skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should take some time to educate yourself before calling things "very absurd" and making comments that are poorly informed and barely make sense. This is how anti-monopoly laws work; Google can be fined for what it puts on "its own website" much like Microsoft was fined for bundling Internet Explorer with "its own OS" - your actual product or service must be distinct from your advertising and marketing, because different rules and regulations apply to them.

> The investigation showed that Google integrates or blends its own specialised/vertical search services in its online general web search services in the form of "universal results and commercial units" using mechanisms that do not apply in an equivalent manner to non-Google websites or web content.

And when corporations start blurring that line because they think they can get away with it, these sort of checks and boundaries are necessary to minimise that abuse of power.

> It shows ads to make money to pay for costs.

No it did not, and that's the bloody point: these are not distinguished as ads, but as "enhanced features" that just happen to place Google's offerings unfairly above the others. This is misuse of one part of its business - that's supposed to be a fair and neutral search engine - and going beyond simply tweaking internal algorithms (which they possibly still do) to blatantly favor their own business. (And in case someone is thinking "of course they want to make money", I'll say "and of course they get slapped down by the legal system as they well deserve to, because we want more competition and better services").

> the search intermediation agreements prevented publishers from using search services of competing search engines

This by the way basically refers to agreements about using Google's search services for site-level searches and possibly internal searches - and depending on details, Google was apparently saying "if you use our search services in one part of your business, then by this agreement you are not allowed to use any other search service for another part of your business or service". And there are specific regulations concerning such exclusionary agreements from market-dominant players.

Two articles with a bit more (and a bit better organized) information: https://www.bloombergquint.com/law-and-policy/2018/02/08/goo... and https://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/Business/20180208...
*> Yes, it doesn't make sense to give money to yourself.

At Google's size, there are extra accounting processes that you should follow.

You might be looking at Google like a single giant thing while in fact it's a complex arrangement of companies and departments underneath.
Well, at least we still have SciHub access through Tor
CSS Shorthand Syntax Considered an Anti-Pattern (2016)
If there was another way to ship an application that can be accessed in one click, in less than a second, with shareable urls, I'd be interested.

Other nice things to see: multiple independent open source implementations of the application platform; a stable and battle tested sandbox, such that users can run code from hundreds of different vendors every day without much worry about being pwned.

The web is old and hoary, but to me there isn't any comparison. For most apps I build, the second place choice isn't even close.
Canada’s binary task force wants Google to ban binary options and crypto Ads
"...because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them."
I was enlightened.
Ah, the good old get yourself out of direct-customer-support no-fly list.

If you love your family, having some blow up potential in the eyes of the fbi or cia, gains you some quality time.
Verge3D, a toolkit for creating 3D web apps is now available to 3ds Max users
>To become a chemical engineer, you first have to complete the course work for a degree in chemistry.

That is incorrect.

Look at the programme of study for a chemical engineering undergraduate degree [1]. It doesn't cover anywhere near the same content as an undergraduate chemistry degree [2].

[1]: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/courses/chemical-engineer...

[2]: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/courses/chemistry-depart...
Sweden’s Economic Boom Revisited
Only communities with expert-level moderators, who are capable of recognising layman speculation, can become expert communities. Unfortunately, unless you're a historian, most experts have better things to do than moderate online communities for free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Act_1996

Quote:
For the purposes of the Act, 'Treasure' is defined as being:

All coins from the same find, if it consists of two or more coins, and as long as they are at least 300 years old when found.
If they contain less than 10% gold or silver there must be at least 10 in the find for it to qualify.

Two or more prehistoric base metal objects in association with one another

Any individual (non-coin) find that is at least 300 years old and contains at least 10% gold or silver.

Associated finds: any object of any material found in the same place as (or which had previously been together with) another object which is deemed treasure.

Objects substantially made from gold or silver but are less than 300 years old, that have been deliberately hidden with the intention of recovery and whose owners or heirs are unknown.
I'm still curious about what are alternatives to using money. Surely there might be politics and some philosophy involved about how you manage and organize society. Aren't local currencies a part of the solution?

Money is great because it lets individuals manage their own selves, but I'm still a little worried about how fraud, abuse and mismanagement can wreak havoc in society when money is abused.

Regulating money and everything involved around money seems to be a hard thing, and at some point moving away from money or finding other ways to do things could make sense... Although I'm curious.

Don't economists write some philosophy about those things?
If one strongly held that position, one could make a killing selling fixed-price contracts to audit and fix all SSL issues for any website running on any stack, regardless of age.

$1,000, fixed price, guaranteed no Google Chrome warnings or your money back.

Personally, that would not be a business I'd take on. Would you? If so, I (and a lot of other people) have some consulting work for you.
I've heard a lot of anecdotal reports of the messenger app listening to what you do. So much so that I've uninstalled the app.

However, I've never seen a non-anecdotal source or even a source that gathers all anecdotes and gives a decent meta-analysis. Would you happen to have one?
I think the vast majority of what we perceive as limits aren't real limits at all. Maybe that's a controversial statement, but there's little in the way of me doing most of I want to do except various fears and (largely) illusory limitations, conscious or not. I think this can apply to the HN crowd pretty easily -- for example, guys who don't apply to Google or who freeze up during the interview and don't know why.

Edit: I realize this sounds like a passage from a self-help book or motivational speech, but really, I've come to accept this as truth as I've gotten older, and I have many regrets over things I didn't do. I've also become skeptical over any kind of consensus regarding what is possible.
So which central govt should we trust to "put the bandits away" on the internet?
That sounds like something medieval clergy would say. Prepare for Renaissance.
What Should I Know Before Developing an App for the Internet of Things?
Get a remote US job ? Harder since you compete with many people but doable.
I don't think that's true. There's a lot of momentum in the space, and several large vendors have IETF-quic implementations that are pretty interoperable already.
Please get your facts straight before posting here.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-m...
The only thing that tumbling does is prevent a direct link between 2 possibly illicit transactions.

Unless the tumblers are use for mostly legitimate transactions they are useless and being linked to to one will raise a flag if you are under investigation.
This article's headline doesn't do it justice.
> I think it can be summed up in one old but very relevant-in-our-times quote: "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

Now if you could explain to me how using secure connections and showing a correct warning for insecure connections is restricting your freedom that'd be interesting.
>You apparently skipped why it is outrageous. There are no lulz if nobody knows about it.

I'm sure there were plenty of "lulz" to be had among their little group and while they'd like the admiration of joe bloggs as well as their peers, joe bloggs' admiration can be ceded if it means the FBI isn't kicking their door in.

>Retaliating with an illegal hack shows thin skin

This is how your cultural lens filters it but it is not how they would see it. From their perspective, this hack would demonstrate North Korean technological superiority (important, because they have an insecurity surrounding this), while the outcome would demonstrate the moral decrepitude, hypocrisy and incompetence of the American and Japanese "imperialist aggressors". This is the nature of both their mindset and propaganda and it is very consistent.

No innocent life was taken. There was nothing really immoral about the act from their perspective (or in general).

The simplest explanation is just that they didn't do it.

I can well imagine that they erroneously believed (and probably reported in pyongyang newspapers) that the hack was performed by a secretive admiring ally.

>If a President is depicted as a fool who gets assassinated by other countries, the US has every right to take offense.

I like how when the tables are turned you somehow see it as something more serious. Your cultural filter is on display.

>And you have yet to give a plausible reason for anybody to go through that trouble.

Trying to prevent your door from getting kicked in by the FBI is more than a plausible reason.

>In the meantime, we have lots of public evidence

Yeah, like "here are some IP addresses in a log that ended up there because they were 'sloppy'". No potential for fakery there.

>the agencies claim to have additional bulletproof private evidence

I trust that about as much as I trusted the CIA's claim that they had bulletproof unseen evidence of WMDs in Iraq. It wasn't put on display because of national security concerns. It wasn't put on display because it doesn't exist.

The CIA goes to Congress every so often with their cap in hand asking for more money. This is the exact kind of thing they use to justify their budget increase. I typically bear this in mind when I hear them cite evidence that we are being protected from seeing for our own good.
For those of you using Go, it's been an absolute pleasure to use https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go.

FWIW.
Yes, it's unsustainable to be privately chauffeured around everywhere if you're not wealthy. Is this controversial? It's also ecologically and infrastructurally unsustainable so it's not something anyone actually wants.

Most people in places where wages are livable walk, bike, ride a bus or train or drive themselves around. For the infirm there are subsidized transportation services.
Peer review is already being done and it's free. Distribution is "too cheap to meter". Editing is pretty much not done at all at the publisher level.

So to fit the road tax model - we already pay for research. So let's add 0.0001$ extra tax for publishing, and kill off the current publishers.
> However, this seems like a major change in the vision of the internet to me. So has the internet community at large now agreed that we want to get rid of middleboxes completely? What about middleboxes I want to employ myself, e.g. to watch my own traffic?

The internet was built on the idea of having a dumb network with smart endpoints. Middleboxes are a good idea that just fundamentally doesn't work. Figure out how to do what you want on your edge nodes.
All new certificates for DNS names in the Web PKI today (and for some time now) must result from the CA having used one of the Ten Blessed Methods to validate the Applicants control over the name, regardless of who paid how much.

Let's Encrypt offered three of the Ten, but one was discovered to be flawed due to the way some major bulk hosting services are configured, so that leaves two (of Nine, since in practice any implementation of the Tenth Blessed Method is flawed the same way).

Even flawed Blessed Methods are far superior to the checking (basically none) we can reasonably expect from a normal person using a web browser. But still, improvements upon the Blessed Methods are a topic of public discussion, if you think you genuinely have a better way you should definitely let the CA/B Forum or m.d.s.policy know about it.
Can't wait to walk Grandma through this on the phone when she buys a Firefox-enabled lightbulb.
You need to cash out at some point which is effectively impossible to do these days without going through paper work.

Bitcoin that can never be converted to fiat or used in a transaction that cannot be anonymous such as land or property purchas is worthless.
Broccoli is not really high in (net) carbs.
Online A/B Split Test and Correlation Test Calculators
That's because our industry is full of hopelessly under qualified people who somehow manage to create software by randomly throwing together bits of code from stackoverflow / books and tweaking it until it "works".
I would totally agree with you there regarding getting to/from a random place. Getting to downtown from where I grew up was a cool half hour drive, and no cab would dare giving you a ride down there. In that way, Uber definitely added value to anyone who didn't want to park downtown for an evening. I just assumed that that was not the majority of ride-sharing usage, where most of the action was in NYC/LA where cab-usage was already relatively high.
I am more than happy to embrace static typing, I wish it was an option for Python (Yes I know about hint's)! I think I am going to do some beginner level Java and get the basics of the language, and then switch over to Kotlin and learn the advanced concepts there.
But then you have the whole industry of "security appliances" against you, which do want to have a look, and which do want to MITM everything - ironically arguing that this makes everything safer, depite becoming themselves a huge attack surface.
Hi,

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I would also add:

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (HN daily top 10 links archived since 2010)

https://hnews.xyz/ (HN with thumbnails -> deeper HN skimming)
Though there are a couple of technical options to make this work, the thing I realised many years ago is that if you want to use internet technology you need to be connected to the internet. Anything else is just an endless headache.

If you are sure that you don't want your IoT devices to be reachable from the internet, don't use the internet protocol to talk to them, don't use DNS, web browsers, etc.

Just create a new local protocol (or switch back to IPX)
You are looking at differences between developers, but try pretending for a while that they are all the same, moderately qualified to adapt to any environment. I'm pretty sure that you would still see roughly the same distribution, since all environments are not created equal, and neither are the different positions inside those environments.

The stagnant bog of billing hours to captive (e.g. internal) customers for example does not lend itself very well to a toolmaking microsingularity. Bimodality of pay is at least as much about the task as it about the one one executing.

There is of course still a lot of correlation between ability and high value positions, but that's a natural consequence of matchmaking: both high value positions and high value developers get disproportional choice relative to their lesser peers.
Postgres Window Magic[video]
For people that have tested it: can it set up connections over ssh tunnels? Would be a handy step to skip
The whole IoT is not going to go forward when the software infrastructure is sand as opposed to stone.

I agree with you about longevity, though I think IoT is mostly a solution in search of a problem anyway, even if the hype train is clearly going to run for a long time yet. Connectivity is obviously useful for some devices, but most of the products I have ever seen in the IoT space weren't IoT to benefit the user, they were IoT to benefit the developer, and they often made the user's experience worse. The other day I visited a friend, and he couldn't change the settings for the lights in his home because his Internet connection was playing up!

Obviously, web browsers are the wrong way to control long lived devices.

There, I will respectfully disagree. Web browsers are, or at least were, a useful way to access devices over well-defined and standardised protocols that were supported on many client devices. They allow UIs much more user-friendly than a command line for non-technical users, and they don't depend on native applications for each client or customised control protocols for each product.

I've built many browser-based UIs for clients over the years with good results, and the only thing that has ever seriously broken them was when browsers started dropping support for useful, long-established functionality -- hence my concern in the current case.
> I have two bachelor degrees and two master degrees

What does that have to do with what you should be paid?

My degree has provided a small and consistent boost over my career. It didn't make me significantly more valuable as a new starter.

I think Western Europe has a harmful fixation on a persons credentials.

In the time it took you to gain four degrees an American dev could have gained 6-8 years of experience and be operating as a senior.
But where would you go then to FIND properties to buy/rent?
Thank you for this. If there is one area where there is a dearth of tools it's universal SQL workbenches. Only tool that's worth considering till now is Datagrip and now this looks promising.
The same problem exists, regardless if its a fiat central bank or open source decentralized software token system: how is the money distributed and created?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve

Even given the Cryptocurrency ecosystem, there's threats of fraud like Tether (theory: https://hackernoon.com/the-curious-tale-of-tethers-6b0031eea...), or the inherent history and math behind Bitcoin and many proof of work cryptocurrencies distributing the supply to only a small group of users and cutting off the ease of producing more coins as easily to later users who use the software.

Deflationary systems (or systems which skew how labor is rewarded, i.e. PoW with changing rewards for work) run the risk of creating a class of slaves from new generations, or users who simply arrive days too late:

Best estimates are that there are about one million
holders of Bitcoin; 47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 hold a further 20 percent, the next 10,000
about 25% and another million about 20%, with 5% being
lost. So 1/10th of one percent represent about half the
holdings of Bitcoin and 1 percent close to 80 percent
(http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-
of-the-bitcoins-2013-12). The concentration of Litecoin
ownership is similar
(http://litecoin-rich-list.blogspot.com).
Most of the big wallets have been in place from early on,
so sitting back and watching your capital grow has been a
very successful strategy.
How to Do Chatbot Testing the Right Way in 2018 – IQVIS Inc
Can't someone just make an updated stylesheet rather than needing to make a whole app to make HN readable on mobile?
Grid Girls and Puritans
Right to my feeling
Yup, you can connect over ssh tunnels. There is an option Over SSH in creation form.
I don't think they're quite useless (they tend to contain some interesting ideas, which presumably work as google have generally implemented them) but as you say they're definitely not 'science' as they can't be replicated.
Yes, it's like a piece of cake
I've made that recommendation, with mixed results. I think it has less impact unless you studied/read a little classic economics.

Most economics "schools" start from a standard Smithian narrative for the invention of money. Spot traded goods, durable goods as values stores and eventually some sort of money.

The money supply narrative is completely separate. It's explained via the "money multiplier" effect, which turns 1X amount of money into nX via lending. Generally, it's taught via the lens of central bank policies, monetarism and macroeconomics.

Graeber merges these narratives. Debt predates money, and is the primordial money. All through history nearly all money has been debt and actual money (eg gold) just got used to quantify debt. Gold rarely exchanged hands or even made it to the hands of most people.

Once you start with debt instead of money, the picture changes. Familial, religious or cultural obligations form the basis of well obligations, debt. That's the origin of money.

Graeber is also politically eccentric and that appeals to people with sympathies to his views, but for an average reader... It's not revolutionary unless you already know/care about the mainstream ideas.
Ask HN: Give potential shares to a collaborator
I'm working on a software which makes no money and is not finished yet. I found someone which would like to help working on it.

He agreed on a potential share if the product is successful. He works on it in his free time.

I'm in europe, he's in south asia. What is the correct approach here? Some sort of a simple contract? What % is fair?
>> Https is better, but there are still valuable use cases for unencrypted web traffic.

> Like what?

Things like this: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/BIOSViaHTTPSen...
Exactly! Thank you for putting in the time to elaborate what I meant.
Our customers do indeed run devices from us and from competitors for decades. These lifespans are normal and expected. We currently manufacture and sell devices that have been developed 10 to 15 years ago with virtually no changes.

Internally, we have a push to transition user interfaces for future products to HTML/JS over HTTP. This was sold to our management as a solution with long term stability.
‘I could hear things, and I could feel terrible pain’: when anaesthesia fails
That's true. But Treasury issues bonds quite often, partially to cover interest on existing bonds. So, the day rates raise to high, treasury is insolvent.
There might be a way to use eBFP, but it won't be as easy as having a netfilter module. I assert that would be useful.
It's pretty amazing - almost everyone goes back to a few greats: Gauss, Euler, Hilbert, and sometimes Newton.
Good point made by 'IanCal here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16339193

Nature drops about 95% of submitted papers somewhere in the pipeline, so part of the costs applies to 20x more papers than you see in the end.
Is paying editors typical for a journal? Id guess Nature is comparatively well off financially, so would smaller journals be able to afford to pay editors in the same way?
They have somehow managed to write a 500-word article on their project, advertising that it's "built native", without mentioning which platforms it runs on.

The answer appears to be "only macOS, maybe Windows later".
That Act is from 1996. The hoard was found in 1992. I, too, am impressed the guy reported it not knowing if he’d get anything and I’m super glad he did.