jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As such it seems this law makes sense but it also seems to do little about some other problems. I have started to think lately that what is best is a law to forbid espionage on people. Like, you cannot collect and/or store large portions of the peoples browser history. Also, it should be forbidden for the data of one service to be shared with another. Like the example of facebook and whatsapp sharing their data.
Will a tweaked vaccine have to go through the full approval process again?
Do you wish to imply that outside of the center of Amsterdam, it’s not civilized and sensible?

Life in the Netherlands is pretty good in my experience, regardless of where you live exactly. I’ve spent almost my entire life in the Nijmegen, Eindhoven and Den Bosch area. I’d actually prefer it over Amsterdam...
So you had a right taken away and replaced with the “benevolence” of corporations and you’re happy with this? You gained nothing, you only lost things.
I've seen chat networks come and go. Whatsapp is at it's peak; it can only decline at this point. Most users don't actually care about features, they care about reaching each other. Whatsapp provides that. You could argue that whatsapp was never about the features. It's always been a somewhat bland and bare bones UX. It's simple and easy to understand. That kind of is the whole point.

But Whatsapp got where it is through 1 simple feature: it discovered other whatsapp users through your phone book so that made it easy to start using it. Install the app, and others would find you. That feature has since been copied by world + dog. Telegram, Signal, etc. do the same. Now that both are getting to the hundreds of millions of users (telegram got there ages ago), that safe moat that whatsapp enjoyed is not so safe anymore. I know non technical users that are very eager to escape Facebook's clutches that already deleted their facebook profiles and installed alternative chat clients. Moving over is easier than ever.

Anyway, I'm old enough to remember reluctantly joining the msn network because a lot of people I knew started using that. ICQ, AOL, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, etc. all used to be popular and now are pretty much gone. Whatsapp can easily join those ranks. There's nothing inevitable about its perpetual monopoly on communication. Nothing whatsoever.

If anything, Facebook seems in a hurry to blow its feet off with misguided/dubious decisions on privacy, user hostile actions, and increasing likelihood of having to deal with anti trust legislation in multiple of its markets. It's not helping their case. Every time they are in the news it seems to have a negative tone and some of their users act on it. Facebook is being arrogant.

Signal is a breath of fresh air in this space. Structured as a foundation, OSS client and server (unlike most other things out there). Apparently, Elon Musk recommending it the other day caused a nice influx of users.
This is the best advertising possible for strong crypto. It raises awareness, and then shows crypto is a useful tool against these adversaries.

I can't see a law like this standing on 1A grounds even if passed.
It's copyright infringement, that's what it is. If it were stealing, you wouldn't be able to get million-dollar verdicts against the people who do it.
I predict that somebody will ship chrome notebooks to corporations that have the 'jailbreak button' removed.
Yes, I agree. But for the situation described in the article, creating a situation where you don't record anything, but just add a few more listeners would be an interesting test.
That's a great question. Let's try to answer it.

Grand Rapids is a moderately big city. But if you're picking cities, it's too small to target for a software dev career.

Ann Arbor is slightly smaller than Grand Rapids with a much better ecosystem for software developers. I had the pleasure of working there for 4 years. My advice is, if you're picking cities, don't move to Ann Arbor unless you're starting a company and can afford to do that serially in Ann Arbor (it's hard to consult there!) or are prepared to move when your company fails. There are, like, 4-5 companies within commute distance of A2 that can hire you, and they all know it.

Don't move to Detroit. You'll be eaten by packs of wild dogs.

Milwaukee is much bigger than Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids. But you'd be hard pressed to find someone advocating it as a good town to build a career in. Lesson to learn: the smaller the metro area you pick, the more important it is that the area be on an upswing and not a downswing.

Chicago is a big city. So is MSP. It's not insightful to say "go work in Chicago" since, as your post points out, "big cities aren't a salve for your career" (pphrase).

Madison, WI is about 3x bigger than A2 or Grand Rapids. Madison is, by comparison to most of the major metros in the US, a small town. But it has a great ecosystem of developers, a university culture, and lots of employers.

So let's go for cities like Madison. Madison is my threshold. There's an answer. Feel free to debate it, but let's not handwave; I'm not making an abstract point here.
There definitely needs to be meaningful copyright reform. Having works of art enter the public domain upon the death of the creator seems pretty fair, although there should probably be an extension for cases where children under the age of 18 are involved. And, of course, there should be an absolute time limit on all copyrights in the cases where they're assigned to corporations.
Hi All - NextHand Co-Founder here. Happy to discuss anything about the app. We feel that listing items around your house for sale shouldn't be a drawn out process. We feel there are many people out there that don't list things because they can't be bothered or feel it's too hard. We know there's many things we can do to improve so was hoping to get some great feedback here from the HN community.
Maybe they're looking to hone their business model?
You still have time to finish Portal 2.
http://theconversation.edu.au/

http://bit.ly/fexEFd
I think you're missing the point. On their website it says "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc., not the file contents)" and in their terms of service they say that they will turn over files to a government agency if subpoenaed.

The problem isn't security theater, it's the fact that both of the above can't be true at the same time. In other words: Dropbox lied.
The rendering engine makes no difference at all to me. Whether Gecko or WebKit, both follow the standards closely enough that I know how something will render in one or the other without testing. Combined with reset stylesheets, which iron out little differences in default stylesheets, they're essentially the same.

One thing that's great about Chrome is their rapid development pace. I think Mozilla has realised this is something that they need to change, and they're changing their release cycle to be much quicker (though, IIRC, not Chrome-scale).

Firefox's extensions are what seals the deal for me though. Chrome's extensions are nowhere near powerful enough to do some of the things that Firefox extensions do with ease.
Not knowing a whole lot about Silicon valley in particular and even less about economics, I still get the feeling that the US tech industry is very much in a bubble.

From the outside, these absolutely soaring valuations of everything from established players like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, to new start ups (Color being a recent example), resembles a somewhat illogical and overly optimistic view of the value of those companies.

Also many new and unproven companies raise amazing amounts of money, for, at least seen from the outside, downright silly business proposals (share your credit card expenses, anyone?).

Apart from the valuations, there is the point of founders and early investors taking huge amounts of money "off the table" in subsequent funding rounds. A recent example being Groupon, where I think up to 30-40% of the raised capital went directly to "executive officers, directors or promoters". In my uninformed opinion, in a "normal" market, very few investors would accept that money invested for business growth, was used for the purpose of massive payouts to founders and C level personnel. However in the US, at the moment at least, it seems very common. Maybe this has to do with the assumed fact, that if some investors aren't up for those terms, other investors are itching to jump in.

This gives way to first founders having massive payouts. Then directors, then investors, then the next round investors etc. This, in my mind, resembles the "greater fool" theory, which was common behaviour during the recent housing bubble (buy the house, flip it 6 months later for 20% profit, next owner repeats).

Finally, there's the "gold rush" or the less flattering "herd" mentality, where it seems that there are now so many people interested in investing in tech, that again valuations goes higher and higher. We even have hollywood actors, investing heavily in mobile app companies.

As mentioned, I am not an expert in economics, bubbles or Silicon valley, so I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who can question my conclusions, and add to the discussion.
I guess that is the unstated conclusion. If explicated I guess it would be too much like spoon-feeding.

Me? I would definitely not live the same way.
There are plenty of good points in the article. However, I find the sloppy use of the word 'carbs' unforgivable and misleading. Fruits and vegetables are mostly carbs (...as dietary fiber is a form of carbohydrate too). The majority of the latter are, of course, healthy. The casual reader may get the impression from the article that all carbs are bad, and turn to a high protein diet.
After having a bought of pancreatitis recently, I've been looking at my own food choices very closely to find the things that will keep my healthy, out of the hospital, and off long term drugs.

My anecdotal experience is that, lean meats, veggies, fruits are expensive, but are the best things for me personally. It is astounding how much sugar, carbs and fat is in the products I used to be eating. Obviously you need calories to survive, but I've been aiming to consume more calories that are slow burning (lean protein) and mix in "healthy" fats (omega 3 etc) with veggies fiber and vitamins.

I've been loosing weight, feeling better, and managed to cut my bad cholesterol by more then half, all without taking any medication to do so. I consider this a success of information and personal experimentation to find what works for me.

Prior to this health condition, I never put a high value the quality of the food I was eating. I cared about what food would keep me awake, revved, and burning the midnight oil, rather then what was good for my long term health.

After encountering all the sugar in our (US) food supply, I'm very much for removing the corn subsidies the federal government provides. It would remove the supply of cheap sugar that seems to permeates everything we eat.
I am a practicing Endocrinologist and have been out in private practice for the last 5 years.I have been counseling diabetics and the overweight to keep carbohydrates in a low but still healthy range (about 120-180 grams daily) and to not follow the food pyramid.

What I generally tell people:
Carbohydrates generally follow this pathway: carbs-> glucose-> used for energy vs stored (mainly as fat).

Eat less carbs, store less fat in general. Unless one is very active either growing or running marathons it is very difficult to burn through all of the energy in 300 grams of carbs per day (which is the RDA recommendation).

Eat protein with each meal. This will not get stored as fat and whatever is not needed is generally eliminated. It also keeps one full for a longer period of time by slowing digestion. It also slows the digestion of carbohydrates.

Get lots of fiber. This is an indigestible carbohydrate which again helps to keep one full, yet does not get moved down the sugar to fat pathway.

Therefore balance the meal:

Carbs (moderate to low unless very active), protein with each meal (lean meat, fish, chicken, nuts, eggs, cheese, etc), and fiber with each meal (especially green vegetables but also fruit).

Above all: All Things in Moderation.

Also things in medicine change all the time so good judgment and common sense always trump the latest "brilliant" scientific study or fad.
How might they be detrimental? My Korean acquisition is being greatly sped up by it's large number of English and Chinese loan words. Korean grammar is notoriously difficult already even with the loan words. Having 50% of all the new vocabulary be somewhat recognizable makes not only memorization easier, it makes it possible to sometimes understand words I haven't encountered before. It's definitely been a great aid in getting fluent in Korean.
Aggressively patrol certain areas. (Yes I'm bitter and somewhat ranting)
YMMV, but I actually do look at the calories before ordering at a restaurant. There are times when I have ordered something else because of the number of calories was too high in what I wanted.
Do you know if the public will actually find out any info on Jan 15th, or will that all be private, sealed documents? (I'm a bit lost at how that process is going to work)
> The default also is to fall back to SMS meaning people would have incurred costs quite easily.

iMessage has an option for disabling SMS fallback.

I guess i've never considered it a problem. I've had unlimited voice/SMS for close to a decade.
Instead of paying by the minute/SMS/MB, the trend here is instead to use additional services (music, netflix, etc) to keep the prices up.

Here in Denmark, a $50/month mobile subscription will get you unlimited voice, SMS, and 20-30GB data, along with Netflix, HBO Nordic and a music service. A basic subscription includes unlimited SMS, <10 hours of voice, and 1-5GB data, and is around $15/month.

Usually during summer/christmas i get unlimited data as well for 1-2 months, and from July until new years eve we had unlimited data. It probably has some "fair usage" limit, but i've never hit it. Also, Netflix consumption doesn't count against your data cap, so you could create a wifi hotspot on your phone and stream netflix over 5G all day without using any data at all.
Billionaires keep talking about helping other people because that indeed is what gets you to the top - helping your well connected social circle.
Take a look at banknovo.com for your business account. We'd be happy to have you
Also wondering that. If the resume is written in English does it matter where in the world it's being sent?
Or it might be related to the "premium features" that are mentioned, since initially you can only monetize US/CAN based resume/employees
I like how they list themselves as unreliable.
I have no way to judge. But I know the normal recovery rate for COVID19 is high. I also know a lot of patients are advised to take Vitamin-D supplement now. So it's hard to say if Vitamin-D is really helping or not without proper test on large group of patients with same validation methods that they use for vacines.
The article says:

[Google] wants to replace [3rd party cookies] with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.

Here's the Chromium page about the "Privacy Sandbox":

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

Quote:

We believe ... the web’s users can access that information freely because the content creators can fund themselves through online advertising. That advertising is vastly more valuable to publishers and advertisers and more engaging and less annoying to users when it is relevant to the user.

In other words, they still want to know as much as possible about the users.
Yes, I wonder too. Yet isolation does seem to be a component of creative achievement.

Feynman would be another example like Von Neumann. Off-the-charts intelligence and admired for his intelligence, his honesty and sense of adventure. But limited creative output due apparently to his pursuit of sex and intrigue.
Payments was also launched in Brasil, and Facebook are on record as saying they want to expand it to more countries.
Utterly gruesome. I was expecting something linux related, not something that would further convince me to be a vegetarian.

Might want to slap a NSFW tag on this title.
> Bonus points for regularly posting obnoxious agile methodology articles on your companies intranet or Linkedin.

To truely leave a legacy, it would be great, if you could also miss what the original intentions and benefits of agile are and go on to raise a few teamleads and middle managers to use your buzzwords in the wrong context.

A true master craftsman in this area makes the right people feel more, but the whole organization be less agile. Your work is not completed, until developers visit threads like this to step into your footsteps.
I agree. Sheer size should be discouraged. These big corporations lead to a business monoculture and hinder innovation by killingn off or buying promising new ideas.

Large corporations and billionaires also have an outsize influence on politics at the expense of small business and regular people. They shape the world to their advantage.
I have three headsets. One is a top recommended Bluetooth mono earpiece that cost ~$100 or so, one is a fancy ‘office’ usb headset from a big name that cost (my employer at least) $200+ (But has the mics built in to the ear cups), and the third is a $10 old school analog headset. It looks dorky, and it isn’t the most comfortable thing ever, but I get the best video conferencing results with the $10 headset because it has a boom mic that brings the mic close to my mouth.
> It would be unethical if you are hired as an employee and outsourced your work

Haha oh god that is next level officesspace movie stuff
Sounds interesting. Signal already has the roster and all. I'm happy this won't be another app, that no one will use.

I might be able to put off installing the paypal app forever.
Shameless plug:

https://fctorial.github.io/posts/constexpr.js.html

A static site generator that uses javascript. You use the browser runtime to generate html.
And no E2EE!
I was thinking mostly of this paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02364

Here is some other relevant work of recent:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05698

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3916

https://www.reddit.com/r/thisisthewayitwillbe/comments/2zi8i...

https://www.reddit.com/r/thisisthewayitwillbe/comments/25a4r...

https://www.reddit.com/r/thisisthewayitwillbe/comments/307pt...

http://www.noahlab.com.hk/topics/ShortTextConversation

http://allenai.org/content/publications/hixon_naacl_2015.pdf
That's the point right?

The problem is very clear when you read it carefully. Which is also one of the skills its trying to tease out. It is rated as a 5 out of 5 being the most difficult.
For what it's worth, everything looks fine for me on Mac OS using Chromium 42.0.2308.0, Firefox 36.0.4, and Safari 8.0.5 (10600.5.15).
On the wave of fashionable gig economy, many forget that full time employee is not exactly a workforce, but a company's insurance which guarantees that chosen workforce will be guaranteed at any given point of time and will do nothing else (taxing for working abilities) at any other point.

Also, from the worker's standpoint, having two half jobs does not equal one full job. It is either much less (with less compensation) or much more of what can be comfortable for healthy human.
and old book about unix describes it as such.

each individual program is its own module, fs to link them (files or pipe)
Altcoins are just penny stocks.

Nothing new under the sun.

Same scammers, same scams.
Ye, I've also heard that in the Netherlands there are laws which say a company must accept an employees request to work part time if they have been there for 1+ years.
AFAIK branch prediction enables the attack by enabling speculative execution, but the data is not leaked through the branch predictor, but rather through the timing differences observed due to speculative loads bringing data to cache.

I guess if you remove the branch predictor, you might avoid spectre while keeping caches, but I think you can keep the branch predictor and remove caches to also avoid spectre.

The downside I see in keeping the caches is that you keep the _source_ of the timing differences, so an attacker just needs to find a different attack vector to create a new timing attack.

If you remove the caches, you kill the source of most timing attacks.

I'm not an expert on this though.
There're already apps for that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sg.sledog

Every time after a user gets a spam call and hang up, he can tag the phone number and the tag will be stored in the database and used for all the other users.

So the more people tag, the more they benefit each other. If the call on your screen shows that it was tagged as freud, you don't have to answer it.
Steam engines are surprisingly complex too, but you can control them by ignoring everything except shaft rotation and a steam inlet valve.

What kind of coal? Doesn't matter.

What's the hill gradient? Doesn't matter.

Is the driver tired? Doesn't matter.

Boiler size? Number of driving wheels? Who the engineers were dreaming of marrying when they designed the pistons? Track width? Hardness of the water?

Doesn't matter. You can control the whole system by observing one output and using one input.
Thanks for the info, I know they existed in 32bit, but didn't know about them in 64-bit

I don't hate segments just because, but because of the whole 64k limitation in 16 bit

(And real mode, and programs fighting for 640k while the machine had 4Mb, etc)
6 years is a huge time scale. For reference: 10 years ago, China had trade deficits. The companies have a problem now, and it needs to be fixed now.
What about changing out the whole battery? (You no more own a battery but you rent one from the gas station.) The infrastructure is hard to build, it's not easy to standardize in a future proof way (The same battery or at least very few different models of battery have to fit every car and they should be replaceable within minutes in some automatable way.) but I still think that the idea is very appealing.
I've been in the same place that I wanted to do everything the modern way, because its 2021 and there are sure better tools out there!

After trying to use go/nodejs/php ecosystems and their frameworks, while being proficient at python I just realized that django's batteries included can solve 90% of cases that you may have for simple and even complicated apps.

One thing I've really struggled with was getting database layer working and not standing in my way doing anything basic.

In django I can just create model, make its fields, call `makemigrations` and magic happens. It gets 90% of job done. Even Flask with SQLAlchemy + alembic makes it really complicated compared to django (the fact you've to spend time on getting it to work kills my motivation)

Tried other languages and frameworks and turns out that this step becomes all manual and you have to take care of it yourself. I don't think its efficient to reinvent that wheel every time you want to do something new. I can imagine use cases where you would want to do it manually, and it might be generally better in bigger projects and multiple teams working on same product, but for myself? No way I would waste time for that.

So after few tries of different frameworks I've fallen back to django, and I'm yet to find a framework which does database layer as easy as django does. It really makes a huge difference when you do CRUD apps and any kind of persistence when it "just works".
They sell more devices than Apple does right now.
Were these "hand" illustrated? Or is there some easier way to make graphics look this awesome?
Inflation is simply the final bill for all the “free” stuff that wasn’t actually free.