skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you're happy trusting someone who ripped off another persons business, and was then stupid enough to rip off their site content and forget to change the name.

And then when they were caught, stole another companies privacy policy and again forgot to change the name.

This copycat will last a month or two and then vanish. You'd have to think very little of your own website/business/server to trust someone like that.

I don't really know snapshooter all that well (the one they ripped off) but just googling it I can see its got a bit more credibility, it looks like they're a digitalocean partner which alone speaks volumes.
It’s possible for me, today, to implement HSTS, and have my site served securely everywhere, today.

Browsers can’t set 443 as default, because other websites are broken, other websites I can’t fix and the browsers can’t fix either.
Good riddance. I'm very happy that the US VC model of blatantly ignoring rules, growing (and thus creating popular demand / support) and then lobbying for law amendments in their favor has failed here.

A key part of why Uber failed in Germany is also that our taxi market is massively and properly regulated which means the selling points of Uber being a better taxi service simply were irrelevant here - our taxis come when you order them, the drivers are competent and will take you on the most efficient way possible to your destination and the pricing is consistent no matter if it's day or night, if it's high demand time thanks to e.g. a trade fair or not, or if you're drunk or sober. The only thing that sucks is that many do not take cards, but that's a cultural thing - Germans love their cash.
Summary: BCIs are still bad, use foot pedals as suggested in the sibling comment.

I don't want to rain on the parade but BCI (brain computer interfaces here EEG that is interpreted as input for something) is far from being usable for everday things. The technology sort of works but it is slow and unreliable. Most reliable method was P300 [0] which requires several repetitions of a signal someone decided to select. Entering letters for example can be done by flashing rows and columns of a matrix of these letters and concentrating on the one to choose. It's reactive in the sense as it will only trigger when an expected stimulus is detected.
A lot less reliable was a system trained to recognize imagined motions (raising the left or right leg or arm as different categories) and worst method I saw was a simple feedback loop between EEG for moving something on the screen in one of two directions. This rarely worked even though it was a simple binary choice.
Any switch will be better than this for now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P300_(neuroscience)
As for the boom, why don't they just wait to be in very high altitude or to be at a place where there's almost no human in the surroundings?
Google cache shows its a rip off.

I get snapshooter being afraid of competitions, it is a one-trick-pony from the looks of it.

Competition is awesome, it forces people to adapt. Ripping off a product, and it's content is not competition, its theft.
> "Prefer one page over several" is diametrically opposed to
> the hypertext model.

No, it is not. No need to split the article into five pages when it can be on one. Unless you want to inflate your clicks, that is.
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How do they match a donation to themselves?
I always save pages instead of only bookmarking them.

Most websites I used to visit during demoscene high days, are now gone.
It's a paradox because a plausible first thought is that the longer a civilization exists, the more artefacts it leaves for future archeologists to find.

The really long term truth might be the opposite, hence there's a paradox (in one sense of the word).
I received feedback a few times and it was quite motivational. I failed an interview and the feedback stated that I need to work on more advanced object-oriented topics like SOLID and design patterns. I studied these up and it helped me land the next job. I also became a better programmer as a result. Recently I went through something similar - I was rejected due to the lack of of experience regarding modern front-end frameworks so I'm now going through a book about Angular. I now feel more confident when applying for fullstack jobs.
Most managers don't want an employee who will be best for the company, they want an employee who will be best for the manager. Easy to get along with, not too likely to cause extra work, etc.
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> peanut butter and honey ... sandwich?

Hey, my 5 year old daughter loves that!
Aviat Networks flew me to Wellington for a whole day interview a few years ago.

I was expected to prepare (in advance) a number of things including a technical presentation and detailed answers to a large number of questions, which took me several evenings and most of a weekend. I flew there on a monday for what was an exhausting full day of interviews before my return flight that evening. The recruiter phoned me the following day to say they were very impressed and would be making an offer, but there were some other people who wanted to meet me.

So a few days later I took another day off work to fly down for a second round of meetings. At the end of this second day I was told that the senior manager was abroad and they would finalise the offer when he returned.

I flew back home and waited a week or 10 days before emailing to hear how things were progressing. The recruiter responded "to recap, we are waiting for $manager to return before finalising the offer".

That was about 7 years ago, and it was the last thing I heard from them. I get that employers can't be bothered responding to every CV that crosses their desk, but this was a demanding process that cost me several days effort and 2 days salary. Maybe they lied when they said they liked me, I have no idea and don't really care. But I certainly didn't expect to be ghosted after all that.

A year or two later I had a new colleague who had been working there around the time of my interview, and I told him this story. His response? "You dodged a bullet".
Just to elaborate, on a fresh Windows 7 install with en_CA locale, this was the behaviour:

python3 -c 'print("é")'
é
python3 -c 'print("é")' > out.txt
(UnicodeEncodeError) 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

I felt that was unacceptable behaviour for my program, but it was beyond my ability to fix. Though, I think this has been addressed in more recent Python releases.
As Austin example demonstrated, once cat is out of the box it's virtually impossible to ban ride-sharing, people will create a black market using makeshift apps, Google docs, Facebook groups, etc.
But, where? I’m genuinely curious about alternatives.

Insta is a like driven mess, with almost no possibility for constructive feedback, thoughtful discussions about photography, critique.

500px had a decent UX, incl. galleries, comments, but quickly became a formula-driven, Instagram-like monster.

Reddit... has decent communities, but it’s features are limited, the right UX just isn’t there.

Is this a niche that can be filled easily (community vs. black magic/algo-driven discovery, archiving and photo critique)? Or, is this just a really hard problem to solve in a sustainable (financially) way?
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Does Google Web Fonts not do some tracking along the lines of analytics? I'd never integrate a Google service in my site and sell user info out for little/no benefit.
Personal wayback machins should be standard computing kit. I have had one since around 2013. Very bare bones demo: https://bpaste.net/show/3FBH6 it does much more than that. file:// is supported for example, so you can recursively import a folder tree, and re-export it later if you wanted to.

Or in some random script: "from iridb import iri_index" "data = iri_index.get('https://some/url')" I'm skipping lots, you can ref by hash, url, url+timestamp. It hands back a fh, you dont know if the data you are reffing even fits in memory. Extensive caching, all the iri/url quirks, punycode, PSL etc.

Some random pdf in ~/Downloads, "import doc.pdf" and dmenu pops up, you type a tag, hit enter and the pdf disappears into the hash tree, tagged, and you never need to remember where you put it. Later on you only need to remember part of the tag, and a tag is just a sequence of unicode words.

Chunks are on my github (jakeogh/uhashfs, it's heka-outdated dont use it yet), I'll be posting the full thing sometime soonish.
> Bad things only happen sys.stdout.encoding isn't utf-8

Yes, so your code will break when the caller or user sets it to something else.

> which is rare on * nix systems

"UNIX only" is not exactly what I meant by "portable"...

> It doesn't come for free but it's definitely not "excruciatingly difficult".

It's not when you're ignoring the difficult parts!

> Encoding on windows is always a headache (not specific to Python at all)

It's a headache in Windows, but in some cases encoding is worse in Python 3. Sadly I've never sat down to make a library of all the examples I come across, but here's one:

Try predicting what this shell script should print on each platform. (It's Bash/Batch cross-compatible, so once you tell me your prediction, try running in both.)

(python2 -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write('\xDD')" && python3 -c "import sys; sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'\xDD'); sys.stdout.write('\xDD')") > Temp.bin && python3 -c "import binascii; print(binascii.hexlify(open('Temp.bin', 'rb').read()).decode('ascii'))" && rm Temp.bin
At this point, in 2019, does anyone truly care about leaks anymore? I feel like this is becoming a new norm.
New Java projects is very much the exception in my experience. People will continue to make a living supporting old Java apps for decades to come though. But once you find yourself in that boat, you better make sure you stay there and make sure the journey is worth your while as you'll find it perhaps more difficult to jump ship.

Java's 'COBOL' years are not here yet, but probably not far off. And those that remain to keep the Good Ship Java steaming will probably do OK, can't image it being very exciting though... but that's fine too.
You're skipping over the part about users having to recheck what you serve them every request to see you haven't added a backdoor. Not sure how much security people being able to look at and pin versions with traditional software they build adds, but probably nonzero.
Last time I used it I ran into the problem at it sometimes was too specific with the ingredients I already had. For example; I have 5kg of rice, it would recommend me only recipes with that type of rice. While I understand that some recipes are better with long grain or short grain, at the time I was hoping to find an option to have my rice substitute "any" rice. Is there a solution for this?
here's one specific to me: we said we offer a visa but only because so we can hire immigrant that are already on a visa sponsored from another company and need to retain sponsorship as we poach them
I tried visualizing what playing a d major scale would look like on that keyboard, and it doesn’t seem any more obvious than on a normal keyboard...
Uber pays $4.4M for sexual harassment – News Tech. futur is magic
The manual backup & restore flow on Android is quite fragile - I filed two separate bugs during the process. It kinda seems like most people never get it working, which isn't surprising when you're dealing with two phone OSs interacting with a desktop OS (plus a user who is probably unfamiliar with directly accessing their phone storage over USB). The troubleshooting costs are quite high for such a rarely-used feature when their main competition (WhatsApp) has seamless backup restore. Investing time to develop the manual backup & restore feature on iOS might not be worth it.
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More recently than that, too, unless I'm misremembering. As sibling commenter points out, such a model is horrifically slow. Lock-for-every-object is too granular to perform well.
Even if you count only printed books, the number of books published by year is still rising in the US: https://www.theifod.com/how-many-new-books-are-published-eac...

It seems that the time spent reading decreases slightly.
I think that there are two issues. MCAS was needed because the airplane wouldn't meet FAA rules without it. Fixes for things like that are not necessarily bad. Problem comes from two issues. Not wanting to require retraining meant they tried to bury the MCAS's existence to the point of not having a way to disable it and only it. And second the flight envelope problems were worse than originally expected. So they gave MCAS more control authority.

They ended up with a problem where bad inputs to the MCAS system could only be countered by disabling the electric trim motors. Once you did that the only way to fix the trim was via a manual wheel which didn't have enough mechanical advantage when the elevators were loaded. That itself was a festering problem carried forward from the original design.
I was mostly pro-Uber until their fraudulent way of doing business affected me directly, in the form of providing a poor service (on Uber Eats) and refusing to provide a refund up to the point where I had to file a chargeback just to get my money back. They took my money to deliver one thing, gave me something totally different and told me that they are "not in a position to offer a price adjustment or compensation for this order."

Now they can fuck off and I am very happy to hear this. Also hoping they lose their appeal in London and disappear for good. Their self-driving car efforts failing miserably and the VC money running out is just the icing on the cake.

They've been good at forcing the existing taxi/transport industry to modernise but now that they've done that it's time to say goodbye to their fraud & lack of ethics and open the doors to competitors who do much better on those fronts.
Wasn't facebook pestering me for my phone number for "extra security" a while back?
Seems like the exact opposite.
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Everyone is at fault except Facebook. Vietnam, illegal scraping, criminals.
The Indian National Congress is left wing, how is it the GOP of India? The BJP is nationalist and religion based it is more like the GOP.
I guess, the Netscape Navigator 1.0 specs (tables and forms, but before frames and JS) are quite what we may want (with the possible exception of the font tag and, certainly, without the blink tag), augmented by some footnote/reference tags and a reduced set of CSS.
Normalization of Deviance[0]. Even people are acclimated to it, it's still a problem.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25742063
"During the 1960s they began to be superseded by silicon rectifiers, which exhibited lower forward voltage drop, lower cost, and higher reliability.[6] They are still manufactured for exact replacement purposes, but are not designed into new equipment."

I wonder what kind of equipement is still running 50 years later. Subways and power plants maybe ?
Most sites close quite abruptly (domain didn’t renew, web server crashed, site was “modernized”, etc). Most link rot is due to the fact that people aren’t actively trying to keep things alive. An HTTP code won’t help with that.
I'm just trying to understand the connection between

>some of the depression might just be nutrient deficiency.

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Sounds exactly like what the Dat protocol and the Beaker Browser https://www.beakerbrowser.com/ offer.
Assuming you're talking about Google Safe Browsing it needs the ability to update the data structures. Implementations vary but I wouldn't use Bloom Filters and this seems even less appropriate.

I'm sure there's some application where this is the right choice, but the reaction here shows that people don't like being told the propaganda approach to new data structures. Just returning true is also technically "faster and smaller than Bloom Filters" as the headline for this item says when I write this. Almost useless, but faster and smaller.
Quite often people just see it from a consumer's point of view but if I were a taxi driver, why would I want to work for Uber? Sure it's good for early adopters but ultimately you get no job security and no wage security.
Technically still a democracy but the secular part is taking a serious beating.
Facebook only has an issue with people getting the data for free.
> This will reduce the chances of your profile being scraped by third parties, but the only way to ensure it never happens again is to completely deactivate or delete your Facebook account.

Translation: the only way to have an account is to not have an account.
Ride sharing isn't a problem, and Uber isn't ride sharing (despite the tech media insistence on this doublespeak), it's just a pirate taxi.
Last time I tried Twitter will disable your account if you don’t provide a phone.
This might explain "Fermi's paradox".

It seems like all the models of extraterrestrial life being visible rest on the assumption that this life would be the product of the equivalent our present rate of growth continuing and quickly reaching cosmic scales. If that's basically impossible and intelligent life that survives is living sustainably, then we wouldn't have star-enfolding Dyson spheres and similar things that are detectable at cosmic distances.
This is actually how it worked in the beginning. Browsers also had an "display images" toggle button in the main control bar.
For years there is ride-sharing in germany. its simply not as hyped as uber. Just google for "Mitfahrzentrale". The key difference is: these people dont do it as their main job and dont do it for profit.
Why? Do You think developers can’t consider cost/performance? Do you think engineering managers and their finance partners don’t care? Maybe I’ve gotten lucky with company choice, but the engineer who finds massive cost savings due to optimization gets recognized over someone implementing the next basic feature.
And Viber, which is quite famous on Balcan countries.
It sounds like the perfect case for the Beaker browser (https://www.beakerbrowser.com), which is backed solidly by the Dat protocol.
That’s the thing. No-one’s read it recently...
The author describes himself as: "TECH WRITER, PRIVACY ADVOCATE AND VPN EXPERT" (capitalization from source)

"...the trove of data is most likely the result of an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse by criminals..."

More cyber alarmism. What would these "VPN experts" say to a phone directory?

He goes on to describe how this was reported as abuse the service provider instead of notifying the owners of the DB.

Finally he concludes that users can manage their privacy settings from within Facebook. Thereby acknowledging that users can manage their data or have chosen to provide it publicly.

The cyber-alarmism trend from self appointed security experts has gone too far.
It’s not really effective in my opinion because for someone to gain power, someone’s got to give up some and no one wants that. So it’s going to have to be a continuous battle.
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You can open a support ticket and they'll restore it and include a BS apology about how your account was supposedly a false-positive of their anti-abuse system (where in reality it's just a way to harvest phone numbers out of easily coercible victims).

However, the main question is: why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform especially when it's explicitly working against you like in this case? Just move on and give them the finger.
The dearth of women is not a problem. We mostly have equality of opportunity in America.
Never considered this but sadly you’re right.
As much as I hate Facebook, I can't really blame them for someone scraping data users decided to share publicly. When you publish data online available publicly it's normal and expected that someone can make a copy of it, either through manual data-entry or automated scraping.

The only question here is how were emails & phone numbers obtained and whether users were made aware that they would be available publicly.
That is actually a great thought experiment.
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/5857 or https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4762
Facebook has fundamentally lost control of their infrastructure. It is insanity. There are now VPNs out of Hong Kong operating output of FB ASN space. I truly have never seen anything like this in my life.

At FB the morale has collapsed. The support forums and bug bounty submissions are piling up and have been for weeks.

FB cannot and will not act. It is a problem of leadership not engineering and I have tremendous respect for nearly all of the staff there.

That being said the fact that Facebook continues to ignore that servers in Vietnam are hosting what appears to be all 71 million records of the Vietnamese ppl is shocking. If you are a Muslim in Vietnam the information is shockingly detailed.

http://125.212.244.27:9200/_cat/indices
I love them, thanks to it I have refocused on mobile Web, even though I tend to prefer native apps.

For traditional CRUD apps, PWAs are quite alright, and one avoids having to deal with Android's always changing "best practices", with a stagnant Android Java.
It's a paraphrased Bill Gates quote isn't it?

I always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, they find an easy way to do it?
Most Uber drivers have been more pleasant than most cab drivers I've ever used.

ALL Uber vehicles have been more clean/pleasant than any cabs I've been in.
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In regards to Android, it is more lack of thereof.
I thought you might have fun with this -- try running my example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842471
It does not. See FAQ here: https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
Plenty of analytical databases still use indexes; bitmap indexes, date ranges, "clustered" indexes and even ordered/btree indexes all still come in handy because they can all help whittle down queries from billions to millions of records.

They just need to be ready to do efficient full table scans.
Can you imagine the backlog?
firestore is really awesome TBH, queries are fast, composite indexes are very usefull, free tier is very generous, the documentation is very comprehensive and the platform is very appealing in general... the only problem i see is vendor locking. in terms of costs, i think even tho its not the cheapest out there it is still very competitive. i think if ones use case requires very large documents (close to the 1mb hard cap) one could make the case that it is cheaper than any other solution, but im too dumb to do the math.