skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I sell my instagram handle?
I have an Instagram username from October 2010 that I have been actively using.

It is 4 letters long with a repeating vowel. For example: GABA

Throughout the years I’ve had numerous people ask for the account via Instagram. I’ve had offers from $500-1000 that seemed serious and a couple in the $10,000 range that felt like phishing scams so I blocked those accounts.

It’s a personal account. I don’t sell anything from the account nor do I plan to. There are multiple companies in multiple different business streams with the same 4 letters as their name.

I’ve had at least 500 attempts to reset my password in the last 9 years!

Eventually someone will hack into my account or will get a lawyer to somehow sue me or a username troll will take over my account (like that guy who posted here who took over all those inactive accounts).

What are my options? Is there a marketplace to sell accounts?

Is there anyway to reach someone at Instagram and have my account linked to me in case I get hacked? I’ve tried to get my account verified but it’s not a popular account and I’m not a famous person so no luck with that yet.

Any input is highly appreciated!
Your phone didn't come with carrier-bundled bloatware?
You just said that...

MAGA is support for Republican Policies.

if you believe wearing a MAGA hat is "threatening" and you believe in banning people that "threaten you" then you are saying you want to bann everyone that supports Republican Policies.

You can not say "I just want to bann people that wear MAGA Hats not republicans"...

Republicans where MAGA Hats and Support the President, Donald Trump
How do they know that it's going to last 1000 years? What kind of properties do you have to control for to insure that?
I'm glad he got a break, for his sake and his family's, but if he had turned himself in in 2005 he would probably still be in prison. I like that this sentence encourages people to turn themselves in though, but I feel like it also rewarded him for running from the law. I think our sentencing is too harsh even for violent criminals. Even once violent people can change their life around.
But it feels natural, too.

The reality of our lives well before internet is that we don't speak the same topics, or not the same way, whether we're at work, or between close friends, or at home, or in public, etc.

We have 'circles' or 'domains' in our social lives.

That's the one thing Google+ did right, by the way. The one thing 'groups' features are just abysmally bad at modelling in online environments – despite e.g. RPG having solved those mechanics 20 years ago. I think it's on purpose, because blurring those psychological lines somehow must yield higher ROI, in some way or another.
You're not thinking totalitarian enough: send cops to intercept unrecognizables, wipe their face till the face recognition and mandatory ID match.
Non-billionaire here.

I'll almost certainly never be a billionaire. But I will probably do well enough, because I've learned how to live below my means and how to invest. Doing this properly will make anyone relatively wealthy after a reasonable working career.

The system works. These days, we have low unemployment, rising wages and a great market for retirees. It's not a good idea to mess with it.
This is the most remarkable characterization of Go I have ever read. "Grunting" here probably means: short, simple syntactical structures, which as someone who has coded in BASIC, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript for over a decade, I feel is a positive. The syntax of the language gets out of the way so that programmer brainpower can focus on the logic. The best tool is one that feels like it's not even there. The author here is clearly offended by Go, but the real reasons remain unclear...
Please don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. The GP provoked it, but you stoked it. Please don't—we don't want those flames here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The concept of free will has tremendous implications for oursocio-policial world, such as in criminal justice or even taxation.
https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511

"You can't attempt to buy, sell, or transfer any aspect of your account (including your username) or solicit, collect, or use login credentials or badges of other users"
To be clear _wearing the MAGA hat_ is a form of communication. It has word equivalency. It has the communication that, "I like what Trump says, I like the pure HATE and LIES he puts out there, I like that, and I want to _communicate_ that I like it and want _more_ of it.". One doesn't need to use words to communicate.
Perhaps if you got to know the people you fear and disparage better, you might not feel so threatened?
22,361 apps on the Mac App Store. And probably tens of millions of users worldwide.

Discovering Mac apps is quite a bit harder than Windows given the difference in market share. So the Mac App Store will be disproportionately popular.
Borg is mostly C++
If you paid attention to any of the stuff, you'd have known that the photo of Chuck wearing a MAGA is from 2017.

So now he's being kicked from a conference that has not happened yet, because he wore a hat 2 years ago?
> Encourages use of indexes; which is error prone, most modern languages allow writing most code without needing indexes using map/filter/reduce or comprehensions.

Sometimes (most of the time, actually) I want exactly that. Please, take a look at cryptography libraries and try to implement them without using indexes. Horrifying. Try to create a 3-dimensional array in Erlang, for example, and try to work with it![1] No thank you. I do like my arrays and indexes.

[1] I do use and like Erlang for stuff where I do not have to use arrays though.
I would doubt that Safari is significantly more secure (from a "buffer overflow took over your phone" perspective) than what Chrome could be on iOS.
Fair enough, apparently there is a German quark as well.
I keep one account for everything because I want to draw people who are like minded to my circle. I don't want to hide that. I am who I am.
Mine has been happily running on a Synology 1019+ NAS. It has hardware encoding and can support multiple 4k streams.
Anyone remember texting on a feature phone using the numeric keys? I never learned it myself. But those good at it would still beat me typing on a virtual keyboard on my smartphone. I wonder if you could actually program using just 12 keys as well!?
We don't live in a civil society, we are only at the beginning of a civil society. ~ Jacque Fresco
I want to very lightly push back here, not to say you're wrong, but just to say that this particular argument is not persuasive to me.

Of course Apple is working with game engine makers to support Metal, because otherwise those engines wouldn't export to the Mac. Gaming is still a Windows-centric activity, and it's mostly because of cross-platform game engines that indie designers have started to say, "yeah, I'll support Mac/Linux as well."

As an OS maker, when your choice is between having an app not come to your platform, and having it come because you contributed to a cross-platform framework, you opt for the cross-platform framework. But I'm not sure that proves anything. Literally any intelligently run company would push for compatibility with a more dominant platform.

Even a company like Oracle will push for compatibility with dominant competing product offerings; at least until Oracle's offering gets big enough that the compatibility is no longer in their best interest.
This reminds me of some post by an SJW-type who complained about a makeup company printing the word “black / negro” on their mascara because it was somehow racist.
SMS over TCP over SMS
Going the other way: https://c74project.com/ or even https://monster6502.com/

Edit: Western Design Center manufactures a pin-compatible DIP-packaged 6502. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Western-Design-Center-W... I couldn't find any pictures or info about what's inside though.
The original masayoshi son. Anyway, I thought he invested a ton in this startup for movable type though.I wasn't aware that he invested in other startups as well
The article makes some good points, but I feel that the headline is inaccurate.

It may be impossible to know everything, just as one cannot claim to know "all" of history, but one can make a bloody good go of it.

The main problem I've encountered personally is simply limits on human memory. Things fall out of your brain.

I studied semiconductors, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics etc as part of my Physics degree. I've written emulators, webapps, backend code, etc.

There are gaps. Not conceptual gaps but rather in implementation.

Could I write a top to bottom tutorial? Not without research, and undoubtedly subject matter experts would pick at it, but I believe I have some understanding about every level of the stack and an idea of where to pick that knowledge back up if I need to.

Is it useful?

I mean, surely that's for an individual to decide. Financially perhaps you'll be better off learning the hot new framework of the day and hobnobbing with the cool kids.

But then you could also get rich making wanky adtech optimisation. Or just starting a run of the mill exploity corp.

Me? I just want to know how it works, in endless fractal beauty.

I don't live my life based on what others consider to be "useful".

Not just in programming, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NinjaVideo

It did not end well for NinjaVideo for what it's worth so maybe it was good you lost interest.
Your statement that a public complaint == public harassment is an inference.
It's still Boeing's fault. They're the ones that designed and built the damn thing. AA just asked for it; they didn't decide on the specific engineering defects that killed two planeloads of people.

Of course every customer ever is always going to ask for products on a faster timeline at a cheaper price. That doesn't absolve the manufacturer of its responsibility to build a safe product.
If your aim is to vote responsibly, then the news is a poor place to get information to help you decide. Not just because of the obvious political biases, but choice of stories they lead you to believe are important. Sex scandals, he-said-she-saids, or some crime that gets all the attention for weeks while numerous other similar crimes are ignored. A lot of really unimportant gossip magazine type stories that have little to do with reality other than being cherry-picked from it. The news does a poor job of reporting honestly on dry boring information that has significant impact. Instead, it picks stories that it presents as important but in fact are chosen because they're engaging. An obvious example is the over-reporting of terrorism compared to car accidents. People vote on terrorism because the TV told them it's important and didn't say much about something boring like bad marriages or poor risk evaluation skills that silently ruin people's lives on a massive scale.

You can use Wikipedia instead. Look up wars, statistics about crime, cost of living, a law that you've been affected by, or whatever is important to you, as decided by you, not pushed into your head by the news. There are enough people voting according to what the TV told them is important that you're not really making things better by adding yourself to their ranks.
Seems like that might be the case.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy...
The word you're looking for is clickbait ;)

"We Ranked The Top JSON Parsers By Call Stack Depth... Number 6 Will Shock You!"
Is this trying to imply that poor people have ocean-front property?

I haven't lived near the ocean for 35 years, but where I lived back then ocean-front property was a status thing and not cheap.

Since then, I've lived inland. Here, lake-front or even river-front homes are again status symbols and some of the most expensive property.

What's up with the poor on the waterfront? Is that really a thing?
Can a person's gait be used as identifying information?
But then there is apple and ios where you can't really pirate the software effectively.
Unfortunately, I don't think I'm good enough to do that.

Besides, porting an app IMHO is a great way to learn a new language. It give me a clear goal and let me focus on coding instead of making design decision.
Well, isn’t the Javascript and web ecosystem a greater platform than the Mac of all things?

Even with games for mobile platforms iOS is dominant once you consider where all of the paying customers and high end hardware is. What hand developer if mobile games is going to target the relatively small number of high end Android phones? The ASP of S droid phones is something like $250. Most Android phones out there are low end.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's certainly true that while there are many people who would not pay for the content at any price, there are also many people who would stop pirating and instead pay, if they got the right price, format, terms, etc.
Yes I understand that. But surely usernames must change hands regularly.
> why would Apple care whether an app you use on its platforms is written in one language or another?

Because they want to hold people exclusively on their platform for upgrade & services revenue. They obviously have no scruples about the means. The more difficult it is either to use devices on various platforms, or to migrate away from Apple entirely, the better for Apple.
Funnily enough only about 11% of US oil imports actually come from Saudi Arabia most comes from Canada who accounts for around 40% of imports.
My anecdotal experience has been that the macOS App Store is a popular distribution platform with developers.

As a user, I don't use it because I don't want to give Apple more information about me, and I will regularly find Mac apps online that don't have a download/purchase link -- they just point to the app store. It's at least popular enough with devs that avoiding it as a user is a pain.
On the contrary, that's the exact issue at the heart of what happened here.
According to this link:

https://www.osnews.com/story/23133/apple-drops-webkit-2-code...

Large parts of Chrome’s multi-process model were specific to Chrome, and not part into WebKit. Apple built “WebKit 2”, which integrated into WebKit at a higher level and allowed anyone using WebKit to get multi-process as a native part of the code base.

Three years later, Google forked Blink. According to this link:

https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-la...

“Specifically, [Google Engineering VP Alex] Komoroske noted, Chromium’s multi-process architecture is very different from the rest of WebKit (Chromium is the open-source project behind Chrome and Chrome OS). Having to integrate Google’s way of doing things with WebKit and what the rest of the WebKit partners were doing was “slowing everybody down,” Komoroske said.”

So, basically, Google built a version which was partially proprietary; Apple came in and built a completely open source version; and rather than standardize on a single code base, Google bailed, claiming it was too difficult to continue supporting two different multi-process models.

In the end, rather than collaborate, Google chose to keep their product proprietary and create a forked code base instead of doing the right, but admittedly difficult, thing and adopting the true open source option.
But you can if you want to! Or are you saying you would gladly trade for equal pay vs sitting at a desk?

I read things like this, and think, so you have never done any manual labor, nor your parents or grandparents or relatives? Not your chores as a teenager, your first job, or anything? Is there nobody in your extended family who spent their retirement years in agonizing pain from the effects of lifting things all their life? Nobody who died early from an accident on the job?
What else should we do to people who wear those hats? Refuse to hire them? Refuse to bake them a cake, or sell them groceries? Cancel their Paypal account, or deny them banking services?
FWIW, Electron directly links against the private APIs.
I'm actually much happier with my usenet setup than I ever was with torrents. I use tools like Sonarr and Radarr to subscribe to and automatically download content from usenet. Since it's automatic, it's easier to pick up content before DMCA take down notices. Especially because usenet will allow me to use my full bandwidth instead of relying on a trickle from peers.
Turn off simulations where the net amount of suffering vs joy is negative? Even if it’s barely a net positive it’s not necessarily worth the suffering.
I agree about quick and dirty, Python has been my goto there for over a decade.

But I find with more complex type systems and more expressive languages (which applies to both Haskell and Rust) I spend too much time thinking of which way in going to code something, what abstractions I'm going to use. Then I spend too long trying to make the compiler happy for decreasing marginal returns in reducing bugs. Then the compiler takes too long every time I want to run it. On top of all that, the tools are subpar. I like Rust, I find it so well thought out and elegant, but I still reach for Go to get things done.

All of that makes me considerably less productive. In Go I just use loops, slices, structs, and interfaces. There is usually only one obvious way to do it. It compiles right away, and I get on with my life.

It's not as pretty to look at, probably more lines of code, but it takes so much less time.

On larger teams having simple, consistently styled code is an understated advantage for code review and understanding the system (which together are probably 3/4 of the job.)
"The new 32- and 43-line sizes didn't really catch on"

But it made it to the PC and its MDA video, IIRC. I used to use that mode all the time.
Often its better to have 5 pieces of code that look alike, then to have a function that has 5 different cases. And the former will be easier to modify and delete.
> memory leak detection tools

Hopefully you're not only relying on those - valgrind, address sanitizer, fuzzing tools, static analysis, etc. are a must for network-facing C++ (or unsafe Rust) as far as I'm concerned. You're not just looking for leaks, but use after free bugs, single byte overflows, bad casts triggered by bad data, and a whole slew of other potential problems.
Crypto is easily traceable.
Being a fugitive from the law generally tolls- suspends- statutes of limitations.
The articles doesn't indicate if research is sufficiently advanced to have established the time that torquing occurs but given that it's associated strongly with handedness, it seems reasonable to consider it likely that the torquing develops during the stage of increase neural plasticity during normal childhood development. I wonder if the torque balances out if a person later develops ambidextrousness.
NATS – Open-Source Messaging System
Yes, can you PM me the bear's LinkedIn?
Does the CoC even apply to conferences? Or the rest of the foundation? I thought it was just for the Kernel development process?
Is jellyfin any good yet?

Last time I looked they didn't really have much for client apps yet.
You’re the only one making such a comparison
I don't see the harm in just reading what politicians promise. My city recently had a local election. Each candidate got to write a paragraph about themselves. I read them all looking for a few key points that I felt were important, and came up with a shortlist. Then excluded a few because of less important things until I had enough candidates (6) to vote for. Pretty easy. No news required. I purposely tried to ignore their advertisements in the street that were uniformly saying "Vote for me because no reason but look at my face!"
The reason for low connection limit is because every connection is a separate process. There are also various structures in postgres that are frequently traversed during various operations that large number of connections affect[1]. In my company we use aurora which supposedly was also modified connection handling to use threads to handle more connections. By default I think aurora is set to 500 connections.

In our case we had about ~200 connections to database. After we placed pgbouncer in front and reduced number of connections to 60. Our commit throughput doubled.

[1] https://brandur.org/postgres-connections
Not really, I've built all sorts of stuff, but ultimately when you're hooking together a client's accountancy SaaS to their order system, it's going to be roughly the same code and take the same time as the other umpteen times you've done it for other clients. But it'll be a little different as they're using Xero instead of Quickbooks which you used last, and they have a different order entity design because of X.

I really feel like anyone arguing otherwise is slightly delusional. I find it particularly funny the guy two up claiming frontend might be reusable code, but backend isn't.

Once you've done one invoicing/emailing/workflow/search system/time tracking/credit control/custom form designer/forecasting module/cash flow/etc./etc./etc. module for a client, you've pretty much done 'em all.

And after a certain point you can then start to estimate the complexity of other systems with a small amount of talking to the client and research that let's you know the scope and the gotchas.
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Tier 1.1
He has a pretty weak argument though: green also exists. And most experience it directly.
Imagine how all these comments glorifying "let's steal paid content and share it for free because content should be free" must read to a YCombinator founder who is misled into thinking that it's okay to sell content for money.

What is even the point of starting a startup that offers content of any kind if people are going to do everything in their power to rip you off, share your value everyone they know for free, and claim that they have the moral high ground while doing so?

Do those glorifying torrents here also use ad-blockers, to ensure that absolutely no revenue whatsoever reaches a content creator, no matter how much you enjoy that content? Is the goal of revenue starvation here to simply bring an end to content creation altogether?

It's hard to see what other possible outcome exists given the overlap amongst HN readers between "I torrent" and "I adblock". I've never hoped more strongly that y'all are not representative of reality than I have reading these comments today.
Tetanus used to be a thing that killed people at random. I remember that being vividly captured in one of "The Great Brain" series of children's books that I read as a kid.
Of course, this is so logical. Well, to everyone but the suits. With video games, there is also the risk that you might buy a game, and it's a buggy and/or unopimized mess. They used to release demos where you could try the game and see how it runs. Today, they push preorder nonsense and ship broken garbage. I would never buy a game without testing it first, which usually means I pirate first, then buy if all is well.
Yes, a viral effect. If the effect is to download it for free, people will be unwilling to pay for it in the future and the value has started creeping toward $0.

If you are going to infringe on someone's copyright, at least be honest about its effects.
Well, it's not strictly a bad idea to name it by some unique name if it turns out to be the case that another, better, more rigorous theory or set of observations is developed about the cause and range/extent of morphologies associated with the torque that makes the concept of Yakolevian Torque obsolete.
Our school used DECWriter II (LA36) terminals attached, initially, to a PDP-11 and then to a PR1ME.
It's not just the browser—my Apple TV will sometimes refuse to play a Neflix video because it claims I'm not connected to an HDCP TV. Of course I am, but some negotiation on the HDMI port failed and I have to switch away from the Apple TV and then back to it to force a renegotiation.

Surprise, surprise—I never have that problem with the Plex app.
I would say protobuffs