skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... gone to Sweden on vacation.

More seriously, I think a better analogy is putting a frog in cold water and turning on the stove's burner. Things are much worse but because it happened so slowly, we simply have a "new normal". The change from one day to the next on this time-scale is undiscernable.
>We need to commit to equal treatment of all legal speech.

But isn't the issue here precisely to ban illegal activities (sex trafficking adverts, hate speech)?
Examples of your work?
This all should serve as another reminder to not yield certain leniencies to "our" guys just because we want them to have an advantage. Because it sets a precedent, and then future organizations, like CA, can do the same thing for people we don't like.
Ask HN: How do you contact experts when you are not “in the loop”?
Hello HN, I am part of a group of students in Economics. As part of our thesis, we would like to conduct an experimental analysis on Enterprise Resource Planning software, similar to the one that has been developed by a paper from 2008 [1].

The fundamental piece of data for the analysis has to be collected from experts, so we followed the same protocol outlined in the paper and prepared a survey [2].

Unfortunately, since we don't know any ERP expert directly, we are struggling to find them. We tried on LinkedIn, but almost no one responded. Finding their email addresses seem nearly impossible, and contacting the ERP vendors wouldn't give us meaningful data as they would tend to undervalue costs and overvalue the advantages of their own solutions. We even tried on multiple "ERP Consultants" groups on Facebook, without any feedback.

We feel like we are at a dead end, but I wanted to ask here as perhaps we are missing some possible way to get in contact with the people that can answer the survey.

What do you do to contact experts? Is it only possible for people "in the sector", and outsiders are excluded?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give us!

[1] https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/53451/86716_1.pdf
[2] https://goo.gl/forms/9R7lJzRunzWkG71J2
Nice. So they intentionally helped Obama, but indirectly helping Trump has caused international outrage.
Contrary to the other comment, of course it helps to disable third-party cookies.

There are some other ways to identify users, e.g. the E-Tag header or canvas-based methods. But cookies are the main and most reliable tool.

You can go one step further and just always use Incognito/Private mode for sites that don't require a login. If you need to be logged in a lot, Firefox Account Containers are a new feature to separate site data.
They weren't just warned by Ireland. They had to agree to oversight following an FTC decision in 2011.
>gleeful authoritarians each with their cute idea of how individuals are best controlled.
Doesn't GNU compiler has Ada front end, GNAT? Is it really unusuable in practice? I thought all front ends of GNU Compiler Collection use the same back end so they'd create similar machine code.
How to legally receive equity in startup in a foreign country
I've seen plenty of posts on the pitfalls and traps to look out for in the US market. But what else is there to consider in a foreign country?

In my particular case, Mexico.
Windows had a C++ compiler and IDE for more than two decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B

There was a time when it was not free but it was a very very long time ago.

At this stage in history, the internet didn't exist and it was commonplace to pay for the shipping of a floppy or a CD. I don't know the price tag but it may or may not be considered free by today's standard.
> Facebook has also made an effort to alert users when the permissions requested are more intrusive than the usual email address and profile picture - often requiring explicit agreement to these permissions.

Facebook were required to do this by the FTC in 2011.
The condition for safe harbor is not knowing that the content is infringing, not that you censor your content or not. YouTube has always censored content (e.g. porn).
Here's the issue with the NRA stance from my personal angle.

Personally, I do not agree with "ban and confiscation". At most, I think that items designed to circumvent existing law (eg bump stocks, which essentially exist to in effect circumvent fully automatic gun regulations) should be illegal. I'd also like to see the case for and against a few other things (eg large magazine clips) but overall AR-15s and other boogeymen are fine to me. Elsewise, my belief is that most of the focus should be on limited tightening access (gun violence restraining orders for instance), much of it within our existing system, and not much more. Basically, I think that the mass shooting phenomenon people are reacting to could be quite tempered with slight tweaks, not wholesale confiscation.

But: I am culturally more on the moderate left side. The NRA's rhetoric these days, and even more so of too many of its supporters, is full of often conspiracy tinged liberal caricature and conspiracy. I honestly don't feel like defending the NRA position these days, because not only is it too rigid, it is identity oriented. And on identity, many of them by default, in their posts, already think I'm a piece of shit who wants to take their guns anyways. Why bother speaking up against the lefties that actually do want to confiscate?

Guns have essentially become a part of right-wing identity politics. A position that might be fatal for their full cause. (Though judging from current youthful view (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/12/are-mille...) more in terms of restrictions on access instead of restrictions on equipment.).
There absolutely are other reasons. First, people are biased against those groups. Second, folks in those groups may not have the same degree of education and experiece, stemming in large part from lack of opportunity. That farcical “discrimination of low expectations” argument has no place in civilized discussion.

In any area, not getting hired is a huge deal to the person not hired. It is just as huge for everyone else as it is for white men.
> With a lot of people absusing unlimited drive accounts to host their Plex collections I’m surprise it’s lasted this long. Those people are going to ruin it for the rest of us.

How is it "abuse" to take them up on their "unlimited" offer? It's not very unlimited if it's somehow wrong for you to store too much stuff one it.
I hope this is indicative of a larger trend of companies contributing fiscally to the open source projects they use. The sheer value the software companies of today glean from the wealth of OSS is staggering and companies would literally not exist without it in some cases.
seems not unlikely that anon p2p networks will be made illegal w/in the next 5 years or so in the west.
I’m still pretty sure that they’re mostly paranoid schizophrenics, but this is more or less what “targeted individuals” claim is being done to them. Technology makes it harder and harder to reach delusional people, when their delusions become technically possible. How bizarre!
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yeesh, thank you both for the further detail I'll steer clear of them
I have to say, I have never seen so much bad press about facebook in such a short time frame.

Seems like this is picking up a lot of steam.
Late to this... when it works, no problems at all for me. But then a random key sometimes ends up sticking, which I’ve heard elsewhere too and is a pain in the ass. Click it enough and I’ve been able to unstick them each time but still an issue.
(Target Salary / 1000) * 1.5
And I can't legally demand to get more information, right?
Many of those companies, including Google, allow GPL and LGPL and absolutely avoid AGPL because it applies to network services.

Now you know.
Even if one agrees that YT has the right to do it, that doesn't make them immune to criticism.
I've been forwarding all outgoing connections on port 80 (and a selection of other commonly-unencrypted ports) through a VPN (in the router) for a while now - but leaving all other ports (including most importantly 443) connecting directly.

It feels like a good compromise between privacy and speed.
That reminds me of my own story regarding negative numbers. I was super young, maybe second grade (7, 8 yrs old?). Family friends had dinner with us, and their kids who were maybe 5 years older than me were talking about "negative" numbers. I was so disappointed when I realized the same thing you did.
Ask HN: Any other solo founders apply for YC 2018?
I know YC favors submissions that have between 2 and four founders.

Regardless of the outcome of my submission, I am moving to Mountain View CA at the end of May.

I'm interested in hearing about other solo founders.

P.S. I'm looking for a co-founder who is excited by the idea of building an IFTTT for user behavior. e.g., If a user views a product 5 times in 10 minutes, we'll notify your server of the event so you can react in near real-time. I'm a software engineer by trade and choice :)

E-mail me at mr burton (at.) gmail
This is one of the worst blog posts ever. Click bait title with absolutely shallow discussion. Asking if Ada is a failure for lack of widespread adoption is like asking if JavaScript is a failure for lack of use in satellites.
> I can't wait to teach

It seems that you don't actually want to become enlightened as much as you just simply want to be helpful to other people and teach them a valuable skill.

I personally think that enlightenment and teaching others about it are quite different things that maybe don't have in common as much as one thinks they have.

As I see it, you might reach a state of mind you are very content with, and it makes you see the world "as it is" and because of it, you don't need to teach anybody anything, since it's already "as it is" and "as it should be". So, maybe it's just enough to be aware of it.
Latency and throughput
If you're concerned about it, couldn't you turn it off clientside?
Oh, wow, I indeed misread the parent comment completely. My bad!

> Most of them can even be used without a Google account, too.

Sure, but that doesn't take away any tracking as far as I know. Perhaps on paper in certain jurisdictions, but I doubt it truly is thrown away.

> It's strange to talk about the value Google services contribute as a bad thing.

The value they provide is not a bad thing, it's how they monetize it. I think I am misinterpreting what you mean here, though.
I knew somebody would say that. And that's why my comment is sprinkled with "IMO", "from my point of view" etc.

Now, is it really a good service to help people manage their "social circle" in this manner? Not according to me.
The contribution itself and the example is exemplary, the presentation is not as it looks as if it was another PR virtue signaling stunt.

I don't remember which one, but a philosopher said to do one's good deeds in private.
The thing about Taco Bell programming is that sometimes Taco Bell increases the number of available ingredients. What was 8 in the 1970s is at least a few more now. Gorditas, for example. And once upon a time they sold zero varieties of nachos. Don't forget to set up a Red Hot Cheeto cobranding partnership if you want some more variety.

Almost the entire Unix software ecosystem is simple, robust, and composable. I don't know where "golden age" comes from, though the list of existing software that has not risen to their own levels of incompetence stretches back decades.
Data breaches can take down a business, but privacy concerns are there historical examples of that?

My thought is management gets fired and the company changes course by the time the bottom line gets measurably impacted.

Companies are much more likely to fail by not innovating fast enough.
I would exempt the use of Google auth on dedicated Gsuite domains. I wouldn't call them 'social' -- especially as thing s like G+ are disabled or discouraged.
What router are you using? I would like to do this for my parents but I don't want a full blown pfsense box as a requirement.
99% of pop music is not sung in falsetto.
I submitted my application as a solo founder last night! It will definitively be harder but YC or no I'm pushing forward with my startup idea.
> how our civil liberties are being rapidly threatened

It's not that they're being threatened, it's that they're actively being taken away. Society may react to this loss of liberty by restoring it through alternate approaches. Or, it may not.

> Removing firearms videos from YouTube seems perfectly reasonable to me

I mean yes, obviously there are plenty of people who want censorship for one reason or another, otherwise it wouldn't be happening. So one's own comfort with censorship is not evidence that censorship is not happening.

> Is a company taking steps to distance themselves ...

It's what they're doing, not why. Despite the trope, evil never shows up twirling a mustache.
As an engineer-turned-programmer/sysadmin, working with other engineers, I've built a career out of doing this. Unfortunately, as a person with only-marginally-better-emotional-quotient than other engineers, I've expected my solutions to be widely regarded, based purely on merit. After 25 years of this, I'm once again hitting roadblock after roadblock because I didn't "kiss the ring" of the people in charge.

I've made them look stupid by building something pretty good where they have been failing for 10 years with an entire team. Then I went and wrote another application in a strange new framework that had been invented in the past 15 years, and this startled and frightened them.

Don't be like me, kids. Play the political game. If you don't want your managers being told to dismantle the things you build, simply because you didn't kiss enough butt, learn how to raise your "EQ" and ensure the success of what you build. Otherwise, like me, you will have just written a bunch of stuff users loved, but management hated, and forced them to stop using.

It's too late for me; save yourselves.
Specifically regarding people not trusting law enforcement, that's because in the U.S. police don't have a responsibility to protect individuals, just the community as a whole (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia). In addition, police often can't get to the scene of a crime in progress soon enough to prevent harm to the victims. As long as criminals are armed and able to commit crimes before the police can stop them, it seems reasonable that some citizens would choose to own guns in an attempt to protect themselves or their families.
...I have bad news. :)

It's a PC Engines APU2 running pfSense.
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I'm kind of offended that you seem to think young people can't be aware of things that happened before their time.

EDIT: To elaborate a bit, my expectation would be that the sort of young person using HN leans more historically interested than normal. Is more likely to appreciate the value of things like Internet archive, etc. Usenet is a huge part of digital history, and the fact that it's not available even though archives were kept is something of a tragedy.
Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?
Any chance you can expand on this? What data, in particular, did you obtain that would make people feel uneasy?
Ohm that's if you're starting a business, which will now carry a much higher cost.

And if you have a business running, bad news, costs will increase significantly.
I'm not sure what the current number is (not sure it's ever been polled), but there was a pretty well reported poll that said just over half of Republicans would back a delay if Trump said one was necessary. Seems that it was a Washington's Post poll: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/1...
You want to find a video about something. Where, dare I ask, will you go to look? The idea that you can find somewhere else to host your videos sounds comforting, until you realize that nobody will be there to watch them.
To be fair, there is a ton of literally harmful material in some “free” networks - stuff that was made by hurting vulnerable people (often minors) or that will directly enable actions aimed at hurting others. This crap actively looks for the less-policeable corners of our marvellous communication networks, burrows, and then spawns to the four corners of the world.

Just washing our hands of these items, writing them down as the cost of freedom, is not going to cut it.
Https requests still send the domain name unencrypted in the SNI extension of TLS [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
I had the contrary experience. I always felt that FB gave me less information via the API about the people around me.

I feel all this discussion around CA is non sense because everybody knew that was possible and we are arguing about it only once someone big took an advantage. Is like leaving you door wide open and finding that someone stole your stuff. On the other hand a more limited API makes it unusable for fair purposes.
Ask HN: Making Audio Plugins as a side-gig or hobby
Hi there! I'm looking for any anecdotes or advice about the life of making audio plugins. Is it a viable side-gig? Do you do it as a hobby? What are the best DAW's to target (I grew up using Propellerhead's Reason, but Ableton Live seems like what all the hip people use). Thanks in advance!
What was your motivation for applying to YC?

The reason why I applied was due to the infrastructure they provide; advice, networking, the insight that that otherwise would take a lot longer to obtain.

Not to mention the YC family is a highly supportive group. That's worth its weight in gold alone.
How exactly does encryption prevent them from deleting the data?
What did those disembodied voices do to deserve being shot?
If you’ve got a VPN, why not everything?

You’re currently leaking a ton of data via DNS and HTTP certs, aren’t you?

You are indeed protected against active content injection, but that’s rarely the problem with a for-pay ISP
But how do WTO rules and China's claim to have a free and open market fit into the discussion?
TL;DR: applied to a lot of companies, practiced for five months (also: got strong mentally and had a side project).
So are low duty cycle rear light LEDS.

A constant light appears to be something people compensate for easily. The spackle of dots left in vision during night traffic, not so much.
It's called ActivityPub and it's been made an official w3c protocol recently.
His work is not sensible.
It's not your right to have access to YouTube's audience.

Promote it yourself.
I am not sure what comment you think you are replying to. Google Play Services cannot be uninstalled on a stock Android phone, like I said, only disabled; and disabling it means the vast majority of Android apps won’t work, like I said. These are facts that anyone can verify for themselves; you merely claiming otherwise doesn’t change this.

You also seem to be confusing Google’s various services with Google Play Services specifically.
"crack down on hate speech"

Absolutely ridiculous, opinions like these make me cringe, is it that to hard to understand what you consider "hate speech" is other persons opinion?, you don't have to agree him, but others might. Youtube or any platform's user response will judge that content.

It should never be government or few people in power to decide what is acceptable.

I am so glad that I left the left few years back, they completely lost their marbles.
AOL was a big one for a long time. For many people, the "AOL Keyword" was how you got places (and what you advertised on TV), not a web URL.
They've always paid attention to the content so the could ban porn. The DMCA says they must not be aware that the content is infringing, and you can't know that just by looking at it.
Love it! You get big and give back to the community that have given you success, that is good karma! It's amazing to see how rare this is and I applaud Coinbase for stepping up like this. Kudos to the entire Coinbase team, I hope they give back even more, I personally would love to see more companies fund open source projects, new or old, which will drive innovation further.
I use dnscrypt also, figuring that even though that puts my browsing traffic in another persons hands, they can’t easily correlate it with my address, phone number, name, etc etc
BitTorrent, bitcoin, Chat/forums (AOL->OSS Forums). Everything else had too high development, infrastructure, product demands.
I believe that it may be more useful to figure out what makes learning “not fun” than to try to find ways to make it “fun”.

For me, this largely boils down to whether the subject is being taught within an applicable context or not – for instance, I find it quite dry and unfun to try to learn CS concepts for their own sake, whereas if I’m learning them because they’re needed for my current project they’re quite interesting.

This varies from person to person but my impression is that many people are like myself in this aspect.
I personally prefer Google over FB. I haven't deleted my FB account because that's my contact list of some sort but I am not very active. I guess I prefer the Snapchat model where what you post doesn't stick around forever. I'm not fond of the aggressive, greedy bro attitude of FB in moving fast and breaking things. On the other hand I use Google services all the time.

Folks whining about data collection should realize Google hasn't decided to be an ad company, it's just they have succeeded monetizing it better than their more recent cloud offering and in future their hardware business. So it's not an ad company because it does everything top down based on what would make ad business succeed. It's just that the search product is popular and placing ads next to it pays well. If you're complaining about seeing ads and are not using the paid GSuite version or non google services for email for example, it means you don't care enough and perhaps should stop whining about a free service you've opted to use.

This is also somehow true about FB. they're trying to monetize their Oculus business but it doesn't pay as much as the ad business I guess.

IMO the solution to data collection isn't to completely stop it as it'll make the services less tailored to individuals and dumber. Instead I'd rather the data be collected but under full control of the individual. So I can decide who gets to access it and for how long.
> If you’ve got a VPN, why not everything?

Latency through the VPN is worse. It's not super-worse, but it is worse.

> You’re currently leaking a ton of data via DNS and HTTP certs, aren’t you?

I'm putting DNS through the VPN as well, so no.

But HTTPS certs - yes I am. It's a compromise.

> You are indeed protected against active content injection, but that’s rarely the problem with a for-pay ISP

This is literally one of the specific problems I was trying to avoid. My ISP is Comcast (the only choice where I live) and they routinely practice HTTP injection: https://gist.github.com/ryankearney/4146814

It's not just injection, though. With plain HTTP Comcast gets to see the contents of every page I visit, if they want to. And I do not want them to.
It's amazing how much expectations affect performance in children. It's why I scoff at those who present statistics saying insert-your-supposedly-inferior-group-here underperform compared to their favored "normal" group.
> Unlike Google, Microsoft tracks and profiles you online via their search engine

Citation seriously needed. “Unlike Google?” Who are you trying to kid?
Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers.
The big deal isn't what uber did or did not do with their magic provisioning profile. It's the fact that Apple apparently sometimes hands out god-mode provisioning profiles to 3rd party developers at all.