skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we used Polymer to build the new ING banking portal. We had each component in its own repository which was kind of neat. I am doing React now and comparing both I think React is better, there is more support in the community. With Polymer all you basically have is the Polymer docs most of the times.
Just FYI, since you only quoted one certificate. Both GitHub certificates were mine, not just the one. I created a second account for the second certificate.
There are "white noise" back up sounds that are used when the trucks are expected to be used at night.
>> I store ... all of my financial & legal documents [in Dropbox]

Are you encrypting these documents client side?
Uber discourage drivers from asking for tips, the Lyft app ask you to give one.
So.. they send data to their servers unencrypted? That's a serious design flaw right there. That they do any encryption (besides HTTPS) server side should be a red flag for any secrets store.
As much as I dislike 'trial by the internet & social media', in this case there seemed to be a long enough trail and corroborating evidence from others that outing the CEO involved was a necessary public service to the community.

He seems to be a serial abuser of his team and stakeholders, and the forging of payment receipts was just downright criminal. I hope there is enough evidence now for criminal action to be brought against him, and he is prevented from ever trying to run a company again in the foreseeable future.
Microsoft Apologises After Bing Translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia’
400,000 GitHub repositories, 1B files: Spaces or Tabs?
Designing a RESTful API with Python and Flask – Miguelgrinberg.com
Can you share a bit more information about this? I was unaware that assets sitting in a warehouse were taxed at all. Indeed, assets are typically depreciated in order to claim tax deductions.
The first sentence of my last comment was what I had called objective. All the while, going by the repeated mentioning of me, ie. "you", the answer I got seemed much more focused on me. Well, I'm very egoistic, going by my mentioning myself so often here, so I'm flattered by your attention, but I suppose you are missing the point.

Nice talking to you, thanks for the link.
Loyalty to your oaths is part of "universally accepted human values and ethics".

The problem is that loyalty to your team (Team NSA, say), and loyalty to your oath, may sometimes conflict with loyalty to your country, which may itself conflict with loyalty to the human race. When that happens, you have to decide which loyalties you hold higher. Snowden did, and I can't say that he chose wrongly. But there are no "universally accepted human values and ethics" that determine what to do in that situation. It's often the stuff of literature precisely because the normal values and ethics are at war with one another.
Can anyone enlighten me: why is the article called "Free as in Health Care", but the word 'health' is never again mentioned in the article? I feel like I'm missing something...
I remember coming to US to go to High School then to University and noticed the books huge, heavy things. Full of pictures and shiny pages, yet content sucked and was spread out unnecessarily. Everything could have been condensed to a 1/3 or 1/4 size. Then when I got to University also happened to notice they cost an arm and a leg.

So I was thinking, I'll just sell them back when I am done and get the money back. Nope, it cost only a small fraction of original price I paid. Because a new version was out already.

Ever since I consider publishers of those books scam artists and crooks. In college I had a meager stipend, and only later got a job on campus for minimum wage -- I had work extra hours at night to make sure to have enough for next quarter when an unpredictable (but high) amount of money would be needed to pay for books.
Mods, a de-clickbaited headline suggestion: "A company might be arbitraging SF Opera tickets"
Note that the current submission has more information about the aftermath as a result of that article. (i.e this is not a dupe)
Hmmmm…they’ve changed something so that if I log into Google+ in one tab, I must remain logged into Google in all other tabs. If not, when returning to the Google+ tab, it does the obnoxious Facebook thing of “You must log in to continue.”. And it’s not like I logged out of Google+; I logged out of some completely unrelated Google page (or at least, it sure should have been unrelated).

I want my context to be preserved in the tab that I’m in. I didn’t “log out” of Google+ so I should be logged-in still.

These are the basics. Before they Material-Design-the-hell-out-of everything, maybe they should create a foundation that works properly.
So do they use burkini?
> Clearly, the opera itself should price its tickets to more accurately reflect demand. And the great irony is that, by doing so, more often than not lower prices will bring new people into the opera, while high prices will capture demand from the price insensitive.

So let's untangle these two sentences near the end of this essay.

1. I believe that the San Francisco Opera should raise its prices to match - or exceed - what this ticket scalper site is asking.
2. But lower ticket prices will usually result in more butts in seats.

The entire post is written from the perspective that the Opera should be making the absolute highest amount of money per ticket sale possible. But at the end of the post, the author very casually mentions that this is going to probably mean a lot fewer butts in seats watching opera. And then completely ignores it, going on to suggest ways the SFO could learn from TicketMiddleManThatHopesYouDon'tThinkVeryHard.Com.

I have not been to the San Francisco Opera; I do not know how much it's focused on the bottom line. But I would bet money that, if offered the choice between getting about twice as much per seat, and getting more viewers, the SFO would probably choose the latter. Because arts organizations don't just exist to make money; they exist to spread their art. You have to pay enough attention to the bottom line to be able to pay everyone involved enough to keep doing it, but it should never be an organization's only concern.

The author of this post also offers us no statistics on how many tickets to the SFO are actually bought though the scalper site that's selling them for about twice what they cost versus ones sold directly by the Opera. The fact that someone built a robot that automatically scrapes a ton of venues and offers their tickets at 200% markups, and did some SEO tricks to make it pop up higher than the actual site for people who don't block ads, doesn't mean they're automatically capturing the money of everyone who types "san francisco opera tickets" into Google. Without evidence of that, I seriously doubt his thesis that this is money the SFO is leaving on the table.

I am also pretty amazed by the fact that the closing paragraphs suggesting "dynamic pricing" and noting that it can be very complex to do don't casually link to any of the services provided by the company whose blog this is on, because they seem to be trying to do just that.

tl;dr:

1. the existence of a bot that offers San Francisco Opera tickets at a crazy markup doesn't mean enough people actually buy through it to be worth chasing,

2. raising prices to match this bot probably runs counter to the part of an opera house focused of Getting More People Interested In Watching Opera Instead Of Playing Video Games Or Whatever.

3. geeze dude you write an essay this long that's a stealth ad for your company and you can't even slip a link into the concluding paragraph?
Um, not a fan of your sugar syrup in the bladder idea.

Stuff I have read indicates that antibiotic resisatant infections basically terraform the body, like an alligator making swamps in the American South. One of the things they typically do is making the body more acid. So, if you can reverse the acidity, the biofilm starts breaking up and the infection becomes treatable again.
Somaliland has a government. It's the bits without government that have issues. Only someone who's lived their life in a place with semi effective government will think that without government things will function.
I was expecting a discussion of harmful technologies. Instead, he essentially says "rationalization considered harmful". Which is not too controversial.

But his model of humanity is interesting. He seems to think of humans as harboring dark passions that are just itching to be rationalized. Despite Russell's atheism, I can't help but wonder if the doctrine of total depravity [1] hasn't rubbed off on him. Or if we are seeing evidence of the typical mind fallacy [2].

But I also can't help but wonder that maybe he's just better at introspecting than I am. And that maybe my model of humanity should be a little more depraved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_depravity
[2] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Typical_mind_fallacy
Europe's net neutrality guidelines seen as a victory for the open web
I down voted this comment because it is based on counterfactual anecdotes (those companies do have popular and well-liked products), and builds on those anecdotes to insult people who believe those statistics, and then tries to inoculate itself against criticism by accusing downvoters and flaggers of responding irrationally. The attempt to frame a predictable response as an unreasonable one hurts the discussion without offering anything in return.

I do agree that world-changing is a term used in contexts such as disease eradication. Certainly disease eradication changes the world more than avoiding a stay in a hotel. However, world-changing as a term is not restricted to the most impactful change to which it has been previously attached. For a typical programmer, making something that lets millions of people have an easier workday, vacation or home life should count as changing the world, even if it is a bit mundane.
What actual wrongdoing did Snowden blow the whistle on? The collection of phone metadata was ruled unconstitutional, but that was after the fact.
Seems more likely that they use HTTPS and this is "just" an issue with cleartext logging (i.e. some server component logs unencrypted data after TLS termination).
What if someone doesn't violate "whistleblower laws," but illegally accesses personal/private information in order to obtain the information to leak?

Like what if someone not affiliated with the company illegally hacked into Monsanto's servers in order to find information to then "whistleblow" on?

Ends, means, etc...
If the law suggests that Rust wins, I'm sure the Rust community will not strenuously object.
> Snowden did however try to run it up the chain of command, and was told to sit down and shut up

Not really and a bit hyperbolic. According to Snowden he went to 10 "district officials" of which none of them took action. The NSA as well as other DoD agencies have a channel for complaints like this to go through where they're seen by a group of people, not a district official. Snowden never made reference to filing one of those as far as I can find. All we have is his word he told someone relevant but completely skipped the appropriate channel for such reporting. So I'm not sure he actually exhausted his legal means.

I just don't have the data to say either way. But I'm still not sure I'd go with the "going illegal is generally acceptable" even after that; that's a risky judgement call that I think always has to be contextual.
An interesting experiment but these days it sure seems like you’d skew the heck out of the results by ignoring Apple platforms: need suffixes like ".m" and ".mm" (Objective-C) and ".swift". Also, ".cp" is still a fairly common suffix for C++ code.
> Want to delete some pictures you uploaded to Facebook? It's extremely difficult and they must be deleted one by one.

THIS is a huge pain point for me. I would ideally like to delete all my Facebook photos and timeline/wall posts from all of history. However, I cannot find a greasemonkey or tampermonkey script which will actually accomplish this. There are a few that claim to, but none actually worked for me (outdated).

Has anyone figured this out?
If the GMaps ride service functionality is accessible to other services (it currently is by specific negotiation/partnership only, apparently, so not really, but as a platform that could change), it provides an avenue for weakening Uber's moat and making it easier for competitors to gain traction.
I think OP is referring to client side encryption instead of encrypting it on the server for storage.
> Not only does nobody benefit (except the broker)

vs

> Nearly every major venue and sports team sells to brokers. This brings cash in the door and reduces the risk to the venue.

These two comments are in direct opposition to each other. I don't like scalping of tickets, but if a venue is knowingly and willingly selling to scalpers, then obviously they do get some net benefit.
Can you elaborate what makes you think that Monsanto is a "great company"? I am genuinely interested.
The first time I loaded the page it was in Chinese.
Both VXConnectBot and ConnectBot appear to be abandoned / unmaintained.
We probably agree on quite a bit. I'm not trying to accuse you of victim blaming - or anything else - so if I have implied otherwise I apologize; that was not my intention. It wouldn't be my first miscommunication.

My reference to victim blaming was targeted at the the ideas in the thread - and often stated by Facebook and others in the surveillance industry - that people should know not to use Facebook when they have not had an opportunity to learn about how modern technology works. Education is a great idea, but that takes time. (I've been spending 20+ years trying to educate people about the internet, encryption, and privacy in the modern age)

> to be in general a pacifist. Those are nice claims to make.

I have the scars and hospital bill to prove it. Fortunately I was lucky and the (tool assisted) beating didn't do a lot of permanent damage.

> an action with which you say you see nothing wrong.

I never said I saw nothing wrong with it, only that Facebook should to accept what they do to others.

I do understand Facebook's business model. I also understand some of the VP-level people involved, because I taught some of them how to program. These are people that are perfect examples of being born into "privilege", who need some real experience in how the rest of the world actually lives. I don't wish them harm, but I won't shed a tear if they get harsh dose of reality.

(I've probably not worded this optimally; I'm trying to restrain my language because these people piss me off)

> I don't think Facebook lies when it says that such disclosures are accidental.

I'm sure they're telling the truth. I'm suggesting that they are being negligent in their use of automation. If they had any experience in the problems that most people face in the real world, they should have know that problems like at this doctor's office would have happened.
Agreed 100%. With something like LastPass, they never actually have your enencrypted data at any point. So a logging bug (probably somebody logging the payload, etc. accidentally) wouldn't matter.

This is really concerning for a company that offers IAM as a service. IMO this is straight up incompetence.
Didn't it start with lots of 4th amendment "violations" by the NSA?
I'm no fan of non-competes but, as that article even notes, there are counterarguments that largely outlawing non-competes has been the secret sauce for Silicon Valley.

For example, there's the observation (see also Levy's Hackers) that a lot of computing industry action shifted from Route 128 to the West Coast. But consider the following:

* Many of those Route 128 companies were started by people jumping from other minicomputer companies. e.g. Data General was started by Edson deCastro who came from DEC.

* I'm not sure how common non-competes were at any of those companies. I certainly was never presented with one. It's true that people had longer careers with a given company but it wasn't necessarily because of non-competes.

* AFAIK, California law around non-competes existed long before the semiconductor boom effectively created Silicon Valley. (It's at least traced to 19th century California business code law.)

* The PC/industry-standard computer cycle was only somewhat related to the Bay area. Intel yes and HP to a lesser degree. But Compaq and Dell were in Texas. Microsoft was in Washington. IBM was in Boca and later Raleigh.

Again, I'm all for weakening non-competes. I could name a couple of companies that IMO use them egregiously. But I do think it's difficult to frame Silicon Valley success as a direct result of California law in that area.
It's not a "present" if you're forced to pay for it via coercion as we do when it comes to a public park. It is however a "present" when one spends their time and energy making, and then giving away something to others as was the example. Very different scenarios; one is a gift, one is coerced.
I think the abusive relationship metaphor is perfect.
Of course they are rampant, and of course they are conflicts of interest.

Industry and government standards state they simply have to be disclosed. You disclose it and either all the investors moan, sigh and walk away or they don't, if you have obtained a certain place in society, the investors don't walk away and you still get the lucrative outcome.
Axidraw experiments
Never let it be said the CIA doesn't have a sense of humor.

If you haven't seen it [0], they began posting on Twitter with this:

We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

[0] https://twitter.com/cia/status/474971393852182528
I doubt they can succeed given its on HN.
If you're living in Silicon Valley and only making 30% more you're doing it wrong. I'd guess you can make more than 100% more in SV if you're very talented. There's always the regression of the mean if you take everyone. But if you're a rock star, SV is the place to be, otherwise you're leaving a ton of money on the table.
The original video from Snowden is informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM
Not getting jailed for the rest of your life most likely.
As if managers never break the law. Plenty of managers pool the tips and take their cut from the pool. Illegal? Sure. What can anyone do about it? Only quit.
I proposed increasing their pay, or letting it increase, and you disagreed, so how are you not proposing to lower their pay?

If you want more teachers, you can either increase budgets to pay them more, or you can use some artifice to increase the supply of teachers so that wages get suppressed. You implied having more teachers would be nice, with your comment about Kardashian. So your own views here are self-contradictory.
Realistically, if the restaurant owner has to contribute anything beyond their hourly rate to the paycheck of the server, that server will be fired (or the business is so slow that it will go under soon).
You're right, that makes more sense
Some girl from a dating site Googled my phone number, found my name, searched for me on Facebook and then Facebook suggested I friend her, providing me with her full name, which I did not previously know.

If you search for someone on Facebook, then Facebook will suggest to that person that they friend you. Seems a massive privacy hole to me.
See what Walter says in the interview about that.
Audi confirms the launch of all-electric and self-driving Audi A9 e-tron in 2020
The "Somalia is a comparable form of anarchy" argument is even worse than the "roads would not have been built" argument the OP was dismissing. This hardly needs a rebuttal because it's based on a false pretense that the goal is some form of stateless 'anarchy' without rule of law/courts rather than a minimalist government, particularly in the economic sense.
Compile time read have sense.

Considering what we've known about the typical behavior of production programs for decades, why isn't there also an "Initialization Time" in addition to Compile Time and "runtime." (Steady State Time?)
The best part of the interview is the way Sam has asked questions.
Ask HN: Would you liked if your NIS https login was served with Google js?
https://twitter.com/ObnoxiousJul/status/770765475412316160
This a login/pass for a non US country to modify your personal data for your personal data regarding your National Insurance Number, thus your real identity with a lot of secrets used in ID theft...

In a web page that requires NO video OR ads and can have sensitive real ID info that a foreigner owned company (or not) that knows everything about you, don't you think it is like, nuts? (a stupid useless increase of surface of vulnerability for data that are pretty important)

I mean US citizens would even feel itchy, no?
Thailand/Malaysia/Singapore probably, but insisting that a tomato is a fruit these days is like saying anti-Semitism is discrimination against Arabs too.
> protecting someone who had to break the law in order to whistleblow versus someone who did not are two very different things and I worry mixing the topics may become confusing

"Confusing" is such an odd term to label this as. It's not confusing at all. It's pretty clear from your comment you just plain don't think they're the same and you don't want anyone else to either. Furthermore, your whole argument is based on an assertion which is based on no evidence.

I would happily wager that Monsanto's employee agreement strictly forbids sharing trade secrets, private financial information with third parties, etc.
Who will win the 2020 US Election?
My monitor in portrait orientation looks great :)
To be clear I meant real AI indistinguishable from a human when conversing with it.
> at break-even would drive down attendance significantly (and it's already low).

But there's an arbitrage from reselling, so clearly retail prices can be raised without hurting attendance significantly?
No Mario's Sky
Streisand VPN: The anti-censorship tech inspired by Turkey's oppressive regime
LinkedIn is pretty bad at trying though. I got a new job not long ago, they congratulated me on it, two days later or so, and even now still they keep sending me emails about my next future job. I barely have gotten my feet wet at this one... What in the world?
University of Chicago dean's welcome letter is all about what's not welcome
How did the US even operate before the explosion of the regulatory bodies starting in the 1970's? Were there even any paved roads before the income tax?
Shh, west coast people have a higher quality of life than you! They can drive to better-than-average hikes on weekends! That's such a huge part of their identities that nowhere else could possibly be bearable!
Don't cave to these idiots and apologize for an automated system that made a mistake. An apology implies fault.

By all means recognize an error and fix it, just don't apologize for everything that someone gets overly upset over.
Indeed, I don't believe the problem here was that Facebook was tricking their users here into handing over their phones/emails contact information (aka this persons client lists). FB is explicit about permissions in this sense, although most users agree to everything without thinking twice.

The real problem is how the information was utilized by the recommendation engine, which is known to be creepily effective at matching people (people who just met for the first time, for example). FB is investing heavily in AI here so this is the natural outcome - where the results are very effective but has some unintended side effects. The side effects are largely due to the fact this connectivity happens in the background, outside of a place where the user can control privacy settings on particular contacts.

So I'm not sure there is an easy solution here. Mining contacts and social information is Facebook's business. It's what you hand over to use the service and why many people stop using Facebook voluntarily - or carefully limit what information they allow access to. I never allow FB to access my phones contacts, for instance, and their mobile app still works fine.