skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm a business owner and I see that Shopify knows my business as well as I do, I start to ask questions. What's stopping them from figuring out what the margins are in each of these businesses and starting up a competitive business with a few business that have the highest margins?

A diversification of cash flows streams never hurt anyone right? ( Yeah I'm looking at you Amazon)
but this article is more than a 15 minute read...
Oh man those both sound awesome. Thanks for adding the info! Especially the distributed systems course.
Ajit Pai and his cronies are an affront to humanity.
Agreed. Right now there's basically an arms race going on in this field.
Doesn't the ME firmware to power saving, suspend, restore, etc?
The browser would obviously have to be smart enough to mark code that came from any sort of http source, even those embedded in https pages or https loaded by http pages, as non-executable. That would probably be the easiest way to do it anyway. Once we hit http, the level of trust drops and stays dropped.

Having thought about this a bit more, that would be an browser option that we could use today without any general convention. Turning on the "No script execution without https" option would break very little and would prevent more than just MITM attacks.
> How do you interpret that China, a pseudo-capitalist country, bans skype and its because of the greed and avarice of private capital.

I didn't understand it to be an explainer of China's actions, but of Apple's.
Overwhelming number of jobs created in the last decade are very low quality gig economy jobs. People work, but they're severely underemployed.
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Cell phone companies will probably hand over such info to any government entity to comply with local laws. I suppose with Google they have it a bit easy, because google links your identity to your phone, email, web search, purchases, maps activity, etc. They don't have to issue 20 different legal requests to each provider, and then combine that data. Other than that I don't see how Google collecting this data is bad (if we're to assume that there is a legitimate reason to do so).
I have traveled a lot from Chicago to Iowa City, which has no rail service, via both Megabus and a Greyhound subsidiary. Don't know that I would call it a rural route. Or rather, I don't think it's so rural as to be invisible.

People under various hardships have different needs. Greyhound you can pay cash, if you don't have a credit/debit card, though you do need a photo ID. Amtrak is the same, but doesn't go everywhere. Megabus you can ride without a photo ID, but you need a credit/debit card and access to the internet.

When I was traveling that way there were a lot of families moving out of Chicago by bus, with all their possessions in black garbage bags.

Also, prisoners in Illinois tend to get a bus ticket when they're released:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-prison-releases-bus-me...
> Makes more sense than choosing the number for biblical reasons

The Bible doesn't say there are seven colors in the rainbow. Isaac Newton said so, to match the seven notes of a musical scale.

I agree with your kids. There are six: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. In grade school, I heard indigo and thought, who says indigo? You might as well add chartreuse.
Typical start up operator is a bullshitter. They bullshit investors for money. It's completely normal and legal.

If you don't bullshit - you don't get funded. Simple.

Theranos for example was a typical bullshit company on steroids.
Interesting; thanks for your reply. I guess I'm doomed to airplanes for work travel; I can't justify the added expense and time of the sleeper cars, and can't sleep in the coach seats :(
This fight will not end until we enact legislation codifying net neutrality into law. This issue is to important for a notice to simply be overlooked in the federal register before a ruling is made.
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On the Illini routes, Amtrak is slower, less reliable, and runs less often.
I'm not allowed to cut a tree in my backyard because it's close to power lines, only licensed arborist. I CAN do it but not allowed, so it's just a legislation not an issue of knowledge.
Why is this a problem? What is the harm of them collecting cell tower information? Is it possible to provide the same quality of service(s) without the cell tower information?
Ah yea, I agree then. I use Hangouts in my circle of friends because it's currently the most convenient, but we've changed what we've used before and can change again
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> I don't care what the copywriter wants, I care about what I want. I don't care about your sales or conversion rates, I'm solving my problems.

Isn't that exactly what she's saying? Seems like you're not an outlier after all.
Fake it until you make it is widely accepted norm.
Life in society and politics cannot be dissociated.
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> tends to be incredibly unresponsive

Correction, there is no support. I have a bit of money permanently locked in a coinbase account because their support does not reply at all.

At some point I will just have to convert it all to BTC and send it elsewhere. Caveat Emptor.
The issue with sending a tree of layers is that this prevents some important optimizations: avoiding overdraw with early Z becomes impossible, because your app doesn't know anything about the positions of the scrollable layers and so has to be conservative and paint all of their contents. So you trade a frame of latency for lots of overdraw, which is a tradeoff I'm not really comfortable making. (Note that today, almost all apps overdraw like crazy anyway, but that should be fixed.) :)

> Further, Microsoft engineers have said that hardware overlays are coming, in which the graphics card pulls content from the windows as it's sending the video out the port, rather than taking an extra frame time to paint the windows onto a composited surface.

This seems like the best solution to me. It allows apps to paint content intelligently to prevent overdraw while avoiding any latency.
Or one could apply Occam's razor and admit that "d" was a typo.
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It's not about whether they can or can't. It's about the massive liability for the company if they fuck up on the job and cause property damage or bodily injury.
Note that there is a discussion about how to fight this plan here:

“Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745057
Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?
Mine:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/
3. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/
At least with flying, I don't have to worry that some hobo will steal my bags between "layovers" using the bus.
Don't confuse hustle with enthusiasm!

Enthusiasms is good - it drives people there is no misrepresentation involved.

Hustling is when you cross the line and start bs'ing people for your personal gains.
Sure it is; the one before it.
Clients server with message history on the server solves a lot of the weird message ordering things that would happen when you had conversations between multiple users each with multiple clients that were mostly offline. This is especially helpful for mobile, since always online mobile isn't realistic.

It certainly also enables some law enforcement use cases though.
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I guess 3-4% is better than less /nothing, but seriously, this needs to be going on for 20-30 years.
> It's possible some hardware already does overlays, given that the talk I linked above was 2 years ago. I haven't researched this carefully.

All hardware does some overlays, though not a large number. (You can see Intel GPU overlay setup at [1].) One scanout overlay is already in use on all major OS's, to draw the mouse cursor.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e60e1ee60630cafef5e43...
Do they screen for alcoholism? If not, do you think they should? Do you want hungover forklift drivers?
Is there a case at all to be made for personal responsibility when such a large percentage don't even bother to show up?

How can one possibly ever get out of poverty if s/he can't even make it to an interview?
Thanks nk1tz. Done!
The concepts of trust, transparency and justification in AI
People generally aren't composing other effects on top of a video overlay. Making it work in the general case requires hardware that can do all the things the compositing engine is doing in software.
> What else could they do? Refuse and loose access to that population?

Yes! And go even further: actively assist in aiding dissent and revolution in nations whose disrespect for human rights is so flagrant as to threaten their business model.

I don't understand why the state is held in such regard as to casually gloss over the possibility that private entities, especially those as massive as Apple, might help to smash it.

Apple is an incredibly powerful entity in the world today. There is no reason for them to sit on the sidelines rather than to aid in bringing China down. It's inevitable; the only question is whether it takes 60 years and happens on the backs of the poor and nameless or whether giants like Apple flex their muscle to help.
Manually call e.g. /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (man ld.so for more info).
Why would you want democracy when by definition The Party speaks for all Workers?
For what it's worth, you have to logout/login on Windows for group changes to take effect. This makes me suspect something similar is at play in the Windows world.
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Part of the challenge is finding some plausible reason to have the string come up in the context of operating a Unix system.

Maybe Rihanna will come out with a song called "Grep". Heck, maybe the Black-Eyed Peas already did...
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Sandboxing user side javascript from the web seems like a reasonable security step. Sandboxing web side javascript from the user side javascript is removes power from users in the way that concerned Stallman 35 years ago.

Unfortunately, that's the direction Mozilla is going with web extensions. It must because Mozilla's complicity to bake DRM into the browser requires giving control of the user's computer over to media interests. It requires favoring corporate interests over user freedom.

The horrible thing about Quantum is it replaces the last browser that put power in the hands of users. It removes the last browser that was not constrained explicitly for media consumption.
And to think that posting about Intel ME on HN only a couple years ago would have commenters swarm you with accusations of being a deluded conspiracy theorist. Neat. It's good that people are finally becoming aware of the problems that it poses.
Why resort to such an indirect measure of responsibility? If they're missing client calls or deadlines then address that, don't manage by correlation.
Noted.

On the account draining -- well, there's a latency in setting up new bank accounts there. So I'm surprised it's that easy to just yank money out.

Although I did notice there's no account verification. For example, on Vanguard or other platforms they do a small deposit of a few cents and ask you to verify the payment amounts, a process which has a latency of a day or two.
This is not surprising in the slightest.
Kafka might be a good solution for you. It supports a high volume of messages, a simple routing protocol, is fast and scales well horizontally
Well said...

It wouldn't be so bad if the many layers of abstractions actually resulted in increased productivity, but they clearly don't.

Simplicity >> abstractions.
I'm not sure what money has to do with this? They can spend as much as they want, but it doesn't mean it's going to the right places. Universal healthcare, for example, is much most efficient and cost-effective.
That comment is naive at best - do you really think that the majority of undocumented immigrants in the US can't find jobs? Why else would they be here, and why would their numbers dwindle during times of high unemployment?

If you really doubt that illegals can work in manufacturing, try googling for 'immigration bust factory', or similar stories.
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They just need to add in a shit sensor. Big messes are made when Roomba runs over Fido's "accident" when the owner's not home.
Not sure I follow, we run nginx and certbot in Docker too? It's just that we manually manage its configuration, and need the extra (not too cumbersome) steps to get a cert up.

I usually copy a vhost config from one of our templates, comment out the TLS vhost, reload nginx, request cert, uncomment TLS vhost, reload nginx.

So, I'm not sure what's not possible in your setup? Unless there's a limitation on what kind of volumes you can connect to your containers?
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As the author mentions, i3wm ftw. Seriously check it out.
This reminds me of the observation[1] that most applicants for programming positions can't implement FizzBuzz. This has led some to conclude that the majority of programmers would be stumped by the task, but it is more likely that such programmers are overrepresented in the applicant pool.

1. http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest
Don't write off an entire transformational technology because bad actors exist.
The problem is:

TN Panel:

Pro: Cheap, low latency

Con: Everything else
* America fought a war in Vietnam

* This war was deeply unpopular. Many people protested these in groups

* The head of the FBI at the time, J Edgar Hoover, was immensely powerful. He decided to crush the dissident groups by ordering FBI agents to infiltrate them. According to the article, he is the bad guy (I personally agree with this)

* John Raines and a few friends (the good guys) broke into the FBI office, stole the documents and sent it to newspapers.

* A serious investigation into the FBI's practices was the result of this publication.

* The good guys were never caught.
Why is the article biased more towards Hindi???? Even Telugu is cited more but there isn't any word about Tamil?? Our history from literacy works says different!
Another reason to order a Librem 5.

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Interesting, thanks for the info! I knew you could do some tricks to get a lock faster with GPS, but I am not sure of all of them.
I always read these ridiculously high salaries and laugh. Your average HVAC worker is not making $400k. I do know people in construction/HVAC/plumbers/electricians and it's the bosses making that money, not the grunt workers. The people on the front lines still make good money, for some easily approaching $100k/year, so there's not really a need for embellishment. That isn't to say that it's unattainable, but it's akin to saying that software developers make $400k/year when it's usually 10-20+ year tenured engineering managers at a few specific companies actually making that much.
I'm not American, so I don't know how this works, but would it not be a good idea to fight lobbying with lobbying?

Create a lobbying group, funded by a mix of regular people and businesses that push towards the ultimate aim of net neutrality being a part of national and international law.

I think a lot of people are sick of having to contact their representatives, or don't do it because it's a burden. I imagine many more people would happily throw a few dollars for someone to do that on their behalf, even if it was a recurring thing ($5 a month).
shabble@host:~$ cp /bin/chmod /tmp/chmoo
shabble@host:~$ chmod 600 /tmp/chmoo
shabble@host:~$ ll /tmp/ch*
-rw------- 1 shabble shabble 59K Nov 21 17:15 /tmp/chmoo
shabble@host:~$ /tmp/chmoo
-bash: /tmp/chmoo: Permission denied
shabble@host:~$ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /tmp/chmoo
/tmp/chmoo: missing operand
Try '/tmp/chmoo --help' for more information.
Nah, when flying it's the TSA that pilfers your stuff. At Newark they had a theft ring going for years, the victims were elderly Indians going home: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-tsa-officer-reveals-...
Note that there is a discussion about how to fight this plan here:

“Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745057
Neither are drug tests for determining whether or not someone is high when they show up to work.
Intel patches flaw that leaves millions of computers vulnerable to hidden attack
I think Assange was "compromised" by his inability to deal, personally, with the disgusting things Wikileaks has revealed about America. That, to me, is the most significant aspect of recent events: what started out great, has been internalised and metastasised into rage, angst and frustration at the horrendous machinations of the US government and its partners in building the new world order ..
Linux has MILLIONS of lines of code. Please don't.
EFI is already bloated as it is.

Support efforts like coreboot instead. And FFS, firmware should not persist once the operating system boots. Persistent firmware is cancer.
I’ve always assumed location services = GPS

Meaning you can still be triangulated by towers

Which I had run legally for LEO at Sprint back in 2003-2005.

Towers gotta know where you are to provide service.

Don’t want to be tracked? Leave your phone at home.

Not saying it’s ideal but it’s how technology works.
I think the problem is that starting in the mid-70s, companies have been continuously devaluing their human workers.

Before that, it was possible to take a job after graduation and stay with the same company until retirement. A worker's loyalty to the company was rewarded in kind, with the company's loyalty to the worker. People got raises and promotions. They grew roots.

Now, there is zero corporate loyalty. If you can't predict a profit for this quarter for your specific individual contribution, regardless of how hard you can work, you're fired. But you will come crawling back when we need you again, won't you?

The workers have responded. If the company stops making the work worthwhile, the worker will slack off or jump ship. If the company force-feeds its Flavor-Ade, the employees will just puke it up as soon as it's safe to do so. If the company tells baldfaced lies about itself, the employees smile and nod, while thinking about the rude gestures they would like to be making.

The "lack of engagement" is because the employees know that management cares about them not at all, but the forms must still be honored in order to receive the paycheck. In short, your company is bullshit and the workers hate it; they are just using it to get what they need and will ditch it the instant that a better deal comes along. We are all mercenaries now.

We will disobey whenever it's more convenient for us, and we think we can get away with it. Because the company executives are just our bosses, not our friends or our leaders or our prophets. If they fire us, we move on to the next bosses just like them. We're not going to bust our ass to earn them another dollar. Maybe if we are freshly fallen off the back of the turnip truck, we will go the extra mile, but it doesn't take long for those folks to learn. So the disengaged worker is the default. We learned from our elders, who were forcibly disengaged by their employers.

And since my fortunes are not tied to those of my employer in any meaningful way, I will not stick around to help bail out a sinking ship. If you're going down, I'm not even going to plug the leak and call for help. I'll just grab a lifeboat and be on my way, thanks. It will probably even be an even smoother ride, as I won't have to worry about any rising tides raising my boat.
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No one is required to give you a job. The increased cost to do that everyday is not worth it to the company if they can weed out possible irresponsible workers from a drug test. It’s work, not a babysitter.

All everyone is talking about is weed which I’m sure most of us agree shouldn’t be tested for but we don’t even know what the failed tests failed for.
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And often times "not on topic" is just an excuse to silence unpopular opinions. Many people consider the things they disagree with to be "political" while the things they agree with are just common sense.
I struggle with the "never enough" side effect a lot. I am hopeful that continuing to hone the system will allow me to reach David Allen's stress free notion of "I can only do one thing at a time, and this is what I am choosing to do." Applying the 10K foot goals helps me with the larger life balance, but I still feel overwhelmed much more than is healthy.
How are you testing the mouse cursor following the window borders on resize? I've read that windows turns off the hardware sprite mouse cursor when resizing windows so that it can software render it to always line up properly.
> Employers need to provide reasonable accommodations if you're able to fulfill the job.

How does an individual make sure that rule is enforced?
I agree. Yes. Perhaps I should have said I have zero expectation that most corporations would say yes. They will decide they just cannot ignore a chunk of the world population that big.
Why is it hard to sign up for the feds cyberthreat information sharing program?
They're just names for arbitrary divisions of the spectrum of vibrating matter around us. The HN top bar is still orange even if it's not the same color as the fruit. My GameCube is close enough to the color of the dye that I'll allow it. It's also a long way from purple.
PGP was publicly accessible long before Snowden so I'm not really sure what you're trying to say
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Good thing then, than in other areas of life we don't limit ourselves to lowest common denominator.

Imagine, if economy or politics worked only according to the naive users.

But to answer your question: they would get used to it. Just like to multiple tv channels or multiple car brands.
Liquid water anyway. We know there is a lot of water ice locked into glaciers on mountain slopes etc.
Still, it seems unusual to not be able to run a set of commands on initialisation.

I haven't looked at Docker in a long time, but isn't there something called an entryscript? I'm not sure I'm remembering the name correctly -

- yep, entrypoint script not entryscript.

I remember something about setting up Wordpress in Docker and the official docker image has this type of script that initialised the database just once.

Might be worth looking into just for interest (maybe not for fixing this 'issue' as you point out its cheap to get a 3 year cert). I imagine one time init commands would be useful to have in their own right anyway.
The link calls them "fabricated stories" and "legends," due to their emergence three centuries after his death. That would be like two biographies released this year on George Washington containing one sentence about how he sailed to China in his teenage years. Not a "strong possibility."

I have no idea what manuscripts you're claiming say the Greeks are in full possession of their philosophical heritage, but that is obviously false when you think about how many works have been lost over the millennia. Even being in possession of them wouldn't change that they were being ignored though, the whole "lack of commentary until the thirteenth century" bit.
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No, as "well known example".
If I understand it right, gobo uses twitter's and facebook's APIs using user's access token to fetch the results and applies filter to it.

What if the feeds from the APIs are already conditioned/personalized for the user ? I didn't sign up for gobo because I don't have a twitter or facebook anymore. I left these social medias for the very reasons that Gobo is trying to solve.