skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could just pay literally less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month --- with the first months free --- and use your Amazon Prime subscription to get WaPo. NYT all-access is a little pricier; it'll cost you two cups of coffee a month.

I'd understand the resistance if you were constantly having to authorize and approve these charges, but really you just sign up and forget about it. I use the subscriptions at least as much as I use Netflix. I am sort of kicking myself for not having set this up earlier.
The reason why Telegram doesn't have end-to-end encryption enabled for all communication, despite marketing themselves as a privacy and security focused service, is a mystery to everyone
I agree, but it’s you vs 500 lawyers. The company can afford litigation, can you?
The article isn't about the current situation, but about the possible response to it, right?
Friends of mine run Inkl: http://www.inkl.com
Ah, interesting, I didn't read that to include gasoline but I see how one could argue that it does. The Erie policy has no such language.

In any case, thanks for the responses. My gut reaction is to agree with you that a lot of these "homeowners insurance will deny your claim if you do X!" warnings are based on third-hand knowledge or misinformation. I don't have any special knowledge though. (Do you?)

Edit: oops, you're right of course that I was reading the wrong part of the State Farm document! I swear I am not reading the Erie one so carelessly though.
You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more
Hey there - this doesn't sound good (and definitely not our intention). We ported over some contacts here and there from different marketing migrations, but always made sure to hide out any unsubs or things like that. I just looked in our DB for the email address in your HN profile and I'm not seeing it anywhere, so I'm assuming it's a different email address.

Ironically, could you email me the email address to patrick[at]priceintelligently[dot]com and I'll investigate. If it slipped in or you ended up actually opting in, definitely will take it out. If it's a larger issue, definitely will solve it. Obviously, apologies either way.
SV skews young due to startups with low seed outlay. The risk and reward tends to attract young men[1], and then the culture that results continues that bias.

Established companies with good work-life balance, solid benefits, and internal advancement opportunities are much closer to your experience.

1 - Edit because I've been hammered for saying this before. Many studies have shown significantly increased financial, business, and physical risk taking in men. That's the type I'm referring to.
Depends on jurisdiction.

Turns out that in Israel, for example, where non-compete agreements require material specific pay, a non-compete lasting 3 years or more, is generally considered an asset sale and is taxed as a capital gain transaction (25% instead of the ordinary income which has brackets that go as high as 55%).
What it meant to me was that Yahoo couldn't help itself from taking every successful product or acquisition and screwing it up, deprecating it or otherwise wholly missing why its users valued it.

These have been listed in greater detail elsewhere, but Y! Games is one of the most glaring examples where they had a massive, loyal audience and just destroyed the community bit by bit.

Flickr is the other commonly sited example where Yahoo just didn't seem to understand why the users valued it so much. Every year they'd nerf some core aspect of the product trying to turn it into something less useful but more "trendy".

Finally, for me, the "my.yahoo.com" customizable landing page / rss feed had enormous utility and huge potential but was just left to rot.
They could have survived without a "vision"; lots of boring utility companies do. But in order to do so they would have had to be detail- and customer-focused. This would have been boring, unglamourous and offered at most a few percent growth. They might have had to charge users, heresy.
Isn't there a difference between the mobile market selling products and users investing time, energy and their persons on public online platforms?
When I worked at Encyclopedia Britannica in the late 90s the two top queries on our portal (at the time it was ebig.com which then became eblast.com and then britannica.com) were "yahoo.com" and "sex". I brought this up at a executive level meeting after someone spent several minutes talking about how people came to our site to do serious research on the Internet. It made for a nice awkward silence.
compojure-api[1] is great for building a REST API, and I really like HugSQL[2] for talking to databases. Buddy[3] is good for handling auth.

[1]: https://github.com/metosin/compojure-api

[2]: https://www.hugsql.org/

[3]: https://github.com/funcool/buddy
Just to clarify, this is a fulltime SW eng position at Google? If so, that's a phenomenal achievement and career change.
Facebook's pixel is on most ecommerce domains. They are tracking purchase behavior + all your life events.
"is here to stay" because what?
Lawsuits vs. Big Oil Lead to Court Lessons on Climate Change
If you want end-to-end Clojure/Lisp while retaining access to large ecosystems there's Clojurescript for the browser and Node.js, Hy (http://hylang.org) for scripting and data science plus Clojure for JVM/large applications with performance. Now you can get a VPS with 4Gb of RAM for £5/month at Hetzner (http://hetzner.com) so JVM memory usage is no longer an issue. These are exciting times indeed for developers.
It's quite sad, "don't do this, don't do that, never use the stairs 'cause you can die and insurance won't pay". What's the word for "non-hackers"... "normies"?

While Li-Ion is a different beast, I used to play with car batteries and UPSes, a simple setup could run some lights, fridge, the phones and computers for over a day. It took some time before I wisened up and made a separate metal box for everything. Until then, ran it all from the closed balcony.
> Right, but then you said Obama was doing the same thing.

No. I didn't say anything like that. I literally said "people tried to accuse Obama of all kinds of stuff" and my point was to the parent post who said "Its purely Trump hatred driving this".

You missed the point because you don't like that I'm not blaming this entirely on Trump.

I want an investigation into all of this. And other sketchy behavior surrounding the Trump campaign.

But I was stating that I don't think the parent post was correct in saying that this is all about Trump.

> You're trying to pretend like there's more ambiguity than there actually is.

You're trying to pretend like there's more certainty than there actually is and that this is somehow all Trump's fault.

I think that's dangerous because the Trump team keeps claiming that there's a witch hunt going on so when all new scandals are pinned to him it actually helps them as far as optics go. We need to investigate this all and get to the bottom of it and I hope Trump is exposed for the scam artist that he is in the process.
To get an idea of where the search experience was when google came to market - they were the first ones to have the text cursor located in the search box. You didn't have to click the box before you started typing, your cursor was automatically placed in the correct place.
I wonder if it might be a good general rule to never give just 1 CPU to any multi-threaded application (JVM or otherwise).

Often, there's a mix of threads, some of which are doing CPU-intensive stuff and some which just need to do some quick thing to unblock something else, like start some new IO when some IO completes. With 1 CPU, any time any CPU-intensive stuff is happening, these quick things have to wait their turn until the next time slice. With 2 CPUs, you have twice the work and twice the likelihood of having to deal with CPU-intensive stuff, but CPU-intensive moments don't necessarily happen at the same time, so you have better odds of having one of those CPUs immediately available to do the small, quick stuff.
Yeah the incentives get very murky very quickly there. One employee might ignore a vuln now so as to get a bounty for it later. A manager might give a known vuln-maker code access. Any group of employees might conspire to do either of those or something else at some remove. An actual attacker might manipulate any such conspiracy... It might be interesting as a study of Gambit Roulette, but not as any way to run a firm.

It's possible that GP meant giving independent researchers access to internal tools. That would be interesting but also very difficult to pull off safely.
> I am blown away by how much better informed I am on most stories than I was before.

Haven't you just traded one set of biases for another?
I'm also wondering what basic OS functionality is missing?

I've been running LineageOS 14.1 on a Sony Xperia tablet for several months without Google Play Services or MicroG and am not noticing any missing basic functionality. I do tend towards open source apps and away from Google stuff but I'm by no means strict about it. I use Yalp and F-Droid to install apps.

Some of the apps I have installed (eg. SnapSeed) complain about missing Google Play Services and say they won't function but I ignore the warning and they seem to operate correctly... if there's some missing functionality I've yet to encounter it, I'm happily editing and exporting photos.

I'm certain that some apps would fail to function without Google Play Services, just that I don't happen to have fallen foul of any of them. My usage is probably not hugely standard but I use modern browsers (Chromium/FF), video/audio players (VLC/Black Player/Spotify), K9 for email, browse and edit RAW photos... and jump into Debian Stretch via Linux Deploy + Xserver XSDL where I often do web dev work with tmux/vim and proper desktop Chrome/FF including Developer Tools. I'm using a Bluetooth keyboard and speakers... can't really think what basic things I might be missing?

EDIT: (this is just the standard install of LineageOS btw - which doesn't come with Google Play Services, you have to install them separately - I just skipped that step)
Chrome 66 Beta: And changes are huge
Spotify reserves the right to sell your details/listening habits when their terms of use changed... (ie genres of music you like, the types of musicians etc)

Is this facebook data being funneled back to the record labels and their parent companies to sell advertising? my research says its likely, this feels similar to the CA situation, just not as political..?
ISC Kea and NETCONF in 2018: towards automated configurability
Amazingly, I haven't yet read any of Diamond's work, though I think I have this on my bookcase.

I know that Tainter has criticized him some for cherry picking in order to support his presuppositions, specifically regarding his Easter Island ideas. I think he talks about it a little bit on this Omega Tau podcast:

http://omegataupodcast.net/184-societal-complexity-and-colla...

It's on my personal list still though, get around to it eventually.
Nope. Bunch of volunteers, things will be released when they're ready. Weekly builds have been working well so far though!
Yes, but it would be even more important. Employees have access to system architecture details which makes it easier for them to harm users.
A point not mentioned in the article is that this formal peer review system is itself quite young. I think that sending every paper out to several reviewers only became the default once we had xerox machines -- 1960s? We did a lot of serious science before that.

A bit earlier, the famous anecdote is about Einstein's offence that the Phys Rev editor would dare to send his paper for review at all -- apparently this would not have happened at a German journal of that era:
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2005/09/16/einstein...
Does Sarbanes-Oxley require an audit trail whenever an admin views private communications?
"... we immediately banned Kogan's app from our platform, and demanded that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica formally certify that they had deleted all improperly acquired data. They provided these certifications."

How is it at all possible to certify that data has been deleted and no copies were taken..?
Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing – So It Can Observe the Real Thing
Not at all. It's just a java library you can use in an android app to do additional things on devices running lineage.
Goodbye slack, time to delete you like Facebook too
While Yahoo! is mostly a memory in the U.S., it lives on (or at least its brand does) very strongly in Japan. You see Yahoo! Japan logos everywhere in big cities.

Yahoo! Auctions is just about the only game there, sending fleaBay to the woodshed.
Honestly? I would love to live in a micro-unit and I live in Austin. Couch with tv, bed, shower, small kitchen, closet for stuff. Bam done.

I think the bigger issue is twofold - one I'm a single guy without a family. If the default living space in a city (where most of the jobs are fyi) is designed for a single person, families will by design suffer and people will simply not be able to afford to have kids. That's not an ideal situation. Second, just because the apartment is small doesn't make the infrastructure small. I still consume as much water as I did before, I still have a car. Cramming more and more people into an urban center without upgrading utilities and roadways is a recipe for disaster. Traffic around Austin already sucks.

So, meh?
I just don't see why "Google retaining control" is a positive, when Google is as hostile an actor as Cambridge Analytica. If companies are going to use data to sway public opinion and tailor advertising, how much does it really matter which company is doing it?
He "trusts them" [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
When someone needs to mention the 'real' character of this 'real community', that means there is nothing real about it. It's a red flag for phony.

Henry Ford tried to force the American way of life in Fordlândia. He failed.
George Pullman wanted Pullman, Chicago, to be a sin-free town. He also failed.

Modern company towns live under the specter of many past failed projects.

Maybe "Zuckerburg" isn't supposed to be any kind of utopia. But why should Facebook succeed in building a town, specially when it's supervised by a corporation that profits on knowing everything it can about people?

I know I'd never want to live there. It would always feel like online trackers covered in stucco.
You could for a fee - you could transfer songs to an MP3 player with the appropriate DRM.
> but now the term has been diluted

There's no good reason to participate in it and make matters worse. We virtually universally denounce terrorism exactly because it is indiscriminately harming innocent people just to scare others, which is considered immoral by the majority of modern moral systems. Destroying military objects in the course of war, while being, as any part of the war is, regrettable course of events - does not carry nearly the same moral stigma.

Some people participating in Syria war are undoubtedly terrorists - ISIS and al-Qaeda make no secret of its adherence to the terrorist tactics, among other war crimes they commit - others are guerilla, or self-defence forces (e.g. Peshmerga). One should not confuse those if one wants to understand what is going on.
Zapier remote opportunities
Yahoo pipes was ok when it worked, and could have been brilliant. I remember setting up a pipes page to filter the digg front page around the time when the last harry potter book was being released.
It worked well enough to keep me from getting spoiled, but I remember the rest of the experience was kind of miserable.
>In the US, once you commit a crime, it'll follow you for the rest of your life, even after you paid your time and money.

I know, and understand how this (right or wrong as it might be[1]) could be of use for the police or for the judiciary system, what I am highlighting is just how gratuitious it is on a piece of news.

[1] this is a (lesser known) writing by G.K Chesterton:
"The perpetuation of punishment"
(page 504 of "On Lying in Bed and Other Essays") circa 1907
https://books.google.it/books?id=QtWvMclbR9YC&pg=PA504
On the FB developer side:

> Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months.

Won't this behavior break a ton of apps?
I don't know how it is in other schools, but at mine you can get a masters in CS even if you didn't do your undergrad in CS. They just have you take the core undergrad CS courses, which is about 1-1.5 years of work. With an ME, it might not even be that long. You should look into that before going for a second bachelor's.
Again, that loophole you cited is nowhere near as large as you think it is. Otherwise it would constantly be used.
Not a Jordan Peterson fan but don't think you should've been downvoted for complaining about the comparisons.
"formally". Technically you cannot.
Who cares? It's all just gatekeeping. Keep doing what you enjoy doing and don't worry about what categories other people put you in.
Like we should trust him.
Being good at hacking doesn't mean they can write clean maintainable code (in a team).
Sorry, but no.

Most lithium chemistries have a nominal voltage near 3.3 - 3.7V per cell.

When you stack lithium cells in series for any sort of high-performance application, you need additional balancing circuitry to bleed off energy from the cells individually (tiny variations between cells results in them having different capacities, which means some will charge up at different rates, resulting in them DISCHARGING at higher rates, which results in pretty serious negative effects for the life of the battery pack). The only exception here is extremely well matched cells, which is how Tesla is able to get away with not using much balancing circuitry (they are very picky about the cells they use, and have enough cells in stock to pick ones with very similar capacities).

And the safety features include a lot more than fuses - there are over-voltage protection circuits (extremely important!), over-discharge protection circuits, temperature protection circuits (you can overheat a cell even without drawing too much power out of it).

In short, large stacks of lithium cells are a difficult and dangerous beast to handle, and a lot of work goes into keeping them safe. These cells tend to have very low internal impedance, and as a result a chain of them can produce staggering amounts of power.

Source: I work on the embedded protection systems for a company which makes specialty lithium-ion battery systems for industrial, aerospace, and defense customers.
Many apps allow exporting their data without requiring root. There are adblockers that set themselves up as a 'VPN connection' on your device for filtering out ads, those do not require root.
Pablo Escobar Brother's Crypto: Diet Bitcoin
The 2007 and 2013 paragraphs are pretty scary. Your friend takes a personality quiz from a random app developer and then that developer gets access to _your_ personal data. Obviously Zuckerberg doesn't go into detail about what kind of data that was, but if they needed to rein that in in 2014... I imagine it was potentially pretty personal.
Portraits of young Americans and their firearms
It is a pretty example but I don't think a monster gpu is needed for it. The reflection effects could have been easily accomplished with traditional methods and few would know better. The soft lighting looks good though. I mean it all looks great I guess. Would be more impressive to see what someone could do (similar or same scene) on an old crummy gpu and a lot of hand tuned optimizations.
For those of us who refuse to visit Facebook to read Zuckerberg's non-apology:

https://archive.fo/C0XJe
"Folks from varying distances are able to keep up with their friends and family" - this is literally the only reason I have a Facebook account.

Most of my family is not very tech-savvy so asking them to use something like Mastodon to see family pictures or whatever is pointless. Even if they did try to use it, all of their other friends and family are on Facebook so asking them to use Mastodon just for me adds one more thing/app to their list that they are probably going to use maybe twice and then just stop.

I really wish there was a good alternative to this but I haven't been able to find anything (yet) :(.
Your best solution would probably be to use a recursive CTE if your DB supported it, but as a sibling post mentioned, it's probably not a good approach.
I'm always skeptical about this argument because it can be seen either way, if the old world companies stuck to their vision/mission they might just be disrupted by new/alternate business models/technology and if they try to experiment (Ex: Google) it can be seen as not having a clear vision. There are very few companies that can sustain through 50 yr cycles but even having a clear vision may not help a company succeed if someone else renders their business useless.

Mission/Vision should evolve and sometimes it might be considered luck and sometimes foresight.

Ex: Nokia: Pulp Mill -> Rubber/Tires -> Cables/Electronics -> Phones
I'm surprisingly okay with that.
Heh. I couldn't read it when logged in, then I remember I have Zuck blocked.
Is there an aggregator somewhere for those of us who're curious but have already blackholed facebook and aren't so curious as to remove the blackhole?
I've dealt with those agencies enough to know that they are horrible. I've even caught them in criminal acts, which of course won't be prosecuted.

The typical harassment starts with a kid who gets a normal childhood injury or is found unattended at a library or church, or sometimes an anonymous tip by somebody who wants to cause trouble. This is enough to start an investigation. The agency's workers then feel entitled to interview and examine the kids alone, invade the home, and even inspect the content of a refrigerator. Depending on your location, a warrant may be automatically approved by a judge.

The thing with the refrigerator is particularly absurd. It's not as if you can't feed children without one. You could even eat out every day! If the agency's workers find moldy food you forgot in the back of your refrigerator, they will presume that the children are being fed moldy food. If you haven't been shopping recently and the refrigerator is mostly empty, they will assume the kids aren't being fed.

The agency benefits greatly from people's reluctance to talk with friends, news media, and so on. So much of the malicious activity occurs in private.

These investigations have lasting effects. Years later, one can snap awake in a panic due to a nightmare about kids being grabbed out of the home. You can forever lose your feeling of safety and security in your own home. When the report is anonymous, you can no longer trust anybody you know.
Behind the scenes tour of IBM Poughkeepsie, birthplace of the Mainframe
Squiggle is the new blink, only more annoying, which I didn't think was possible. It should be sent straight to hell, no cigarette.