skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently started participating in Funeral Honors Details as a Navy Reservist.

We fold the flag, present it to the next of kin, play taps, and provide an honorable exit for anybody who has served.

It's been the most meaningful part of my 14 years of military service - which included a combat deployment.

Simply walking through the cemetery before the service is profound. All that remains of a life time of stories is usually just a name and a date. It's humbling to reflect that within 100 years (at the very very most), I too will be there...and some random stranger may come across my grave.

Death makes life all the more meaningful for me. Engaging with mourning families at least monthly helps me cherish my moments doing the things I love all the more.
It's not clear how to implement 'right to be forgotten' inside backed-up data, too.
It’s been a really long time since I’ve read that paper. Thanks for the link and the call-out out 6.4. That “target distance worth searching” seems interesting when thinking about color-replacement.
I don’t see why HN doesn’t require every down vote to have a comment. Judging from the sheets of gray on most threads, most down voted comments aren’t actually in violation of site policy, off topic, trolling, etc. It’s just a few little people disagreed. Which is fine! But it’s not constructive or interesting to just slap the commenter with your dick.
agreed, this project is trying to do just that: https://github.com/jtoy/sensenet
It reminds me of the role of DMs in RPGs: creating a small world in each question, category, and show for the player to interact with.

This is a trade site? It might have been interesting or helpful for readers if they'd asked about salaries in the field (not necessarily what the subject earns directly, more in general).
Here's an interesting read:

Parallels in Hindu and Stoic Ethical Thought

http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/public/articles/...

> Krishna reminded Arjuna that "Thinking about sense objects will attach you to sense objects. Grow attached and you become addicted. Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger. Be angry and you confuse your mind. Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience. Forget experience, you lose discrimination. Lose discrimination, and you miss life's only purpose".
When I was the CTO & VP of Engineering for Wayport (public, mostly hotel Internet) we designed an Ethernet switch that could use Home PNA or Ethernet PHYs. (Later adapted to also offer VDSL to an in-room modem.)

We also designed our own 802.11 access points.

All of our competitors had at least one fire. In a hotel with hundreds of people asleep. It didn’t matter if they used commercial gear or not. Every one of them had a fire.

We never had one, but I was obsessed with not hurting anyone because we had missed something.

And yes, it kept me up at night.
As opposed to "Trust us, we're Google/Facebook/Doubleclick/etc"? Not arguing for government necessarily. Just wonder who or what else would be the honest booked?
There once was a tool that simplifies software production built into nearly all 8-bit machines. It was called BASIC.

Millions of kids learned how (and how not) to code using it. Many of them gained a career as a result.

Unfortunately kids in the future had to do without it. Because there were a -thousand- 'better ideas'.
No Pay wall Article
http://archive.is/cUoK5
AFAIK you can't get any hardware acceleration that way.
The Exchange server requesting remote permission is a "feature" which allows you or your company's Exchange server admins to send remote wipe command to the handset if it's lost or you leave the company. Not the specific fault of the permission model of the phone, it's part of the activesync suite.
> note that each of the things mentioned are also true of Christians but we are far less likely to treat such blanket statements about them as useful or accurate.

The "rich elite man" Affleck was yelling at for criticizing Islam wrote two full books criticising Christianity earlier in his career and received very little blowback for them. In fact, those books are what made him a "rich elite man", as you put it.

>> Take a look at what evolutionary psychologists and biologists have been facing over the past decade.

> I’m well aware of that and you’re misrepresenting it.

How can you both be well aware of what I was thinking and that I was misrepresnting? I didn't even reference a specific incident! You've both mentally filled in an example and invented some misrepresentation you believe I've made about it.

The principle of charity dictates the opposite.
>people need jobs

If tax payers are going to pay for those jobs why not just cut out the middle man?
So don't make new systems.. help dismantle old ones?
I imagine a world where every application that wanted to read and write to displays was required to go through an authorization-flow before it worked?

That sounds terrible. This behavior is how desktop applications are meant to work. I’m surprised this surprised anyone.
... Include it in two files, and you are really done!
> people don't want handouts, they want an honest day's work for an honest day's pay

But why? People do seem to want this, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I was unemployed one summer and got about $400 every other week from the state. It wasn’t a lot of money, but factoring in transportation costs it was a better deal than going out and getting a low paying job. It was literally the best summer of my life since I was a kid.

If I was working a $12/hr factory job or mining or some other labor type job and someone came along and said they’d pay me the same to stay home, I’d take that deal before they could finish the sentence.

I’ve worked a factory job and I’ve worked outdoors. While I enjoyed the work, I enjoyed not working 1000 times more.

I don’t particularly like working in an office either, but since I can generally set my own hours and the pay is good, it’s not so bad. Punching a clock is hell; why anyone would prefer that over unemployment, welfare or UBI is beyond me.
I don't think that's accurate. There were a bunch of silos in the past, too. People used to be on AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Jabber and IRC, and there were others. That's the reason chat apps like Adium and Trillian supporter multiple accounts. I had friends on all those networks, and nobody was on all of them. It was a mess back then, just as it is now, except now we have even more choices.
Something has to give with the Mac ecosystem. The Mac App Store sucks, the Mac has continuously for the past years of been having security issues, serious security issues.

I believe Apple is at a crossroads, something needs to be done with the Mac.
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Show HN: Gitignore – easily add paths to .gitignore from anywhere in the repo
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the GDPR myself, but I think (and would love evidence to the contrary if wrong) that IP addresses, certain device attributes, and the like are okay if they're required in order to ensure (or protect against threats to) "the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal data". [0]

I don't really know about relational data, where a true "delete" would destroy someone's database. Somebody told me that, if hard deletions aren't technically feasible, then soft-deleting (or marking as archived or whatever) is acceptable. Not too sure I believe them though -- simply replacing the sensitive data with garbage and keeping the relations seems like a better idea.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-49/
Not that I've actually read the book myself, but Being and Time by Heidegger seems to fit your description.

Reading it will feel like running into a brick wall, so I suggest reading about Heidegger for context first: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/

Reading the article above might still feel like running into a wall though (perhaps one of wood, this time). You might want to have a listen to an episode on Heidegger by Philosophize This!: http://philosophizethis.org/episode-100-transcript/
I use hangouts exclusively on Safari. It's actually frequently unusable with Chrome (nobody can hear me).
That’s a great way of putting it! Of course old Shel had some creeeepy stuff too, remember the Yipiyuk?

In the swamplands long ago,

Where the weeds and mudglumps grow,

A Yipiyuk bit on my toe…

Exactly why I do not know.

I kicked and cried

And hollered “Oh”—

The Yipiyuk would not let go.

I whispered to him soft and low—

The Yipiyuk would not let go.
I shouted “Stop,” “Desist” and “Whoa”—

The Yipiyuk would not let go.

Yes, it was sixteen years ago,

The Yipiyuk still won’t let go.

The snow may fall,

The winds may blow—

The Yipiyuk will not let go.

The snow may melt,

The grass may grow—

The Yipiyuk will not let go.

I drag him ‘round each place I go.

This Yipiyuk that won’t let go.

And now my child at last you know

Exactly why I walk so slow.

He had a few creepy ones, but they were all memorable and excellent. Thanks for reminding me of Shel Silverstein.
Voice/Hangouts has felt like an abandoned application for many years, even though it's potentially one of the best products Google has ever made. They really seem to stop at v1 for almost all of their products and have not the slightest idea how to monetize them.
Hundreds of fire deaths may be linked to skin creams
Author here. I'm not really sure why `ignore` isn't a `git` command, but this is how I'd imagine it working if it was. Any criticism is welcome, I don't write bash often, and maybe there's a good reason the command doesn't exist.
That brought back a few memories of the book. I remember being extremely turned off when he listed all the things a person shouldn't do for a living and wondering if this book was only targeted at those who were born independently wealthy.
What about trusting ip from private address ranges?
There is at least one major attempt at addressing this fragmentation with a modern protocol, that being the Matrix protocol (matrix.org). Yeah, if it takes off then it will just be yet another bit of fragmentation, but at least it is designed in such a way that chats dont get siloed into a single echosystem.
never knew how to phrase it, but I've had that a couple of times in the past few years. I've had to get really picky abouth the white noise sounds I listen to. Eventually, almost all the loops become identifiable - I can tell when the loop restarts, etc. I had two different loops (both of water sounds - waterfalls, maybe? - iirc) that, at some point, started to register as human voices, and it freaked me out more than a bit.

fwiw, the only thing that works well for me is masking any other sounds with a mix of grey and brown noise on top. i use 'white noise app' to achieve this, and it helps me get to sleep, masking out many other ambient disturbances (road/car noises, mostly).
I haven't really dug into it being in the USA, but from what I've heard the big takeaway for my clients might be: "You can never again accept a European as a patient, and for your own protection you might need to dismiss any European patients you have." I'm not really worried about legitimate cases where someone wants their data removed, as that seems unlikely. I'm less sure about the risks of some enterprising young lawyer over there finding a way (or a possible way that would end up thrown out) to leverage it to extort money.

Read at its bluntest, as I understand it this law seems to basically ban backups, at least those retained for any significant amount of time. Have a customer/patient database on a cycle of daily/weekly/monthly backups that get pruned as they get older? You need to be able to purge any individual who requests it from those backups. Have regulatory or contractual requirements on keeping records? Well, that's what the courts are for, hope you like the attorneys you're going to be paying. Heck, for medical practices I've heard of insurance companies doing clawbacks of payments years after the date of service - what does a practice do if it serves a European with temporary insurance, gets a request to purge that person's data, then gets a request for clarification from an insurance company?

Perhaps this is a complete non-issue for US companies, but I'm not so certain of that that I'd be willing to just dismiss it out of hand and if it's not dismissed then parts of it are pretty scary.
Black Jesus and the Rastafari
I wrote this in response to someone asking about other Stoic writings who, in the interim, deleted their response, so I'll post it as a stand-alone response:

I'm an avid reader of Stoic philosophy, to the point I would say it's a central pillar of my life. I would strongly advocate anyone interested in Stoicism not read these recent texts first, or, if I'm honest, really at all. I get that they're trying to making it approachable, but I feel that in an attempt to modernize the message they really lose most of it. One of the beautiful things about Stoicism is that the ancient philosophers were very mindful of speaking plainly, and their texts are extremely approachable. Epictetus' Enchiridion is very easy to parse and is packed full of very practical knowledge. It is one hundred percent the place to start. Following that, read Seneca's letters to Lucilius, which are titled either Moral Letters to Lucilius or Letters from a Stoic. These are very straight forward teachings in very direct language.

Beyond that there's a whole canon of writing. The only extant writing from Stoic philosophers are from Epictetus and Seneca. There are fragments from Musonius Rufus, and a small handful from the very ancients like Chrysippus and Zeno. There are writings about Stoicism by Marcus Aurelius, a very famous follower but not a teacher himself, and by Cicero, though he also wrote against the philosophy in other places. Marcus Aurelius' writings are very approachable and often recommended.

There are a few modern academic writings I would suggest to someone who has read the ancient sources, specifically the papers by A.A. Long. If you absolutely must have a modern book about the school, I'll contradict my earlier statement and say that William B. Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life is one exception.

I love Stoicism and am happy to talk about it at length. Anyone who is interested can feel free to contact me about it, my email is in my profile.

Ad fontes!
Extraterritoriality is new. Most websites are probably not in the business of complying with the law in random EU countries where they have no legal or logistical presence. HN, for example, doesn’t.
I like that line! It's whimsical. It makes me think of a child listing all the things they can think of and mistakenly including "nothing" in that list.

Not everything has to be perfectly logical. The part that confused my kid was that the "little old lady" was clearly a rabbit.
All you see is more pixels? What about GPS? Music? Movies? Facetime in realtime to anyone in the world?

What about doing all of the above at the same time?

"I only see" is because you are limiting what you see in a way that goes against what the vast majority of people see.

That's like saying the new MacBook is no different than a 286 because you had Excel Worksheets on both.

Or saying there is no difference between a Model-T and a 2018 Honda Civic - they both use gas, have 4 wheels and a windshield.
A worthy alternative: https://yeun.github.io/open-color/
I agree, though instead of "public key" I would just say "self-signed cert".

> ...or you could simply treat HTTP in local networks as a secure origin and be done with it.

I think this is a lot harder than it sounds. What's a "local network". Is a coffee shop or public wifi a local network? How does the browser know? How do you know a rogue IoT device isn't doing ip spoofing?
Yeah.

No.
I still don't understand what leads you to believe residents of a trailer park are poorly socialized.
Great Crime Decline:Drawing the right lessons from the fall in urban violence
That's interesting, because you can ask: what is the present moment? In physics there is no such thing as simultaneity. And different parts of your brain can communicate at most by the speed of light.
oh right I sometimes forget just how arcane and distanced from reality legal terms can be, thanks for the clarification :)
Facebook as a website is certainly on its way out. Facebook as a company is fine. It will eventually turn into the IBM of online advertising: it will transition into a services company.

Companies are starting to slowly figure out that online ads have almost zero value. Facebook is surviving by buying the hottest properties around, and they will continue to do so. They are diversified. I give it 5 years before they pull a google and change the name.

But as long as advertisers can keep moving the goal-posts, there will be marketing teams who think they need to pay money for those ads. The problem with previous social media companies was that they got complacent. Facebook isn't. They are actively acquiring every next big social media company they can. Facebook as a website is a worthless graveyard. Other properties will make money while it and its users decline and die.
Did presence ever really work though? I’ve been online since the late 90s and I don’t remember ever considering it reliable except perhaps for people on IRC who I knew had a transient internet connection (namely dialup).

I’ve never really paid much attention to or trusted presence status, with the exception of statuses that are manually set (e.g. do not disturb in Slack and similar).

It’s kind of funny, considering that presence is probably the most challenging technical requirement for large-scale messaging platforms. I will say that my two most-used messaging platforms, iMessage and Slack, both usually do a great job of delivering push notifications to only the ideal device (my phone, tablet, or computer). My intuition is that this logic is roughly the same as presence.
You can use the default email application on Android with services that don't want remote-wipe controls. Exchange does. That's how ActiveSync works. If you don't want that, use IMAP or POP3.
Instant messaging used to be so simple. You connected via adium or pidgin, and it just worked. You could hook it up to gtalk and msn. Even ICQ and AIM. Then msn wouldn't play nice any more, then gtalk.

Now we've had a dozen renames and replacements, XMPP is long gone, and what's left is an almost unusable mess. Add to that the dozens of people I once had connected on Adium (from memory most on Google talk) are now strewn across loads of different chat apps.

These days I'm texting more again! This really isn't the future I expected.
I'm not sure I trust the source here, I strongly suspect his article is a bit of content marketing meant to give an SEO boost to drfuhrman.com
A desktop application has need to instruct the OS to draw its window. That can be reasonably unprivileged--an app owns its windows, this is easy. Most applications have no need to read raster data from its window. Even fewer have need to read raster data from the desktop itself.

Desktop applications are not "meant to" have access they don't need. They sometimes have that access as an accident of history, but they are not "meant to"; we've known about the principle of least privilege for a long time. And the MacOS sandbox (which, to be honest, doesn't work very well, but that's neither here nor there) is intended to enforce application privileges and reduce escalation.
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Check out QubesOS.
How is the Android way different? We're two major and four minor versions since individual permission request were added.
I read all of this, made a 8 paragraph long retort about the stupidity of backend devs in this thread, then deleted it.

The reality is, if you don't currently serve a website 1,000,000 people want to use, just pick some terrible server side piece of crap and call it good.

If you want 1,000,000+ people to use your website, you better learn that a dynamic user experience is expected, and delivered with eloquent javascript and design.
The first paragraph have me that sense.
It is remarkable how thoroughly Google has munged their communications platforms.

Especially as an iPhone user, I am constantly befuddled trying to get a semblance of a well organized contact list between my google apps, never mind a correspondence between the iPhone native contact list.

I have a google voice number, and generally I assume that messages get to me one way or another.

The most recent baffled was finally understanding that there is no way to manage contacts from within the iOS Hangouts app. I’m actually not sure how that contact list is generated.
I have noticed a strong tendency among critics to give sole credit to Percy Shelley for works which he co-wrote, and attribute to him works he did not write and could not possibly have written.

He seems to be the opposite in this respect to Shakespeare, whose works critics seem eager to attribute to almost anyone else.

Mary Shelley was well-educated thanks to her father, who believed strongly in education for girls and ran a publishing house specializing in educational materials for children.

When Mary met Percy, she was already an accomplished, published author, whereas he had written nothing of note. When Frankenstein was published, Percy still hadn't written anything but what is today considered juvenilia.

The case that Mary helped Percy achieve literary immortality is far stronger that the reverse.
Poor countries are getting wealthier.

Look at the list of countries by GDP growth and sort for the highest ones. Most of them are poor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(real...

Mobile phones, payment systems that avoid corrupt banks like m-pesa and the internet are really helping these places.

In addition education is shooting up:

https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education

In 1950 60% of the world was illiterate, today it's less than 20.

Have a look at how fertility rates can drop when people get richer and governments allow some fertility control. In the Islamic Republic of Iran fertility rates dropped from about 6 per woman in 1980 to below replacement in 2005.

https://www.google.com.au/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f...
I thought this analysis was interesting.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/canadaland-guide-jorda...
Please humor me, why in the world does an app need to read/write your screen? It is provided a window for that.

If it doesn't need to read/write your screen in order to provide its features, and then does it, wouldn't you agree that something is fishy? Wouldn't you like to know when fishy things are going on?

What is the point of security if any app you download can see everything you do?
Ummm... Richard Nixon was born middle class at best and was in government his whole life. The only real money he made came from books written after his resignation.

Nixon wasn’t rich at all.
https://247wallst.com/banking-finance/2010/05/17/the-net-wor...
A 'Walden' for the YouTube Age
One has to learn how to deal with cabal anyway

Nah, I haven't used cabal-install in years now. Because of hpack, you don't even need to write .cabal files.

The only time I touch cabal is when I need to write Setup.hs files, which is, mercifully, quite rare.
You look to future moments, in the present moment.

There is only the present moment.

This isn't a philosophical stance - it's actually a subtle point that isn't obvious until pointed out, everything you experience, you experience right now, and never any other time, always now.
>So you have to use the Google Hangouts on a separate tab in the browser, or it gets juxtaposed to your Gmail, which will slow your lastest i5 laptop down and makes your fan whirr like crazy just to have one conversation.

Fucks sake, this annoys me to no end. Here is a product that's clean, lean, and fast. 5 years of development later and you have a bloated, energy-chugging, slow and irritating piece of shit, with absolutely zero added functionally to show for it.

God damn it.