skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yeah.

So just compartmentalize. If there's some set of online activity that you don't want linked to you, do it in a dedicated VM. With Internet connectivity via some mix of VPNs and Tor. Everything that Mirimir does online is linked, at least somewhat. But that's fine, because it's not linked to my meatspace identity.
More expensive? A base spec (32Gb) Pixel is $649, same 32Gb iPhone SE is nearly half the price at $349. The Pixels are many things, but they’re not cheap phones.
Supply chain attacks are an obvious avenue for high-end attackers, where their direct targets are hardened, so I guess we'll see more of these going forward.

Whilst companies like Microsoft can likely afford to harden their software update systems well enough to deter this, I do wonder what impact it'll have if smaller software providers/open source software providers who can't afford high-end OpSec teams start getting targeted.

Realistically a lot of software auto-updates these days so it's a nice avenue for attackers to exploit...
Silicon Valley created lots of "valuation" in the last few years. This made lots of people rich on "paper". Now if we can only get other people jealous of them, and sell them these on paper gains for real money. Transfer it through the blockchain just to be safe.
React Native Styling Patterns
There are plenty of "diffusion limited aggregation" simulators around. Has anyone made one using using hexagons, rather than pixels?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion-limited_aggregation
Yes, by the way it would be great if HN added a better way to quote text.
Fair enough, but it's not only the dash, the actual title says "Nordbat 2". "Nordbat 1" was something different (albeit related of course).

It seems to me that punctuation shouldn't be taken into account to compute the character limit.
Wonder if there is a potential block-chain based business opportunity for reviewing stuff, where all information would be transparent.
It's being used since 1990s as per Oxford dictionary[1]. I asked because I thought it's one of the words which has become uncool to use.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solopreneur
I searched for US in general, but I can imagine SV salaries cause the national average to increase a lot. Then again, from my experience, most Dev who want to move to the US want to move to SV or NYC, partially because of the salaries and forget to think about the details. Especially the younger ones.
They will also provide free food, a laundry service, etc. It's basically like having your mother look after you!
What “problem” is a young single white male developer in San Francisco trying to solve?

What problems are (NOT (young, single, white, male, developer, in San Francisco)) trying to solve?

What is the Venn diagram of those problem sets? The market size? The impact?

If aiming to build a business that works outside the Silicon Valley bubble, you can go wildly wrong by designing for, appealing to, and getting traction in the tiny set.
Was recently telling my dad about this. I might get an iPhone X just because of Apple's new stance on browsing privacy. I recently quit my ad-tech job and what FB/Google does with tracking is incredibly sketchy.

Glad to see a large company with leverage fight back.
The Macbook costs $2500. Oh, it is a Scam.

Just because something is expensive, doesn't make it a scam. It is also important to note that Bitcoin is a free market. Unlike Apple which sets the prices of a Macbook, demand set the price for the bitcoin blockchain space.

Why did you assume that bitcoin transactions are free? or should be free?
Recruiters are there for a reason. I respect them even when they are a little bit annoying. We as tech industry are so spoiled with jobs looking for us not the other way around that we forget how great it is to have a recruiter that you can call any time and ask for a new job and he will not stop until he will put you in the new position for free (for you of course). Remember they are just doing their job and we should respect that, so be kind to your recruiter, respond to an email, they will remember you as that guy who didn't wasted their time.
It's ironic that you prefer archive.org.

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if you have any questions about this.
In fairness the landscape was very different back then.
> Um, how about just reducing immigration a lot and giving it time? It's not that complicated.

But not reducing immigration from most of Europe, right? And in turn should white Americans not be allowed to live abroad in most of the rest of the world?

I should have refrained from saying "imbeciles", because that's not conducive to discussion and obviously there are some smart people like Thiel and yourself who end up advocating these ideas. It's hard to even begin a discussion about racial nationalism though, because I think it's pretty clear that the idea of race itself is scientifically shaky.

I'd like to convince you though. But first, what exactly is it that you're advocating?

And some questions I have...

1) Can you clarify your stance on immigration?

2) Can you give me a coherent definition of race?

3) What entitles one particular race (I'm assuming "white" people in this case) to predominate in America?

4) What if anything should happen to non-white people that are currently legal US citizens?

5) What should happen to Americans like myself who are married to non-white, non-US-citizens? Won't we end up in limbo with no place to go? I can assure you that I am not just looking for moral superiority -- I feel that my very wellbeing is threatened by the ideas that I hear espoused by racial nationalists.

6) Would you break apart the United States to give, for example, a black nationalist movement their own country? Seems only fair considering whites forcibly brought them to this country. And Native Americans? If so, what are the logistics of this and who gets what?

7) Do you feel that there is something fundamental connecting culture and "race"? What specific elements of the cultures of other races do you see as harmful? Are these differences fundamentally irreconcilable and why? Surely there are other white people (myself probably) who hold opinions that are equally divergent, so why not separate on that basis rather than purely on race?

Again, I find myself halting while even typing out these questions because I have to keep referring back to this ill-defined idea of race. But, I guess the discussion has to start somewhere unless we plan on wiping each other out.
Much ink is being spilled currently over the evils being perpetrated by the tech giants. What's so exciting about DuckDuckGo is

1. DDG competes directly with Google in Google's core market

2. Not being evil is DDG's differentiator for real, they're not just paying lip service

3. DDG is small and profitable... in other words, they're a successful startup.

It can be done. It is being done.
Autonomous vehicles will lead others through congested cities
> All I did was miss three calls because I left my phone at my friend's and when I called they'd given the job to someone else, how unprofessional"

What you have described is very different from:

"Dude calls every fucking day for like four weeks straight;"

I doubt you'd leave your phone at your friend's for a month, and if you were uncontactable daily for a month then, yeah, I can understand them giving the job to someone else.
It’s Magit and You’re the Magician
There aren't that many different compositions, and they're mostly just variants of map and fold for different contexts.

And once you learn them, it's a lot easier to see what code using them does at a glance, rather than reading the corresponding for loop to work out what it does, and whether it has any side effects.
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Does anyone have a guide as to how this affects things for ecommerce?

If I have a third party reviews module - Feefo, BazaarVoice etc. - will that work?

Is this the end for 'AddThis' and other tracker things marketing type insist on bulking the page load times with?
The patent would probably be invalid if the product was already on the market from a different vendor.
> While I have complaints about Google, UX isn't one of them. I can't think of a Google product that is really all that unintuitive, undiscoverable, or difficult to use.

> Am I missing something? I guess it can be rather subjective, but I don't have any complaints about UX or UI.

At least for me, Google+ has long been a miserable experience. Facebook, with its faults and quirks, is still better in intuitiveness and UX (again, for me).

Another area is GSuite - it's been painful and confusing to understand and enable features for a personal account. The documentation is grossly inadequate (I did provide feedback) and doesn't explain what regional or other rollout differences that exist in the suite.
That's exactly my assumption, and it's one of my standing questions for people I encounter who align themselves with libertarianism, and I'm always genuinely curious.

It's because I find it a very interesting and difficult question how to approach the danger of individual liberty leading, through a sequence of steps none of which is by itself illiberal, leads to the establishment of large and powerful corporations that de facto destroy liberty just as much as any state.

I agree that big business and big government are becoming conflated, although I guess they have been since the beginning of global capitalism and the founding of the limited liability East India Company in 1600...

The distinction between state power and private power seems essential to libertarian ideology, so it's interesting to hear your take.
Because other parties need to verify or view that transaction. How else will you know that you've received money?
This isn't mentioned in the article, but there are tools out there that transpile CSS to React Native objects (that you can use as mixins, for example).

See https://github.com/styled-components/css-to-react-native
Artificial photosynthesis production of fuel
To take lisp based web development to another level, what if we had a "browser" environment that embedded racket and executed sandboxed code instead of JavaScript/html? (Goes back to dreaming)
Am I the only one sceptical about if these scores actually translate to true computing power?

If these things can outperform on passive cooling why are we not seeing people building farms out of them with active cooling.
> To anyone from Booking.com reading this: I'll go elsewhere next time I need to book a room

I like to think that I'm take-savvy (I've been on this forum for quite a while) but I'll happily continue to use booking.com the same as I've done for the past 10 years, give or take. I don't care at all about their brand, I'm aware of their "dark patterns" and as such it's very easy to avoid them, what it matters for me it's that in the last 10 years they've always been reliable (as in 100% reliable) and on point with their descriptions and ratings, no matter the destination (from a 2-star hotel in the middle of the Carpathian mountains to a 5-star hotel in Istanbul). In other words they really do provide value, the same way as Ryanair provides value (it doesn't matter that everybody likes to hate on Ryanair, everybody is still flying with them).

I also spend more than 5 minutes reading through the actual reviews before making a reservation, unlike the writer of the article which is unhappy that not everything is mentioned front and center on the first page. As such, I've never ever had to deal with dirty sheets or a dirty bathroom when it came to locations reserved through booking.com.
No, it's a thousand thousand (roman numeral). In finance, using MM and MMM is quite common (although bn is often preferred over MMM).
If what I create with my mind isn't my property, then what you create with your hand isn't yours either.

But you knew that already. You're just trolling, I'm sure.
>Which is unhelpful for the cases where the developers no longer have any interest in their apps or even exist (bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased)

If they are "bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased" then maybe insisting on using those apps are not the best course for the user either...
Postmortem of NTL::Vec type
I think the technical term at the budget hotels for concierge is 'the front desk'
I think it's important to focus on a goal you really care about, but at the same time: be open to other people who've chosen other goals, trust them that they're doing the right thing, and if you can help them with little effort, help them.

If you're focusing on fixing one thing, but you can't get anyone to follow you, you're not going to accomplish anything. Doing the small and low-effort things that, together with other people doing the same, also improve the world - that's really underrated, in my opinion.
I haven't downvoted a SINGLE comment, and even if I wanted I wouldn't be able because I don't have enough points. I never downvote, and of course I wouldn't downvote because someone has different views than me. Stop with the bullshit. Go to reddit if that's what you are looking for.
As far as I'm aware, in the UK, no.

Wealthy individuals can donate to political parties, but not to individual politicians, and that is tightly regulated.

If an individual politician was accepting donations from a wealthy individual or company, it would be a scandal.
I have wisport sparrow 20 II:

https://www.amazon.com/Wisport-Sparrow-20-Rucksack-Black/dp/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEPurcHzmU

For me it's perfect for carrying a laptop every day to work or for field trips.
It means it's a start towards protecting the user and working towards privacy and security goals. They will still make money selling ads.
Automation of Minoca OS Instances with Sparrowdo
Congrats first of all.
However did you tell Booking about your motivation to join them - "The only reason I chose to join Booking was Amsterdam (I wanted to live/work outside India for a couple of years)". Its pretty standard for companies to ask that question.
>What good is RAM for if not running the applications a user needs to run?

What good is degraded performance because some BS game/app who on top of it is abandoned from its developer for years, and it will stop working anyway sooner or later, needs 32-bit mode? Especially when you can find 200 replacement that work fine in 64-bit and are upgraded regularly.
> It sucks even more that these are some of the kindest and most caring people I know, with better moral character than myself

Evidently not? I'd really be curious how you come to that conclusion, when they apparently don't have the first clue as to how to recognize evil, nor do they seem to care? Are you sure that that's not just the image they promote of themselves, rather than an actual assessment of their behaviour?
There are beautiful isochrone maps for Manhattan, check these out for something quite pretty and useful:

https://project.wnyc.org/transit-time/#40.75014,-73.93048,12...

https://www.mapnificent.net/newyork/#12/40.7290/-73.9980/900...

It’s easy to imagine zooming in and using the colors for a 10 minute Subway/walkability combo for e.g. restaurant finding.
"The distinction between state power and private power seems essential to libertarian ideology..."

Yes, in the ideal world (hence all of the preferencing I went through). But that's not the case with the big internet players. It's a spectrum. I'd feel completely differently about the local lemonade stand.

Systems gain cruft over time. I'd make the same argument about governments. A lot of them start off great, but through a series of logical and altruistic measures, never wanting to harm folks or create a dystopia -- end up doing so. I think the saddest thing about both the monopoly and big government discussions is that in many cases, there are no bad guys. There's just organizational drift over time.

Doesn't make it any better -- and in fact understanding can be really tough for a lot of folks. But if we really want to fix things we need to be honest with ourselves about both where we are and how we got here. Sloganeering and partisanship are not conducive to fixing things.

ADD: Good point about the EIC. When libertarians talk about the free market, whether they realize/admit it or not, it's small-scale markets, people trading apples 2-for-a-dollar. Humans are natural traders. The minute a person gets really good at trading, he automatically wants to start creating structures to protect both the traders and his own interests. He conflates the two. The system to "protect" people? That's government. It's impossible to have a government without people trading something for something inside of it, and based on the items traded and the number of players, the government corrupts more or less quickly.

I like libertarianism because it's an ideal. We'll never create a world market of people selling apples 2-for-a-dollar, and that's okay. I still have the tools to reason about GE or Facebook. There is a distinction between private and state power, and it's important. But they become mixed together at extremely small scales -- much more so at larger ones. You don't get to be a Toyota without a government somewhere covering your back. With the internet companies, we are watching in real time how starting off on your own with a great product people love quickly leads to either becoming deeply entangled in governments or losing your market share.
Having read that KB page, I don't really care for Apple's explanation on this, but it's really messy from a UX point of view after being used to the previous way of working. I have the habit of turning off WiFi most of the time to save on battery usage. I know when and where I'm in a place where selected WiFi networks are available, and I don't like having the radio on all the time.

I'm not buying new phones every year or getting batteries replaced - so taking advantage of any and most battery saving techniques (while having the device usable for my needs) is very important to me.

What's even more annoying is this - if I open an app that may need network access but cal also work or open up without that, now the device prompts me with a list of nearby WiFi networks and I have to choose cancel because I'm not going to connect to some random network! This is a serious security issue, IMO. Many people might inadvertently tap on available WiFi networks and suffer through password prompts on protected networks or get connected to some rogue network.

Forcing users to go to Settings to turn the radios off defeats the purpose of having an easily accessible Control Center for many users.

I seriously believe Apple botched this one, and hope there will at least be some way to get the old behavior (like it did with the removal and reinstating of Camera Roll).
Maybe things have improved. I recall some hassle getting my bank to handle international wires. And I suspect that "routinely" may be the distinction. Once the bank does one transfer, it becomes routine.
They're still doing it.

Screenshots taken literally seconds apart refreshed multiple times to make sure it's still the same:

http://eugene.lt/booking/1.png
macOS on a MacBook Pro from New York, NY (via a DigitalOcean droplet VPN)

http://eugene.lt/booking/2.png
Fresh Windows 10 VM from Vilnius, Lithuania
50 Books to Read Before You Die
Meanwhile they allow locations services to continue even after the user "turns off" the wifi following android footsteps(1). So tracking in apps will be worse for users.

As a customer really it seems they talk a lot about privacy yet implements "sneaky" changes like this, it seems a bit dishonest.

1. I know the feature is a different in IOS (it only disconnects connected devices) but for location services/tracking this is effectively the same as android.
see: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086
Archived copy, which can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.is/DFvwm
Not really, no. I didn't change, the party changed and the public perception changed. It is hard to put people into boxes. In my case, my goal is to maximize liberty. That's my primary concern.
Yep :-)
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So, panopticlick marks down my browser because it doesn't unblock third parties that promise to honour "Do not track".

In what way is this bad? (Yes, I have third party cookies blocked. No, I'm not unblocking them.)
Indeed. I would argue that a better line for Haskell would be "What if everything was a value?" Basically the IO monad is a way to construct imperative programs by composing side-effect free values.

And indeed, much of the subsequent work in Haskell has been materialising even more details to avoid the hidden side-effects that cause the IO monad abstraction to break down.
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
Same for, but earlier. Listening to my stash is no longer as satisfying as it used to be.

I do miss them so much.
I had a dev friend take a job at booking.com he hates it. I suppose the company is shitty at all levels.
You can donate to individual politicians.

Here's one list: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-s...

Here's some more information: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-s...
Hubble discovers first known binary asteroid also classified as a comet
Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio (2016)
oh wow! does anyone know how this compares to julia CUDA performance ?
What kind of advertisement is this? Also, caps lock isn't cruise control for cool.
At this level, not at all. 3 stars means that every single serving is perfect by itself, the quality of the ingredients, the texture, the taste. Everything.

You cannot allow yourself to not be perfect. For example, you cannot serve something new where you know it is really good but fails a bit on the texture side or it is hard to produce so the quality varies a bit, not a lot, but a bit.

If he goes out of the system, he can reintroduce this little bit of freedom.

As a programming analogy, 3 stars is like every single piece of code you produce is perfectly structured, integrates nicely in the software, respects the conventions and idioms, has no code debt. You cannot just patch a bit and see how the users react and refactor later. It must be perfect for the user from low level code to the interaction as soon as you put it in the hands of real users.

I am full of respect for such decision.
OT:

> "Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)."

Actually the Author is not making it better, in fact worse. From the numbers in the OP it appears Google is about 1000 times bigger (roughly) than DDG.

A better, and perhaps more apt comparison would to compare Google's Elephant to DDG's Badger (small badger).