skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m reminded of Donald Trump. “We have a complex tech stack, the most complex tech stack in the world. Tons of great people work here. The smartest people working on the most complex tech stack in the world. Lots of great code. The best code ever.”

Some people are so dehumanizing when it comes to work and full of themselves.
Worse, the CTO was only an intern.
I'll post everything regarding this experiment in a few days, it will be open-sourced (results, statistics, etc.)

In the meantime, please don't spoil or try to guess what it's made for :)

Thanks in advance.
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> A public corp could develop the software, promote it and inform people about the usage, but the software could run decentralized on home PCs or smartphones etc.

Virtually any device with an internet connection can be used as a server. So the solutions are already there, it's just that people trade freedom and independence of decentralized solutions for convenience of centralized apps.
Wikipedia's insane list of Unreal games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games
But what about companies that bootstrap without any technical skills, business acumen, marketable ideas, or morals?
Even though it's scary topic, currently they are still in good standing. At least in my eyes. Even though they collect data (how else can you evaluate who to flattr), its stored locally and they do not send it off. If there will ever be a situation where they send something more than they should, this project is dead and there will be no way back.
who gives a crap close it already quit posting this garbage to hackernews.
Hmm, the whole "use pens" thing was extensively widespread in the Scottish Independence ref in 2014. Not a surprise it'd resurface on a wider scale two years later.
Have you considered bootstrapping the field of computation ethics ;)
And they're explicitly tracking and logging it all to their servers:

> With the Flattr button it was only possible to flattr creators that joined Flattr. The new extension does not use the button so it does not need to know if there is a signed up receiver or not for flattrs. So simply put, if there is an owner they gets your money, if not the flattrs become the statistics we need to convince the creators.

Yikes. Don't use this, they clearly don't care about privacy.
I am aware there is something for medical use people may consume.

The main thing is these are meant as a supplement, not for you to live off of, as opposed to Soylent.
Playing devil's advocate here, it's possible they think they're doing the intern a favor by teaching them, as opposed to an educational institution where they have to pay to learn. The intern is not expected to get work done.
Bee is a photo sharing site that connects you with your favorite brands.You post photos to Bee and they're sent directly to the people who matter. You get nationwide exposure and photo credit as your shot is featured on everything from billboards to social media.

How it works:

1) Share photos directly

No more @-ing companies and hoping they see. With Bee, every photo is sent directly to our partner companies. Your photos, not your follower count, is what matters. Take your talent to the next level and get the nationwide exposure you deserve.

2) Bee yourself

Bee lets you connect with your brand judgement free. No more worrying about spamming your friends feeds. With Bee, you can post what you want, when you want. This means more fame for you with none of the downsides.

3) Bee famous

Bee is all about making you famous. We turn brands into your personal PR team. Companies agree to give you photo credit on everything from billboards to social media. You keep all the rights to your photos while the world’s biggest brands give you nationwide exposure.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bee-technologies-inc

I don't understand at all what they're trying to build. An easier way for people to let brands use their images for free?
It might have been okay but yeesh I hate that navigation apps do this.

They will randomly reroute you through a labrynth to save you a minute. Happened to me all the time when I lived in Dc/Nova and I learned not to listen to the app
12 solid diapers yesterday also seemed a little... impressive. :)
I’m really impressed by the translation quality here.
I always appreciate one-off sales/donations, but they aren't really dependable the way a subscription is. You can't plan or invest around it unless the thing you make is the kind of thing that gets a hobby/business-sustaining amount of sales or donations.

A sale/donations says "this is cool." A subscription says "I want to see more of this." For the former, there are sites that popped up and got better established while flattr was twiddling its thumbs for 7 years. If I were going to ask for donations, I'd post a ko-fi link or a bitcoin address, not ask people to install an extension.
> I do not get this obsession with putting everything out there.

It's not obsession. It's just a matter of convenience. git add; git commit; git push; and all my experimental code is safe on someone else's server that is managed much better than I can manage my set of USB drives and hard disks.

> The internet needs less stuff on it, not more.

I disagree!
There's still plenty of really excellent tv and games out there, there's just also a lot more crap too.
Do you have a source of this?
Don't worry, the job can be remote! So the company wouldn't provide anything at all. I'd be first in line, but:

"Please do not apply if you know you do not have the skill necessary build something extraordinary."

So I guess I'm out. Shucks.
> Clearly part of it is personality, but I do think some part was the establishment of clear boundaries from the start. Perhaps when my child hits the teen years, I'll have to revisit this battle but for now keeping screen time at a minimum is a fairly low friction activity.

I think this is absolutely key. I see screens like I see sugary foods. Not inherently bad for kids, but best consumed in moderation AND something that kids will over-consume if left to their own devices.
That is not always true. When the iPhone 6 started to "bend" unexpectedly, Apple denied the problem completely and refused replacements until they started to receive bad press for it. Even after that, they didn't acknowledge the problem at all, and claimed that only a handful of devices were affected when in-fact a substantial percentage were. Same thing kind of happened this year with the phone casings expanding.

If a significant hardware issue presents on the iPhone X, Apple will most likely try to delay or deny any fixes or replacements, especially because they are under a struggle to meet the demand as it is.
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Anyone who is in to food physics (food technologists / mechanical engineers / analytical chemists / biologists / applied machine learners) and is looking for a creative and interesting job, please get in touch.
"Most of all, I hope you understand that nothing has changed except our stance on four areas of content: bestiality, incest, sexual depiction of minors, and suggestive sexual violence."

"We have never allowed pornography or sexual services on Patreon"

What?

Either they are anti porn and adult content creators wouldn't use the service anyway, or they are pro porn and changed things that would affect some legal adult content creators (i.e. suggestive sexual violence)
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If the majority of Linux gamers use Ubuntu, that means that Canonical has something to do with gaming on Linux ;)
Haha, I know. Our little guy has had 34 wet diapers and one solid in the past week (:
https://goo.gl/7xiFXm you should go visit this website as it's very interesting
The traditional values are no better. The metre is traditionally defined as one ten-millionth part of the distance between the geographic north pole and the equator along the Paris meridian. The planet does, and will continue to, slightly change its shape for the same reason that the traditional second - the sixtieth part of the sixtieth part of the twenty-fourth part of a day - has gotten quite a bit longer. The gram is traditionally defined as the mass of a cubic centimeter (or millilitre) of water at a specific temperature and pressure (and let's hope that we don't see changes in the behaviour of water molecules over time as well).

There's a sort of mythos about the metric system being all "sciency", but it's just as arbitrary as any other system when you get right down to it. A metre is one ten-millionth part of an arbitrarily selected measureable distance because, well, it's "about yay big", close enough to the yard (an ad hoc body measurement) everyone had been using anyway. (The nearest familiar alternatives would have been either two rods or a hand, or the French equivalents.) It's just easier to do the math in a lot of cases because base ten. Anchoring the values to something anyone can, in principle, measure anywhere in any reference frame, at least makes sure that we're all talking about the same thing - even if that thing changes. That said, there's no evidence for the proposition that they do change, and quite a bit to suggest they don't.
> I ask because I’m wondering how companies that bootstrap without investment grow headcount.

People pay them for their products or services, then they take the money so gained and distribute it to their employees in exchange for their work.

My understanding is that this concept has been quite popular historically.
> The supine and complicit media came out near 100% in support of Hillary

Yes, that explains the overwhelming concentration on the email "scandal" whilst ignoring literally everything that Trump said.

> I know lots of Americans and I've never seen a shred of racism or sexism in any of them.

That's ... not how it works.

> and you can't point out a single reason why ... guess what?

But the reasons are pointed out. They just get ignored because the kind of people who refuse to believe that "white male privilege" exists aren't the kind of people who listen to rational arguments.
> Does anyone have an example of where a change like this would be important?

Well, it's important today, because the reference samples used across the world have drifted apart, and not in a consistent fashion. Which raises the question of whether the exemplar kg has drifted as well.

So, we don't really know if the kg we're using today is the same kg we were using 10 years ago. Given how important mass is to many scientific calculations, a drifting standard could directly impact all the other work we do.

I found the Veritasium video to be a bit more interesting for the "why" aspect of this change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo0jm1PPRuo
And the Scots possibly Calgacus at Mons Graupius:

"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace."

Shame that Calgacus and his speech were almost certainly invented by Tacitus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus
Looks neat but from what I've gathered a notepad and pen works best for this. No app can compare with the speed of a quick scribble. Having the data digitized is fun though (poop charts!).

Found a couple bugs:

- The sleep pattern page gives a 500 if you haven't slept yet. Likely a null pointer / empty list situation.

- I think you may have some time zone issues. Some of the timeline pages display histrical events that occurred in the future.
I've had mostly negative experiences with them.

With a DSL-driven BDD framework (like rspec) you get autocomplete and debugging and every other language feature without really losing any of the descriptiveness.

With cucumber you get lots of pain in both those areas, without anything that feels like an improvement along another metric.
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I don't really think it's minor, or a nit! But at the same time, I had to simplify or I'd never have stopped writing.
My problem with patreon is that (from my recollection) everything is a subscription so you are committing to not just a fixed payment now, but a recurring payment to a bunch of different sources. I can't just pay $X/month and have it divided among the recipients that I actually patronized in a given month. Patreon is great for things like supporting a band or podcaster or something there there is not an easy way to tie it back to actual usage, but the recipient has to make a sale up-front.
What I'm actually surprised is how well google translated the text from portuguese to english.

They really came a long way.
Also the really smart people tend to have a lot of choices. Anything too tedious actually puts off the people who have a lot of choices, so you're left with people who really want the job or just enjoy the challenges.
I needed to emphasize the if in that statement. :) The typical saltiness regarding interviewing on HN is warranted since it's usually an "and" thing.
GPLv3 initial draft was a copy of the clause from the apache license:

"each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work,"

The final gplv3 text says:

"Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."

As can be seen, they are very similar. The key difference between apache, a fairly popular license with businesses, and GPLv3 in the realm of patents, is the Novell-Microsoft pact clause. Its not about patents that you own, but rather patents for which you sub license from others.

"If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license,... you must ether ... arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the patent license for this particular work or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients."

This clause is the main crux of the issue. Large companies with large lawyer departments has complex patent deals with competitors, and deprive yourself of the patent would mean to open up yourself to being sued, and the other option would mean renegotiate with the competitor to grant the patent to all and everyone.
We don't. And that's the problem. If it was a consistent loss, it would be much easier to work around.
Came here to say this. Also reminiscent of Steem.
>Amazon Key is perhaps the most outre example of this phenomenon yet. Yes, I do value convenient deliveries, but I value my security more — better to strategize around postal schedules than be assaulted by a person hiding in one’s home! And while I dislike rained-upon packages, I prioritize privacy enough that I’m loath to install a corporate-controlled surveillance apparatus inside my house.

>I prioritize privacy enough that I’m loath to install a corporate-controlled surveillance apparatus inside my house.

I feel like this woman's logic is inconsistent here. I can understand that you dont want a "corporate-controlled surveillance apparatus inside my house" but then why you do you carry one in your bloody pocket?! I can, with some degree of confidence, say that she owns a smartphone (probably an iPhone) which is basically the same.

Personally, I think Amazon Key is really pushing the boundaries of tech and making our lives better. If you have an Amazon camera pointed at your door which the delivery guy KNOWS is being tracked by Amazon and his job is literally to deliver the package safely which is also tracked etc. etc. For this person to do something malicious the payoff should be rediculously high (i.e. steal a Monet or something) because his livelihood (i.e. job/reputation) depends on it. Now that I think of it, Amazon has the ID of the delivery driver so if the driver passes any further than the front door Alexa can basically (after a suitable warning) immediately call the police, no?

I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
Not true anymore. https are getting blocked too.

Last few lines of `curl --trace - https://thepiratebay.org/` on Jio ISP. Full log https://gist.github.com/anonymous/27ddfa674233d8d17a007f1b3f...

=> Send SSL data, 5 bytes (0x5)
0000: 15 03 03 00 1a .....
== Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, Server hello (2):
=> Send SSL data, 2 bytes (0x2)
0000: 02 46 .F
== Info: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number
== Info: Closing connection 0

So TLS handshake is being interrupted. If you think about it, https blocking is actually more efficient.

curl log does not show the last fake rcvd packet. Anyone know how to do that ?
those kind of advertisement only target a fraction of the viewers to reduce the chance of the noise to reach the publisher.
Yes, the new Gradle plugin reworks how dependecies are handled (significantly improving compile times for larger modular apps) and has quite a few improvements in configuration and resource processing performance. Instant run has apparently been rewritten as well.

Unfortunately those changes do mean a few breaking changes for build.gradle files.
It largely depends on the size of your company and the nature of your data. There are probably 4 simplified aspects to tackle this issue from, in my opinion. I work in data protection for a Fortune 500 company.

1. Data tagging or classification - identify and tag your sensitive data, then use the tags to control/monitor what happens to it. If done fully and correctly, you only have to worry about the data that matters, not someone's chili recipe or their kid's soccer schedule. The industry term is Crown Jewels, which represents the data that is absolutely critical to your success and would be catastrophic if lost. Secure your CJ, and your biggest risk is mitigated.

2. Egress monitoring - establish tools or processes to monitor what data is leaving your company, where it is going, and how it is getting there. Look for anomalies, abuses, and undesired activities. Perhaps your intellectual property should never be in China.. uploads to 163.com or message attachments to QQ messenger addresses might be concerning.

3. Technical controls - Does your company need USB drive access? If not, block them all from moving data via USB. Does anyone in your organization burn data to CD/DVD media? No? Block it. Turn off the egress vectors that aren't needed at a user/team/site/org level. The most common egress vectors are USB, CD/DVD, Email, Network Upload, Print, and wireless transfer like bluetooth. There are others, but these are the most encompassing. You can do things like block all emails going to personal email domains like gmail or yahoo; limit print amounts to 20 pages per user per day; or block access to all domains/IP's in specific countries or regions on the network.

4. Security Awareness - Employees need to be fully informed about the data protection requirements you have in place, and the related consequences for breaking acceptable use policies. Education and awareness campaigns are key, and probably the most overlooked option available. I personally believe informing employees about real life cases of data loss/theft, whether they are your own or just in your industry, is crucial in making the risk seem more real.

I can't recommend any specific products, but in general I would say look for tools that can give you things like: data tagging, network activity logging, end-point monitoring, anomaly detection, live response, data loss prevention solutions, and/or critical data protection.
It's kind of insane to think a company can do this to an end-user without really having any repercussions / not having a direct phone-line to reach out to when this happens. I guess that's what happens when the product is free.
> what is the appropriate way to bring people on when you can’t pay them?

Secure financing by convincing someone with money you have a viable business model, then bring people on since you can pay them.
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how come no one ever told me you have to change diapers 20 times a day. wtf??
The takeaway is great (and by "great" I mean "depressing but true"):

> Third, when I read the subpoena yesterday, I was suddenly gripped with exactly the sort of impulses that I urge clients to resist: the overpowering urge to do something and talk to someone to straighten it all out. I was tempted to email the AUSA and introduce myself, and to argue that it's ridiculous that he subpoenaed my identity, and ask what the hell he wants. That, of course, would be extremely stupid, even though I've done nothing wrong — perhaps especially because I've done nothing wrong. Fortunately, just as I plead with clients to resist this urge to reach out to the government, I resisted it myself. But I must admit it is powerful.
With all honest Waze works well in the city, but when I'm goint in a long travel I still prefer trusting my old garmin gps unit.
It's a metaphor.
vegemite contains almost no B12.
We also know this famous part from Caesar, describing moose without joints who lean against trees to sleep at night:

There are also [animals], which are called moose. The shape of these, and the varied color of their skins, is much like roes, but in size they surpass them a little and are destitute of horns, and have legs without joints and ligatures; nor do they lie down for the purpose of rest, nor, if they have been thrown down by any accident, can they raise or lift themselves up. Trees serve as beds to them; they lean themselves against them, and thus reclining only slightly, they take their rest; when the huntsmen have discovered from the footsteps of these animals whither they are accustomed to betake themselves, they either undermine all the trees at the roots, or cut into them so far that the upper part of the trees may appear to be left standing. When they have leant upon them, according to their habit, they knock down by their weight the unsupported trees, and fall down themselves along with them.
As an ex-game dev this is pretty on the mark.

They've honed using your "passion" to extract as much work as they can from you for ~2-3 years. After which there's a 50/50 shot that the studio folds/etc.

In the AAA space there's also a vicious 90/10 rule where 10% of the games make 90% of the money. With rising costs it becomes increasingly difficult to keep hitting that 10% you need to keep your studio running.
What a time to be alive! :D
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As someone without kids and who has never been around babies, what the heck is 'tummy time'?
nailed it. nothing is more infuriating then blogs not having an obvious, direct link to their actual site.
> An easier way for people to let brands use their images for free?

The hope is probably that they'll get freebies. Take a photo wearing this sweater, then keep it. That sort of thing. This confuses me though:

Your photos, not your follower count, is what matters.

The whole reason a brand is interested in you is because of your follower count, not because you're good looking (though I imagine that is also a requirement).
the mobile browser landscape has become a minefield of invisible popover, redirect and premium service subscription, only partially mitigated by adblockers (or none at all if using chrome on ios, because, reasons)
In the first week especially, track feedings and diaper output closely. Breast feeding can be tough to get going and you don't have a better method on finding out if they're getting what they should.
AFAICT they want people to take photos for free and give them to advertisers to use. They expect their programmers to work for free too.

Do I detect a pattern there?