skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
App Store was obvious as Linux user. In Windows and Symbian users has to search for installer. Out of commercial looks like Valve was first. I've never seen Windows Marketplace. Nokia took so long to make obvious thing - you have to review and sign application by Nokia (Symbian 9.1, 2005 [0]), but host by yourself.

Valve Steam - announced on March 22, 2002, released for beta testing the same day. [1]

Windows Marketplace - announced on July 12, 2004, launched on October 12, 2004 [2].

Nokia Ovi - announced on 29 August 2007, public beta on 28 August 2008 [3].

iPhone App Store - opened on July 10, 2008 [4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(service)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Marketplace

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi_(Nokia)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)
A little-known feature of NCSA Mosaic for Windows was a sort of annotation system built into it. So little-known, in fact, that by the time Netscape Navigator 1.0 shipped, nobody on the Mosaic team claimed any knowledge of how the damned thing worked. That information left with the original team.

Every so often over the years I have recalled that feature and wished it had survived, especially when some organization desperately needs a watchdog group calling them on their bullshit.

Comment systems carved out a piece of that problem domain, but I’ve always wished for comments curated by an independent party. Which I am sure is how we got Digg, Reddit, and HN.
Highly debatable, maybe you are very young and dont recall how Microsoft absolutely attempting to crush any competing tool, company, framework or standard with absolutely 0 remorse. Hell, they even financed the ludicrous litigation of SCO against Linux. Cool than now Gates and his partner can promote great social campaigns, with all the good-willing, free publicity and tax benefits it generates, but let's not forget there is a long trail of pain and misery behind it.
From a meta standpoint, it's interesting to me that the most vociferous deniers of free speech throughout history have made some version of the case "But they're wrong!" (You can add stupid, evil, whatnot. The point is that whatever they're saying, it should not be said because it is not correct)

Whereas folks supporting free speech have made the argument: maybe I'm wrong. I don't know everything, and I've been wrong before. More concisely, looking back through history a lot of those times we got so upset about people saying various things, we were wrong. Those people changed all of us for the better. Unless we continue to humbly think we could continue to be wrong, we stop evolving. Cue curtain. There's no way to have difficult societal discussions and fight for the moral and right thing for all of us if we're constantly going to use current group consensus as a measure of what can be said or not. That's not progress. That's a popularity contest.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they just save your secret data to localStorage and then send it off when you load another page from the same origin (a page without those headers)? Or does the CSP of one page somehow apply to the whole origin? I'm not up to date on this stuff.
But they aren't getting an actual experience. They are getting some crapfest the company has put together to satisfy some idea Apple had about how they should run their business. The app is a distraction and won't really be anything more than that since the company's priority is the actual paid service. It lessens the platform and creates a bunch of advertising-ware as opposed to function apps.
Oh, I see. My mistake. It makes no sense to me that a user choosing to censor content would solve any institutional problem so it didn’t even cross my mind that someone would bring it up. Thanks for the clarification!
I hire people. I will not hire because of MOOC or not. I will hire if you can demonstrate skills and ability required for the role. Whether you acquired those skills/ability due to MOOC is irrelevant to me.

So focus on improving your skills and if MOOCs help with that, go for it.
I'm kinda shocked that the State hasn't already banned 3D printers and desktop CNC mills. I mean... you can make almost anything ^^GASP^^ ... OMG, the horror, won't somebody please think of the children???

It really is absurd how so many people want to continue with this ridiculous war on inanimate objects, when the problem is almost always people.
Counter point: Hey is asking you to commit for a year, if I was going to the same restaurant every day for a year, assuming the other ingredients are on the menu elsewhere, I would expect being able to make substitutions and change meals up a bit.
Which stores? Does the Microsoft store work this way? When you respond to a specific and pointed question with theoretical knowledge of how things "could work," it just starts to muddy the waters.
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In addition to the they other comments, we know from history that section 230 was written to encourage sites to moderate content.

The historical revisionism around platform neutrality and section 230 is all made up.
In this case 'open web' would have to stop short of allowing a comments section or forums (such as HN).
Are 80 Characters per Line Still Reasonable in 2020?
Oops, you're absolutely right. I remember back at secondary school a teacher going through exactly the process I described, with him asking us what the best choice of line would be. The first choice someone (not me sadly) suggested was indeed this one.

For others that, like me, don't already know it (at least by name): the Deming cost function is the sum of perpendicular distances to the points from the line, as opposed to measuring only the vertical component.

Edit: Actually it looks like Deming regression is a bit more subtle and statistical than just sum of perpendicular distances. A treatment of linear regression from a statistical perspective of trying untangle some random noise is very worthy, but I'd save it for a second lesson, following a first lessons that's just an unmotivated "let's choose the line that's somehow closest to all the points".
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Whether or not Facebook has a legitimate quarrel with the owner(s) of these domains is a non sequitur if, as Namecheap argues, the GDPR standards require minimization and Facebook has sufficient alternative avenues for bringing anticybersquatting litigation.
Thank you! This is exactly what I need.
Pitch Deck vs. Business Plan
Building the NPR macOS App, Part 1
> This is the result of years of work to remove any dissenting voice from the generally Left-leaning sites of the Internet

Not a single one of the big sites is left-leaning, they are centrist (at most) and behave accordingly. The problem is that so many people believe the center is farther on the right than it is, so every centrist argument becomes left wing extremism, what is called centrist is really right wing and what is called right wing is extreme right.
With that in mind it's no surprise right wing content gets blocked more often - the left wing equivalent (e.g. kill everyone in the name of the class fight!) doesn't really exist on Twitter & co.
A nunnery is a nunnery is a nunnery.
Upvoted, not for the article itself but for the interesting discussion.
It is like the parable of the "blind men and the elephant" one side has the trunk, the other the foot but both are mad at the same elephant.
I just disabled third party cookies and everything works fine.
> There has always been a difference between freedom to say what you want and freedom from consequences.

No. Free speech is speech which is (at least largely) free of consequence. Not just free of legal consequences either, but social consequences as well (such as getting fired from your job for having certain political opinions). Free speech =/= first amendment.

> The famous adage “you can’t shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”

Which was used as justification to punish anti-war protesters.

> Newspapers are liable for libel suits and other legal remedies if they publish false and damaging information.

Which is part of a set of well known, long-standing exceptions to the first amendment.
Again, from what I understand, this would be active surveillance targeting an individual and the bulk data would not be collected (even if technically feasible given the mechanism for collecting the individual's data).

From write-ups of the 2013 leaks, we saw references to violations of the legal theory used to justify the Presidential Surveillance Program. One of those violations was them unintentionally collecting the wrong data, due to how the ISP was bundling packets or something like that, which constituted a warrantless search, and they supposedly took that very seriously because it jeopardized the whole program.

My take on the surveillance program is that they try very hard to be law abiding, even if they have to stretch what the law means to justify the program. If you are worried they have a warrant for your communication, a VPN isn't going to help you. If they don't have a warrant, they will avoid U.S. citizen's content like the plague for fear of compromising the whole program.
I don't if this is relevant but at least one of these things is not like the others. In Tokyo rail is privately owned. There are 10+ train companies in Tokyo alone and many more all over. Osaka/Kyoto probably have a similar number.

They get to own the land the trains are on and the stations so many stations become shopping centers run by the train company. Some stores they run, For example Tokyu Trains runs Tokyu groceries, Tokyu department stores. The famous 109 buildings in Shibuya are called 109 because 10 can be pronounced "tou" and 9 can be "kyu". The famous Tobu department store in Ikebukuro with 64 restaurants is run by the Tobu train company. A lot of stations have an "Atre" shopping center above them. Those are Japan Rail owned. Etc...

Some stores they rent out. Many of the new 20-30 story buildings and the new 50 story building above Shibuya station is owned by Tokyu.

That may or may not make it cheaper to build but it gives them more money to support trains and there are also arguably incentives to make your lines the most attractive so people will want to live on that line and patronize your line and all your stores and businesses.

I don't know where it will end but it's a long way from the no self interested incentive to do a good job publicly run trains. Of course many publicly run trains do great as well. I'd be curious to know if there are other incentives that help. For example Singapore trains seem have a shopping center over many stations. Maybe the government runs that and can use the rent to help balance the train books. No idea.
I guess the extreme would be to spin off Github into a non profit like a Mozilla, but dedicated to improving software tools and keeping them open source.
Is Employee Tracking Doing More Harm Than Good?
Or, remove sec. 230 protections and social media becomes Disneyland and the cesspool recedes to the "darknet".

(Whether that's a good thing or not I dunno.)
Any plans to open source it?
Server-side search on K9 works fine, but you have to select that you want it.
how does this compare to Genius?

edit: looks like Genius moved away from aiming to annotate the web, and focused instead on their core business of annotating music.
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Once upon a time "the root of two is an irrational number" was heresy and the proponents were killed for blasphemy.
maybe I didn't express this clearly, but the scale of the platform (in users, and possibly also revenue) should be taken into account. a forum the size of HN with only a couple moderators should have most or all of the current safe harbor protections. but if a platform the size of facebook wants to pick and choose what kind of content is allowed, it should face some liability for whatever it allows to stay up. maybe not the same as if I post something libelous on my own personal website, but some fraction of that, proportional to the degree of moderation.

the point is not to discourage moderation entirely, but to make it a bit more costly/risky so that the influence of the biggest players is checked somewhat.
Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world
In addition to other comments, I would also recommend "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics" by Dr. Jeremy Kun [0]. The HN submission [1] may have more interesting stuff around the topic.

[0] https://pimbook.org/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579076
Conceptually this breaks along really similar lines to PC Gaming vs Console/Set-Top Boxes (Roku, or similar).

I've similarly seen much more usage of the Quest from non-technical people as it's much less intimidating to get going.
Peresvet: A Russian mobile laser system to dazzle enemy satellites
I’ll agree with that: while Haskell/FP has had a ton of OSS, it has had a huge, positive impact on other languages. Eg Rust would never exist without Haskell being around first.
Ah yes, Tiger King, a well balanced documentary that presents an in-depth look at the practices of murder for hire, and not a lurid tale of entertainment so Netflix can make more money. Popular media, especially shows like CSI and Law and Order, have an incentive to show the rich white folk how resolute the government is, and just how much no one could ever get away with murder. The reality's a bit different, and as recent events have shown, the police aren't above murder anyway. They protect their own and accept murderers in their ranks. So, an ex-cop or current cop is probably the best person to properly incentivize to commit murder.

For them, `p[c] = probability of getting caught` expands to a[c] = probability of getting caught
a[b] = probability of there being no repercussions despite getting caught.

But if we're gonna base today's lesson on how to get away with murder on the show Tiger King, the two step lesson it teaches is: 1. own a tiger sanctuary. 2. feed your husband to the tigers for lunch.
Not sure we need general AI, we can already detect undesirables and shadowban them on Twitter, all you need is to throw some facial recognition into the mix and you can link a person to an account that has a "wrong" ideology.
Right? And even if there were some magical law that could distinguish between "off-topic" and "on-topic," that would still prevent me from running my little sewing site - because if I truly don't want the KKK hoods on there and I remove them, I'm suddenly still responsible for anything else that gets posted. So I'd either get no sleep because I'm constantly reviewing every post, have to hire a dedicated moderation team, or give in to the trolls entirely.

S230 is not just a "big tech" shield, it literally enables internet communities as we know them to exist.
The study does not claim unconditional behavior or absence of other factors. Merely a correlation between one attribute and another. So if you build a sufficiently extreme scenario then other factors may eventually overpower that preference. But the correlation would still suggest that the threshold at which one would abandon support for free speech would be different.
Looks so awesome. The spatial audio feature would be a game changer if implemented correctly. The hold caps lock to broadcast your voice globally seems like a super power that should be limited to the admin or something though :O
And what's to stop terrorists from dropping hand grenades from a small airplane onto whatever they want, today?

Control on explosive substances (and on aircraft themselves, to a degree) is what. These drones don't change that equation.
Perhaps I have not run into this because I tend to avoid situations where "velocity" is something within two degrees of me uses as an adjective describing a project.
Many years ago, as a high school sophomore, I took an elective called International Relations, taught by the social studies department chairman, a man who had a Ph.D. in political theory. I remember his hero was Hans J. Morgenthau. I did well in the class, despite the fact that I was competing mostly with seniors.

The next year I was in honors US History. The teacher of that class was good friends with the chairman of the department. The chairman told my teacher: Give Paul (my name) a C on his interim report card -- that will inspire him to work harder.

The fact is, I thought I was doing very well in that class. When I saw that C on my interim report card I was totally demotivated. When the teacher explained to me how the C was just ploy I came to an important realization: I would work much harder to maintain an A than I would to try to improve a C.

That is what I feel about the current environment. If you are white you are led to believe that you are a racist no matter what you do. Psychologically it is a bust. Black America, here is what you should do: Tell us that we've come a long way, we've given it a good faith effort -- but there are still some areas where things could be better.
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> I didn't expect contemporary headlines to already have the term cloud

Back when I was in middleschool/highschool in 2000-2006, my dad regularly brought home Information Week magazines, which had plenty of ads and articles about cloud computing.
One of the issues that is brought up in the article is that they enforce their rules selectively.

"All the rules they're citing should apply to Gmail and Outlook as well," Hansson told Axios. "So it's laughable that they state that we must follow the rules that everyone follows when it's plain as day that not everyone follows the same rules."
You could just as easily and just as truthfully say it's merely semantics to say it's based on linux just because it happens to use linux now.

The argument "Fuscia has to emulate linux, that shows it's hard-tied to linux" is countered by "it has already switched kernels, that shows it can switch kernels".

Today, nothing is really indellibly based on anything. Everything can be emulated/replicated/spoofed/pacified so well, and native stacks are so tall now, that there is hardly any functional difference between "native" and anything else now. What's the difference really amid 13 layers between some hardware and some application code, if one of those layers happens to be wine or linuxulator or java or hyperv?

The mere semantics is the idea that there is even any consequential meaning to the very phrase "based on" any more.
yes, it would be interesting to dig into the reasons for why it didn't/doesn't catch on.

is it a UX issue? discoverability? small market/need? monetization? tragedy of the commons? community-building?
1A: "Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the freedom of speech, or of the press;"

EGreg: "it is NOT a FREEDOM of speech issue. It is an issue of access to megaphones."

Are you saying that the "freedom of speech" part is a good idea, but "freedom of the press", phrased as a "access to megaphones", is the problem?
Consoles are usually not sold at a loss. Maybe for the first year after launch, but they quickly get costs lowered to the point that they're profitable.
I don’t think that’s actually a fair characterization of the argument of opponents in specific “free speech” examples.

The typical opposition to speech isn’t that it’s wrong, it’s that it’s dangerous.

It’s correctness may or may not be relevant, but it’s usually the potential consequences of the speech that are creating conflict.
From Wikipedia:

> During World War II, the Second General Army and Chūgoku Regional Army was headquartered in Hiroshima, and the Army Marine Headquarters was located at Ujina port. The city also had large depots of military supplies, and was a key center for shipping.

So, a civilian city, but not just that.
Blocking unwanted cookie and trackers on Mac OS and iOS
Hello.
Im now an owner of a MacBook and iPhone so im comfortably in the apple eco system. I want to gradually migrate from google (heavy chrome, gmail user), and into iCloud.

Im starting to think about browsing privacy. Is apple's 'block cross-site tracking' any good, or should I look at an extension like DuckDuckGo privacy?

I just want a little more anonymity, and not have a bunch of intrusive ads that prey on my google searches. I like safari because iCloud Keychain just makes everything easier, but Im open to other browsers and password managers.
Speech isn't free. It's a form of action and actions are constrained. As the West changes from a Christian to a post-Christian culture, one set of blasphemy laws are being replaced by another set. One set of words you can't say in public by another.

Thoughts, on the other hand, are sometimes free. That's one reason the promulgation of despair is continually attempted: to shut down free thought.
Awesome project. The main difference I can see is that the solenoids on Disklaviers are very quiet.

I've got a mid-80's U3 Disklavier I bought a couple of years ago, one with a floppy disk controller. It was about £4k, bought it from a dealer who imports them from Japan. I love it - the strings are longer than a standard upright, but doesn't take as much space as a baby grand.

I only have one wish for it - that someone would make a new ( ideally open source) controller unit that works with old Disklaviers!

The unit has midi I/O but has about 500ms of latency on playback - still very nice as a party trick and for recording ideas - but somewhat limits the usability with a sequencer.

Still, it's pretty mad I am using a Japanese robot piano from nearly 40 years ago that still works exceptionally well.
Localized earthquakes are one. Also companies doing fracking actually have a legal exemption to the typical requirement to disclose the chemicals they pump into the ground. I believe they argue its a trade secret. I assume that if it was not really toxic they might disclose them.

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/facts-fracking-chemical-di...
This is an excellent idea! In the US, there's a culture/mind-set within this age group that going to the doctor is a waste of time or that they're "stronger" for not having to see a doctor, which only allows pain/injuries to linger or grow before they get too far out of hand that a doctor MUST be consulted.

I think there's an interesting angle to attract a wider audience here too – if your claim of losing ~10 pounds in 12 weeks is true, maybe there's an opportunity to be a "weight loss service" masquerading as a "wellness service." The difference being that well-being is a lifelong goal and weight loss is not.
It's such a ridiculous position they are taking
I _completely_ agree with you - but it leaves me in the same spot either way as I've yet to find a Calendly competitor that will work with CalDAV.

An open spec is great, but it has to be adopted to be used.
> Twitter is where a large percentage of web devs hang out

This isn't true, Twitter is a place where a large percentage of Twitter users who are interested in web development talk about it.

Twitter is not a lens on the entire internet, it is a lens on a bubble of a bubble.
The Google way, aka masquerading flags as special folders seems to work good for non-aware clients.

IMAP actually has client-defined flags, but support on the clients is sketchy and not uniform
Of course, even your example units don't always behave like you want. For velocities, 150 megameters/second + 150 megameters/second ≈ 240 megameters/second.
Is there an alternate source for this? It's how I got my news up until it shut down.
I mean there is also a parallel effort led by Bill Barr and some folks in Congress that would effectively remove your S230 protections for running E2E anyway (EARN IT act), so it's a battle we're fighting on all fronts right now.