeracy. A demand for five sigma before taking action - treating probabilities between 0 and 99.9999% as equivalent - is defensible in a high-energy physics experiment, where adding another sigma just means collecting data for another month. But in most of life, demanding that level of certainty is a guarantee of mistakes: getting the extra certainty takes time, and inaction during that time is itself a decision that can be wrong.

I don't know if you consider chemistry a real science, but my employer makes decisions based on probabilities less certain than 99% every day! We accept that sometimes we will be wrong, and plan so we can tolerate that too. This is how you use science in the real world.
This so much.

Sadly, what you describe as the anti-pattern is actually the industry standard.

And you don't have to go far to see examples — Slashdot and Reddit redesign come to mind. Both are unusable.
I hate Medium with a passion! I totally understand your reservations and I would be the same. Running costs are low and I've enjoyed the forum world for 10+ years so I don't foresee there being any need to undertake any of those awful tactics.
I love the renaissance of language, the minting of new words and concepts, the remixing of our heritage words with new Unicode characters and the mashing of new syntax.

I see it as progress - which destroys meanings as much as liberating new meanings. A word becomes a poetic palimpsest of needlessly complex layers.

I am an engineer-type, I like concrete words with focused meanings, I failed English at school while excelling at the hard sciences. The loss of meaning disturbs me, but I value the gains, and I accept that new language requires freedom from old dictators.
How can you refuse to pay? It's part of the bill, isn't it? In most restaurants I've been so far at least. Also foreigner, so maybe I am missing something.
"hardly anyone could oppose regulating the wells involved."

This issue has been going on for a long time, even without fracking.

The issue always is access to natural gas pipelines. The natural gas comes up with oil production no matter what. Absent access to a pipeline, the well is "flared" and the natural gas is burned off.

This has been happening in Nigeria and other countries internationally for decades to due to gas rights disputes.

The question people should ask themselves is why oil & gas companies would voluntarily leave money on the table, and the answer is "they wouldn't." However, if you look at New York right now, and natural gas policy over the last 10 years, it has been actively hostile to building the pipelines that would prevent this resource from being wasted. The reality is the people "opposed" to fixing this problem are the people who force the oil production to happen without allowing the resource to be consumed.
> Fracking involves drilling an oil or gas well vertically and then horizontally into a shale formation.

No, that's a horizontal well. Vertical wells get fracked all the time. Non-shale wells get fracked all the time. Fracking is any time you intentionally fracture rock formations with pressurized fluids.

> ...studies that show fracking operations leak, vent, or flare between 2 and 6 percent of the gas produced, Howarth said.

That's not fracking. That's leaking, venting and flaring. Those things may happen on wells that have been fracked but that doesn't mean they're caused by fracking.

If you're opposed to methane entering the atmosphere trying to stop the breaking of rocks a mile beneath the earth's surface is a bizarre way to solve that problem. At that point you're not trying to stop leaking, you're trying to stop production and for some reason are trying to do it under the guise of stopping fracking.
>Also, the vast majority of retail shrinkage is employee theft;

I did a cursory google on this and of the 5 random sources I looked at, they said the majority of shrinkage is customer shoplifting. Did you come across something reputable that concluded differently?
Is there really a way to do DRM that doesn't involve proprietary pieces somewhere along the way?

I think the modern browser is technologically superior to what and how Flash did things (with the exception of native sockets, which is probably for the better). It's really everyone using Adobe's content creation tools (which were well integrated/designed) that made things so low friction.

It took a long time for the browser technologies to catch up but I wonder if in the end it integrates as one system better than bolting on an open flash spec would have been.
As consumers, most people probably only care about what modern browsers can do. As a developer, the mechanisms become front and center. Modern web development is a Rube Goldberg kluge of things glued together with duct tape. Flash was much more coherent and imposed less cognitive burden of tying it altogether.
Files were an abstraction that appeared as well as disappeared in my lifetime, at least on home computers - before them, you were saving direct to the medium which was mostly audio magtape. And I've honestly never really liked them.

Files get lost in the clutter, get overwritten or corrupted, don't get saved when you crash, are on this computer and not that one, don't make it across when you transition to a newer box, have to be mailed around or put on (gasp) physical media and passed around like a crude lump of plastic. And then your media gets a virus, oops.

It was an improvement to autosave. It was an improvement to version. It was an improvement to distribute across redundant backups. It was an improvement, to be able to get at it from anywhere.

There's UI issues in the new way of doing things, but that seems likely to shake out with experience. Files were often clunky at first too.
> Such a weak minded assertion as "ban all advertising" without considering how that impacts freedom of speech is unbelievable.

There are many categories of products that are already not allowed to advertised, where meta-discussion about the products still works fine.
You can just about do it, but it takes far more CPU time. What happened to efficiency?