skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have progressed, and are whittling away at the extremes, but then the relative borders of unacceptable move closer perhaps enough to make the emotional magnitude equivalent.

I think this is a general trend with socializing and the internet. Before ~instantaneous communication in global forums, you had to "make do" or compromise with how you socialized among your peers, since you were limited to the immediate geographic area (less as you grow older and potentially get access to cars/more autonomy). But now, you can literally just take your socializing elsewhere, it's a "buyers" market for socializing where, if you don't like your current social network, you can pretty easily drop it and go somewhere more comfortable for you.

This is great from a curated safety standpoint but it breeds dependence on these social escapes. I think parallels nicely with "fight or flight" where you can either try to fight for your social standing in your current environment, or flee to a more welcoming one. If you always choose flee, you'll always be satisfied by some other group socially (assuming you can find one, which should be pretty easy on the internet) but you'll never learn how to handle social conflict in a healthy manner, and thus your boundaries of acceptability shrink more and more as you mature and come to better understand what you want (or at least what you dislike).

I think it's similar to having too hygienic an environment when growing up, your body doesn't adapt to various allergens and you end up less healthy the curation. Or the cliche spoiled child, who grows up to become extremely difficult to work on a team/interact with in general because they're not learned in compromise and are incapable of comprehending "not getting their way."

Technology in general allows us to better enact our will, which I think is also slowly spoiling those who fully take advantage of it. Just like it's healthy to keep physically and mentally challenging yourself, I think emotionally challenging yourself is also healthy, and while you don't need to seek out difficult social interactions, I think it's healthy to try to solve the problems without simply avoiding them.

edit: for age context, i'm in my mid-twenties
Erm no.

In Somalia you do have a lot of government interference - you just have many smaller (wannebe) ones there, fighting against each other for power, vs. one big.
Road signs in California for weigh stations will say something like: this lane, trucks only (no puckups). Car is used to mean either in most conversations, so I knew what you meant. I liked your analogy and found humor in the fact that the answer to your question was in a way hidden in your question. I intended to answer your question and share the humor I found but I was short on time and instead my comment looks snarky.

In any case, good point.
> It's not so much about mass surveillance but rather things like the TSA and stupid immigration policies which are at play here.

There have been cases in the past where American citizens have been refused entry into the US: they've been denied boarding in a foreign airport, leaving them stuck there. I know, it is hard to believe, but it is true.
A D3 plugin to improve path animation
Kind of weird that they mention a workaround - which involves stopping and starting the service, but obviously only works if you know about the workaround. Why not apply it to everyone themselves. (via a script) or if they don't want to force the temorary disruptuon on everyone at least like create a button to try the workaround, and put it on the outage notification page... Stopping and starting it seems like something that wouldn't be that resource-intensive to apply to everyone, would it? Isn't a hack that applies the workaround to everyone better than an outage/downtime while they figure out a purer reason?
New the SaaStr Co-Selling Space. Sell and Scale Together
As the OP and being from NA let me clarify that I am a fan of hatchbacks and even "wagons/avants" GASP! When I have the disposable income, I want an Audi S6 avant for weekend fun/repair projects. My distaste for the Bolt/Volt is my general distaste for GM styling (specifically that of Chevy) and quality issues.
> I'm unclear why you seem to assume this change is bad?

I guess the idea is to stop assuming you know what the data will be used for. My office manager bought a book then several months later took a trip to NYC. She was pulled into a room and interviewed about it before they let her go, specifically mentioning the book, why she bought it, and asking why she was traveling to NYC.

Is this unreasonable use of data capture? I dunno. Seems okay, right? But it is an example of threat-assessment based on you bought a book. What if you instead had access to every email/text/web-search/webpage-i-have-accessed ever? Not to mention purchases. Of course credit cards are the same way.

Surely posting THIS thread is just as threat-indicating as buying a book, and even more telling because you have my words to back up your assertions. Ought I not have posted this HN post? Will it come back to haunt me? Computers don't forget. They'll never let me forget this post, or any other, and use it as justification for my future actions.

Examples only seem to weaken privacy conversations, since one inevitably internalizes "how likely am I to be caught by that?", but here goes anyway:

If I mention "Snowden" in a post on HackerNews/Reddit/email/Facebook ought I be denied a security clearance? I don't know, but the capability is there already. And of course you have to mention the cliché: If there were a Facebook in 1930, the collection of the Jewish people would've been trivial, and extraordinarily efficient. Heck, throw in today's public face recognition and you could net an entire population. You wouldn't even do it loudly. You'd just quietly identify nexus points in the community and start quietly working to discredit and weaken them. Help them lose their job, discredit them, have'm transferred to another city, hire a prostitute to help ruin their marriage... whatever it is that naughty folk do to get their way as quietly as possible.

I don't feel like these things are shocking, hard-to-execute, or so fabulously ficticious that one ought eye-roll at it. They're simply what any moral-less entity would do to stay alive/in-power/in-control.
Ethical standards exist for a reason.
Though surely not enough years to negate the effect of eating three Domino's deliveries per day.
Same in Turkey as well. They have a partnership with Vodafone Turkey
I actually find it easier to meet people and become friends as an adult than it was as a kid. Once I started going to university, I could just go do sports, meetups or activities (like theater, etc..), or even just chat up people waiting for the bus and it was easy to form a connection and start talking to people.

As a kid, I didn't have that many avenues to meet people beside school and when I met someone from outside of school, it was always awkward.
If capitalism went away, sugar and tobacco would still be a thing. For example, tobacco shortages sometimes caused economic unrest in the Soviet Union.
Unusual Wikipedia Articles
> He wasn't a whistleblower: he was a leaker.

So were Manning and Snowden.
Some the UK web blocking initiatives already reach 99% coverage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
We also compete to rise to the elite ranks, demote persons and families who prove themselves incompetent and boast a competent (a function of competition, in contrast to Europe) and diverse (a function of not killing each other, in contrast to China or Russia) elite.
Wbobeirne/stranger-things: Intro of the Show Stranger Things in CSS
Everytime I see that it reminds me of EQ's /pizza command.
i've found that particularly with electricians, during negotiations they often deflect discussion by saying 'thats not code.'

i'm sure that the majority of the times i've been told that, there was a good basis written down someplace.

but not having access to the code further skews an already asymmetric relationship between domain expert/contractor and customer.
I don't know what table you're looking at, but there have been no new orders for A380s this year, and last year only two planes were ordered.
I must be reading that wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A380_orders_and...

Net orders:

2011: 19

2012: 9

2013: 42

2014: 13

2015: 2

2016: -
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted... Tesla already collects as much sensor data in a day as Google has in the entire history of their program.
Step towards? This is state-wide censorship.

But isn't the truth that it is already implemented in UK ISP's DNS offerings anyway, and that this is just extending the filter so you can't bypass it by changing to a different DNS server?

This should be a textbook case on how to achieve censorship. Start by having it "optional", but not an option a user opts into explicitly, just implicitly in a way they don't understand (by "choosing" their ISP).

Then when 99% of people are already covered, roll it out in a compulsory way across everywhere because "This won't affect most people, just a small number of people".

No debate needed.
Violent bullying generally requires a violent response. It's unfortunately true.

My then 8-year-old son was getting punched by another boy in his class on a regular basis and the teachers couldn't do anything about it because they "didn't see it." I told him that if anyone ever hits him, pushes him or punches him again he has my permission to hit back commensurately just as hard and he would suffer no consequences - even if the school wanted to suspend him.

So the next day he got punched and he punched the other kid back in the stomach. It's been 2 years now and that kid never hit him again.
If I were a non-U.S. citizen I wouldn't want to visit the US these days, and that fact makes me sad.
Nice, thanks for the link. That seems like a sensible start.
And you're eating a chunk is the risk since you're the first one to lose money!

So if prices go up, you lose and if prices go down you also lose!
On the flip side, the different biases of different manufacturers might not go so well together. Toyota couldn't get the software for an accelerator pedal right, so I have zero confidence that the 2030 self-driving Prius won't just e.g. drive 15 mph under the speed limit everywhere, camp out in the passing lane, stop for at least 30 seconds when switching from reverse to forward, and gridlock in shopping center parking lots.

Then again, as someone who won't buy a self-driving car for as long as possible, it might be fun to learn the driving styles of different self-driving cars and use them to my advantage. E.g. If I know that tailgating a Prius which is going the speed limit in the left lane will cause it to move over in self-driving mode, or that a Mirai will always brake-check itself when it gets cut off, it might be possible to exert some control over them if it's advantageous in traffic to do so.
Nah, just point your DNS queries to 8.8.8.8 (two times Adolf Hitler's birthday, easy to remember) and you'll be fine. Or, if Google is blocked, use another root server. Or, if all root servers are blocked, use a VPN. Or, if all VPNs are blocked, invent a distributed DNS system that adds .realuk as a new top-level domain.
> if a country suffers famine, do people (and you) suggest single payer food system?

Yes! The government (payer) gets the food it needs to feed its people or...?
- Read SICP

- Understand how all programs can be written as lists of lists of lists... and so on

- Pick up the language that you work in. Identify what construct of that language allows you to approximate scheme/lisp lists. For me this is objects in java & php, and functions in javascript

- Code your program as a list of lists of lists... in the language of your choice.

- Congrats, you got OOP
The typical US farm is a family owned business.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/201431/eib24b_1_.pdf

A key para Ninety-eight percent of U.S. farms are family farms. The remaining 2 percent are nonfamily farms, which produce 15 percent of the value of agricultural output (fig. 4). Two features of family farms stand out. First, there are many small family farms (< $250,000 annual sales), making up 90 percent of all U.S. farms. Second, large-scale family farms account for 60 percent of all production.

So large closely held farms produce 60% of US output and smaller farms produce another 25% of US output.
> I will sign the petition and if some asshole gives me trouble at the border for it, so what? I'm a US citizen and entitled to re-enter my country. F them.

I posted this reply earlier too, but figured I'd respond here also. The US government has, in the past, refused entry to US citizens. They do this not at the border, but at the foreign airport. Say you fly to Germany, and then try to come back. They'll tell the airline to refuse to board you, and then you're stuck there. Sure, if you managed to somehow reach a US land border, they would have to allow you in (after a lengthy interrogation, I imagine). But that's not very practical or economical.
For a non-US citizen it might be a case, especially if they are thinking about moving there eventually.
I don't think you're going to get that functionality until your instant pot has Wi-Fi.
Two engines have more spare power than four engines. Single engine on twin must still be able to fly aircraft.
I tried out Apple Music and really wanted to like it, but I came back to Spotify mostly because the apps (desktop and mobile) that apple were offering were just completely unusable.
> Google Photos for iOS is horrible about this - there are only two location settings, (1) no location services or (2) always on

Can't you just select "While using this app" for location services for any app on iOS?
At some point, these superhosts provide hotel services in a distributed, piecemeal way.

There's going to be a watershed moment where a "host" offering 10-20+ properties is going to get the hammer of the law on them for running an unlicensed hotel and quite probably for some form of tax fraud as well (hotels often have many extra taxes.)
Median household income shows similar growth levels for ’92–’97 (7) and ’10–’15 (6). However, bottom 20 percent income vs. Top 20 percent income looks like 1/2 the growth at the bottom 92–’97 (10) ’10–’15 (5) vs top 92–’97 (20) ’10–’15 (10) for both periods.

So, it might be broader recovery, but the bottom is still failing further behind and the middle is not keeping up with the top.
And can they sooner or later stop recommending vocal trance to me?

If there was any machine learning at all going on at that place it should have picked out that peculiarity by now.
The idea is to put the right amount of pressure. A sensitive teacher knows when their pupil is not keeping up, wants more, less or is bored.

It is the essence of individualised teaching.

Sadly, teachers are very overworked these days, don't see how the student approaches homework and have no insight into family or emotional issues.
Hacker News Highlights, the Alan Kay edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836832
Pardon my ignorance, but would someone mind explaining, in a little more detail, when this software would be necessary, and perhaps other tools that do the same thing? Envoy seems like it does a lot, I'm just trying to wrap my head around it.
The World's Most Important Graph Heads to the Graveyard
They need to add a Bitcoin option for donations so we can donate without risking a lifetime of issues with the TSA and other government agencies
The Top 7 Free and Open Source Database Software Solutions
Working fine for me - received an email just a minute ago and fine all morning, across multiple apps for business accounts / different domains - from NY.
I do not remember the 787 as a particularly quiet plane inside but i only flew it once. It's still hard to encounter from europe.
That is a conscious and deliberate UI/UX decision.

It could (and should) be possible to specifically activate location services, or to otherwise indicate your location, when using an application which specifically requires it. For, say, 5 minutes. Or 15, or 1 hour.

Turning this into a chore is just a cattleprod moving you along the gate to that chute dumping you in the "GPS always on" mode.

I am hypersensitive to such manipulations, and take a hard turn in the opposite direction.
Not all government actions are caused by lobbying.

"Lobbying" is not really a meaningful term for an insurance company. They probably can't cover unguaranteed drugs due to regulation.
Literally millions of Americans think Snowden should be pardoned. Expressing that belief won't make me a target.

That being said, I could see the government trotting it out if there were ever a separate case against you. "captainmuon is already known to harbor sympathies for known traitor Edward Snowden."
This is hardly my field, but it was my understanding that this was the opposite. It's a load balancer that reports statistics so that you can figure out what's happening. That doesn't make your concern less valid, but it does change how everything is framed.
The reduced usecase (story?) is the following

The customer requests the following

@?
class somename (?):
an_attr_a = ADescriptor(somestuff)
an_attr_1 = ADescriptor(somestuff)
an_attr_a1 = ADescriptor(somestuff)

One of their expectations is that the attributes have their definition order stored somewhere. You may either use the decorator method, or the metaclass method
This is where I've seriously considered multi-family communal living, and wish it were more popular and mainstream.

Taking care of kids is relatively scalable, in that it's a full-time job for one person to "engage" (and I don't mean "watch" or "babysit" or "entertain" but more like "actively plan and execute a meaningful day's activies") one child, and it's nearly the same full-time job for one person to engage six children.

So I imagine sometimes how much better a job I could do if I could really focus and devote my full time and attention for 1 whole day out of 7 on a small group of children. What would we be able to plan and go out and accomplish and learn about? If you had 6 adults taking shifts with 6 - 10 kids?
Well shit I've got to say that he is amazing! Chris keep up the good work. I look forward in seeing where you take it from here.
Would you recommend that a kid that is being completely ignored also walk up to somebody and hit them in the face?

There's a big difference between responding to physical bullying with force, and responding to people ignoring you and not allowing you to sit with them with violence.

At the end of the day, as unfair as it is, you're going to be the one that looks like the bully.

Edit: I'm being down-voted... but the app is meant to be a reaction to social/psychological bullying and not violence. Violence isn't appropriate here.
Am I the only one that finds it amusing that a JS debugger is called debugger.html?

debugger.DOM, sure, .JS even, but .html?
The madness is to pay $30k when the $3k solution works fine.
Spot on.

The top comment in this thread is paranoia about whether this site is a hostile name collection honeypot (I think if it is, so is commenting on this thread, hello nsa).

One way of combatting such paranoia is to establish trust. This site accepts donations, but nowhere does it say WHO is running it. It has neat ACLU, Amnesty International, and HRW logos at the bottom, but anyone can put graphics on a page. It has a whole list of supporters, but all without any citation of their support (you would expect the Chomskys, Lessigs, and Greenwalds, but the Soros are a bit more surprising).

This is at best a rushed, uncoordinated release. At worst, it IS a name collection honeypot.

If this group does in fact have support of ACLU, AI, and HRW, it should link to those organizations' press releases of this particular domain. If it has the endorsements of popular figures, at the very least link to a tweet of theirs.

Snowden should be pardoned because he revealed that in the land of the free, we should always be looking over our shoulder asking if this is an NSA sting job. A good way of fighting that paranoia lifestyle is with credibility. These guys are failing that fight.
>And get rid of the EPA

Yeah, no. Not Gary Johnson.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gary-johnson...

On the other hand in northern New Mexico, there was a Molycorp mine. There was metals contamination in the Red River. It had gone on for decades. And for decades politically it was being protected because of the jobs that were involved. I took office and I said, you’ve got to clean this up. You have to come to the table and you have to clean this up. They refused to come to the table. So my biggest club in the bag was, I am going to declare you a Superfund site. I’m going to hand you over to federal EPA unless you come to the table in 30 days and come up with a plan for fixing your metals contamination.

And they claimed that it was natural! It was ludicrous. It was a slap in the face. And they refused to come to the table. My phone is ringing off the hook, politically. It’s ringing off the hook. There were all these jobs. And my response was: “These people are bad actors and they have to be brought to the table.” Thirty days went by and they became a Superfund site. So there’s an example of the EPA and why the EPA should exist. And why government should exist to protect us against those who would do us harm. And in this case the Libertarian argument would be, as individuals we could have brought suit against polluters. We can bring suit individually. Well, in the case of Molycorp, you know what, they would have been able to withstand any individuals trying to bring that suit against them.
Well just tell us right here. You have my eyeballs. Wtf do I want to go on some Internet safari to know?

Bad start right off the bat man. This inbound marketing slash wtf worked 5 years ago. Not anymore.
dubious

Right on cue; statist happy talk. Don't vote with the Deplorables and change anything.
I don't think I'm exaggerating. When you read this article, and read what corporations are doing, and politicians are advocating, it's easy to see where this is going. In addition to that you have ICANN stewardship transfer, which might make it easier for other countries to influence how the Internet works. We also have growing number of hacks/leaks that will be used to push the "need for firewalls" and "warnings" from experts that "someone" if probing our defences. It all does not make me hopeful that we can keep the internet free.
After reading the discription, I'm very much in favor of unusual articles. It seems that they are generally useful, and as such, I see no need to force them into a particularly well-known style.
Introducing Slinky: Sling Responsive Emails from the Cloud
Their docs actually compare it to a lot of other stuff like haproxy, nginx, Amazon ELB, and more.

https://lyft.github.io/envoy/docs/intro/comparison.html
I doubt you can do much better. You'll have to compromise on either the commute or the rent. Live near BART and you'll pay up for the convenience. Oakland is the 4th most expensive city to rent in the US; further out and you start looking at even longer commutes. You literally can't get less than an hour commute by public transportation into SF from the East Bay. Trust me, I've tried.

Live by yourself, and you won't find a decent place for less than $2k/month anywhere. Accounting for taxes, that's about $40K/year, which is more than someone with a $100K income should be paying for rent if they want to stay financially stable.

And while Facebook might have East Bay shuttle buses (though I don't think they do to any meaningful extent), what about all the other companies that aren't Facebook?
I'm not sure that's true. In cases where I've had a deductible, I've always paid the lower negotiated price. The vendor (doctor or pharmacy) has always run the product through insurance first, then billed me whatever my insurer says is correct.