skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet's plantation owners (google fb et, al.) pushing this is scary but NOT surprising.

- Look back. All the shenanigans google did with ripping private hard drive data off open unsecured WiFi back in 2010+/-.
- What about all the dirty tricks FB pulled on privacy policies.
- The defining blog post Suckerberg posted about his Utopic view rooted in victorian europe social structure before fb was big.
- Eric Schmuck's IO conferences and keynotes 6-10 years ago where he lays out a vision and his motives, "They Are Evil".

If the masses knew what these controllers believed and their objectives they would delete their google and fb accounts.

This is not surprising, it simply reveals the true arrogance of the plantation owners. They truly believe they are more powerful that the US Gov.

The whole argument of these "Services" that control the life flow of society's communication being private companies is null. If they keep popping their head up the feds are going to chop it off.

It terms of ANTIFA, I can point to a ton of ANTIFA crimes. all the trump rally assaults and destructiveness.
The Berkley riots, Oakland riots, this last weekend where antifa went to the right wing rally to agitate and fight.

The media is yet to actually report the truth about this last weekend's events in Charlotte. Watch it on youtube, see the different videos of what went down.

The "News" is lying by omission".
Why does the media not report the truth? Who is influencing the media bias? why?
LOL I'm being down voted for stating that FB offers to freeze eggs. Yes it's a SAD thing
Simple API for UK Postal Unit level boundaries for your mobile apps/systems
I can't resist commenting since I cannot forget this ride! I have been on the same train line (don't think it was called vivek express back then) about 20 years (I was 15) back from Coimbatore to Guwahati. Back then, the train rides were like UDP packets - best effort service :)

From what I remember:

* Train was supposed to arrive in cbe at 5pm but only arrived at 2am in the morning. There was a thriving economy in the train station all the time as people needed dinner/snacks.

* The hardest parts of the rides are through Andhra pradesh (around vijayawada) which is dry and extremely hot, not for the faint of heart.

* The temperatures feel way more than 45C inside those metal compartments. There is no facility to take a shower, so the heat and smell is quite an experience :)

* Entering Bengal is one of the best sights ever. Suddenly, everything is green and looking at the infinite green fields almost gives you a new lease of life (especially after andhra!)

* After howrah, the train switches to next level of "best effort". In many places in east india, there is only a single train track and the delays cascade. The train would just stop overnight in the middle of nowhere waiting for opposite trains to pass.

* The brahmaputra (at guwahati) almost looks like the sea/ocean. You cannot see banks on the other side, it's ultra wide. It's really not a normal river. It also flow extremely fast.

* In east india, the states keep changing every station.

* I loved sitting by the window but I got a middle seat. The first part of the trip was painful. But at bhubhaneshwar or so, an army jawan (who got the RAC window seats), gave his seat to me. I remember being so happy!

* To add to the 3 day trip, our train arrived an additional 15 hours late. When we arrived in assam, the hotel cancelled our room since we didn't appear. I do wonder how my dad managed to book a hotel in assam at all with no internet or mobile. what happened due to lack of a hotel is another story :)
Big difference between what snapchat counts as a "view" - just opening a single video - and actually viewing the program, as in watching it for more than second.

Would be interesting to see what 29MM viewers converts into number of minutes of actually viewed content.

But hey, as a vanity metric, 29MM is impressive! =]
How MoviePass will defy AMC to get you into theaters
Hopefully they still will. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

The sweet spot for deterrence comes in the form of punishment that is swift and certain, not necessarily dire.
Anything Java can do Kotlin can do better
The irony behind Soros' involvement is he was a (proud) Nazi collaborator who confiscated Jewish property. Just sweatens the message's delivery, doesn't it?
Ask open-ended questions recursively. People often have a story or experience at the root of their beliefs. Uncovering that root (with your questions) also gives the anti-vaxxer an oppprtunity to ask new questions about why they believe what they believe. Generally, we need new questions to arrive at new answers.
What if you want to go camping, or go to a concert in a far away city (you can sleep on the train, but not charge your phone there), or crash in a friends house and you forgot to bring a charger (maybe they don't have a USB-C phone)?

2 days seems enough for most use cases, although I miss having phones with batteries that lasted for a week or more.
This is simply history.

The proprietary module (now long removed) is among the reasons the iceweasel project was born (not the debian one but the GNU one that has been renamed icecat when debian took over the iceweasel name).

It is a known fact that for years 90% or more of mozilla money came from google in exchange for making its search engine the default including tracking through an additional parameter in the URL.

There is waterfox a project to build a firefox version free of the mozilla tracking and crap:
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Removed startup profiling
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
Addition of Duplicate Tab option
Locale selector in about:preferences > General

For the android version, the f-droid page does not exist anymore since firefox has been removed from f-droid, but there the wiki archive I linked earlier:
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.firefox

There used to be a collection of privacy patches to remove all the tracking, leaking and privacy issues but I can't find it through web search, it seems to have been replaced by https://github.com/williex/firefox-privacy

Mozilla insist it is health report, analytics and telemetry which is marketing words for tracking and spying.
There is syntax highlighting, but that's it so far.
Everyone else is getting a customized internet view. Using Google through a private browser ensures you see an internet seen by nobody else.
Every week for Shabbat (25 hours from Friday night).

Only notification I get is using my cell phone as an alarm clock that auto-dismisses after 5 seconds.

I go to Temple in the morning and evening. Read both religious and secular books. Nap and if the weather is nice a walk in the forest nearby.
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People have different pain tolerances and if you wait until it's at that point to get a prescription you'll have a real bad time. But 30 days is certainly more than necessary. They should do a few days and make it easy to get more for a couple weeks. Then require seeing the patient again for evaluation.
You may be entirely correct, but the way you have presented your position looks extremely unconvincing.

What I can see: You chime in on a discussion with a strongly critical viewpoint, then refuse to back it up saying you don't want to be part of certain kinds of arguments. Implying religious level flamewars, while the rest of us are keeping a level head and discussing these things based on technical merit. It looks like you are making excuses because it looks like you have no point. Even if that wasn't what you intended and you have strong points, that isn't what it looks like from the outside.

Please remember that not everyone has exactly your experience so if you have examples you should share them because they will make your points stronger even if someone attempts to rebut them. It also artificially weakens your point to try to back out with what from the outside look like excuses instead of substance. Again, I must say you might be entirely correct, I just can't see that from here.
> but he hadn't committed for 3 months

I get nervous when I haven't commited for 2-3 days. Since I don't want to commit broken code, I make a patch and send it somewhere for peace of mind. In addition to that I have an editor add-on that saves a copy every single time I save a file. One time it allowed me to recover the work of several days.

You don't need backups until you do. Some people learn the hard way.
Did they flop because they were thicker, or because they had any other failing?
Oh god please no
Astonishingly, nest.com does not work for me at all if I use the hyphen in my last name.
Monetizing open source directly is a bit challenging because you end up stuck in the same service model as everyone else. Which is basically to sell various support contracts to the fortune 100-500.

Forking a project into a enterprise (paid for) version and limiting those features in the original open source version, creates tension in the community, and usually isn't a model that leads to success.

Converting an open source project directly into a paid for software or SaaS model is definitely the best route as it reduces head count and allows you to be a software company instead of a service company.

Perhaps best captured by Github warpping git with an interface and community and then directly selling a SaaS subscription and eventually an enterprise hosted version that is still delivered on a subscription basis just behind the corporate firewall.

Also of note is that Github didn't create git itself, and instead was done on the direct need that developers saw themselves, which means they thought what is the product I want, rather than, we built and maintain git, so let's do that and eventually monetize it.
There are third-party services that will provide that information but only in exchange for the same information about your company (staff members, salaries, etc), and a modest fee of course.

It is very secretive though, for obvious reasons.
Except that, invariably, I'm not saving that person's time.

It's a real myth that the cloud magically saves me a sysadmin. I have found almost exactly the opposite. Using the cloud effectively takes more time and more expertise. Debugging the cloud effectively takes WAY more expertise. Combine this with the fact that someone has to be able to architect a system to fit within the constraints of being on the cloud, and you're down extra employees.

The difference is in: "Eh, it's been down for 3 days? Sigh. Just reboot it." vs. "Um, that request hung for 93 seconds. Why?"

In the first case, the cloud is fine.

In the second case, someone is going to have to traipse over an enormous amount of systems (which you don't own and can't always instrument) and variables (some of which you aren't even aware of existing) to hunt it down. If, however, you can say "Pull that off the cloud into our own systems and keep an eye on it." you have made your debugging life a lot easier.

Of course, once you have the ability to do that, your team realizes and starts asking: "Given how much time we spend debugging issues with the cloud that aren't actually our fault, why are we on the cloud again?"

I always smile when that realization kicks in. Now I generally have to stop the team from pulling everything off the cloud. However, that's a much easier task.
How can a market "speak" when there's no way of buying anything but the same practially 99% copied black slab for each company?

The basis of market competition (and the ability for market to "speak") is the concept of choice. In mobile phone market there is little choice and the device themselves are more than a single feature.
[ ] I am not a robot
I grew up in a Catholic family, that's what they teach you in catechism. They also teach you that the universe was created in literally seven days. But if you keep your chain of asking "how?" long enough before they yell at you, they'll also tell you that such statement is not to take "literally".
I don't have any timing data and I don't actually use the autosuggest thing (I wrote that for someone else who asked about it), but I can say that I have months of daily use in mine and there's no noticeable query delay or insertion delay so far.

Sqlite3 is to thank for that, it's a pretty amazing bit of engineering.
Probably the other way round: roff/troff/nroff is older than TeX. I guess that on old computer typesetters, ` and ' turned into nicely balanced quotes.
Is it just me, or does the article have a giant animated GIF of the word "simple"? Shouldn't it, y'know, have a picture of the browser or something useful?
I also mentioned the Moto Z Play (not the Z2 Play) which easily does 2-3 days of standby (I'm looking at my GFs phone right now and it's sitting on 73% after a full day).

You can add a moto mod with additional battery capacity further boosting that to probably something like 5-6 days.
> Possibly the most amazing thing was that Docker was so successful while doing less than LXC.

This is where I agree with Peter Thiel's very succinct (although somewhat philosophical) definition of the term technology in "Zero To One": it allows us to do more with less.

Sometimes, merely re-imagining a better way to use existing tech could unlock new kinds of productivity previously unimagined. One of the best examples of this is the iPhone.
I pick Apple's California campuses. Now, where are the people flinging themselves off company buildings there?

This apologism misses the fact that the Foxconn suicide statistics are about suicide attempts on company grounds reported to the company. Most suicide attempts aren't known to the company - if someone dies outside the company, it's not necessarily known to the company or counted as part of the aggregate statistics.

I've known two people attempt suicide, and neither of them let their workplace know. Similarly, a friend of a friend committed suicide by flinging himself from a hospital roof - do you really think his company would count his death as being due to their workplace? Of course not, what company would ever tie a suicide to themselves if they could avoid it, regardless of whether they contributed to it.

In short, your argument makes the false assumption that the people killing themselves at their workplace are the only suicides in that demographic.
I'm pretty sure everyone wants this, but it will likely require the development of a new battery chemistry that doesn't yet exist (or ubiquitous wireless charging). Lithium battery capacity is determined by the battery's volume. Most flagship phones have the largest possible battery that can be fit into a phablet form factor and do a good job optimizing draw when the phone is idle. There are ways to reduce battery degradation, but it's usually easier to just replace the battery after 2 years.
Just set Firefox Focus as the default, and if you want to keep the link open, use Menu -> Open with Firefox. That way you can vet links with privacy on by default.
While I think he should have learn his lesson before, also I think it should show the list of files it would delete.
Brilliant. I love indian railways and keep wishing for frequent open data set releases. Looking at your notebooks, my interest has rekindled again.

What are your thoughts on geocoding names of stations, to obtain GPS coordinates with better accuracy? It would largely be a one time effort imo.
Must be shock to the very "liberal" sentiments here, so I will provide it thru a liberal source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xPmKmfULrGI

I will repeat it for the umpteenth time: George Soros is funding Antifa, BLM, neo-Nazis, the refugee crisis in EU, and is a known Nazi collaborator who has been declared a threat by his country Hungary and Israel. He is not an idol.
"File managers like MacOS Finder and MS Windows Explorer don't know when 2 files are supposed to be "treated as one unit" vs separately"

They sort-of do, each in their own way. Mac OS has packages: directories with files that the Finder treats as a single item. I think this is mostly implemented outside of the file system; if you give a directory a file name with an extension that some application claims to be an extension for a package, the Finder treats it as a package.

On Windows, when you export a web page from Internet Explorer as "web page, complete", you get a file and an associated folder containing the images of the file. MS Explorer shows them as separate icons, but knows that the two form a unit; when you delete one, it informs you about the existence of the other. I don't know how this is implemented, but suspect it is 100% outside of the file system, too.

Also, classic Mac OS had resource forks: a single alternate stream for every file. Text editors used it, for example, to store the cursor position, line wrap settings, etc. across saves.
I agree it could be more clean, but the way it is designed allows for immediately understandable semantics when dealing with inherited types (which everyone though was the future during Java's Formative years).

This makes operations like this intuitive:

Animal results = new Dog("Lassie");
Off-topic: I'm sorry to go a little squishy, but I thought I should say that I appreciate the work both of you do very much... though sjrd's work is a little bit more "direct-impact-for-me" at the moment, I must admit. :p

Of course, as you just both said, your work is kind of complementary... which is always nice. :)

Anyway, thanks for the long-term thinking to the both of you.
No, the comparatively high 0-60 time is mainly because of the tiny engine - 148 bhp and 236 torques (in freedom units), versus 605 bhp and 687 torques for the top-spec Model S. Also the tires on this thing would just make a lot of noise and smoke if you tried putting 600+ torques through them.

But putting it into perspective with some other great cars on the racetrack: the 2017 Honda Civic Type R is widely regarded as a bucket full of fun on a track, and would likely beat a Model S around the Nürburgring Nordschliefe even if the Model S didn't overheat; yet it "only" does 0-60 in 5.4 seconds.

And in general, 0-60 isn't useful at all on an actual race track because if you're spending time doing less than 60 mph, you're Doing It Wrong. Keep in mind the aerodynamics (spoilers, splitters, diffusers etc.) that make racecars actually work, only become effective once you're doing at least 80 mph, preferrably a lot more.

Take a look at Richard Hammond on the Top Gear episode where he gets to drive an actual F1 car to see what I mean. Mostly he spends his time not being able to go around corners because he's driving too slowly.

https://youtu.be/kUhB0JKjJrQ
> My position is that automatic type checkers are nice to have but not essential, and it is possible to prototype software without one.

Sure, it's possible to prototype in the untyped lambda calculus too, or in Brainfuck. Why would you want to though?

> I am not arguing against their use, just what seemed to be your assertion that it is impossible to prototype/develop software without an automatic type checker.

I never said it was impossible, I merely implied that it was bizarre to even want to do so (among other things). Programming is hard enough as it is, why waste your time and mental energy checking properties that can be checked for you?

> I was talking about a programmer with a type theory, not implementing an automatic type checker from scratch.

A type theory in their head, in the intuitionistic sense, that they check as they're programming, not one that's actually checked by a tool is what I assumed.

And certainly you're working within limitations dictated by your language, but you can take typically it further than most think. See for instance, the paper lightweight static capabilities.
Once you've striped all those features from C++, what's left to differentiate it from C?

I've only used C++ in an academic setting.
I'd generally be happy with a full day of heavy use, but a phone that can last that long when it's brand new won't be able to do it 1-2 years later because of battery degradation after many charge cycles.
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It is not surveillance or spying ffs!!!! It is telemetry, which is anonymized data for the purpose of statistics and crash analysis.

remember, you can check the source code. You can build your own version. Telemetry helps people. Telemetry helps Mozilla deliver better firefox. STOP SPREADING FUD.
> For example, if you need to jump on the internet to look up Muddy Waters’ real name

Best idea ever. That's the most common use case people have and one that's drastically underserved by current browsers.

If people can't get their browser to quickly open a link to simple stuff, it means the web is failing. If the web is failing they'll quickly jump over to sending images over WhatsApp or fall into the trap of using the Facebook app for all their needs that could be otherwise served by the web.
> That's definitely true, but top companies manage to do it. And when they make a mistake, they rectify it.

I know many programmers from FB, Google, Amazon, Apple. There is no way they are 10 or even 2x. Some of them I worked with too, so I know their work. Others are just friends, we discuss technology all the time.

> Team sports still pay to attract top performers. The best players can be a force multiplier for everyone.

You are right team sports do pay a lot of money for top talent. Unfortunately, my experience with 10x programmers, as a teammate and as a manager, has always been negative.
Most of them barely produce more than average programmer on long run but demotivate entire team or department by their arrogance, talking down, complaining, rudeness.
This is how electrical motors operate: they accelerate very fast from a stop due to having high torque at low speeds, then as they catch on to speed they're operated at constant power until they reach nominal rpm. In order to achieve greater speeds, you need to operate them in the flux weakening region. E-bikes normally have engine cutoff at 25 kph so you're basically on your own legs over that threshold. No need to operate an e-bike drive with flux weakening.
Sure, but it's a lot different from being a CEO, shareholder, member of the board, or high-level corporate officer. "Founder" is something you can bestow retroactively, not so much with "CEO".

And I'm seeing all sorts of companies hand out titles like "Founding Engineer", "Founding Developer", etc. with the same chump-change 100k/0.1% option packages as before.
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Google/YouTube needs to admit defeat in this area and stop trying to censor, they are doing more harm than good.
My most frustrating commutes (in the US) are when I get unlucky enough to share a two-lane road with a peloton of bicycle commuters.

All the cars slow down and move over a lane to pass them, which slows down traffic enough that you get stopped at every traffic light. The bikes lane-split at full speed through the stopped cars and the red signal, which means you're playing hopscotch with them for miles and traveling at half the speed of a normal day.

If they bothered to obey the traffic laws, on the other hand, it wouldn't be a big deal -- you slow down, pass the slower vehicle, and move on.
Agreed. When a C level is profiting it is hard to change course. The onion nails it http://www.theonion.com/article/sweating-shaking-pharmaceuti...
It's not 'simple maths'. Those are 'on-campus suicides', not 'all suicides in the demographic'. Your own link also points out that suicides are mostly elderly rural people, which doesn't line up with the Foxconn worker demographic.