skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's patronizing because the asker did not always have children. Unless they started having kids at a very young age, they clearly have experienced the same kind of 'free time' anyone without kids has. With modern entertainment, it's not hidden knowledge what kinds of activities people do in their leisure time.

That, coupled with the question, offers the implication that they already know what the answers will be and simply want validation that the way they spend their time is superior. That's textbook patronizing.

OP may not have meant it that way, but it's pretty easy for it to come off that way, hence why the question sounds kind of patronizing.
Well, various people want the government to do something to the "other," and these people just disagree about what they want the government to force people or groups of people (i.e. corporations) to do. Others just think we should stop letting the government force anything without substantial data that indicates an actual probable reduction of some negative behavior.

I think Apple has the will to fight this and I think a strong 4th amendment case can be made. Freedom of the people must be protected.
Right, but what is that evidence of? I don't see how that is suggestive of anything other than them caring about liability risk.
Ada is case insensitive. put_line would have worked just as well
It took me about 15 minutes to download my 2GB archive on a 30Mbps connection which seems normal to me.
It should be clear to everyone now that Facebook is engaged in building a surveillance system which tracks every one of its users throughout their daily lives. Though others will disagree, this kind of behavior, especially done so without informing the user in full candor, is morally wrong.

As I've advocated in other commentary on this site: Engineers at Facebook have a moral obligation either reform from the inside or quit. This kind of surveillance apparatus should not be built, by either government or private entities.
OP points out how pointless exercising is however I'm the one being condescending? Anyone can change if they are hurting enough or find the future outcome alluring to work towards it.

> If exercising were truly at the top most enjoyable things for everyone then we would not have an obesity crisis.

Exercising itself has little to do with obesity. It all comes down to eating healthy and restricting your caloric intake.

Healthy food is cheap af when you prepare it yourself and don't buy into every trend. You don't even have to exercise if you don't want to but obviously it's good for your overall health and mind.
Google is helping the government drone people, Schmidt was the head of the Defense Innovation Board, they sell surveillance services to police departments, Google Shopping was on autopilot until a couple of weeks, making money off selling bump stocks and other gun mods to people.

I'm not trying to be rude, but I think you have to take a very narrow and convenient view of Google to end up thinking your employer is any "better" than Facebook (who I otherwise agree is awful).

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/google-is-quietly-provid...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/silicon-valley-be...

https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine

https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/967509077591867392?lang=...
OTOH, google's ad-models have thoroughly broken models of financing reporting that wasn't as reliant on clickbait to even get seen. While surely not the sole culprit, the need to create engagedness at all cost has increased polarization and also has a mental health cost.

Youtube is serving as a major driver of different forms of radicalization (ISIS, alt right, etc).

I'm not saying that you should resign. But I do think we all have the tendency to not evenly attempt to assuage technology risks. Partially there's an attention bias towards specific concerns (e.g. free speech / censorship), partially a negative attention bias towards things that pay our bills.
Google's idea of improving the world is hardly apolitical. Consider the YouTube rule changes on firearms -- whether or not they improve the world is going to depend on your views, but Google is surely throwing its weight around in a political way.
As a counter-example, I requested mine about 20 minutes ago, received an e-mail confirming the request, received another e-mail 6 minutes later to say it was available for download, and the ~90MB download completed in under 10 seconds on my 150Mbps connection.
> It may be ok to subsidize food production so that a country can ensure continued ability to maintain production capacity domestically

Isn't that how the Chinese justify what they do?
A lot of people have so many theories about it.
But maybe it's simple?

Google ran out of Storage!
Deleting all porn on Google Drive will probably redeem 50% of their storage. (or more)
I'm in UK where the law requires all ISPs to store everyone's browsing history for a year - I browse the web exclusively over VPN and yes, I trust my VPN provider 100x more than I trust the British Government.
> Central European protestant culture of hard work and valuing education

Is there evidence that such a thing exists? Is there a "Central European protestant culture" at all? A central European culture? That's a big place. Many people in many communities around the world value hard work and education; many Protestants in Central Europe do not.
I agree, which is why I used the undeniable existence of similarities between these two songs to lay out the absurdity of the idea lisper was floating.
I guess it wouldn't necessarily be the judiciary. What I am getting at is that what enables you to run a conspiracy against the government also enables them to run a conspiracy against you. When journalists starts ending up dead, like in Malta or Slovakia, you want to be able to unravel any connection the murderers had to political figures and not end up with a bunch of dead ends consisting of encrypted communication and currency. How to actually solve that in a good way is up for debate though.
I am unaware of it having any solar panels, and took a good look at the high-res photos while it was being assembled at JPL... It's RTG and battery only.

perhaps you're thinking of spirit and/or opportunity?

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=cur...
This is why copyright should end at death,

Actually copyright should be the 14 years + a one time extension of 14 years which can only be applied for by the living original creator

Copyrights by corporations are 14 years only, no extensions
What do you mean "WMDs of late 2010s"? The WMD excuse I'm familiar with was the one to invade Iraq was early 2000's, and anyone with half a critical mind could see that it was a flimsy argument at best in order to appeal to the hawks at home who wanted blood after September 11th. And American citizens who had studied Islam at all would understand that the only reason the Sunni, Shia, (and Kurds, ethnic not religious minority) had not openly killed each other in Iraq was due to Saddam's non-discriminating iron fist, and that invading could have potentially destabilized the country into a pariah state.

I'm not going to change your mind on what you think is BS, but I do disagree with you. If you have the chance, I highly suggest talking to retired CIA operatives that were active during the Cold War -- the stuff they talk about (when allowed) can be pretty eye-opening.
If FB (or any other app) could record your phone's mic without you knowing, that would be a GIANT security issue on Apple/Samsung/etc.'s part. As any app developer knows, you need to explicitly request permission to record, and the user sees a big red bar for the duration of the recording. Unless you're the NSA or something, you're not getting around that.
Do we really need to go over and over with this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656604
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16652387
Won = monopsonized the market? I.e. so many employers looking for it that it influences education and training for people who have no interest in that particular language, but just want to learn “a” language.

See: Java wining enterprise programming; Python winning DevOps scripting; FORTRAN wining numerical simulation way back.

Also see: PHP winning SMB web consulting in the 90s (resulting in e.g. the Wordpress plugin ecosystem); RoR winning SMB web consulting in the 00s (resulting in the the current “horizontally scale by running more containers with a load-balancer in front” approach to web-app deployment, due mostly to Ruby’s horrible concurrency story at the time); Node.js winning SMB web consulting in the [first half of the] 10s (resulting in the rise of websocket-driven SPAs and a million Node build tools.)
For math majors, baby Rudin is the standard. I would say though that it's probably too terse for most students. I like Pugh's book quite a lot. I think it strikes a good balance between not being long winded while providing enough explanation. Checking the whole answer as you mention is not going to be that helpful in general. There's more than one way to write most proofs and the nature of proof problems is that you have the answer at the beginning. Just make sure you're familiar with basic proof techniques.
First step is try to have an honest conversation with your manager. You cannot really win if your manager is your opponent. If you cannot have a positive relationship with your manager, you should look for a position elsewhere.

If your manager continues to be ambiguous and you haven't managed to leave, then I would try to go orthogonal. Achieve something unrelated. It is hard to blame someone who succeeds even if that success is unrelated to the main quest.
Here we have it, I believe:

"Uber also developed an app, mounted on an iPad in the car’s middle console, for drivers to alert engineers to problems. Drivers could use the app anytime without shifting the car out of autonomous mode. Often, drivers would annotate data at a traffic light or a stop, but many did so while the car was moving"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/technology/uber-self-d...

The whole project seemed designed for an outcome like this. Eg allowing app to be used whilst on the move, after reducing from 2 to 1 operators. Culpability ought to lie with Uber.
They are both equally scary but Facebook has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now everyone is aware of it. Note , I am not claiming that Google will be caught doing this.
It can't be worse than my coffee addiction...
I would be appalled as soon as someone says "I'm gonna burn any books in this box", whether any people puts books in that box or not. It is a promise for an appalling act.
Maybe today, but its going to keep growing until you hear it groaning under the weight of features that have more and more risk, and generally an unknown amount because those Excel methods are getting creakier and creakier over time as you try to accomplish more with the same tools.

The problem isnt Excel or any useful tool, its the misapplication of the tool and seeing people driving that same road already extremely well traveled.

http://www.laputan.org/mud/
We already have the safest, most prosperous society in human history. We need to stop taking individual freedoms away just to move the needle a fraction of a percent.
The device that connected the world is called the telephone, it's revolutionary force makes the WWW look like a fart in a storm.
Porn == Books? I don’t understand how you can make that comparison .. and in this context.
> What should I do to validate OP's claims?

Listen to Backpage. They don't attempt to deny that they publish these ads. They do claim that the first amendment and the Communications Decency Act mean they're blameless for doing so.

The fact that Backpage was telling advertisers how to avoid the filters is also widely accepted. In fact, it's worse: Backpage developed software to automatically change ads before moderating the ads.

Watch the video and read the Chairman's comments: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/he...

> Our report demonstrates that Backpage has concealed evidence of crimes by systematically deleting words and images suggestive of illegal conduct from advertisements submitted to their website before publishing the ads. And some of those ads involved child sex trafficking. Backpage’s editing process sanitized the content of millions of advertisements and hid important evidence from law enforcement.

> This story begins in 2006, when Backpage executives began instructing staff responsible for screening ads (known as “moderators”) to edit the text of adult ads to conceal their true nature. By October 2010, Backpage executives formalized a process of both manual and automated deletion of incriminating words and phrases in ads.

> A feature known as the “Strip Term From Ad filter” did most of the work. Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer personally directed his employees to create this electronic filter to “strip”—that is, to delete—hundreds of words indicative of sex trafficking or prostitution from ads before publication.

> To be clear, this filter did not reject ads for illegal activity. Backpage executives were afraid that would cut into profits and, in Ferrer’s words, “piss off a lot” of customers. Instead, the Strip Term From Ad filter simply altered ads to conceal signs of illegality. They put profits ahead of vulnerable women and children. The evidence is clear that Backpage deliberately edited out words indicative of child sex trafficking and other crimes from ads.

> The list of terms is chilling. Starting in 2010, Backpage automatically deleted words including “lolita,” “teenage,” “rape,” “young,” “little girl,” “teen,” “fresh,” “innocent,” “school girl,” and even “amber alert”—and then published the edited versions of the ads to their website. Backpage also systematically deleted scores of words indicative of prostitution.

> Backpage claims their staff reviews ads to avoid child exploitation, but these terms were stripped out before anyone at Backpage even looked at the ad. And when law enforcement officials came asking for more information about suspicious ads—as they routinely did—Backpage had already destroyed the original ad posted by the pimp or trafficker. The evidence was gone.
My download archive has all my contacts' names & phone numbers stored. Wtf? Why do you need this information in your data servers Zuck?
> Maybe this will wake people up to only using open source operating systems.

OS security has limited impact when other subsystems, not in control of the OS, run on the device.
Parkland students' manifesto to fix America's gun laws
An incomplete product is one thing, but failing type checks implies a non-working product, not an incomplete product. Businesses need correct code. The real question is what is the fastest way to get correct code, using a language that isn't as strict and testing the heck out of your implementation, or using a language that is stricter but harder to learn and write?

It seems to me in both cases you'll still need to test your code thoroughly, so not an easy question to answer.
How you can use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits (2016)
It looks like alt is missing, sadly.
I guess I now know how you recommend me those obscure "friends" like a recruiter from a company I didn't join, or my gardener etc. Totally uncalled for.
Or the fact that Google has a doodle for every single holiday people never heard about, but of course skipped the Easter doodle. Yeah very apolitical indeed /s
I don't have a problem with the illegal porn ban; people are actually being victimized there.
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Information should not be banned, and it's a futile effort to try to do that. The internet is too big.

If "information should not be banned" and it doesn't work anyway, why are you OK with banning illegal stuff?

Also, to point out the obvious, it's OK to not want something on your site.
In reality this is probably a buying opportunity. Regular people don't care much whether their minds are being manipulated.
Doesn’t seem blatant anymore. We just literally had people running scientific channels being shown the door because some alghorithm got offended.
We solely use GitHub logins on http://rubyflow.com but it's very much developer focused. This doesn't stop the spammers, however, who now all seem to have GitHub accounts too :-)
US Department of Justice can have a relatively long reach even against foreign companies if they are perceived to break American law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload
Pretty sure there's no API to access call logs. I know India's government wanted to create an app on iOS that could access that, purportedly for blocking spam, but Apple said no.
I was like you, until I looked at my unique login/pwd combinations.... there were so so many. I can't remember them all, i switch computers (I'm a teacher) a lot. Logins are so stupid, I've been able to look at my laptop to unlock it for years, touch my phone to unlock it.... login and passwords are going so i don't mind using google to log in for a few years while the rest of the world catches up.

For students google log in is essential. Having to create an account, then click a link in an email, then use a site is too hard. It takes too much time and there are too many points of failure. So 99% of comp sci teachers are choosing sites with social logins. So future programmers are all going to prefer them.
I dunno, nobody I know is actually looking to job hop. If you treat people decently, give them raises, train them, why would they have any incentive to leave?

Hiring somebody new costs 15-25% of the raw salary cost for the year. Pay people 10% more instead, no incentive to leave.
> 'jfaucett probably is fine sacrificing losing this small minority.

precisely. In my experience, this small minority can actually be subdivided broadly into two groups: those with very high data privacy concerns and scammers/spammers. It turns out that in my experience, the high level data privacy concern people have been the vastly smaller of the two groups, so at the end of the day you are sacrificing a tiny fraction of a fraction of potential users while simultaneously removing tons of scammers from your platform. Admittedly, the ratios probably vary depending on the particulars of your pricing models and potential scam vectors that can be applied to your software, also other factors such as local attitudes toward data privacy (my experience has been in the EU). You can also increase sign-ups by a large portion of the data privacy people by simply doing a lot of things to make your services legit i.e. have domain names registered to the real business or contact person, force https, have a high level overview of your terms and services that clearly and succinctly states how you use users data, have a verified https certificate, etc. But in general "social login only" has been so much better for me than mixed or only email logins I really would not want to go back to the alternatives.
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> * That also being said that song is a straight ripoff of Got to give it up. Everybody who was a fan of Marvin knew it instantly, but if you wrote out the score on a page and compared, the two songs wouldn't match up.*

As a fan of neither, I youtubed both songs when I heard about this ruling. If Blurred Lines is a rip off, then a lot of bands should be very worried.

How many times has someone told you "If you like X, you should listen to Y." I was listening to Triple J a couple days ago and a caller requested some song specifically because it reminded them of some other song. Pretty sure it was on Bridgette's program, but could have been Gen and Lewis[1].

[1]http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/all-shows/
> No. Which company is more powerful with your information? That little ISP who has no real use of it, or Google, the most powerful ad agency with ties to American agencies in the world?

Not to be rude, but you clearly don't work in advertising or know much about it.

The major ISPs already create profiles on users & sell them to agencies & the like for physiographic profiles.

This is why Verizon's "Super-Cookie" -- not really a cookie, but a forced modification of all HTTP headers by the ISP to enable universal tracking of their users -- was all about.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11173010/verizon-supercook...
You wrote "I think the christian habits of our grandparents were interesting, positive and linked us to history. Loosing that is not good, even if you don’t believe in God."

Given your positive views on how Christianity has incorporated non-Christian practices, you should have no worries. Christian traditions will continue to be followed in a non-Christian future in ways similar to how Christian traditions currently include older religious practices.
Saturday - Chess club in the morning followed by a leisurely lunch/reading in a comfortable coffee shop.

Sunday I spend with the family.

It wasn't intentional but having Saturday to myself til the evening meal is awesome for unwinding from a busy work week, everyone needs (or at least should try) genuine unplugged alone time (particularly so for natural introverts like me).
> So, most pornography should be okay.

Most pornography could probably fall into a reasonable reading of “obscene, ..., or otherwise objectionable”.
You're correct. You copy the profile folder and set the default profile startup to be the one you copied (I think this was in the profile.ini file) and it is if you never left. I this this between mac, linux, and windows machines and it functioned perfectly every time including add-ons, settings, filters, and themes.
Agreed on that. Ada was niche from the start because the tools were expensive and hard to procure.

Then Windows and Linux became the dominant platforms and they are C only. Everything else died.
>A reasonable person could argue the opposite: that allowing a person to copyright a genre would provide a terrific incentive to create entirely new genres, opening up far more modes of expression than a single new song would do.

But, no new incentive to create new genres as a means of creative expression will exist, that don't exist already. Genre uniqueness, itself, has little value as a creative endeavor - most of the genres that exist build on prior work, and are similar to the genres they transformed.

Once companies have laid claim to all existing musical genres, styles, themes, beats, feels, etc., The purpose of genre will become the manufacture of legally distinctive identities, rather than meaningful forms of creative expression.
In many of these cases the founders were drawing salaries relatively early in the company's lifecycle. A couple had substantial early revenue so it wasn't much of a hardship.
Download your data
Help me understand why you think the right to free speech means the right to put anything you want on someone else's site?

Dan does a great job of moderation here, and if you break the rules repeatedly, you'll get kicked out. I guess that's "censorship" if you squint, but it's also YC protecting their private property and their rights to control who does what here. I don't see how that's a problem?
Ah. That explains the beautiful explanations given time and again on HN, where somebody utterly clueless derives a field from first principles, and proceeds to make an utter fool of themselves.

No, you cannot infer 80% from logic and experience. It might look that way, but mostly you'll be hopelessly wrong and and entertainment for anybody working in that field.

Do the hard work, or be a clown. In any field.