skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is, of course, the danger with running a project in public: you don't get to have a private discussion about whether a certain thing is a good idea, and you certainly don't get to have a private discussion about how to phrase it. Views of some individual proposing a thing get attributed to the organization.

I can think of no better way to encourage closed development processes than to get upset at a "statement by a Mozilla person" and use it as a reason to write off the entire project. You have no idea what Google is saying about your privacy behind closed doors.
explain to me why DOH is worse than 8.8.8.8 or even your ISPs DNS?

why isn't DOH possibly more protecting of your privacy than these other services?
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I agree on many points. Wanted to add that in my view using "shitty tools" is not "just" because they are from another German company. In my experience in two DAX companies as well as startups, European and often times German providers especially of SaaS are picked due to not wanting to send customer, employee and company secret data off to jurisdictions which have been shown to be weak on data privacy, as well as the general feeling that there are fewer data leaks especially from U.S.-American companies.

One can certainly debate whether that feeling is based on solid ground, given the larger amount of SaaS companies in the US, and the fact that larger companies may attract more attention.
Puritans.
What federal law? YouTube is a private company and they decided they didn't want this content on their platform.
What's the difference in practice?
If you are not a member of a church you don't have to pay the religion tax I think.
I want my status bar back in browsers. Damn chromization of browsers.
Can't stress this enough. Using outdates browsers is a liability. You're provoking harm to your network, your computer, your personal data.
Your concern is touching but unnecessary, and, while you are correct that Mondale faired terribly, the basis of my reasoning is that a significant portion of those 62M votes that went to Trump could've easily went to the Democrats but didn't because of explicit and universal distaste for Hillary.

Mondale may have received only 40.6% of votes but Trump, as a general rule, shouldn't have had a chance. It was a Black Swan event of epic proportions and the Democrats made a mistake every step of the way, the statistical likelihood of that happening was so astronomically low but Hillary's involvement made it a guarantee.
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You can continue to cast the blame for frankly abysmal state of cyclist safety in this country, meanwhile cyclists die with alarming regularity however many of those factors are in play.
No, the evidence for high protein is the opposite - shortening life by increasing cancer risk:

"study cohort aged 50–65 reporting high protein intake had a 75% increase in overall mortality and a 4-fold increase in cancer death risk during the following 18 years"

Levine ME, Suarez JA, Brandhorst S, et al.: "Low protein intake is associated with a major reduction in IGF-1, cancer, and overall mortality in the 65 and younger but not older population" Cell Metab. 2014;19(3):407-417. https://www.naturalmedicinejournal.com/journal/2014-05/high-...

In my opinion it is likely that the higher mortality is not entirely caused by protein intake itself (although there is some evidence that high-protein enviroments are mutagenic in yeasts), but is due to either the increased cancer risk from processed meat (nitrosamines) and/or red meat intake.
I love d3js, but I had the feeling it never got so widespread as jQuery. Similarly, from my feeling, it never had such a revolutionary impact. Maybe I am wrong because the data-driven approach (ie. data binding) inspired a whole generation of frameworks. But is there a showcase of famours sites using d3js for anything beyond visualizations (say in a similar manner how jQuery is used across all web page client logic)?
> Hooking up for a one night stand is trivial.

Glad you've been lucky, but don't make assumptions from data set of 1. It's trivial only for the most attractive and charismatic males. OkCupid has published some nice research on it
I have seen that as well. The automotive industry (in IT in the few companies I've seen) though seems to move at glacial pace, yet in the right direction. Contrasting that with experience in telecommunication providers I've worked with, where the pay was similar, most worked under a lot more stress, but effectively accomplished less as projects were much more based on the manager's career goals than company goals.
> the most advanced AI and search company in the world still can't keep adult-oriented conspiracy videos off of Youtube Kids

In fairness here: Google could do this so easily by throwing people at the problem. A whitelisted set of content producers could do this, with people dedicated to whitelist curation. Google can keep them off, and quite readily. Keeping that off automatically and cheaply is the issue...

On that front: automated content recognition that can parse the nuances between regular claymation Elsa and spooky claymation Elsa who talks about jamming things in her "happy spot" is AI-hard. These are not random videos, they are content tailor made and adapted to pass whatever filters are in place.

For data scientists there is a massive gap between working with concrete sensor data that can be managed reasonably, and undefined philosophical/moral/sexual boundaries in dirty noisy counter-programmed video content... One replaces our eyes and ears and reflexes, the other seeks to replace our fabulous brains.
no, but I was on a uni network for a year (basically gbit with good IX connectivity in the UK) and being able to fling around data to the cloud like it's your local network really cuts down on things you think/worry about - making it easier to work and try new things.

Is it wasteful? sure, but who cares if it allows you to try random stuff you would hesitate about otherwise?
SESTA/FOSTA and (probably) CLOUD act.

I severely doubt this is because of politics on guns, I'm not a pro-gun enthusiast but I do enjoy videos showing safe gun care or historic guns (or just the slingshot channel).

Reddit and Youtube have both removed the same kind of content from their platform, this is not limited to gun enthusiasts but also includes various other content.

People like Cody, who runs Cody's Lab, have made videos on how to make a bullet out of mercury. It's entirely impractical for any real world usage but it's nonetheless informative and educational, especially since he explains the safety precautions taken.
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Was it really the BKA? I was under the impression that it had been the BND, which should be scrapped as far as I'm concerned.
or maybe they, like any other political group, seek power to regulate and enforce
The solution to that is to use a password manager, and save all your (randomly generated, long and unmemorizable) professional passwords only on the device that cannot connect into the open internet.
Nowhere, just use end-to-end encryption.

The tools for building apps with it already exist: https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi...
Sure, and then one day you sit with your laptop in a park on your company's campus and you are accidentally connected to the wrong wifi hotspot and you leak some info that way.

Opsec is hard. Technology can only solve so much, the weak link will always be the wet spongy tissue.
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As a German I'd say it's especially larger enterprise companies that are averse to change. For example having worked for clients in the medical sector in the past it was widely held wisdom that if you were observing a new trend in technology it'd take at least five to ten years before you could even think about convincing those companies to adopt them. They were the ultimate late adopters.

Smaller companies experiment more, but investors are equally risk-averse so they tend to prefer startups that are cashflow positive (as opposed to Silicon Valley's growth mindset) or that follow tried and true business models. So a lot of innovation has to be bootstrapped or rides on the back of existing companies -- the product company spun out of an agency seems to be a fairly common.

But all in all I'd say if something is holding German companies back from innovating it's the risk aversion, not the privacy laws. The strict privacy laws actually creates a market for domestic solutions to problems solved by US companies with no regard for privacy (i.e. nearly all of them). Sure, it makes certain business models impossible but many would say that's for the better -- many problems actually end up not being impossible but simply requiring less obvious solutions than blatantly violating your customers' rights.

And looking at the German economy, especially in contrast to other European countries, I'd say calling it a failure is incredibly dishonest. Risk aversion may limit innovation but it also creates a strong healthy economy that is incredibly stable because it rests on a large number of medium sized companies rather than a small number of unicorns and a constant Cambrian explosion and mass extinction.
Doesn't the SEC take a dim view of chat programs being used on Wall street? My understanding is that they have to use chat programs with builtin compliance regimes to avoid insider trading and such...

Digital innovation is happening in a lot of sectors. Healthcare and others have privacy concerns that turn a lot of 'efficiency' dreams on their heads.
If telegram continues to have a legal presence in Russia and/or not be blocked, they will have to do what the Russian authorities say.
I'm moving all my stuff into Europe. My main Server is hosted at OVH which has no HQ in the US (OVH in the US is a separate corporation specific to US customers of OVH).

I'm moving my mail to Protonmail, away from my current mail provider (which I was planning to do anyway once the contract ran out since they are against net-neutrality but I'll speed things up now)

My DNS is also currently hosted in the US, via Cloudflare and another provider. I will move those into OVH too but I'll have to wait for atleast two contracts to run out for that too.

Considering the GDPR, I guess the EU is the current bastion of privacy and a free-er internet.
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Because those gun enthusiasts are very, very enthusiast.
You must be very patient. I bought own 600€ computer an der Uni and installed the tools I needed to get things done. Many did the same. Zero hours lost, 100% productivity at home on weekends. Your PhD is definitely not Germany’s problem.
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Not part of GCP. Yes they have a history of shutting down free services but things in GCP don't get shut down, they are products, products people pay for.
Following this thread now for I while, I need to give my few cents:

1. Management - I've worked in lots of german companies from all sizes. I'd say the bigger the company is, the more hierarchical is the structure. I think this is a natural thing to happen. But, saying "most German organizations are shaped like a pyramid" is not completely correct.
Every company has it's individual shape. And I can tell, I've worked in rather large companies following fairly modern approaches (sattelite-structures, flat-democratic structures, etc.).
The claim of "the pyramid" sounds like a biased conception to me, but I'd be interested in studies about german company structures (anyone?).

2. missing tools - this is just untrue. Of course email is still important, but we're using Git/Slack/Jira/Whatever-is-cool-right-now, in germany, too.
Also, there is nothing wrong with Excel or MS Project.

3. outdated infrastructure - TRUE!
We have a big problem with infrastructure, especially in rural areas (where rent is cheap and overall life quality quiet good). The goverment decided to invest in fibre-technology, though. Maybe a bit late.
LTE/Mobile is still lacking and more expensive than in other european countries.
If we don't improve this, it will be a big risk for our economy in the future.

4. lack of talent - now this is very interesting.
Personally, I think talent is passion compared with experience over time.
Our educational system is (not great, but...) good enough.
However, I've never seen a great programmer popping out of college/univeristy. The most "talented" folks, I met, often are in their late 30s, 40s and above.
They mostly understand business, programming and people-work better than younger collegues.
Yet, german companies are suffering from age-discrimination like in other nations, too.
For this point, I'd like to refer to Robert C. Martin, by saying we need more discipline in our craft.
Instead of hiring 10 graduates, better hire 3 veterans. Because the mess, unexperienced programmers leave behind, will make companies want to hire even more of them, producing even worse software, so managent gets an impression of having not enough people. (get my point)?
Move GDC to a friendlier country?
Anyone knows what they mean with “active users”? If I open the app once per month but never send / receive any message, am I an active user?
I know "tits and guns" is an established expression when talking about somewhat simplistic movies...

But this is taking it a bit too literal :)
At one point I convinced my girlfriend to install Signal on her android phone and installed it myself on my iPhone. She hated the App and refused to use it after a few days, the UI on the iPhone was slow buggy and non native feeling as well and it crashed a ton. By comparison the telegram client basically felt like a better or equally well performing WhatsApp. She had no objections whatsoever to use it.
Of course its not the official stance and they'd never admit it. They're just hints left in plain sight to point at Russia.

Putin's tactics used in Crimea are quite the same ones used by Stalin's Russia after WW2 in Eastern Europe. You can find all of them in decassified CIA reports. The only difference is the lack of insignia on troops, clearly designed to support the claim that the forces that siezed Crimea were rebels as opposed to Russian military.

I disagree, Putin doesn't need to be slapped down, for this is too risky and could trigger a war. Nato (US) presence in Eastern (Romania) and Northern Europe (Poland, Eastonia, Letonia, Latvia), military and economic cooperation with these states is sufficient to deter his bulying ambitions. Hungary and Bulgaria have been ruled out for being too cosy with Russia.
>if you have only a bachelor, people assume something went wrong. The target at university always was a Master's degree.

What? This is definitely not true in Germany, at least not anymore. Unless you want to go into research or teaching, it's commonplace for graduates to start working right away.

I think a much bigger problem that contributes to the devaluation of university degrees is the fact that students that don't really need a degree still get pushed to attend university - and that's definitely because of current recruiting practices where you really have no chance without at least a Bachelor's. I've met so many people in university who only really wanted to code and got no use out of learning things like automata theory, complexity, higher mathematics. Not saying it isn't important to learn these things, but you gotta differentiate between coders and computer scientists. And if coder positions require a computer science degree, well... Of course you're going to end up devaluing those degrees.

Edit: Adding to this, I attended university for 4 years before switching to a more practice-oriented college. In those 4 years I had one programming lecture (which only introduced three different language paradigms and didn't go into depth) and a system programming lab (admittedly, this was really cool). Everything else was mostly theoretical computer science and mathematics. Now, I chose this university because people told me of its good reputation and I felt like I had to attend a prestigeous school to get a good job, but it didn't really teach me any practical skills at all, so even if I had graduated I would've had a hard time landing that "good job" due to complete lack of experience.
I do not know if plastic bags are banned in France, I can use any amount of PLA bags that I want for free and if I pay one euro per bag, I can buy as many plastic bags that I want.

In France often what the law says and what is reported in media differs widely. It is absolutely out of context but the best example was the 35 hours per week laws that authorised up to 56 hours per week for some kind of workers.
In the same vein, I suppose in Europe we don't see education as only a mean to an end (a job), but we value education in and of itself.

Also, education itself is much less a business here than in the US.
Yes, but I would have written it as a proper noun as it was written there. They could have instead said "exposure to sun". But if you add the definite article, it's a proper noun.
> The shield study isn't even running yet and several people have raised concerns

Wasn’t the famous “Looking Glass” an ad packed as a Shield study and delivered also to Firefox Developer version and even release (not even only Nightly)?

I however don’t expect (and have never expected) Nightly to behave identically as the Release, so I don’t understand that some do expect that, like the OP. The Nightly is your contribution to the development, and obviously its use data aren’t supposed to be “super secret.”
I've seen that. However the London police may require a warrant under UK law, nevertheless. And Slack may notify, nevertheless.

I think EFF could come up with better examples. At least, most of these examples are not threatening for US persons. I'd think better examples would involve what US LEO can do unwarranted. In that case people may be inclined to exert more pressure on their representatives.

The law is bad but I think it could be painted in worse light.
How does that answer the question?
How do you reconcile this with the #metoo feminist supremacist movement, the transgender-rights progressive supremacist movement, the illegal-immigrant-rights movement -- all of it is unabashed moralizing, extolling the claims of a utopian future while decrying opponents as irredeemable sinners?

They are puritans of another flavor, intending to "purify" America (and the world) of "cultural oppression."
Only if you buy into the idea that Slack (or Facebook) have any value in the first place. You can say "You're wrong to disagree", but ..

I do believe that Germany has issues, mostly governmental (setting up a company, taxes, bureaucracy) and there _is_ a certain lack of cultural support for moving fast / start-up culture. Having lived in Germany for most of my life, a year in Tel Aviv and being in Singapore now: Tel Aviv and Singapore have a thriving scene of people that want to start their own company. The places in Germany I've called home never felt that way.

But this article? It seems rather pointless to me. Just like Slack. Or Facebook. :)
The sad state of affairs is that while D3 is brilliant in terms of API design, it is fairly low level, so few people use it directly. I've been using tools based on D3.js (like C3, NVD3) and it's been a joy.

However, last time I checked (~mid 2017), most of these hadn't migrated to D3 v4, so I'm not sure how fast v5 adoption will be. Maybe some will skip v4 altogether and go directly to v5?

At this point, I'm not sure which wrapper to use, because I don't want to get stuck with v3.
> it's a completely and totally human response to faceless, blameless, unapproachable (from their perspective) perpetrators and facilitators of systematic abuse and exploitation of innocent and vulnerable people.

You mean, like millions of illegal immigrants who are working in farming, construction, fast food, and many other industries? How do you feel about scorched earth approach to those?
> It seems people simply want to be outraged at Mozilla.

Nothing else seems to be working. Some users are against Mozillas forced default tracking/telemetry system and forced install of crust that should really be add-ons (Pocket, sync).

If you have any ideas for ways users can enable change which doesn't inconvenience you then please let them know.
I was a freelancer and became a contractor for my own company a few years ago (only German kids will get this).

I've been in situations like the one you describe, where I'm one of many developers and share my knowledge. I've also been "the developer" in companies that have no permanently employed developers or no interest in sharing knowledge. I've also interviewed at companies that had effectively outsourced their entire development to another company (with the team working on-site full time but being employed by another company who would rent them out for jobs like these).

These companies often relied on their code as a critical part of being able to do business. Some of them were literally software companies. Yes, it's shortsighted and obviously a bad idea but companies operate like this, especially smaller companies that think they can reduce financial risks by hiring freelancers even if they effectively overpay compared to what a salaried developer would cost them.
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Here's my input as an actual computer engineering student with good grades and who was hired after 2 years: I have no idea why professors wouldn't want students to collaborate on homework, forcing students to solve problems on their own will only create basement coders who can't cooperate with other people.

Not a single company has ever asked me to invert a binary tree/implementing any more complicated algorithm nor my grades, they have only cared about my personality and non-school projects.

Hell, we are encouraged to work together with other people at my university.
Not true WhatsApp has a very anoying and jarring "floating keyboard" bug for some time now. Basically it breaks and lags for a few seconds if you quickly switch between portrait and landscape mode.
This is a bit of a self-fufilling prophecy. It is correct, that battery prices and availability are sinking currently to the point where electric car mass production becomes a reality and 2020 seems a date, where several big manufacturers can present their first generation of true mass-marked electric cars.

But the exact timing also depends on the fact that only Tesla tried really hard to bring the electric car to the mainstream. Actually, BMW was pretty early to the game with the i3 - an excellent car which came to market as early as 2013. Certainly not a huge seller at its price, but quite a good electric car. The main problem was the lack of quick iterations, it has gotten one battery upgrade since then, no variations like the rumored i5 came to be.

As 2020 is almost around the corner, let's hope that BMW comes out with exciting electric cars. Also VW seems to be set to release a couple of very serious electric offerings in that time frame (I.D, Buzz).
Since you're on a throwaway, any chance you could ask them why WhatsApp is so low on features? Everyone I know uses it for many of their social interactions, and I find myself mostly frustrated that they don't use Telegram with its many useful features (especially for developers).

So far my theories are that 1) FB still doesn't want to give up on its flagship product, or 2) FB doesn't want to seem too actively investing into WhatsApp for either PR or legal reasons.