skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why on earth should whether you get those plans or not depend on whether Google Jesus has decided to show his face upon you?
Theses garbage posts usually have very little actual content. I suspect that this made the top of HN by vote stuffing.
Agreed, it would be nice to have an actual conversation about the issues in the mobile market right now instead of pointing to one of the 2 major companies, that nobody should really be 100% confident about.

IMO both Google and Apple aren't saints. Apple had a fairly similar headline in 2011[1]. Now watch people here on HN explain why that was completely different. It's a guarantee.

We really should be focusing coming up with ideas on what we can do. My friend for example (and this isn't a perfect solution) but he bought 2 phones, one of these for calling:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41AwGb3pKCL...

(extremely thin in real life)

And then he caries a smartphone for encrypted chat apps etc. He removed a bunch of hardware chips from the smartphone so even if you put a simcard it it doesn't connect anywhere. Also the microphone was removed and some other things. It works great. At first he had it with the simcard still in, but he wanted more privacy. Personally, I would have kept a 4g only simcard or something, it's kind of a trade-off because now he can only chat on wifi.

It's far from perfect, but at least he's trying something.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tr...
Or you could just go to the Tutorials page... https://hapijs.com/tutorials
not just big bucks. Jail time for those responsible of oversight in terms of data security sounds very appropriate. Call it jail or something else, but it needs to impact individuals and not just company money, and it should have dire consequences on their future job prospects in that field.
Parent might be conflating the amount actually found to be laundered with HSBC's failure to monitor over $200 trillion [1] in suspicious transactions.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/article6209613.ece/...
If we don't want those things to happen, why allow them at all? Why wait, when we can just say up front, "Those things are not allowed to happen."
Meg Whitman is the person companies hire to help them die.
He was a product of his time. That section (unsurprisingly) is preceded by him acting gentlemanly, as he always had, and failing to attract anyone. Gender roles work both ways, and that was apparently how society there and then in that social context expected men to act.
> My overall point is that people don't actually care. It's just virtue signaling.

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

I care up to certain thresholds. Last year my Uber use was probably 90%, Lyft 10%. Now that's flipped. I only use Uber if I'm outside the US and there's no comparable local alternative.

Uber is demonstrably making less money than it used to because I do this, and Lyft is making more. I'm personally happy with that arrangement, and honestly my feelings here are the only ones that matter. I don't particularly care if you think I'm just "virtue signaling" or if I'm "not doing enough" or whatever.
Raising prices for all information: Fine (as long as you're not a monopoly, which unfortunately many ISPs are).

Raising prices for some information: Exerting control over what people see and can say; exerting control over the market and preventing fair competition. NOT OK. The whole issue at hand.
Some other data which tells a different story; I wonder how it all reconciles:

In the United States, the richest 1 percent have seen their share of national income roughly double since 1980, to 20 percent in 2014 from 11 percent. ...

No other nation in the 35-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is as unequal among those with comparable tax data, and none have experienced such a sharp rise in inequality.

...

Almost all of the growth in top American earners has come from just three economic sectors: professional services, finance and insurance, and health care, groups that tend to benefit from regulatory barriers that shelter them from competition.

The groups that have contributed the most people to the 1 percent since 1980 are: physicians ...

The United States also stands out in terms of how much money its elite professionals earn relative to the median worker. Workers at the 90th percentile of the income distribution for professionals make 3.5 times the earnings of the typical (median) worker in all occupations in the United States. Only Mexico and Israel, which have very high inequality, compensate professionals so disproportionately.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/upshot/income-inequality-...
Wow. $1000!! I own two copies because I thought I had lost mine and so bought a second for $10 or so. Then I found the first one.
I live in Orange County, CA. I have access to literally one provider.
Many people are attracted by the idea of living in isolation, but few people stick it out. I think this guy on an island that is not very far from civilization (including grocery delivery and the occasional cruising sailboat) strikes a balance more of us could grow accustomed to. Personally, I'm pretty sure my wife and I would sign up to take his spot tomorrow.
Colorado fines Uber $8.9M for allowing unfit drivers
I know you wanted STEM books, but I loved the Cam Jansen series of mysteries from about 6-10ish. It was to the point that the school librarian wouldn’t put the new one out generally until I read it.

Link: http://www.camjansen.com
It turns out that is AT&T’s interpretation of the law, one that doesn’t seem to be accepted by anyone else, so I retract that claim. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/att-claims-commo...
Thank you for elucidating this. I found it very helpful and I wouldn’t have recognised it so clearly.
Well, she’s almost certainly been better than the previous few. There’d probably be nothing left if Apotheker had stayed.
That's not where I was going with this and I'll respectfully disagree with your statement because in a society, there has to be a balance between conflicting interests. If what is good for me will cause harm to you, societies generally will want to limit the extent of the harm, so that some socially acceptable balance exists. It's not always all that well balanced or well implemented, but it tends to be adequate on very catastrophic things.

But again, all human systems are flawed in different ways and it's extremely important to recognize those limitation and consequences, and not just let systems grind people up.
Customer Service Innovation – How Chatbots Are Evolving
pytorch with a keras like functional/layers API would be amazing. I'm guessing we might see that in tensorflow when keras adds support for the new eager mode.
> Same as `googling` will long remain the synonym for `searching the internet`.

That's more due to the ubiquity and dominance of Google itself.

It's rare to hear someone say "I Googled it on Bing" or even "Let me Google my email" when they're using Outlook. Maybe not unheard-of, but definitely nowhere near the threshold needed for genericization.
The context of the story is that he keeps buying drinks for women who flirt with him at nightclubs (e.g. one or another traveling singer) who then near the end of the night make some excuse why they can’t spend more time with him and leave.

He notices one of the women who made some excuse about a party that night has been talking with the MC frequently, and surmises correctly that they are married – turns out the woman wasn’t actually looking for romance and was just leading Feynman on to get free drinks out of him. The permanent singer at the club had been introducing women to him after first telling the women he was a big spender.

Feynman befriends the couple (singer and MC), and they talk about how plenty of rich men at the bar keep spending money on the girls there without getting anywhere romantically. The MC tries to teach Feynman about the social roles people take on at a bar. The key lesson is that a man who buys a woman a drink up front is unlikely to end up getting the one night stand he wants, but if he refuses to buy her anything, his chances will be better. Feynman tried it out by getting a girl to pay him back for a sandwich, and a few hours later she came by at the end of the night and invited him to her room, so the lesson apparently worked.

The “bitches” part is some kind of temporary psychological reprogramming he’s doing on himself for a day or two so that he can bring himself to objectify people against his usual inclination, so that he can try the experiment. It’s clear in context that he doesn’t think all women are “bitches”.

Feynman tried it one more time some while later on someone who wasn’t a traveling singer, flirting a bit with a girl but then asking if she would sleep with him before he would buy her a drink. She agreed.

His conclusion at the end is: “So it worked even with an ordinary girl! But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really used it after that. I didn’t enjoy doing it that way. But it was interesting to know that things worked much differently from how I was brought up.”

Note: I’m not making any value judgments here, just recounting the story.
Accountability is a petty side show. Who, in the first place, gave the providers consent for all this, and who appointed them owners of PII?

There is a gross lack of information and consent, and a violation of the proper ownership of PII, which should be with the user. Right now data is collected under the cover of overly broad user agreements that are never read, if even that, and data is dispersed among third parties without further user knowledge. The user is completely in the dark. They did not really agree with the collection of data, and cannot really see what was collected, where it ended up, and how it was used, not even at an aggregate level. Furthermore the user finds it very difficult to withdraw, even if they had actually given informed consent, since it's so hard to delete anything off of premises you do not own. It's a distraction to talk about how to punish people for not safekeeping something they stole from you in the first place.

After all, a so-called "breach" is just one thief stealing from another -- would you expect a thief to care that much on your behalf?
Nit: Really verbose error messages like the last example are at risk of being brittle. If the API changes, there may be a failure to update the error message. This is because the messages may concern things at a distance, and may have arbitrary prose that no longer makes sense.

For example, imagine if all your error messages were basically documentation style prose. That would be a nightmare, and would set you up to a lot of error message refactoring. A better strategy is somewhere in the middle.
Folks interested in this would probably also be interested in:

* this talk by Jesse Noeller from PyTexas a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZ_E1OO_PY

* the WriteTheDocs community, which is sortof a mashup of traditional technical writers and software engineers. http://www.writethedocs.org/meetups/

* the mailing list GET PUT POST (shameless plug): https://getputpost.co/overhauling-api-docs-with-gocardless-9...
> the actual work was done by Brazilian crew, which I'm guessing was mostly illegal immigrants likely paid less than minimum wage

There are millions of immigrants in the U.S. who are legal; why would you think these people are not? I guess my point is, it's not a good assumption and has bad consequences: People having their legality questioned based on no evidence.
The problem wasn't Clinton's campaign, it was the candidate; it's amazing that a candidate that widely hated and whose negatives were rock solid from decades of political exposure still managed to get more votes than Trump, who came in with slightly higher negatives, but about whom voters had far less firm opinions.
Free DNA decoding for your medications
This sort of misdirection and "whataboutism" frustrates me too. Thank you for the elaborate response; I will keep this in mind the next time I have to battle a troll like the GP.
Oh I completely agree.
The main argument against the current net neutrality laws is that they are unnecessary legislation and that government should only intervene with rules when some harm has been shown.

The internet worked just fine with respect to ISPs not favoring content before the net neutrality laws were passed in 2015. Yes, there were some instances of push and shove between content providers and ISPS but overall not a big problem. After all the internet has exploded in reach and scale prior to 2015 without that law.
Under the European GDPR regs coming in next may it will be illegal not to disclose.
The way you fix this is by making each 5m late cost 2 gallon of milk. If you are late for 15m that's 6 gallons of milk, an operational burden has been passed to the late parent. It's embarrassing to bring in 6 gallons of milk, an inconvenience to buy and deliver it, and an effective deterrent.
I honestly don't get your argument. You're saying that, because they didn't do it while they were under regulation, they're not going to do it in the future?

If they're not going to do it, then why remove the regulation?
Inslaw, PROMIS, and the murder of Danny Casolaro indicate you are wrong.
If the government was going to take your house away from you anyway, why would they care what’s on the blockchain? This is so contrived...
> What ever happened to our mantra (really Google's but it reflected the whole valley) "Don't be evil"?

The kool-aid wore off and everyone realized it never had any meaning to begin with.
> That's what I thought, too. Using SVG at all instead of images is a huge win for bandwidth. Adding gzip is painless and makes the deliverable tiny. Any further optimization effort would likely be better spent on another part of the site.

Sometimes that’s the last parts left to do.

I’ve recently started working on improving the performance of https://quasseldroid.info/ (I’ve still got to optimize the images), and doing svg optimizations got some SVGs from 14kiB gzipped down to 400 bytes (which meant I could inline them into the CSS). This can be really worth it.
WOW! I usually run about 7 emulators of android in one monitor, and my web browser and other stuff in the other monitor. things get really laggy sometimes, turning off this feature made HUGE difference. my experience has improved dramatically
Like expressjs(in purpose) but less popular and slower.
I know it's kind of superfluous, but I could never really get into Fossil because it had a poor UI compared to commercial offerings for Git - e.g, GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab.
Links to broader descriptions in your docs are one useful tool here.

As is having a hook in github which notices that a PR updates your API schema and adds a comment with a checklist of things to be sure you've considered.
I would add two things.

1. Encryption is the only way to secure data, and without it, data will always get stolen. And encryption with a backdoor is not encryption.

2. Data needs to be owned by the people. I should be able to go to Target or American Express and ask them to delete everything they know about me. Them not doing so should result in a, say, 10,000 dollar fine that goes all to me with admittance of insurmountable guilt.

A 200 million dollar fine may still have banks and telecom gaming the system, but if they had to admit guilt, the math becomes easy. Their egos won't permit it!

And with that, finally our data will be kept safe.
“What is Gobo?” Is buried deep in the article:

To use Gobo, you link your Twitter and Facebook accounts to Gobo and choose a set of news publications that most closely resembles the news you follow online. Gobo retrieves recent posts from these social networks and lets you decide which ones you want to see.
Yes, that is how it works :)
That value seems surprisingly bad. My limited experience with iDevices (don't own one) has been that the position of the stationary finger on the page vs. finger on the page while scrolling (another way to measure - unless it is specifically fudged with some kind of prediction to make scrolling feel less detached) is very small. But I can't argue with data.
FWIW, I like to test Android in the scroll view of the OS settings app or the address book. Those are well implemented and presumably don't add unnecessary lag.
Yeah, I'd imagine as a homeowner, I'd want projects (at least those where the outcome matters visually), to have that professionalism.

I kind of would want to be a bit further up the learning curve, but if you only have 1 or 2 bedrooms, you don't have much by way to learn, so it seems like having a professional is probably worth the premium vs. your own labor (if you're like me and highly value the aesthetic end result).
Architecturing and running in multiple clouds is easy, it's exactly the same as supporting multiple datacenters and that's not something new or ground breaking.

The only challenging part is the database access. Except cassandra, there isn't anything common or free that can take writes from multiple data centers simultaneously.
This sort of personal attack isn't allowed here because, irrespective of the person at issue, it degrades discussion. We've banned this account.
> Joe Sullivan, the outgoing security chief, spearheaded the response to the hack last year, a spokesman told Bloomberg. Sullivan, a onetime federal prosecutor who joined Uber in 2015 from Facebook Inc....

Why on earth would a software-based company like Uber that stores a boatload of confidential employee and customer information on its servers put a non-technical person of any sort, lawyer or not, in charge of its security team?
Tangent, but I suspect you've researched this topic more than I have -- do you know of any good source on the subject of FPGA NNs?

It dawns on me that FPGAs might actually be better than GPUs for a project I've been thinking about, but I know relatively little about state-of-the-art design/synthesis techniques.
Did you ask any families with a family member killed by a cartel if a fine seemed reasonable?
Why should you get paid more because your users were streaming Netflix as opposed to doing anything else with the traffic?

You, as a network provider, are already peering with other network providers, and so you're getting paid for (and paying for) the bandwidth that's getting used. What you're after is an extra slice of the pie from Netflix.
To use 2fa on github you need a mobile phone.

Do you give every enployee a mobile phone, or do you ask your employees to use their own personal phones?

Asking them to use their personal phones seems like a very bad solution. Many software companies do not routinely give developers mobile phones...
> People voted for the current administration to do this and they should get what they want.

Utterly false.

The FCC plan to eliminate net neutrality is wildly unpopular; the backlash against it every time it's come up for public comment has been gigantic.

> Americans of all political parties overwhelmingly support the values of net neutrality and want to preserve existing net neutrality protections. A strong majority (77 percent) of Americans support keeping the existing net neutrality rules in place. This view crosses party lines, as 73 percent of Republicans, 80 percent of Democrats, and 76 percent of Independents want to keep the FCC’s Open Internet rules.[1]

This isn't a fringe issue. The vast majority of the population, both left and right wing, supports net neutrality. But that doesn't appear to matter.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/353285485/Freedman-Consultin...
Usage of VPN probably can be an additional charge under this plan.

Since ISPs will reason if you are connecting to a "business for work", they'll assume you'll or your company should fork over extra for the privilege of being secure.
> If the parents were fined a day's daycare fee for being ten minutes late you can bet their attitude would change.

I think upping the pain works better. What's a daycare going to do with so many gallons of milk?
Many of those ISPs took government funds to pay for those networks.
"But this is all just marketing, whereas the reality is that Apple could also be hoovering up location data and you may never know."

It isn't just marketing.
This is how the alignment of incentives works.
A company's incentives are aligned with the people who pay them. Apple's are aligned with those that buy phones. Google and Facebook's are aligned with those that buy ads.
Perhaps "Don't change your API to something incompatible but with the same names" would be a good piece of guidance too?

https://github.com/fchollet/keras/issues/3921#issuecomment-3...
Web Truths: the web is broken and backwards compatibility is holding us back
Summary of the Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
> The first is up to €10 million or 2% of the company’s global annual turnover of the previous financial year, whichever is higher.

Why do big firms get off easier than the smaller firms?
> I don't believe any mental or emotional distress was suffered

I don't believe a grown up adult human being with an ounce of empathy could hold the beliefs that you hold. And yet, you exist and hold those beliefs. I presume you're an adult human and that you do have empathy for others.

Sometimes things happen that challenge our beliefs. Maybe a better approach would be to ask why your beliefs don't seem to line up to reality, instead of ignoring the evidence in front of you.

If you keep denying this social change, you're going to sound exactly like the old family member at Thanksgiving that says racist things. Society will have moved on and left you behind.
His time was a product of people, like him, the ones that lived at that time. The causality is reversed.
Two years is too short. I'd try maybe five.
Good luck turning that into an objective standard for a search engine.
Side note: They have a lot of experience, as some of the co-founders also co-founded Vine.
Thank you for following up, it's good to know the source of that claim.

Why do you feel that "What the FCC previously did in declaring ISPs to be common carriers is unacceptable"?

To me it seems the obvious, common sense solution: I want my ISP to deliver the packets of data I request; I don't want them to have any incentive to interfere with or modify those requests. Just like I want my phone company to deliver my phone calls, without any incentive to interfere with or modify those calls. Common carrier rules do exactly that, cleanly and simply, as demonstrated by decades of successful precedent in a nearly-parallel industry.
This is good advice, but even if you don't, it's possible that someone else on your team will.
@wavefunction I can't comment on your last message (I guess to prevent flamewars?), hopefully this doesn't get too confusing to follow.

My understanding of the argument is that EM frequencies in a geography are a limited resource and therefore are best treated as property with "homesteading" giving the initial claim to that property. (Which re-reading what you wrote, I think you understand)

The first time I heard that argument, I found it quite interesting. And in fact, I shared it because it appears not to be mainstream but well worth a look IMO.

I do disagree with your characterization of the general discussion. I think parks and radio frequencies on the whole are treated differently by the govt. There are govt owned frequencies of radio which would be like a public park but I believe this discussion is more about the regulation of the private radio frequencies. There are lots of private frequencies, they are just distributed and regulated by the FCC.

The question as I see it is would it have been better to let "homesteading" distribute the initial ownership or the FCC?
Or draw a different conclusion from the situation: parents are clearly willing to pay a premium for the daycare to stay open later. So raise the price for that service high enough that it's worthwhile for the daycare (including hiring additional staff as needed or paying overtime).