skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google is a private business and they can do what they want

No. They can't. Countries have laws that regulate what companies can and can't do. That's why so many companies have had to pay fines in the past. To assert that "private business ... can do what they want" deteriorates democracies and the rule of law.

update: My comment is not about if Google did right or wrong, or if it's legal or not for them to ban cryptocurrency ads. My comment it's just a response to the parent about how private companies "can do what they want". Sorry for writing a comment so open to misinterpretation. I hope this clarification helps.
So Google is joining the #CRAEFULGANG?
I certainly don't feel exploited for doing on-call rotations.

It's always mentioned up front at interviews so I don't feel ambushed and most the time all it amounts to is I carry my laptop with me. Maybe I'm lucky but of the over 2k hours on call I had logged at my last job I got paged for something that took more than 5 minutes to resolve. It's just part of the job IMO.

We work on systems that don't close down at the end of the day. I've had jobs in the past that were also open 24/7. We weren't on call but should someone have called in sick for a shift we were expected to answer our phone and come in to work to cover a shift. That was a union job and it's pay and benefits were no where near what I have now (they weren't bad either). They were never going to reimburse me to go to a conference or have my lunch catered everyday like I can get now.

So no, I don't feel exploited. We are white collar workers with pretty cushy jobs (at least most engineers I know, YMMV). It just so happens that occasionally we may have to save the day when the code WE wrote does something it's not supposed to. For all the upsides working in this industry has, this downside is pretty insignificant IMO.

But hey, don't wanna get paged? Write better code :-p
Why do so many self-absorbed "writers" on Medium avoid even basic proofreading?
I like the phrase market-product fit more. I wrote about it last month: https://invertedpassion.com/to-get-good-startup-ideas-look-f...
Agreed with all the above. Retention is the best long term predictor of success of every business I’ve seen. Growth can be fast or slow- what matters is do you keep your customers around.
LuaJIT is indeed a big draw, but it also has a bunch of 5.2 features, esp goto. 5.3 brought integers which is awesome because 64 bit datatypes can round trip through Lua will full fidelity.
You mean what ads have I been hungry to see, but mean old Google keeps them away from my eyes? None.
Please. Cryptocurrency advertising, the domain of “the next Bitcoin” and “100,000% return on ICO” scams, is an odd hill to die on in the pursuit of grandiose claims of “democracy and the rule of law”. Google can accept or deny any advertising they choose, and statehood and governments have nothing to do with it; I anticipate your “but First Amendment” reply and challenge you to think about to what relationship a Constitutional amendment applies. I don’t see people appealing to Westphalian sovereignty and The Rule of Law when Google doesn’t accept pornographic advertising, do you?

There is neither law nor regulation in the United States or California demanding that advertising be accepted and served outside of certain limited scenarios, such as elections. Anticompetitive concerns are handled via other means and do not apply. So, yes. They can. And their doing so doesn’t undermine democracy in any sense. If you believe this incorrect, the courts are at your disposal.

Do you have any idea how often the networks reject television advertising, by the way? One national spot I worked on took five tries to be accepted for air. Advertising media needs a rejection mechanism (else you’d get Bud Light ads on the Disney channel), and citing a civics lesson to lament it is just silly.
Well I know for sure that a lot of prostitutes accept Amazon cards as payment for minor services and prefer those to be transferred electronically (as code).
> What about responsible disclosure ethics?

"Responsible" to whom? Terms like these indicate what side one takes, such as how one expands the term "DRM": digital rights management means taking the 1%/elite side favored by the publisher, the few in power. 'Digital restrictions management' highlights what's happening from the user's side, the 99%, the side of the many. Similarly with the harm to the users and the desire for freedom in the term "jailbreaking".

So, since we recognize the reporters owe AMD nothing, to whom are they "responsible"? Or what are they responsible for?

This phrase strikes me as useless except to try to foist a responsibility on people that they don't actually have and getting the relatively powerless to serve the interests of power -- users who can't inspect, edit, or share edited CPU microcode are somehow not acting responsibly if they don't give proprietors sufficient notice.

Where is the "responsible disclosure" for Intel when they refuse to let users fully control the signing keys used in the software that sees every network packet before the rest of the computer (for inbound network traffic) and before a packet leaves the computer (for outbound traffic)? The one-sidedness of it all sticks out like a sore thumb.
While Stephen Hawking is someone who could not live forever, he is someone we needed to.

RIP.
My position on this is not disturbing at all. My position on this is that education improves the future productivity of our youth. We trade economic productivity today for increases in future production.

You have cited a problem. The fact that we make children work to support their families holds them back from being the ones who kaizendad refers to.

Children who have the benefit of education early on are more likely to be productive later in life.

I also had my first paying job at a young age. My economic benefit today is much larger in comparison and continues to increase year over year. My maximum economic contribution has yet to occur even though my youthful employment was decades in the past.
"Why we need to do more to reduce certificate lifetimes”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582714
I'm so sad. Rest in peace Mr Hawking. What brilliant mind we've lost.
People talk about how cybernetics will change what it means to be human, however I really believe we are already past that point.

My cell phone and computer augment my ability to do things to such a degree that I feel I'm not myself without those abilities. I rely on note apps to remember things, calendars to schedule, internet searches to re-discover information or lookup specifics. My social life, my professional life, and my personal life are all significantly changed by computers.

I honestly feel taking your eyes and hands out of the equation and putting stuff directly into your brain is going to be more evolutionary than revolutionary.
Build said cheap housing. Money has to come from somewhere.
Yeah- the truth is always more nuanced. Both product market fit and doing things that don’t scale are required to get something off of the ground. It’s almost never you see a successful startup that didn’t have both of those pieces.
It seems his spent his final days fighting her legacy - a backdoor attempt at privatisation in the NHS by her party.

Thatcher should never be mentioned in a thread dedicated to his legacy. He wouldn't have got this far if she had her way.
"At least at the lecture I attended, he live keyed his entire speech. This meant the synthesizer would speak, followed by 20 or 30 seconds of absolute silence as he buffered the next few sentences."

He was "typing" one bit at a time?
How can he type the entire sentence so quickly?
so, legal euthanasia for the rich?
This “rebuttal” itself contains no facts, and more specifically, none that refute the 137,000/day figure in the parent.
At first I expected this to be about JS-mining ads.

How the hell can these companies turn blind eyes to bogus advertising like [1] to the point that the FTC steps in - but suddenly have a conscience about cryptocurrency.

It would please me to no end for advertising to magically become 100% truthful and fact-based. But this is selective censorship for reasons I don't care to understand, the ads these companies serve will continue to be rife with lies and propaganda with or without cryptocurrency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_weird_trick_advertisements
Yea, I get the mod rules, but this is bad.

The purpose of YCombinator was to start new companies, not to argue about brain slices.

If you want to argue about brain slices, that's cool, I'm just saying. Not what this discussion board was meant for.
RIP Stephen Hawking. Thanks for fighting on for so long, even after reaching a stage when most would expect one to give up.
Flower Delivery Bike Simulator
Back again with another exciting game for all the virtual lovers, and for the fans of Simulator games
If I could undo whatever 8 years of concerta did to my brain (and start growing like a kid again where I left off), I would give my life earnings for that.
Transitioning from Developer to CEO
The algorithm will never be tuned for content, only tuned for stickiness and ad revenue.
A really fun interpretation of it is AMD doing it themselves, deliberately badly, so that they can come off as the wounded party that actually have really good hardware. Risky, but probably not impossible to carry off.
My livelihood depends on online advertising and yet I have the opposite feelings. Google (and Facebook and Reddit etc) should be doing more content policing, especially for the content monetized by advertising, and should be held liable for the content which they monetize.

Right now, no one is responsible for the poisonous mixture of fake-news / radicalizing context coupled with attention based internet economy where the only incentive an internet content business has is to grab more and more eyeballs. Google (and others) simply shirk their failures by claiming "to give users what they want", when instead their employees are busy devising more and more elaborate ways to grab someone's eyeballs.
Ah, unless you live in the United States - then it becomes a question of whether it's worth it.
Exactly :-)
Interesting.

I would like to attribute my desire to live "forever", at least to some extent, to cosmic perspective.

One day the universe might make me bored, but today is not that day, and I suspect tomorrow isn't either.

I don't ever expect that day to come, but if I thought it was near I'd be very afraid indeed.
I think the link is bad. I am not getting any PDF. Neither can I read the abstract.
This is the correct thing to do. They really must avoid another WinXP scenario where people were running 10 year old builds on internet connected PCs. If you connect to the internet, your device must be fully patched.
This is about adding wiki info, not censoring videos.
Um, the moderators decide. Cause that's their job.
Yes. Here's some info on his setup. It tracked the motion of his cheek, which he could still control, to stop on a letter. It scanned through the alphabet and he had to pull it up at the right time.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html

I also just started typing that in present tense ('tracks'...) and had to pull myself up. :(
This entire thread is why I still go through the trouble of downloading MP3 files and using a standalone music player.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Read 'Math for Computer Science'?  Need Feedback
Referring to https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

How has your experience been? Did it make you a better programmer/engineer? What were your expectations and how much did it achieve? Do you recommend the book? If not, any other alternatives?

How did you practice the material in the book?
Your decision to stay away from social media, any reason for that? I ask this only because for someone in your twenties, the pressure to get on social media must be extremely high.
I really don't understand people who think microsoft has changed. They still do shady shit all the time.
Of course not. If there was a domain reserved for internal use and everyone could get a cert for it, everyone would be able to impersonate your internal hosts.

I don't think there's a way around coming up with a reliable process for renewing your domain. You somehow manage to do it for lots of other things already.
It's not money laundering, who would launder $300?
When pages are locked, they're not limited to only admins (who I'm assuming you are referring to by "moderators"; otherwise, any user can undo an edit, and it doesn't require an account). There are several levels of page protection: [0]

* Pending changes protection: Anyone can edit, but edits must first be reviewed before becoming visible. Autoconfirmed [1] users have their edits go through right away, while other edits have to be approved by a pending changes reviewer. The criteria for reviewing edits basically boils down to "anything that is not vandalism" is reviewed and then it's treated like a normal edit that can be contested by other users. In effect it reduces the incentive to vandalize or make disruptive edits because they won't even be visible.

* Semi-protection: Only autoconfirmed users can edit. See [1]. This is used for pages where a large proportion of the edits are vandalism rather than helpful edits. 99% of vandalism stops here because most vandals are too lazy to get autoconfirmed or don't know how, since their goal isn't really to be productive.

* Extended confirmed protection: This is a fairly new option and requires an account 30 days old and with at least 500 edits. This is mainly used for pages under sanctions (namely the Israeli-Arab conflict), and in certain cases where autoconfirmed users are causing abuse.

* Full protection: Very rarely used. Mainly used in instances where multiples experienced editors are editing disruptively on a page such as by edit warring. The protection is always very short because it otherwise blocks editing from all users. In most cases though, the editors themselves are usually blocked or warned instead of a page necessitating full protection.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy
[1]: Account must be four days old and have made at least 10 edits, so not hard at all to obtain
I would not choose to have a tooltip link hover, but you should be allowed to have it if you want. Via options, about:config, or possible via an extension.

In UI terms, the concept of a fixed footer is well established. We see it often on sites and applications. FF allows adjustment of the millisecond delay of the link text, but no control over other properties of that element. I don't get the logic. When vendors move the furniture around in their "security updates" it makes me distrust the updates, particularly when the furniture can't be moved back to how it looked before.
Pretty sure everything we are talking about is unequivocally proven wrong. That’s the point.
OMG! Neil disGrace Tyson's tweet. What a pompous fucking ass-shat. It should have been him.
... on the day of PI, r.i.p S.H.
As someone who is sympathetic to your argument, I disagree with your tactics. 'lopomotr' suggested that you might be falling prey to the same psychology that you are seeing in others. While it's probably impossible to be completely polite when doing this, I don't think he was trying to be rude. As you might guess, self-identified "conspiracy theorists" don't necessarily consider "conspiracy theory" to be purely an insult.

You, on the other hand, compromised your otherwise reasonable argument by flippantly claiming that approximately half the US voting public is "willfully ignorant". This is gratuitous "name calling", and el_cid was right to call your attention to this. I didn't vote for Trump, but have intelligent friends and relatives who did. Regardless of whether their choice was wrong, insults like this are counter productive to changing anyone's mind. So stop it.

Personally, I think you are right about much of the behavior you see on the right, but seem to be missing (or at least not mentioning) the equivalent online psychological tricks that mislead the left. As your penance, here's a story from someone one the right detailing how he sees some of the matters you are refering to: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-politicization-of-the-fbi.... I thought it was an interesting read that I haven't seen in the mainstream press.
ouch... right in the feels.
No, and the quote from the article is a horrible meme that makes absolutely no sense.

Of course people can’t source Wikipedia, they are meant to source the SOURCE articles! That’s like the entire point.
Health startup throwing away employees' candy says that was a step too far
Is it possible to export the trained model from AutoML for offline use?
Why does it have to be the same cert on every host? Use a separate cert for each and automation will be much easier.

With Let's Encrypt, you don't need to minimize the number of certs just to save some money.
Stephen Hawking on Black Holes
How we added Single-Sign-On (SSO) functionality to our open source gateway
I completely understand this decision but that doesn’t make me any less disappointed. Not in Google but the users. Nothing has changed if after all these years, people still fall for scams: Nigerian princes, Ponzi schemes, single house wives and now ICOs.
Show HN: Volument is a new approach to analytics: measure growth
They're stopping ads, not content.

Content and ads are very different things. Stopping lucrative crypto ads certainly will financially hurt Google, but is definitely a win for consumers. Most crypto advertising is 100% scams. There's a huge difference between letting someone speak their mind on your platform (content) versus accepting money to broadcast their message on your platform (ads).

As for content, that's completely different (and a slippery slope). I won't pick a side on free speech vs protecting people, but I will say I'm very glad I don't have to choose where to draw the line.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16579314 on the Viceroy paper with some details confirming that that writeup was indeed ready to print.
RIP, he did a lot to popularize science.

Let's look at a different angle: He lived to 76 years old, a man with a disease that once gave you a few years at most. 76 is more or less a full life today. With all the challenges and stresses, we (or a lot of us) do live in great times. Even the greatest King could have died from a cut on his finger a few centuries ago...now penicillin is given for free even in USA.
It was a joke, referencing an Aphex Twin album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...I_Care_Because_You_Do
Is it your computer or Microsofts? Because I really think the language in Windows speaks to you as just the guest, while Microsoft is taking care of your needs like a parent.

I guess I'm very hostile to that idea since I grew up in a time when my computer was my computer, not the property of an American software organization to decide for me what is best.
Reminds me of the Segment CEO line at one of the startup school lectures: "finding product market fit is like stepping on a landmine -- you can't miss it".
You can always find a sucker, but the hope is that education will greatly reduce many of those suckers.

The thing is there still are many scams that are in plain sight, things like fad diets, weight loss products, and on and on.
the original purchaser of the ticket

Given that the biggest scalping operation in history uses their ultimate clients' own credit cards to finalize the purchases, this would prevent only small scale, casual scalping.
Capitalism within a "he who pays the most wins" style democracy has the motto of : Do first and ask to be excused later
No love for Firefox?
For anyone having issues getting this to work on macOS with homebrew dependencies, I was able to get it to work after finally getting an old version of numpy installed using the following command.

sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed --install-option '--install-data=/usr/local' numpy==1.9.0

If you don't use the numpy==1.9.0 you'll get the 1.14.2 version which is also broke.

The rest of the options allow pip to soft-override the macOS built-in numpy 1.8.0 which is immutable in the /System/ directory.

Anyway, after I did all that I was able to start playing with the app, I had previously been using a kludge workflow to get a nice output in black and white by using the imagemagick convert -shave option to remove the scanned edges of images, then doing a -depth 1 to force the depth down (which only works well on really clean scans), then I can -trim to clear the framing white pixels and re-center using the -gravity center -extent 5100x6600 to frame the contents centered inside a 600dpi image.

Rough but it works, I was hassling with trying to isolate "spot colors" for another thing, but this might actually do the trick!!!
What do you mean?

Python2 history I see as preserved in the cpython repo, mailing lists, etc. Python3 has enough improvements in the CPython VM to warrant upgrading at this point.
Ask HN: Any interest in TL;DW versions of YC videos?
I'm a big fan of all the videos that YC puts out on it's YouTube channel. I do some video editing on the side. Would you guys be interested in TL;DW versions of YC videos? Short 2-5 mins summaries with just the highlights.
I wonder if anyone will be surprised when they learn how HTTPS and HTTP/2 will be used to push more advertising to users and exfiltrate more user data from them than HTTP would ever allow.

We're talking only by HTTPS. Adding HTTP/2 is just mudding the conversation.

Care to give any argument on how does adding a TLS layer over the exact same protocol (HTTP/1.1) will be used to do that?
Sure, but the question is, would they deserve to win because Google was at least partially to blame for the deceitful ad? Because if so, Google's right not to show the ad.
I think a more intelligent idea like monetizing a webpage with cryto protocols like Oyster Pearl(https://oysterprotocol.com/) can kill google ads.
The responses to your false equivalency weren’t particularly helpful so I’ll jump in.

The relationship between movie studios and theaters is vastly different from that of YouTube and its content creators:

1. Theaters desperately want the content that studios create, so they buy it on the studio’s (distro company’s) terms.

2. Content creators on YT, however, have no power over YouTube. They desperately want viewers AND money for their content. YouTube offers both, albeit on their own, unilateral terms.
Exercises in Programming Style
There was a promotional code circulating for 20% off anything on eBay last week. Yes you read that correctly - 20% off anything, from any seller (got myself a new 4k monitor). Purely speculating here, but perhaps people were gaming the system by listing marked-up gift cards and buying their own listings. During this promotion eBay was paying out sellers the full amount - which leads me to the following: why was eBay intentionally taking these losses? Perhaps a last-ditch effort to temporarily boost sales on paper?

It's not coincidence that they are replacing Paypal with Adyen - I think these are indications that there's some sort of merger or acquisition in the works...
It's their business, they should be allowed to decide whatever they want.

In the same way we can think that most of the businesses are scams, because most of them end up bankrupt after 5 years. Should they also ban the ads for products of companies younger than 5 years? To protect the consumers from becoming bag holders of unsupported and unusable products?