skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if they were setting out to be a union in the conventional sense, that would be fine. But as a weird undefined vaguely amorphous "We're a union that's going to do political things", it matters whether the Silicon Valley liberals are going to be making all the decisions.

I said this on another thing that got lost on /new recently, but either form a PAC or form a union, but don't try to do both.

I very much expect this to be structurally non-viable. Once the union has to make positive decisions about what to push for even the apparent political unity in Silicon Valley will be revealed to be less strong than it seems when you're merely looking at the fact that "I don't know anyone who voted for Trump", let alone what happens if you try to extend it out of Silicon Valley. (And if this is supposed to be unionesque, you'll have to almost immediately as plenty of SV companies have major non-SV offices.) There are unions that were politically active, but they always combined it with a very strong message to their members that their primary task was watching out for their members. Starting right out of the gate with "Our first priority is political activism" means that you can pretty much guarantee the leadership will end up detached from the membership in a small number of years. Something may emerge from that process, but it won't be a group of people that has anything like a quorum of the "tech community"... it'll just be a PAC.
"No True Scotsman?"

Nope.
Please don't post unsubstantively like this.
The original "Teflon" (the opposite of one who is swiftboated) president was Ronald Reagan. Like Trump his base was "states rights". He announced his campaign for presidency at the Neshoba county fairgrounds [1] trumpeting "states rights" - a dog-whistle for white nationalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan%27s_Neshoba_County_Fair...
The company exists to sell a product or provide a service, not to own intellectual property. Sometimes the most effective means is to own the IP, but it's a means, not an end. Very few companies tend to market IP directly.

For instance, in a sufficiently broad view, 99% of AWS is other people's IP - the PC platform, hardware virtualization, Xen, Linux and userspace tools, Perl, etc. etc. And they seem to be doing a fine job commercializing it. They could build their own computing architecture, write their own hypervisor, design their own OS, etc., but that would probably be a less profitable approach. There's an existence proof in Microsoft's Azure and IBM's z/whatever-they're-calling-it-these-days, which are significantly less popular.
But we're not actually talking about emergencies here at all, but rather "by-design" in which nothing is wrong. And a future design at that!

I hope you can see why I am skeptical that a future landing gear for electric airplanes would not be able to support the fully loaded landing weight, which is not reduced as the batteries are depleted.

The idea that landing gears just "can't" support all that weight seems silly to me. The solution can be as simple as having twelve wheels instead of six, or another set of shock absorbers, or something short of "well sorry, you'll never build a landing gear that lands safely at that weight. Can't be done."

Note that I focused on just the weight the landing gears support - your other observations can remain on-point. I just don't buy that particular argument, just about the landing gears.
IIRC, that is the difference that a common carrier designation would make.
I would love to encounter one of these in real life some day and take it home as a trophy.
Most logical fallacies feel that way until you get to the heart of the matter. Explore other examples of other extraordinary claims.
You were flagged, but I don't see any rule violations so I vouched for you. I share many of your same fears. But your argument is a slippery slope argument, so I can't really argue against it. Maybe you're right, and the worker-owned Pizza co-op down the street from me will slide into Stalinist authoritarianism. We'll see. I think the fact that it is voluntary and you are at will to choose an ownership-based enterprise instead is a key difference from the Soviet Union.

I'll also point out that the vast majority of U.S. employees don't have ownership stakes and they still show up to work and work hard. Many people (retirees, the rich, other do-gooders) even work hard for organizations and don't get paid.

I appreciate your recounting of history though, and share your concern. The biggest fear I have is that decentralization of operations will make it easier for exploitation of workers on a small scale in secret. I also do share your fear that my understanding of how much resources will be needed is off because I grew up in a country where those resources were presumed.

But these fears are not enough to stop my work. Capitalism has led to my neighbors in the Bay Area being regularly shot, and that's a real problem I am dealing with today. So my concern over those shootings is greater than my concern about the theoretical future ones you are cautioning against.

You're wrong to assume that us naive Americans have no idea what it's like to see your friends and neighbors be shot for political reasons.
That so-called “luxury” apartments end up getting rented to students and entry-level workers (even if they have to share) should be celebrated, not mocked or viewed with suspicion. Hopefully, it will be a sign that developers will start to target the broader market in earnest in the near future. But the article spins it as some nefarious plot, and anti-displacement groups (of the supply and demand denier type) share it cynically without even realizing that it is positive news[1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/Vanishingsf/posts/647239248801218
Flavor: Ubuntu Server

Headline: Docker installed by default

Description: Docker is installed by default, with a standard config directory.

Role: SysAdmin
I'm sorry to sounds like an old guy but I'd like to see an alternative to systemd.
Misleading information is a weapon in any nation's arsenal. I have to say I'm a little taken aback and almost feel like your comment might be trolling.
If you send her dick pics, dead animals pics or photos of apes with "this is how you look like" under it, all that from hundreds of different accounts so that she can not effectively filter it, then yeah, you are trolling and harassing.

Likewise, if you flood someone employer customers with the above material to get him or her fired, you are harassing.

Let's not pretend this was just about "slightly impolite words". Or misunderstood dialog.
What? Of course non-citizens can get an engineering license. It can be trickier if your education is from outside the US, but citizenship is not an issue.
Licensing would require settling on actually understanding that software development is an engineering activity and not an extended CS 401/501 project. The industry isn't even mature enough to consider licensing either.
This, except I'd put it in a low-fee index fund. Or some sort of rental property.
>I guess where we're in disagreement, though, [...] "useful idiots" that will follow along with dangerous patterns that might have their source in extremely negative astroturfing/forum-sliding/shilling, but which take on a life of their own.

I'm not sure where the disagreement is; gaining sincere support is the whole point. Shills spread plenty of false anti-bernie things.
And FSB's attack surface is less than 1% of CIA's. Much fsb work is farmed out to contractors, the offensive stuff that CIA keeps in house. CIA people chat via email, messaging and by voice. FSB people chat in person. That's why russian hackers are always traveling while CIA hackers keep having thier stuff leaked.
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https://ghostgunner.net/

"As shipped, Ghost Gunner manufactures mil-spec AR-15 and AR-308 lower receivers to completion. With simple tools and point and click software, the machine automatically finds and aligns to your 80% lower to get to work. No prior CNC knowledge or experience is required to manufacture from design files. Legally manufacture unserialized AR rifles in the comfort and privacy of your home."
Simply introduce zoom in/zoom out for the whole desktop separated to each screen like in browser (you can zoom certain tabs/sites and have that memorised). Problem solved.
More like Assange knows that the FSB will just straight up poison him with Polonium instead of slapping him around a bit and shipping him to GITMO.
And he qualified it with "individual" browsing history, and "3rd parties". I'm sure they aggregate it, and they own NBC and Universal.
F(T) = AX^2 + BY^(1/T)

where coefficient A is the current retail price of this season's latest best-seller on quantitative management fads, and coefficient B is absolute value of the difference between the manager's real shoe size and shoe size claimed on their OK-Cupid profile.
I wonder if Sony really was "hacked by the North Koreans" then.
I think the scope of this trolling concern needs to be expanded to include the latest science on confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.

The fake news of Hillary running a child prostitution ring out of a pizza parlor is an example of where people are creating protected spaces for confirmation bias online. Such a story is ludicrous. After Trump won the alt-right created a coded language where common words are substituted for slurs. It is human nature for birds of a feather to flock together and part of this includes creating a negative environment to weed out all but the most dedicated. This human behavior can be found at executive levels at Fortune 500 companies where cussing and swearing not allowed at the employee level represent barriers for people, most notably women, who don't appreciate the troll, obnoxious behavior. It is well known that climbing the corporate ladder requires an ever increasing capacity to put up with caustic trolling behavior.
I would just like it if the option to vote a post or comment would appear at the bottom, after I've read it.
I'm happy this is an ongoing investigation. I hope the Democrats keep pushing it. I suspect they will continue to find nothing and the public will become more and more aware of the hypocrisy on the left.

This also keeps the Democrats from addressing real issues in their party. They ran a bad campaign. Instead of owning it and finding ways to address issues with American voters, they have found a scapegoat in Russia. Good Job!
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Linux is advertised all the time on a site called Hacker News. This isn’t only "hacking" in the innocent "innovative coding" sense of the word. The participants in this particular forum regularly discuss computer intrusion, some academically, others practically.

(sarcastic variation of a similar sentence from the article)
Patients receiving pedometers by post increased their physical activity
There's no technical justification. Mir is a purely political decision. Canonical wants to exert more control over the platform. It's a totally rational position, but as you note, it seems to be failing.
I think I get what you're trying to ask, so I'll try to answer (Disclaimer: I'm a black man).

When it comes to the "properties" of "black" hair (and I'm talking stereotypical black hair here, hair similar to my own... if you're talking "types of hair on the heads of black people", that's much wider ranging), it's the texture. While a lot of people might think of coarse, curly hair as unrully, that's generally the opinion of people who don't know how to "manage"/do/style it. Managing it's growth tends to make you think of pretty ingenious ways of styling (cornrows, dreads, twists, afros, perms, etc.)

Now if you asking "what is it about black hair" in a "why" sense... Well opinions about black people and their hair, both positive and negative, internal and external opinion, have influenced black hairstyles throughout the ages... but that's a wikipedia article for another day.
HIPAA doesn't care about the logistics of whether or not the intermediary can/cannot decrypt the data. If the intermediary touches the data and it's not exempt by the conduit exception, then there has to be a BAA in place. It's why even though FaceTime hypothetically has E2E encryption and Apple claims to not have the capability to decrypt the data, it's still inappropriate to use for patient-doctor communication due to the lack of that BAA being in place.
The usual reason to separate them is that if you're installing to a prefix that needs root privileges to write to, then you'll be doing something like:

./configure && make && sudo make install

If you do this instead:

./configure && sudo make install

...then the compiler toolchain gets invoked as root and all the intermediate build products end up owned by root.
Recommend this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair
If I browse on https only, if websites were to use CDNs IP addresses that are used by many different sites, what could Comcast track from me?

They could see my DNS requests, which I believe are in clear, even if I use Google's name servers.

They would know the sites I go to, but not the pages/bookmarks...

If name resolutions were encrypted, we would be good, or ?
The only age-old wisdom I remember from my great-grandfather is "never trust the British, and kill every French on sight".

Regarding this issue, I'll stop demanding that corporations act morally above and beyond what the law requires when they seize to influence those laws.
In addition to the other comments, I would be excited about a graphics driver not being able to take out my system.
>Japanese don't value permanence in architecture the way Europeans do...

That may be a big part of the explanation. It's fairly common for Japanese people to have the existing house torn down and rebuilt when they buy a property.
Send them documents and they will publish them if legit.
> And threatened with nuclear attack by the US, after Japan surrendered.

You know, if they wouldn't try to capture Iran for themselves, they wouldn't be threatened with nuclear attacks.

Don't portrait USSR or Russia as purely innocent entities.

PS
and invasion by Britain (if you're talking about Crimean war) was after Russian Empire broke the treaty by attacking Turkey.
Think of UWP as Windows Longhorn reborn.

It is the same programming model as .NET, but built on top of COM and just the minimal set of Win32 APIs to support COM based APIs.

It is also sandboxed, just like on OS X.

For Rust to support UWP, it needs to be able to consume COM with the new UWP semantics and at the same time expose traits as COM interfaces accessible to any programming language able to consume UWP libraries.
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Easy Dock/Launcher Customization

- DESCRIPTION: The user should be able to 1) drag any executable to the dock to make a new launcher 2) Right click any launcher to be able to choose a dialog to customize command line arguments, initial working directory, and icon.
The user should not have to edit a desktop item file or install or know about Alacarte. Windows got this one right.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer for chemists and biologists.

[This comment disappeared somehow so this is a reposting]
3. Our business model is that you pre-pay for the recommended meal to get the deal.

5. Right now we're solving something that neither Yelp nor Foursquare solves and that's the Paradox of choice. With them you can see what restaurants are around you, and read some reviews but you still don't know what to eat there. It might get you in the door but you're still taking a shot in the dark. With us, we only create a few set-menu meal deals that you can choose from that are rated best, by local foodies. So you're essentially browsing what's around you by top rated meal, instead of restaurant.
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> (which installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and `apt-get install nodejs` installed Node 0.10 (from 2013! in 2017!).

Not in 2017. In 2014. You're using Ubuntu 14, which means you get 2014 versions.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Multi-Monitor Support with HiDPI

DESCRIPTION: I would like to be able to use multiple monitors with various DPI in Linux without pain and suffering. Please see Mac OS X for how to get this right — they did. I would like to stop worrying about which of my monitors are plugged in at boot, I'd like to be able to plug them in whenever I need to. I'd like to be able to smoothly move a window from one screen to another without the window becoming impossibly small or overly large.

ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software and Electronics Engineer trying to do his job(s) using Ubuntu.
But... It IS decreasing rent.

The people living in these apartments are getting a good deal. They wouldn't be able to live here without this kind of deal.

And every 4 of these new grads living in a 2 bed apartment, is 4 people NOT gentrifying the mission.
Like their data caps. A while ago I saw a progress bar on my account page. It had a caption: "For informational purposes only" and was a data usage bar out of ~300GB.

News picked this up and Comcast said: "No, we aren't doing data caps at this time".

Months later, they formally rolled out data caps of 300GB.
Exactly. This post is founded on so many bad assumptions..

We'd also like to discuss how tech companies can heal the divide in our country.

Why _shouldn't_ there be divides in our country? Which divide is being referred to? Religious? Political? Net worth? Productivity? Persuasion?

Why assume differences need "healed?" Why this constant, desperate push for homogeneity?

Why can't people simply be different, and have conflicting opinions and worldviews? Why can't these disagreements, alongside of passionate debate, be lauded and encouraged instead of shamed?

Why can't people simply not like one another sometimes, without needing "healed"?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make Ubuntu the OS of choice for graphic designers.

- DESCRIPTION: Yes, they set the trends. It's annoying to be limited to Inkscape/Gimp, even for basic image editing. Make a first-class graphics/movies/3d toolsuite, even at an expensive price (but always open-source) and web startups would start switching. Of course that means you'd spend enough on UX to make it desirable (asking HN is a good first step, but please hire dozens of UX designers).

- ROLE / AFFILIATION: Java dev and founder of a web product with 2 employees.

----

- HEADLINE: Bump up the security bounty. $10.000?

- DESCRIPTION: It's good for commercials and PR – You can then claim to be the most secure OS. After implementing the first reports, of course. Please don't forget to send fixes upstream, and don't limit the bounty to Canonical software: A bug in OpenSSL is your problem too.
It seems it just provides regular configuration stuff required for certain things. I guess they made this so that people get a good OOB experience when replacing sim cards etc.
APT already has the ability to fetch source packages, build new binary packages them from (modified) source, and install them. It's not as seamless as, say, the integration between the FreeBSD packages and ports systems, but it is there.
> I think it's 100% legit for sites (like mine) to want to know how much traffic they're getting - this to me is a good use of data.

As others have pointed out, it's not about you getting the data, it's about the Analytics services you're using getting the data.

I'll also point out that if all you want is to know how much traffic you're getting, you can do it with far more ease by simply looking at your server logs. Why server-side analytics aren't used more I have no idea.
I'm not sure I understand the point of this -- marketers will just discard this random data that doesn't match a human access pattern.

If this anonymized my tracking data for sites I visited, that would be useful, but sending a bunch of random hits doesn't seem like it will keep anyone from tracking my activity which is what I want to shield.
Great points. I don't know many details of how they operate. Someone told me they still rely on paper-based methods in order to avoid some types of electronic surveillance.

In theory, 50% offense and 50% defense should be the only budget for a sane operation.
Not often someone says lean and VS Code in the same statement.
> The next phase of this monthly argument on HN will be, then: "Well, that's what's wrong with Google then, it's all crap after they started hiring MBAs!" which is also nonsense, because lots of the senior people w/ MBAs were hired a decade ago or more.

To be fair, "a decade ago, give or take" may fit perfectly with some people's view of when Google (and with it, the rest of the Web) become crap.
> The theory will eventually catch up

Maybe... but the emergent behavior in a complicated system (and these networks are only getting more complicated, not less) is likely to quickly become more complex than the human mind can reasonably be expected to understand, given any amount of time.

We actually know a lot less about biology, for example, than your typical "biology 101" course would lead you to believe. It's pretty cool that we figured out how DNA translates into proteins, but actually figuring out how a cell decides which DNA to express at any given time, much less what any arbitrary protein actually does, takes you right back into guess-and-check territory. There are heuristics you can use to eliminate some guesses more quickly than others, but we're so far away from a unified explanatory theory of biology that I'm doubtful one will ever be developed.
FYI, there's an article on Vox that argues that presidential systems are inherently prone to collapse and that it's a miracle America made it this far: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doome...

One interesting point the article raises was that one of the few things saving the American political system from collapse was our ugly racial history.
> And they do most secret stuff with typewriters and photocopies these days, so i've heard. Snowdens revelations had a big impact there.

I think I heard the first heard the "Russia switches back to typewriters" story pre-Snowden.

Electronic typewriter bugs are also not unheard of: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/.
1. "Overseas" is a curious definition. Linux was written in Finland, after all. Would blocking US workers from aiding Finnish technology have been productive?

2. Can it be stopped? If US companies refuse to work with Indian or Chinese employees, what is preventing India or China from out-competing the US company in the international market? If the US places tariffs on technology products and services from other countries, what is preventing those other countries from outpacing our standard of living?
People have a hard time realizing libraries are so much more than books these days. I'm a former library employee, and it was always interesting seeing how the library adapted to interests and needs of the community.

My local library now has as big of a movie rental library (for free!) as any Blockbuster back in the day, has 3D printers available for use, and office areas meant for use by startups needing some space to work.
George W. Bush is the only US president to have earned an MBA. He got it from Harvard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Education
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999139.
Google Pushed FCC Not to Make Browser History Use Opt-In
Considering how capable de-anonymizing capabilities are even a few years ago [1], it doesn't matter if it's "personal" or aggregated, unless great pains [2] are taken to prevent that.

Comcast selling any data is a concern, I will continue to assume my information is being collected and act as best as I can to prevent that (VPN, poisoning my dataflow,etc).

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/anonymity_and...
[2] http://www.computerworld.com/article/3088179/apple-mac/what-...
> Where does it say that?

As long as it remains lawful for them to change their minds, they don't need to say that.