skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they're not. And these platforms (Google, Facebook, CloudFlare, Twitter, Youtube, Berkeley, Patreon, Namecheap, etc) are all daily indicating, to varying degrees, that they are willing to step in as a third-party between two consenting individuals "congregating" and "communicating" in order to censor them.

Such individuals, if they choose to say things that the platform doesn't like at an institutional level, then they don't have that right anymore because they get removed/de-listed,banned/de-platformed. Generally, I'm a free-market person, and I'd advocate that entities should have the right to deal with their own platform how they see fit. But in this case, they're collaborating with traditional media, learning institutions and social-agenda groups in order to create a giant echo chamber. We're watching that play out right now in that certain non-left and non-pc speech behavior is condemned and those that wish to express them are de-platformed.

We may not always agree with those points, or find them palatable, but up until now I think we've been navigating a middle-line where general public opinion ebbed and flowed between the two sides. It's tipped incredibly to one side on numerous issues, and I'm afraid that a specific set of viewpoints are now pervading our society. Once it gets to a point, it's only a matter of time before entire generations are raised believing only the accepted-viewpoint. It may be a bad example, but you see it happening already in public-schools where teachers are actively pushing social-agenda issues onto their kids. It happened with anti-Trump attitudes, with transgender-activism, gender-gaps, race-activism, etc. One side is accepted, and debate is silenced, and teachers are forced or encouraged to teach those things to impressionable young minds instead of encouraging free debate.

Further, if you ask most conservatives, they actively disagree with a lot of those things even if it's from the perspective of government-meddling. Conservatives are generally half the population, so something is definitely skewed and going wrong.
You missed the point: if I take an image backup of a disk and store it, even in encrypted format, and it contains John Doe's account, and he comes along and asks for his account deleted, I would have to purge not just my database record, but the backups images from the past as well. That invalidates ALL of my backups. It's not often practical to backup INDIVIDUAL users..
cool, does YC's general counsel teach us how to do this when our company gets into the growth phase?

role model
Did he say what he needed it for, or was it a vague aspiration?
I know (vaguely) that android has its own power management system, and I don't know how much it ties into what the kernel uses on a standard laptop.

But the changes to the normal kernel one as well as some of the changes in data structures are algorithms designed to be more efficient in the first place are probably still useful.
Which is short sighted on their part. As an AMP early adopter they get a boost. But, as the industry moves to AMP their SEO boost is lost. So, their boost is short lived, but Google's edge influence expands and persists over the long term.
As someone who utilizes machine learning but doesn't have a great understanding of neural networks, I've not had good experiences with TensorFlow. Myself and a friend attempted to use it for a project but found a lack of examples and the documentation to be very unclear. Even doing basic things for which tutorials did exist presented us with lots of warnings and errors. Debugging one of these, for example, led us to believe that certain functions were incomplete or abandoned, without clear messaging in the documentation that this was he case.

For those interested in diving into machine learning, I'd recommend not starting with neural networks. I think there's a belief amongst those unfamiliar that a neural net will be 10x better than anything else, but this is not always the case, and you can accomplish a lot with simple functionality found in scikit.

TLDR, glad to see more tutorials!
Indeed, gcc recently nuked its support for this due to lack of interest (by users or maintainers).
So $208M for 50 jobs. Wouldn't they be better off just giving those 50 lucky folks $4M each? Or giving 800 people $250K ? At least those 800 people would likely spend the money locally and stimulate the state economy.
DING DING DING

The problem is that a junior level of exposure may result in access+secrets being mistakenly given out.

Yeah - they should be looking into say, cloudability, or any number of thousands of offerings ding just this.
Thanks for the clarification! It makes a lot more sense to me now why _source would be part of namedtuple. I think the LWN article must have exaggerated how much of a penalty is being paid for it. Anyway, I appreciate your work on namedtuple -- I use it constantly.
Someone here seems to be unaware of the already existing "Project Gutenberg": https://www.gutenberg.org/
While this is a better outcome than quietly paying the troll like the previous victims, I can't really applaud Kaspersky for this. While it probably discourages future suits against Kaspersky, it does nothing to help the other businesses who will continue to fall victim. In contrast, Newegg is making the world better by helping to invalidate these nonsense patents: https://blog.newegg.com/newegg-helps-invalidate-phony-patent....

I think Kaspersky's approach here is "corporate stotting". "Stotting" is a fine word that describes the apparently maladaptive "show off" behavior of some animals, where they prance and dance around in front of predators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting.

In "signaling theory", this is presumed to be an "honest signal" that the stotting animal is so fast and fit that the predator should chase someone else instead. This is good for that particularly fit individual, but not so much for the others in the herd. As a not particularly fit or fast individual, I'm a bigger fan of Newegg's approach.
OK. I was able to read it with that information. So even the martyr you're holding up believes global warming is real, and man-made, and that it would make sense to limit greenhouse gases on this basis. And it seems he was not merely in trouble because he "didn't think climate change contributed to hurricanes" but because others objected to the way he did and presented his research. Not really compelling, to me.
How does one "tried to stealthily delete everything" in a code base for a site.

Explain how one goes about this technically?

For any web dev who's dealt with clients, this rings of a 'type' of common client who has no idea what you are doing but sees ghosts on every corner.

This piece is amazing advertising for the site. Great marketing.

But I'll call it as I see it. This is at least embellished to try and get VC capital / hits. I have no problem with fake it till you make it. But I'll still call it.

I was only commenting on the nonsense/not the full story of "because of a refused date a contractor goes evil" but I'd like to see these emails. Did the reporter? Did they fact check? They have not said they did, so I'd guess no. Did they follow up the contractor for comment? This is what real reporting is.

If the objection is about artists. Point stands. 99% of people are not great at many things. It's a common saying great at X but a bad salesperson.
I'm not sure. Back when javascript performance sucked, there was a great deal less of it and websites seemed to work fine. You know, back when the text content was in the HTML. Now with everything rendered client side, there's more opportunity for things to go wrong. I would estimate I waste more time now.
Houston floods show risks of ignoring science and letting developers run rampant
Ethernet? Couldn't use it in my Macbook Pro.
Harvey knocked out a significant portion of the nation's oil refining capacity
It's roughly 150 trillion cubic microfurlongs, if we want to get silly about it.
I think Google's lobbying overall is the result of being punished early on by regulatory capture of competitors. Look at the threats:

* Microsoft funded number backroom whisper campaigns in DC (http://www.businessinsider.com/what-an-anti-google-whisper-c...)
* Microsoft and Oracle funded their own Astroturf lobbying groups and think tanks, to tie up the company in lawsuits and investigations (e.g. FairSearch)
* Oracle funding numerous shills like Florian Mueller
* Carriers and Cable Companies lobbying to demolish net-neutrality
* Bills like SOPA.

Google used to spend very little on lobbying, and as a result Verizon, Microsoft, Oracle, Comcast, had the undivided attention of Congress.

Now to be fair, Microsoft was attacked by its competitors with similar campaigns in the 80s and 90s. It just goes to show you that corporate lobbying can play off people's populist tendencies and weaponize them against competitors.

So when you ask, "How could Google give to ALEC", a question Googlers themselves ask, or contribute to conservatives who deny client science, you have to consider that Congress has the industry by the balls. They can threaten regulation or punishment, and then hold fundraisers on pledges to block said regulation. It's a shakedown: "nice business you have there, shame if I'd have to regulate it. By the way, I'm having a fundraising dinner next week" Why would Silicon Valley serve on Trump's advisory councils when many of the members revile Trump on a personal level? Because there's a huge risk making the executive branch an enemy.
Show HN: Leviathan, a Fast Clojure IDE for MacOS
A little rant from someone blocked learning.

To me the irritating point is all the tutorials with MNIST, but I'm not able to find only one explaining how to prep a good dataset to use with it (the one in section 5 is ok, but I feel it is not really practical?).

Neither one about trying to classify something literary from scratch.

Please stop with MNIST sample and character recognition ones...
Why is it Global revenue? It seems presumptive for the EU to want a share of their global revenue rather than EU revenue
> Time and time again we are reminded why corporations will evolve to become as greedy and as protective of their turf expansive of their power and monopolistic as they can get, even if good people are running them.

Because if they didn't, they would be replaced by organizations (or people within the organization) who will. (I want to say that's Stanslaw Lem's law of bureaucracy?)
Indiana also has it figured out. We gave a ton of state money to a company to save face for a national political campaign so that they could automate the jobs away faster.
The comparison isn't fair
you as a user of RH, expend an effort to upgrade and the benefits are often not clear so you don't

RH as a vendor has to backport because their users demand a long supported and modern-ish kernel

Google spend time and effort to backport and this story is discussing the benefits vs putting that effort in upgrading.

Your analogy isn't fair, thou obviously android's customers here are the device makers and they are tilting the balance towards backport
I'll also miss my XMonad...
> The exact proposal of the authors is that findings with p-values of between .05 and .005 would now be referred to as “suggestive” evidence

> The paper presents research suggesting that it could reduce the number of false results in economics and psychology by half

> Benjamin admitted that choosing .005 was also a bit arbitrary

Not so much "suggestive" evidence then
> Experience: NO. It sucks up space on my mobile device, and I can't get rid of it.

What sucks up space that you can't get rid of? It's just a web page, same as any other page.
It may be doable for big companies but does this mean startups will be more likely to delay entry to the EU market?
Until this calculator is listed on the ACT website, I wouldn't risk using it. You will be turned away if you show up with an unapproved calculator.
What if they said 'sorry but -- starting next month, we will have to charge you for accessing parts of facebook. We will have to do this until the EU changes the law.

I bet customers would rally against the law rather than pay microtransactions.
Indeed, as it is licensed as such, it's no better than shareware.
Cue the 'aliens' click bait stories in about 24 hours.

Less sarcastically...has anyone created some sort of internet archaeology tools that allows quick traceback of information linked from page to page to show how science becomes news then bad news then click bait?
Molecular and Cellular Biologist engineer by career!
IT guy fond of electronics engineering by passion!
Looking also for a new job by the way!
I have a feeling that personal displays (as with cellphones now) will continue to exist until man stops existing. I imagine the opposite trend will occur, where each person owns fewer and fewer display devices. I can't imagine a justification now, or in the future, for buying some single use display. Once we get to a nice head mounted AR system, it would be very silly to have anything more.
If only there was a device that could capture several images in succession to create a moving image.

Boy that would be something.
> We were highly skeptical of this deal when it was announced Aug. 24. In the fullness of time, we’ve subjected it to closer scrutiny. And now it looks even worse.

Oh great, so you carefully gathered data and put it into some sort of spreadsheet or something? Where's the spreadsheet? Where's the decision tree that shows this is a bad deal for Iowa? Oh, you don't have any of that actual diligence? You started with a conclusion and then wrote a bunch of B.S. with cherry picking and misleading statements throughout? This is why I flagged it.
Author here. This project was born out of a frustration with the difficulties of adding certain features to Emacs as extensions. It's dormant right now, but it works, and if there's interest, it could see a revival of activity.
All I remember clearly still is the baffled frustration, like you feel when a C compiler optimizes out undefined behavior you didn't know about. I was using namedtuple in generally this kind of way: https://github.com/darius/tinyhiss/blob/master/terp.py#L90 (this was a trampolined interpreter for a dialect of Smalltalk).

One thing that could happen is, when you might expect to see a type error if you take one of these objects x and mistakenly write x[0], it'd just continue on with some field value. Or if you mistakenly try to iterate over x, you can. Or maybe you were generically walking a tree of objects and didn't intend for an instance of one of these classes to have children. The bafflement I ran into was weirder than these; maybe it had to do with the fact that inheritance was mixed in here too? And I think I'd defined `__getitem__` in some of these classes one of those times.

Sorry I can't remember more. To write https://github.com/darius/tailbiter I had to know quite a bit about Python, but it's a big language! It was a mistake to assume I could use namedtuple as just a convenient way to define a struct type without grokking all its details.
This hits home as a Wisconsin resident. Best case scenario, we're looking at 2042 to turn a profit[1].

[1] http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lfb/bill_summaries/2017...
Shareholders filing lawsuits because the company refused to follow the EU law
I expect if google had that strength in position, they would.
Perhaps that would lead to more fragmentation and less vendors releasing the latest android, leading to a highly dominant maker squashing the others and then having a stronger position in negotiating with google.
I think it'd be more convenient to deploy onto Heroku (Free) or AWS (free tier) and reposted. It's a lot easier to load a web page than it is to clone and build from source. Link it up on the GH Readme prominently, too.
Another one (at least for the 'monitor' portion) is Net Monitor (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlynetmo...) which is available in F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/).
howto vid link?
I worry that well meaning "scare propaganda" makes some people think near-extinction of humanity is a real possible consequence of global warming.

For one thing, I wonder if any extra suicides are caused by this?
>It may be weird that no one is arguing that (maybe it's just no one you're listening to, or being allowed to listen to, though?), but it's not weird that it's not libertarians. The notion that some people shouldn't be allowed to form voluntary associations with others because they got "too large" is anti-libertarian.

Libertarianism as a moral structure is a belief in economic freedom for it's own ends. Like you said that really describes ancaps better. 99% of the time that's not what people mean when they talk about libertarianism, they mean libertarianism as an economic structure. That's still essentially a belief structure, but it's the very specific belief that economic freedom is the best way to create economic efficiency. The anti-authoritarianism comes from the fact that the government has special privileges (derived from enforced unionization of citizens) and is overwhelmingly powerful (derived from police power + spending comprising 21% of GDP). ANY large corporation will have that power- including Walmart (if its revenue was 10x higher), Apple (20x) and google (50x). Even a small corporation can, in a company town. Any libertarian should be against those things just on the principle that the rights available to any corporation should be equal. Having more money shouldn't "unlock" rights any more than having very little (welfare, progressive taxation, etc).

I think the primary reason this is ignored is just ignorance of the methods and power wielded. Anarcho-capitalism is significantly less popular than libertarianism exactly because the moral beliefs are significantly less palatable. Very few people think that the poor should starve- I believe that most libertarians do honestly think that in an ideal world, livable work would be available for anybody with anything to contribute.

>However, because we must stand on principles instead of feels, the relevant principle here is that we have no right to interfere with others' affairs simply because they've chosen to pool their resources into free association, massive or otherwise (assuming they are not interfering with others' liberties, and I don't think there's a genuine argument now that they are).

That's... not admissible in any libertarian philosophy I'm aware of. That definition admits governments in their entirety, or close to.

>All hope is not lost, however: there is reason to believe that these monopolies derive much of their monopolistic power through the state (e.g., via regulatory capture) and thus by reducing the power of the state we will actually achieve the desired benefit (breaking up monopolies) without infringing on anyone's liberties.

That statement is in opposition to history (monopolies were larger when there was less government involvement), economic theory (noncompetitive practices are econ 101 and happen without any government), evidence (increasing amounts of money pretty clearly give a disproportionate amount of power) and common sense.
"the application of the GDPR will prevent them from using these personal data for any further purpose unless the user permits."

This seems incredibly broad from the article and would touch nearly every startup. Maybe there are limits on the businesses affected? Otherwise I'm not sure how one could formally define "rely heavily on lack of privacy for monetisation."
I would say it depends. Roles are so generalized now it is hard to determine what you did ten years ago versus what you do now. If you are at a forward moving company then it is likely you have been exposed to the current technology. However, there is a substantial number of companies that are still running legacy systems because it works. They have no desire to upgrade or change how they do business. If you talk to any contractor or someone currently seeking a job they will tell you that the landscape of technology is a constant. You cannot stay marketable in this space by standing in place with the skills you had ten years ago and stating this is enough. The aside you mention with the 'cloud adoption' is not an aside at all. The adoption of the cloud is not, just the cloud it is all the services and components for how things are done. If you are still walking around in an elevated server room managing servers by manually you need to come outside and see what the rest of technology world is doing. It's never to late to learn so don't limit yourself. Technology is like a bus, the next change will be arriving in 15 minutes.
Some pieces of art are so bad they're good and the same is true of software: http://ioccc.org/
They aren’t handing Apple $208m. They are giving them tax breaks. If Apple didn’t build a data center in Iowa they would also collect $0 in taxes from them. The cost/benefit calculation is no where as simple as this article or comments make it out to be.

It could still be a bad deal, but there is not really an honest attempt to figure that out here.
Browser back button works fine in chrome on a Android with amp pages fwiw. Does safari mobile not support the session history management APIs? caniuse says it does, but it sounds like it doesn't work from what you're saying.
I'm a programmer. Every time I go home to Iowa, people try to tell me that Iowa is now a booming tech hub, with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple "offices", and that I should get a job there. I try to explain why I probably won't end up there, but the point is that they are extremely proud of all of these data centers.
I guess if one was interested in monitoring traffic of example their mobile phone, one could fix the phone to connect at 2.4GHz only. This would allow a capture to be made using this device.

Regardless 5GHz would have been handy to include.
Compound growth: Why every win, big or small, counts in the long run
why are you talking about vscode ?

Last time I used visual studio it was great, levels of magnitude better than notepad++, but not quite as good as intellij.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002040
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15008276
It's stuff like this that severely damages the little credibility the govt has with respect to using taxpayer money. So few politicians are incentivized to save money, those who are cut costs in 'unneeded areas' like education and healthcare, and others go out of their way to burn money like in this article.

Edit: That said, and reading other comments here, I am curious just how bad of a deal this really comes out to overall. Perhaps the article is really just cherry picking arguments but it does paint a very grim picture.
Cool idea and an implementation too! Might be the direction Apple could be headed, the touch bar could go away and merge with the trackpad. A track screen which can handle both taps, clicks and have a visual display.
I've been running aquaponics on a hobby farm scale for more than a few years now, but thanks.
Vulnerability in MoviePass Exposes Customer Data
> Citation needed.

Probably traces back to this which is just hospital costs but I think maybe even worse for smaller practices:

A 1999 report found that after exclusions, administration accounted for 31.0% of healthcare expenditures in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...

The study:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa022033

> Just looking up health insurance profits

It wouldn't show up in profits as sibling mentions.

I've seen slightly lower but more recent numbers for hospital admin in the US. Not all of this is 'medical billing' but the majority is (look at the Canadian numbers) and you also have to account for the portion that shows up in the insurer's admin as well (~12% US vs ~3% Canada). There are also substantial admin costs soaked by employers and the subscribers in the US as well although technically not 'medical billing' either.