skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To an American this is repulsive

When I saw the news I didn't pay attention to the "finnish" part and the first thing in my mind is "this must probably be in the US".

It's the only country that seems to go out of their way to give a lot of freedom, power and rights to big companies instead of citizens.
the [EX51-SSD-GPU](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu) is the only GPU plan they offer
Personally I appreciated it
For Firefox, you need to use their plugin system -- there should be an addon just for those e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-ht...

On privacy, yes, -- that's our privacy policy in a nutshell: we do not collect or share any personal information -- https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
We won't cancel the existing servers/customers. You just won't be able to order the product anymore. --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
Hello Doron Zeilberger. Did not know you read HN.
Demand absolutely has skyrocketed. When people think "diabetes" they think of fat people in the US and Europe. The reality is that China and India have developed some of the highest type 2 diabetes rates in the world over the course of the past few decades as their economies have grown and resulted in more overweight people. The two largest nations in the world developing major diabetes problems in a relatively short amount of time is going to have significant effects on demand.
I think the main difference between the two kinds of forks is that in one case existing holders of Bitcoin get to own both the original and the fork, and in the other case the fork must bootstrap itself from scratch without the added benefit of a bunch of biased people who are happy to see any new speculative endeavor grow (as long as they own some).

Hence, hard forks are actually much more likely to occur, at least until the inverse network effects you describe actually exist in reality. In a highly speculative market they really don't exist, or at least don't exist enough to discourage a fair bit of aggressive forking. I predict at least two hard forks in 2018.
But can't you own cryptocurrencies anonymously? How are the banks going to enforce this rule?
I see that the DuckDuckGo app is retiring stories. I am sad about this as I really liked the mix of articles it would provide.

@yegg, any chance of a stories-only spin-off app?
In the financial services industry it's not only common, it's near universal.

Most restrict the instruments you can trade (ex: only broad market ETFs) or require that you get management approval for all trades.
> For privacy, I'm now using: DuckDuckGo Plus, First Party Isolation, Smart Referer, HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Canvas Defender and Decentraleyes.

You forgot about F-Droid. Or you don't use it?
I actually made that stories feed originally for myself, before DuckDuckGo even existed. As I still rely on it, I ported it personally to https://twitter.com/watrcoolr
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> Why are banks having anything to say on what an individual can or can't do with his/her own money?

Conflict of interest. You can do whatever you want with your own money, but some of those things are incompatible with working for the bank.
the amount EU can buy increases as they print more Yaun. not the other way around as you suggested on the first sentence.
uMatrix can more closely approximate Noscript. I use it to disable all cookies, scripts, and media unless explicitly allowed.
Bro, literally every language does indentation. Python just does indentation badly by making it syntactically significant.

Also. If you're going to come back to me with the argument that it forces people to use indentation, I've got some news for you. Literally everyone uses indentation. And if you somehow come across code written by the rare soul that doesn't use indentation, all I've to do is select the entire code and click "re-indent". Which, btw, in python is a chore to fix badly indented code with tabs and spaces mixed in together. And it's even more work to properly copy-paste python code, even in good editors.
Python was designed for doing quick throw away prototypes. Perl 5 was designed to support devops before that was a word. If you are writing a large code base in either, there is a good chance you are doing something horribly wrong. (I still prefer perl though)
Yes, from: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

>When you search at DuckDuckGo, we don't know who you are and there is no way to tie your searches together.

> When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address.

> Because this information could be used to link you to your searches, we do not log (store) it at all. This is a very unusual practice, but we feel it is an important step to protect your privacy.

They also provide tools to help prevent other sites from tracking you:

>Finally, if you want to prevent sites from knowing you visited them at all, you can use a proxy like Tor. DuckDuckGo actually operates a Tor exit enclave, which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching using Tor & DDG together.

>You can enter !proxy domain into DuckDuckGo as well, and we will route you through a proxy, e.g. !proxy breadpig.com. This feature is part of our !bang syntax. Unfortunately, proxies can also be slow, and free proxies (like the one we use) are funded by arguably excessive advertising.
This is bad reporting. The amounts are too small to be meaningful in the currency markets.

In addition, China has enormous interest in maintaining the dollar as the reserve currency. Keeping the USD as reserve currency allows the US to borrow at very low rates, and borrowing at low rates is a pillar of its debt-driven economy. The US debt-driven economy is what makes a market for Chinese exports. And China's economy is basically exports plus infrastructure investments by state-owned enterprises. Take away the US for the exports and China has a huge problem. That's why it buys so many Treasuries.

There's also an argument to be made that the yuan is over-valued. It took a nose-dive when China briefly removed currency controls (last year?) because a lot of people wanted to move their money out.
XS is the "same" hack all the time, though. A Perl library that can only be called in list context in Perl 6 is a substantial change from Perl 5. I've seen much smaller changes trash code bases before. I've got real code that would be affected by that. (I also think the context idea was a misfire in Perl <6, but as long as it is there, I've sometimes written code that had to deal with it.)

That said, why is it impossible to call a Perl 5 function in scalar context? Shouldn't the equivalent of Perl 5's "scalar" be fairly easy to implement? It may stink to have to manually use it, but it wouldn't be very often, and it's easy enough to use any of half-a-dozen Perl 6 features to minimize the syntactic hit.
An easy way to browse curated lists on GitHub
But would it work on a spacecraft? (Without gravity?)
To Hetzner:

Any plans to move existing managed servers into the new API? (at least for traffic, invoices etc.) - we currently run a mixed setup with managed servers and CX20/CX30.
But we're not talking just a one time capital redistribution.

The idea is to reverse the flows of capital to improve the "natural" pyramid of distribution.
Love it, I see this replacing my express templates. Well done.
The reason I ask is that I have some specific Windows software and I would like to upload Windows ISO with VirtIO drivers and use my own cd-key instead of paying additional 16 EUR per month for a license that I already have.
Our Cloud plattform has applied all currently released stable patches. We expect to apply more patches as they are released by our vendors over the new few days and weeks. The existing CX plattform was, has, and will be updated via live migration without any noticeable customer impact --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
Can you please elaborate as to the issue -- I'm having trouble understanding exactly what is going on. If it is easier, you can email me directly at yegg at duckduckgo.com
Indentation + characters for scope is a lot more visual IMO than just using indentation with no clear end marker.
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Why AdNauseam instead of uBlock?
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Just speculating, but when an employee is suddenly short on cash, they might feel tempted to take some home from their job. So banks would try to make sure that their employees are more interested in their continued income over the long term, rather than a single large payday.
Yes, it links to that listing in the first paragraph of the article.
Besides all the hype, etc. it at a minimum represents the amount of work/energy required to create a valid block to securely store data inside.
Nordea is headquartered in Finland and even has a Finnish CEO. I think it's fair to call it a Finnish bank.
It's the same question (since time and space are not fully distinct), and the answer's equally unknown.
but isn't buying bonds only useful if you want to return those USD with the prospect of getting more back later on (ideally above inflation)
This makes me happy! Watrcoolr.us (linked in the bio) seems to be a parked domain though, just as a heads up.
Using something like Dash Docs or devdocs.io might help!
The Perl 6 answer to almost all such questions is simply "Yes". It is an incredible mess. Whether it is a glorious mess is something that we are finally coming up on the ability to determine.
The Complete Krit Guide to Running Ineffective User Tests
Please do replace my local editor.
Steam catapults on flight decks have been replaced with linear electric motors for new ships.

http://www.ga.com/emals
Right, but you can't just switch business models and expect things to keep running.

Sam's club couldn't just crank the pay of everyone and expect to remain profitable.
>Hence interesting is solving discrete problems with "continuous" tools - like e.g. http://ac.cs.princeton.edu/home/

I'm often interested in the opposite: Solving continuous problems by going to the discrete domain.

I'm not a mathematician, but I did enjoy taking math courses and dabbling a little.

My personal highlight was when I was struggling for months to solve a continuous variable problem, but then one day I decided to "pixelate" it and converted it to a discrete problem. I solved the discrete problem, and got the answer to the continuous problem by taking the limit of the solution.

The problem was: If you choose n numbers at random (uniformly) in the interval (0,1), what is the expected value of the maximum?

I showed this problem to a number of people (including math professors) who struggled with it. Finally, one day, a colleague solved the problem in 5 minutes and 3 lines using continuous math. (It's not a clever solution either - surprising so many people missed it).

Still, I feel content with my discrete proof (which was about 2 pages). Since then I've often thought I should collect interesting continuous problems solved this way and put them on a web site, but never did. :-(
Akka clusters, like Erlang clusters, are completely trusted. This is not an integration technology, it’s for distributed processing by a single owner.
Which of course was fine in original C.
ksh has ‘>;’, but bash hasn't picked that up. This better fits the compositional Unix philosophy than sprinkling a subset of individual commands with the functionality.
Yup. Many of us are also prohibited from participating in IPOs.
Of course they're using Perl 5, not Perl 6.
They also have Fiber for all office spaces in Santa Rosa within vicinity of the Sonoma County Airport. I've used Sonic since dialup/PPP in 1997.

The Airport fiber is kick ass and enterprise grade -- 1000 down/100 up for very reasonable prices (sub $1k if you are getting a CIDR block of any size).

Uptime has been great, even during the wildfires which burnt a number of sonic's staff out of their houses.
I'm just grateful that they still serve ads over separate domains, instead of rigging up the ad tech on the server side and embedding tracking into the "functional" Javascript.

I get more worried that once Wasm hits, the only way to tell if you're being tracked will be to monitor individual HTTP requests, which even then might become impossible if everything is sent to and from opaque CDN domains.

I imagine the only thing currently standing between us and this nightmare is that people don't want to actually work with any tracking on the backend; easier to embed it in the front-end and let the vendor put whatever they want in the script and serve all the requests.
I would have left my wife standing on the porch if I was in a conversation with my CEO or other organizational top management. It’s a complete different paradigm for respecting authority that I picked up in the Military and your wife no doubt picked up from China’s strong nationality and authoritarian paradigm.

No single thing has been harder about the ‘normal’ world then getting used to people who seemingly don’t even CONSIDER the power structure of an engagement let alone actively alter their behavior in the moment based on who they are talking to.
There are real companies doing real work in newer languages like Swift and Go too. Perl 6 is a toy in comparison.

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I use it at $work for throw-away one-liners

Awesome
If he uses stock android then what's the point of all of those addons? He's just wasting his time and computer resources then.
I agree with you but what you describe is exactly what a flick is, except with more stuff thrown in.
What's good about happy meals.

On the rare occasion I succumb to McDo I avoid the happy meals and their call to increased consumerism, it's like buying an advert.
Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)
Mars is in space. Venus is in space. And, I suppose, the Earth is in space, too. :)

But if we're referring to the near-vacuum of space, it's still possible although the forces involved are incredibly small. There is SOME gas/plasma in space, and certain kinds of sound waves with really long wavelengths (called ion acoustic waves) do, indeed, travel through this thin medium. Unlike sound waves traveling in a neutral gas, ion acoustic waves, because they're traveling through a plasma, can also interact electromagnetically.

There's a whole bunch of different waves like this that can travel through the plasma in space a lot like sound waves through the air: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waves_in_plasmas

...so I imagine that something like this could work under certain conditions (i.e very large and very low-mass objects).
>But financially, it's 100% untrue that Amazon would be more valuable if they focused on employee happiness over cutting costs. It's not an accident that Amazon generates more revenue than any other Internet company in existence.

Or it very well could be (an accident). Survivorship bias and all...
Because it's so bad for ad business that even google store blocked it.
This is really the most exciting thing about electric-motor vehicles to me. With such fewer moving parts there's less to break down and go wrong.

Having a vehicle that's more than likely able to last 25+ years without any real maintenance at all* is extremely enticing. I wonder how this will affect future electric car values. And I wonder if we can curb our consumerism mentalities to actually let something like this happen.

Unfortunately, with the tech-minded companies producing these vehicles; I'm afraid of planned obsolescence.
On my phone I'm using apt-get :P
Introducing the first ever shitpost-based RNG
Anthony Noto COO of Twitter Leaves to Become SoFi C.E.O
In finance it's common to have to disclose your investments to the company's Compliance department.

So sure you could own a bunch of Ethereum/BTC/Doge on the sly, in the same way that you could "anonymously" own a Panamanian or Cayman Islands company invested in a bunch of things that you don't want your company to know about.
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https://uploadfiles.io - Actually launched just over a year ago, but recently revamped with lots of new features and a makeover, currently supporting ~5m monthly users.

Open to feedback and new feature requests.
Use a password manager. I'd prefer that critical government social media accounts not use passwords that a human being can realistically remember.
Remove flour from the recipy.
I'm one that moved to Python and don't want to look back. It is not that Python is easier read (I would say it is less noisy) but it is almost impossible to write your own "DSL" like you can do with Perl or Ruby.

YMMV but for me this is what makes it easy to maintain: you just need to learn Python not the personal programming style of the previous developer.
That was not a list of Trump-administration actions that I was opposed to; it was a list of Trump-administration actions that I think are important. I find most of them odious, but that wasn't my point.
We frequently stop at the Culver's in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on the way from here to somewhere else. There are restaurants in Tennessee which are closer, but we never seem to pass them near meal times.

As Culver's is a Wisconsin thing, I'm not at all surprised that they showed up in Arizona.

https://www.culvers.com/locator/view-all-locations
There's not just the reduced cashier costs, but the vastly increased revenue per foot of store that will come about when customers know they don't have to wait in line.

The store will also be less empty per dollar of sales; or, said another way, shoppers will spend less time in store, creating the appearance of an emptier store for shoppers walking by, making it less time-consuming to enter.

Oh, and don't forget those prime signups just for people who want to try the store (though the number of non-prime subs when these stores rollout will be not huge).
It seems like the option for backup space (external storage) does not exist like in their vServers. I hope they will return it because they offered really cheap storage compared to Vultr and DO.
I guess it would be useful for programmatically building the DOM tree. But for writing DOM fragments, pug[1] is also an option. I happen to like the clean-looking syntax. Transposing their example:

body
h1 Hello World
input(type='range')
input(onclick='console.log') Log event
ul
li 1
li 2
li 3
unless false
span Hidden

[1] https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html
"Amazon generates more revenue than any other Internet company in existence."

Isn't that because Amazon is (practically) the only one selling actual "stuff" that always has a value?

Everyone else is (big # of users) * (small profit/user by selling ads or whatever), Amazon is (big # of users) * (big profit/user and also selling data).
We're trying to put all the privacy essentials we can make seamless -- tracker blocking, upgraded encryption, private search and more to come -- all in one package, across all major browsers and platforms. In this respect, on any major mobile device or desktop browser, you should be able to look up DuckDuckGo and with one download get seamless privacy protection as you search and browse the web.

With regards to other extensions, we found that they generally lack some combination of all the essentials (e.g. missing encryption, private search), aren't totally seamless (i.e. break some of the web), or aren't available across all major browsers and platforms.

With regards to tracker blocking in particular, we would like to be as comprehensive as possible while not breaking the Web, and are close to that with this initial launch, utilizing some open source lists including Disconnect and Easylist. We are not currently using the machine learning aspects of Privacy Badger, however.

There are more nuanced UX differences, however. In the UI we're trying to move away from 'x trackers blocked' and instead group trackers from networks together, trying to identify the umbrella company and purposes.

Second, we're grading each site based on its privacy measures (including privacy policies with help from TOSDR), and telling you at a glance how protected you are on an A-F scale, based on what we could do (e.g. block trackers and upgrade encryption).

Thank you for the feedback on the right-click menu. We will look into that.
Sorry, it appears I can't edit it now. This is one of many accounts, you could take your pick, but at this point to have hope that things are going to turn out OK you have to ignore expert opinion and listen to conspiracy theorists essentially. For once, the doom-and-gloom predictions are coming from the mainstream and the "we'll be fine" predictions are coming from those on the fringes.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/05/carbon-e...
Fair enough! One tends to get spoiled with Zsh, trying to go back to Bash.

In the past I've actually downloaded Zsh, compiled it from source, and ran it out of ~/.local/bin with absolutely no issues. But that's not something I'd advise.
Facebook Executive Admits Social Media Platform Might Be Hurting Democracy
I'm not denying your story, but given what I know about DuckDuckGo I'd be far more inclined to believe it's a bug than a nefarious plan.
I was suspecting that. Thanks for sharing this info. It will be really nice if you guys implement ways to swap the built-in DAST tool. My startup is actually going to release something really cool and useful in the next couple of weeks and it will be awesome if we can provide features to be compatible with GitLab.
Hetzner require your ID before you create any server. This is huge inconvenience. So i opted to DO and scaleway and never looked back.
A Classic here on HN - here are a few of the previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 : 177 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040804 : 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446014 : 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9260286 : 81 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818890

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627247 : 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13122408 : 45 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355250

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But here's a different article on the same theme:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6767385
Those links just point to real-time NASDAQ :(
Once other super markets adopt automatic check out, shopping at supermarkets would be a lot less bad~.
"It depends": https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6611/bc084fbaf1845b1bf54cc7... From the abstract: "We evaluate three systems - a clock throttled Pentium laptop, a frequency scaled PowerPC platform, and a voltage scaled system.... on the Pentium-based system, it is energy efficient to run only at the highest frequency, while on the PowerPC-based system, it is energy efficient to run at the lowest frequency point."

So it can go either way, depending on a lot of the local factors.
I seriously don't understand why the support reply got downvoted ...
If I can drop a tiny plug for a project I'm working on: I grew up on LORD and MUDs and have been trying to recreate the feeling in a game I've been developing in my spare time for a couple years. It's still in dev/testing, but I'd love any feedback or bug reports anyone may come across: http://www.chatandslash.com
Some hospitals are even going further than this: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/29/4829940...

It's cheaper to just pay for a patient's apartment rent than keep treating disease caused by exposure.
Ahh, I'll delete that -- used to be where it was ages ago.
I think we all know that such technology exists. That is why I specifically said "in the traditional sense", to point out that I'm talking about what the word was invented for.