skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"every company" was accidently misspelt as "Monsanto" in the title.

I'm not trying to jump to their defense, but can you think of a situation where the opposite would happen? Think about it, any company that funds research is going to be a subject area in their market.

Unless there was a specific ethical issue here, this isn't "news", this is a thorn in the side of the [otherwise wonderful] free market.
Thanks. I've only ever used VPNs to access corporate networks. I'm not going to pretend to be knowledgeable in this area.
Why do you assume he did it at work?

Maybe you are unfamiliar with Google's culture. Employees are encouraged to engage in conversations about the culture and values of the company, using mediums like this. Google is not rigid about "work time", preferring that you are productive.
I've seriously started to wonder if many of these people wouldn't just starve (or take to begging in the streets) if there wasn't such a profession as "recruiting" laid out for them.

Given the alarming cognitive deficits as they are routinely observed to have.
> These findings make clear that the decline in Google search traffic to the WSWS is not the result of some technical issue, but a deliberate policy of censorship.

Quite a claim.
how'd you report to DDG? tried reporting that !gi does not utilizes encrypted.google.com (which I think it should), seems like no dice
I wonder if the email list acts as a gateway to filter potential troublemakers and trolls. A troll denied their audience is a troll defeated.
An overview of the current landscape regarding libraries to enable Machine Learning in Javascript.
Was presented during the recent CampJs, presentation made for a non-expert audience willing to go beyond web-development and expand into Machine Learning
This isn't true, Delphi 4 definitely had the multiple windows setup
Sexual orientation is a protected class in California[0].

[0] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employment...
So you are saying that ideological intolerance is a problem throughout the industry?
Why is that correct? Looking at their website they're currently running a lecture series/look back at the Russian revolution: http://www.wsws.org/en/special/1917/chronology.html

None of it seems to be conspiracy theory or low-quality material.
Huh. I now totally believe Crichton wrote agitprop for hire.
Why is it toxic?
Your story was about a mob, which can behave just as erratically and uncontrollably as any individual. And individuals don't always get their ideas from inner reflection. You think the guy who decided to attack a pizza parlor with an assault rifle was also the creator of the PizzaGate controversy and its ensuing discussion?
> ... Apple has just pulled VPN apps from its App Store and
> ...you can't sideload apps makes iOS an untenable OS choice.

I'm pretty sure you can still install VPN apps (e.g. Potatso 2) from the iOS App Store, although perhaps they're not available if you're logged in with a China iTunes account. iOS allows you to install apps from multiple iTunes accounts on the same device, though, so this doesn't seem like much of a limitation.

(Not sure if they're also blocking by IP address.)
Meh, I have a hard time caring about this because I want Google to block propaganda and misinformation. From my experience, socialist websites and forums tend to ignore, rewrite, or white wash the history of communism in Russia/USSR, Venezuela, and even North Korea. So much so that the No True Scotsman fallacy should just be the No True Socialist fallacy. Go check out /r/socialism if you want your head to spin. According to that sub, there were no famines in the USSR, Stalin never killed anyone, and everything bad we hear about Venezuela is just media bias. And then when it's objectively true and can't be dodged, they aren't really socialists.
What harm did this viewpoint cause to others?
Chrome can block JavaScript before it's loaded, its what uBlock Origin does and others as well (using the WebRequest API available to Chrome extensions)
I don't quite understand the snark in your response - were you, unlike the purported cheering liberals, fond of the purveyors of fake news?
Hey I'm a developer for VSCodeVim. What did you hate about the vim plugin for VSCode?
It would be very interesting to prove this, but their argument is mostly circumstantial so far.
I don't think you read actual proposal by FCC. They seem to suggest set 25/3 as a minimum and don't say anything about maximum. Their goal is a bit different from what you are thinking, their goal is to make sure every single person in USA has access to reasonable speed. You want 1gbit internet, but if that comes at a cost of some people in rural America to not have internet then it doesn't fit their goal. Therefore statement like "if we only had one choice of 25/3, we'd take it" can be easily taken out of context. They are clearly suggesting minimum and not maximum.
Ops, I am really sorry. I kept reading and realizing that I was confused and needed to read more. That my comment could be not related and I missunderstood the concept. I wanted to take more time to read and express myself better and so I deleted the comment in order to rewrite it when I came back home after reading more.

Your response is useful. Thanks.

I don't want this to be out of context. Here exactly my original comment:

I assumed in his context he means you are a biological entity but there is not correlation with the abstract entity (the mind). Because of that you can state your personal interests are not linked with your DNA in any way. But this has been probed to be false. Scientist have observed a high correlation between the testosterone and the social skills and interests. As the testosterone that is generated based on our DNA you can link you abstract entity with your physical entity. So scientist can predict how social are you going to be or whether you will be more interested in dolls or mechanical objects before you have even be born.

This is the biological factor, and then you have the cultural factor, the one you call "the ought to be". So genetically you have a predisposition to be one way, but this can be shaped by the environment, not only because you can reason about your behavior and change it but because the environment also modifies the DNA and so the levels of testosterone (and more things). How much can you shape the biological predisposition is a good question to answer. For example: I could say that being gay or straight is a biological factor but I doubt any environment factor can change that, maybe you will fake it for the shake of the social acceptance but not changing it.

EDIT: I forgot to say that the testosterone has an influence in the plasticity of the brain.
From the one line summaries, OP seems to prefer native apps vs. open protocols (e.g. OpenVPN/L2TP/etc.), why is that?

I looked at the Chrome extension of TunnelBear and it requires some ridiculous permissions [1], much more than just "change your proxy settings". This doesn't seem right.

[1] http://imgur.com/3PuH0tE
Why obviously? You're not a bright one.
Didn't github actually hire some diversity training people who projected a slide attacking white women?
Occasionally people in the FLOSS community have been known to crack jokes and 'have fun'. Even tho most of the jokes are not very funny and the fun that is had is rather autistic by most peoples standards I see no reason why we should stop.

Many of us have been listening to Stallman for close to 20 years and have been part of free software movement for that long. Having a good chuckle at Comrade Stallman expense is rite of passage in a way.
...how far does "propaganda and misinformation" go? Political parties also put out propaganda and misinformation, as do businesses and individuals.
"there's also your institution skimming 50-60% of your hard won grant funding to let you "rent" their facilities"..

Is certainly a creative way to describe indirect costs.

For standard NIH/NSF/most Federal grants, they don't come out of "your" grant funding - they're a pre-negotiated rate, and the award amounts are based on indirect costs. If an institution cut their indirect rate to 25%, you wouldn't see that money back, it would just never be there.

I've also never been at an institution that's not willing to at least work with a grant giving agency/firm/etc. on lowering the overhead if it's a sticking point.

But I will say in my experience that I get a ton of value for my overhead rate - and that it's known in the institution to actually be slightly lower in most cases than the actual cost of doing research.
ah yes the delightful irony in socialism being censored

loving every moment
If you hit Backspace in error, you can disable the “Go Back” action associated with the backspace key using about:config like so:

browser.backspace_action = 2

Read [1] for more instructions.

If you explicitly used the mouse to click the Back button, I am sorry for the time you lost.

1. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
Created an account after lurking here for 2 years to say hell yes.
Is there some controversy surrounding the name MongoDB?
This is just a practical thing afaik. fsf sysadmins are more knowledgeable about it and they do it for the rest of fsf computers already, so why not let them do it?

What does diminished mean? I mean, like as a person he's not impressive? When I remember I'm reading a comment that's hiding behind a pseudonym, they are also diminished in my eyes.
The main problem with this would be non-standardisation. For example, I have 4 bank accounts at 4 different banks and each has a different piece of hardware for 2FA. Imagine if you needed an individual key fob for every single online account you have.

I'd love to be in a world where I click the website login button, I then type a simple pin into a key fob, then I plug the fob into a USB port, and it authenticates me. No password other than the pin. I'd also love it to just be a 'thing', not a way to just hack filling in a password field on a form.
In California, it does.[1] California has the strictest law in the US on this.

[1] http://www.turleylawfirm.com/blog/final-paycheck-laws-for-te...
He should be worried that the "skimming" he's talking about is, in many cases, legally mandated. Direct and indirect costs not being mixed isn't something that happened because universities wanted it that way.
I'm aware of that, but this is just bullying the guy, how would you like it if that was a video of you?
Marketing is not the same as propaganda and straight up lying about historical facts. If you claim there weren't famines in the Soviet Union, you're either a liar or a fool. I am fine with those being removed from Google. Separating the wheat from the chaff is the entire point of Google search. They should ban all disinformation sites, Fox News, Breitbart, and InfoWars would be a good start to add to WSWS. Salon and Huffington would be up there too.
so much reductionism, there isn't one left. there're factions and they do have different opinions on the previous political projects.
Why in the hell would Executive Dumbass, er Jim Alkove, send such an urgent request via an asynchronous form of communication? Is he a moron (obviously)?

If I wanted to ensure something did or didn't happen, and time was a critical factor, I would call, talk in person, or use some other form of synchronous communication to ensure my message was received. I certainly wouldn't blast out a text message and then have a baby tantrum after the fact.
did this website do this?
Who determines what is misinformation?
> Use something like Algo to run your own VPN if you have to.

This might be good advice for tech-savvy people, but too hard for most folks.

Also, Algo is targeted at only security/privacy, and not censorship resistant. The last time I checked, it didn't offer any protocols that work well behind GFW.

Also, where are you going to run your VPN? Assuming you don't have your own hosting infrastructure (or domestic broadband connection in another country), then you're renting a server from someone else. Perhaps your assumption is that a random VPS provider is more trustworthy than a random VPN provider?

> If you must use a commercial VPN to get to Netflix or whatever,
> do it from inside a virtual machine that you use for nothing but that.

Again, good advice for tech-savvy people, but not practical for most folks, particularly for the times when they're on mobile devices.

I don't disagree with your overall sentiment (I don't use commercial VPN providers for the same reasons), but for many folks these serve a useful purpose, and there are no practical alternatives.
Introducing GraphQL Support for Insomnia
I don't believe it was ever about "fake news", rather it's about establishing "acceptable opinion".

As the article said:

> In a set of guidelines issued to Google evaluators in March, elaborated in April by Google VP of Engineering Ben Gomes, the company instructed its search evaluators to flag pages returning “conspiracy theories” or “upsetting” content unless “the query clearly indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint.” The changes to the search rankings of WSWS content are consistent with such a mechanism.

Notice how Google said "alternative viewpoint". Alternative to what? Google seems to be establishing a new orthodoxy.
Again, indirect costs do not come out of the direct costs of running the project.

If you get a $250,000 a year NIH R01 (the largest you can get without PITA budget details) and your institution has negotiated a 50% rate, the NIH pays your institution $375,000 a year. Your $250K doesn't get reduced.

The only time I've ever had something like what you described happen was when a private funder had X total amount they wanted to spend, but hadn't bothered pre-specifying that they'd only pay a particular overhead rate. Which is mainly just a company wanting to get something for nothing, and doesn't leave me particularly sympathetic.
Why is he a 'white nationalist' and not just a 'nationalist'?

Do you have any indication that, so long as people conform to his idea of what his country's culture should be, that he wouldn't accept black, asian, etc people?
The fact that Google is refusing to deny it is, in my view, pretty strong circumstantial evidence.
This has been fairly thoroughly debunked:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/0Y...
Regarding the blog post you shared [0]

> In general, US persons today on residential broadband are safest not using a VPN.

> Only connect to US-based VPN servers while in the US. Even if your VPN provider offers servers outside the US.

What? No reasons given. Smells like FUD.

[0] https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-d...
There are methods better than a text to get a hold of someone. Phone, emails, whatsapp, twitter, facebook, calling the conference management, calling colleagues at the conf, go nearby the stage at the beginning of the talk.

Oh and try to be there on time if you need to do something that critical.
I'm assuming the poster is pointing out that regardless of your political leaning, it might be naive to blindly trust these companies in their battle against "fake news" as it can inadvertently (or, purposefully) lead to censorship. Well, I suppose it is censorship in any case.
But what if someone, somehow, through some extraordinary bit of research, does find evidence contradicting a widely supported claim? Not the soviet famine claim, but e.g. David Glantz did research and found that the early years of the USSR's involvement in World War II had been substantially misrepresented due to the USSR censoring many of those records to save face. Prior to his publication of that work, it was the "truth" that the USSR launched no major offensives until 1942-3. After the publication of that work, that was no longer the "truth" (the USSR had in fact launched many offensives and then purged them from the historical record in order to appear infallible).
No one gets particularly large amounts of glory for confirmatory research because if it's successful than the first paper is still "The first paper to describe X".
Hell yes! We need mature frameworks for web apps!
In this context, I read "alternative viewpoint" as a polite way of saying "complete bullshit".
Oops - misinterpretation of skimming the article. Damn day job getting in the way of keeping up with HN articles! :)
Sorry, but the tankies who think nothing bad has ever been done in the name of communism are just as foolish as the InfoWars junkies screaming about chem-trails.
Happy to see the example code is in F#.
300 lbs deadlift baby!!

...which is not actually that great for any healthy male that trains, but considering he got into it late, it's pretty good and probably better than 98% of males his age.
The preferred opening for Protoss in PvZ (on most maps) is the forge fast-expand. If the Zerg player doesn't want to play an economic game in response, they have a variety of all-in strategies available. There is a lengthy article on Team Liquid about how Protoss should respond to these.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Protoss_Counter_to_Zerg...

What I'd note here is that:

1. It's a rather long list.

2. Good scouting is required for most of these situations.

3. There are terrain-based considerations all over the place.

4. There are considerations based on how many units were lost in earlier engagements all over the place.

Enumerating all the build orders (#1) is pretty easy (as you said, build order space isn't that big), but the interaction between terrain and building placement (#3) is a lot more complex and starts to interact with the full game's massive search space more, and the followups are dynamic (#2, #4) so I don't think the game will degenerate into a solved solution as long as it looks anything like regular play.

It's possible that there's some degenerate micro-based solution that turns everything on its head, of course. Bot-based vulture micro might rewrite part of the Terran matchups, but it doesn't seem insurmountable yet. My own bot gets units across the map 5% to 10% faster than normal, but that doesn't look like enough to break the game even with a 4pool.
??? I'd be shocked if anyone who could comment was even were aware of the claim (until it hit the HN front page).
Measuring myself for a decade and a half, and some data from colleagues measuring themselves on my suggestion, and watching youngsters that I was mentoring.
Hacking With Swift is pretty good for learning iOS and Swift. https://www.hackingwithswift.com/
Fake news has become a loaded term.

There's actually fake news - person XYZ died (but not really), or satire websites (that people don't realize), or even more devious websites.

Then there's "fake news" which refers more to "I don't think that is news" news.

There's also "fake news" which refers to "That one news article made a mistake, so we can't trust any news from them now, they're fake" news.

The phrase has become as loaded as any SJW terms.
> It's important to point out that it is designed to complement JavaScript not replace it and that in a browser context it has no direct access to the DOM, only via JavaScript.

Why so? Why can't you avoid using JavaScript?
(1) It's partial. Communism would redistribute 100% of the GDP. Basic income would redistribute less than that. (Few proponents actually volunteer numbers though.)

(2) With complete wealth redistribution, the government must take over economic planning, and development, even to the point of mandatory career directives. UBI would hopefully leave enough that the existing incentives system would work without centralized planning.
I thought of something along this lines, but your idea is better. I hope the mods are reading :)
Hi mobitar. Thanks for the highest score in regard to the objective measures. Regarding the subjective impression and experience, I'd like to let you know what's going on. If you feel that this changes your impression, it would be great to update accordingly!

The HTTP connection upon startup is for the region data request which is signed and verified upon receipt. It's tamper proof, but you can read it. It's something that anyone with the client can read, and the client is free to download.

Arguably, it's more secure to entrust the communication from PIA to the client software itself than to blindly entrust it to HTTPS which has provably been compromised due to bad actors in the past.

We're in #privateinternetaccess on irc.freenode.net to discuss anytime as well!

Thanks for everything mobitar and for taking the time to produce this report.
Unfortunately, some companies are becoming too powerful.
Concurrency must be encouraged, it's always good.
It may not be but if Google's goal is to promote authoritative sources there's no reason to consider WSWS to be authoritative for those search terms, imo. I'm not saying I agree with their goal, just that this seems consistent with it, and I imagine that's what the reply was getting at.
That is... a really silly position to take.

(I work for Google but on nothing remotely related)
Composition over inheritance. A lot of developers use polymorphism as a crutch.
Not necessarily. Google may not comment on these things as a matter of policy; for example, let's say that Google is required by some law to censor a particular search result. If they are in the habit of announcing their censorship decisions, then their silence on that one site would be non-silence. They would have to lie about the site instead. So, from a company liability perspective, Google is cautious about revealing information.
It's almost like "truth" isn't an absolute thing, but an ongoing discussion... which has become fractured!
Good point. Mozilla made most of their money from Google, and other advertisers, iirc. "More free" might've been prudent.

You make a good observation about Safari too. Apple doesn't make much money from advertising--they still sell hardware. They can provide privacy to users at little expense to their core business.
I have a friend who works in a flow cytometry company. Flow cytometers are one of those things that really need to be run day in and day out by experts to be reliable instruments, so they do assays for hire, contract research as part of grants and studies, and use that to fund their own research. It works quite well.

One thing to check on, though, is the requirements for waste disposal from your lab in your area. You may find yourself having to pay for special disposal.
Gee, wouldn't it be great if we could just look up the open-source code for the most popular search engine on the "open" Internet?

Given the amount of power and money they now have, effectively having "won the game," it seems ethical to me to open-source their entire search algorithm.
It is in no way an absurd question.

Google is not selecting their employees at random. Google is not promoting people at random. Google is not placing employees in a neutral environment relative to the rest of the population. Google is not providing neutral support to employees relative to the general population.

There is no reason to expect that their subset of the population should conform to a general population skew.

In short, plausibility =/= probably.

You repeat yourself a lot for someone who keeps bringing up dogma in this conversation like it means something in context. Can you point to my dogmatic position?

The guy was fired because he let everyone know that he is more than happy to point to descriptions of the general population and sinister world spanning conspiracy theories in order to maintain a dismissive and belittling attitude within the work environment toward women that happens to support a status quo that directly benefits himself rather than support the stated goals of the company.
Whoah whoah whoah, how is marketing different than propoganda?