skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder what would happen if Apple bought Elsevier

I'd much rather see them go down than be bought out.
They don't! Isn't that amazing?

The only use I know for captive portals is EULAs, and I'm not sure those ever had legal weight (though obviously IANAL).

But honestly they were starting to be outdated (technologically) even before this. Since a lot of popular sites use HTTPS, I usually have to try and think of a non-HTTP site before I can get through. They're just a nuisance at this point.

This is not to defend Google's actions as "altruistic" in any way. But sometimes Google's interests and the public's do align.
There is a lot of back-and-forth on this issue, but honestly I think simultaneously both positions are true: people are not making enough money and are in precarious, difficult financial situations. But many also do not use their money wisely. For many people it's not an either-or but rather both things are true.
> they don't need a dependency manager.

For not needing a dependency manager, Go sure has developed an amazing number of them!

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools

https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/blob/master/README.md#...

In fact, Go probably has the most package managers of any language I've ever seen.
In my native Danish, up and down are used fairly much as described in the article, but genrerally only for smaller, provincial locations. From Copenhagen I can go down to the southern part where I live, but from here I can not go up to Copenhagen. East- and westwise, I can go over [exact same word] to some neighboring locations, though by no means all. As a native speaker I know when and when not, but don't have a clue as to any formal rule. No out. The west was never a wilderness to be conquered here.
My favorite bit about the EMH is that there's a proof that it implies that P = NP. Since that's incredibly unlikely to be the case it's really quite silly to assume the EMH.
RFC: Ubuntu Seeded Snaps
Take this example.

Black people are 37.8% of the prison population[0] and 12.3% of the general population[1].

They also have 72% of babies being born out of wedlock[2], compared to 29% of white-non hispanic babies[2].

Both those factors correlate to higher probabilities of crime in the future[3] and higher incarceration rates[4]

So they are ~3x overrepresented in the prison population.

So no. Even if you drop race, black people will generally be more highly targeted by any sort of fair algorithm. There is no thing as a racist algorithm or racist data. There can be racist systems and policy causing this data to be generated and can be looked for and targeted by algorithms, but even without taking race into account, just dealing with the current algorithm, the software is accurate and doing its job.

Most modern science was caused by people questioning the status quo and challenging political orthodoxy.

[0]https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race....

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+blacks+in+amer...

[2]https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+blacks+in+amer...

[3]http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/...

[4]https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/single-par...
In Search of the Elusive Bitcoin Billionaire: Where Are the Libertarians?
You refuse the coworker when the coworker asks if he/she can use you as a reference.
Revisiting the Risks of Bitcoin Currency Exchange Closure [pdf]
Ah, I understand the argument a bit better then, but I don't think that's really a valid substitute. Avian flu is H5N1, whereas as that article describes SARS is caused by SARS coronavirus. I suppose oseltamivir may be used to treat both, since it's an antiviral, but I'm not able to find much online indicating that. Regardless, I think the medically accurate term to substitute for "Asian bird flu epidemic" would be "the H5N1 epidemic in Asia."
Multiple GWAS finds 187 intelligence genes and role for neurogenesis/myelination
You would probably need some sort of "authority" to redistribute the hashes.
I’m confused, domains are not a barrier to entry (I’d argue that the developer account is a much larger barrier). Why is this a needed thing?
> Those numbers can't be right, honestly.

Just a very rough calculation: If Nature has a staff of around 150 [1], each paid $100,000 year, 50 issues per year, 20 research articles per issue. This gives

150 times 100,000/(50 times 20) = $15,000 per article.

My numbers are probably off in more than one way.

[1] https://www.nature.com/nature/about/journal-staff
How would you limit the horizontal scrolling to only one conversation?
Is there an equivalent to WireGaurd that can be used on Android or IOS?
I’d say it depends on what you want to build (disclaimer: I have written a lot of Go but have only read Elixir source). If full stack monolith, use Elixir because of Phoenix; if microservice arch, use Go with gRPC protobufs for messaging.

IMO, both languages seem to result in very readable source code; and many examples of how to do either exist on GitHub.
That absolutely does not work. The prices of all of the homes anywhere near the high density area would sky rocket. Do you realize how much a single story house with a yard within a block of Chelsea Market in NYC would be worth?

High rise costs to build are several hundred per square foot, so the cost to the tenants would be higher. Why would anyone pay several times the cost of a house a block away for a spot in the high rise?
3. Coffeepot fails to connect to the cloud service because it's in some remote place with no internet.

Why does the coffeepot / TV / thermostat need internet access? That's often undesirable for the user (because that means the whole things breaks if the originating company goes away). Not to mention, how would the user know which host to connect to? How would the device get on WiFi if there is no way to enter the password?

I know Chromecast does this by making you download a custom application (Google Home on a phone, or Chrome on a desktop); that's not always practical.

I do think SSL in as many places as possible is great; I just also think they're trying to push for too much before solving the problems it will cause first.
iOS and macOS both have captive-portal detection (in fact I think they pioneered it) but it's not 100% fool-proof and sometimes doesn't show up when it should.

Also supposedly some captive portals trap the well-known URLs used by captive portal detection for whatever reason (which is why Apple uses a huge list of seemingly-random domains)
Which is a good thing, because Go's dependency management is terrible!
Personally I don't see the problem with surveillance. I have a problem with people who abuse powers they may have.

I mean honestly:

- Use Android? Chances are you're being watched by Google.

- Facebook tracks literally hundreds of millions.

- Post on HN? Guess what, you can't delete your posts after a while. Advances in stylometry in addition to more and more data being on the internet will mean your identity on here will be compromised eventually.

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However, using Android allows Google to have literally minute-by-minute traffic updates which allows our cars to move more efficiently.

Facebook's tracking of millions may aid in allowing smaller organizations to connect in a more programmatic way.

HN well, obviously is allowing you to read this now.

Things like privacy were forfeit the minute we gained the technology. If people have problems with these technologies being used in bad ways, we should punish the people using the technologies in such a bad way. The spooky "surveillance state" is a red herring imo.
Maybe leave the passive mode with an enable/disable option in settings somewhere so that a user can continue passively until duty calls :)
Very interesting !

Funny thing, in France we do use "up" and "down" but with a different set of axis. They don't represent north and south.

If you're in Lille (north of Paris), you'd say "I'm going up to Paris" although you'd be going south. If you're in Paris and you're going to Lille, you'd say "I'm going down to Lille" although you'd be going north. But if you're going to Lyon from Paris, you'd say "I'm going down to Lyon" and you would be going south.

In French you go "up" to the capital (or more generally to a larger city than you're currently in), and you go down from the capital (or more generally to a smaller city than the one you're currently in).

So you'd say from Paris "I'm going down to Lyon" or "I'm going down to Grenoble" and from Lyon you'd say "I'm going down to Grenoble" or "I'm going up to Paris". (And you instantly know that Paris is the largest city of the 3 and Grenoble the smallest ^^ so from Grenoble you go "up to Lyon" and "up to Paris").

I learned that fairly old because I didn't live in France until later in my childhood but I always found this linguistic kinda funny :)

Descendons donc en province, disent-ils a Paris !
Do both and and then make an educated decision on which languages fits best for the project goals. They are different tools. But to be honest, I'm an Elixir fan :-)
People are entitled to their opinions, and they are entitled to share them on HN. There are plenty of reasons to like Electron, and there are also plenty of reasons to say "ugh, Electron".

Instead of saying "Let's keep this sort of comment off HN" because you happen to disagree with the guy's opinion, why not just ask him why he's so dead set against using Electron for this sort of app?

People usually have strong opinions for a reason -- it isn't always because they are ignorant, or because they are arrogant jerks (yes, sometimes that happens, but not always). You might even learn something about Electron from the guy's explanation (depending, of course, on what his reasons are).
I just use http://example.com for those
In New Zealand 'up' often means north, and 'down' south, but it also, depending on where you are, refers to altitude. I'm currently at 550m elevation, and I'd go down to the coast even though the place I'd probably go to is very slightly north of here.

The area I'm in is often referred to as the 'High Country' so that probably explains the up and down idea. I'd still go 'up' to Auckland because it's north, even though it's at sea level.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16336290
I built a six node raspberry pi cluster as a project during the holiday break. I used the general instructions Scott Hanselman posted on his blog.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToBuildAKubernetesClusterW...
it's not end-to-end encryption. it's end-to-end with a middleman issuing cerificates who's not trustless.
That was great, thanks!
I wrote a lot of JavaScript :D
In Detroit, a "food desert", they could potentially take over the majority of the downtown/midtown upper middle class grocery market.
What makes Let's Encrypt less secure than a paid certificate? Or do you mean EV certs for the "magical green box"?
A lot of intelligent hard working people believe in a zero sum world, or at least they look at the decay around them and compare it to the idea that the rest of the country is prosperous. They vote for whomever claims to be against the “rest” of the country, or at least pretends to be on their side. Comments like Cousin Cletus make them damn certain who isn’t on their side.
We have a round hole and a triangle hole, and we're telling the courts to decide which one to put the square peg in.

Sooner or later our legislatures are going to have to deal with this issue.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon
Go is another imperative language with mutable variables and static typing.

I would say go with Elixir or even better, Erlang. It will open your mind to new ideas.
You're right; I spoke hyperbolically, to fend off pointless counter-arguments of the "the invention of cars put buggy-whip manufacturers out of business, but look how many jobs that created!" sort.

In the short-to-medium term, there aren't enough jobs to go around. Automation is only making that worse, and we haven't yet come up with a meaningful alternative for the folks who are being displaced. As for the long term, my crystal ball doesn't work too well, that far out.

Maybe we will come up with something for them, but the alternatives I've seen tossed around suggest everyone will end up trying to market someone else's products, or services jobs. It doesn't strike me as readily apparent there will be enough of those jobs to go around, either.

So, it's perhaps more accurate to say "there are always alternative jobs, but probably not for everyone", which really just reinforces the point that efficiency-ing away this thing we've predicated the functioning of our society upon doesn't ultimately serve us very well.
Lots of people are doing it, so it must be okay.

Sorry, not down with your logic one bit.
Show HN: Bringing Haskell's partial application of operators to Swift
That's a wild and baseless accusation, and borderline slander.
True, those who do the real work doesn't get paid, but the ones who publish it gets paid.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? That couldn't be further from my point. My point is that if we have a problem with people doing bad things with technology, we should replace those people with people we trust, not the technology.
> Alexa just immediately dispatches the same cut the user bought three weeks ago. User never trusts Alexa again.

Obviously Alexa wouldn't just order it right away. It could easily say:

> Alexa: "Would like like to order the same x cut from last time?"

[Yes/No]

> Alexa: "Okay great, the total will be x and the delivery estimate is 1hr, shall I submit this order?"

[Yes/No]

> Alexa: "The order has been submitted, I'll notify you when it's marked as out for delivery"
Underarmour and patagonia are VASTLY different in quality standards... I think you’re missing the point of this thread.
Yep. Stutter and stammer since childhood. It does cause people not taking me seriously. It's lesser in intensity though.
They might be perfectionist otherwise they would probably have been fired long ago?
I’m not sure what to consider this, but after a few sentences I start pronouncing things in ways similar to the accent of the other person. Like pronouncing “touched” as “tutch-ed” instead of “tutch’d”.
An ISP could inject their own certs very easily. Send an email to customers -- here run our "tune up" app to speed up your computer. A huge portion of customers would probably do it. Bingo, new CA roots installed.
I think your last statement highlights the real issue here. Everyone is afraid of malicious javascript. I don't know why they're conflating that with http injection.

The most straightforward thing to do would be to disable javascript on non https sites by default or warn if a nonhttps site has javascript. Most of the old sites we want to keep around don't have javascript in them (or much javascript in them).

Ideally people should only be enabling javascript on sites they trust (and are running https for "real" "trust") but having a trusted whitelist for enabling javascript brings back your big brother arguments.
Its a technique older than guitars, not recent at all. Maybe you just took notice?
which is simply massive: 320 ft wingspan, the largest of any flown aircraft.
Cheddar Man Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes
Without defending the current system of publication, many things that are government funded are not free. For instance, our ironically named freeways. And nearly all government offered services from postal to patents come with costs and fees, which can become quite obscene.

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@pwinnski - This is likely either a dialect or national language issue. In the US, at least the section where I am from, freeways are what you might call highways. They have no traffic lights, are high speed, and have toll booths for entry and spread along them at intervals. Hence the reason I stated their naming quite ironic! They are built by government, but are not freely available. Responding here since hacker news seems to stop you from replying in a thread once something you post has been mass downvoted.
You definitely can in Chrome. Tons of corporations need the ability to trust their internal PKI.
What an incomprehensible nightmare, I can’t imagine what you’ve gone through.
Kevlar thread. Less frequent replacement needed.
The man who settled Suzuki's labour trouble and transformed its India story
Why Microsoft Is Ruling the Cloud, IBM Is Matching Amazon, and Google Is Behind
Is coffee cancerous?
Yes, it's Adbusters-style advocacy.
War Isn't This Century's Biggest Killer (1986)
Perhaps everyone coming from other languages who can't imagine a world with a good standard library!
You should tell that to the majoroty of (my Seattle) Lyft drivers that bought a Prius just so it could be their primary form of employment. From my personal experience it is only in the Bay Area that people use ride share as a supplemental income.
As a consumer, amazon is a great brand.
Don't know about OP. In my experience a lot/most Computational Biology papers are Open Access.
But most of the driving-giggers that I know do not have single relationships, they're working with both Uber and Lyft, or GrubHub, Seamless, Doordash, etc, as each one rises and falls in profitability for them.
You truly are a saint among men then :)
Fine that represents the actual societal harm. If they can't pay it, shut down - fine cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.

If the services in question are so essential that the government doesn't want it to shut down, then the government should take it over like they did with Freddie and Fannie
It's impossible to trust people with power due to perverse incentives. That's why the ideas of democracy and whistleblowing exist. Those who find "trustworthy authority" less ridiculous than any other oxymoron might better enjoy living in a country whose government was not founded on the core values of accountability for those wielding power like maybe Saudi Arabia
One BIG thing worth noting is Texas, almost formally, redefines the cardinal directions [1], so it's even harder to parse what up/down/out/over are.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREkqCvLzSo
> Meh, I misunderstood who "let them die" refer to -- I thought it was the CRAs not people.

No, you understood correctly the first time.
90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% of it delivered never
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and don't post comments like this.

Users often post workaround URLs in these threads, but even if they don't, in most cases there are standard ways of reading the articles that work fine.
Sorry if this is obvious, but have you set up Google Search Console for your domain? (aka Google webmaster tools) It helps with things like this. It has a "change of address" option.
I wasn't recommending os.system() ever, OP used it in the example. Subprocess is better, as you said. I think the sh module is better than Subprocess as well.
Ajit Pai's “proof” that killing net neutrality created more broadband
Science’s pirate queen
Pretty sure that's not true -- I believe you just have to make sure that only a spec gets "thrown over the wall", and no descriptions of implementation or architecture.
Getting started with Serverless Go
> Standard Oil, US Steel, and Boeing were all iconically huge companies that were built as businesses. None of them went through a phase where they looked like toys.

Arguably, Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft all started out as toy companies. I don't buy the basic premise of this article. How a company starts out often has very little to do with how it ends up. But, I suppose the real goal here is to whip the incubator into line.
We all know why one might prefer something over Electron. It's just a worthless comment.

"Ugh, the color blue! Me no likey!" Does it really matter why they don't like blue, or whether I agree with them?
http://archive.is/5686t
>The only use I know for captive portals is EULAs

What? You use them to log in with some criteria more than just a username/password. For example CableWifi hotspots that let you log in with TWC, Optimum, or others.
I'd imagine there are a number of scholars who don't agree with their papers being used this way

Then shouldn't they choose another journal to publish their paper in? Maybe open access?

Why don't they do that?
Can somebody explain the exact process for free access that people would propose? Most options seem to come with significant and foreseeable 'unforeseen consequences.'

For instance if the idea is that research is submitted to a private journal, as typical, but then the journal is not allowed to charge a fee then that is going to rather lower their prioritization of submissions from public research.

A far worse idea would be government covering the journal fees which would do the exact opposite and overly incentivize public research as companies could send their publication fees through the roof and still have them paid due to government price insensitivity.

Maybe another idea would to have a public government research journal where all research that received public funding is freely available. But this also runs into many problems. One would be that the fundamental point of a journal is to work as a filtering mechanism. We might argue that a lot of mediocre science gets published today, even in more reputable journals. And that's after some odd 80%+ of papers, for those more reputable journals, is rejected. A government clearing house would lose its purpose as a quality filter. And it would also run into the same problems as #1 if we then have the authors submit it in the private industry, where publishing rights/exclusivity are typically part of the model.

So what's the idea?
Have you tried using the scl repos from RedHat/CentOS? I use it at work yo enable different versions of Python at a system level if I am unable to muck with it because of yum.

I believe they are available for CentOS 5.x?
If we had mechanisms to identify people who were perfectly trustworthy, ensure these people are perpetually and exclusively in power, and construct perfect security for all involved computer systems then this reasoning would make sense.
Ask HN: Can you posit some examples of civil discourse?
I understand this is not a political forum and am not looking for your political opinion rather examples of effective communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvmLMUfGss
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Vietnam and the Intellectuals

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

I am aware that:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points."
and also:
"We ban accounts that use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle, regardless of which politics they favor. "

But would be interested in what makes effective dialog in your opinion.

other discussions (Buckley):
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=William%20F.%20Buckley&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story

(Chomsky)
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chomsky&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story

I am not interested in your opinions on the specific speakers or their point of view. Rather examples where each speaker is able to communicate their point of view to the best of their ability within a context that allowed for a dialog.
Agreed that in situation like this it's near impossible to ascertain that iframe target wasn't altered, unless you already somehow know what it was before you got mitmd.
Those shady ad networks are going to get blocked by Chrome anyway, even without the HTTPS warning. Good riddance.
To be clear I meant that to be sarcastic :) Obviously the regulations around US solar deployments are excessive at best and very likely the result of rent seeking.