skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental problem here is like your question - conflating two completely separate concepts. A shopkeeper, being a person, should care if someone just murdered someone else outside of their shop. A shopkeeper that has just completed a sale, and then found out the customer is a murdering thief, should feel no compunction about considering the cash in the drawer theirs. They should of course help bring the murderer to justice.

Abstractions are only useful if we can rely on them. Under the regime of separate ambient titles (which the concept of money laundering is intertwined with), you can never be sure anything that you have is actually yours! So this creates a whole lot of ambiguity. As I alluded to, this ambiguity erodes the rule of law because it can't not lead to selective enforcement based around the gut feelings of whomever decides if a claim to reverse has merit.

And yes, lack of an ambient title most certainly is the base state of the world - it's modern communications technology that has enabled us to even fathom tracking the history of everything. But you're the one strawmanning this "sinister cabal". I would describe it as power tending to coalesce, and emergently promulgating a paradigm that relies on (and thus further necessitates) said power.
"Wealth created" though hides some of the reality. That 'wealth created' consists also in jobs for individuals. So, a better question might be: Is the suffering alleviated by allowing easy firing greater than the suffering alleviated by preventing easy firing? And that is an empirical economic question, which is difficult to answer.
Seems like a great opportunity for starting competitor services in places like Switzerland, Malta etc. Charge a premium for it.
Though it better not be a standard password:
http://www.ghettoforensics.com/2014/02/google-actively-scann...
The conversation at the root? Not so much. But yeah the rhetoric and seeming lack of nuance around it makes me roll my eyes from time to time.

Edit: instead of driveby downvotes, Id welcome some commentary on what was so incendiary about this remark to warrant swiftly taking the comment down into the negatives.
The entire concept of ownership is the abstraction. The gold nugget didn't commit the murder, the murderer did. So you charge them with murder and "money laundering" has nothing to do with it.
>seems

Google is just more self-aware, which can change at any time. This is separate from their potential, and the potential is what matters here. We know Facebook had the potential to do damage for years, but we don't know how much damage they have done. As for what a company "seems", that is a sum of marketing and PR.
Yeah, except they passed up on a golden opportunity to overturn it on Constitutional grounds. The Constitution says explicitly that the purpose of copyright is to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". I'm pretty sure that letting someone copyright a whole genre will have the exact opposite effect.

The idea that copyright is there to help copyright owners make money seems to have gotten deeply ingrained in the nation's psyche. That idea really needs to be dislodged or we are headed for a world where no one can create anything without paying a ransom.
I’m 12 / 15 GB on the free plan and considering upgrading to paid. If Google is now “intelligently” flagging content, I want to store my personal content elsewhere, regardless of its nature.

Who’s not being stupid here? Apple? Should I go back to my Synology?
Show HN: Sparbuch, an event-store for Node.js
The file OR'd with a string of 0s is the most legit anti-circumvention algorithm.
Yes, but their labor market is still more flexible than other european countries, which is why their companies are more willing to hire.
This following a fantastic book, with good exercises, and most importantly it includes applications:

Real Analysis and Applications by Davidson and Donsig

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~krdavids/RAA/real.html
Your examples aren't contradictory. A site with a bn uniques can have let's say 10bn impressions. With a CTR of 1%, assuming by the the high number of users that it's news related and so doesn't get that many clicks, and a CPC of $0,15 it could bring a low 8 figure income.

It all depends on the kind of content. Target women and you get higher CTRs. As for the guy with the billion uniques, well he should start contacting advertisers himself. With that kind of traffic it's a crime not to.
I'm very curious about how this company is managed. It's an interesting way to structure your offer. Simple with as little commitment as possible.

What happens when there are projects that compete for your designers' time?
Your ISP tracking your every move is scarier than all of them after the ISP privacy bill passed.

At least Facebook and Google give you something for it and you can route around them if you desire. No routing around ISPs unless you use a VPN but even then they are blocking those.

Broadband/cable/telcos capture everything you do and can now sell that information and do[1]. That bill was the pre-cursor to removing net neutrality by taking privacy and policy from the FCC to the FTC.

Part of Jeff Flakes argument for getting rid of the privacy protections were so that ISPs can compete with Facebook and Google and sell your data/offer ads to you. Yet Facebook and Google at least built products you wanted that you willingly gave up privacy to use and at least got something for it [2][3].

ISPs you have to pay to use and they still take your data as if you are the product. ISPs could have built products people wanted to get that data but they instead bribed 'representatives' to get it via legislation with their local monopolies. Noone wanted this bill but ISPs.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-you...

[2] https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/3/op-ed-f...

[3] https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/3/flake-i...
>I see. Rust is aiming to be closer and closer to C++ every day!

Or you know, it's aiming nothing of the short, and this is early, still unsorted, behavior, while the language has been simplifying things (e.g. the early sigils and lots of other stuff), and plans even more simplification and friendliness.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/01/13/rust-in-2018--way-easier-to-...

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/12/roadmap.html
I might have misunderstood it. I thought they were saying, "If you're wondering how subjective this is..." (implying that it's not an informative measurement)
I can second the Chartrand book (I believe you mean "Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics"). I used this book in a "bridge" class and loved it; it really starts from first principles and gives you a lot of simple examples that you can build on.
I too had thoughts of Betteridge but in the opposite: it definitely applies and he article gives us a few examples.

But after a second read of the article I think the answer instead of being a flat "no", the answer would probably be more accurately answered with "depends on who you're asking"
Okay --- I'll iterate the algorithm a thousand times. Now I'm back to respectable strength.

Besides, any selective "break glass" scheme is going to be vulnerable to arguments about the need for urgent access to prevent terror or something.

Either the population has access to strong crypto or it doesn't --- and technological prohibition never actually works. You may be able to make it easy to crack phones used by the naive, but you can't stop determined people writing and running software.
Note about Google-Android phones: how long you use each app and when is tracked.

To avoid this, use a custom rom without GApps. You can also "turn off" this "feature" from some menu online, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't actually stop data collection.
The US real median income rate has only just now surpassed levels seen in 2007 and, before that, 1999; you can read that as, "median income is now higher than ever before", or you can read that as, "US working families lost two full decades worth of wage increases". Both statements would be true.

Furthermore, while median income has increased, the bulk of economic gains are still not making their way into the average household. This is so broadly accepted as true that there's an entire Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...

Opioid and other drug abuse probably correlates well with poverty (example https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/joblessne...), and that problem has become a national conversation recently.
That middle ground should be for the government to seize the proceeds of illegal activities after proving the illegal activities themselves in a court beyond a reasonable doubt.

The government shouldn't be allowed to take shortcuts.
The.Worst.Nightmare!

We saw that happen with Sun, BEA, Peoplesoft etc. Sad days.
I specifically pointed out that I searched that key word and found no results. Even if that keyword has fallen out of use, surely something would've shown up in the hundreds of ads I looked at. I'm trying to be a reasonable person here. What should I do to validate OP's claims?

I even doubled down and looked at some actual accounts in court claims (articles about them). It says that backpage filtered searches for some key words associated with child sex trafficking but not some others, and not some misspellings of those words. Of course as soon as BP filters some words the criminals will start using others. What is the reasonable test here?
SpiderOak's plans are pretty cheap. Also you could use S3+Glacier for storing just about anything. I would be surprised if AWS scanned your files for "inappropriate" content.
I know Google is profiling me and harvesting my data. But it's not using me to harvest my friends information.

I know Google is targeting ads at me - and they maybe AB tested. But those ads are from real companies or organisations - they aren't fake bots or astroturf groups algorithmically designed to tell me what I want to hear.

I'm sceptically watchful of Google, I feel I have a social contract with them where they use me and I use them. I think Facebook has way overstepped that mark.
I was talking specifically about the strong typing, but this is an awesome study comparing two languages with strong typing. Thanks for sharing.

There probably is a point where the strictness of the typing starts influencing the bugginess of the code.
You Belong Here: Coming to :Slack:
Immutability refers to data, not interpretation of data. It has a specific meaning in computer science. It does not mean "social value", or "economic utility", or anything like that. It refers to the actual values of the bits. And in that sense, Bitcoin is unequivocally immutable. If you want to define some other term to refer to mutability of interpretation - go ahead. Just don't call it mutability.
It's a managed application service where you bring your own node, from the cloud or from on-prem. It gives you a dashboard & end to end management of applications running on your nodes.
Google is scarier in terms of its capabilities, but it's starting from a more solid ethical foundation.
I never thought cloud storage providers would actually do this - they are at least supposed to pretend they are respecting your privacy. Yet even Apple says this:

> Apple reserves the right at all times to determine whether Content is appropriate and in compliance with this Agreement, and may pre-screen, move, refuse, modify and/or remove Content at any time [1]

I'm definitely in the market for a good e2e encrypted cloud storage solution.

[1] https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/t...
Google is also tracking you via emails sent to/from Gmail, AdSense scripts, free CDNs, Android, etc. I find Facebook to be easier to avoid, though more costly in terms of my happiness
> C's donate-PC-cycles-to-hackers technique.

I'll totally use that.
Seeing this and simultaneously hearing about what YouTube is doing with certain firearm-related content makes me wonder whether we’re on — or at least near — a slippery slope.

I can certainly see limiting videos that are illegal (child porn) or that describe things that are illegal throughout the US (converting semiautomatic weapons into automatic).

But banning videos of adult pornography and showing legal firearm-related content is a different beast. A private company surely has the right to decide not to host such content, but consumers can likewise consider whether they want to do business with (including giving unfettered access to email and search queries) a company that proceeds down this slippery slope.

To be clear, I’m not saying we’ve slid down the slope at this point, just that we appear to be perched on/near it.
That's also a poor argument for turning away businesses. The problem appears to be not allowing more housing sooner, not that you're helping provide tens of thousands of new jobs. Plus, there's tons of affordable housing a very short drive from Seattle. You should really do more/better research.
Can you explain why? I assume those c# programs are used for backend stuff on servers, surely it isn't hard to get a 4.6+ runtime installed?
And they don't have Zuckerberg.

Seriously, though, I think some of it is that Google is a little more transparent. They ingest tremendous amounts of data about you, but for the most part it's while you do things you would otherwise do. Facebook is a destination, an environment unto itself, and it's impossible to ignore that it's addictive and sucking you in over and over. So you use it, but hate it all the same because it has too much power.

I've looked at the data Google collects on me, and it's probably more frightening than what FB has managed to gather. Google has all my search queries to look at, every place I've driven, etc. All without me really noticing.
Ada has functions, procedures, and packages. So does PL/SQL.

C has unions. Show me the unions in JavaScript.

Unions are there because C is a systems language. Show me a kernel written in JavaScript.
My point was about why invest time in C dealing with memory with the risk of segfaults when there many other languages like JS, Java, Go that would take care of that task for you.

Also I'm talking about projects (e.g. building a word processor), not programming problemns (e.g. invert this binary tree). In my experience projects are complex systems with many moving parts interacting and most bugs comes from the complexity of the system/problem. With C, I don't just have to think about the problem that I'm solving but if I did something wrong when dealing with memory allocation/releasing.

I don't have much experience in C except from the basics so I hope to hear from people that loves C why they choose it or if its just a constraint inherent to the problem they're dealing with.
> RXBar... focused on sales first and “branding” second.

> The distinctive, no BS packaging

The author is very confused about what 'branding' means.

EDIT: I'm an idiot.
Reading this I feel like I want to go to school again, over there. (:

So to recap correct me if I’m wrong:

1. Learn basics
2. Form a project with rules where basics are applied (often teaching through learning to teach or educate others or make games for others).
3. If that doesn’t work get tutoring from other kids and teachers.
I feel like this is at least slightly disingenuous.

Sure, your friends keep you hooked on FB but there are other methods of communication.. Even if they're FB owned (like whatsapp).

But google owns the most dominant browser right now, they're spidered into most websites using their analytics engine.

They handle more email than the next 5 providers combined, and they have the most dominant mobile OS on the market.
Yeah, probably. The AUP for Amazon (including S3) has this restriction:

>Offensive Content. Content that is defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable, including content that constitutes child pornography, relates to bestiality, or depicts non-consensual sex acts.

So, most pornography should be okay.
I think that Apple's concessions to the Chinese government undermined the "moral high ground" that Tim Cook once stood upon.
Google's original mission statement from 1998 was to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Things like Usenet archives are clearly part of that.

That is still apparently their mission statement but I agree the reality seems more along the lines of "deliver the best search results for users' immediate needs" [while making as much money from that as humanly possible]
How is the community affected in any way by this decision? Docker cloud is a management product and only open to paying customers.
If (IF) A/V software is compromised by the authors or a third party, it can have very wide and deep access to the computer or device. So it would be a priority for anyone wanting to overcome a network or endpoint defense to take over A/V. As to whether this is happening, read the allegations around a number of companies.
They could just torrent the files between themselves. Add a password too and you're good to go.
Even if you try to eat healthy, the way foods are built and marketed today makes it difficult. Stuff that looks like it should be healthy is sometimes the worst thing you could put in your mouth. Short of eating only meals produced yourself from directly purchased raw ingredients, you're almost guaranteed to fall into the trap.

I'm not advocating for gov't regulation to come save us, but on the other hand it's foolish not to recognize that there is a tremendous amount of manipulation going on in the grocery world. There is a lot less variety there than it looks like.
A lot of the big usenet providers have at least a decade's worth of article retention at this point (even for binary newsgroups).
This has been a long time coming.

https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/964471195793068032

I posted about it here, but was heavily downvoted because mentioning this man automatically brands you as a conspiracy theorist.

It's really naive to think he doesn't know the news before it's news.
> If he simply ignores everything he doesn't like about the thinkers he writes about, his book is useless.

This makes zero sense. If I write a guide about how to use red paint to create beautiful paintings, is my guide useless if it fails to acknowledge the atrocities that may or may not have been committed by the inventor of red paint? Of course not.

> Better Angels Of Our Nature, was also terribly wrong in presenting the hunter-gatherer state of humans as being much more violent than archeologists and anthropologists think

He supported his position with loads of strong evidence. Your counterargument, however, presents no evidence.
I believe the "(2015)" label is intended for articles from 2015. This article is from 2018, but its contents reference 2015. Perhaps a better title would be "Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first responded in 2015".
Totally agree, but I kinda feel (and this is solely my opinion) that much as it's our collective responsibility to donate to worthwhile causes, gigantic tech companies should spend rounding-error money on good digital causes like this.
Evolving Alien Corals with Neuroevolution and Novelty Search
Studies like this are great but what else do you expect when you have a large section of population whining about everything that made America great.
I was trying to come up with a solution. Something like retroactively classify companies that are taking money or are involved in this type of stuff register as a Political Action Committee. Because this is regulated by the FEC. Make Google, CNN, Facebook, Fox, whatever, disclose they are working for hire to politicize your experience. Then, make it so that every 5 years a company can appeal this retro-active PAC status. When they appeal they have to show, in full transparency, that they are no longer participating in these schemes by showing internal procedures, logs, their appeal process, and comments from the public. Somebody make this idea better and help promote it. It's a start
> secrecy doesn't protect you against a sufficiently corrupt government, it protects the government from you.

I don't understand this. How does privacy/anonymity not protect you from a corrupt government?
The only way flying cars will happen is if they are self-flying. People are too unpredictable and they are quick to break the rules. Self-flying will guard against that.
Encrypt your data before you upload to any storage. Do not upload anything in clear view and no one can flag your stuff.
You're right, it's possible to distinguish media and gaming performance (ie with basemark OS and basemark X) but I want to keep things simple for the average user.

And yes I've extrapolated the camera Scores with my own rating framework based in ISO, exposure, noise, etc. All processing is done in Python!
You appear to be quite confused on what heritability is, how it is estimated, and the assumptions that underpin those estimates.

This article is a reasonable summary of the issues with heritability:

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article-pdf/35/3/525/2195546/dy...

The tl;dr is that the people who trot out additive models of heritability as evidence of anything in particular are by and large those invested in the notion of genetic determinism.
Google is however nowadays staffed by activists.
If FB goes down for one day it is a minor inconvenience.

If Google goes down for one day, I am literally at a standstill. No Maps, no Search, no GMail, no YouTube, no Photos! I don't know how I will get through the day without these services :(

As such, with Google, I am more than ok them using my data to target me ads since it does feel a mutually beneficial relationship.
Is it actually true? There could be lots of other possible reasons like running out of quota or too large attachments...
This is a bit far from what most would consider REST. Just call it a HTTP api?

Looks cool though! I would love a product that behaves like a proxy/CDN for images and does some on-demand resizing/filtering.
Will your Elastic cluster be hacked?
Author here, not sure how this comes off as confused? In the linked article, the founder of RXBar talks about how the brand positioning emerged from the sales process. By going account to account they refined the company's core story—the focus on ingredients—which came to dominate the visual touchpoints.
> I’m pretty sure that the Golem team is doing something right

I'm not at all convinced that the golem team have any particular insight to solve this obvious and common problem that everyone else doesn't have. And frankly I think that the overhead of running unnecessary infrastructure will render them price-uncompetitive to any reasonable centralised provider. In short, I predict they will fail.

But eh, they raised USD$8m and I didn't, so what do I know.
Wow. Those two songs are not even remotely similar.

If this ruling stands no one will ever be able write another reggae song, nor even a new piece of classical music, without running afoul of someone's copyright.
Phones appear according to availability in your country, I'm adding more links!
There's actually some precedent with very high volume services taking the minimal downtime approach to avoid the increased amount of development time. Take Airbnb for example [1]. They chose to take two weeks to migrate their Messaging database with a few minutes of downtime rather than take longer to do it with no downtime. In the article, they discuss how they thought about the tradeoffs.

[1] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-we-partitioned-air...
Startup idea: Managed Nextcloud instances with (optionally) their integrated AWS S3 backend storage. Nextcloud's sharing UX is dead simple and intuitive using the web interface, with the option to password protect and/or expire the sharing link.

The porn industry is often cited as being innovative / early adopters. As nerds let's help them demonstrate why self-hosting and decentralized tech is the way forward.