skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't insinuate astroturfing or shillage on HN. The overwhelming majority of the time, people just have opposing views. Meanwhile such insinuations damage the community.

Readers are far too quick to misinterpret disagreement as sinister bad faith, presumably because we all think our own view is so obvious that only someone dishonest could disagree. In reality, it's just that the world has a lot of things in it.
> But only 24 hours later they've disabled my account because of "security concerns", without notice and now I'm waiting on their support to reply after I've sent them my picture for validation.

I'm not a Facebook's biggest fan, but I think this is a valid security concern (I'm assuming you used the same name as your initial account). Cloning FB accounts and impersonation is a valid threat vector for getting inside someone's network: when accepting friend-requests, most people don't double check if they are already friends with the purported requester.
That's up for debate. Facebook and Google use DC in their datacenters to save costs. Azure has a requirement for optional DC power from their vendors and might be using it actively. I think AWS has looked into using DC power as well but isn't using it afaik.
Will be hard to know what to do in games... is the game itself causing panic, or is that just normal tapping for it?
To be blunt, you're not going to find one. Developing a modern browser is extremely difficult, on the order of developing an entire operating system. Mozilla does respect privacy rights, and it is clearly treating this as a bug to be fixed. You're going to have to cut them some slack for not being 100% perfect always.
UK: a font was originally a fount of type (from fountain).

http://britishletterpress.co.uk/type-and-typography/type-syn...

Above dates from the days when letterpress was still around (my local letterpress based jobbing printer closed his shop in the late 80s/early 90s because of repeated break-ins after his lead). Article tends to suggest a fount would be a given weight/style of a typeface.
Apple is already doing so. :]
I'm surprised they didn't ban them already. I mean, Google Adsense already had rules about not being able to use too many ads on one page, or about displaying them next to ads from other providers.

Honestly though, I'm quite happy they're doing this. Yeah some people may say its anti competitive or what not, but the type of ads many sites run are ridiculous. Sometimes even your basic news site or forum is literally packed with ads from top to bottom, with everything from overlays to transitions and pop ups/pop unders and auto playing video going on at once.

If this sort of thing discourages that, it'll make the internet a hundred times more tolerable for everyone (especially those unfortunate souls who can't use Adblock for whatever reason).
Actually with good regulations, there is not much need for public ownership (although it is the ideal in theory)
Or write in Haskell in the first place.

Good Haskell code is rather fast, but that's beside the point. For many projects, the only measure of goodness should be how nimbly one can then use and experiment with one's code. In Haskell, like Lisp before it, one ends up with a language to use one's code. Like writing a Mathematica package and getting all of Mathematica for free, only better.
"performance, broad compatibility with websites"

These are things which are greatly helped by having good analytics (Telemetry for the browser, analytics on your sites). You have to realize that to some extent these goals aren't mutually compatible. Developer resources don't appear out of thin air, even for open source software. Note how in the threads Mozilla explicitly acknowledges alternatives to GA.
I think it's called virtue signaling. and yeah, it's rampant on social media.
Oh wow. And I through it's reliable. I used it only a few times on smartphones and laptops (I like my mice and keyboard with cables) but I still remember what a big deal it was compared to infrared and how mobile phones in early 2000s would lose connection and the only sure way to use IR was putting them next to each other on a flat table with the IR thingies of their physically touching(!).

That makes me a little less excited about my plans of getting Dual Shock 4 for my PC for gaming.
“There is only one overall solution, and that is to reduce the scale of the human enterprise,” he said. “Population growth and increasing consumption among the rich is driving it.”
Yes, and this is extremely corrosive to free market operation of the internet. Customers lose visibility into what sites cost (in time and money) because the cost of the deals that the ISP force onto companies are hidden on both sides of the transaction. Customers can't really make good market choices among sites or ISPs cleanly with these kinds of deals going on, so the market becomes much less efficient at delivering value to the economy.
Let's pretend this is an ideal world; could ISPs just automatically assign DNS entries to their customer's IP address's? The router could figure out its public name via a reverse DNS lookup, then do a Let's Encrypt / ACME challenge for a certificate against that domain name. (I have no idea how the customer ends up knowing the domain name, though. Though, if ISPs are supposedly so eager to "differentiate" their product, hell, an easy-to-use interface to have full control over <yourname>.ISP.com would actually be a decent feature, but then, I don't know what would make non-hackers care about that.)
Malthusianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
I think it's probably a throwback to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

I don't remember what HN did in 2012, this might be an example of code re-use...
Worse: "It's amazing how many bugs there can be in a formally verified piece of software." I forget who said it, but it's been a long time. (Maybe in connection with formal verification of an OS? Does anyone remember?)

Formal verification only works if the formal verification was mistake-free. (And how are you going to prove that? With a formal verification? It's turtles all the way down...) Also, it only works for the aspects that were formally verified. Heartbleed, for example, could be regarded as a flaw in the specification; formally verifying that the code matches the spec won't save you from that.
I agree that there are technical limitations, but I think those should be sought to be overcome. I disagree with your implicit assertion that all languages are equal (or close enough). If it is possible to make a class of error completely disappear then it should be done when not cost prohibitive, and languages can be designed such that there is no cost to avoid certain errors.

Sure one boundary error could have been detected in any language, but there will always be fewer in a language that simply disallows them. Consider how infrequently Gotos are used now there are no longer errors with setting state before a jmp/goto, because modern constrol flow tools function, case, inheritance, generics and others tools have strong semantics with good implementations that work well and reduce complexity.

Unfortunately language adoption is not a pure meritocratic affair. Bad languages can stick around for far too long because of external factors. Consider that Ada never had real use outside the DoD when it was shiny and new. That group isn't exactly known for evangelizing. The Rust community has better marketing strategy and has chosen a highly meritocratic approach to language design.
My goodness your website is beautiful :-)! The only thing I didn't like about the front page is the section with all the reviews. The side-scrollbar that cuts the screen in half is a bit odd, and the background grid doesn't mix too well with the white background right below it. Regardless, it is very beautiful! Also, the dancing bird at the bottom-right corner is the cutest thing I have seen all day. I hope you succeed!!!
I hope I'm not alone in saying that if we lose net neutrality I'll be looking to help organize and set up a locally owned/operated ISP in my area.
In short, the market drives prices. Remember, it is about supply and demand.

Also you say, you have to close a few tasks, fix a few bugs, and make sure I am not a jerk to teammates.....

Fixing a few bugs could make the company hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions, it could protect trade secrets or protect personal information, it could make the jobs of others in the company faster or simply easier. It is all a matter of perspective. And doing it while not being a jerk is a plus.
The FCC does not have the power to create law/regulation out of thin air.

Congress should act.

Ajit Pai is not against net neutrality, but rather against the power grab from the FCC.

None of the complaints addresses this.

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/congress-not-fcc-can-fix-net-n...
It's easy to fall into this trap of thinking that we need to hold out our hands and ask (beg?) for wealth distribution. But this mentality of expecting someone else to come to the rescue is why we remain "poorer" than these other people. Especially now that we all have access to the world's information - it should be easier than ever to take care of ourselves and even coordinate boycotts of useless goods and services that the rich rent-collectors use to reap the harvest of proletarian dollars.

The founders of places like America and Rome were self-sufficient agrarians. The appeal of these places was that they were new and independent of other powers. The people that settled there were escaping the rich city folk in cultures that had already been developed.

But a century of rapid industrialization has yielded less capable, reliant people that have gradually lost their way of providing for themselves. Media has poisoned the minds of economic participants, from a young age, to desire more/bigger things than their neighbor, and that is a primary factor in the simple desire to be "rich".

These days there aren't really any new areas like these aforementioned to "discover" and cultivate (perhaps Alaska, but this place is not for weak people which in turn makes it exclusive to more virtuous citizenry).

Constant growth and expansion at all costs is what cancer cells do.

"You're an entrepreneur, so you're wanting to grow your business. How do you grow?"

"I'll throw you a curve ball - we don't want to grow."

https://youtu.be/4MdFSbFlksI?t=1118
Yup, I've had to do that. I've basically not given in, and have slowly but surely ground down the people who should have been investigating and dealing with my issues. I'll succeed from sheer bloody mindedness.
The problem with tipping is that it's spreading, as wages aren't keeping up with cost of living, but employers won't hand out raises. Uber driver? Tip. Sandwich shop? Tip. Coffee shop? Tip. Pizza delivery? Delivery fee plus tip. Have I been in drive-throughs with a tip jar? You better believe I have.

Enough already, guys.
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Allow private companies to impose regulations on internet traffic and you don't have a free and open internet.

Block private companies from imposing regulations on internet traffic and you don't have a free market for ISPs.

You're losing one free market or the other. Which is worth more to you?

This is a gross simplification and neither are ever going to be free markets, but you get the idea. There is no avenue that doesn't involve some institution imposing their will on a marketplace.
This year, sea ice extension in the Antarctica has reached a low record
> https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sin...
Thanks for this summary. My HVAC company does not install Nests and recommended a Honeywell on their end as a smart thermostat. I'd be interested to hear why the techs hate it so much as I've had a good experience so far and having one in the house wouldn't preclude you from doing anything with regard to replacing the actual systems involved. Thanks again for the thoughtful reply.
Where would some blended fruit come in that regard? Would it be still good, or are we losing some fiber benefits?
What about "Bitcoin-Mining-Water-Power Plant" :) Would be cool!
Honestly this has never been secret. It's even in the configure flags to enable/disable it. So you van easily disable it as you wish.

There's a page on the wiki aboit various forms of data collections [1]. It os pretty descriptive of the information they send.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection
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Look at s&p over a longer, mortgage like time period, and then come back to me.
Don't change almost nothing to 10% of the world (aka: white men). It changes everything to the other 90%.
Yesterday I sent one of my friends a link to an old - 4.5 years old, from 2013 dec - entry he wrote as a Facebook note. There were 70+ likes, 30+ commenters and 110 comments on it.

He added a new comment yesterday - I only saw it, because I randomly decided to read through the comments.

Those who commented on it should have received a notification - well, in the end, 2 people got something.

This is how you effectively kill conversation - which dazzles me, because keeping conversations running = engagement, which is supposed to be one of the end goals.

I get the "need" of a filter bubble, even though I'd simple let people choke on the amount of crap they'd get if follow would actually mean get everything - they may learn not to like things without thinking.

But not sending notifications at all? Why? Why is that good?
POS networks already exist. No need to way 3+ years while the Ethereum team reinvents the wheel.
Not code re-use, but we decided to follow what HN did in 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120118204946/http://news.ycomb....
Only if you mostly have friends of one political kind, I think. I know that I get plenty of "fake news" links shared from all sides in my Facebook feed.

Usually the article contents themselves are fine and quite reasonable, but the Facebook shares have some completely false click-bait headline attached.
The Google Analytics scripts runs on a page that appears to be a system/UI page in Firefox, when you search for new add-ons. The response from Mozilla about Piwik being too much work is concerning.

The optional NoScript add-on does stop this script from running, even on that page. You'd have to configure NoScript to block Google Analytics. I, for one, globally block Google Analytics scripts.

Incidentally, I also block third-party-site Google.com scripts, but that is harder on websites like Hacker News, which will sometimes send for a Captcha check that only completes successfully with Google.com enabled in NoScript.

[edit: I am using the legacy add-on, which Mozilla I guess will disable in November 2017]
I can say that in my case my 6th grade teacher started paying close attention and noticed that when I was trying my hardest to be neat I was doing like my peer at their worst. He had the school counselors do some tests which didn't result in anything other that agreement that I have an inability to write neat.

I first head about Dysgraphia 10 right here though - the symptoms a familiar enough for a self-diagnosis, but as all self-diagnosis there might be something else.
Have they ever used their parents offensively ever? The only case I know of is the Waymo one, but that was a special case where they had proof of their data being stolen. The other case would be against Microsoft but IIRC Microsoft was the one who started that case so it was technically "defensive" use.
Ugghhh, if you're using this, then you don't really grok Sketch. Sketch has all these wonderful tools for breaking up your design into reuseable components and playing with them like lego pieces. If you're doing a straight conversion from PSD to Sketch, you're missing all the things that make Sketch great.
Net neutrality won't fix that and that problem seems to be particularly serious in the US and not nearly as much everywhere else. We should fix all these issues, neutrality of networks, neutrality of devices and reasonable competition for ISPs. But saying that because the US has particularly bad competition between ISPs that the problem of the worldwide centralization in 2 or 3 streaming providers forcing lack of choice in devices isn't serious is the typical "the internet = the US" bubble.
I believe you. I just thought that some quick deduction like that would be well placed in the Sherlock universe.
Programmers like to come up with mathematical plans like this, but you would likely run into the Voting Rights Act!

Many districts which aren't compact have been created as majority-minority districts, to prevent disenfranchisement of racial minorities. Plans which divide or erase one of these districts get stopped by the Supreme Court all the time. It's a 1960s approach to equality, but you can tell its effectiveness by how the House is much more representative of the US population's diversity than the Senate is.
Uber doesn't offer a job, they are considered a contactors. As a contractor you can't collect unemployment, you don't get minimum wage and you're responsible for collecting your own taxes. It's not much different than MLM schemes they offer the world, but in the end most false promises.
Companies need to change before individuals do. That is harder to do than changing as an individual. Even if executives changed as individuals doesn't guarantee they will be able to change the company by the same way.
Some browser vendors have an agenda. But why now? Amazon.com worked fine with HTTPS from 1995 to 2006 - only the login page used HTTPS.

Now a small group tries to break the web and enforce HTTPS, but why? Is it to de-anonymize the web users?
The question is, will you be informed about it if you only read the information that is directly linked, or shown to you, when downloading, installing, and running Firefox?

No. That’s the big issue.

You have to actively search out if Firefox tracks you to find out that this happens. That’s pretty secret.
It's a trick to get someone curious enough to make a post asking about the change, thereby triggering an extensive discussion about the important issue of net neutrality.
The Privacy Policy seems to only cover '"personal information" means information which identifies you, like your name or email address."' So it's not surprising it doesn't mention GA.

The Firefox privacy policy is more explicit, but this is actually on a Mozilla page (which you can reach from other browsers), so I'm not sure it's relevant.
What systemd naysayers mean by "modular", "do one thing and do it well", "non-monolithic" is a miriad of independently developed unstandardized command-line tools programmed by individual hobbyists tinkerers like themselves. Which even *BSD and earlier unixes didn't do.
population decline != extinction but that is the direction that it's going. There's a huge problem when one population is increasing (i.e. humans) and everything else is declining. We can't invent a robot for every job that animals occupy in nature.
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I reluctantly put all my photos there, giving Google yet another huge access point to my life. But dammit if it's not the best photo management/archiving app, especially with its AI photo search.
Does my site need https?
I see loads of benefits with Spark 2.2.
Extremely cheap hydro power at around 0.01-0.02 USD/KWh. China has more hydro power than customers in a lot of areas.

Labor and regulatory costs are a huge factor as well.
Why not this script https://github.com/jlund/streisand ?
The general policy at Mozilla – which I'm pretty sure addons.mozilla.org follows (given https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/blob/28410742c206...) is that we don't use Google Analytics on websites if you have Do Not Track on.

It's a little less clear here because we're embedding a website into an interface that appears to be part of the browser, which is why there was a suggestion by a maintainer in the first response that we should use both Do Not Track and a Firefox data collection flag. But the Do Not Track preference is just as well-exposed as other flags, so I doubt that would have an effect on many users who would object to this tracking (who are very likely to have turned on Do Not Track).
Spark 2.2 shows some promise
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Oh the bar is grey too?! I have it grey by default, so I know I'm logged in or not, so I didn't notice.

Edit: It IS my grey (#969696) - looking at the source, the topbar colour you set in your profile, overrides anything done in the css (which in this case is #828282) - So I don't see it anyway.... have I missed out on great non-orange bars in the past then? /sadpanda
preventing the source of panics would be better
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Close. He said that 4 billion people would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, including 65 million Americans.

Other Ehrlich scenarios (he gets prickly nowadays if you call them "predictions", as well he might):

"Smog disasters" in New York and Los Angeles, claiming of the order of 200,000 lives.

U.S. life expectancy falling to 42 years by 1980.

All "important animal life" (whatever that means) in the oceans being extinct by 1980.

Why anyone still pays attention to this chucklehead is a mystery to me.
ISPs around the world are the same, they are commercial companies to make $, it signed an exclusive agreement with A because B/C refused to match the conditions put forward by A. Are you suggesting that ISPs are knocking back better $ offers from B/C in favour of A? I doubt that.

Unless the ISP is downgrading the service quality of B/C or charging you more for using the same services from B/C, I don't see any problem if they choose to make services from A unmetered. The entire argument is so flowed - using such logic, one can jump up and argue that unmetered Spotify traffic is bad because people are "forced" to listen more music and spend less time on sports/reading/<insert your favourite stuff here> related apps/services - what is the difference here, they all compete for your time/attention.
Hey HN, one of the makers of DiscoverDev here. The idea behind our project is to track and tag high quality technical articles published by the engineering teams of various companies. Kind of like a "Product Hunt" for engineering blogs. We've limited ourselves to company published articles (for now). The whole process is pretty much automated, but all articles do go through human eyes for a final quality check.

We also run a mailing list and have a twitter account (https://twitter.com/discoverdev_io) for those interested!

Read our about page for more info : https://www.discoverdev.io/about
Well yeah, but if the choice is between a self-hosted VPN and and VPN service you should go with the latter.
That's the Alice case, which is described here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Inte...
Fastest to develop, yes. Portable, yes. Safest? Well, only in as much most of the errors will be blamed on the programmer for not doing the correct modern C++.

I mean, seriously, understanding the borrow checker is nowhere near as hard as understanding this: https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/too-perfect-forwar...

There's a No True Scotsman aspect to C++ advocacy. Anything that is obviously dumb either is because the programmer did it wrong, because it belongs to the ever-growing list of features you avoid or "doesn't come up that often".
So Indian IT companies are training their employees? Ummm, don't see how that's newsworthy - good for them.
Individual actions:

Reduce hot water usage. Wash clothes cold, dry outside where possible, etc.

Avoid commuting by car. Use bikes, public transit, car pool.

Avoid international flights. Vacation close to home.

Go vegetarian. One of the biggest things you can do.

Entertainment: board games, books, plays, dances, get together with your neighbours. Start a garden. Etc.

Buy fewer things. Use what you have.