skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "You are the product."

From a business perspective, yes.

The rest of this is a lot of nonsense.

I don't want to dismiss it as completely paranoid, because I know it isn't fully. Many of these things could be or are happening (I would likely say fewer are in existence now than you I'm sure). The difference is that I don't really mind that much.

Your view of advertising is quite terrible. It doesn't work that perfectly. I've never had a Coke in my life, but I know their brand because of their effective advertising. My happiness has never once been affected by it. If you are able to parse advertising language, the messages are clear, and the bad messages just become laughable.

Of course companies have motives all centered around profit - welcome to capitalism, for better or worse.

> "If you opt out, you retain your freedom to think for yourself, act for yourself, and be yourself. You retain your ability to be content and happy. You get to have real friends. You no longer exist in the 7th circle of hell."

You can also be "in" and still be able to think, act, and be yourself. You just need to be aware that you're in. I'd be a lot more affected by trying to opt out rather than the mental filtering that anyone who's aware trains themselves with. Not to mention that this has nothing to do with real friendships.
Well, it would be better to either not say anything, or ask some kind of question that brings the conversation forward. I really don't want to guess what you don't understand. E.g., I hope you mean what "getting fired" means. But maybe you don't know that getting fired often results in receiving a severance package when the employee sues? But that is common practice as well. So really, from where should I pick you up?
Zomato dev's same credentials on GitHub and 000webhost led to 17M accounts hack
The point of the post was "not all former social norms are always appropriate; here is one counterexample" not "I think every zip code has exactly this weather." Chiming in with a place where the social norm is appropriate is not interesting, because it is already the social norm.
There's no difference between humans and AI in that regard.

Everybody tries to read and analyze the most likely sequences (duh).

Or I'm not sure what you're trying to say?
Wow, I'd love to check this out but I got this message:

"It looks like you're using an older device or web browser. Please update your browser or visit on a newer device."

A bit of an odd thing to see when I'm on the latest version of Chrome on a Mac and it says "In partnership with Google" right under that. What gives?
Looks like there is a business opportunity for an airport located on-demand lawyer practice.
I paid for Kaspersky during three or four years. What I noticed was that, prior to the license expiration, this last edition pushed pop ups on my screen constantly. Along, it seemed like it was slowing the computer on purpose.

I read an article saying what you comment, and I decided to try without. Feels a bit odd and I'm slightly paranoid, but this argument pushed me to follow you: it's not a good idea to give critical access to a 3rd party software that might be adding more bugs to you "backdoor policy".
Microsoft introduces a new app for Windows-based developers
AFAIK, reddit didn't take much venture capital so there was no pressure to make billions to appease investors that put billions in. They've never been aggressive about monetizing the site.

The network effect of reddit are also much less than twitter or facebook, it's primarily a news aggregator + comment system, there are plenty of competitors ready to step in if reddit starts throwing in tracking or invasive advertising.

> I've also heard that it only makes $10 million a year in revenue.

What's wrong with that? Not everyone wants to be the next google or facebook, I'd love to have a site that made $10 million a year, I'd be perfectly content with that and wouldn't have a desire to turn it into a multi billion dollar empire. ~20 years ago this was the dream of most software developers, carving out there own ISV niche and getting rich.

Unlike twitter, reddit is a sustainable business. If I had to bet on which one will still be here in 5-10 years I'd bet on reddit.
And to this very day, little Johnny, I thank the heavens that the sysop hadn't put CUA-mode into the /etc/skel/.emacs/init.el.
How CedCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solves Shipping Related Problems?
Was there really any need to include a remark comparing Trump to Hitler?
Ask HN: Did anyone got hired by Crossover?
I was contacted by a Crossover recruiter for an interesting remote opportunity. The online reviews about Crossover are very poor though.

I'd like to know if there is anyone who got hired via Crossover? They seem to post consistently on SO Jobs but I never came across anyone who got hired via Crossover, although I know ppl who got through TopTal for example.
> Good luck getting a visa next time if you've ever been
> "denied entry".

I would not want neither visa nor "next time" after this.
If they want their walls, let them have them.
i like the idea of reshaping what we currently think of being credit worthy in a decentralized world. this is a early start but we are now seeing smart contracts come into the fore.

edit:
i hope you are taking into account the mistakes and lessons learned from the DAO attack.

this platform/protocol is aiming to reimplement the consumer credit, loan origination, and trust worthiness system that other smart contacts would depend on for their services.
Composition/division. This is true for many 3rd party AVs, but not all of them.

> More likely, they hurt security significantly; for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero.

This is not an indicator of insecure software. Not dealing with these disclosures are. Just a few weeks ago a major vulnerability was found in Defender.

Let's use my favorite AV as an example, NOD32:

- It performs HTTPS MITM which should obviously be disabled immediately. Score 1 Microsoft.

- Javascript runtime running as SYSTEM, which can't be disabled. Score 1 NOD32.

- There are two issues in Project Zero, making it exactly as secure as Defender according to that ignorant "vulnerabilities in Project Zero" metric.

- 4 days and 1 day for NOD32. 8 days and 3 days for Microsoft. Score 1 NOD32.

> At best, there is negligible evidence that major non-MS AV products give a net improvement in security.

- The NOD32 intrusion detection supposedly thwarted EternalBlue (Wanacry).[1] Defender did nothing. Score 1 NOD32.

[1]: http://support.eset.com/alert6442/
Anyone know what the state of AV on android is? $employer requires ESET on all windows machines, and I'm trying out the android app now. It doesn't seem to make my phone any slower...
I seen similar for the number of foreign buyers in london - they wont really be foreign buyers just shadow firms offshore avoiding stamp duty
I would guess that Christian Mingle specified an age/location target, and assumed the name would filter out non-Christians from clicking(and therefore the company wouldn't have to pay).
Porting Windows Defender to Linux
> You don't get a choice when it comes to the government.

But you do get a vote, you don't get that with a corporation.
Jaron Lanier writes about this in his book "Who Owns the Future" [1]

Disclaimer: I haven't read it yet, so can't say if it meets your "thought out considerations" criteria.

[1] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25424120M/Who_Owns_the_Futur...
Same.

Working on my phone, I think it's mobile only?
In Denmark, in a noisy, busy bar, a card payment (especially contactless) is easier -- I don't need to hear the amount from the barman (obviously a challenge in Danish even in ideal circumstances...) and the barman doesn't need to return to me with the change.

The primary use of cash is shopping in Christiania.
The removal of Python's Global Interpreter Lock – how's it going? (PyCon 2017)
Why does he sue two years after being fired? Sounds a bit fishy.

In the other hand, this sounds like something they might actually have done.
>I personally prefer tailored/formal clothing. But as casual dressers were discriminated in the 60s-70s so I would be in the current workplace if I dressed as I desired.

Would you though? Because tailored suits are a casual hipster staple nowadays too. You can meet a guy with huge victorian mustache and beard and a fine suit and they're a graphic designer or something....
Ask HN: Future without being an expert/good enough?
I am struggling with my work/job, but I have good intentions, but still all others who came before me after me are better than me. Some of them have enormous experience, some of them have little but growing fast.

I feel bad about this. What do you think, do I have a future in current industry (IT/Software) if I am not good like others
This sounds like the reprisals citizens of the totalitarian states in the Warsaw Pact had to endure. Heads up for pushing against it.

Out of curiosity, do you know if there are any people trying to challenge these rulings/treatment they receive in court?
Maybe something like that would be usable for text or sound, but transferring a video over bluetooth is paniful.
This might be troublesome in airports like Tel Aviv (personal experience). I'd rather encrypt and send my data through regular mail.
Only to settle existing debt. If they say "No cash accepted" they could do their business that way (and have no customers). As an extension, gas stations are allowed to refuse large bills if they put out a sign (and the all do).
Think it's actually 4%. Seriously huge fines
You have an agenda dude.
The safety and regulation issues that would need to be overcome kind of ensures that this drone delivery service would only be started by Amazon or some other giant, probably also making it available to others.

But brick & mortar retailers would end up competing with the company who owns the delivery infrastructure... boy this would be candy crush for anti-trust lawyers...
... the Dutch (in northern cities) turned to eating tulips - and everything else - in the desperate "hunger winter" of 1944; that's very different from "a common source of food (...) during world war 2".

(Tulips are obviously not an efficient food source; don't expect to see people eating tulips except in unplanned-for emergencies.)
This is the solution my company chose for a milestone trip we will undertake in half a year.

The plan was to go to NYC, now the plan is either Paris or Tokyo instead for the 70+ employees.
> The new tracking system was created in consultation with “incredibly smart people” to ensure it's not invasive. He described the program as “secure and privacy safe.”

It's not "incredibly smart people" you need; it's "highly ethical people".
Ethnic cleansing is most likely. Some Syrian protesters chanted "Christians to Beirut; Alawites to the coffin" [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_and_minorities_...
great alternative to tmux. thanks for making this i will try it out with my team and give you feedback
30% feels like a decent bargain if you finally get to take the other 70% out of the duffel bags/safety deposit boxes. Especially if that enables you to spend it on things that mitigate risky behavior, such as lawyers.

Consider most people legitimately needing to launder money likely already have a lot of it and aren't necessarily looking for a bargain.
Escaping depends on the context where the string is used, and the same string may be used in many different contexts. For example, you might need to insert someone's name in HTML, JSON, SQL, and e-mail headers/body. Each of these has different escaping syntax, so you can't reliably escape/sanitize the name ahead of time (if you try, people named O'Connor will hate you), so it's best to apply appropriate flavor of escaping as late as possible (e.g. your HTML template engine should apply HTML-escaping, your e-mail library should apply quoted-printable, etc.)

Escaping on output also makes text processing easier and more reliable. For example, if you cut a string, you don't have to worry you'll cut it in a middle of an HTML entity or just after a backslash.
Any idea why this happens to you? Your story suggests some targeting.
Some people (me) genuinely are oblivious to the differences - shopping is annoying chore and it just does not make enough difference. You basically want to be done with it and wear whatever is generally socially appropriate as long as you can.
To expand on rebootthesystem's excellent answers:

* Ease of learning. Any power user learning Vim now (or in the last 20+ years) is coming to it with a headful of useful, versatile conventions and shortcuts that completely don't work. God knows how many times I interrupted my flow by reflexively hitting Ctrl-Z to undo, or Ctrl-V to paste, or Shift-Arrow to highlight, or, hell, just trying to type something normally. It doesn't even sync with other command line conventions. That "Type :quit<enter> to exit Vim" message appears when you hit Ctrl-C: Vim knows what you're trying to do, but it won't do it unless you ask nicely. As far as I can tell, there's no substantial advantage to Vim's mappings except that people who already know Vim can keep using them.

Which ties into:

* Discoverability. This is less about Vim in particular and more about command-line apps in general, but still. In a GUI app, if you want to do something but don't know how, you can often find it quickly by clicking around menus, and in the process you may find something else useful that you didn't know about. On the command line, you pretty much have to tab out and search for help, whether in Google or the man pages. (And of course learning to navigate command-line help is a whole different skill in itself.
> I think it comes from the "Taco Bell" MBA types. They're the same people who think WordPress will put all web developers out of business.

And then on the other end of the spectrum are 'programmer types' who think WordPress is never a good solution because it's shitty for their particular use case.
> They have a full power JavaScript runtime engine running as SYSTEM. No sandboxing, no lowprivs, and the whole point is to run untrusted code.

I would have understood that if it was a small company and a lone developer made a mistake. However, this is Microsoft, a huge company. Lone developers don't get to decide things like this at companies the size of Microsoft. Most likely, meetings were held, architects were involved, code was reviewed. How did such a horrible decision make it through that process ?
> you may not be able to readily distinguish expensive clothes from cheap ones, or see the point of wearing them. But other people do, and if you look like money, you will be able to get more money in negotiations. If you look or say that you don't care about such things, you'll get lots of affirmation and less money, because affirmation is virtually free.

but ... it is supposed to be meritocracy :)
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>and I'm not sure he could get away with it in say, Paris.

He could. Low-brow fashion may be about keeping up with the latest trends, but fashion sense in the way they'd appreciate in say France or Italy is mainly about the personality shown in your attire -- and such a personal uniform would be totally acceptable (at worst viewed as eccentric in the good sense).
Utterly worthless, because apps on Android are sandboxed. Third-party AV can't do anything useful, and Play Services already provides built-in app scanning.
Bitcoin's New Scaling 'Agreement': The Reaction
As someone with ADHD that has gone back and forth on these feelings over the years, I think I agree with both of those claims, but with a pretty big asterisk.

I'm a developer, and I'm fairly certain that my insistence to have automated testing, one-click deployment, and general "automation" of anything and everything that can be automated have led to some very good results, and most of those evolved to become non-negotiable in a project I'm on simply because I won't be able to do them myself with any kind of consistency.

And I also attribute my ability to pick up on new skills or languages to my ADHD because I spend a lot more time in the first few stages of a skill because I hopped around so much and never really stuck with something.

However, I don't believe these things to have been a net benefit on my life when combined with the downsides of ADHD. Unmedicated I was an absolute mess, and it was only with medication, AND learning the skills to manage it, along with a good support system that I was finally able to get some kind of benefit from it. And all of that didn't really come together until my early 20s for me.

I really think that any benefits someone might get from a disability like mine, can be artificially re-introduced if they do really provide benefits. And I'd wager that an "artificial disability" which was designed to do this would provide greater benefits as it could be more targeted at actually trying to improve the skill in question, plus has the added benefits of being able to be "turned off".

And all that being said, this is all just the comment of one person with ADHD. Others could feel very differently.
I think it's important to note the definition of privacy you use is important.

For me, in my daily life, all of this is completely "private". Google having my data in mass and an identity profile on me that no human will ever specifically look at is just as good as private to me. The fact that computers will be handing this data, not other humans, is an important distinction for me. No human will ever see my individual data in all likelihood.

I don't think the lack of privacy is a problem, but rather the centralized power. It's really tough right now with so much power in information, but the only real information power coming in volume.
Fine by me, that's more time I can spend not having to read manuals to use a text editor. :^)
Very important point. In my workplace, often the smartest engineers are so focused on doing smart things, they forget that the data they're dealing with belongs to, or identifies, people.

Got to make those yearly objectives/appraisals count though.
> It doesn't stop new attacks, but it does help raise the bar against malware.

It also provides a giant new attack surface.
The "replication crisis" doesn't matter.

Lots of people know from experience that they're staring in their wardrobe every day for tens of minutes to decide what to wear and hate it.

That doesn't change for them if some experts can't replicate the original findings of some "decision fatigue" paper. The burden of choosing every day is enough, even without fatigue.
It Is What It Is, Not What It Was: On Software History Collections (2014)
As someone who has been around for a long time and manages teams using many different languages (C,C++,C#,Java,Python,JavaScript) my JavaScript/Web teams are the most problematic in terms of cost/performance/gating bugs/upgrades/multi-platform support. The JavaScript critiques that you see are just an expression of the time and resources being wasted.
Basically you're saying that what gives the dollar value is that without it the government would imprison you for not paying taxes? In other words, it's a kind of like a freedom (from jail) token according to you.
Something weird:

https://sds.sabre.com/XTRANET_Access/sabre.htm

The @ is 0x2E20 in sabre hex
Not sure if you meant lucrative. Ludicrous also works.
Just wait to see how the lawyers game these. my bet is no major corp ever pays a penalty that high, ever. there may be some egregious offender that gets caught with this, but not one of the big boys.
Content search for GitHub Jekyll blogs
Walmart: We’re Taking a New Approach to Our Credit Card –  Why
Banking software more often than not is the epitome of software held together by duct tape. It's a jumble of obsolete systems communicating via convoluted and opaque protocols.

Think COBOL, mainframes, huge, cumbersome application servers and database systems.

It's just that banks have enough money to throw at problems that arise with these systems.
Apple is testing 5G millimeter wave wireless technology: FCC filing
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Our brains predict events in fast-forward – The Verge
Was speaking of lycra blends (with cotton, wool etc) for pants (were lycra is minimum just to give them elasticity), but sure, why not lycra itself too...
I remember speaking with some IBM veterans who had been around long enough to see the transition from suits and ties to casualish wear. Some of them spoke wistfully of the old days, and the point they all brought up was that while the old rules may not have been all that comfortable, they were simple and clear.
EU directives are in practice no different to national law. Sure, countries can refuse to enforce them but they can refuse to enforce their national law as well. If we are at that stage all bets are off. "Can enforce" sounds like this is optional which it is really not. Courts refer to EU law just like they do to national law.
> Zuckerberg explained: “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve [Facebook’s] community.”

What an awkward way to force "Look what a good CEO I am" into the conversation.
Transferwise Borderless bank account lets you store money in 15 currencies
Mosul from above: a 360 degree video
How to create Google Assistant shortcuts
It may different by local culture, but I have tech colleagues who take care about how they look and are pretty stylish. Not really suits, but officially looking shirt. I did not noticed any discrimination against them.

There is also big difference between formal rules you can be fired for not following and informal ones - informal are still limiting but people cross them once in a while and you often finds it is actually ok in the long term.

People like to generalize tech as if everything would be stereotypical frat like start up, but it is not the case.
Cyber-security: The exploits of bug hunters
Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPD5q6DC43M

JavaScript is not multithreaded. Web workers would be the closest to that but are not used by this library.

Then, promises are a much better abstraction for this since they are not only about result propagation but error propagation. Then, promises can be made cancellable.
EU ministers approve anti-hate speech video rules
This is starting to head down the road into absurdities, though.

If I have a laptop and phone with sensitive work information on them, and simply choose not to take them with me on a trip, would you argue that's a crime? After all, the reason I chose not to take them with me was to "conceal... with the intent to impede" CBP's ability to access all that data.

What if someone just refuses to travel to the US as long as policy allows this type of search? Would they need to be extradited for their act of concealment?
ready for product hunt! good luck
Nice project, I was aware MoD had a good presence around Reading as I have friends that work there, I wasn't aware how big a presence it was.
The future factory, an Improbable startup: Podcast 318 UK
This is totally off topic (and may even be taken to be insensitive considering the plight of the Syrian people), but I had to ask: is there any way that you/anyone/HNer could offer suggestions on how to deploy such a site for a non-developer...are there free/self-hosted themes and/or frameworks whose installation and use is noob-friendly enough to lend themselves well to interactive storytelling...? Any help/pointers would be immensely appreciated.
Some countries, including the UK, have longer requirements in national law.
FCC Releases Text of Title II Rollback NPRM – Multichannel
Some kind of sarcasm with truth inside.

Only you and your colleagues will see your code, your product will see all others. If you want to satisfy your colleagues and yourself with clean/elegant code, go and code side project only for them. If you want to ship real product, then ship it even though it contains lots of shit code. Thats one of the reasons why people just code, not make it clean at first