skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Accessing someone's data when it's not mission critical to your work means you're fired on the spot. This is drilled into new engineers over and over.

This means they are capable of doing it and are merely punished afterwards, right? Not to mention that I would imagine getting fired in exchange for viewing private data could be quite a worthwhile 'transaction' for some people in some cases.
It’s a semantic distinction free of anything like a point, and I wouldn’t assume that OP was being so glib.
No, what sigjuice said is right. The name was derived off u-boot, though, and u-root can be used (and is in use) with LinuxBoot.
Apathy? A lot of smart people were active supporters of the National Socialists, at least before they started losing the war.

The Ominous Parallels[1] explores this, and the parallels with current American politics:

The Nazis did not gain power against the country’s wishes…The Nazi party was elected to office by the freely cast ballots of millions of German voters, including men on every social, economic, and educational level. In the national election of July 1932, the Nazis obtained 37 percent of the vote and a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, in full accordance with the country’s legal and constitutional principles, Hitler was appointed Chancellor. Five weeks later, in the last (and semi-free) election of the pre-totalitarian period, the Nazis obtained 17 million votes, 44 percent of the total…

In 1933, when Hitler did establish the system he had promised, he did not find it necessary to forbid foreign travel. Until World War II, those Germans who wished to flee the country could do so. The overwhelming majority did not. They were satisfied to remain…

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ominous-Parallels-End-Freedom-America...
[Edit: sorry, never mind. Thanks for the story!]
this complicates the workflow where schema compare is necessary in source controls.
October 2014 is when it became available, not sure what you mean by 'widely available' and 'an option'. From launch it was available at both smaller and larger battery sizes, now they've started offering it as the only choice for some battery sizes.
Oh since when Facebook is a monopoly? There are dozens of social networks out there. Even Google Plus exists. You dont have any ground to pull an anti trust on FB.
> if you see a post about an issue that makes you angry...

Dial down your use of the internet.
Even without fusion, at some point in the future:

- increasing automation in the recovery and processing steps

- increasing rarity of at least some valuable materials

- decreasing cost of renewable intermittent energy

Will make mining our landfills economically viable. Unless our society implodes earlier, which I hope it won't.
The way "normal" people tend to enter into programming is by starting with some example code and modifying it to their purpose. In this sort of scenario readability is very much a benefit.
Yes. Perhaps also brilliant engineers don't want to hack together something half-assed that barely works, but does provide the feature.

I've always liked that youtube uses PHP - much derided, but its declarative "templating" is the easiest, simplest, most direct way to generate html. Maybe that was a factor too.

But I think the youtube engineers might have a more accurate opinion on why they were quicker, than the google video engineers.
Someone I know closely worked at Facebook in its heyday, but it has been a while since he left. I asked him around 2014 (he had just left the company) "So what do you think about the way Facebook handles privacy issues?" His response was not defensive at all. Rather, it was a very curious "FB is one of the most open cultures you can ever work in. Any employee can ask any question of anyone at the highest levels and expect to get a honest answer". My thought was "So you didn't have anything to ask questions about?". He was actually a pretty nice fellow, so I stopped asking anything else at that point.

But I remember thinking that it was a very funny, cult-member like response. And you can test this too. Ask your friends who work at FB and I bet you will get some pre-programmed response very similar to that.
I'd say Google is widely recognized for "taking poor use of screen real-estate to an art form" with their designs; though Material design is probably just a symptom here, the cause being the ongoing desire to dumb down applications and remove functionality.
It's pretty much in the same ballpark.
Surely you can point me to some sort of evidence of its effectiveness then?
Good cinema is good cinema no matter the release medium.
This is making a statement that people who release their art with a certain distribution outlet and medium are somehow inferior. Deplorable.
So, what NVIDIA is saying is: All your gaming brands do now belong to us. Or else.
>all messages are plaintext on the wire.

If you use TLS they aren't.

>should I be some location and post something, I'd be broadcasting my location, even if that isn't intended.

you broadcast it to your mastodon instance. In P2P you would actually be broadcasting your position to any network observer. In Federation only your instance knows.
Yes, but Intel still didnt pay the fine (in EU) and keeps doing the same old under new clothes. As a reseller you regularly get extraordinary deals from Intel. For example for every highend CPU + mobo combo sold intel "gifts" you an SSD = hidden heavy rebate on expensive CPU, had this one at least couple of times.
Color abuse isn't really the most serious problem; the loss of information density is. E-ink isn't going to help here. Some alternative business models that would not incentivize companies into making their application glorified interactive movie posters would be welcome.
>We don’t want to have our people’s opinions radicalized

Why not? Not a fan of the 60s?
It is a myth than companies must be absolute monopolies to fall afoul of the law. The Sherman Antitrust Act was specifically drafted to take on politically-powerful groups from which unilateral consumer (user) or supplier (advertiser) defection was not reasonable.

“A Section 2 monopolization violation has two elements:

(1) the possession of monopoly power in the relevant market; and

(2) the willful acquisition or maintenance of that power as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior product, business acumen, or historic accident” [1].

It would be a difficult, but not impossible, case as is. Facebook’s market power, acquisition history and evidences of abuse and cover-ups would make a legislative extension of antitrust statute to social media perfectly reasonable within the original intent of the law. This is far from a unique opinion [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act

[2] https://stratechery.com/2017/everything-is-changing-so-shoul...
For Chrome I like to use the "Bookmark all tabs" option (Ctrl-Shift-D). When I am in the middle of researching a topic but want to shift gears, I save bookmarks to a new subfolder in my "Working Tabs" folder. Then I delete all tabs. That way (1) I know I can restore to this state if I need to, (2) I keep separate trains of thought from getting muddled, and (3) I can keep a relatively Zen workspace.
"We quickly discounted this as it didn’t fit with our three pillars of Run Less Software and decided to consolidate on MySQL, specifically on AWS MySQL. As we were able to benefit from the pace of AWS innovation (and adopt AWS Aurora when it came along) we got 5x throughput at a 30% cost reduction."

It's worth noting that Aurora is compatible with PostgreSQL (as of Oct 2017) [1].

1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora...
>The post repeats the myth “There is no promise that a company can make to its users that outweighs the fiduciary duty that obligates them to maximize profits by any means. The only defense of this is legislation and consumer choice.”

That's only a myth in that it's not mandated. But it's still very much what almost every company will do, so it's a de facto (if not de jure) thing.
I hope that you’re right, but in a way I hope that you’re wrong too. If we could establish a robust space industry, with orbital manufacturing, then we can get those materials from asteroids. If we’re going for what is presently science fiction, let’s go for exciting science fiction. I’d rather see our drones mine asteroids than landfills.
What Will Our Society Look Like When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere?
Like many commenters here, I loved HyperCard and used it quite a bit in middle through high school (and even college years). For me, it never was the syntactic-sugar-laden language, but the entire environment: it was really easy to create an interactive, custom GUI to do more or less what one wants. And since every Mac shipped with HyperCard, a stack can run anywhere (unless it depended on specific extensions).
Acquired podcast on the Dropbox IPO
Turkish Cargo ships 1.5M live fish to Oman from Izmir
>A company gets to decide what business it's in (Facebook and Google have each explored several), what its ethics are, and how these ethics apply.

Companies aren't individuals. They are aggregates, and
(absence some major force, e.g. like Gates in MS or Jobs in Apple, or some important founding principles) aggregates tend to go to some mean, which in the case of companies includes profits above all.
It's because Intercom is sometimes classified as marketing software. Unfortunately their blog is hosted on their domain which is blacklisted by most adblockers.
Hypercard was the inspiration behind much of the early Web. In particular the Viola browser suite.

http://www.viola.org/viola/violaIntro.html
Russia allegedly organized a BLM anti-Trump rally in July of 2016.

http://www.businessinsider.com/russians-organized-pro-anti-t...
Personally, I can use Google to double check claims fairly easily. I actually have given up a lot of urban-myth beliefs that were wide-spread in even the 90s.

I regularly check and flag false or dubious claims friend's posts on Facebook (where I'd say Facebook gets a bum-rap in some ways because friends can point out fake stuff).

As far as not knowing where a given post comes from, that's OK if you are careful in your double checking.

But the opposite pole is people who don't care whether what they post is true. Usually I and those people go separate ways. So the ultimate thing is naturally the bifurcation of online communities, with some portion becoming highly partisan and willing to repeat fake info simply to serve a given pole of opinion (not necessarily "extreme").
WeChat Mini Games Are Making Noise How Can Developers Get Started Quickly?
Is there a reason Netflix can't do a limited release in a few French theaters, as many as necessary to satisfy the eligibility requirements? Or are they not particularly concerned about being ineligible for the Palme d'Or? Which is also a valid stance.
Rainwater harvesting can be a key solution to meet the dire water crisis
We should start a pool on how many years it will take for Cannes to accept Netflix and other streaming sites.
Robots will eventually become as small and as cheap as insects, so it stands to reason that many heretofore expensive activities will become cheap. And there's probably enough energy sitting in the landfill to power resource recovery too.

Is this feasible now? I have no idea. But it is inevitable.
> but its declarative "templating"

Do you have any insight onto how much of the templating aspect of PHP is used at Youtube? I know of some large PHP installations where PHP is used as a general programming language that does produce web pages, but the templating aspect of PHP is pretty much minimal, and other engines actually produce the final output.
There is a lower bound on income to qualify for ACA subsidies because the ACA also expanded medicaid to cover people below that threshold.

Unfortunately, the portion of the ACA requiring states to expand medicaid was ruled unconstitutional. As a result, 19 states have choosen not to expand medicaid, leaving a portion of the population to poor to qualify for ACA subsidies, but too rich to qualify for medicaid.

I should also point out, that the medicade expansion is 90% funded by the federal government starting from 2020 into perpetuity. Prior to then is a ramp up period where the federal government pays an even larger share.
I totally agree - QBasic was my first language (after DOS batch files!). The fact that it was an interpreter meant you could read all the code for any program you found. Which, IIRC, was via floppy disks from my neighbor and a friend from school.

The web has some of that, but the technology is just so much more complex. The difference between reading the .bas file for SNAKE vs. using the web inspector to understand how gmail works is astronomical.
> Oh come on. You admit having no idea what Google does either, but surely that must be better than Facebook because you said so

No, you are seemingly deliberately misquoting me. I said I "don't know the details", not "I have no idea". I know enough to feel fairly confident in what I've said. But if you don't believe me you're more than welcome to believe otherwise.

> until an FB insider replied and brought down your narrative. Is it that hard to say "ok well, I stand corrected then" instead ?

Stand corrected about what narrative? Everything I am (and hopefully also you are) reading right here [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] quite clearly says malicious employees can access user data, but will be fired if this is discovered, which is consistent with what I've said. (But don't actually bother replying if you want a response—I have no interest in responding after your comment.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675664

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675503

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675649

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675739

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675968
>Obviously only my personal intuition but I'd wager there's not much of a business in a pay-to-play social network.

Then it's not much of a business, period.

In my ideal world, we'd only have businesses where the costs are open and direct (e.g. no "user is the product" or selling of personal data, or even "ad-based").

If they can't make it in this way, then, sorry, they don't have a business model.
this really takes me back.
The console browser w3m does fine. Others should work similarly well.
... I was wondering which state. Thanks.
Designing for open source software
This could easily be seen as a feature and not a bug.
Sanic: python web server that's written to die fast
French law requires movies shown in theaters in France to stay off streaming for 36 months. It's an absurd regulatory capture on par with us auto dealer requirements.
>it seems like it would be better to just make the person change their diet and their exercise regimen

That's the easy (conceptually) way. If we wanted that, we would have done it.

But we want to have our cake AND eat it.
Unlike any reasonable nested entity tree system, you cannot have a prefab that contains other prefabs in its hierarchy, or they lose all concept of being independent prefabs themselves.

Say you design a car prefab and a wheel prefab. If you put 4 wheel prefabs in your car prefab, and then update the wheel prefab, it will not be reflected in the wheels to your car, because you can not have nested prefabs.

Neither will any other set of prefabs — say, the tires on your wheels, or the seats in your car — without going to ludicrous workarounds.

Think about it like a programming language. Imagine if you had a class, and you wanted to include an object of another class in it, but instead of including a reference to that object, your IDE just pasted the entire contents of its class implementation verbabitm into your class, once, and left it like that.

That is how they designed it and that is how it has been, to the frustration of all, for over 13 years. Everyone has to design around this bizarre limitation that isn't present in any other (even simple) game engine. They've promised to fix this before, but haven't.

Now do you understand?

Unity is filled with weird kludges like this, that aren't apparent when you are just starting, in basic systems and critical corners, which is why so many are frustrated with it, despite its strengths in platform ubiquity and market adoption.
Finding Help?
Hello Folks- I am trying to get wind under my sails with the product I am trying to develop. A major barriers I am encountering is finding a technical person in SoCal to join this endeavor. As a nontechnical person any suggestions on where and how I should approach finding people? Any help would be appreciated.
Boondock clip where Ann Coulter is BFF with Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seThIG34R8
Unfortunately no. I spent several minutes trying to find a link, but could not find one. That's why I labeled it apocryphal.
Side note: Could we, as submitters, please try a little harder to submit the original source link instead of the reblogging link?

The linked article from The Verge is little more than pull quotes from the full article by The Hollywood Reporter and the source link is provided in the opening lede: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-artistic-direc...

The outlets that write the original report deserve our clicks and interaction as much as (or, I'd argue, more than) the summarizers.
>Unfortunately these days we're forced to consider the possibility that even your post is part of a professional manipulation campaign. Or mine. Or every other post out here.

The only way to beat this is to have an end goal that is objectively good regardless of who says it.

Bringing the first amendment into the 21st century and forcing corporations with open access discussion systems to be treated like government entities is a win for everyone.

After all the first amendment in it's original form only stopped the federal government from imprisoning you before you said something, not after, and had nothing at all to say about what states governments could or couldn't do.
Oh my God, not just any company, the company responsible for those annoying chat popups on websites?
I use a yubikey for the few places that support u2f (google, github).

I still use Authenticator for a bunch of places that don’t support u2f.

It likely wouldn’t be worth it if I didn’t also carry the yubikey for ssh public key.
Nobody mentions the elephant in the room, because elephant in the room feeds the people in the room.
Somewhat related, Minix3 finally fixed the release blocker for 3.4.0.

Expect a release soon, for the first time in years. And it's a major one.
I'm a little suspicious when people call it black vs white.
> "Win the moments that win elections."

They aren't subtle about it. I also wouldn't mind as much if the tech industry were politically neutral - but its been shown time and time again that Silicon Valley, where a lot of this power is held, has a very obvious political bias.
They cant even take the risk because you know, its illegal.
https://github.com/onivim/oni/wiki/Language-Support

Why do I need NPM to install vue.js as a language for Oni? Can anyone explain why I would want to bother with this editor if it requires Node.js?

Edit: I've tried all the other Electron based editors, and I don't recall a single one requiring Node.js/NPM to install anything.
Not taken as truth, but taken as in good faith by default. The amount of manipulative and dishonest content has gone up quite a bit.
To be clear, I'm not criticizing or holier than thou —- I'd work there in a heartbeat without complaint and love it.

The part I don't get is that it seems everyone who does work there is in shock and awe that this is going on. SHOCKED!

It's comical to the point of parody.
Is there a way to combat this phenomenon (generally: bad faith posting) with technical means?
Then I suggest you go into any liberal leaning online space and talk about liberal issues like income inequality. You will be banned for being a something-apologist. That the liberal online spaces have effectively self censored much more effectively than the conservative ones doesn't change the fact a majority of people can no longer participate.
Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
Not an accountant and not your accountant but as someone who ran a small business:

If you run a small business which grosses $X,000 per month, you will a) find that that is not that rare and b) benefit from keeping appropriate records of your expenses, including electricity and depreciation of expensive equipment, such that you can claim them on the tax return for your business each year.

You might choose to swap assets of the business directly for pizza but this is, in general, not a good decision relative to swapping them for money and money for pizza.

Your cost basis in intellectual property is typically the marginal cost to produce it. You can run the question of how exactly to bookkeep it past your accountant, but the profit of a mining businesses with $8k gross revenue and $2k of expenses per month should be $6k.

If you believe your mining business to have insurmountable challenges in bookkeeping at the scale you’re operating it at then maaaaaybe you should hire professional help or exit the business.
No, it's not a pedantic distinction at all and it's actually the "selling people's data" narrative that's misleading, not the other way round.

Facebook does not sell user data, it sells targeted ad space which is the exact opposite business model.

Their competitive edge in this business purely relies on being the only entity in the world who can target so well, precisely because they hold onto that data like a treasure.
Ha ha, no. They were into it.
A film should only be shown in a theater to create a true cinematic experience. I don’t think the regulation is absurd at all. If Netflix makes films and shows them only within a TV format, than it’s a tv show.

The cinematic arts requires a cinema by definition.
Just skimmed the article, and it seems to me that they are more looking into this to find a treatment for brain cancer than making a direct causality from the supplement itself. Basically when someone does have brain cancer, they could limit NAMPT to help in treatment. That's how I read it at least, maybe I'm misinterpreting. There is these quote:

“We didn’t directly demonstrate that taking NAD+ precursors makes tumors grow faster, but one implication of our work is that if you want to take anti-aging NAD+ precursors, you might want to keep in mind that we don’t yet understand all the risks.”

"Furthermore, the scientists found that glioblastoma cells responded to radiation therapy – a standard therapy used to treat the disease in people – by increasing expression of NAD+ pathway genes, and that inhibiting NAMPT before dosing the cells with radiation made them easier to kill."
It’s Time to Embrace the Journey from DevOps to DataOps
FOXO4-DRI seems much more promising with less side effects (none known) than NAD+
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I don't know why this got down voted. I found this extremely helpful and well written. Thank you.
Yeah it should. There is a slight url mismatch in this particular case. The HN Api response is returning the url without a trailing slash and hence my code is rejecting that result. I will try and fix it. This was just a basic version coded up in a few hours to see if people find this useful at all.
I worked at Facebook even longer ago than that.

What makes you assume it's got to be a pre-programmed, cult-member like response and cannot believe that this is the actual work culture ?
There's another thing I heard lots of people saying in KL a few weeks ago. Uber had developed a reputation for employing crooks—drivers who would accept a fare and claim the payment, but simply not show up, and so on—and not doing anything when they were reported. Grab was supposed to be a lot stricter with its drivers, and their drivers were much more trusted.
Can you recommend any resources that lay out this history?
As opposed to software developers, who take some existing application code and refactor it to their purpose.