skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet theory is that we all implicitly know politicians won't do it. I'm yet to see a sanction that was actually about human rights, and not about some political or economical goal. The world leaders seem to care about human rights violations even less than the evil megacorps.
I first came into contact with this article through this talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

Its entertaining
There are three big french IT companies that "made it" in the last decade : dailymotion, criteo and blablacar ( with dailymotion now close to death). Criteo is making tons of money thanks to the huge ad business. But let me tell you a story about blablacar :

I was on a train to nantes last year, and heard two local politicians ( from green parties) talking together about environmental issues. As time passed on, i started talking to them, and we ended up talking about new transport systems. Well, one of them started mentionning blablacar, a site he used sometimes, and how it became a marketplace rather than a service company, and became philosophical about it, only to end to the conclusion that : the state should start regulating their activity.

I was dumbfounded. I had to tell him that users would go elsewhere if prices would start to go up too much, and basically explain to him the benefit of a free market.

This is not anecdotical. This is a cultural issue. Politicians are clueless about the basis of a sane economy.
Message Oriented Programming a La Alan Kay
What happened in the past to former slaves when they were freed?

They integrated back into society as well as they could.
And even if it does, even after clearly stating, that what they do/did is illegal, our national security agencies (BND in Germany) just go on doing their thing.

What our parliamentarian investigation committee keeps finding does nothing to stop these practices. And why should it - imho they (national security agencies and respective politicians) have clearly left the space of the law, as it does only apply to them on paper, not in reality.

I got cynical and fatalistic during the last years - and I do not see any real chance for a democracy left. We are living in post democratic times, where democracy is only there as a play being shown for the people, to keep them placated.

Sorry, for my mood.
I see. Sorry to hear that. I can imagine the day to day complications, but I hope other stuff in Japan more than makes up for it. Like the food :)
That's interesting. In our company the Mac users were always complaining about the app quality, while Windows users seemed to be rather happy, until all the ads came in at least.

No-one here uses Skype any more though. It's all Flowdock for messaging and Hangouts for conferencing.
It basically came to me while trying to introspect on why i could remember something from 20 years ago with clarity, but could not remember much about the past week with any certainly. Because as i thought about it, the days seemed to overlap as i had done much the same in each of them.
React basically invalidates your argument.

Render the client on the server, then push the rendered markup and the client state to the browser where the client takes over again.

This paradigm is fundamentally different from the Angular1-style "render everything in the browser" and "maybe pre-render on the server, then discard that on page load" approach. If anything, it's closer to the traditional "render everything on the server, then apply enhancements in the browser" approach of the pre-SPA days.
Wealth Inequality Rising Fast, Oxfam Says, Faulting Tax Havens
That'S incredibly cynical. It's also just wrong. Children are used as slaves / cheap labor. Without that possibility, they would have to hire adults and pay them more.

The additional costs would easily be absorbed by the consumers of rare earths – these make up only a tiny fraction of the cost of the products they are used in.

The adults would have better-paying jobs. It's not a 1:1 relationship but considering the positive effects on the local economy this would have, we can simply it as such: these are the parents of those children. They have more money and can feed them

And then there's the fact that food is dirt cheap and we could easily feed (cloth, educate, vaccinate) every child on earth given enough political will.

I'm usually of the view that the political problems in those countries have to be solved locally and that the "global North" has only limited influence. But verifying that resources are created without child labor, especially if they originate from a limited number of large operations, seems both doable and extremely worthwhile.
Silicon Valley’s Pointless Diversity Industry
>3 times the price for 1/10th of the quality

A slightly increased cost of raw materials would not have that impact, whatever you mean by that.

Apple stakeholders commenting on this story should disclose that, also. Lots of weird irrationality going on in these comments.
Org files are regular text. Editing them in emacs' org "mode" makes certain text plain text elements behave dynamically (like cycling through or folding parts of an outline open/closed, etc, and more). The emacs text editor is super robust & extensible so you see people talk about custom set-ups, configurations, and workflows (which is a feature not a bug!) so it almost sounds over-the-top & superfluous to a non-user. The hardest part of using it for a non-coder is probably not getting bogged down with all that you can do and trying to follow how experts are using it before fully understanding the basics.
Ask HN: What JavaScript framework will run on an embedded system like ESP8266?
For an upcoming project I need a lightweight JavaScript and UI framework to serve a simple dashboard via the ESP8266.
Hey, I'm a Web developer living in UK, and English is not my first language, I can speak okay and also i'm studying to speak fluently. Iv'e been working in the industry for past 6 years,
Considering i'm not a native speaker, Do you have any suggestion that i can improve my chance of securing contracts ? Is it possible to keep all communication in email ?
Open source software powers NASA's Mars VR project
A+Trip+Down+Memory+Lane+with+These+Awesome+Pictures+from+“Top+Gear”
Point-By-Point Response to Mike Hearn’s Final Bitcoin Post
I always liked Terry Pratchetts take on this which was "The Story of the Whole Crowd Who Were Rounded Up by the Guards and Told 'This Didn't Happen, OK? Does Anyone Want to Argue?'"
pg would have you believe that inequality happens because of good things (new successful companies) and bad things (tax dodging). But this report claims it's mostly because of the bad things.
Most start ups in thefamily incubators aren't big enough to think about full time hiring issues and legislation. The problem isn't for companies that are only composed of founders, or by companies that struck a gold mine. It's for the huge chunk that sits in between.
Took 6 seconds on a Samsung Galaxy S6, Firefox. I definitely would've closed the tab if I hadn't read this.
So what?

It doesn't mean that Qualcomm will stop producing Snapdragons.

But it also doesn't mean that some other reason, where Google also won't uphold its responsibilities to its clients won't happen.
Render-Conf is looking to be good: http://2016.render-conf.com/
It replaces jQueryUK which was great last year.
Almost all of there rare-earth mining operations are run with deplorable labor conditions. A working certification scheme would raise prices all across. That income could be used to pay adults a fair wage. With which they can feed their children.

Meanwhile, the children have the time to go to school. Improved education has an effect on the local economy after less than 10 years.
OpenFace 0.2.0: Higher accuracy and halved execution time
Ignoring is the default. Noticing is a conscious choice, but a one that will make people stare at you strangely. You're right about first-world slavery though. It's a disaster.
the advertisement problem is a subset (albeit a rather large one) of mixed content; the article does make some references to it.
Children as young as seven mining cobalt used in smartphones, says Amnesty
Apple deserves to be singled out, because they specifically promote themselves as being friendly to humanity, so actions like this are hypocritical, in addition to being immoral. Also, as the largest company, they are able to lead by example.
Hypotheticals of this nature are useful for figuring out our terminal values. If the situation I described does not make the OP more sad, then inequality is not the ultimate problem.

If you want to claim that inequality somehow causes poverty (and poverty is the real problem), make that case.
numerous other robots don't

go there
http://web.archive.org/web/20160119113309/http://cdmedia.git...

view source, that's what archive.org_bot is referencing
eg. no content whatsoever

if/when this site die, when you will browse the link above, you will see a blank page

I would even say that on web.archive.org the effect is even more vicious, if you don't know any better, because you see the page archived you think it is indeed archived when in fact it's not

but don't despair, there are other way to have the exact same result for your SEO

tell me how it is different than rendering the whole page as Flash SWF file ?

GoogleBot can read/parse SWF and even understand when dynamic text/xml is loaded
https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2008/06/improved-...

since 2008
Pyinfra – Deploy stuff by diff-ing the state you want against the remote server
Stop viewing people that use child laborers as a benevolent force that are keeping children from dying in the streets.

These people buy, sell and take children by force employing tactics such as threats, violence and (gang) rape. They then traumatize, abuse, kill and use force to secure their profit.

Understand that children and families are not weighing the option as "send my kid to a factory or starve". It is "I just got murdered / will be murdered if these people don't take my kid" or "I simply want to sell my child for cash".
IMHO machine learning will automate coding to such an extent we all but a few will be unemployed.
Indeed. Take last years raid on the bank vault in London. Turns out they had full recordings on their calls. Whilst it did implicate them, how did they have them in the first place? And more interestingly, why to such quality.
What to know before developing an app?
A free shipping mystery
I visited Pakistan right after the terrorist attack on a school where hundreds were shot.[1]

After that, I stopped caring about the much smaller scale terrorists attacks. Paris and Lebanon were fairly big ones, but there are so many happening so regularly, I don't really care about events directly anymore, and Save my anger for past foreign interference of countries, destabilising them and turning them into terrorist breeding grounds. I think I'm quite numb now. 200000 people died because of the Syrian civil war for goodness sakes. I'm angry at the countries who would interfere to provide air strikes. Angry at the countries who supply the Rebels. Without this foreign interference Assad could have crushed the rebellion and the country would be in a more stable situation today. Why are we supporting the side that will divide the population along sectarian lines, against a government who has a track record of ruling for all religions? Yes he's a dictator, but so will be whoever comes into power next. Now we have a pseudo state of terrorists. What a joke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacr...
I strongly suspect that you would enjoy the writings of Izabella Kaminska over at the FT:

Techies look upon the financial world and find its messy structures
hard to reconcile with the physical reality around them.

Which is why we’re going to propose that the blockchain fad is mostly
about putting finance in terms that are understandable to techies — i.e.
as something absolute – and having them learn for themselves through
trial and error why that’s actually a flawed assumption in finance.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/30/2143506/if-you-call-it...
I feel like Airmail is the best email client on OS X atm. Mail.app still feels off for me, and Mailbox was shut down recently (was a avid user of that before, although their desktop app severely lacked). Airmail also supports gmail labels, which is a big plus!

Gmail and Inbox is unfortunately a no go - I cannot fathom why they wouldn't support a unified inbox, but that is completely a deal breaker for me. Tried using it on mobile, and you have to actively change mailboxes to figure out what mail something just arrived in.
Stop telling kids that programming is a 'foreign language'
How do you mean? I've used Skype video calling at least a few times a week for the past ~5 years, and it's generally worked very well? Definitely well enough that it's never occurred to me to shop around.

(Skype IM is a joke, I agree)
I am working on FlowGrid (Visual dataflow on Android): http://flowgrid.org
Adobe caught lying to customers trying to cancel Creative Cloud subscriptions
https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2spr looks pretty darn official to me.

And I don't see any CM 13 releases yet. I thought they were expected to drop in a few weeks.

Edit: I assume you were talking about the international version. That does seem to have skipped lollipop. I also came across unofficial builds of 13 for my device, but I'm not upgrading until I have debug time.
Employment+Opportunities
some pretty modern languages / libraries don't have SNI built in. E.g. requests under python 2.7 doesn't do it by default. As for browsers, I think the answer is that most do - it ends up being something like IE on XP and really old Android that gives you trouble.
Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal 'own goal'
I think it's a good idea to buy from companies who make an effort to change things and are transparent about it.[0]
Do you know any other manufacturer providing as much information?

[0] https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_Prog...
Yes. "Exploration" is a fairly basic aspect/concept in reinforcement learning, and any decent RL algorithm will try to address this issue.
he/she is probably not from the US, 30k is a high enough salary in other countries.
No open source solution can. Even if it was a patch downloaded on top of stock, you can't get people to upgrade if it's not automatic/promoting them.
I suspect I'd be sadder, though certainly there's some ratio at which my happiness at our gain in overall wealth would outweigh my sadness at our increased inequality.

Let me suggest one of those data-driven analyses you like: for a set of equal-population regions or some such (ideally not just countries, although that might be the only way data is available), plot a happiness measure against mean wealth (income might be easier to get figures for) and Gini coefficient, and do a linear regression or similar. That should give a formula for how efficient wealth redistribution policies need to be (i.e. how much they need to lower the Gini per dollar-per-capita expended[1]) to be worthwhile in terms of increasing overall happiness.

[1] Of course actually redistributed dollars aren't expended and don't change average wealth at all. But the redistribution programme would involve a certain amount of labour that could otherwise be used productively being redirected to administration, court battles, police etc. and the value of that labour is expended.
original - https://medium.com/@juliachou/it-s-not-your-fault-3e5ad1ccb9...
The nightmare computing monoculture we warned every one of.

"Opens Word document on control grid computer"

I mean ..... surely they ......
Well, can you provide me with another similar example in the last 5 years ? Maybe Save will be the next blablacar. We got one of them every 10 years, so who knows. It's insignificant when analysing the economy of the country, though it makes people hope things aren't as bad as they are.

If you manage to find a great business, you can accomodate with cumbersome legislation. Either because you're making huge margins, or because you can afford to hire people that will find loopholes and do the paperwork.
Starbucks Now Lets You Save the Songs You Heard In-Store to Spotify
From what I understand, they were bugged after the fact.

There is still a bit of a jump (how did they know who to wiretap? It wasn't really reported, afaik), but looking at the biographies of involved parties, they're the sort of people who would have been prime suspects anyway, so choosing to bug them was probably not an improbable decision to take.
No C# or C++ on signup page language list?
71% of Android smartphones in Asia are configured to English
>"They also killed it from running in the background on their phone because it killed the battery."

This probably compounded the issue. If the battery-drain never presented itself, users would have been more likely to not turn the application off.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Rituximab Revisited
New service of Keyword selection and evaluation of competitors
The attacker will naturally start with a smaller dictionary, most common words, which reduces the search space greatly. So unless you're using some of those SAT words, it's even less secure.
That's interesting about keeping the old job salaries while bootstrapping. How long do you have to work at a company for that to be the case? I always thought that one of the main benefits of something like a basic income system is that it would make it easier for many people to take a risk on a startup. I guess this shows you can have that support without a basic income. Are there many downsides to the French system in practice do you think?
Not only hardware companies.

This is how software is seen in all sectors whose main line of business isn't shipping software.
Ask HN: How to govern identity in online forums?
Providers of web forums and similar: how do you "guarantee" your members are who they say they are?

How can a forum provide a trusted environment where all members can reasonably trust the identity of all other members?

I appreciate that this is not a concern for many (case in point: HN). However in some circumstances a forum moderator wants to be reasonably sure that all members use their real names, and are who they purport to be. For example: private forums serving a profession. Anonymous accounts would not be permitted, and usernames would have to reflect the user's actual name -- or their account would have to declare it to any forum member who went looking.

What is your identity verification process, and what lessons have you learned?

Obvious online providers are the ubiquitous Facebook login, however many people distrust this. LinkedIn offers an alternative, but suffers from lower uptake.

What other providers are feasible? Does anybody here use PayPal for this purpose?

There is no perfect solution -- I'm interested in experiences, workflows, and lessons learned.

This question isn't in support of draconian policies [1], it's about how to provide an online environment where identity can be trusted by all participants.

[1] http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2012/4525/00/06149194.pdf
It is a simple text file, that's the beauty of it. The markup, that would necessary manually, is used by org-mode to help you the various possibilities (link, note, todo, outline...)
> Why are we supporting the side that will divide the population along sectarian lines

It's always the same: to expand the military influence. "Wars good," as long as the "dictators" aren't on "our side." But it they are they aren't called the dictators but "our guarantors of peace in the region." The apparent map of the US military bases in the region from 2010 says it all:

http://mycatbirdseat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Iran-enc...

Peace and the well-being of people there aren't the real goals.
There's a secret geometry hidden in this shape as well: http://imgur.com/uEsdUke
I just searched Hacker News for earlier stories about treatments for the same syndrome, and see that about a half year ago here a very preliminary study was the topic of a busy thread. The article submitted just now is a good follow-up on what clinical trial data are still needed to see whether or not rituximab is a safe and effective treatment (my guess is NOT) for chronic fatigue syndrome/systemic exertion intolerance disease.[1]

[1] https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/iom-recommends-replacin...
> why can't Europe produce a Google, Facebook, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft?

Market size, for one. Europe is not a country, and startups begin on a small national market, or at least national-scale funding.
Arrays of Wisdom of the Ancients (Java)
Why can’t anything travel faster than light?
I don't know where you get this idea that everybody are aware of this. And I do not understand how not doing anything could change something.

IMHO the only way we can have change is by doing something and the first step is raising awareness. It does work, for example foxconn has accelerated its move towards replacing employees by robots under public pressure.

Machinism which made child labor a work force competing with full grown men has been around for more than 150 years, the next step is replacing child operating machines by robotic machines.
I don’t know about HMRC’s solutions and I haven’t looked at the tax self assessment form so I wouldn’t like to comment on that.

On the main GOV.UK we use Google Analytics Premium; Google certify that information in a premium account will not be inspected by themselves. They also self-certify as a Safe Harbour supplier[1], although obviously with the framework having been dissolved late last year that’s up in the air. I’m also informed that we truncate the IP before sending it to try and mitigate potential geolocation.

Obviously I’m just an employee of GDS: none of this is an official statement.

[1] https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/frameworks/
We played football in the classroom with my Sony Ericsson K700i when I was in high school. I still have holes in my wall because I kept throwing it every time some game annoyed me.

My charger died, so I disassembled it and put the wires directly on the battery. Finally, I accidentally crossed the wires and the phone died after burning for like 2-3 minutes.
"mobile-phone and laptop makers such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. May Be Using Congo Cobalt Mined by Children, Amnesty Says"

is too long a title for Hacker News.
What past, what societies?
You could try looking at Espruino,
http://www.espruino.com/
> why can't Europe produce a Google, Facebook, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft?

I wonder how much it has do to with education and research. The US have been ahead of Europe in the computer sector. For instance, when Google was founded, were there competitive research teams in Europe working on this type of technologies?

Actually, I graduated around that time in a high-ranked French engineering school, and I think our CS classes were pretty weak (at the master level).
It's worth noting that due to airline loyalty programs frequent flyers tend to have a far superior experience than the guy that only flies a couple of times a year.
Serving password and copying over HTTP is actually a very bad idea.

Moreover, for my language I have some non-latin symbols. I'm not sure if every service can be trusted to treat non-latin alphabet password. And this tool generates words with umlauts that we don't even have in Latvian. Some words are already translited, some not - that doesn't help.
Ask HN: What you learned in 2015?
Productivity in Plaintext
You can drop $50 or so and get a galaxy s3, which has decent specs and supports cyanogenmod (although I don't know about international variants).
I currently work in Finland and earn $35k/year, but granted I currently live alone in a small flat. I own older model car. I don't consume a lot of food. Which leaves me with most of my salary to spend/save as I see fit. Maybe in time I come to see lack of my salary, but for past ~4 years I only had student welfare which left me with little less than 200€/mo (~$220) after rent and stuff for food and what little hobbies I could support. So the change has been huge