skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a decent point, but it's like saying "we need these protections codified in our laws, get to work lawmakers!" while resigning ourselves to months or even years of abuse by these corporations. The problem is, an ISP can do far more abuse from their opportune position - rather than Facebook's. We cannot protect ourselves well enough from an ISP like we can by simply not using Facebook. A VPN is a great aid to privacy but severely limits the usefulness of the broadband speeds we paid for in the first place. And the vast majority of us cannot find new service from another ISP who cares about our concerns.

Once again the consumer loses.
Pints of Guinness were served to blood donors at Pelican house in Dublin and as evidenced by the way the droplet sank ball-bearing-like during this particular very occasional consumer's pre-letting anemia test must have proved a very high source of iron - and apparently to the extent that pregnant women were often recommended a daily dose also. Furthermore another pint the next day rather than a fizzy orange drink was more effective in quelling nauseau caused by its own enthusiastic over-consumption. A veritable panacea therefore.
> That could mean a phone that is docked, but when you have 10x the screen real estate, a keyboard and a mouse the interface should be different when docked vs when not docked.

At least in the demos I saw, the mobile UI would turn into a traditional Ubuntu Unity look, with floating windows and keyboard+mouse interaction.

So it sounds like they were working in the direction you describe.

The dumbest move, IMO, was not using Wayland and working with that dev community to improve it's functionality on mobile (one of the reasons given for Mir). Shuttleworth seems to point this out in the post.

Turns out rolling yet another display server rankles noses and takes a lot of dev cycles.
Ask HN: How many of us here use cron jobs, and how do you version control them?
I'm that guy in my team who obsessively version controls everything. Every config, every byte of change on any system has to go through a version control.

For version controlling cron jobs scheduled on our "jobs servers", I wrote another job that dumps all the cron entries periodically to a git repo using `crontab -l > /path/to/backup; git commit; git push`

This seems a bit hacky, but it works. This one time, one of the people in our team did a `crontab -r` instead of a `crontab -e` and we could get back the entire set of cron entries within seconds, thanks to the periodic backups. Any better solutions that come to mind? Maybe something too obvious?
Google also started as a search engine to help me find my way to my real destination. Instead it has snuck in and started tracking where I am going, what I am doing there, why I am there and what not. If Google is allowed to change business models radically (and very profitably), why not Verizon.

To be clear, I am just pointing out that singling out Verizon/Comcast does not get to the root of the problem. We need blanket laws that cover all companies that mine user data for profit. If there are no laws, well then everybody should be allowed to do whatever they want. Why give this privilege to Google (who also give an unrelated service).
Awesome work. oO
This is an awful project. Someone took his own preferences for code style and tries to make it look like some "standard".

The parts that I don't like the most are 2 spaces for indentation (why so small? who else is using such small indentation?) and "no semicolons" rule.

It would be better to adopt some style guide from Java, because JS has similar syntax and because Java has been in use in large projects for a long time.
Ketamine depression treatment 'should be rolled out'
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Ok, so google is the map maker, Verizon is the road, and whatever website/information the user really wants is the physical location. It is still understandable that there can be bigger margins in map making than there is in laying asphalt.
Bezos owning the Post is actually an argument against Amazon ever being successful at providing a portal for different news publishers. Would you entrust your business to a competitor? Of course not.
That depends a lot on jurisdiction. It's not even true for every job/state combination in the US.
Nations, Governments, Revolutions
> embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance)

Firmware is a buzzword for embedded? I don't think this is right. In my experience "firmware" is a subset of embedded programming, referring to low-level bare-metal code such as bootloaders and microcontroller applications (literally code stored in ROM). "Embedded" more broadly refers to any code for systems other than servers, web and personal computers (including e.g. embedded Linux).

"Firmware" has been a term of art for as long as I've been programming, which is probably longer than a lot of readers on this site have been alive, so I'm not sure how it qualifies as a buzzword. Unless people doing Linux application programming now call themselves "firmware" engineers because they work on embedded systems?
A-10 has been known to be a MANPADS magnet since the Desert Storm. If you have air superiority, you can keep them, use UCAVs or buy new Super Tucanos. But in contested environment they are useless. Multiroles or bombers with precision weapons are better suited for CAS. Cannons are legacy, which is why you haven't seen a uav concept matching your description. In the future targeting platform and the one doing the shooting might not even be the same.

"Part of the reason the A-10 has enjoyed the amount of success and notoriety it has is because there has been unopposed use of the airspace over Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Syria. It is not a contested environment. It is not a degraded environment. It’s not an operationally-limited environment–save for bad weather and some really big, nasty mountains in Afghanistan. All of that means our air assets have an ability to fly and operate unmolested in those AORs.

Tomorrow’s fight will NOT be that." https://fightersweep.com/2038/the-a-10-warthog-debate-a-fate...
> Don't blame corporations for working within the system they're presented. Blame an apathetic voter base.

I can blame both. Ethical companies will not abuse a bad law, nor will they pay millions to lobby to break laws, or use the Citizen's United ruling to pour money into electing people who will pass laws they want. It's hard to even see how it is possible to vote against them now that they've got billions of dollars to make any decision they see fit law, simply by squeezing the arm of whichever tool they installed in the legislator. But maybe we should blame the Supreme Court - if only that too wasn't gamed by politicians baselessly denying the nomination of first Garland and now Gorsuch as retaliation.

Corruption is corruption, whether it is political or commercial.
I first started off with PHPFusion. I would not touch WordPress. Why? It kept crashing. Not because WordPress was crashing, but because I was installing dozens of plugins just to install them because they "looked good".

Once I learned: install the plugins you need, not every single plugin you come across. My views on WordPress changed. I also realized how easy it was to setup and use.

Not only that, but when it comes to clients, I realized how easy it was to train them with WordPress. In fact, there is so much documentation out there, I normally end up sending them a 5 minute YouTube video which shows them how to login, create posts and pages. After that, they usually go exploring WordPress on their own. Cost to me? $0 and a little time.

However, I have drifted away from using WordPress for my personal projects. There are millions of things that WordPress can do and almost nothing it cannot do, but there are things that WordPress just can't do my way.
As a designer I can tell you right now = solve this problem and make lots of money as an engineer. If you need help, PM me, I will list you all the clusterfucks Adobe has made trying to solve this problem.
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I'd definitely prefer to use uBlock Origin for that reason, but Adblock Plus just seems to work better - I still see some ads using Origin, where with ABP I don't..
Eh, Youtube is a Google destination. Lots of people make content for the express purpose of distribution on Youtube. Those people could put the content on other services, but they would likely have lower viewership. So, I'd say you're wrong on that. Google is the destination.

About search. You don't have to use it. You could go straight to the content producers website if you wanted. Chances are nobody would ever find that content. As a means to fund the search, Google presents ads.

Your ISP is another matter. You pay the ISP for the pipe. The ISP also lobbies your local municipality for monopoly service. They also want to sample your pipe and sell your data that you are paying them to carry for you.

Everything needs to go encrypted. From DNS, all email to all webpages. All the ISP deserves is a bunch of random characters.
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IPs change over time(sometimes extremely quickly), and multiple people, including thousands of individuals, can share a single IP address. Maybe companies use IP as some kind of signal(I have no idea), but it isn't a very precise signal.

I do notice that creepy stalker-style ads about specific products I recently searched for no longer pop up when I browse in anonymous mode.
QA in Production
There's plenty of blame to go around. Pick a political target, and sink your teeth into it, whether that's data privacy, immigration rights, single payer, whatever. Pick a candidate running for office who is congruent with your values, support them mercilessly, move on to the next challenge after the election.

Squabbling on Hacker News? Does zero. Let's get something done.
Convergence doesn't need to go away. KDE project for example put some effort in making common components[1]. It's just that Canonical's methods of handling it went completely off on a tangent with reinventing the wheel (Mir instead of Wayland and so on). So it's not surprising, they finally realized the huge complexity of that task, and inability to do it alone.

No one stops others contributing to projects which still work on convergence, but use shared stack at the same time.

1. https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Convergence_Overview
Correct, only encrypted traffic. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh. Verizon was fined ~1.35M by FCC on this violation.

But one can still infer actual page a user is visiting by means of looking at some leakage of data. See https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4388/are-urls-v....

It isn't easy but I am sure some people have done it.

One thing ISP has been doing for years is with DNS. If you are at home and you entered some wrong domain name, your ISP will likely present you with its custom search page. This is enough to understand what you are looking for. Furthermore, Google & Facebook aren't relying on cookies as the only way to mine your interest anymore, instead they focus on building profile for you when you use single sign on. For example, when you sign up for Stackoverflow and chooses to login with your Google account, Google may be able to learn you are using Stackoverflow.

Verizon in particular has been in the ads business for years, especially with their acquisition of AOL and on-going acuqisiton of Yahoo, Verizon has a big plan to make use of all the data they have, likely to provide a Google search or new portal for their users, much like AOL back in the days in the 90s and early 2000s.
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Is Neuroscience Rediscovering the Soul?
VW Software Fix for Cars Causing Performance, Fuel Efficiency Problems
> I can do whatever with your data?

Yes, pretty much. It is very unlikely you are a monopoly with your SaaS, and it is very unlikely you are holding my protected data like medical records.
<3 mixonic, thanks for the reply, I was scouring the repo / blog for any word on typescript support, this looks promising.
Busses aren't actually all that great in general, lets be realistic. Out on the islands here in Washington State, that have dial a ride with call buttons at each stop, hailing a small bus or van within 10 or 15 minutes.

Uber could easily deploy something like this, and it'd cover 90% of the issues I just mentioned.
We have a solution for data convergence, SD cards.
You say "the only reason," but I'm not sure.

I think one barrier may be that we're not that interesting to them. Perhaps, rather than sending literal-minded scientists to attempt communication, we ought to send poets and musicians.

I read of a recording of an upset, irate dolphin's sounds. When slowed down significantly, it was clear the dolphin was mimicking it's trainer's reprimands. So, one clue is that their processing speed is way higher than ours.

I also read of a researcher who set out with a box that could make dolphin sounds, and she wanted to teach dolphins to say names she has made up for three objects, with disappointing results. But I'm wondering... these are creatures that can be taught a command that means "innovate" - do something different that you haven't shown me yet today. A rule of their language might be never to use the same word twice.

Also, dolphins are aware of one another's sonar. So, they would never need to vocalize "Look at that over there." They already know what pod-mates are paying attention to. Possibly they wouldn't find it interesting to use nouns to refer to things that are already obvious on the pod's echolocation radar. Their verbal channel might deal with less concrete things like mood, nuance, intuition, and humor.
Cause it's a stretch for them to freely publish online using the same model?

Cause they're already doing that.
Not just inspired. It was initially implemented in Prolog!
From a practical perspective I completely agree, but my nightmare scenario for PBS isn't seeing it defunded, but seeing it lose some or all editorial control. That scenario seems very unlikely at present, but not impossible. I just wanted to point out that it's not a completely unreasonable case to make.
It's on the menu at Hong Kong style cafes here in Toronto, along with Ovaltine. It is usually included in the meal price, whereas cold drinks are extra money.
It was worse. That office had an aversion to anything not-Microsoft for dev tools unless they were for the embedded systems we maintained. They also had an aversion to any language that wasn't "industry standard", whatever that meant (because, clearly, prolog and others do have industry standards associated with them; here they meant commonly used and easy to hire for).
Netflix makes a lot of its own content. But outside that capacity, it's just a middle man. My four year old uses Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, and the PBS app. They're fungible.
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A monopoly and duopoly really aren't that different. If one profits by doing something unethical, the other will do it in a heartbeat. This is commonly seen in pricing in markets with view competitors and high costs of entry.
It's nobody's Standard except its partisans.
Chrome - main
Firefox - Security testing
You mean dropbox.
Holy crap. Back in the day at Stanford we programmed our real world bots with ... wait for it ... Lisp.
Generally you'll get the same results, given the same conditions wrt employment. I've employed heroin addicts before, and its the same trust but verify type deal as a smoker or a gambler. Similar to a gambler, don't expect to be able to get ahold of them outside business hours.
Sure.

First, even though Math and Physics are similar, they aren't. To me, it's like saying the book '1984' prevented dictatorial rule. Literature can have a societal impact but we shouldn't be championing a new book, that hasn't been written by authors very few have heard of. (Mr. Berry and Mr. Keating may have laid the ground work but Mr. Bender, Brody and Muller have only say 'if we write this book, we'll change society'. Maybe...but maybe not.)

Second, nothing in math is proved by physics. Math is separate. The rigor of math is a high bar to prove Riemann's hypo but physics will not and cannot pure any mathematical idea. It can demonstrate something but it can't PROVE anything.

Third, namely due to my second reason. I've grown a distaste for Quanta's mag. It's sensational. Not rigorous. And heck, some how this is published in a journal "If the analysis presented here can be made rigorous to show that ^H is manifestly self-adjoint, then this implies that the Riemann hypothesis holds true" ( I added for emphasis).

If I were to say 'hey I have this thesis, if I can prove it....I proved it'. Umm, why is this news? Why is this something that many gravitate towards?

Let's stop 'hype'ing the news. Let's report it. This kind of publishing is garbage and doesn't foster additional scientific discoveries. They should focus on 'if Riemann's hypo is true' they have discovered 'x, y, z'. Many things have been derived by assuming Riemann's true. These new ideas are pushing our scientific understanding. Let's focus on that, not the hype of bs.
Not really an all-in-browser solution then.
Building something lasting takes resources. Canonical simply had no chance. Even Microsoft, despite their aquisition of Nokia, their marketing budget, their massive dev resources, is failing on mobile. They even have their own convergence feature and it's not enough to attrack customers.
Ask HN: Should I Attend Hack Reactor or Fullstack Academy?
Hey folks! Over the past few weeks I've immersed myself in Javascript, and have managed to gain acceptance to both Hackreactor and Fullstack Academy! I'm in a fortunate position, and I would love to know which I should attend? Some details: I'm a graduate student studying Neuroscience, and Hack Reactor is offering a part time 9 month course that would work well! On the other hand, Fullstack offers a great window over the summer for me, and I love their openness. I've heard phenomenal things about both school.
None. I found them way too slow. Like it takes months to back it all up and you only can do it when you don't want to use the internet for anything else.

I stick with a backup drive.
On windows I use autohotkey to give middle click with three fingers. Main thing that was missing when I bought it.

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This is probably why they tried the Edge campaign 4 years ago. They weren't getting anywhere with vendors then, and weren't now, so they eventually had to give up.

It should be a bit concerning how uncompetitive the market is that you really cannot even try to launch a mobile OS of your own as a product, since you are beholden to telecom operators and handset manufacturers on both ends, all of whom have government granted monopolies or protection in their own industries to prevent competition.
Interesting how Moskovitz just glosses over a "lifestyle" business. I started a business 2 years ago, am the sole employee, and it'll make $400-500k in revenue in 2017 with 20-40% net profits.

I don't think I recreated the wheel here. I'm making a software product that businesses want to buy.
But then each application is essentially 2 applications in one.
The Expectations
Should we be expecting some autonomous efforts from Snap Inc. at last in the near future?
GlimmerJS is going to be amazing. I can't wait to check it out soon.
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Yes! Ember is a really awesome framework, when coming from the likes of Django where there is a blessed version of everything you need (like a router, file layout, template language etc) it's really nice for those to all be included.

This post hits the nail on the head with Embers problems though, and it does seem like it's been left behind a bit in terms of using the latest and greatest tools. For example migration to Babel 6 from Babel 5 is only just finishing for the core components. get() and set() are also not so nice for newcomers.

As the post highlights this is mostly due to the projects age and baggage Ember carries. I see this as a positive though, Ember is pretty damn mature and well thought out, even if it's lacking in some syntactical sugar (and sometimes the latest and greatest in JS libraries/tools is such a fast moving target that it's just not possible to track it).

The future is looking bright for Ember! Well done!
Do you think these companies would keep giving PBS money if they stopped reporting who was giving it before/after each show?

Also your claim isn't even true, I recall an ad for a European Boat Touring company before Rick Steve's Europe for example. The ad was clearly "this company sells this product."

It's all just another form of lifestyle ad / virtue signaling. "We support PBS and the things you care about, support us too."
Because JS syntax is copied from Java that uses semicolons. Omitting semicolons makes code more ambigious and one has to remember where they can and where they cannot break a line.

JS is not a language like Ruby or Python.

If someone doesn't like typing semicolons why don't they set up their editor so that it would insert them automatically?
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Try moom . It's great
But will Facebook exist in 70 years time? Or will it go the way of so many other services. I wonder if the AOL chats I had 20 years ago are somewhere? Or the forum posts on long defunct communities? Or the IRC chats.

Now, I want to be clear that many of these things shouldn't be saved. I don't believe that the Internet should be archived, but rather that with physical media the choice is simple: save it or throw it. With the Internet there is less choice and what exists is complex and sometimes out of your control.
>I wonder if our understanding of the world has changed

I think that a lot of the worldview of past history was jaded by historians and their governments to show that they live in the best of times and that those that came before them, or were from other places, were savages. It may be easier to tell history more accurately if you're not trying to prove you're better than everyone else. Of course, my thoughts on what occurred in the past of telling history may be wrong.
It's not that convergence is useless per se - indeed, the fact that both Windows and Android keep trying indicates that it's desirable.

But I think that any hope that this could come from the desktop Linux world, and be successful, was misguided, for the same reason why "Linux on the desktop" never happened at large scale (to all the people who are about to respond "it happened for me": sure, and I'm well aware of that - but that's not what the phrase actually ever meant, and we all know that). This is an even bigger problem with phones, because with the PC ecosystem, at least you can go around shopping for an alternative OS relatively easily, and common hardware is relatively open spec-wise. So something that has 1% market share on the desktop, will probably have an order of magnitude less on mobile.

On top of that, it's not enough to implement the base system. You also have to maintain it long-term, to port existing apps to it or write new ones, and to maintain those. Within the OSS model, maintainers are generally users. So the maintenance burden is high enough for desktop Linux as it is (because of relatively fewer devs/users, compared to OS X and Windows) - and then you throw mobile into the mix, which is an even smaller group. I just don't think it can work at that small of a scale.
gotcha, thanks for the explanation. It sure seems like they have many similar goals so it makes sense that ZeroNet could leverage IPFS