skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla is targeting technophobes now?

This whole privacy meme is getting out of hand. I struggle to relate with this community nowadays...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15048024
Downvoted for literally, openly advocating murder. That is not okay.
Im sure ad companies claim much the same thing, tracking is just telemetry for statistical anonymized bulk purposes, that is really just benefiting the user!

The point is you cant have it both ways, both decrying tracking of users and then actively enaging in it, and agressively defending it when it comes to light.
I honestly have no idea why there's so much fandom towards Make in this thread, but for me there are a few absolutely devastating problems with Makefiles:

a) Mtimes-as-change-detection is fundamentally broken given the reality of networked file systems and... physics. (Minor problem, but extremely annoying to work around in practice.)

b) Nobody can actually really understand all the interdependencies between all the code in their system(s!), and yet Makefiles expect you to specify all of that explicitly?!? Yes, you could technically specify that -- and you'll
want to -- but you won't, because you don't know and don't have the time.

c) Make support for builds that change the structure of the build during the build is abysmal. E.g. after "processing foo.xml we now have more files than we had before! What are you going to do?". Well, in Make it's some sort of custom solution with ".d" files and "gcc -M" or whatever. This is utterly broken in that it pushes all the complexity onto the user. So, yes, an elegant model, but it doesn't actually solve the problem. If you want to see a better solution see the "Shake" paper.
How to Set Up Amiga in RetroX Nvidia Shield or Any Android Device
That street runs both ways. Your insistence on herd immunity and that they, thus, must get vaccinated also impacts their right to do with their body as they see fit.

I have a medical condition where most people get the flu vax annually. I stopped getting mine because all of the people actually helping me get healthier after doctors basically wrote me off for dead were strongly antivax in opinion. I am not, but I decided to go with skipping my flu vax because these people seemed to know what the hell they were talking about. I have gotten steadily stronger ever since.

I have had people on the internet give me hell for choosing to forego my flu vax on some theory that maybe I would be some danger to their child with respiratory problems, though there was no reason to believe they would ever actually run into me.

I sleep in a tent in the wilderness and I have minimal contact with people. I am not harming anyone and no one is catching my germs. (I also have not had the flu in many years.)

There are ways to handle germ control other than vaccines. I don't know how humanity will sort this question out. But as someone who needs a high degree of control over my body to have any hope of staying well, I think both sides are equally assholish here.
You may enjoy this Re: another world:

http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/
If you paid Bay Area wages and offered something more than at-will style job security you'd probably see more people wanting to get out.

For me I've yet to see a remote position that wasn't fraught with the same risk as any other company, or that pays anything like a reasonable salary.
sitting will kill you, standing will kill you . . . luckily I float in a vat of nutrient gel like a Guild Navigator
Is there a good share to clipboard app? I tried the only one I found once and it tried to open google drive when I tried to use it. I'm not giving Google all the things I copypaste. Now I share to some notepad app and then copy from there.
Downtown San Jose's re-development would be pretty big for Morgan Hill.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/14/real-estate-a-develope...

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Googles-Property-Buying...

Looks to be about 35 minutes to downtown San Jose via Caltrain. That's do-able. The younger employees could live downtown in San Jose and the employees with kids could live in Morgan Hill.

If YCombinator (and Zapier) were to move from Mountain View to Downtown San Jose that'd be a huge symbolic move for San Jose.
Same option on Android - I'm curious if this is related as well, or if there are separate Google analytics being sent.
Cognitive dissonance actually means that a small payment can be stronger than a large one. If you accept a large payment to listen to a pitch, it's easy to tell yourself it's just for the money. If it's not enough to believe that, then you must actually be interested in hearing about it.
> The only thing I don't love is the notification saying the browser is open, it triggers my "OCD" .

Why not just turn off notifications for Firefox Focus? At least on Samsung-skinned Marshmallow, that seems to do the trick.

(Grumble grumble, but it still reminds me that I'm running in power-saving mode, which is a vital notification that only applies whenever the phone's on. Thanks, Samsung!)
http://www.jointventurespt.com/images/blog-images/sit-to-wal...
One of the huge benefits of strongly typed language is the ease it introduces to managing large code bases. Now imagine google size monorepo and scala compilation speed
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>Who is the author of aufs or overlayfs? Should these projects work with no recognition while VC funded companies with marketing funds swoop down and extract market value without giving anything back. How has Docker contributed back to all the projects it is critically dependent on?

Here's an exert from a docker blog post from 2013[0]

>>Under the hood Docker makes heavy use of AUFS by Junjiro R. Okajima as a copy-on-write storage mechanism. AUFS is an amazing piece of software and at this point it’s safe to say that it has safely copied billions of containers over the last few years, a great many of them in critical production environments. Unfortunately, AUFS is not part of the standard linux kernel and it’s unclear when it will be merged. This has prevented docker from being available on all Linux systems. Docker 0.7 solves this problem by introducing a storage driver API, and shipping with several drivers. Currently 3 drivers are available: AUFS, VFS (which uses simple directories and copy) and DEVICEMAPPER, developed in collaboration with Alex Larsson and the talented team at Red Hat, which uses an advanced variation of LVM snapshots to implement copy-on-write. An experimental BTRFS driver is also being developed, with even more coming soon: ZFS, Gluster, Ceph, etc.

I think the real nature of your complaint is that you want the recognition to be in the form of cash.

[0] https://blog.docker.com/2013/11/docker-0-7-docker-now-runs-o...
Could the AST be made an extension of the language similar to how it works in Mathematica?
I wonder if they could tell if someone were to slowly but continuously feed crap data to their "statistics collection" servers. Especially if it were a distributed effort, spread across many machines and ISPs.
it does here:

http://www.javarepl.com/term.html

But you're right, in regular java environment it doesn't now that I've checked.
As an alternative, you can install the regular Firefox (for android at least) and install the uBlock extension. If you don't like the telemetry, like myselves, you just

type about:config in the address bar, and
search telemetry (just by typing) -> disable

done
plex server is good, it's easy to set up and use,and the dlna it provides can be used by the native client in lg tvs.

Unfortunately this move is pointing towards a slippery slope, so: any usable, similar alternatives out there for linux?
There indeed is such a reason, but it's unethical. It is basically being afraid that the mob will turn against you and thus hurt your business. Somehow nobody blames the mob.

Doing business is a way of living in the modern society. Stopping doing business (including firing an employee over non-business reasons, a very popular measure in liberal circles) threatens your well-being and even life. If everyone stops doing business with a person, the person is very likely to die. This is very close to lynching and is a total opposite of justice.
I don't know their numbers, but it has been reported that their 2016 revenue was north of $10m, and that their 2017 revenue is more than 2x that. This is just a guess, but I'd guess that they are seeing >300% year-over-year revenue growth, and that they're projected to see >$50m in 2017. I would guess 20x current revenue, so a $1.3b valuation would mean roughly $10m per month in July 2017 (starting from $2-3m in Jan 2017). If this is accurate, I'd be glad to invest in Docker at a $1.3b valuation.
This is funny, but it's also a good example of a particular kind of scientific inquiry: figuring out ways to maximize your life span. Not only is this research often inaccurate (as Science is always a work-in-progress), it tends to promote this idea that maximizing your lifespan should be your highest priority. Some people just want to live faster than others. Everyone should be welcome to their own priorities as long as the negative externalities are tolerable.

Of course, deciding what counts as "tolerable" is a subjective, social process, and rational people can (and do) disagree.

I guess I'm just trying to say life is short, so don't worry too much about how to position yourself at your desk.
Standing is far, far worse on my body, and it has been since I was in my 30's. Knees. Back. Feet. They all scream from standing still. Sitting? No problems if I observe good posture.
ASCII never really supported the idea of a combining character, so it's not surprising that the original intent was subverted.
And if you are simultaneously looking to maximize hipness:

https://www.mytrove.com/ca/oakland/cheddar/software-applicat...
Street of Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

https://youtu.be/YLnG3UtgjVA
> wow those people are lucky and high on consumerism, my phone had 2GB.

How? Lollipop, the first Google hit for "Android OS size on phone" (https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/118896/how-much-...), seems to be about 5 GB. (Maybe you don't run Android, or maybe a very old version?)
A phone is already a phone. It can be called for emergency.

Notifications can't all be disabled. You're at the mercy of any message from a dude who's at the office 2 hours before or after you.

Unlike a phone call, people don't realize that a slack messages is disruptive and require you to be online 24/7.
Snapchat is using a disingenuous metric here to count views which plays to their advantage; an advantage they wish to exploit as long as they can before their advertisers and content partners wisen up and start demanding a metric that better captures whether the content was consumed to the producer's satisfaction enough to count as an impression.

Right now, this is not as big of a concern because Snapchat's coveted demographic composition and its curated way of working with content partners and advertisers; this results in advertiser self-selection and attracts brand-oriented advertisers with big budgets and less of an acute interest in tracking ROI.

However, once those advertisers look harder at their ROI (like Procter & Gamble [1]) or Snapchat wishes to attract the sorts of SMB advertisers its competitor Facebook can readily attract onto FB and Instagram -- and even struggling Twitter can court -- Snapchat will face increasing pressure to change the way they count views. Facebook, for example, has had a 3-second cutoff before counting a video view for a while, even as they bungled the way they reported metrics [2]. Different platforms have differing definitions on what counts as a view or impression [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879204
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-exaggerating-view-co...
[3] http://marketingland.com/whats-a-video-view-on-facebook-only...
Right now the other half of the scrum team has been relocated to the football stadium till office renovations are done. When the team practices they play music loud to simulate crowd noises. So their open environment is worse than imaginable.
Bxblue wants to move payroll-secured loans online in Brazil
Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in Barcelona islamic terror
Donald Trump Lost a 6-Year Legal Battle to a Trumpet Player
> If you are in "Family Practice" and prescribe opioids 9167 times per year you probably have a very sore hand.

Though Bruce D. Mackey works at a Family practice, he specializes in Pediatric Occupational Therapy[0] (pediatrics broadly covering patients up to 21 years of age). It's fairly common for a Family Practice to have some specialty staff, and some such clinics have very large patient throughput. I used to be registered to one which specialized in sports medicine, others specialize in things like dietary/lifestyle intervention.

[0]: https://www.opendoctor.io/bruce-d-mackey-otr-1146468
I asked my 16 year old nephew 6 months ago how he accesses the news. His answer: Snapchat. I followed that with anywhere else? His response was nope.

There is a lot of potential for using snapchat for news related coverage. Say NBC creates a "become a NBC snap journalist package" available to anyone that requests it. Included is a pin, handheld mic with "NBCx" (or some other visual identifier), something like an AP style guidebook that is simplified, and a concise bit a rules on what is considered news. NBC can sift through these specific accounts, select and publish what's most relevant.

I might sign up for an account if Snap gave me a way to get hyper-local coverage from snap journalists.
Google Found a Way to Automatically Erase Watermarks on Stock Photos
The headline in this submission fails to deliver the primary message of the actual op, which is that Firefox focus is a lightweight mobile browser. That it blocks third-party tracking by default is secondary
pro tip, thanks
> Think how many times taking an ibuprofen/acetaminophen just made it possible for you to go on with your day...

I used to think like that. But since starting meditation practice, I've come to experience pain very differently from the way that I did before. And I've come to realize that only around 10% of pain is physical. The rest is mental...it's how your mind responds to the 10% physical pain. If I react with equanimity...distancing myself from the pain and just observing it rather than feeling it, it all but goes away.

I have more chronic pain than I've ever had and, yet, I haven't taken a single pain killer in the past 3 years. I want to believe that somehow my pain is less than everyone who's getting caught in the net of opioids and that they do really need pharmaceutical help to deal with their pain, but my experience leads me to believe otherwise...that much of their need for drug help comes from their mental state and the unproductive way they accept pain into their lives. I also can't help but wonder whether today's increasingly disconnected society leads people to seek connection with a substance rather than other people. Would we still have an opioid epidemic if people spent more time having in-person conversations and less time liking things on Facebook?
This is going to be very interesting.

The European Union General Data Privacy Regulation is going to come into force very soon, and it applies to anyone processing data of EU citizen.

Under that, this privacy policy from Plex would be a crime, as you need to provide an opt-out for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
A decision not to decide is still a choice.

A decision to attempt to remain neutral should be carefully considered.
I just looked up Unobstruct, and surprisingly the author's article about it is on Medium: https://medium.com/@tgaul/introducing-unobstruct-230e4e95cf5...
I'll stick with Mail.app thank you.
This is really great. Maybe it's been working for me recently and I didn't realise.
My country. Dominican Republic
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

https://youtu.be/2EcGwiWiuWo
I still have my 1000... in pieces :(. and I hacked up the front in an abortive case mod project from a long time ago now. Don't remember what happened to my Dad's. I had a 1200 for a while too.

Looking forward to the VampireV4 Standalone (Or a MiST, it makes a nice 1200).
I've been using it since months now. Focus started as ad blocker and now it has a private browser too since a few months.
Kodi - https://kodi.tv

Edit:

kodi is a bit more work to set up but after it is up and tuning it is fine, not as nice as flex by any stretch, but good enough
Why hasn't the EU charged Apple for abusing the monopoly position? Didn't they do that to Microsoft, or has Apple sweetened them up in some other way?
Tangential: for anyone reading the PDF,

pdfcrop --verbose --margins "20 30 20 30" --bbox "110 180 440 740" casi.pdf

trims the over-large margins without clipping any content.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/pdfcrop....
Superhuman is great.

I've been lucky enough to have been able to use it for a while now and I'm addicted. The team is super responsive to feedback and take the science of email to the next level.
If a record keeping system inherently obfuscates the records, how do you audit the records?
>Well, did GoDaddy and CloudFlare suppress the Daily Stormer?

Yes they surpassed it on their platform. Censorship doesn't mean "make inaccessible to everyone on any platform". If you censor something on your own platform its still called censorship. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech.

Indian govt censors kissing on movie screens but you can still go watch it on youtube. That doesn't mean what they are doing is not censorship, the govt entity that's responsible for it is actually called "censor board".
I'm one of the 10000 people seeing this for the first time today, thanks!
Anecdotally, all standing at work did was swapped some health risk factors for other ones. I was doing my back a favor, but I set myself on course for varicose veins and DVT.

Also, standing messed with focus. It helped when switching focus away from the screen (meetings, discussions etc). But keeping focus on the screen became harder.
Aren't you always making moral judgments on non-political videos too? Which videos are "adult", which videos are scams, which videos are inappropriate, etc...
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The article is correct in principle, but if targeting individuals and mitigate the risks, can be super valuable.
Need to have a good strategy in place and funnel. The upside is that graduate is the only level where you can compete with big companies as a startup. If grad likes your idea enough, he will take a shot.
No, you answered my question. I accepted that any/most/all authentication breaks down in some way of you can't trust tls certs or the browser/user agent.
The same benefit of deploying a statically linked binary in a VM without the overhead of the VM.
Apparently you haven't seen Trump.
Riemann hypothesis
I completely disagree. I especially disagree that it's anywhere close to lynching, which is a terrible, terrible analogy for you to choose given that the subject at hand is Nazis and White Supremacists.

I disagree that choosing not to do business with the Daily Stormer is unethical. It's no worse than any other reason to not choose to do business with someone, of which GoDaddy does chose not to do business with several other entities.

I disagree that GoDaddy not doing business with the Daily Stormer threatened anyone's well being or life. If anything, not amplifying their signal has likely saved lives, because hopefully fewer people will know that the site exists, and will then become radicalized because of it.
tcpser[0] is popular

[0]: https://github.com/FozzTexx/tcpser
I second Kodi! Emby is a more cloudy Plex alternative which I've considered, but not used.
This is the most insightful description of patents I've ever seen. Thank you.
I want an office with several computers in different corners - or possibly several small rooms, each with a computer. I'll use each computer for one particular type of task, and move around as I switch to different tasks. Besides the physical activity, I'd be able to context switch better, and keep myself on topic better - e.g., to take a HN break, I have to get up and walk over to the recreation computer.

I think VR will give me this - I'll wear one portable headset, and walk around to multiple virtual workspaces.
Google has recently been moving GCM over to FCM, since the Firebase acquisition, and FCM has a hard dependency on the analytics library for some reason (even if you're not availing of the service - perhaps as a veiled upsell attempt).

It seems very likely that Firefox would be making use of GCM/FCM - I think most major apps do - so this could be it.

Incidentally, this same topics is one of the main controversies around the development of the Signal chat client - it uses GCM, which a good few prospective users object to on similar grounds.

Unfortunately, unless you've rooted your phone, GCM/FCM is the only battery-efficient way to provide push to Android phones.
That's unfortunate, Snapchat "news" as I've seen it has been far lower quality than even cable news.
"It is a violation of the Plex license to use this software in Europe or any other jurisdiction subject to the European Union or any of its laws or regulations. We disclaim all responsibility, and will not be held liable, for any violation of the laws resulting from or associated with the use of our product."

Would that work? Because dollars to doughnuts someone's going to try it or something like it.
Herd immunity is disease specific and there is no vaccine induced herd immunity for influenza [1]. In your particular case unless you are working with seriously ill (or old people) you are only endangering yourself by not getting vaccinated. For other diseases like pertussis herd immunity is critical to their success.

1. We actually do have an influenza vaccine that would provide herd immunity protection, but our regulatory system is so stuffed that it will never reach the market - this is another rant though.
https://emby.media/ is an open source alternative.
What does it mean to be "addicted" to email? Emails are very important, but in an ideal world I'd spend as minimal time as possible handling emails.
Just an FYI, by default it phones home to Mozilla.
Every evolving programming language should have something like this!
I've been forgoing the flu vax because of some sort of reaction to it a couple years running - I had never been so extremely sick with flu symptoms (or actual flu, I don't know for sure) then after taking annual flu shots. Now, I skip the flu vax and keep up on all other vaccines - so neither side is happy with me.

When I looked into it, the thing that bothers me about the flu vaccines vs most other vaccine formulations is that the flu vaccine is basically constructed every year as new from a mixture of flu strains. While they do have safety monitoring systems, and the way of replicating them is the same, the core portion is new. The safety monitoring is basically keep track of reports of side effects and try to detect if too many hit a warning threshhold. So between that, and my past experiences, I pass too.

For the other vaccines, I think I agree with especially school requirements for a standard set of vaccinations. I think that in CA they should go a bit further and limit ratios of students accepted with waivers at individual schools if it brings the numbers below that of needed for herd immunity benefits.

Edit: For the flu shots, it seems from my layman's reading of the literature that their efficacy is low and highly variant compared to other vaccines, enough that there is no consistent herd immunity to be gained from current flu formulations.
Secret chips in replacement parts can completely hijack your phone’s security
Is this like "MTV News" ?
It's probably not good for your circulatory system to be mostly motionless for long periods of time, sitting or standing.