skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that a lot of Apple users seem buy a new phone/tablet whenever it's available, I think children end up with the older models.
2,112 users 30 minutes on your site
Devils advocate here.

Isn't just visiting the site giving consent to allow the sandbox (browser) to be utilized as the site directs?

This is an extreme case, granted, but it's still within the bounds of the sandbox.

Perhaps we'll have a new browser setting soon to throttle this type of thing instead of having to go whole hog and turn of JavaScript.
It's not rudeness really, just irritating and only some people do it, I'd say most people will say something to get my attention. Do you do this too? If I'm clearly not talking to someone else why stand there silently if I haven't noticed you? Seems the same as calling someone on the phone but not saying anything.
> Android -> iOS

this one surprised me to say the least. It's like jumping from the dragon's mouth into the lion's pit. Both are not good options for privacy, you have no knowledge of what Apple collects and what it does with your data either and it basically requires you to have an iTunes account. At least on Android you can install other app stores like Freedroid which are not linked to any major vendor.
I every time I heard about EvE the image of it being "a mass of bickering old couples locked inside a large room with alliances forming and dissolving constantly" strengthens.
Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction? What computers teach us about getting along
The error we're doing is trying for things to be perfect: sending our best people on our best ships to a possible death.

We should do it like old times: get team B, C, D and E and send multiple ships. Even with 75% failure we get one success. And the best are still alive on earth to advise those in space.

Same problem with health in space: we send people in peak Earth physical condition. Perfectly adapted to 1G with no radiation. Why don't we try sending people with what are considered physical defect on earth there and see if they're better adapted to space?
Yeah, FaceID seems like an improvement in this aspect - unless OP is locking his fingerprints in a safe before going to bed.
that's a good quote. Not sure if it means much, but it sounds good and intelligent :)
It seems to be /very/ slow to load, google and ddg both seem to load in < 1s where startpage averages around 3-5 seconds, I wonder if it provides any advantages over say using a grease monkey userscript to strip the tracking?
I had the distinct honor of being banned by him (at least once IIRC if not twice) in SomethingAwful's D&D when he was a mod because he didn't like me running my mouth about how useless Hamid Karzai was.
I don't like the Touch Bar support in the way they made in.
How to disable:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46218557/how-to-disable-...
Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015)
Dabble was pretty neat, and it was written in Smalltalk, too. I think each user got their own Smalltalk image, and their data was saved directly to the image.

I can't remember if I learned that in a video or a post somewhere by Avi Bryant, though. I was really interested in Smalltalk in 2009/2010 and I remember seeing Dabble DB coming up a lot.
"No bloat at all"

Is this really, honestly a problem anymore?

I'm running Linux Mint 18.2 on my 2011-vintage refurbed T420 (4GB RAM, 320GB old-fashioned hard drive) and it feels every bit as speedy as Arch on the same machine.
The Web API only gives you (when using intraday HR) the option of per-second or per-minute buckets. Since the Charge HR I was using only does 5s samples in normal mode (1s in workout mode), there was no point using the per-second buckets since 80% of it was useless data.
Disappointed this list doesn't include Matrix/Riot as an alternative to Hangouts/Allo. Also there are many Google Drive alternatives including Syncthing (p2p), Dropbox, Nextcloud/Owncloud (selfhosted), Sugarsync, SpiderOak, etc.
From a casual net commands user POV, I like that 'ip' plus a sub-command has taken over a good part of this. It's nice to look in one man page, and discover other things ip does, without having to be aware (or ignorant!) of other commands.
I am neither, but I have family who is a JW. Their viewpoint on anything remotely close to 'prepping' is that it shows a complete 'lack of faith' in the assumption that god will provide & protect. Now, this person doesn't live in earthquake/tornado/disaster prone area, so I'm not sure if this is a universal belief for all JWs. I can't imagine they would reject the most basic safety precautions such as 3-day kits or something of that nature...
There are many reasons why not, but I could use some help! :-)

You're welcome to fork the repo and/or join the discussion.
But what do you mean by "leaving a market" ? MNCs have been doing restructring for decades for reasons ranging from regulations to taxes.

If Google do leave EU, all it will do is legal maneuvering. Nothing will change for EU consumers. They can still do Google searches and buy ads. Profit will stay the same.
> Which part do you find to be unclear?

Fourth Amendment:
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The word "unreasonable" in "unreasonable searches and seizures" introduces a full hectare of gray area.
> It's rare for the down-turn of an area to have one extraordinary cause.

no it's not. he's talking about a single store. in my town it's the homeless shelter and halfway house that causes a 5 block radius around it to be a terrible place to live.

we're not talking about building more housing, or zoning for high density commercial/residential mixes, or building public transit, or eliminating cars from downtown cores, or building more bus routes, or bikeshares, or uber, or any number of things that people actually want. we're talking about methadone clinics and halfway houses next to where affluent people live.

if you pretend like it's hard to understand why people don't want those things in their residential/shopping neighborhoods, you're just going to alienate everyone you communicate with. you can't just invoke the magic 'nimby' and get people to change their minds. __they don't want these things next to where they live__.
> but still it's not the physical unique you.

Well, the article does say that the victim in this case wanted the perpetrator's name and address and voiced a threat in his direction - things like this can seriously escalate. There have been people killed over events happening in or around video games.
> I hate the "it just works" marketing bs. Sounds exactly like Apple. It didn't work when I tried to update after being away for 3 months

It does indeed 'just work', it only doesn't if you fail to understand what rolling release means. There is usually a painless way to upgrade even after a long time, you just have to use pacdiff and read archlinux.org a bit more carefully than if you update daily/weekly.

Also, how does Apple not 'just work'?*

* 'just works' refers to a general idea of it being in good working condition and not behaving unexpectedly, if you use it in a reasonable manner, it doesn't mean that every cranky misconfiguration of a tool you just came up with will somehow read you mind and deduce how you intend it to behave.
And Ctrl-V does not work in GVim on Windows, but Ctrl-Q does instead. E.g. if you have a text file with mixed Unix and DOS/Windows line endings, like Ctrl-J (line feed == LF == ASCII 10) and Ctrl-M (carriage return == CR == ASCII 13) + Ctrl-J, you can search for the Ctrl-Ms with /Ctrl-Q[Enter] and for tabs with /Ctrl-Q[Tab]. When you type the Ctrl-Q, it does not show as Ctrl-Q, but as a caret (^). And you can also use the same quoted Ctrl-M (Enter) pattern in a search and replace operation to remove them globally, by replacing them with a null pattern:

:%s/Ctrl-Q[Enter]//g[RealEnter]

or replace each tab with 4 spaces:

:%s/Ctrl-Q[Tab]/[4 spaces]/g[RealEnter]

where [RealEnter] means an unquoted Enter.

This is mainly useful for making such changes in a single file (being edited) at a time. For batch operations of this kind, there are many other ways to do it, such as dostounix (and unixtodos), which come built-in in many Unixen, or tr, maybe sed and awk (need to check), a simple custom command-line utility like dostounix, which can easily be written in C, Perl, Python, Ruby or any other language that supports the command-line interface (command-line arguments, reading from standard input or filenames given as command line arguments, pipes, etc.).
Many ALPS touchpads (very common) should work well in CentOS 7 these days. Back when I worked at Red Hat, making that happen was a side project that had good results.

Main due to my using a Dell laptop with an ALPS touchpad at the time, and getting fed up with the crappy support it originally presented. ;)
Well, the article in question is "life without Google". iOS is not Google's. Therefore, it satisfies the point of this article.

While I do agree that Apple is no better at preserving privacy, it doesn't fit the scope of this article.
You can install it once and turn it into a snapshot. I don't see why you'd need an external tool for that.
Looks interesting, but no pricing..."call for demo". Ugh, hate that.
Yeah sadly even though you can install a rom like Lineageos, many apps require the google play services installed, which then requires the Gapps to be flashed. Which kinda defeats the purpose... :'(
Yeah, providing iOS as the "privacy alternative" to Android seems quite ridiculous.
Nice - planes are great if you have the space - just remember how much time I spent repairing them ;)

Love my quads now - even a hubsan x4 is a great starter - can fly inside and outside - though not big enough to carry weight - anyway, sure you'll get him something cool - lucky kid ;)
I will second this, I faced these exact same issues, for the same reasons.

If you don't subscribe to the Arch news feed, you're taking a chance on every upgrade, that your system will not boot correctly.
Really? First time I hear of it being subpar. Fwiw, I've never had an issue with yaourt that wasn't pebkac
I like DDG, but I find in general that there are two main problems:

1. It's still much slower than google.
2. The results are still sometimes lacking.

I could probably live with the slowness if the results were more consistently high quality. For example, just the other day I was searching for some specific error message in DDG and it returned 1 (irrelevant) result. Google returned hundreds of good results. In that case it seemed to me that google had indexed a lot of IRC archives and mailing list archives that DDG had not.
> Ghost (paid)

This is inaccurate as this is not the only option. You can still download the source and run an instance on your own server.

https://docs.ghost.org/docs/hosting
Apple’s FileMaker Pro?
This is much better than I thought it would be. I wonder how many commentors actually tried the demos.

Two of the three ways I could see on the page to use it involve delaying the user slightly (while doing a proof of work) after a checkbox or link is clicked. Not constantly running in the background. The one that does constantly run requires clicking a play button, which seems "opt-in" to me.

They also have some revenue numbers on there. Though no details on the traffic other than it peeked at 2,000 simultaneous users so that's hard to quantify with the data.

One big question actually is if you use the captcha system, is it actually effective at proving you are human?

Also, the short link one is a little stealthy. But overall it only delayed my experience by a couple seconds so I probably wouldn't care unless it happened very often.
This looks great! I hope they can build what they're pitching. I look forward to buying one of these (or something like it) should it ever make it to market.
There is no single good phone option for privacy minded people in the U.S. at the moment, but Apple has definitely shown themselves to be the lesser of two privacy evils.

At least Apple stood up to the FBI when they wanted an encryption backdoor.
As a paranoid my first thought was, what is startpage.com doing with my information and searches?
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It is useful in the case that you want a predictable and expected delay immediately, rather than unpredictable delays for an unknown length of time to come.
but I don't want too.

I was using and supporting Google with Maps since the beginning I contribute to Google Maps with Local Partners.

I contributed to Google Maps by creating 3D Building with Sketch up. I will not spit on my own soup.

It's almost always a win-win, that I can't get with any other service (Facebook, apple) on Internet, I still believe in a good way with Google, they made so many thing freely for us, like Books research, Google Ngram Viewer, Google Analytics, etc. Almost everything are free, ok there's some targeting, etc that could be bad but the product produced by Google had real impact on the day to day life. Like no one BIG company product did. (Facebook, twitter, didn't change the world for me.)

Please Google, I want a job in your company. I can do anything.

PS: Why I'm downvoted? Apple fanboy argue a little please I know you don't have brain. Too easy to go down, never go up
Indeed, I was about to say this. I clicked thinking "No way I'll learn something here". Turns out there's 2 or 3 commands that I didn't know and might prove useful!
Default is

CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt"
CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now"

which ensure that it would still work with an AMD Athlon64 from 2003, but you don't get any "new" things such as SSE4, AVX, etc. unless the developer hand-codes specific cases for these CPUs.
A few of those exist, almost everything has caught up to systemd now though. That's a common problem with wiki's, the Ubuntu one is abysmal.
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...and they're still crowdfunding it and don't expect the deliveries before 2019.

Presumably, the question "go for which OS on mobile" refers to now, so Librem's definitely not an answer to the question above, even though it's a marvelous goal.
> This can be turned around to say that there's no way of showing that a particular set of conditions in the "physical world of things (or processes)" isn't an abstraction from subjective experience.

Sure, it can, and if someone said it was easy to show that o jective reality exists independent of subjective experience, that would even be relevant.

Of course, the difference is that the concept of an objective reality is a useful abstraction from subjective experience (it's what let's science, which has utility in predicting future experiences, exist). Qualia offers... what?
If you're looking for another reason to live without Google, look into their demonetization of youtube videos on political lines. This includes the thoughtful Dave Rubin who recently had most of his videos demonetized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=q4D0TBPd3JU
Can we make it a point to not link to paywalled content please?
Why would they be leaving it? I can easily connect to a Russian website with servers in Moscow just fine from anywhere in the world. The same applies to EU citizens.

I'm a strong believer in freedom, to include freedom from unnecessary taxation. If G/F "leaves" EU, I meant it by closing physical locations and the farce they have to put up with for taxes, they could still serve citizens from EU.

Id love to see the story unfold if G/F said "we are American companies only going to pay US taxes" and they quickly closed offices in EU. Do you think EU would create a firewall removing citizens from Facebook/instagram/Gmail/Google search etc ?

Seems to me that in this crazy scenario the EU crooked politicians are left making threats they can't really follow through. They all probably use gmail and how easy is it exactly to start a new on an email account ? How about all your contacts and pictures on FB?

Seems to me that in this world F/G would operate just the same and EU politicians would walk away crying saying "you can't do that it's not fair "
This is not the point. The reason why they don't want you to use Google is based on privacy reasons. Quote from the beginning of the article:

> This means they are not only tracking what you search for, they're also tracking which websites you visit, and using all your data for ads that follow you around the internet

Apple may be doing the exact same thing as well, so they should not recommend Apple on the same principle. Otherwise it's just preposterous.
For car navigation I use HERE WeGo (traffic info), never looked back. On foot/bike openstreetmap is the best.
I think DDG must be improving. I used to multiple times a day finish a DDG search by adding "!g" to my terms to see if Google was better. Now it's maybe once a week, maybe even less.
I wouldn't consider this the tech scene. More like the gaming scene.

A fun read but having never played Eve I am lost. Sounds like a good time though.
2-5 cents per 24 hours seems fairly equivalent to ads, actually.

Ad CPM (or more appropriately, RPM) seems to average somewhere around $2.50 (that's per thousand impressions). If these thousand users were on the site for 24 hours, that would be $20-$50, a more realistic scenario would be users on a site for a few minutes, generating comparable revenue to ad impressions.

On my desktop (which, not coincidentally, is where you'd have the best results trying to mine cryptocurrencies), I would honestly prefer this over tracking cookies, obnoxious and intrusive ads, extra network connections, and all that crap. And I run an ad-blocker, so this will let you get some revenue while ad RPM will be 0. On my phone or laptop using battery power, you're not going to have any success mining and I'm not going to want this. (I also run an ad blocker on those, so...yeah).
> those companies

you mean the people who work to build the structure, the teams, the lines of reporting, the buildings, the equipment, the products, the provision of sales and customer service, the management of all of these... they don't pay tax?

what is a company? who is a company?

if you remove all the things that already pay tax (i.e. people) from a company, does the company still exist? and can it pay tax?
I really don't see switching to iOS an improvement. Not only is it insanely expensive, it's not even necessary.
Android can be used without Google very easily. You can even get one of the hundreds of chinese phones that don't have any Google software whatsoever.
Try using an iPhone without an Apple account.
I have wondered about that, and I'm sure the Mint devs have a contingency plan in place (probably convert to being a properly Debian-based distro).

If they don't and Mint becomes unavailable or nonviable for some reason, I will find another distro similar to Mint, or simply go back to Debian proper.

I don't care much which distro I use, my important files are the same no matter which distro I use to access them.
This event was discussed yesterday though the article focused on a completely different aspect of the story, with much less detail:

Eve Online alliance leader banned after threatening to cut off betrayer's hands | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232168

> thg: Classic gigX.. Not the first time he's got a "permanent" ban for making real life threats.

> xiaodown's personal account: I was sitting on coms when this all went down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232910

> xiaodown: He ... has a history. Plus, I mean, trying to get out-of-game details like address/name is a big no-no in Eve
YesScript worked for me on Firefox. Thanks for the idea.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript/dev...
Comparing with immutablejs, there are 4 broad categories that match: lists, dicts, sets, and iterators.

Tuple slicing and concatenation gives you the "immutable" behavior for ordered data. For sets and dicts, one could create a subclass that override add/insert/set methods to return a modified copy. Iterators already have excellent support.

I'm not an immutablejs user, but my first skim of the docs doesn't make it clear what's missing from Python. If the immutable subclasses would be valuable, I'll gladly make a module for it. There's already frozenset. A frozendict didn't seem as useful (according to core devs).
Do you not consider the "meetings + other things" work? If that's what is required as part of your job, how would working less hours help?
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It was flagged, amid speculation in the thread that the story was a hoax on account of the site hosts links to anti-semitic "resources"

edit: not sure why this is being downvoted, all I am citing are facts from this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15227543
Except for the Grasshopper fail, that must have hurt. But yes, their overall approach was genius.
Interesting.

Looks like DDG has a bang for it, too: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=startpage
Yes this is exactly what I was getting at. Thanks for putting it more eloquently than I did. I’m just used to getting downvoted anytime I talk about monoculture farming, soil, and climate change so I don’t put effort into it anymore.

I think the pro-GMO crowd thinks talking about sustainable farming is anti-science when it actually involves more science at a macro level to understand the effects of synthetic monoculture farming on soil, and it’s effects on climate change.
I moved away from Chrome and Firefox since both Google and Mozilla have unapologetically fired employees for thought crimes. Apple's posturing hardly seems better. (I imagine this will resonate more with some than others, so please note that I'm only adding this to explain why Firefox and safari weren't options for me). I tried Brave, but it was too buggy. Finally, I switched to Opera which seems to rival Chrome in most regards while feeling more polished and blocking ads by default.
Not only what they did differently. It might be something they didn't do as well. Since data is laking any personal effort might be completely irrelevant and only the environment might make the difference. I presume there is a large personal effort involved but we don't know.

On survivorship bias: the B 17:s in 2nd world war that generally are used as the practical example of this principle had bullet holes exactly in those parts of the plane that were fine. The parts that had not taken a beating in the survived planes were the ones that needed more armourplating.

So, where are the psychological bullet holes in those who've not beaten addiction?
Google Play Services really isn't that bad. Sure it's annoying and proprietary, but it doesn't give them any more control than what Apple has by default on their devices.
Their use of drug dogs is a critical factor that should be mentioned there.. once a car's flagged by a dog, there is probable cause for a further search federally and in most states. So for better or worse I believe their actions were consistent with current Federal laws and any resulting federal drug charges would be difficult to challenge as resulting from an illegal search.

AFAICT from that article, they did not attempt warrantless searches on cars (or individual US citizens) that were not flagged by the dogs.
> but Apple has definitely shown themselves to be the lesser of two privacy evils.

Only for data physically stored on your phone, but you don't know what they do with your data stored/hosted on their cloud services.
I think it's especially the top that is playing Excell spreadsheets. That's what comes with controlling big corporations and alliances, I suspect.