skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does any part of that address his point though? Almost every single one of those things you mentioned is part of some federated system, which means you can be the only person in the world not using it and not have your usage affected too heavily.

Your friends can include you in text groups no matter what carrier and phone OS you use, they can include your email even if your mail server is located under your couch, you can visit websites even if you use Firefox or Safari or IE or Opera or Iceweasel or Edge or Dolphin or.... By contrast, you can't decide to be the only one in your friend group without a Facebook acct and still be included in eg event planning and photo sharing, unless your friends make th extra effort to keep a separate channel open for you. That's what the term network effects _means_.

(Yes, I'm entirely aware that the canned response to this is "they're not your real friends then" or "get better friends"; I personally don't use Facebook for anything but event planning/accepting and the occasional communication with an extended member of the family without having to go through a chain of getting people's numbers. But as to the people that don't recognize any potential benefit to a tool like FB for coordinating meaningful social events, I can't help but wonder if they just have very tiny social circles. This isn't a bad thing by any means, but it's bizarre to assume that that's how everyone socializes)
Ada has had basic OOP support since Ada95. It just doesn't mandate OOD as the "one true way" to build software the way Java does.

I wound up unemployed in 2008 and took a job maintaining an old system written in Ada95. My mother (who is still a working software engineer) was kind enough to give me all of her old Ada books. In the 80s, during the big initial push for Ada by the DoD, defense contractors actually sent a lot of their programmers to training courses (my mother was sent to training courses on both C and Ada in the early years of her career). Today, they would just layoff all of their "obsolete" engineers and hire new ones.
My first thought was a medium sized shed, maybe with a cement floor.
> After a month I had most newsgroups - excepting binaries - and it came to 800GB.

> Trying to index THAT lot was impossible

Stupid question, but why would indexing 800GB of newsgroup postings be impossible?
It is more about that new law than about their ToS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16655494
This is certainly the standard practice. However, there's a recent case, Luis v. US (2016), challenged on 6th amendment grounds (right to counsel) that permits a Defendant to use funds that have no reasonable connection to the crime. Of course, in practice, they'll seize your assets or restrict your use (via pretrial conditions), and you'll need those funds to engage your attorney to move for the modification in the first place.
"The most unrealistic thing about his writings is that normal conversations don’t have alternating monologues which each go on for pages."

Unfortunately, there are way too many people in real life who do talk in monologues and rarely let others get a word in edgewise -- especially if they're drunk, but sometimes even when they're perfectly sober.

At least Dostoyevsky's characters have something interesting to say.
Doesn't this also apply to Facebook? Maybe you could argue it's not current data, but at some point Facebook reached ubiquity, and collected enough data to make sophisticated inferences about everyone.
With Mapquest, DuckDuckGo, Protonmail, AOL Videos and imgUrl?
Not necessarily. Address book access rights on Android and iOS are a gray area. I don’t have control over whether you hand over my contact info to whoever you want. So are incoming emails from outside Gmail, and a bunch of other things. So is tracking of accounts that aren’t even logged into anything, and demographic inference on top of that, etc, etc. I mean we are literally talking about a company that tracks the entirety of the web, and has an overwhelming share of people’s email, search, and video history. You’d have to be unbelievably naive to think that this information can’t be abused.

That’s not to say Google currently abuses it, but some of the ads stuff is way into the gray area territory imo, and god help us all if they decide to get evil for real.
Syncthing is great, I've been using it at home for several years. My only trouble is I don't have any of my computers always on and I'm too lazy to root my NAS, so there's a chance of conflicts, but a little discipline takes care of it.
Well, the F-22 had control software written in Ada and it doesn't have as many reported software problems as the F-35.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_number
Anyone taking bets for when the pages return? It's just a matter of time, right? That is unless Musk starts a competing social network of his own :) I'll toast to that.
How a Civ V mod should make us fear superintelligent AI
$1B isn't law enforcement cost effective for the criminals that would unknowingly use this scheme thinking it was secure.

There's basically no way you convince them to use this when more secure alternatives already exist, for free.
> For the companies, to be successful, it’s far more important to be ahead of the competition even with an incomplete product than to let the customers wait and eventually abandon the project.

Still looking forward to the day refunds and other kinds of legal actions actually start to change this mentality in software companies.

I don't buy incomplete pair of shoes, half-baked bread, car without seats, ...
I sent Craig an email this morning saying the same thing. I don't get why they close down the part of the website that was (mostly, I guess?) supporting people trying to get in a relationship and, I'm sure some sort of Tinder like hookups, and leave open the part where they actually have some real exposure. Doesn't make sense.
I am unlikely to use your site if it requires me to use a Google or Facebook login. Those companies already have too much power to fuck my life up, I have no interest in giving them any more.
This is somewhat unrelated, but I really think 4-5 years terms for government anywhere in the world is way too long. You elect them, they break promises and pass all kinds of crazy laws, and still get to stay and keep doing damage for 5 years, after which they might even get elected again because most people won't remember what happened 5 years back.

It might not be feasible, but a way for citizens to send everyone home easily every 1-2 years if they screw up would be beneficial.
it's starting from a more solid ethical foundation

What do you base this on?
Another way of looking at this data is to observe that the students most likely to outperform on IQ tests are those very students from wealthy backgrounds [0]. Is it any wonder that later life, those born with access to wealth and connections, do much better than those who find themselves in a lessor social cohort?

If we accept the above correlation, there seem to be 2 likely explanations for this, outside of pure coincidence.

One may posit that this relationship is due to some inheritable trait which causes high income earners to consistently produce offspring who make the same sound decisions they made based on intelligence.

If this were true, I would expect to see far more high functioning individuals at the top of the economic pie. Purely observationally, this seems not to be highly correlated. There are lots of exceptions, but high income seems to be associated mostly with a history of high income.

Alternatively, and I believe more likely, this difference can be explained by the difference in access to resources which wealth provides.

If IQ is just a proxy for family wealth, what can or should we do about it? It seems most equitable to simply provide broad access to high quality education to those who can keep pace at a cost (both in terms of money and social friction) approaching zero.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641149/
First bitluni got video from an esp32 with no components, now he gets audio too
It can be interpreted either way "Bringing the demise of irrational practices such as religion"
I've been a mentor on Codementor for almost a year now, and it's the opposite of what you're suggesting. I have very professional mentoring sessions solving interesting problems, and getting payed really good money.
Thanks for reminding me about this. I'm seriously thinking about getting a VPN subscription again.
I think it's less about that and more about Google going having a fear of being called out.

What's worse, pissing off a few people or getting accused of distributing porn and contributing to the gun problem.

They know how much they fucked up in 2016.
Speak to yourself. Lifting weights and running are few of the most enjoyable things out there.

No wonder you don't enjoy exercising if you frame it as 'ultimately pointless'. You need to change your internal dialogue.
>6. 2017-06-15: Mendeley <mendeley@mail.elsevier.com> email me "Paul, important changes to your Mendeley account" ...

That doesn't look like it's from the marketing team - looks just like the original email they sent before I closed my account.
They do detect child abuse imagery and report it to the appropriate agencies.
I feel like this is a piece that people elide pretty frequently. The Google founders have spoken about tons of things over the years, and consistently come across as being principled and passionate, even if your moral foundation is different from theirs. Zuckerberg, on the other hand, set the tone with the "dumb fucks" IM and has only recently gotten better at not projecting contempt for his users. I honestly couldn't even pin down what his ethical foundations are, given that they seem to swing with the tides of public opinion and what PR message is currently convenient ("connect the whole world! every interaction is a good one!" --> the more recent "maybe some social interactions are bad, only 'good' ones from now on!").

It's of course entirely possible that this simply means that the Google guys are better at personal PR than Facebook is, but at the very least it helps explain why the perception of each is different.
Check out jepZ's link above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16668874

Safe harbor is effectively dead. Recent changes in law make neutral content hosters liable for the content their users create/upload/share (going beyond the standard strictly illegal stuff like child porn, inciting violence, etc).
"Not an issue, users would have to edit a script under /usr/lib to enable it"
I couldn't use webdav without going to find out how to use webdav.

I can figure out google drive in a minute. So can she. So can her paying customers.
Hi, I'm a maths student in Brazil myself :) I'll answer in english, though, since I'm not sure about the HN policy on comments in foreign languages.

Can I ask you which university you're from? I'm not aware of many universities besides UFRJ which offer an "Applied Maths" degree.

About real analysis, I took the summer course in IMPA, an I used only Elon's books. I really like them (for the books themselves, not just because they're in portuguese). There are two: the thick one: "Curso de Análise", and the thin, silver one: "Análise Real" (I like to call them Elão and Elinho :)). Elão is very detailed and has lots of examples, but mentions topics which may be too specific and not covered in your course. Elinho is much more terse, and great if you need a quick summary.

I would also consider reading David Bressod's "A Radical Approach to Real Analysis". It's an awesome book, which mentions historical motivations for everything, and has a really different approach to teaching analysis (it will certainly help you learn analysis, but might not help too much in your course, since it's quite non-traditional).

If you're not used to proof techniques, I highly recommend Keith Devlin's "Introduction to Mathematical Thinking".

About strategies to studying analysis: examples. I think it's really important to work out lots of examples by hand all the time. Every time you read a definition in your textbook, whatever it is, close the book and try to think of some examples of mathematical objects which satisfy the definition. When you're done, try to think of other examples which differ significantly from the ones you came up with before. When you open your book again, if the author presents examples, read them with attention. TLDR: as the other comments have made it very clear, you shouldn't be reading an analysis book without a pencil on your hand; you should feel active, not passive, while studying analysis.

Finally, I don't know about any youtube channels that could help you with an analysis course, but you should be aware of Mathematics.StackExchange. It's a great Q&A website/community; I've asked a lot of questions there while studying for my undergrad courses.

Wish you the best in your course and you maths career :)
I don't think its controversial in the slightest to say that they are highly similar songs.

They have a similar beat.

They both have a similar style of walking bass line.

They both feature a male falsetto singer as the main melodic instrument.

The both feature a decent amount of random banter in the background.

The both feature the use of the chorus effect. This means that it is very fluidly changing back and forth between sounding like a single voice singing a single note, and multiple recordings of the same voice singing the same note, but with some minute and random time shifting, which is what actually gives the effect.

I don't know much of either of the two artists catalogs to any comprehensive degree. But if a single artist had two songs with all of the same qualities listed above, there would be no disagreement at all that those qualities defined that particular artist's style.

Thus, if we can argue that "style" is a consistent accumulation of specific musical qualities, at the expense of incorporating others, these two songs are by definition of a similar style.
Yes we are, mostly. There are very few programming jobs for which the laborers aren't essentially replaceable commodities, including programmers who are proficient with C++.
Exploring the internals of the .NET Runtime – a step-by-step guide
Just an antivirus advertisement.

Nothing new, a powershell script which runs an XMRig and removes the binary and itself.
Is this open source? I'd be interested in seeing the implementation.

Other information to surface could include whether the device is on the latest OS, whether it gets timely updates, and whether it's available unlocked or only from carriers.

Do you have Sony devices in there?
He also documented (with example images) and web-published all of them. It's not just two lines of code.
I actually was not being facetious, I was flat out accusing the Chinese government of industrial espionage. There is a difference between a company copying ideas and implementing them independently vs straight up hacking and stealing secrets. Everyone does the first, China does the latter on a massive scale.
I live in Australia, which is the poster child for gun bans, and it makes me uneasy too. One of my co-workers is a sports shooter who reloads her own ammunition for environmental reasons, and she's already been inconvenienced by the YouTube restrictions. I'm not sure why the gun politics of a foreign country (the US) should impact on her ability to perform basic maintenance.

Hopefully this wave of censorship will lead to better privacy-respecting tools.
These are great and I need to start using these. For instance the dominantcolor script extracts color schemes from pictures. Something I've tried to do by eye in the past with limited success.

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/dominantcolor/index.p...
> I was talking about safety and locality of generating hydrogen fuel

Hydrogen can be produced on demand from water in a vehicle.

> So you are saying that the reason we can't have hydrogen safely generated in pumping stations is because Toyota has some sort of patent or other rights that restrict its use?

No. I am saying that any attempt to sell technology that would allow decentralized energy production is considered a threat to the stability of the international monetary (petro dollar / slavery) system and will be treated accordingly.

> How is Toyota benefiting from oil over hydrogen fuel cell?

They are not. But if they try to sell their water fuel tech their executives will be killed and their factories will be bombed to dust.
Neither is Facebook since 2014 when they locked down Open Graph access.
No. Both are awful companies.

I'm sick to death of the Silicon Valley conglomerates built on the back of siphoning data for ad companies.
Thats pure speculation.
Ada was relatively easy to learn by anyone in the past with Object Pascal or Modula-2/3 knowledge.

Which used to be quite common before C and C++ got widespread during the mid-90's.

Ada's biggest problem was the price of the compilers, and lack of adoption by OS SDKs, an issue that also pushed other languages outside of mainstream.

Businesses already had to pay for the OS developer tools, unless there were legal requirements on their domain, they weren't keen in buying extra compilers.
I really don't understand why more people don't use that as it doesn't get any simpler. You don't even need a browser.

Most people lack the technical knowledge to install/configure the required infrastructure on an external server.
I taught myself 18.100a from the book and website when I took it because class was too early in the morning and found them sufficient to make up for the missed lectures. Wonderful resources. Highly recommmend.
I'm assuming you deactivated, not deleted, your account.
While technically true, if the EU has no jurisdiction over you or your business, it's difficult for them to force compliance.

Another example of this is sales tax in the US. Several states have laws that tell the seller to collect and remit sales tax on any sales to residents within the state. But for sellers that have no physical presence in that state, the state has no ability to force them to actually do so (or to force them to open up their books and prove one way or the other).
GitHub’s tool reduces open source software license violations
> “Do not publish sexually explicit or pornographic images or videos. Writing about adult topics is permitted as long as it is not accompanied by sexually explicit images or videos, or any material that promotes or depicts unlawful or inappropriate sexual acts with children or animals. Additionally, we do not allow content that drives traffic to commercial pornography.

> We do allow naturalistic and documentary depictions of nudity (such as an image of a breastfeeding infant), as well as depictions of nudity that serve a clear educational, scientific, or artistic purpose.”

I don’t understand the fuss being made. It is clearly stated that sexual content is not allowed.

Just because sharing pornography isn’t illegal does not mean that it should be allowed on every platform on which it is possible.

Instead of violating TOS of a service they could just use a service that doesn’t prohibit pornography?
Skiing on Sahara Sand … in Sochi, Russia – Pink Snow in Ukraine
This is like the infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Presumably it would be marketed to 'Adult' performers, some of who will be technically minded and understand how to use SSH, but Nextcloud will have wider appeal and includes an easy to navigate GUI.

Personally, I'm using both but I don't expect everyone to do the same.
> it makes very little sense actually

It's actually one of the safest ways to offer email authentication.
> they are blocking those

Do any American ISPs routinely Blick VPNs?
No, it's starting from a foundation of loudly yelling about not being evil in order to distract from their evil behaviour.
>Ada was my first true language that I learned in college.

Me too. It wasn't at the University of Washington by any chance?
That sounds dope. I'll give it a spin! It'll be my first time using emacs--do you recommend plain emacs, or something like spacemacs?
Thank you!

If I read it right, humanity has lost 1991-2003 to Google though, correct?
My guess is that it opens them up to legal liability not to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSTA

(I work for Google, but I don't have any inside information on this; it's just speculation.)
Me neither (re always-on computers) but since I always have my phone with me, all my computers get automatically synced as I move near them.

Syncthing is set to only turn on on some preset Wifi networks, to which these computers/boxes are connected.

So when I arrive at work, my Work and Music folders get synced in seconds. And when I come back home, Music and Todo files (and others) get synced with my personal computers via my phone.

I also have the Photos/Camera folder of my Android phone synced in "send only" to my TV and Macbook. I just don't need cloud services or backups anymore. It's always synced (with a trash settings so deleted files are kept for some time, in case of any mistake). All my devices are synced together, via my phone or just P2P. And if I lose my phone, I will probably not care.

I'm really surprise Syncthing is not super popular already, at least among tech friendly people.

It works so well and has very little effect on my devices batteries (they are only set to sync when I'm on known Wifi networks, which means that I have a power plug nearby anyway).
Would a different social login provider be more acceptable? Github for instance? Something or someone that isn't as interested in using your data
Ask HN: Will GDPR help non-EU citizens?
Folks, there are a few gray area type of questions about GDPR that I do not understand:

Will it be helpful at all for non-EU citizens? Only if the used service is european perhaps?

What about US companies providing services to europeans? Does it really apply to them? Could I be subject to GDPR if using a service via an EU-based VPN?

Is GRPR really mandatory immediately after May 25th? I didn't see big internet companies talking about it, won't they just ignore it until someone goes to court?
Hmm, we took a different approach, here's my C-like dialect (built on Tcl's byte codes so it co-exists with Tcl code. And yes, I know, but we needed Tk so were stuck with Tcl).

http://little-lang.org

Stuff that I'd like to C in an evolved C:

regexp engine as part of the language so you can do

while (buf = <>) if (buf =~ /some regexp/) puts(buf);

<> and <FD> from perl, just handy.

Lists as a built in, with any element type and builtins like push, pop, shift, unshift, etc. Again, more perl goodness without all the @'s and $'s.

${expr} interpolation inside strings. Like shell, and it's handy.

At this point I'm just typing in the L language docs, so most of the stuff here:

http://www.little-lang.org/little.html

BTW - the logo for the language is a tip of the hat to the things that inspired it: the Tcl feather logo, the Perl camel logo, and "C" all bunched together. I'm very fond of that logo but not sure that anyone but me gets it.
Okay.

Regulation number one is going to be about how the government accesses all the data facebook and google suck up.

Regulation two is backdoors for all other data.

That's all. Privacy is illegal now.
I don't have a problem with the illegal porn ban; people are actually being victimized there.

I do have a problem with the gun stuff. Even "how to" videos that result in somehting that's currently illegal. Information should not be banned, and it's a futile effort to try to do that. The internet is too big.

Any high school chemistry student learns enough to build a bomb. Should we ban chemistry videos? Ban learning about chemical oxidation?

But bottom line, it's Google's service and I guess they can do what they want with it.