skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think commenters are trying to challenge her interpretation of events without critiquing her directly (individuals may or may not succeed).

I think the commenters who are doubting her interpretation mean well. They want to draw a very clear line around what is gender-related mistreatment, because if that line becomes unclear or logically inconsistent then that undercuts gender equality.

I think this is largely a good thing. It's too easy for people to automatically get swept up in emotions of an "us vs them" rather than analyze an issue the way a juror would.
> It's not useless in the context of a legislative requirement to honor it, which was the original goal that DNT was supposed to drive to. Since we now have pretty much 100% regulatory capture in the Internet space that of course is now dead.

It was never really likely to happen, especially when even advocacy groups like the EFF opposed legislative approaches to enforcing DNT.
How would you define 'necessary elements'? Honest question.

Hypothetically, if there was plenty of alternative, but in practice everyone used FB/Google/etc., would that change things in your mind? It's not a technical monopoly, but practically it would be.

Mind, I'm not saying that I think this is the case, and I think we shouldn't preemptively do something about it quite yet. But I do feel the article at least makes me uncomfortable about the possibility.

Basically, I guess my question is: does it matter whether something is technically not a monopoly when, practically, it is? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
Another very good document (with some deeper technical detail) re: the Internet Worm is: http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html

I doubt RTM ever wrote any commentary about the worm's creation but I think that would be really interesting to read. No doubt it's something he'd probably rather be forgotten, but it would be interesting to hear him talk about it.
Ahh, well! That's a trickier problem! You need a bidirectional system that has unification for metavariables, and then some system for handling unsolved metavars. But to do that requires a more complicated set up. The goal of the post was to introduce the core ideas and show that it's relatively simple to do decent chunks of this stuff. :)
Observe that:

In case kickstarter applicant is a domestic Chinese company, they rarely have any problem delivering even biggest projects.

Everything changes when the applicant in question is some kinda American Silicone Valley hoodie startup wunder kinder, with an idea that he he can make a manufacturable product from scratch during a one week hop to Shenzhen.

Just go and look at past statistics by yourself
You can join an advocacy group such as Citizens' Climate Lobby and build political will for a livable world. CCL has been incredibly successful by, for example, creating the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, which counts among its membership 30 Republican members of Congress. CCL is effective and is volunteer driven, so the chapter in your area needs you.

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=9oyguP4nLv0
The "Language Gap" slide seems massively overstated, or maybe I'm misunderstanding.

The language gap is relative to where he thinks we should be aiming for, what the author thinks is possible. If you think that we're already "there", then there is no gap for you, and there's nothing wrong with feeling that way.

Personally, I agree with the author: we can do vastly better. I think it's a failure of imagination and effort, not potential.
Is it supposed to be an either/or? I don't see how I could give up my Amazon services.
I agree on the Watch 3. Leaving my phone at home feels like the future is here. The shared SIM solution is very elegant but requires carriers to cooperate. But once established many IoT manufacturers can enjoy it.
In addition to the shadows, a cloud passing over in about a 2 hour window would make it apparent.
It's been an hour and we can't still check the site. I would really not trust my production deployment with these guys.

On a side note, Docker Cloud has been offering same thing but they are too slow to deliver docker swarm functionality there. My servers are now running more than a year old version of docker. Does anyone know a great web-ui to manage containers? (I already tried portainer, kubernates-ui - they are either buggy or not intuitive)
Looks like you can get a dedicated display with the Varia for an additional $100. $300 total is still cheaper than a GoPro, Raspi, and all the additional stuff you will need to make it work together...

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/518151/pn/010-01509-10#box
AFAICT it's largely a matter of the cultural correlation for evidently many people between "belief in anthropogenic climate change" and "liberalism." I.e., if I were to believe in climate change, I'd be "a liberal," and that is super bad.

Related but different is the extreme right-wing attitude of, "Sure, maybe climate change is a real thing, but who cares, competition for and consumption of natural resources is our God-given right" etc etc. I'd like to say this extreme is rare, but if it's even a few people who happen to be in control of extremely large amounts of pollutants...
How is this better than kaggle’s docker image ?

https://hub.docker.com/u/kaggle/
That was my source as well :) Couldn’t remember if it starts with black bars or not, but the important point is that it’s trivial to toggle.
They had this game in my college computer lab when I was working there. I'd see the summer school kids come in a play it. I still think it was one of the most amazing intros to Boolean logic circuits.
If you simply want the latest stable docker version, try:

curl -o /tmp/get-docker.sh https://get.docker.com && bash /tmp/get-docker.sh

or even just

curl https://get.docker.com | bash

You can also use this script to update to the latest version, if you previously used it to install.
I'm not looking for a guarantee. Probably getting additional privacy is good enough for me.
Why add a special ranking for amp pages, if page speed is already a major factor?

It would seem like the reality is that page speed is not an important factor, and that re-tuning that factor would have been a better solution if Google's primary concern was for the health of the open web; not just Google's ecosystem.
Well, Apple and Sony together effectively bribed Alibaba to prohibit trade in factory refurbished second hand electronics.

I was making money on that myself in my teenage years. Probably, I would not be a developer now if Apple did not come up with Iphone and Sony and Nokia did not tank to the bottom so quickly at around 2009.

First and second generations of iphones were easily refurbishable. They turned to optic medium and harder adhesives in third gen, and in the middle of production run for the third, they began using one that was completely impossible to undo in garage workshop conditions to finally kill refurbishment industry
I thought that transducers also abstracted away the difference between an input stream and an output stream? (Or the difference between pulling values on demand versus pushing values.)
Not to be controversial but honestly maybe add mindful consumption of food. Start doing the actual math on the entire supply chain from growth to harvest/picking/slaughter, shipping, manufacturing, distribution. Am I suggesting we apply what we know about distributed systems to food? Hell yes. Why do we not have neighborhood hydroponic gardens we all invest in together? The thing is these are start up ideas or political things we need to wait to vote on. We can start today.
MVP for the enterprise
Build a Business, not an App
Like most dangers communicated to people in the modern world, the danger of looking at the sun is way overblown. You can look at the sun for over a minute straight without any damage. How much damage, how fast, what kind of damage, and how this varies with peoples genetics is not well known, of course. Doing such experiments would harm peoples eyes. How long can you look at a little bit of the sun right around the total eclipse? Very not known. But "safety first" and you get things like and emergency warning sent out to all cell phones before the eclipse saying not to look at the sun. Looking at the bright sun is not a pleasant sensation. I imagine people in ancient times were more in-tune with their physical senses and were less likely to do things that hurt them just for curiosity sake.
You can stop saying, "Voting has no effect". It has a large effect. You can attribute a large chunk of global warming in the past two decades to ~500 votes in Florida. There are huge, quantitative differences between the two main parties in the worlds largest CO2 polluter per capita/2nd largest overall.
Agree, but it’s not not obvious to most people. Robustness itself if a murky subject: are you robust to mutation, to the environment, genetic noise, genetic background? Also if you are too robust then you can’t evolve. What we want to say with evolvability is that we’re more predisposed positive selection.
> I'm willing to believe that the guy was being threatening and harassing, but I also read into that evidence a guy who is socially inept and frustrating to work with, but not sure on the harassment part.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. Harassment is an action, not an intent. You can harass someone because you are socially inept, but that doesn't mean you aren't harassing someone, and it explains the behavior but certainly doesn't excuse it.

> Then she says that how they really should have responded was:

That wasn't text of how she imagined he should have responded, that's a quote from an actual response she got from one of her mentors
> a man wouldn't have to think about his personal safety as much by attending the event they won.

Can you elaborate?
If we are moving the moon, we might as well just move the earth to a higher orbit further from the sun.
To those feeling powerless about this, http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange is one of the most well-researched, well-written, and inspiring pieces written on this exact problem--"what can a technologist do about climate change?".
You know, in isolation I felt similarly about this specific example. But looking at the rest of the article, you'd have to be blind if this is the one example you choose to pull out after reading the whole thing.

I think there's some confirmation bias going on here
If someone sends threatening emails generally, its fair to infer that they will also be threatening in person. This isn't making (what I assume to be) your point.

Of course, I don't think the emails here were threatening in any way, and it seems like that the author if inferring a connotation that I don't see.
Sorcerers do exist, it's just that their methodology is based on faulty premises, and what they do doesn't work because magic isn't real.

Just like torturers, who do all kinds of things according to supposed art/science, but in reality it's just bullshit for show.

Edit: If you're claiming that it works, I'll still keep asking, "Prove it."

Cite those many, "Many times in history..."
I always ask this on the VPN threads here, and don't feel like I get a solid answer (I'm not particularly well-versed on the topic so I'm genuinely curious and would love to be corrected).

If I go to Bob's website on my computer without any VPN, and Bob wants to find me, all he would need to do is get my IP, call my ISP with a warrant, and then get my information.

If I go to Bob's website while logged in with a VPN, and Bob wants to find me, he first sees that he's getting tons of hits from this IP because thousands of users are sharing this same VPN. So then he uses some kind of fingerprint to figure out my unique user sessions. Then he calls the VPN company, and asks them to associate the IP and specific browser sessions with me. In that case a) the VPN really does store logs even though they advertise they don't, so they're able to associate me with my activity, or b) they really don't store logs and have no idea which one of its thousands of users logged into his website with that IP.

It seems in the latter case, even with a malicious VPN, it's one additional (maybe trivial step) to associate me. But it's still better than just using your own ISP. Isn't that why people use VPNs to avoid DMCA letters from their ISP?

So what is the downside to using a VPN if you're aware that they aren't foolproof vs not using a VPN at all?

If you roll your own VPN on AWS or the like, don't you lose the benefit of sharing the VPN with thousands of users? Wouldn't it be easier for Bob to call AWS with a warrant and get your account info than mess with some offshore VPN provider?
Alternatively we could also grow forests and, rather than burn them, harvest the wood for constructing furniture, buildings, etc, that will survive long-term. Hopefully, the wood can be recycled when the buildings reach their end of life rather than being burnt or decomposed.

But I suspect we'll need a lot of forests to compensate for the current rate of fossil-fuel use.
For now, I am running my own VPN on Linode. The only real benefit of this is now my traffic is mixed with non-similar traffic. The hope is that this makes it less valuable to monitor the contents of my traffic. Of course, this just security through obscurity, and nothing more than a half measure.

The internet is not designed for privacy, and privacy does not benefit the majority of commercial stakeholders of the internet. This is probably why most privacy solutions feel like shoving a square peg through a round hole. My personal feeling is that we should combat commercial bulk surveillance through legislative means.
You should go to the store and experience the iPhone X for your self and make that determination . Also factor in that you are buying a 1.0 product.
I've been searching for this information as well. I'd love to find, a definitive, bullet list of things that I or anyone else could do to cut down emissions - obvious or not.
I'd also like to see if there is anything available to remove carbon dioxide (and other gasses) from the atmosphere. Small and distributed devices to be sure - instead of three or four monster devices, how about thousands of smaller devices to obtain similar results? My searches have come up rather empty.
I agree - I would love to be part of the solution. What is a/the solution? Bottom line this nonsense for me and everyone else.
> "Reliable and fast" is exactly why TouchID was so great when they introduced it.

Although it wasn't particularly either when it was first introduced.
I fear that an entire generation of older

Ageist nonsense. The older generation grew up in a time when they repaired things. The younger generation buy a new phone or laptop every year and chuck the old one in landfill. The old generation made and repaired clothes, young people buy clothes made in sweatshops halfway around the world and wear them for one season then throw them in landfill. Older people ate food grown locally, young people love imported foods like soy and quinoa. Who are the REAL deniers? Look at actions not mere words.
Digital goods are different from physical ones. The first-sale doctrine means the seller doesn't need any licenses (patent or otherwise) to sell the product. They still can't counterfeit, but you have to show that the product is counterfeit, not just that the seller is "unauthorized" like in copyright.

Amazon could still refuse to list those products, of course, but it's not a legal obligation.
Obligatory: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/700798735190601729
That's the thing about parameters - they can be tuned. The factor for page speed could have been tuned to matter as much, if not more than their unique views, trashing their ranking the moment they started adding bloat.

Google appears to have decided not to, in an apparent effort to boost their ecosystem, at the cost of the open web.
Open ended evolution is an unsolved problem. You need the right genotype-phenotype map. That’s a hard problem and even if I was lucky and looking in the right direction probably way beyond my IQ.
if I knew I'd be working on precisely that :)
I hate how real I think this probably is. Anecdotally there is massive crossover between religious individuals and climate change deniers among people I know.
Modified Preorder Tree Traversal in Django
This is actually a clear case of someone who believes there's harassment where there is none, and it a step backwards for women who actually do encounter harassment. She refuses to take responsibility for her part in this, and instead blames others and "sexual harassment" because she doesn't think she's wrong. If men disagree with her, it's not because she's fundamentally wrong, of course, but because they are obviously sexist. Those are the worst type of people, and I've encountered many of this type, both men and women.

Looking at it from the other side, she partnered with someone, and then after winning the prize, she kicked him out and denied him the ability to go to the next stage. And she didn't even have the decency to do it over phone, she emailed him.

I don't see any evidence of harassment presented by the OP. If being upset at someone who seemingly took your work and prevented you from engaging in the winnings of your project equates to "harassment" or "sexism", then sure. But that means that a male can never confront her for her mistake lest it be sexism, which is ludicrous.

Obviously, lying about OP going to Hong Kong or whatnot crosses the line and is inexcusable, but it sounds like he was trying to get the tickets which were forfeited anyway. I don't doubt that the guy in question was an asshole, but I don't see any evidence that he was a sexist asshole.

And in fact, I think there's more evidence that SHE is the sexist. The funny thing is that she writes it right there and can't see her own sexism.
Personally - I picked the X because of a desire to try something new. Also, as a photographer, the new camera looks fairly impressive as well, in addition I expect the larger screen in a small form factor to enable me to use my phone for even more things - beyond that, its upgrade time for me anyhow, the price difference between a 256 gig iPhone 8 and iPhone X is effectively rounding error, as in, its not a significant amount of money for something I use every single day for so many tasks and activities.
It's impossible to be as fast as "already unlocked by the time you see the screen." It could perhaps be "only imperceptibly slower," but it can't be as fast.

This review suggests that it's not "only imperceptibly slower," with its talk of the De Niro look.
I'm not looking to build the fort knox of phones or anything, I'm trying to take the path of least resistance to having a more private, secure device.

I'd rather have a phone/OS built by a company whose primary source of revenue is not user data.

From my, admittedly limited, understanding of the issues between iOS and Android it seems like iOS is more secure/privacy oriented with some obvious caveats like the Uber app issue you mentioned.
Looks like the same guy.
You’re talking 6 hours of billable time to cover a year’s usage. The time savings alone of creating PoCs/MVPs for clients pays itself off.
> Should your job really come before family

I'm always nervous when I see phrasing like this because it all depends on what you mean by "come before". For example, I would love to spend 40+ more hours per week with my family, but I don't. That doesn't mean I put work before my family, it means I love my family enough to provide for them.

Conversely, if I had a job that required 40 hours per week (objectives and culture wise) and I worked 80 hours for the fun of it, then this would be a clear case of putting work before my family. In that case, no, I shouldn't be doing it.

The question here is which category (if either) does this fall into? It seems as though the issue here is the employee had a non-disclosure condition of employment, which he violated. The "help" he provided his daughter may have helped her financially, though I suspect ego was the primary driver for both the employee and the daughter. As unpopular as it may be to side with the big-bad-company, I think Apple acted appropriately here.
> with access to Kodi that don't regard it as theft/piracy

> They become pretty defensive when you accuse them of it.

I would too!

Kodi itself isn't theft/piracy. Kodi is a FOSS media manager that is extremely extensible. Several extensions enabling piracy have been created by third-party developers.

This may seem pedantic, but it is extremely important to differentiate between a FOSS media manager and piracy-oriented plugins.
> National chain pharmacy so they certainly have some kind of data sharing scheme.

I don't know if you can say that for sure or not.

Regardless of whom shares customer data with whom, this whole issue has a number of legal/compliance issues beginning with HIPAA. The pregnancy test purchase, when anonymized, is just a sales data point, sure. When combined with identifying your girlfriend, and then giving that data to a third party (especially for non health-care treatment or paying claims needs), is most certainly illegal. If she had purchased a Coke, then no, but given she purchased a health-related product it falls into a myriad of laws that govern health care privacy.
He Universe Began with a Big Melt, Not a Big Bang
That's a shallow analysis.

The worst case scenario is not just that they're as bad as AT&T. The worst case scenario is that they're as bad as AT&T and still provide a false sense of security.

Even if you're diligent, other users with your (ISP, VPN) provider pairing might not be, and they could be harmed as a result.

The comments security nerds make here on HN aren't one-on-one individualized consulting (n.b. that's paid work in my field), they're general advice for the public to refer to.
IBM Watson to Get a New VR Speech Sandbox Feature
It feels like a centralized organizing service for web content (and by extension, retail goods sold online) is an inevitability in today's internet. If we switched google off, some other search engine would replace them simply because people need to be able to find things on the internet in a way that doesn't involve spending 30 minutes running through different "top hotlinks" lists on obscure web pages.

To me, the real issue is that we have a service which people depend on like a public utility (the internet) whose components are completely privatized and uncontrolled (ISP's, search, social networking). It's not a bad thing that so much of the traffic is being routed through certain pages. What makes this unsettling is that those pages are undemocratically, privately controlled and you've got next to no say in it because if you switch to a different private alternative, who's to say we won't be in exactly the same situation 10 years from now?
The data won't be leaked.
I added Show HN to this, and marked the other as a dupe. Thanks for this interesting project!
Jupiter's X-ray auroras pulse independently
Risks was a pretty amazing list back in those days. It was very much the Hacker News of an earlier era.
Hitting the Hacker News Front Page: How Much Traffic Do You Get?
Acumos: The Linux Foundation's new artificial intelligence project
The $200 is worth it just for the form factor - smaller than the plus yet a bigger screen. That is, if I compare it to the 8. If you're locked the Apple ecosystem, then I'd say yes.