skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most favorite video game economy was Habbo Hotel, actually. Because few people actually bought coins, people were caught in a deflated economy almost constantly. And since special events or buying furniture from the store was the only source of supply for the demand, a whole economy formulated around furniture for coins, etc. I just thought the dynamic was neat.

Additionally, Spiral Knights also had an interesting model -- access to levels was gated by something called "Energy," and you were given a cap and a given regeneration rate for energy up to that cat. "Crystal Energy" could be bought for real money and exchanged for in-game money, so it was an interesting deal -- the game created an automatic sink for money in energy.
Do We Want Another Manhattan Project?
I'm seeing no news coverage of this that doesn't reprint this article or the original press release. Surely this would be big news in proper media, particularly given the buzzword status of "blockchain". What are they actually doing?
Just like many companies use mongodb and nanoservices.
Autonomous Peer Learning at Booking.com
Android slows because of ton of crap that can be installed. WinUP is clean as no one makes crap.
I have a nexus 4 with no play store. Juat installed whatsapp apk directly fron whatsapp.com. at least 3 day battery time.
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

(This link is provided in the initial notification)
The information brew collects I would hardly call personally identifiable. Take a look at what they collect: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....
Put some gas in your tank and head out camping for a weekend.

Or take some unpaid leave and spend the time with you family.
TodoFox – E-mail Based Todo List
In German we have a word called 'Datensparsamkeit':

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Datensparsamkeit.html

It's a principle for good software design. This principle is also written down in German law:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenvermeidung_und_Datenspars...

>Damit gilt in Deutschland der Grundsatz, dass die Erhebung, Verarbeitung und Nutzung personenbezogener Daten und die Auswahl und Gestaltung von Datenverarbeitungssystemen an dem Ziel auszurichten sind, so wenig personenbezogene Daten wie möglich zu erheben, zu verarbeiten oder zu nutzen.

Rough translation: Thus in Germany we have there principle, that the collection, processing and using of person related data and the selection and design of data processing systems have to be guided by the aim to collect, process or use as few as possible person related data as possible.

Here, now someone has a list of software installed on various machines and the versions of that software, and whatever else information. It may be enough data to identify me or other users, the computers and the installed software. It may also allow other uses, which I have no idea of.

It's likely that this information spreads to unintended places.

I don't think this is a good idea.

I never liked the idea of using Homebrew, and this makes it even more suspicious.
Enabling analytics that send whatever information to Google. Yes, I can opt out, but often times I just don't have the time to verify the privacy policies of each and every piece of software I use.
Europe for a couple of decades following WW2.
Cool I guess but why is this on the front page of an English site if nobody can figure out what it does and has no English docs? Seems like 90%+ of readers will be unable to use this

There's a myriad of different solutions for inspecting http requests that work just fine and have been around for eons. These days it seems like anything with the right buzzwords in the title makes it to the top
Does the Vive support Macs or Linux yet?
Yes, there are arguments for organ donation to be opt-out. But that's extreme case, when one loses literally nothing - by virtue of being already dead - and another person stands to gain additional years of life[0]. Some other socially beneficial things also have strong arguments for being opt-out (like retirement plans, because opt-out protects people from their own stupidity/short-sightedness).

But that doesn't change the validity of the proposal that opt-in should be the standard - exceptions from which must have solid reasons. Just making it easier for someone to make money off people is not one of those reasons. Neither is vague "making the product better".

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[0] - INB4 yes, there are also valid arguments that opt-out organ donations will reduce doctors' willingness to fight for patient's life. Human societies are complicated.
Data Collection from Weatherproof Antennas with Apache MiNiFi
This last point trumps all others:

"[...] on-premise infrastructure on the other-hand brews a culture of mistrust, centralization, dependency and control.
[...]
These difference between on-premise data centers and public clouds influence how teams think, plan and execute. These are nothing but attributes of culture."

I'm currently working with a large financial services organisation that is moving to the cloud. It's incredibly painful, because of all the challenges involved in guaranteeing the safety and security of private data etc., but once these hurdles are taken once, it's incredibly liberating. The move is not just a technical one though, it requires a change of culture as well.
Also, it's important to remember the electricity is a small proportion of total energy use, which is dominated by heating and transport; heating's usually gas or heavy fuel oil, transport is usually petrol or diesel. And by 'dominated', I mean about 2/3 of all energy use goes towards it.

Yes, migrating to electric heating and transport is possible. Over-unity fuel pumps are teh awesome, and electric transport is almost workable (but not quite yet for anything more than short distances); but we're still going to be talking about a massive increase in electricity consumption, and most countries' electrical grids can't handle that.

So, I agree with you --- coal is foul stuff, it needs to die, this is an all senses a good thing; but it's still just a small step on the path to getting off fossil fuels.
> and most of the users would not opt-in

Which means users have chosen what they prefer and silently extracting despite that choice isn't exactly trustful.
> you might make what a junior sysadmin makes.

seriously ... don't you do djing because of the chicks?
Jersey is semi fun to use as well and can run on grizzly and netty, two of the fastest http servers in existence
Spring-Boot as long as you don't mind the required voodoo necessary for stack traces for when things go wrong ;)
Bitnation: 'Smart Love' for outlawed LGBT and inter-faith marriages on blockchain
The anti-censorship tech inspired by Turkey's oppressive regime
The Flip is an ARM system!
I love his work, and the ones that worked with him.

After learning Smalltalk, Oberon and Modula-3, I started a journey into the world of Xerox PARC and their influences into ETHZ and DEC research labs and became amazed how computing could have looked like already by the mid-90's.

To the point using UNIX stopped being fun, I wanted one of those environments, not a PDP-11 replica.
I agree it's a good idea that's long overdue, but I started at the first page and the descriptions don't make sense in combination with the illustration.

For example, the first illustration has five numbered boxes, but there are no references to them in the descriptive text. And the description says they'll "stretch," but does that mean horizontally AND vertically?

Then the next one says, "Each line will only fill the space it needs. They will all move towards the start of the flexbox container's cross axis."

What is "the start of the flexbox container's cross axis?" None of those three things is identified in the illustration: the start, the flexbox container, or the "cross axis."

If that's the quality of all the descriptions and illustrations, I'm afraid this is a disappointing implementation of a good idea.
Also somewhat related to this - recently I've realized that this privacy paranoia is going to slow down medical advances coming out from big data so much.

For example your wearables get to collect so much biometric info, if that data can be connected to detecting conditions early it would provide a lot of value down the road. At some point we will have the option to collect data about what you ate, what you did, where you went and then how that affected your biometrics, and we can inexpensively collect huge scale DNA samples, etc. all that data if available publicly could really provide insights in to things that are really not practical in limited group studies.

For reasons such as this I think I'm fine if services collect anonymized (unless we solve identity theft and such security concerns) information about me, I'd just want them to make this data free.
How long do you think it will take before "the whole thing" collapses? And what will come after the collapse?
I would try communicating to my manager that maintaining IE 7 support is costly for you. When you work on some IE-7-specific issue, log your time, and show them an actual rundown. Maybe that will tilt the cost-benefit analysis far enough to push them into upgrading their default browser.

(By the way, I'm sympathetic with you. When I deployed a big feature in an intranet web application in 2012, it broke for dozens of users, and it took me days to track down the misplaced comma that broke the neck of the IE 7 JS parser.)
Microsoft gives third-parties access to Windows 10 Telemetry data
It is not Google paying for 3rd party cookies. Firefox tried to change it and it became a publicity disaster for them.

Suddenly they were met with headlines like "Mozilla/Firefox hates small business owners" and they are simply not capable of handling a publicity attack (remember the whole CEO thing?) and they caved in.
I think you don't understand how money works. Probably in the short term, you are right even though empirical evidence suggests that in hyperinflation scenarios luxury good price increases less than other normal and necessity goods.

In the medium term, you have to ask yourself who is able to capture this money. Not for sure the homeless that has no means to start with. Probably will be captured by the people that control directly or indirectly the manufacturing means. So the rich will be the one capturing most of the helicopter money.

The reason is that money is not capital. Money by itself does not produce value. One of the most effective ways to increase social mobility is by investing in education because allows people to acquire social capital that they could invest to generate real capital and then money.
Data Analytics Technique
Are all analytics a violation of privacy?

No, only the ones without active informed consent. Privacy is the embodiment of personal choice, after all.
Without even looking at benchmarks it'd have to be faster because it's compiled, right?
I seriously doubt it, so far all Intel attempts for performance minded GPU use have been sub-par.

They are just good enough as integrated GPUs for the occasional gamer and that is it.
With most of industrial China on the eastern side, I wonder how beneficial will this trade route be, to China.
You're country is probably going to rebound in ten years (mostly), but your personal assets aren't going away.
Dupe (no comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035122

Let's see which thread survives.
If you store your data with a third party cloud provider, government agencies can legally compel your cloud provider to give them your data while preventing them from telling you. If your data is on-premises, they'll have to come and take it from you. If you are a multinational company with entities in multiple geographies and related party transactions, you know what you'd prefer.
Am I missing something here?

Is your point that everyone should move to the public cloud because you think it's "difficult" to build a "private" one?

Sorry to be blunt, but are you joking, an idiot or just completely unaware of the reality our industry outside of startup land?

Forgetting the compliance reasons, or that I have zero confidence that a combination of giant American corporations have any interest in protecting my data and that of my users, forgetting also that the performance differences are incredibly significant (take 8 15k sas's in raid 10 vs.. what? EBS with 2k 'provisioned IOPS' on a shared san over iscsi?), the cost savings are much more significant than you claim here.

I recently bought a half rack load of dell boxes which have like 380GB of ram each and 52 threads, and they cost around £4k each.

Even with a whole army of overpriced ops dudes to install openstack or kubernetes on all that, the cost we spent would be spanked in a month on AWS for similar capacity, and mine isn't a recurring one.

Why does it have to be so black and white for you folks?

A "private cloud" is absolutely the correct choice for a lot of people. If I were you I'd quietly delete that post, because I've absolutely judged you -- and probably unfairly -- on the content. On that, I wouldn't hire you.

Listen, both these things have a place, but they're NOT competing in the minds of those of us running serious infra. AWS allows us to prototype apps rapidly, to put project work on a credit card associated with a specific project budget instead of spending the shared budget, and for sure there are some nice services which do a bit of heavy lifting for us which helps speed that up.

After that phase though, very, very few people things actually need or make sense to stay there once it becomes a real product. Your scaling concerns are not being well served by 1000s of ec2 instances. Moving back in house is usually the smarter option.

If you're pumping loads of data into the internet, then you should be behind a CDN and the origin shouldn't be smashed to the point where you're dependent on throwing compute into the void to cope. Akamai or CloudFlare are cheaper than deploying 100s of ec2's because some shitty code can't handle your traffic.

If data is coming in, read a book on queues; you'd be pretty surprised what you can do with even two 1U boxes and a good software architecture. We could handle 100k+/sec of messages back in the java 1.5 and activemq days with 1U sparc boxes; how much do you recon it costs to do that today in AWS?

tl;dr - urgh. lets' talk in 10 years.

</rant>
Dupe (no comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035027

Let's see which thread survives.
Do you have any source that can back your suspicion that Google breaks their own policies for Analytics?
Whereas I commend the effort that has gone into this script, the end result for most users will be an unusable Windows 10 installation. The script is VERY aggressive, and does not explain what it is turning off and/or removing and nor does it give the user the ability to control what's being done.

It's nice to see a transparent script with all this in (as opposed to all those sealed EXEs that are floating about), but it's definitely a) not for machines that end users will use, and b) only useful for techies who want to cherry pick out the bits they care about.
.NET of course.

I don't see a use for JavaScript outside the browser, unless forced to do so.
If you listen to Changelog #223 podcast[0], both Mike and the podcast author showed quite a lot of derision and condescension to the people caring about analytics upload, so I don't think it's getting fixed.

[0]: https://changelog.com/podcast/223
Its looking a bit hyprocitical here to be honest. If you use websites in the web today, you are sending data for sure unless you use a adblocker that blocks analytics as well. Brew collecting data this way is unethical but complaining about these things these days is not going to do any change to be honest.
I would be glad if the people who complain about this dont use any websites that collect data without giving any control to the user. But we all know the real deal.
And that has been fixed. It could have been announced in a better way, but is fixed. Are you suggesting people should not use Little Snitch at all? Has the tool lost all credibility forever?
And there was a time when "Emacs" expanded to "eight megabytes and constantly swapping". :)
Ooops. Thanks :D
Notification or prompt?

There is no way that I would want to have this data and this amount of data, recorded and transferred to google. Especially not about software installation on my computers or computers of friends or clients.
Honestly, my reaction to that would be "why the fuck is it doing that", possibly followed by a firewall rule or a comment in the source code and rebuild. I'm annoyed when an application connects to the Internet for reasons unrelated to the task it's performing for me.

That said, even a ping to the mothership is an identifying information - at minimum, it already contains your IP address. Whatever additional data may be added to that ping will likely also reveal details about the machine you're using.

Personally, I'm not a privacy nut; I mostly don't care - I leave plenty of information about myself around. But the thing is, I'm doing it voluntarily and as a primary function of some service. I don't like when applications exfiltrate data for reasons not related to their purpose.
It's definitely a worry, but to their credit AWS at least are pretty nice about accidentally racking up a big bill. Last month I forgot to shut down a GPU instance I'd been experimenting with on my personal account and got hit with $150 I hadn't been expecting, but on explaining the situation to support they cancelled the bill from the previous month and applied a credit to my account to cover the time it had been active this month. I'm going to guess that's a one time thing, but the gesture was very much appreciated.
Nietzschean Dreams
In France, you are a donor by default if you don't opt-out. In 2018, relatives won't be able to oppose organ donation in case of uncertainty.
How long until improved battery technology makes electric units comparable to gas-powered units? That would reduce the noise and air pollution. Not the dust, of course.
Sweden Releases Rulebook in Arabic to Integrate Asylum Seekers in the Country
There's a general comparison on our website: https://www.arangodb.com/why-arangodb/arangodb-vs-mongodb/

One major difference is that ArangoDB has full support of transactions across collections. Also while MongoDB now has limited graph functionality, ArangoDB is actually optimized for graph queries and can do arbitrary traversals and joins very efficiently.

The problem with Gremlin/OpenCypher is that they are primarily designed as graph query languages. ArangoDB takes a multi-model approach and many ArangoDB users focus on documents first and add in graph queries as an optimization step as their products mature. AQL is designed to be very easy to learn and mixes the document and graph paradigms seamlessly, embracing the multi-model nature of the database.

Personally I think that starting with a blank slate was the right choice compared to other multi-model databases that have found it necessary to extend a subset of a standard query language with their own proprietary additions to achieve the same goals.
Wow. I am speechless.

The reddit until very recently had no involvement from the Go team whatsoever. It was founded by uriel, which then added as mods some Go developers which then never posted there. The community was thriving without any involvment from the Go team at all.

More recently they decreed they owned the place. Nobody was asked. It just happened. They took over and proclaimed authority over it. They still were not involved much, so it was just a change in name.

But now they want to delete it??! A place they had nothing to do with whatsoever. Wow. What arrogance.
They can call it "anonymous data" as much as they want, but in the end it's still data transmitted to Google's servers. If you are simultaneously logged into your Google account on that computer, the information is not anonymous anymore. Google could with high probability correlate connections.
Yes, there are arguments for organ donation to be opt-out. But that's extreme case, when one loses literally nothing

Actually, I've opted out because my next of kin stand to lose quite a lot (the harvesting of organs needs to be done quickly, well within the mourning period of the people I care about the most). The decision to leave sight of my body needs to be theirs, and theirs alone.
#TheRoundUp No. 43
I recall it being a prompt when I saw it, but others are saying it was a notification.
10 tendências de smartphones para ficar atento em 2017
/etc/hosts should do it, I suppose?
Thanks for the heads up! Been meaning to buy one for gf's 2012 MBP, and now seems like the best time.
Sorry but, I am afraid that this train has already left the station.
Any recent improvements in small gas engines? Can't they be made quieter in simple ways, like a better muffler?
No, that's exactly why absolute error is better. "Big errors" are called outliers, they're (relatively) rare, often caused by bad data (measurement errors, typos, etc.) and substiantially influence the outcome of your calculation. In other words, squared error is less robust.

But squared error is easier to compute. So, in practice, what you do is you remove outliers (e.g. cap the data at +-3sigma) then use squared error.
Valve has indicated that support for it is coming soon. Their recent developer conference they demoed it running on Linux. I'm not sure how well it's going to work on Mac with the lack of decent graphics cards unless maybe using a Hackintosh.
How to Stop Data Theft in the Healthcare Industry?
Like how the PRISM program got whistleblown by Googlers? Oh wait, that never happened.
I'd also encourage people to read David Langford's book, The Leaky Establishment, which is definitely not in any way based on his experiences working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, aka the UK's atom bomb factory, in the 1980s; it says so right in the dedication at the front:

http://ansible.uk/books/leaky.html

It tells the story of how our hero smuggles a discarded filing cabinet home with him one day, only to discover that someone has popped a plutonium warhead into the bottom drawer while he wasn't looking; he spends the rest of the book trying to smuggle it back in again.

Spheres play a key role.
The US approach to privacy is "let the market sort it out". It has sorted it out by transforming the internet into a giant spying machine sucking up contacts, photos, documents, videos, metadata, what packages you use, when where and how you exercise, everything

The EU approach to privacy (eroded by lobbying and lack of control over US companies) is that citizens have a right over their information. They can ask what personal information a company has on them, ask that it be corrected or deleted.
This has resulted in companies that are more careful with data.

Whenever I read a post like yours I immediately think of so-called "useful innocents", to put it euphemistically [1].
Fighting for a non-goal of better open source through analytics (get real), corporate dominance and fewer rights for individuals.

Companies don't need analytics to improve software. They certainly don't need analytics from Google, the leading spyware-as-a-service company in the world.

I expect open source to become better through writing quality software, engaging with users and if need be doing some surveys or organsising other reach-out initiatives in the open. Not analytics turned on by default but it's-ok-cause-we-tell-you-we're-fucking-you.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
They may not have the passwords to these wallets.
Brad seems to be the only person who wants it closed. Sound like a bit of a dick.
nearest I saw: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle