skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is all like "speech should be free and unlimited and protected always... Unless someone's
talking about me."

That sort of hard stance seems extremely unworkable. If I sign up for Hulu they need my email and billing information at the least. So they are supposed to pay me now because I gave them that to get a service? So then ot evens out so my streaming is free now? Goodbye any useful paid service. Goodbye any free service.

What you're really advocating here though is abolishing free society as we know it.

You think I'm kidding? All court proceeding would have to be in secret and unrecorded as saying "so and so convicted of manslaughter" is now illegal. All public records abolished entirely, no accountability anymore. No journalists could publish a story about anyone ever. Harvey Weinstein sexually assaults hundreds of women? Can't tell anyone or publish that information, Harvey Weinstein owns it. Even telling someone else about your date last night would become illegal.
Of course, if you use per/Mb pricing, then those services suddenly become much more expensive.

Which means that any competitor to those services now faces a high barrier to entry - they can't just compete on features, they have to be that much better to overcome the cheaper cost of mobile data for the product they're trying to compete with. Which leads to easier formation of monopolies.

Which is exactly the kind of thing that was pointed out as the problem requiring Net Neutrality in the first place.
Shareholders are more than happy to carve up their company and feast off its remains if they come out ahead financially, and once you go public, they're all that really matters.
I also really enjoyed this book, and wrote up some notes on what I took away from it that I thought could apply to software engineering https://jcooney.net/post/2017/08/03/skunkworks.html
Couldn't agree more. Similarly with the commenter who has been voted to the top. The tech industry isn't a great look right now.
Start by typing the names and email addresses of every congressman/woman into https://haveibeenpwned.com/. If the results are scary, share them in your speech.
it depends on what we mean about "net neutrality". Too many just assume what it means and does. considering how well we did before the agency changed the rules in 2014 I fail to see how it was all going to implode.

Oh, forgot about the big money players who want to exploit it for their own purposes and thus portray anything which interferes with it as end of the world; namely google and similar service providers. throw in big money investors like Soros and the Knight group and you can see this is being played just like politics, people putting their money where the biggest return is. The biggest return is having super large companies free reign to use the net how they want regardless how it impacts smaller providers and smaller ISPs.

Which side was I on? Can you tell? That is the issue. People are assuming too much.

oh, since 2014 broad band deployment has dropped. odd how that works.
A token only redeemable for bitcoin collapses and you think that will hurt the price of bitcoin? It will hurt the price of tether certainly, the other side of the trade will boom.

Always amazed that some fail to grasp this, tether disintegrating is a solid buy for bitcoin, apart from the bad media coverage, which going by current standards has no effect on price. So that's $600m desperately trying to get into bitcoin all at once, this likely happening within a space of ~72 hours, think about it for a moment.
I just tried to search for how many surveillance cameras there already are in the UK, and by the time I got to "number of surveillance cameras", Safari popped up a Siri suggestion for the London Wikipedia article... http://mayoyo.tokyo/jK7.jpg

If anyone is curious "The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) estimates there are between 4-5.9 million cameras"
Firefox includes one IIRC and there’s githubs SoftU2F for Mac https://github.com/github/SoftU2F
"Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/31/coders-of-the-w...
More and more sites are doing this, and more and more am I realising that I really don't care to read the articles enough to enable javascript/disable adblockers. A nice side benefit is that I'm consuming much less content that, really, I don't need. Most news articles for example don't affect my life other than, perhaps, depressing me. If its not actionable, I don't need to know. These sites are helping me (slowly) unravel my internet addiction. So really, I should be thanking them :)
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If you want to hear some really nasty horror stories, ask women who work in blue collar jobs...
A combination.

From the day I started back in 2012 it was clear to me that in order for us to grow functionality to enough verticals in the merchant space we would have to build an API as that was the only way to actually allow for the platform to grow beyond what we could build internally.

It was a hard push for a while though as the focus was in some of the other areas that made us actual money.

The first inception had a pretty strong team but less backup in the organization. We did a lot of great work that never saw the light of day.

Then the last couple of years it all changed and there was suddenly a push to do proper API I was "called into duty" again. This time the foundation was product led rather than tech led and that changed things a lot.

My personal experience was that people just saw API as some technical curiosity rather than as an actual foundation for the business.

Luckily plenty of people in the organization was aware of its importance.

This has changed a lot the last couple of years I think not the least because of Stripes documentation which is almost legendary today.

For some reason, I was always aware of its importance. I even wrote an essay about it back in 2009 and wrote:

"The next big battle is going to be a battle between digital ecosystems; not gadgets, not products and not services.

The most important weapon is going to be the WMCs: Weapons of Mass Connection, a.k.a. the APIs.

These APIs will make it possible for different organizations to have data flow freely between them. Allow for anyone with the right idea to leverage on others’ success without taking anything away from them. On the contrary, the more trusted interpreters you can give access to the data flow, the more robust the digital ecosystem will be."

http://000fff.org/the-power-of-digital-ecoystems/
"A company's incentives are aligned with the people who pay them"

That sounds great but it can not be further from the truth. So are you saying that Comcast and the telcos of the world incentives are aligned with their users?
If you regulate away advertising supported sites/services, you're discriminating against lower socioeconomic groups. It would be better to just regulate how much information advertisers can collect, which in turn gives them fewer powers of manipulation.
Very handy article! I didn't know about these custom Git commands. I'll now have to invest some time on writing a few.
Parts of it are
We launched EnvKey[1] a couple months ago to offer an easy-to-integrate solution to this issue.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
Good, as long as right-populist sites are losing new readers as fast as left-populist sites are.

If Google is indeed making an active effort to use its influence to stall our societal descent into Weimar Republic politics, it should be applauded.
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I think it's hard to kill when you have comfort. If I was alone in a forest I wouldn't think long (your brain wouldn't mind a bit).

The saddest part of the desensitization to killing is the waste. You wouldn't waste much if you had to kill it too. You'd know the value.
Is that really a position Linus has maintained for a long time? Because I got the feeling Linus really just hated anything to do with security.

It's only in more recent years when the automotive and IoT industries have started to get involved in the Linux Foundation and them asking for more security features that he seems to have tried to find ways to "compromise" with security people.
Hi I accessed it using the following method on my Galaxy S7.

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At least with kinder eggs you know you're getting the chocolate, and you know you will get one of half a dozen toys. But sure, I guess its not that different...
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The important thing to remember is that everything of substance has already been written up and will be read by congress members and their staff. Keeping that in mind, the more important object is to make use of the five minutes of microphone time.

I think studying how other people have effectively used their five minutes in instructive. I'd start with the testimony of Fred Rogers where he gave a Senate statement on PBS funding: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fredrogerssenatetes...
There are arguments against net neutrality. Check out the NoNetNeutrality subreddit if you're curious [0].

The most convincing argument IMO is that it hurts people's internet access by sniffling innovation. It happened in India when Facebook tried to provide free "basic internet" access to poor rural Indians [1]. It was blocked on the ground of net neutrality since although it would provide access to very useful sites (weather, news, wikipedia, and yes, facebook), it was a sort of walled garden. Considering the alternative of no internet access or limited internet access, I think most people would agree that basic internet could have been a life saver to these people.

The other strong argument against net neutrality is that it's a trojan horse for internet regulation. When you have a legal framework for a regulatory body to tell and ISP you have to provide equal aaccess to "legitimate" content, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to consider that the natural extension of this is to tell the ISP they must block all "illegitimate" content

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/NoNetNeutrality/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Basics
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Parent wrote sex, not love. You can't stop love (or lust), but you can choose how you act on them. For example, by removing yourself from the context where that is inappropriate.
AMD rolled out PSP from 2013 to 2015, not 'roughly 2010'.
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Neutral networks converge on natural monopolies, globally. So a neutral net ends up with Facebook and Google "on top" in every country. This is globalisation in the Naomi Klein sense: the same brands dominating every market.

Of course, a non-neutral net ends up with the ISPs as natural monopolies instead, but these are local and a lot closer to the state in most places.

How well this is linked to populist anti-globalism is not clear. The issue is obscured in America because the big players are American, but I think it plays better in Europe where privacy concerns about exporting data matter.
If there’s just one takeaway from the article, it’s this: Why the hell can't we standardize on a single head type?
This article seems to typify what PG was talking about in his submarine article [1].

[1] - www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
> I could post a similar chart showing that my trips to Costco pump BTC.

Obligatory mention: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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> A year ago, Mr. Bell’s team spent hours distributing hundreds of Excel spreadsheets to regional and unit leaders each month for planning and performance tracking of the company’s 415 U.S. restaurants, he said. Now the same process takes minutes.

Then I believe it should say stop abusing Excel.

Excel can be an incredibly useful tool, but it's definitely not universally useful. If you're using it to manually collate data from 400+ sources, you're doing it wrong.
A small town can still service two or more ISPs, the lack of competition is what's ruining it and the lack of NN won't make it a bit better.

You should maybe also remind yourself that some people are not in the position to move around the country. You should not equate your own capabilities in life with those of others.
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Nope. I live in a very large NJ suburb of NYC. Only one ISP
I am happy Linus shields Linux kernel from those golden-hearted individuals whose feel-good attitude would allow questionable solutions designed by committee to slip in.
What does Huaweied mean?
In extreme environments, sure. My understanding is that this island is temperate, so it's more like camping at the lake than braving the desert or the taiga.
Well, not after you lose. I think this time is it.

However, it is "merely" a symptom of the US political system not being sensitive to the citizens' wants and needs. Or no longer being a democracy by modern standards, if you want to be dramatic.
Would love to see a follow up where we would see how much duplication existed if we controlled for common dependencies and autogenerated code in conjunction with data on how many repositories are fully cloned (i.e. all code is near identical to another repository).
For anyone else looking, the parent probably meant 'easystroke': https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke

It's likely available from your package manager.
> what you see it usually just the squashed commit submitted for merge

Then __david__'s argument "could you spot the error?" is moot, because the squashed commit (hopefully!) was not the subject of review, but the smaller commits.
And I have it the same way with developers. They were always my go-to colleagues more than other designers for insights and

I would generally suggest to hang out with radically different perspectives than your own.

Luckily, in my new company both my partner feel the same way.
Sounds more like they should get a proper ERP and/or HR system to solve this.
I used Siri pretty religiously since 2011 til 2015. There I bought my first smart speaker which then and in comparison made using Siri very frustrating so I stopped using it. Though with my iPhone 8 Siri has finally caught up to its voice assistant competitors and I use it constantly in my car to control what’s streaming in my car. Like Hey Siri play similar songs and boom she creates a pandora station and plays it. Hey Siri add this to my songs... hey Siri where are you (to find misplaced phone .., this one needs to be way more reliable though)

Wishlist for me would be.. hey Siri play recently added songs. Frustrating it doesn’t do this already, but maybe an Apple engineer will see this :)

Overall Siri in 2017 is pretty solid and Apple should release a more innovative HomePod. Like one where I ask “Siri show me the weather,” and boom I hear and also see a display beamed onto a wall. That Jibo has a perfect form factor and UX for projecting onto a wall.
I think the question of fire is a lot less clear cut than you give it credit. See e.g. the discussion in https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/75106
You might not like Apple’s walled garden, but it’s pretty much irrelevant to this story.

In fact Skype has been removed from the Android stores as well so the non-walled gardens aren’t faring better. Also, since this class of apps is about communication, the app stores are just a side-skirmish in the war for control. The real power is in controlling the network, which the Chinese government does (and Apple does not).

That brings us back to the real problem here: the repressive control of speech and communication by the Chinese government.

The relative openess of tech ecosystems means little in an environment of a repressive, controlling government.

They only put “Apple” in the headline for the clicks.
The quality of HP products appears to have gone downhill. They had a perfect reputation but the last HP Envy laptop I bought about 1 year ago had lots of problems and it kept overheating to the point that I couldn't even touch the underside of it. The fan was quite loud too. After only 7 months, the hard drive failed completely.

It had so many obvious problems, it felt like nobody had actually tried using the machine in real life.

I don't think I'll buy HP again. I've lost faith in the brand.

My current laptop is a Dell and it's a huge improvement.
The core complaint of not having a single source of truth seems more about how the company handles data/filing rather than Excel itself.

Maybe I'm a bit bias having used Excel my entire career and very dependent on it, but everytime I've seen companies steer away from the desktop application with 0365/sheets/tableau its simply not as useful for adhoc data analysis and reporting.
What should we use, then?

I desperately need some tool I can tell non-tech people to use where they can input arbitrary structured data.

After the data is there, in any format the user wants, as long as it is structured somehow, millions of programs can be written to use that data and combine it, but somehow the data has to be written FIRST. It is not feasible to come up with the schema, write a software based on that schema and then give it to the non-tech people.
> The patchset itself was broken and intermediate states didn't compile

As a maintainer, isn't it then your right to refuse the patchset and demanding a clean patchset instead?
This. I work in Developer Relations and we used to say our motto was to be the "0th customer". Just by building on top of new APIs we planned to release we'd discover piles of issues and improvements that even the best developers can't spot in the design phase.
Haha, If that is the case, lets put an Idol nearby there too!

Actually, place 4 idols in each corner of these step-wells and say the water was once holy as held on some made up historical evidence by some local archaeologists themselves. I know, I know this is the low people have to hit for. But hey! to get good work done, its ok for a bad action against a bad guy!

In flocks the world's second largest population and the Water is magically pure.

People will see through this ploy if not immediately, then later. But, would the religious fanatics listen by that time?

It will thrive. Either with archeological or religious interests from thereon.

I think an ideal suggestion on paper is for United Nations and Indian govt. to declare it a heritage site. This is also the ripe chance to use Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) since it is in full swing.

I am a Hyderabadi and you are correct. I have applied numerous requests only to be neglected and see my Charminar fall piece by piece...until I asked TV and media attention to focus. It was peppered with how muslims are neglected to the core of their history and religion. That save felt like resurrection to my soul.

I understood, that day, that every action revolves around money. And how do you get that? Do some religious appeal and it pretty much works by itself even though it might neither be the necessary nor sufficient factor always.

Should I write a letter to the state and central government and involve the media since it is attention whore and ready to sling mud at the running governments? Will this work? Let's see.
Exactly!

As cognitive psychologists, this is what we are trying to fight with Lyra: a nonprofit conversation service which respects attention.

www.hellolyra.com/introduction
And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm an outdoorsy type, raised in the countryside where houses were miles apart. Still, as an adult I prefer the convenience of close society even though I'm not a "people person" by nature. Everyone has their own comfort zone.
After three attempts at designing an ML rest-lile API, I ended up writing the deepdetect's API. Never touched its fundamentals since mid 2015. Very very far from perfect but has served great til now!
I think the problem is they're using Excel as a database as opposed to a spreadsheet. That's fine at small scale, it's easier to manage and even easier to get going, but Adobe scale? They should advise "Stop using Excel for what it's not".
Ask HN: What are things self-taught devs don't get right about code/tech?
I consider myself a fairly decent coder, as in I can get code to do what I want and usually manage to make it somewhat optimized. But, as any self-taught dev, I feel there's a few obvious I miss from not having had a formal education in the subject/years of experience as a junior dev.
What would you say are the main things self-taught devs lack that only formal education/industry gave you?
Is it just because a puritanical society considers it different than being social in other ways, a leftover from when it was considered dirty/sin?

So what if it is? It's completely unacceptable to cause harm to others just because in a better society that harm wouldn't happen. We're responsible for the consequences of our actions in the real world, not in what we wished the world was.
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Make sure it thumps on the back of the tendons attached to the skull. If it works, the silence is as much of a relevation as a deaf person hearing. Ok. Perhaps not,but having known no different for 25yrs, the silence was pretty epic.
For starters, defining it as “manly stuff” is immediately disqualifying half of your prospective market, and is off-putting to a good portion of the rest.
How much does it cost to get an advertisement like this in the WSJ?
To the contrary, I think the arrtie made it very clear why there are competing standards. Read the section about the Robertson drive and the Model T, the difficulties in getting anyone but ASC to go for the Phillips head, the different approaches to to forming heads in screws and their technological requirements, the natural progression of improvements to torque delivery, the expiry of patents, and the development of newer applications for screws that had differing requirements.

But I know what you really meant ;) - there really are an insane amount of heads covered in the article, and it doesn’t even scrape the top of the barrel.
After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).
Gonna start my surveillance free luxury city and enjoy my new rich-itude.
It the opposite...

you should panic in a production environment and reset the state of the machine (which has become indeterminate).

The correctness and validity of the data >> uptime.
For reference since the article doesn’t make it clear: https://www.google.com/search?q=one+way+screw&safe=off&clien...
Noted. Will work on the mission statement a bit more ...
> Nothing does that, not just in the VCS world.

You can have PGP signed commits in git, it's just not enforced by default.

> It already supports files larger than a hundred millibits.

It's not about the size, it's about binary blobs. Git LFS is a band aid for that use case (and IIRC GitHub supports LFS for over a year now).
If you want actually tiny gnu editor, use ed.

I use it fairly regularly and the lack of any distracting UI is a fresh breeze compared to the overloaded editors out there.
It wasn't needed. When the manager is gone and a replacement is not hired, it's pretty obvious you should start sending out CVs. Or prepare but stick around for the redundancy pay ;-)
Isn't there a watch on the ship to monitor the key information at pretty much any time? I think most ships over 30 meters or so have constant staff there.

Plus there must be a checklist when departing, ship balance info, etc.
Corrected title: "China to have 626M surveillance camera botnet within 3 years".
Great, so it only transmits half of your search history without asking you.

That's so much of an improvement for a browser which people only use because they want absolute privacy.