skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also interested in the development of OSM (being an editor and a data consumer) and I've witnessed first hand some of your issues. For instance, once I've had to create my own "geocoder" for transit fines in São Paulo using OSM data, because no geocoder commercially available would be able to deal with the data.

So, now that we clarified I'm not a troll, nor a bot, I ask you: how should we deal with those issues? Join en masse the OSMF so we can vote for a change? Begin the "New-OSM-But-Better Foundation"?

I also think having layers (particularly, layers vouched by governments) would be awesome. I saw several governmental branches in Brazil wanting to be more integrated with OSM - this would allow them to stay "inside" OSM (and being an accredited citizen), instead of creating their own silos, importing data from time to time.
Usually the issue in setting up a PC to do this kind of stuff is power consumption. Typically it's a minimum of 60W to run an idle PC, while an ARM router would run at 1-5W and have multiple ethernet ports.
But the convenience itself becomes the drudgery. Does everyone love to drive a convenient car, even though it leads to traffic/congestion, bad posture, poorer help (Which , now you have to go to the gym), and environmental collapse? Have you ever noticed the public space we give up to the convenience of the automobile? How much of your town/city has been paved over?
Well, "biggest" can mean a number of different things but, given that this is an Internet comment board and not an audited financial report, market cap seems one perfectly reasonable measure.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there are no positive consequences of automatic updates. Rather, I was trying to point out the difference in perception of ownership between things like cars and our hardware. Regardless of benefits and drawbacks of automatic updates themselves, I regard that difference in perception as dangerous and damaging.

To illustrate my point in terms of your analogy, if people could get free upgrades for their brakes that make the car safer, I like to think that they would still prefer to be given control over it, because they see it as "my car" and not "my car, but with brakes licensed from someone else". And I also like to think that they would object to arbitrary changes to the insides of their car with vague explanations of how the new insides are better.
They even have a cute little lounge there for the premium passengers nowadays (shared with BA; a couple of flights a week to London Gatwick).
So, for instance, you can pretend that you're not operating in France if your website is in English and you only accept payments in USD?

I would argue that this is a bad definition because what you described is just operating in a jurisdiction but without localization.

I prefer the definition where you're making money(directly or indirectly) by providing services in a jurisdiction.

An example would be collecting French users data and then selling it to ad agencies(or being acquired by Google?).
That is a ridiculous thing to say - unless you're assuming that everyone is a techie. If some guy was shortsighted enough to major in something like psychology, he is very likely to face anti-male hiring bias when he's applying for a job in HR, for example. This should be obvious.
As soon as I started reading your article I actually started thinking of Jimmy and how he's been a part of a real government entity (the national park service) sending data directly into OSM.
Does you email get marked as SPAM by gmail?

I do something similar, but when I send an email to a person for the first time, it always ends up in the spam folder by GMail.
I don't think you understand. Uber loses money on every ride. The only reason they can set such low prices is they're burning through investors' money.
Yes. Except M$, as it was known, didn't have employees vote brigading Slashdot.
With the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, things seem to work out better when you straighten-up and take your licks.

If that's sci-fi, then fair enough.
It will not change anything for 99% of users. But for me it will, I'll call FaceBook, Google, my government and will ask the law to be applied. They won't like it but they'll have to comply. Now, with that data, what will I do ? I'll be able to explain what data collection means to those who don't care, to show examples.
thats a big leap you're making from "we need better a better engaged and more knowledgeable populace with a higher standard of living" to "we should scrap democracy and become Soviets"
Is Humanity Ready for the Discovery of Alien Life?
Installing OSMAnd or Maps.me is not hard.
When was this published? The letter from Trunk Archive is dated August 2015.
UBI could make such social problems better, but I think it will probably make them worse: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/after-universal-basic-incom...
> Openstreetmap is better for some things already

Such as?
A stronger plausible interpretation is that the commenter has indeed seen many instances of harassment like the ones in the OP—which was obviously her main point; that as a SaaS founder she knows about chatbots, and would have no problem with a prospective customer who just wanted to make sure a human was at the other end (obviously it would be in her business interests to engage with such a user); and that she had additional reason to believe that the person asking her "2 + 3" etc. wasn't doing so in good faith, since she wrote "kept insisting" and "it was gross".

Now obviously I don't know what happened there, but the above interpretation is not only plausible, it's almost inevitable if you begin by assuming that the other person is just as smart as you are. Instead you began by being a jerk, assumed stupidity on the part of the other, and threw in additional insults. If you behave like that on Hacker News again we will ban you.
This is really great. I'm excited to read these fully unpaywalled later. I'm interested to see how they'll test this in humans PET or fMRI scanning perhaps possibly before/after depressed patients taking antidepressants/therapy/ketamine/etc...
> There has always been Russian espionage. Not only that - there has been Russian (or Soviet, same difference) agents in Manhattan project, high positions in State Department (see Albert Hiss) and so on. Recent kerfuffle has nothing on that. Russia sees itself as a geopolitical foe of the US, of course they are spying on the US. In fact, US spied on Germany, Britain and Israel (and Israel spied back on US as we know, others probably too but were not caught) - and those are close allies! Of course Russians would do the same. It's not something new that "have risen" recently.

Right, so I’m not sure why you’re suggesting we should just sit here and do nothing about it.
Whats the power consumption of this setup?
Red or grey?
Because xkcd:927 It will never happen.
Microsoft and Samsung have both made pretty big investments in OpenStreetMap. Samsung funded Mapzen for a couple years and Microsoft has long provided both permission to use their aerial imagery and the server resources for that to happen.
I expected it to be about some secret image-copy-prevention constellation like EURion.
As I said I believe apps should be supported for at least 1-3yrs at a minimum via versioned APIs and careful product planning. Especially for 'critical' apps and massively popular apps like Uber.

But otherwise it's not a massive problem, yet. But one we in the software community should promote as best practice and provide social pressure/ridicule when not done.
Every couple of months something like this happens and people bash the companies that did it while simultaneously there are posts where screams of how great AI will be at predicting what we want, and then executing it based on all the information harvesting.
This is nothing more than taking IP law to its logical conclusion... ;)
In terms of happiness and the like, it might actually be the reverse. I saw an op-ed recently about this ( http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-frey-millennials-... ), and some googling also turns up some source reports like this from 2017 based on what looks like a different from some people at UTexas: https://qz.com/937266/young-white-americans-are-the-most-apa...

Interesting takeaways: whites were less optimistic but also less ambitious and less concerned.

> White millennials were also consistently less concerned about reaching personal aspirations, such as achieving financial stability, owning a home, traveling, or getting a college degree.

So there's a potentially interesting connection to the male-vs-female question. If both whites, and males, show reduced motivation despite being currently at the top of the pyramid, that's curious. Could be that things are too cushy (having tons of time to play video games doesn't seem like the result of anti-male pressures). Could be that things are too hollow, that material results aren't ultimately so meaningful, especially when they're from your parents labor, not your own?
This is why I go out of my way to only buy phones that are going to be very well supported by LineageOS for a long time.

You can go Google-less on such devices if you want.

The only real limitation is that you cannot do anything about the super-privileged proprietary modem that simultaneously can spy on you at any time that also prevents you from running newer kernels on your hardware because of how evil every Android vendor is with their proprietary bits.

At least there is finally momentum to kill the ME / SP backdoors on desktops. Its going to be much harder to do that on mobile since the only way to use cellular networks is through these proprietary black box modems.
There has always been Russian espionage, and Russian spies have always been investigated and, when caught, prosecuted. (See: Alger Hiss, Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs).

What's concerning is when the President of the United States himself seems to be speaking and acting out against his own government's counterintelligence investigations and in favor of his own country's geopolitical adversaries.
The problem is that security updates are bundled with feature updates, radical UI changes, and bleeding-edge bugginess. Nobody is arguing that the security benefit isn't there.

Automatically installed Windows patches are fantastic. I hardly even notice them. Sometimes a patch will cause an issue with some software but that's an acceptable trade off.

But then I get Candy Crush, or have to go through the setup again, or have all my display setting reset, get new "notifications", etc. These are not part of those security updates.
And how will the legislator know what I'm logging and what not?
There's also a video by Jeremiah Stoddard that shows a live programming session based on McCLIM where he codes a "snake" game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdb17YDRTVc
> So now any jurisdiction in the world can declare that if you do something they don't like that even remotely affects them, you owe them whatever they want

This ship sailed a long time ago, unfortunately. That court in Texas with effective global patent jurisdiction. UK libel law. The Sklyarov case which got me interested in digital rights all the way back in 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.

(Arguably it goes all the way back to British maritime law...)
A more interesting job is my first thought as to why older men don't use video games.

When my job unsatisfying I do tend to resort to video games to compensate.
You've misrepresented the conflict as being one-sided, when it's not. There's a real difference of opinion and analysis, and plenty of "ardency" on both sides.
> GDPR is not EU Cookie Law (which actually was badly designed law, unlike GDPR)

everyone that has ever written code to set a cookie predicted what the industry response to that cookie legislation would be, but even that trivial foresight was beyond the EU's abilities

if they can't write a good law for something trivial like cookies why would you have any confidence in their abilities to produce a much larger, wider reaching piece of legislation, let alone the ability to predict the second order effects?
It’s not the fault of “apps” here. The thing that is breaking compatibility is the server backend. Native frontends (“apps”) have to be coded defensively (e.g. to not even attempt to work unless you update) only because whatever backend service they talk to has no wire protocol that can go a month without what would be, under semver, a major release.

You’ll notice that apps that target stable protocols—POP3/IMAP mail clients, RSS newsreaders, vCard calendar apps—never force you to update. They don’t need to. The app will keep working as long as the server they are configured to talk to keeps speaking the same protocol (and it will, because public, RFCed protocols evolve really slowly.)

The fault here lies mostly, I think, with backend developers who have spent their entire careers working on web projects—where, if they want to make a breaking change, they can just ask the web frontend developers to make a matching change on the website that conforms it to the new wire-protocol, and at most the only problem users will have is that their webpage might spontaneously refresh itself if it was relying on a websocket connection. You can’t do that when you have a native frontend pointed at your backend service, but these backend engineers just don’t seem to put much weight on the needs of native frontends. It's web-frontend chauvinism, basically. (Either that or it’s their management forcing them to act as if they don’t.)
It does default to center of Earth. However even if the default wasn't center of the Earth, that couldn't alter the apparent size of the Earth from the perspective of the Roadster. It would've altered the parallax.
> UK libel law.

No.
The "organisational memory" point is one of the driving factors behind the tool / startup I'm building.

https://getctx.io

tl;dr - It's basically all the good bits of Enterprise Search, but set up to pull in the data from the cloud based SaaS tools we all use in 2018, and designed for digital / product teams.

The rationale is, I think that there is no sensible, central place for a company to store all the types of info they have. Slack doesn't do it all, Confluence, JIRA or Trello aren't enough, Google Drive is good for some things...

In my experience (and from many people I've surveyed and spoken to) most companies end up with loads of these tools, and it's a nightmare to find specific pieces of content when you have 5+ options for where it could be.

The answer isn't one tool to rule 'em all - it has to be an abstraction - make the data available but store it (master it) in the various locations.

So, my product indexes Trello, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub and email (and, in beta, JIRA). It'd be great to get some HN-style feedback :-)
First steps with arduino
Followup apology from accuser: https://www.2600.com/node/27106
All the open source software I use on daily basis auto-updates.
There really is such a thing as a customer service culture. Either everyone in your company contributes to customer service or they don't. Either everyone cares about customer satisfaction or they don't.

You can't outsource a helpdesk and consider customer service to be "done". The hard part, the culture aspect of it, is how those tickets get routed and prioritized after the support call is finished. The hard part is actively trying to minimize support calls. The hard part is your developers learning from those calls.
I totally agree.

I'm toying with the idea of build a relational-centric language (and maybe storage) because I think the same.

I wanna to create a table/relation as easy as:

customers = [id:int, name:str; 1 "jhon"; 2 "doe"]

in memory. Other things as triggers, PK, FK, views, etc obscure the simplicity of the relational model and make people say weird stuff as "relational database not scale" or "are too inflexible".

I think exist a LOT of easy things to enrich the model and make it more usefull. For example, is ok to say:

inv = [id:int, lines:Lines; 1 [id:1, qty:1, price:$10]; 2 [id:1, qty:3, price:$40];]

Is totally ok to nest relations on relations (this alone could make wonders for ORM :) ).
FedEx exposes confidential customer data via misconfigured AWS storage
Spaceship: https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt

Before that, I was using Dracula and Pure.
And that shows why it is a bad law as written - now criticizing Hillary Clinton on Facebook while being Russian turns out to be a crime. By using extremely broad definitions of "thing of value": saying "Hillary is bad, Sanders is good" is helpful to Sanders, so if you're Russian or Israeli or Moroccan or Indonesian citizen now it's a crime for you to say it. And using extremely wide definition of "in connection to ... election" - we hold elections every two years, so everything is close to the election and thus can be said to be in connection - any political expression can be prosecuted this way.

What would you say if in Putin's Russia somebody would indict an American for criticizing Putin on Facebook? Probably that Putin is a dictator and hates freedom of speech and of course he would do things like that. Now US justice system is doing that. For shame.
Wow, so good that we spent millions of dollars and pushed to overthrow a legitimately elected President all to indict people that the NYT covered 3 years ago.

Go FBI! Go FBI!
I wouldn't count on github for those purposes. They are files hosted under unique accounts -- those accounts could just delete their repos. If there is a need to archive something, I always make my own archive as opposed to bookmarking a hosting site.
Those are not separate issues.

The corruption is to a degree that anyone can influence US political system with comparably very insignificant cost.

At this juncture, how can you fix the external influence while the internal is so eager to cooperate? Like a stick without support on ground, are you going to put a sign that no one should touch it, but how can you keep it stand? And what's the point of disallow people touching it, which I can blow it off using my mouth...
John Im not sure I understand your first comment, using Panoply you dont need to do any of that and with Panoply's automation they were able to optimize and save all that time and money
Pretending to be an American on Facebook is not a crime as far as I know. In fact, it's not a crime almost anywhere except maybe on US border while talking to US border agent.
> there is no way that an endeavor like Open Street Maps has any real chance

Before making such an insulting claim to so many volunteers' hard work, get your facts straight. We did it.

In the few countries I have experience with the data (western Europe), the quality is great. It could be more complete on business information, but for the rest (think hiking trails, footpaths, cycling paths, etc.), OSM is more complete in every country I know of.

The data is also more current: when a tunnel nearby here was opened on a Thursday at 8pm, I checked the next weekend to see if someone had mapped it yet. Turns out, at 7am the next morning someone already did it. A few subsequent edits completed the thing. People here care and are jumping on projects like that. Google Maps, the winner (according to you) took a few weeks to get their facts straight. People drove wrong so many times to our place and we keep telling them, just use OSM... Some of our friends do, but not everyone. It's a marketing problem, not a lack of talent or manpower.

I'm honestly not even sure what half this article is about. I'm an active mapper and have yet to discover a single case where it's vandalism beyond doubt of stupidity. I've heard of cases, but never found any. Even stupidity, only in very few cases does it truly mess something up (like like disconnecting roads). I'm guessing OP is not from Europe, and local quality varies on the number of mappers, availability of open data, etc. That it's failing in the USA because it's a completely different world (people seem to think differently, more commercially) doesn't mean the project failed as a whole.
There were quite a few affluent people who did not do science or anything like that. And quite a few who did science still had time to socialize and relax. Most employed people now, especially those with families, especially Americans, do not have all that time to do hobbies that require effort.

They are tired and stressed when they come home and need something easy to unwind. I am not even sure why fishing or birdwatching would be superior to watching a movie on TV.
And even if that isn't the case today you can bet that that is exactly what it will be like in the near future.
Sure, but this not what OP said.
13 Russians indicted for inerfering in the 2016 Election
But technically they’re not the same. Like, if you were to describe the DOM nodes generated in response to a hyperlink versus an embed tag, they’d be quite different, right?
Accounts on sexual harassment give one way in which being a woman is worse than a man.

I am aware of no study or plausible anecdotal evidence of a significant issue that men are exposed to that women aren't.

Lacking something to 'balance it out' I find it reasonable to conclude that women have a less pleasant experience.
In a free society you can’t stop influence and propaganda. But, the allegations in the indictment include things like stealing real people’s identities and using them to fay for political advertisements. These are things we should be able to stop.
Sam's Journey
> The evidence being some "because private security companies" said so? Those have even less credibility that state agencies, and will report anything you like for enough dinero.
There is no evidence in the post, only claims.

So is the only source you’ll accept is your eyes watching the hacking in person?
This is exactly the kind of straw man argument that you will see on things like Fox News. No, criticizing Hillary Clinton is not a crime. However, a state actor engaging in a massive propaganda effort to influence a foreign election seems like one to me. And if people come back at me with "but the United States does it too!", that's not an excuse and I don't think that should happen either.
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I think you’re headed for a reality check. There’s this underlying narrative in a lot of the digital privacy stuff that consumers just don’t know what’s happening. If they knew, they’d revolt.

I just don’t see it. I think people kinda know, but they just don’t care that much.

Hell, I bet half the users on HN have a pretty good understanding of what data is collected, but don’t care enough to check out. We still buy smartphones and use all these sites and put Alexa in our houses. It’s not that we don’t know, we just don’t care.
A strict schema won't help when people still use it incorrectly.

Improvement over what exists now would require that the schema be applied strictly and that isn't going to happen with a huge crowdsourced project.
Sissoko did this in 1995, which predates Runescape. It's essentially a Ponzi scheme, variations of which are mentioned as far back as the 1800s. I suspect that they are even older than that.
In that case they make very bad arguments, because such an equilibrium would be expected to be quite stable (although Uber might not be part of it).
>A few thousand a month

Where does it say "a few thousand"? Just says "thousands" and notes that the total operating budget was more than 1M per month
> You shouldn't be storing anything without first obtaining consent. Why are you using analytics indiscriminately?

tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

Did you turn off nginx's default logging?
curious: are you based in the US? Would it not be covered by insurance? $400/shot is a lot for Ketamine.