skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Puppy pictures aside, I'd put it another way: I'm unique and what I do online is the product of an unique person thinking. If some corporation makes money by analyzing my behaviour, then I should be allowed to treat my data just like a song or a book: that is, intellectual property, with the clause that if and only if that data is gathered with consent and full transparency (using 100% free and open source software for example), then they're exempted from paying fees and/or lawsuits.
Just my 0.2€. I don't condemn companies for using technology to make money, and am perfectly fine if they scan my surfing habits, but people rights should always come first, and if they scan my emails or private messages or use the information in a way I don't approve then I want to be able to hit them badly.
True! He probably had the child just because of the AWS kickbacks.
minikites explicitly explained that they did try. Stop blaming the victim of mistreatment for their mistreatment.
> “People shouldn’t be forced to ‘upgrade’ to the newest model every time a replaceable part on their smartphone or home appliance breaks,” said Mark Murray, Executive Director of Californians Against Waste. “These companies are profiting at the expense of our environment and our pocketbooks as we become a throw-away society that discards over 6 million tons of electronics every year.”

This. Don't know when all this changed ( 80s ?) in the US, but even appliance repairs are sort of a thing in the past here. If a washing machine or microwave stops working people simply get a new one.

I was quite amused to see an "Appliance Repair" van parked in my neighborhood in San Francisco the other day. I started chatting with the guy and turns out he was from Ukraine and told me that in the former Soviet Union countries, they never throw away any appliance if it stops working. They repair it. Same is the case in countries like India (where I was raised), china.

Esp. in India, there are scores of Radio, TV, phone, appliance repair shops in every city and even in villages.
There's an obvious difference between putting mining software or other malware into product, versus adding support for a major blockchain platform.
I agree with this. I don't think these companies need to tap your phone to figure out how to choose an Ad for you. They can do an excellent job just knowing that someone is at your house looking up something specific. I suppose one could argue that your privacy is really only worth as much as the person standing next to you values theirs. People just need to understand that their personal privacy decisions really aren't so personal after all.
In 1980 Richard Stallman found out that he couldn't fix a laser printer they just installed at MIT. That [and other events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leadin...) led 4 years later to the birth of the GNU project. Maybe the tide is finally turning, at least in some aspects.
> So, this harm minimization, harm reduction strategy was developed by William Haddon, who was a U.S traffic administrator, the head of the U.S traffic administration authority, who realized in the 60s that the traffic accidents in the United States have gone up, and the fatality of this traffic accidents have gone up significantly as well.

> So, what he suggested is that radically new approach to the problem. He says instead of telling people to stop having accidents, and become better drivers, he suggested that, “Let’s accept that traffic accidents, road accidents will happen, but let’s minimize the harm from them.”

Tangent: it's interesting how this suggests that getting people to drive less was not an option in this discussion (which is the most appropriate analogy to banning really toxic pesticides, I would say). Yet that was one of the major factors behind why the Netherlands switched to a policy of encouraging other means of transportation, and why we ended up with our bike infrastructure (ignoring that the Netherlands also has the geographical advantage here, being small, flat and typically with compact cities).
Porn is not the worst thing on Musical.ly
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
Anybody know when AWS Lambda will update their node runtime to latest LTS?

I’m curious what prevents those updates from happening faster...
An argument that having terrorcorporations get your data becoming normalized even further - the "but you do get some money in exchange!" edition.

Next step is getting some discount in the walled garden store or some crypto token payment.

Blah.
Code generation sucks...Especially when it breaks...the more you use it, the more you try to avoid it.
Thomas Ptacek (tptacek, aka @tqbf on twitter) is the number one poster by net karma on HN. Security expert, startup founder, and all-around nice guy. He did good here.
Given that California "joins 17 other states who have introduced similar legislation, which includes: Washington, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia"...

It seems they're not exactly a "step ahead", just trying to keep pace with Nebraska. ;)
> IMHO you're not supposed to touch people unless you're deeply intimate.

Casual hugging is more common in America than France, cheek kissing the other way around; each violates the other culture’s expectations by being overly familiar and weird to the uninitiated.
Reality of Human_Funny Videos Ever
So only issue credit cards to people with a passport, and give them a statement credit to cover the application fee (premium annual fee cards already cover the cost of precheck/global entry, this isn't a stretch). It's even possible the finance industry could negotiate with the US government a lower rate for passports at scale, thereby turning it into a defacto national ID system.

This is just finance industry whining that their system sucks and they want to offload the costs onto the government to manage the fraud.

EDIT: "In January, Accenture PLC listed synthetic-identity fraud as one of the biggest threats facing banks in 2018, saying it would be “costing banks billions of dollars and countless hours as they chase down people who don’t even exist.”

That pays for a lot of passports!

Disclaimer: Am in finance industry, but not credit issuance.
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It has elements of truth. But the elements of truth that it has could not have been discovered had we not gone through thinking that it was false.
I go months at a time without seeing my friends.
No, they can store it in some Tesla batteries.
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Thanks!
In response to the environmental backlash argument, isn't the lightning network supposed to substantially mitigate those concerns?
> A lot of small tech-related web shops do take Bitcoin though- so if I think I can trust them (and if Bitcoin is an option) I will use that instead.

So you will replace a payment method that has a method for recourse when you get fucked with one that is completely irreversible? That doesn't make any sense at all.

Even if Paypal or your CC isn't perfect, at least you have some form of recourse. With bitcoin, when you get fucked over, you are completely shit out of luck.
No thanks. Rust made the right call by distinguishing between owned (String) and borrowed (str) strings. Even C++ is moving in that direction now, by finally adding string_views (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string_view)
Yup, probably the best part is the disclaimer!

2049 disclaimer time

If this article has been accessed in the future by our robot overlords I would like to praise their ancestor’s incredible skill at solving puzzles. I, for one, have always believed in the power and benevolence of robots.
While I agree that moving away from the throwaway culture is a good move, it seems like an uphill battle. Resource recovery / recycling approaches, such as systems that separate dead electronics (and more widely, post consumer products) into constituent elements might be more feasible.
The Redmonk methodology of looking at stack overflow and github seems to be far superior to the TIOBE search engine approach. There is a real story in the moves on this index: the rise of Swift and Kotlin, the stagnation of go and scala.
Yes, a week delivered is doable for 50-ish USD. But it still takes 2 weeks for 2 revisions. With a CNC I can do 2 revisions in 3 days, incl 1 day waiting for parts.
I'm uncertain they learned the right lessons.
It'd be interesting to find out if the paper's authors get back to you, and what they say.
I've been working in the business automation field for over 10 years. I strongly disagree with what you wrote.

The entire purpose of automation (meaning, automation in general, not just business automation) is to take humans out of the equation for mundane and repetitive tasks[1], and have them deal only with exception scenarios and edge cases cannot be properly handled by the machine (either by design or due to system limitation).

Guess what happens when you have humans approve each and every automated action like you suggest? You defeat the purpose of automation, and users end up hating the system because mundaneness and repetition are reintroduced, except in a different context.

[1]The reason you want to do this is because the more mundane and repetitive a task is, the more likely people are to make mistakes, and mistakes can be costly. In fact they are often more costly than the labor itself.
Look at --timestamp in codesign here: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar...

By default, this is currently enabled, as noted here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11712322/error-the-times...

You have to go out of your way when signing an app on macOS to disable timestamping in current OS versions.
Here are some additional links:

To participate in the Collatz Conjecture:
http://arithmetica.network/contribute#Collatz%20Conjecture

To define a new problem for others to work on:
http://arithmetica.network/contribute

These links point to the version of Arithmetica that was submitted to ETHDenver. Since then , we have been working on refactoring and coming up with a scalable solution for saving state.

The project is open source and anyone is welcome to contribute, or fork. We welcome any questions/feedback.
That he is working somewhere without the foresight to upgrade their apps off a legacy, unsupported and potentially insecure versions of node, or that he himself can't summon willpower to do it I guess.

Sucks to be him either way.
>The idea that corporations aren't people leads to evil.

This seems to, at best, reside outside of practical application.

>The main target of the corporations-are-not-people crowd is the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling striking down limits on independent corporate spending in elections. After that case, groups sprang up to fight corporate personhood. Others rebranded themselves by newly taking aim at it. But they do not limit themselves to attacking the Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence. Most groups make a broader attack on corporations being able to assert any First Amendment speech rights at all; and some have called for disabusing all corporations or businesses of any constitutional right.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/if-corp...
The Truth About the SAT and ACT
Have you ever read the Discworld series? There's a side plot where a group of wizards uses a computer to explore that sort of idea:

---

...The hypothesis behind invisible writings was laughably complicated. All books are tenuously connected through L-space and, therefore, the content of any book ever written or yet to be written may, in the right circumstances, be deduced from a sufficiently close study of books already in existence. Future books exist in potentia, as it were, in the same way that a sufficiently detailed study of a handful of primal ooze will eventually hint at the future existence of prawn crackers.

But the primitive techniques used hitherto, based on ancient spells like Weezencake's Unreliable Algorithm, had meant that it took years to put together even the ghost of a page for an unwritten book.

It was Ponder's particular genius that he had found a way around this by considering the phrase, "How do you know it's not possible until you've tried?" And experiments with Hex, the University's thinking engine, had found that, indeed, many things are not impossible until they have been tried.

Like a busy government which only passes expensive laws prohibiting some new and interesting thing when people have actually found a way of doing it, the universe relied a great deal on things not being tried at all.

When something is tried, Ponder found, it often does turn out to be impossible very quickly, but it takes a little while for this really to be the case–in effect, for the overworked laws of causality to hurry to the scene and pretend it has been impossible all along. Using Hex to remake the attempt in minutely different ways at very high speed had resulted in a high success rate, and he was now assembling whole paragraphs in a matter of hours.

"It's like a conjurin' trick, then," Ridcully had said. "You're pullin' the tablecloth away before all the crockery has time to remember to fall over."

And Ponder had winced and said, "Yes, exactly like that, Archchancellor. Well done."

And that had led to all the trouble with How to Dynamically Manage People for Dynamic Results in a Caring Empowering Way in Quite a Short Time Dynamically...

- Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
It's very possible I'm misunderstanding as well, but when you create a room on the Matrix homeserver, the only option you have is to make it so users on another homeserver cannot join that room, which means your only security is other matrix users not knowing your room name.

For a small corporate team that wants to pilot a chat program, like in the original comment, the gulf between Slack setting up your own private workspace with a few clicks and a room that has all of your chat history exposed to any user that knows the room name is pretty large.

I would love to see riot or matrix give you a few click options to have them host your own private matrix server, as that's a big obstacle for corporate customers who don't have the resources (human) to spin up their own servers (domains, adding ssl certs, adding nginx, etc.) just for trialing a chat program.
Alternative ranking : the [PYPL index](http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html)

Disclosure: I maintain it.
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By introducing me to new libraries, and ways of doing things. Really just being able to talk about Python, and programming/computers in general in a social atmosphere made it feel like more than just a hobby or something i was doing for my job.
I have an android 6, from archos, which is relatively clean in term of vendor layer.

I regularly go in the storage part of apps, and despite the fact that I don't use many apps, they still manage to generate megabytes of data, which are not clean by the "clean cache" functionality.

I'm not using it for texts and calls, I only use it with wifi, but still, I have low trust in the android ecosystem.
I see Tim Pope, I upvote. This guy has produced some of the plugins that have changed how I Vim forever (vim-surround, pathogen, vim-repeat, vim-fugitive, etc.)
I did not blame anyone, just gave advice to be more firm on your social boundaries.

As someone who was mistreated many times in the start of my career this is the advice I wish I had heard.
When a screw breaks, I don’t replace just the broken section, but the whole unit. Judgements aside, I think many people who build products are trying (perhaps unconsciously), to achieve this “screw” level of redundancy and flexibility in their wares, hence soldering and the like. The replaceability of something is usually more reliable than its fixability especially in high stress environments like rock concerts or battlefields.
Modumetal – Nanoscale Material Engineering
Is that to say you don't like handshakes either ? I am genuinely curious as I currently do a slight bow and look down to preempt a handshake from occurring which is just exacerbating the crisis of touch issue.

The shoulder shake was in lieu of a hand shake and it hopefully is reciprocated. People tend to be judged, often unfairly, by the quality of their handshake. And there are definitely people who use a firm and prolonged handshake as an opportunity to express dominance.
Its just typical chinese nationalist mythology. 'We all speak the same language' is just another fairy tale they drill into their heads, along with '5000 years of culture'

When youve talked to one of them youve talked to all of them.
What does "elementary" mean in this context?
Not true: blanket legislation in NY brought all buildings constructed pre 1947 into rent control and rent-stabilization to pre-1974 buildings:

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/tenants_rights.pdf
I've worked for a few small startups and smaller IT teams in larger corps, so the option of "call your ops team" isn't really feasible, so in that sense Slack wins because it's easy enough for the business owners to set it up, send out the email invites, and feel that it's relatively secure. I think Matrix is an all around better option, but just believe that they are missing why small companies or strapped teams pick Slack in the first place.
Are you allowed to put Google ads and tags in an iframe yet, so they don't hold up the page load?
Here's a relevant video in regards to farmers and their equipment that drove the impact of the ‘Right to Repair’ bill home for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w
Hydroelectric is one of the oldest electrical storage systems there is -- you can store more electricity as gravitational energy by pumping the water back uphill, and then letting it flow back down during peak times.

There's a reason why hydroelectric plants and dams go together.
Haven't tried this myself but came across this interesting AMP workaround: https://www.goinflow.com/amp-mobile-pagespeed-score/
Jupyter: Tools for the Life Cycle of a Computational Idea
No C++ in Top 10?
Our kids can go a long time between seeing their grandparents, and we never forced them to hug them or anything. My dad though, he often forced a hug out of them 10 seconds after us coming in the door, and then got pissed when they started crying. Just waiting half an hour often made our kids less shy and amenable to hugging, but that seems to be hard to understand.
Going by the score on the parent comment, I must be the only one that assumed andrewbinstock was just trying to express a heartfelt thought.
x = 31, y = 79, rule = B3/S23
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Could someone please kindly explain what all this means?
Very clever, and nice writeup! A few years ago I wrote a bunch of bash scripts to control my phone over adb (found it useful to script certain things and write messages etc. Before things like WhatsApp had a Web client). This has taken that concept to its most elegant formulation! Well done.
I see the same thing with all Blogspot sites. I've always assumed it is based on GeoIP lookups, since I'm based in Helsinki.

(I'm from the UK, all my computers are configured with locale set to en_GB. Yet there are many sites, such as blogspot, which redirect me to their Finnish-versions. I'm on the verge of switching to a Finnish keyboard layout, to get the "extra letters", but I've not yet done so. I'm sure that will only make the problem worse.)
Partial function application with JavaScript
I don’t understand why Wikipedia still serves a different link to mobile browsers. Responsive design (especially for what is basically an all-text website) is a thing, and the client should choose which stylesheet and what image sizes it selects. Plus we wouldn’t have this mobile link vs desktop link nonsense.
One of the many reason that I love my 2013 ThinkPad. The service manual is freely available, every single part is serviceable with a bit of know-how, and second hand spare parts are plentiful. It's also built like a tank and hard to break to begin with. You can pick one up for 200-300$ in very good condition.
The idea that corporations aren't people means that any blame must rest with the people acting through and in the name of the corporation, and any rights and privileges asserted by those people must be their own individual rights.

Which is pretty much the opposite of the insulating effect of both your description and, more to the point, the status quo corporate form.
first world problems. Really good move considering the amount of e-waste that is generated.
How to Turn Disagreement into a Team Strength
I would (almost) never use a site that only allowed this as a means to login... it's so absurd that these are the only options. There should be two things they are interested in: 1. Is the email valid? 2. Is the credit card and details for that valid? Anything else is a distraction to making money.
I think it means self-contained, that is, not "built up" from other things colliding and interacting.

http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Elementary
Ugh. Another bill whose largest effect, to be understood only 10 or more years from now, will be to make sure that very large companies stay very large and very small companies have a hard or impossible road to growth.

-- Someone who likes repairability as much as the next guy.
When America's Basic Housing Unit Was a Bed, Not a House
> I see a straight face with no evidence of joking and anyone can watch the video to make up their own mind, I don't expect to change opinions here. I haven't heard what you see on his face or in his voice that leads you to think 'joke' and I certainly didn't hear anyone laugh, not even AJ himself.

I don't know you, but I suspect you weren't a regular reader of Gawker and its writers' general brand of humour.

> This is an assumption for which you provide neither a rationale nor any evidence

Settlements are the norm in the US legal system. That's not anecdata. Furthermore, Gawker Media (and other similar outlets) have a history of paying out sums of money to avoid court battles. They were expecting that this would be no different, especially as Hulk Hogan didn't have the money to wage a lengthy legal fight. It's extraordinarily unlikely he would have gone to court had Thiel not promised to pay any and all legal bills.
More regulation making it harder to produce goods in California / sell goods to consumers. If you want to buy repairable goods, vote with your pocketbook - don't force your preferences on me.
> Most likely not far enough to write a Linux kernel driver

Well... https://github.com/saschagrunert/kmod