skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A whole bunch of other sites ask for your Google, etc credentials instead of using the SSO API.
I've even seen some tax software ask for your Bank login.
It's really a bad practice but LinkedIn isn't the worst offender.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to debug that in compile time?
> Why would a service that cares about its members _ever_ implement free speech policies?

But reddit did implement free speech policies. It defended free speech for many years.

> That's just asking for assholes.

Or open discourse.

> If anything, popular services should have _more_ filtering and removal of asshole users.

What's an asshole to you? Atheists? Muslims? Environmentalists? Trump supporters? Hillary supporters?

Who gets to decide who an "asshole" is?
It would be hypocritical to say someone is wrong while, on the same point, say someone else is right (despite the actions being the same).

It's not hypocritical to say someone is wrong without mentioning all the other people are wrong. You can't list literally every bad thing that happens in every press release, and you can scope criticism.
Nice. How do you verify input?
You're referring to the Transatomic 2-student company's claims that their epithermal-neutron molten salt reactor could burn nuclear waste as fuel without additional fissile feed stock. Professor Kord Smith and others pointed out their error.

However, that their whimsical concept didn't live up to its hype is no reason to claim that the closed nuclear fuel cycle doesn't exist. Breeding more fuel than you consume in an advanced reactor was proven in the Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 near Arco Idaho in the early 1950s. The physical concept of breeding and closing the cycle is well-proven and 100% proven possible. No one debates this.

People do debate how much it costs vs. the status quo of just mining uranium. Uranium is cheaper than recycling spent fuel, so we mine uranium. It's that simple. If we decided uranium was running low and drove prices up, reprocessing waste would become more economical and more people would do it.
Nah, it's because a doctor can't spend ten minutes thinking about what's going on with a patient, much less a couple of hours. This is what we got from our lame attempt to shoehorn health care into the commodity business model we use to manage fast food joints.
Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million paid subscribers in less than a year, while it’s taken Apple Music more than a year and a half to make that progress. Spotify now has 60 million subscribers, compared to Apple Music’s 27 million (as of June)

https://19216811wiki.com/
I've met him IRL and benefited from his tireless OSS leadership as a communicator and a code. Ryan is the real deal.
>If a company paid a million people to call into an information service hotline and each request one fact from it—and then the company recorded and compiled the answers into their own database to start their own information service—is that illegal?

I sure hope not. From there it doesn't seem to far off to claim that "He was really only ever showing up for work to learn some skills and how he's using those skills to run his own business!" sort of lawsuits. If you compile difficult to find but freely available information into a more easy to digest format I see that as virtually always a net positive.
https://microg.org/

Google play store APIs and protocols ARE being reverse engineered and re implemented.

I run microG with store apps with no issues with everything I have tried.
Blogspam of

https://aeon.co/ideas/its-not-that-your-teeth-are-too-big-yo...
I wonder if the reason for the non-traditional IPO was due to the raise they did a while back under rather predatory terms?
Huh, nice.
There is an alternative to google play store API.

https://microg.org/

They are an open source re implementation of play store APIs that work with play store apps, without all the bloated tracking and spy... sorry "telemetry", and without giving Google remote root on your phone, with the ability to selectively install and do whatever the hell they want to your device silently (sounds like a targeted intelligence operation dream to me).

Removing gapps stuff and using microg instead saved a large amount of ram, and more than doubled my battery life.

Its a great way to make old devices suck less.

No implementation of this API yet, but it seems rather trivial to do, and will likely see implementation.
I seem to recall that the courts ruled that a phone book is copyrightable, but the data within it is not. Perhaps that is precedent?
With Vibe.d you can use Pug / Jade templates and they will be parsed at compile time so you don't have to interpret them at run time.
Oi jmauricio1000,

Esse site é sobre a informática. Notícias desse tipo não são adequadas aqui de forma alguma.
A nice update in the search for Planet Nine that touches on a lot of new computational, survey-based, and modeling efforts to localize the planet. Great level of detail.
I think this is mostly a layering issue. If everyone that just wants to scrape HTML or talk to an API is using the basic HTTP API, then you've got this problem. That's where Python was about ten years ago - using the stdlib's urllib, it was very easy to talk HTTP, but you'd probably do it badly.

Then requests came along, aimed to make it easy for anyone to consume HTTP, with sensible defaults -- and it rapidly became the defacto standard way to get things done. Hopefully the rust ecosystem will have similar libraries, built on top of this new 'http' base.
I was told they would send me a replacement if they determine it to be a hardware problem. Return wouldn't be an option (I'm past the first 30 days). I'll try to negotiate with them anyway.
I'm critical of unions for a number of reasons, including artificially preventing automation and technological progress in order to prevent redundancies and pointless mandates like ensuring that only union appointed electricians can plug in a socket. If you think the only people critical of unions are your stereotypical evil capitalists then you might want to look up the arguments people make against them - one can't defend a position if they don't know the opposition's arguments.
BTC-e update 31.07.2017
Google recently started aggressively marketing Youtube Red. When you watch a youtube video, a small popup asks if you want an ad-free experience, consider upgrading ..

This is worrying as Spotify has no moat. Youtube Red is definitely a better value as you ad-free + offline youtube with music. I am a paying Spotify customer and if they improve their client, I might jump ship.
Vega is already drawing near 300W, and is so high up on the voltage/frequency curve that even a measly 5-10% gain in core clock can easily cost over 100W more.

Here, AMD is once again (see last year's Polaris) a victim of the inferior GlobalFoundries 14nm LPP process. TSMC 16nm would have been much better in perf/W, but sadly a very restrictive wafer supply agreement locks AMD to GloFo for the time being.
Noob question: Why isn't it passing in front of stars? Are we seeing a sequential dimming of occluded stars along the plane of the ecliptic?
google translate from twitter via @alistairmilne https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGDFWMDW0AENK81.jpg
The Experimental Breeder Reactor 2 on what is now the Idaho National Lab was the first reactor to demonstrate full passive safety in 2 related tests in 1986. In the first, they turned off all primary pumps and did not insert the control rods. The reactor shut itself down and established natural circulation decay-heat removal. This class of event (unprotected loss of flow) would melt the core of almost any other kind of reactor. Then they did a unprotected loss of heat sink to the same result. My dissertation advisor was there, and said that it was glorious. They knew that they had finally achieved truly safe, socially acceptable nuclear energy. Less than a month later Chernobyl happened and the advanced breeder reactors with their inherent safety have still not been developed commercially.

Breeders use low-pressure coolants with very high heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and boiling points so they can go to natural circulation easily at decay heat levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I...
Buy a vps and do port tunneling.
On linux and in the Mac terminal:
ssh user@vps -L18081:127.0.0.1:18081
On Windows use this guide to forward port 18081 from vps to your localhost:18081
http://howto.ccs.neu.edu/howto/windows/ssh-port-tunneling-wi...
When the tunnel is created you can use monero-wallet-cli/GUI to access the daemon as if it is running locally.

https://19216811wiki.com/
I buy casual clothes (shirts, jeans) one size larger and have them tailored at a local place.

Costs about $10 an item but they fit much better.
Yeah I agree that Spotify is the best in the game right now. Discover weekly has been spot on consistently since it was released but for me 30 tracks is barely enough. I've been using turntable inspired https://www.jqbx.fm for a little while. The social part of it gives it the extra push of randomness I need to discover music I wouldn't have stumbled on otherwise.
Spot on.

The US Government is supposed to represent the people, and thus must uphold that people's values. The US government is a moral agent.

A person is a moral agent.

Though many here are happy to concede the reality that Apple is comprised of individuals and that it exists as an organisation as a part of society, and just view it as a profit-maximising entity. This is perverse. A corporation is a moral agent, and when it's morality conflicts with it's profits, morality should win. We'd expect nothing less of literally everybody/everything else.
Yeah I would look at building your own product on the side, the best gig you can get as a developer is to be able to quit your day job to take the helm of a product you successfully bootstrapped yourself.
> Anyone with a scientific background and a vested interest in studying a specific uncommon disease

You totally missed my point there, which was rebutting that patients "often know better", which is just plain crap.
Disclaimer: While I don't work at Tesla I do work as a technician at another Musk company, SpaceX, so I'm not exactly impartial.

I'm broadly supportive of private sector unions, and I think it would be great if the relationship between unions and employers in the US would more closely match what I've observed in Europe and Japan. With that being said, I think it's perfectly reasonable to be supportive of unions in general, while being critical of certain aspects of them.

My own criticism of unions comes both from my personal experience working in a union shop, as well as second hand info I get from several close friends currently working in union shops at the Port of LA/LB and various municipal and private employers in the LA/OC area. My personal criticisms stem from what I viewed as an almost total inability to hold more senior employees accountable for performance, an extremely rigid organizational structure that made it very difficult/impossible for a low level employee like myself to try and get into new positions based on work and effort rather than strict seniority, and a very lax attitude towards harassment and discrimination towards those who were not white or Hispanic, and especially towards those who weren't heterosexual. Sprinkle in a heavy dose of nepotism at the top and things got bad enough that I actually quit and went back to working a crappy retail job.

Now I realize that these things could just as well, and in fact do, occur in non-union shops, which is why I still support unions in general, but again, I don't think they are above critique.

My view of public employee unions, particularly for public safety employees like police and fire, is more philosophically opposed.

Edited for punctuation.
> Telling China that their government is objectively wrong and should do things differently is pretty hypocritical unless we'd accept them telling us that our respective governments are wrong and should change.

Uh, did you miss the whole iPhone/FBI thing here. Not only did many of us in the US (and virtually all of us on HN) accept them telling us that our government was wrong and should change, we relished it! We were glad someone finally stood up to the US government and its surveillance overreach.

Could it be that many, perhaps most, Chinese would think the same way? I suspect so, given how many of them use VPNs there.
This would be an interesting way to generate a self-updating blog or an automated news site.
Let's suppose, for the sake of argument, two things:
1) that your assertion that environmentalists and public figures in media, politics, and (what we'll call, with marginal disrespect, "pop") science are lacking in humility and unwilling to admit any flaw in their predictions or assertions is a fair assertion, and
2) that they are generally correct in their concern about pollution in general and the effect of carbon emissions on global temperatures and weather patterns in particular, and that this is a risk to the welfare of many people around the world.

Do you suppose that environmental activists are more likely to achieve their important objective of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by admitting even mild uncertainties in the rationale for their position in effort to appeal to educated, reasoned people like you, or by adhering to a steadfast narrative, increasingly accepted by the masses, that anthropogenic climate change is creating a severe risk to the welfare of people the world around?
I love the term "Kafkaesque," but had never thought of applying to the process of a cancer diagnosis. As soon as I read the headline alone, I got it, though. I went through this while looking after my mother during her treatment...from the lead up to the diagnosis, to the diagnosis to the actual treatment.

It started with the doctor at the local medical clinic being concerned about a growth in my mother's mouth and referring her to an ENT. That appointment would be in several weeks, then a biopsy scheduled several weeks after that...then an appointment with the ENT to discuss the biopsy three weeks later...meanwhile, all these doctors are talking to each other. My mother goes to the local health clinic for something unrelated and mentions some symptoms to the receptionist, who replies, "Yeah, those are common side effects to chemo..." To which my mother says, "Oh? I'm getting chemo am I?" ...the receptionist could only give an "oops" facial expression.

Then the meeting with the ENT to discuss the biopsy never happens, anyway. Instead, my mother gets an automated phone call from the big city hospital saying "You have an appointment with Dr. Ugonnadie at the Cancer Centre on Tuesday."

...so, for all the secrecy and, "you need to come in and talk about this in person in three weeks..." it gets let out of the bag by an automated phone call. In retrospect, yeah, felt pretty Kafkaesque.
How did west valley produce power? Your link is unclear.
In Australia we vote on Saturdays. That seems to work ok.
When I quote someone, I put it in "quote marks", or > italic.
I was using Spotify then jumped ship to Youtube Red and used Google Music for about a year.
But their music curation wasn't good so I jumped back to Spotify. Then I got tired of watching Youtube ads so now I just pay for both...
I don't think people believing fantastical notions without evidence is purely constrained to the religious. There are plenty of pseudo-religious belief systems within atheist thought circles - mostly consisting of political and philosophical conceptions (as well as the ever-pervasive scientism). And after all, isn't that what a religion is anyway? Most religious people I've met don't believe the bible in a completely literal sense.
You are "rebutting" things that haven't been said by anyone. And then insisting you are right.

Here is what I actually said, which you intentionally misquoted and are now twisting into something else entirely:

For some conditions, the patients themselves are often better informed than general MDs. Only actual specialists in the condition really know more
As many others commented elsewhere, moral relativism is not very robust ethical system in a global community.

If you ever have kids, why would you teach them some morals over others? Would you teach that some moral standard (pick any! say, "it's not generally okay to steal others' stuff") would just stop by the virtue that they just happen move to different jurisdiction where the government is not interested in e.g. property rights? Or it is okay that just the natives of Thiefmark have their stuff stolen by others? Can you go and take their stuff with you to Hobbiton, given they live in Thiefmark and King Thiofden is not going to punish you for that? What if the raiders of Rohan move to your neighborhood?

This is a different issue whether it makes sense or is productive in the long term to fight against the Chinese law in some particular way. But sensible ethical systems are universal.
I see a lot of the seniority stuff in Japan. I have friends who are top performers in their department yet are stuck making copies for hours for their seniors due to their age. Nobody dares to question it.
This is super awesome. Unfortunately in my company I haven't converted the mindset fully to F#, so I'm wondering, is there a good way to use this in C# somehow?
Given Hiroshima and Nagasaki likely saved at least a million Japanese lives, your point is unclear.
Several years ago, I lived in an apartment with "do not copy" keys. I took one to the hardware store and they refused to copy it, so I took it home, ground out the words with a Dremel, filled the gap in with solder and polished it flat. Same store happily copied it.
Oh boy, I don't know how I got the impression that it was RLE. Maybe I was mixing it up with older versions of Targa.

Yeah, the noise was more the point I was getting at. IIRC PNG also has the benefit of prefilters which allow it to (and maybe there are other things) compress rectangles as contiguous symbols rather than splitting them across lines, which makes obvious sense for 2D images.
However, in Racket (and Scheme, Lisp, Clojure, LFE, etc.), due to the extra flexibility, the language lets you extend the library in a much easier way (than in Java or C++), so becoming a contributor to said library becomes a viable proposition.
What dangerous precedent? That Apple is a company that is governed by the rule of law?

I find it fundamentally strange that we expect our corporate overlords to do anything other than maximize their profits. I'd certainly like them to do more than that, but I don't have the expectation that they will. And expecting them to break the law, or leave the Chinese market, is simply just crazy.

It sucks that China treats its citizens in this manner, but I plan on abiding by Chinese law the next time I'm in China or I wouldn't go. Why should Apple be any different, and why is this somehow their fault?
The thing that currently spazs me out is the Simpson Paradox (Yule–Simpson effect)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

In short, if your population has two (or more) diseases with similar enough symptoms that they are grouped together, statistical analysis can and does totally fail. And your experiment will produce garbage.

So what if Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is really caused by a couple of different things, but with converging symptomology. You have a real catch 22 situation. Can't identify the cause of the disease without a consistent experimental group. Can't select a consistent experimental group without a functional test.
Thanks for the detailed reply, I appreciate it.

I am in total agreement with you - Unions are good, but nothing is above constructive criticism.

After all, the goal is constant improvement.
> I envision a future where we are all sending ad-company created gifs to each other without even noticing that they're created by ad companies.

I thought something like that was already happening in the form of PR firms producing contrived "reaction" GIFs with celebrities.
Pretty much this. I have a pair of studio monitors set up for music and tuned for music. Game audio and random youtube videos don't sound so great with that setup, so I don't want it to be my default.

Sure, I could change the default every time I fire up Spotify, but that's annoying and I really shouldn't have to do it -- this kind of setup is not that unusual for music lovers, and it's not a difficult feature to add.
White House officials tricked by email prankster
The article notes that Venmo is currently operating at a loss.
I'm surprised that unions would have a problem with racism and homophobia given they're usually run by pretty far-left-minded people.
This is only possible because Apple has a "walled garden" app store and doesn't let people install stuff from outside it. The solution is simple: Publish an official jailbreak allowing expert iPhone users to root their phones and use third-party app stores.

Then Apple's not violating Chinese law by directly providing VPN's, instead they're removing themselves from a situation where they're in a position to be capable of enforcing Chinese law. The user is free to install whatever they want on a device they've bought.
To quote the announcement:

>It does not cover transport, but is rather intended for use in libraries like Hyper, and to support an ecosystem of crates that can share HTTP-related types.

So I don't think they added any implementation details to the crate itself, to avoid people taking issue with something being too bloat-ey or not to their need, and rejecting the common types, which seem to be the real goal. It does seem like something you'd always need, though - I can only imagine that a proper parser would be pretty large, and they didn't want people to complain about it.
won't dare to post this under your real account though.
This describes my personality perfectly.

I learnt to cope with those situations by emotionally distancing myself from them. Then I'm free to respond more naturally.
Keys are pretty easy even with "under the kitchen sink" home materials, even easier with a little alginate powder for the mold and craft-store quality binary epoxy to cast. It's not going to do much good with mid/high sec locks that utilize floating pin keys, but then neither would the 3d printed route.
> one can't defend a position if they don't know the opposition's arguments.

I agree, that's why I asked for other people's augments against them.

And of course you are correct, unions are not perfect and sometimes are downright stupid (your two examples). Just because something is not perfect is not a reason to not have it.

It's just a good reason to improve it.

On the whole, unions (including their sometimes stupid rules) are better that not unions, and I have never seen a compelling argument otherwise (other than the two reasons I mentioned in my original post, which are not valid)
That's interesting, didn't know the stock was so popular on Robinhood. I remember around 2 years ago their stock price was in the $2 range and r/wallstreetbets were all talking about going "YOLO" with AMD. Pretty nice comeback for their stock. Lisa Su seems like a great CEO.