skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should also read my comment to see both sides before jumping to conclusions.
I would love to see some tools for decentralized mass moderation of RSS feeds.
Forgotten Weapons is in a good position where he has enough viewers, and enough Patreon supporters, that he could move to another platform (or host his own) and would probably survive.

The sad thing is that it will stop other, new creators from being discovered.
China's Empty Threat of Dumping Its US Treasuries
> Typical members of modern society wouldn't assume that voices in their heads are being beamed in by the government.

Of course they would, if a) it was common, factual knowledge that the government actively uses such technology, and b) if they were a target for such government. a) and b) will immediately be true for terrorists, if this tech gets deployed.
As someone trying to start a business : boo frickin hoo. This is not kindergarden, this is adults trying to run a business. The deal of private property and capitalism is: private person figures out how to do things within the law, profitable, and then gets to keep said profits, minus the subscription fee for the society that enabled that business ( taxes). If the law is nonsensical, private person can try to change it. This law is not that. It is what everyone wants for their data, if they can get it. So i'll gladly deal with the headaches, because at least my data is protected by the same law
You might check out Polya and Szebot: Problems and Theorems in Analysis: two volumes. Old (original German edition 1925), but by one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century and a longtime collaborator. You might also like Polya's "How to Solve It", a true classic.
Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I’m with Nissan the car company on this one. The general public expects visiting nissan.com to take them to a website selling Nissan cars.
Depends how much you use it. The heuristic I use it that eventually they money I spend goes to a consumable, so if I spend as little as possible by focusing only on what actually makes me happy then I’m also being as environmentally friendly as possible. I’m basically retired already. That’s as much due to inheritance as frugality, but even without inheritance I think I would’ve managed to retire by 48 at this rate.
I'm convinced society won't give IQ tests to kids out of cowardice. So instead we spend 13-20 years of school giving different forms of IQ tests tiptoeing around the concept.

Taking a test requiring abstraction and pattern matching skills is all the same. It doesn't matter what the features are. The best you can do is also test memory.
There is a cultural factor too, many companies seem to have an aversion to promoting from within. It's usually far easier to get promoted by interviewing elsewhere for a higher position than it is to deal with the internal politics of moving up within the same org. But it could be a clear expectation: complete this training, get this experience, move up a rung.
STOLEN GENERATION KIDS USED FOR MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
This only makes sense if you work with different languages and/or a plugin architecture. I know that what you say is written in the books but in practice in 95% of the cases you will never write your new ser ice in language X and you will never switch from Hibernate to EclipseLink, etc.

I'm not saying that abstractions are not useful. What I'm saying that over-architecting something on the possibly false premise that "at some time we might need to support X so let's do it by creating an additional abstraction" will waste time, money and will just end up as code clutter which you have to maintain.
Compiler prices for C, C++, Basic, Pascal, Clipper were always relatively cheap.

Lets pick the BYTE magazine in 1994.

- IBM C Set++ for OS/2, $249

- Powerbuilder, $249

- Watchom C/C++, $450

This on top of a PC that would cost around $1000.

Mac Quadras started at $1199.

Ada required UNIX or VAX stations.

Cheapest SparcStation on the same magazine $3995, plus OS SDK and the Ada compiler as additional expense.

So lots of zeros versus the alternatives.
as a chemist, love the analogy, resonates a ton with me. a little bit nit-picky, but:

"That is in addition to the actual cost of pumping the water from one tank to the other."

should be something like "that is in addition to the actual cost of lifting net 25 units of water higher".

The cost of moving from one tank to the other is, also heat loss, but the lifting part is recoverable.
Usability of Key Distribution in BlockChain Backed Electronic Voting
I've got one of those from "Only on WIndows" series. One of my colleagues uses WIndows and tends to remote in from home. Unfortunately when a cleaner cleans the office after hours she sometimes accidentally hits the CAPS key and he can't log in anymore remotely. His solution was to rip out the CAPS key and cover the hole with duct tape.
That's great! Thank you already in advance! I am playing with the idea to get a TalosII computer. But so far I didn't find much experience reports from users and on top, on the https://raptorcs.com/ they are only on pre-order.
The author's suggestions are fairly ridiculous. It's as if he can't fathom the idea people could use something other than Facebook. Quote:

It could be regulation; it could be anti-trust legislation to break up those tech giants that act as virtual monopolies. I like Derakhshan’s idea of obliging Facebook and others to open up a marketplace of algorithms: if you don’t like the current social media preference for popularity (retweets) and novelty (“latest”), you should be free to choose a different algorithm that acts on different values.
Already four years ago they ran experiments [1] on how to program your mood. They built an API to your emotions, and they started selling it, without you knowing it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
http://github.com/mnhrdt/imscript
I often use Pixelmator and Cyberduck sandboxed and downloaded from the AppStore.

I struggle to find out how they are not "interesting" or usable. But I get that it can be hard for developers integrate all constraints of sandboxing.

App Distribution on MacOS was always different (even since pre OSX) compared to the rest of UNIX world. The drag-and drop to deploy for instance must seem ridiculous for people used to install via apt-get command line. Yet it’s way more users friendly because it put the burden of complexity in developer hands instead of users’s.
Big companies are the biggest fans of regulation. It raises the bar for entry and keeps those scrappy, pesky startups away.
Ada is not for Emacs programming.

Ada always used IDEs, which already supported automatic formatting back in the early 90's.

Rational started their business selling Ada Machines, just like the Lisp ones, but using Ada instead.
Have you ever tried a schizophrenia simulator while doing simple tasks? It's extremely taxing, hard, demotivating, and emotional draining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU-Ajwbok

Here's a video of Anderson Cooper listening to one while doing basic tasks and he struggles immensely. Keep in mind that he is cognizant of what is happening to him and still fails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9UJVtgPZY

These weapons will become mass torture devices that further remove humanity from inhumane acts of war.
Maybe we are agreeing, but we humans don't have sufficient cognitive resources to extrapolate every little action we take into the future and predict new things technology can enable. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts ("do what the crowd does, because there must be at least some wisdom in it"). We also have the reasonable expectation that the companies will not turn our own cognitive limitations against us (such as Nir Eyal's "Hooked" encourages), nor do we know all the tools at their disposal if they so wish, and we probably never expected that these tools could be automated.

In other words, a person who is taking all the necessary steps and doing everything right in terms of the privacy of their digital footprint, is either off the grid, or is likely considered a tin foil conspiracy theorist by peers. Human survival instinct usually overrides such thoughtfulness.
Every time stories of this kind come up, you can’t pretty much know that the top comment will be from a privacy-savvy commenter asking ‘why is it news?’

Why is it news to you that a large proportion of the population aren’t privacy savvy?

The same people who are worried about Facebook are still fine giving WhatsApp unfettered access to all the contacts on their phone, so it knows who their bank, dentist, and employer is. Go figure.
Tobacco is the analogy, you don't want to see people smoking on TV and in films but you would not want a documentary on the history of film to be banned just because some of the actors in it are smoking.

Regarding main story, I used to work in broadcasting and it was clear from the oscilloscopes when some porn was on air or on a tape. This was not an exact science, but experienced engineers knew what the 'scope was telling them. This was a long time ago and I am sure Google would have machine learned porn a long time ago. No evidence for that but I doubt it is a recent innovation.

Therefore this enabling of the feature that enforces the Terms of Service is probably due to changes up ahead in the legal landscape and not because Google suddenly decided they wanted clean servers.
Ask HN: Who is running a plugin / extension business and wants to expand
Are you selling a plugin / extension (i.e. for Wordpress or Shopify, etc) and want to chat about other marketplace opportunities?

Do you know somebody who is in the plugin industry and who might be interested in expanding their business to lesser-known marketplaces / platforms?

For our project WhatMarketplace I'd love to talk and understand what information / insights one would need to make the leap to another platform. Hit me up via E-Mail or Twitter @patrics.

Thanks!

Patric
If any government cared enough (except perhaps the American one), it could ban the the protocol. They don’t care, and the people who do care are satisfied with the existing options for suing copyright infringers.

TOR is much more likely to be regulated than bittorrent, given the whole point of the latter is to remove control from governments.
I believe there are power and compute related reasons that you actually do need there to be a central service that manages location data.

And I guess at that point you could say "but then there should be a single tool that does location management for apps and location tracking should be entirely separate", but I'm not sure why that's any better than "there's one app but you can toggle off the objectionable parts in a really straightforward way".

Or perhaps you mean that they could just provide raw GPS data and the app developers could handle everything else, but that too runs into power and usability issues. Android handles geocoding and reverse geocoding in relatively energy efficient (and reliable!) ways. If every app had to do its own geocoding, you'd have disparate experiences in apps. (Note that Apple does almost the same thing: there are builtin geocoder objects provided by the OS that convert from GPS to address over the network). You could make that a separate thing, but then you'd get people complaining that "none of my location based apps work even though I have GPS enabled".

So I guess I'm curious what your suggestion on what they should do instead is.
Your intuition is right. As a programmer your primary job is in most cases not mental masturbation and/or adhering to CS principles but shipping working software.

We are all bound by the 80/20 rule and our job is do decide when to adhere to the principles and when to cut corners.

In practice no one will care that you implemented a 100% pure microservice if you miss an important deadline, your company loses a $300M deal and your team ends up laid off.

I'm not a business person, but a programmer. I also like writing beautiful code but we have to know the tradeoffs. If the tradeoff of having a beautiful service vs a nice service is 3 weeks of additional keyboard bashing it is not worth it.

I once had a colleague who insisted on implementing all REST endpoints between microservices using HATEOAS/HAL because it will enable the consumption of such endpoints by programs and generated code. He spent a month refactoring our services and we ended up never using that feature, but modifying endpoints still carry that overhead he added.
Are you proposing a law against trying to manipulate people's moods?
Sears tried having internal competition (and markets. IIRC) and it really didn't go well.
Ok but then I really don’t want to read any more crap article about why Apple is lagging behind because their approach to privacy is restraining them to harness the full power of machine learning bla-bla-bla
Stupid does not equal chicken. He's lucky he's not dead.
Was Ripple’s XRP worth more than Wal-Mart?
The title has serious issues. Why not "US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser"?
If I don't sue you, yeah. But if you're not sure that I won't have a problem with it, you should better ask me in advance.

In your example, this sounds silly, but it's just not categorically different from examples where it doesn't, like say someone who stalks me asks you for my phone number, or a scam caller does.
Unless they score very high on an adult test it's impossible to tell how well they will do on the same test when they get older. So it's impossible to tell if a child is gifted or not. It has more to do with motivation and family support. One problem when everything is easy at young age is that they do not learn to work hard, and when their peers develop to the same level it will be very though for these children because in their mind they are the best.
Read all the way through to the third article. It does go into which kinds of guns are used in homicides, which is much easier data to come by (and perhaps more relevant to the concerns at hand).
> I use seafile with automated upload and a custom-built photos UI frontend to provide a photo gallery for me, and to allow me to share photos. I use the tensorflow pre-trained example model for object classification to tag the images, it’s good enough.

Possibly the most hacker_news.txt comment in this thread. "Why rely on [popular consumer service] when you could just build your own photos frontend and then set up a machine learning model attached to it? Easy!"
A helpful UIAlertController extension and Builder for the slothful human
In my experience “SJWs” have their own religion and overwhelmingly seek out moderator positions on subreddits, forums, positions on the school paper’s editorial team, etc etc as their ideology fails when faced with the free flow of information. You can see this in just about any internet community, the only ones that are “left wing” are the ones that enforce strict moderation rules. Anything open course corrects right very fast.

The “Warrior” in SJW comes from their perpetual fight to ban, shadowban, moderate, de-rank, and delist opposing views.

You can deflect by suggesting these people are simply authoritarian, and not true social justice/left wing advocates. I would challenge you to investigate everything from reddit’s super mods to Wikipedia’s editor cartels. You’ll find they systematically infiltrate open communities and once in positions of power purge opposing views from leadership and begin to enforce ideological conformity. The people doing this are exclusively left wing soc jus types.

Outside of the internet I’ve seen this behavior in academia as well. It’s pretty amazing how downright fascist some of them will get when they think they’re in like company.
Yes, since there's plenty of self-teaching courses online. The problem is figuring out what to learn and getting thru it. In bootcamps, you don't necessarily pay for the teaching but for the motivation, these programs give you to finish. We can all get the equivalent of a master's program from just books but how many of us have the motivation to do it.
I do this, too. The first thing I do when I get a new keyboard is to remove the caps lock key. I never used it in my 20 years of PC usages and I don't get why it's still there.

Back in my CounterStrike gaming days I would also remove the Windows key because it would crash the game when accidentally pressed.
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube ? :)
Perhaps it is insulting. One such example of “regressive left” is left wing BLM-like groups arguing for “People of Color” only dorms to protect from white oppression. It sounds crazy, but I promise you there are actual groups that are so far left they somehow end up supporting segregation. In this situation “regressive” is both politically expedient and accurate.
Well, you can use a browser that doesn't support SNI (IE8) or one that makes it configurable (I don't know if any do).

But a large amount of sites won't work without it. It's very common to run multiple sites on same ip/port. Not sure if it's technically possible to make that work without SNI or a similar technology.
I like the last sentence nod to Douglas Adams.
Bert's DNS camel RFC metrics viewer
The punlic has undersood that state censorship is bad. But the new censorship systen has a layer of indirection built in in that companies are going to do the censoring instead baswd on voluntary terms of service and stuff. This is a pattern that seems little understood and therefore encounters less opposition.
So the moment another company becomes popular they have automatic rights to your existing family's business domain name? Is it only domain names they have to rescind ownership of, or should they also be forced to change their business name and dispose of any existing branding, signs and marketing materials they have?

What's the family business then meant to do, cease operating their family business under their generations-old family name?
I think your understanding of the term "SJW" is out of date. SJW now refers to someone who forces their morals on other people and advocate silencing and censorship to achieve this. He is describing these people.
On re-reading the grandparent I have to admit I missed the point.

Considering CloudFlare offers to do SSL on their end, it'd be technically viable to only tell CF which domain you want.
It’s an allusion to a well-known bit in the New Testament, not actually calling undergrads swine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7:6
the part where the CEO bragged on camera about blackmailing opposition candidates was new.
>usually used idiotically by people who don't have the brain power

Please don't sink to this level

>People that get described as SJWs are usually arguing against oppression

That might be your description but many also include the people going around to open source projects to change the genders of code comments while simultaneously accusing the project of being sexist at the same time. They might be against oppression but their approach is so misguided it's destructive.
>* Spanking is forbidden in France by law and most parents do not spank.

To be fair, while I believe most French parents do not spank their children, nor did it in recent years, the Law is rather new:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/france-bans-spanking-ki...

and is not a crime, as said in the above article is more a symbolic act to make clear that it shouldn't be done than anything else.

But, let's set aside France and french kids, more widely mosr European countries have a percentage of diagnosed ADHD that is a fraction of those in the US, and even if the numbers of diagnoses tend to increase, it is IMHO largely because of the US influence (not only in psichology and psichiatry, also in "way of life").

Some reference:

http://menzonius.nl/index.php/article-review-the-impending-g...
> I would be surprised if AWS scanned your files for "inappropriate" content.

Why would you be surprised? I'd go under the assumption that anything you give to them could trivially be scanned.
I remember Gmail's storage being amazing when it came out...
Regression is a very well-defined concept. What would be a non-insulting way to refer to someone who advocates regression?
> I mean, at least with porn there really isn't much of a question about whether a piece of content is sexual or not

I'm sorry, but there is a huge historical precedent that says otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ScriptingRuntimeUpgrade.html

I can switch to 4.6, but don't want the risk of an experimental feature yet.
Do you mind sharing the code ? I think that is an interesting thing to see
Huh, I remember as a teen bring blown away by IPIX ('90s). It dewarped a fish eye image so that you could look around a scene from a fixed vantage point.
On the note of Trump owning a USFL team, Trump has been accused of having a grudge against the NFL because the NFL actually refused to let him buy a team.

To try and get a team, he bought a USFL team, and then pushed the USFL from the spring/summer to the fall/winter season and starting the lawsuit against the NFL, in the hopes that he could force a merger with the NFL.
Might I suggest reading the article and not just the title?

>By the way, I want to make clear that Zeynep, Brian and Natasha are all innocents here, thanks to the “Chinese wall” between the editorial and publishing functions of the Times. In fact same irony applies to countless other correct and important reporting on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica mess by other writers and pubs.
Many of those I know very well because the founders contacted me with questions before launching a cheaper competitor. In all honesty I don't think about them at all. Our goal isn't to build a $1B company and have this complete monopoly position. The opposite is true. We deliberately stay small, work only with a few companies and basically do work that we really really love. The reason all the great companies have big in-house design teams is that design is about more than cheaply moving pixels from one person to the other. Because we go deep with each startup, we learn a lot about everything what works and what doesn't. In other words, we learn about how our design decisions impact business. How they increase conversion, profits, etc. And so this deeper level of involvement allows us to use that knowledge and expertise with the next startup. For many startups, just having something that looks ok is enough, and for those, the cheaper competitors are the way to go. For others who want to build a great product for their customers.. those who care about details and using design to grow their business, those are the only companies we work with.
Nobody "stole" the web as such, what they did was lure in the sheep to the herd like what happened in "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" [1]. The web grew, both in number of users as well as in size, from Geocities (also centralised, grew annoying habits like adding advertising to users' pages) through Myspace to the current Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Snapchat/Tumblr/etc. concoction. I consider these to be growing pains, as long as there are no China-like restrictions on actual internet connections the web - or what follows after it - will find a way to grow past this stage.

The real problems will start when the censorship and leaching of data is moved to the entry points for the 'net, i.e. the internet access providers. The only way around such an obstacle would be some form of "darknet", either a "virtual" infrastructure on top of the physical one offered by the 'net or something which bypasses it altogether. We're not there yet but it doesn't take that much thought to realise that once some form of self-hosting takes off - with more and more fibre-connected users this becomes a viable proposition - those who call for censorship will not be satisfied much longer when they see the efficacy of their filters dwindle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin