skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DARPA funded the seed for the Internet, GPS, self-driving cars, plus all the work that went into The Mother of All Demos.

Bell Labs: its researchers are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the operating systems Unix, Plan 9, and Inferno, and the programming languages C, C++, and S.

Plenty of viable companies have been created from these research results.
As a German, I highly doubt that nowadays "protestant/prussian work ethic, and the holiness of work" still play a role. While there might be "prettifying" in the unemployment stats, the churches play very little to no role in that IMO (I'd be interested in references otherwise).

I rather think that trade unions, as well as crude structures like the "IHKs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_Chambers...) play a much bigger role in keeping things as they are, and general risk-avoiding tendencies in higher management levels.
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No phone? We need team players at this company. /s
If the implication in this is that in some way investment was made in exchange for anything "else" from Elizabeth Holmes, then I have to say that I haven't seen any reason to think that and it's offensive to suggest that any kind of sex-for-investment scenario was happening without any basis for believing that.

I may have completely misunderstood what was being suggested here though..
Just to add two unrelated points to this interesting discussion:
(1) the biggest lobbying groups in Germany are telcos and manufacturing. No wonder poltliticians dont‘t get the ‚digital‘ (btw. I hate that word) message. Just look at the amounts FB and Google are spending to ‚explain‘ their business in the US. Especially telcos are not really helpful here as their natural agenda is not improving innovation but keeping costs low due to limited (oligopolistic) competition.
(2) let’s add China to this discussion. Against public perception they are innovating at an enormous rate. The days where they succeeded due to inferior quality and blatant IP theft are long gone.
There is a lack of APIs from bucket to allow that kind of operation. You should consider the lockin each platform have, before jumping in
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This is the correct attitude. My comment comes from observing the 20-something crowd at this current gig. As near as I can tell, I'm the only one there who leaves work completely behind at any point during the week.

It's painful to watch. Glad to hear you're not falling for it.
It can be, but that's not usually how it's used.

You're playing in the sun, not "the Sun".

Earth's yellow sun, not Earth's yellow "Sun".

It's both common and proper, depending on context.
One of the key aspects of prostitution is it provides an alternative outcome to marriage. Why else would a man step into marriage where 100% rules have been thoughtfully designed against him (except love, for as long as it lasts), if he could last a few years longer by using prostitution... Heck, even sex dolls are being forbidden, even though they cause absolutely no harm to humans (a sex doll house is being closed down in Paris, France, for example). It’s not about the victims. Forbidding prostitution is about keeping men hungry.

Even if that increases rapes and child porn. As long as men are blamed for sex, everyone seems satisfied.
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It seems people simply want to be outraged at Mozilla. The shield study isn't even running yet and several people have raised concerns over the opt-out policy in the mailing list and bugtracker but obviously that doesn't matter.

What matters is that the original suggestion was opt-out.

Of course, rightfully, nobody is going to send a message on the bugtracker or mailing list or otherwise participating to ensure this doesn't happen.

Rather, everyone goes out and yells how terrible Mozilla is and how Google is being nice since they atleast tell you about it upfront. (Completely ignoring that Google is steering Chrome into a new IE-Era of web development)

I don't think the blog post above accurately represents the current situation on the shield study nor does it reflect how several people engaged on it are trying to prevent this exact kind of PR disaster.
Do you mean to lead discussion with what legislation intends or what legislation does? Because many things take on a life beyond what authors intend, and it's not like legislature, a contentious body, is one person with a single mind.
How does this not have any comments?

I work on a team that is 90% on visas, mostly Chinese and Indian but some Canadians too.

Everyone acts like this on my team. If they don’t, their visa can be terminated, as can mine.

We can’t connect as people and a team when we’re all defensive and only looking out for ourselves.

But that’s what’s rewarded and incentivised.
This is such an important point. The world would be a wonderful place if we defaulted to feeling an enthusiastic opportunity to pedagogically and patiently teach people something when we notice they're naive about it (instead of shaming or dismissing them as stupid).
From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-ex...

"The legislation still:

- Includes a weak standard for review that does not rise to the protections of the warrant requirement under the 4th Amendment.

- Fails to require foreign law enforcement to seek individualized and prior judicial review.

- Grants real-time access and interception to foreign law enforcement without requiring the heightened warrant standards that U.S. police have to adhere to under the Wiretap Act.

- Fails to place adequate limits on the category and severity of crimes for this type of agreement.

- Fails to require notice on any level – to the person targeted, to the country where the person resides, and to the country where the data is stored."
Alright, nice to hear there are still decent companies out there. Its easy to get the image that the entire industry is really bad.
I think you may be misreading GP's point.

My reading is that he's likening the frustrations of the non profits with getting through to what they consider faceless entities (the companies) to the lesser frustrations one may have when one's subjected to an optional IVR experience.

In other words, paraphrasing liberally: "if you occasionally get annoyed by bring subjected to being automated by IVRs, imagine what these folks feel like trying to get through to [insert company name here]."
I think that's the point of 'just asking' :)

As a parent of a disabled child, I understand that people might feel uncomfortable talking about disability for fear of offending, or just because of a fear of the unknown. Parents such as me haven't always been parents of disabled children - we've been where you are!

So please talk openly - just ask. Nobody can think badly of you for trying to learn more. Parents will help you out if needed, nobody will take pleasure from watching you squirm. Just trying to be inclusive will be appreciated.

As far possible, I believe children with disabilities should be integrated into normal schools and normal life in general - we can't change attitudes by segregating our children into 'special' schools and groups. When disabled people are as visible as 'typically able' people, then things will begin to really change.
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The point is, that in US the second you stop paying your medical insurance as a result of financial problems caused by job loss/illness/family issues/whatever, you don't have health insurance anymore. Sure, you can go to an emergency room and will be helped, but you are still going to get a bill for it. In Germany(and most of EU) even if you are paying nil towards the national health insurance, you are still fully covered for everything - no bill will ever be produced for any treatment that you receive. Various EU countries have the payments for national insurance structured in different ways - so in Sweden, the employer pays 100% - maybe in Germany it's split in half. It doesn't matter - the point is, you are covered regardless of your personal situation.
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Github is perfectly fine with censorship on their platform and they frequently use it to take down repositories that use language they don't like, it only becomes a problem when someone else does it to them. That blog post is very dishonest and manipulative too.
I'm a freelancer, too. But, I don't think this leads to massive "brain-drain" within a company, when working with lots of freelancers.
Let's take a look at our jobs and how we treat our clients.
Mostly we'll be (somehow) integrated into a team of developers.
As a freelancer, I'm hired, because I'm an expert in my field of profession. So while working with the team, I'll share my knowlegde with them, so they can profit from my expertise in longer terms.

What I miss in germany, is developers of ability, sharing their experience in public.
Whenever I look for inspiration/learning/ressources, it's guys like Robert C. Martin, Martin Fowler or Kent Beck with the best material.

I can't believe that our country doesn't have a few of such minds, too.
It seems like we've grown to dislike any and all indicators of maturity in a developer. Young people are smarter, plus easier to exploit too. And you don't have to pay them as much, as they don't have advanced degrees.
100 times this.

Also freelance taxes are not so much better than regular ones. Usually at the end of the year I take holidays, just because I know that if I earn more, my profit will be deducted by the taxes.

This is a double-penalty. First you "take the risk" of being on your own and second after around 60k [1] income 1/3 of what you earn goes for taxes, so you can't "save money for rainy days". At this point is becoming demotivating and you better take some months off.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#/media/Fil...
When I was young(er) I did CR for a few years. The first 10kg was easy, the next 5kg hard, and the last 5kg a total struggle. What really got to me is that all I thought and dreamed about was food - I still remember some of my food dreams from this time and this was 20 years ago.
Either my memory fails me, or the comment was edited...

I don't recall responding to a comment that mentioned using deprecation warnings instead. :/
Yeah, US companies are much better at socializing the cost of research and privatizing the rewards.
Defense and infrastructure are inherently the responsibility of the state. I'm not a small-government libertarian. Market forces should be used here whenever possible (military-industrial complex, etc) but there obviously can't be competing national militaries or competing national highway systems.

Scientific research: maybe, it depends. Innovation is complicated and there's no linear investment-to-payoff in research. People concerned with profit at least are discouraged by the profit motive from dumping huge amounts of money into failed research. At the same time, some critical research isn't market-profitable.

Universal rules definitely exist in the form of things like supply/demand curves. I would rather live in a hardcore capitalist hellhole than in the shambles of a failed society that would result from the alternative. We should be wary of assuming that non-market intervention is necessary, but we shouldn't shy away from acting when that intervention is necessary.
"Human" as in emotional, impulsive and irrational, yes.

It is also quite unfitting and stupid and innefective.
All online code/media publishing companies would be equally affected.
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No one is! You're the one who brought up UNIX. The rest of us is commenting on a benchmark of specifically Windows, Linux and macOS. Only one of those was temporarily considered UNIX, and most disagreed with the label.
The eye-catching headline in huge type, is "at Mozilla, we believe that privacy is fundamental to a healthy internet".

Only later in this document -- that basically no one is going to read in detail after reading the headline -- do they detail how they intend to not respect my privacy.

Let's be clear: this is a dark pattern with intention to mislead. Mozilla has serious and growing issues with respecting user privacy by default, and judging by the recent roadmap, it seems like it's going to get worse.*

* https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2017/12/09/add-on-recommendati...
Are you sure? https://www.statista.com/topics/1474/e-books/
Our (richer) cousins got bored of their vextrex, so it passed to my siblings and I. At the time I thought it was near magical, not needing to take over the family-television, or load games from cassette.

I still remember the fun of playing games with the wrong overlay placed over the screen. For those who don't know the vextrex used vector graphics, only in white, and alongside the cartridges each game contained a transparent piece of plastic with colours, score-labels, etc, which you placed over the screen.

The wikipedia article has a couple of brief pictures that make this more clear than my early-morning words could:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
b) and d) are the reasons why many specialists emigrate PL --> DE. Getting payed more and not being pushed around? Sign me in. The middle management in Poland -- timid towards management abroad and despotic towards locals -- is just soul-sucking. Many thrive in such chicken-farm environment though.
Yes, but there are still plenty of things we can objectively know. For example, skewed reproductive success is obvious in the genes themselves, and the increase in reproductive success for most people is a major benefit of a civilized society. (Also living in groups of people larger than 50 or so rules.)

Edit: 100% support a focus on archaeology. There's some really cool stuff waiting to be uncovered, like the new LIDAR findings in South America. Still, it's absurd to think that ancient hunter-gatherers lived in bliss, except when natural conditions were exceptionally good (not worth the consequences of droughts).
But in the absence of this news article, you couldn't have been more specific about the information you're volunteering without initiating further research yourself.

I do think Firefox/Mozilla should be explicit about the current list of experiments.
That's blatantly incorrect. Innovation historically overwhelmingly tends to come from the least broken societies/countries. If you were right, countries near the median on income and corruption, would be vast producers of innovation (they are not).

Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Switzerland are routinely ranked as among the most innovative countries. If they're somewhat broken, who are the non-broken countries?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/south-kor...
Well, you might have to pay higher taxes in Germany than in the U.S., but please don't perform a "Milchmädchenrechnung" (naive fallacy) to just compare the tax rates...

In Germany, the education system from kindergarten to university is basically free (although schools could be much better funded), you have a public health care system that (mostly) works, public transportation, a welfare system that makes sure that everyone can at least survive, etc. etc....

I spend some time in SF, and even with a much higher income and potentially lower taxes, I'd never be able to afford the same quality of living there, especially if you have kids.
> Pretty sure I have to pay for health insurance with my actual salary in Germany.

Yes, that part is mainly relevant when comparing net income.

> Also, I might be mistaken but only 20 vacation days are required by law and I have 24 days currently.

You're right, but 24 is really low. 28 to 30 are very common.
Just not knowing what to say or how to behave is quite common, but nobody will think I'll of you if you simply ask well-intentioned questions out of ignorance - parents of children with disabilities haven't always been so, and have probably felt the same as you at some point.

But... a few people really are just hateful bastards. Mostly adolescent young men, but sometimes parents too. I'm sure you know the type - those that seem to take joy in hurting those they perceive as being weaker than them in any way.

As a parent of a disabled child, it really breaks my heart thinking about how these things affect children with disabilities.
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This is bizarre. I did not know that leveraged buyouts could work like this.
You know that you can have consensual sexual relationships outside of marriage, right? They don't even have to be exclusive.

Seriously, dude, if you're a "hungry man", open Tinder or just go to a local hook up bar. Hooking up for a one night stand is trivial.
I like to think that Germans have learned to question change beforehand, wanting to scrutinize policies before they are implemented. This is only half the truth, but one can only dream...
The formatting makes it difficult to understand what is going on, which are your comments?
Thanks I'll file a bug if I see it again on a GitHub page. In fact, the last days I haven't noticed it anymore on GitHub pages...

But, of course as stated in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404468#c43 there a sites like http://www.jeuxvideo.com/ which huge (1-2sec) FOUC in Firefox (not noticable in Chrome).
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I really want to get into Mastodon on principle alone. The sticking point is, as with any new social network, I don't know anyone there.

If anyone can point me names in tech, particularly security or cryptography, that are worth following on Mastodon, I would probably be convinced.
That's not what happened here. In this case, someone discussed Windows, Linux and macOS features and implementation details, and someone (you) came around and started talking about UNIX. ;)
Tonight tens of thousands sex workers are devestated that their safer tool for finding clients is shutting down. Exploitative sex trafficking will continue unabated, but independent working people will be forced into more dangerous situations.
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This comes across as dismissive, insensitive, judgmental, and even cruel.

Firstly, you don't know if it was detected prenatal. Secondly, unless you've been there (I haven't) you cannot possibly know how difficult and heart-wrenching a decision that must be.
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Often depends on industry and age (you gain additional days over time).
Just remember that neither the parents or anyone here is asking for any kind of mercy. You are talking about something that has nothing to do with the article. The article is asking for humane treatment and you basically say that she could have been aborted.
Maybe you need to check your empathy.
I'm sure that places with legalized drugs also experience increases in drug trafficking inflows. And the overall alcohol consumption in the USA rose after the prohibition.

>> Does this mean legalizing prostitution is a bad idea? Well, not necessarily. The authors note that legalization could have other positive effects, such making it easier for prostitutes to seek legal or medical help and decreasing rates of abuse and sexually-transmitted disease.

The real key, and it's also highlighted in your [0] link, is if the situation is better for almost everyone after legalizing.

About the Sweden example, claiming that "since the law came into effect fewer men reported purchasing sex and prostitutes were less visible" (your [1] link) is a winning situation is a bit lame. Of course after a prohibition you expect the prostitution to go underground and less visible. It's like denying paedophilia just because nobody reports himself as a peadophile and you cannot see children on the streets.
Same. There really needs to be a good alternative to manage and discover events in your area, but most will probably fail due to the missing userbase/users' reluctance to switch to a new platform.

Some organizers/venues in my area put you on their guest list and have lower entrance fees for people who are "going" to their Facebook event. The only way I see a switch happening is if they agree to only offer those rewards for users of the new platform. But some of them are already showing dissent and setting up their own mailing lists/group texts, so I still have hope!
The "scorched earth" approach only gets support when the nature and scope of the issues are distorted. What are the real issues in play?

One is prostitution, a form of sex work which is illegal in most of the United States. The American public have varying feelings about its legal status, how enforcement should be carried out, etc. Public opinion doesn't support measures which endanger sex workers (which FOSTA does), because they're already an at-risk group.

A separate issue is human trafficking, which is moving people across borders for the purpose of slavery/forced labor, including sex slavery. Public opinion is rightly massively against slavery in any form.

What I would like to know is, how much slavery was taking place through the Craigslist personals section? How much of it goes on in America? Can we get some real data injected into this discussion about the nature and the extent of actual forced sex labor? Scorched earth tactics might be appropriate if America has developed a serious slavery problem (again), but they need to be justified with facts.

I've run across people who want to take a scorched earth approach to eradicating prostitution (which will not work any more than the war on drugs did). They refer to all prostitution as trafficking in order to conflate the two issues, mislead the public and build support for their radical policies. There is also a class of people who have used FOSTA as an opportunity to expand government power. Neither of these agendas reflect public opinion.
Sure, a Golf GTI and Leon Cupra has different suspension set up, but the cars more or less drive the same and feel the same, at least on track. I love the EA888, but it’s ubiquitous in the VAG range. I’m super pleased that the hot hatch market is so competitive in 2018 because there is so much consumer choice now.
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> Make sure the sighted friend wears the blindfold too to make it a shared experience

Thise are good ideas, and this is quite a nice thought.

On a somewhat related note, as far as possible, we try to let our disabled daughter experience age-appropriate activities that her peers engage in (even if they have to be modified somewhat). This models good behaviours for her, and often helps encourage her to do things she'd otherwise be unwilling to eveb try, for fear of failing.
oh the germans... got outsourced to them some time ago. wasn't pleasant experience whatsoever. sadly I have built bad stereotypes over time :(
It is a good idea. Not necessary though in order to access health care. If you are in an environment with lots of expats or generally mixed backgrounds you'll likely survive without speaking much more than a handful of German words per week if you really want to (Heidelberg, Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, ...). It does help you though, as finding doctors and especially employees in public office who are able and willing to discuss with you in English is not a given.
Likewise, but in jQuery, which in one version introduced a feature where you could add listeners to an ajax request and it'd get called after the response returned - I was like what? how? whoa!?