skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the expense and difficulties of complying with these rules and enforcing them, we should seriously consider the opposite approach of radical transparency.

As the ability to collect and process data becomes cheaper and easier to deploy, it seems to me that trying to preserve an assumption of universal privacy and anonymity trying to swim up a waterfall. Cameras are becoming so cheap they're practically disposable. Facial recognition software and the big data tools to manage all this data are also becoming more widely available. Are we going to legislate against all that? It's one thing to monitor high profile corporations like Google and Facebook, but if surveillance is cheap enough, how do you make sure that no one is amassing reams of private information?

The worst case scenario is that while corporations and criminal organizations continue to discretely gather private data, the rich and powerful will be able to afford the cost of privacy but the rest of us won't have a grasp on who knows what about us.

The alternative to working against the tools that technology affords us is to work with them. In some cases this means embracing radical transparency. We define a narrow range of places that really are private, and assume that anything that happens outside of those spaces is public. For example, what happens inside of one's bedroom is private, but what happens outside of one's front door is public. This information wouldn't be available only to the powerful or well-connected, it should be available to everyone. In particular, society should keep a close eye on the richest and most powerful people. Not necessarily on their private lives, but certainly on their finances.

I'm not arguing that we should give up all privacy. Encryption works and is difficult to defeat, so we should default to encrypting all interpersonal communication. We don't need to give up privacy, but we do need to prioritize what aspects of our lives should remain the most private. I do think that if that we're going to expect twentieth century notions of privacy and anonymity with twenty-first century technology, we're going to have a very hard time of it.
Do your co-workers not have issues with HiDPI support on Linux? I've heard it's not the best experience and can require quite some fiddling to get working correctly.
I don’t understand all this talk about “connections” made in 4 year colleges, as if that’s a good thing. Isn’t it intensely anti-meritocratic and something to be discouraged, not encouraged?
This is totally awesome! Thank you, it has been sent round the office... I too second the idea of putting this onto GitHub so it can live and be updated as understanding of the requirements increases!
Because almost assuredly the 3rd party tools collect that information and you are responsible for what you put on your website. The article specifically mentions this when talking about data processors and data controllers.
That just makes their point of view wrong. I'm not sure what you're saying here.
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Exactly why I don't use a gmail email address for anything important (like my user accounts). Instead, logins for important accounts use my own domain name.
This story was written in 2010 about an incident that happened in 2004.
Legacy. Meteor. App.

Doesn't matter what new versions support if we can't update things.

The reactivity choice was made for us (poorly).
I'm not certain they will get sued out of existence. Company no doubt has a liability waiver contract that holds them harmless no matter what, with a fixed maximum liability even if they're negligent. Now whether that holds up in court... point is, outcome is uncertain.

If the company used intimidation tactics, that may be a crime, a corrupt intent to subvert compliance with FARs as it pertains to safety. If so, I sincerely hope a prosecutor is assigned who is skeptical of blaming only pilots, and will recognize intimidation as significant distortion on pilot judgment and authority. I don't like the idea of the corporate veil protecting a CEO who overrides the judgment of pilots let alone also uses economic coercion by threatening their career - so if that's really what happens I hope he's criminally prosecuted.

But as a pilot, I still can't completely hold pilots blameless when they saw enough safety concerns to say something about it to the company, witnessed insufficient remediation, did nothing else, and now people are dead.
Turn everything you can to english: software, movies, google, books etc.

Get a browser plugin for quick translations of words you don't know.

Jump in the water and use english. Sadly this can be the easiest and the hardest part because it requires the right circumstances.
I'll look into xmllint. I currently use HTML Tidy for this:

tidy -xml -indent -wrap 0

or

tidy -xml -indent -wrap 0 -quiet
On the one hand, this is a very shitty thing to do. On the other, he was young and dumb and FB was very different than it is today.

I suppose it could be red flag and indicate larger character flaws that have leaked into how FB operates now, but I'm personally glad I'm not being judged today for everything I did when I was 19.
There's no legal framework, to distinguish devices that matter from devices that don't.

There's no clear demarcation between devising a convenient contraption, versus implementing an inadvisable hack that leads to a hazardous outcome, especially within the scope of web based systems, since no portion of the internet is to be regarded as reliable life-saving infrastructure.

I think the mistake is to trust packet-switched networks and peer-oriented protocols as reliable systems at all.

If you cannot control the whole system, end-to-end, and any unwitting peer can over-consume bandwidth (jamming traffic and communication with interference), effectively cutting you off from a necessity, why would you bet your life on the availability of that system?
Not evidence, but a portion of the users install blocking software to speed up browsing, and and tracking blocking will often be the first target (it can be under “block third party script”, same effect)

An example of this mindset:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-speed-up-browsing-by-usi...
The Labor of Bringing a Baby into Appalachia
One important thing to understand about MacBook SSD performance since the 2015 is that the 0.5 and 1 TB SSD’s are much faster than the smaller disks because only the larger configuratios will use all available channels. I would never buy a 128GB MacBook.
Ask HN: When to join a startup?
If I want to start my startup someday, should I be joining the startup on the beginning of break out trajectory to learn about growth or as employee #1 to learn about zero to one? Or does it even matter? In general what kind of the company should I be joining?
Currently I use namecheap for their simplicity and speed yet they have all the options if you need them. Tried GoDaddy and went away screaming since they have some super shady practices. Willing to try Google Domains since I use GCP a lot but its not available to me as of now.
lots of comments are suggesting alternatives but my opinion is that, no, despite its flaws there is still nothing better on the market than MBP
> Isn’t it intensely anti-meritocratic and something to be discouraged, not encouraged?

Life is not fair. You may as well learn to play the game as the rules actually are as apposed to what they "should" be.
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I recall reading long ago that SMS messages were a hack built on top of the unencrypted "paging" channel in the protocol. They're received and "ignored" by all phones near the intended recipient.

IIRC, the paging channel is a broadcast channel that was originally used to send short message to a handset to advise them of an incoming call and to request a private channel to receive it. It had lots of excess capacity so someone had the idea of pushing short text messages over it.
All the things you mention are certainly possible, but if that’s truly what consumers wanted (judged by where they spend their time and money), then the market would reward companies that provided those services.

Put another way, you can argue as much as you want that people want to eat salad and steamed vegetables for every meal, because it will make them thinner and healthier. And yet, McDonalds is still doing well (maybe not quite as well as before, but still very well).

Regulation will curtail the edge cases where people are acting to their own detriment to a degree that society deems unacceptable. Beyond that, it’s up to the invisible hand of capitalism to dictate what customers want.
Patents need to be renewed when the entity that owns them no longer exists (e.g. acquired). If they are not renewed, then they expire and become public domain.
I get what you're saying, but considering what we've witnessed in 2016 and how ethics, honestly and law no longer plays any part in the White House, what used to be unimaginable to me, now is.

That being said, I could see the future in which the next elections are a full blown, all-gloves-are-off one year long fight between Trump (Republicans) and Zuckerberg (Democrats). Partially because Zuckerberg really does seem like he's aiming for this with its actions, and partially because Democrats don't really seem like they've learned their lessons from two years ago.

Now I'm not saying that's definitely going to happen, nor claiming that it's inevitable, nor that the chances of it actually happening are anything but minuscule, but I wouldn't be too surprised if such thing actually happens.
Awesome! I wonder if anyone sells liquid smoke made using zeolite filters. I would buy it and use it in foods like sous vide brisket.

https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/08/food-lab-complete-guide-...
Gnome has always worked pretty well with High DPI. But yes Linux display managers are generally pretty bad, as I learned with my 1440p 13 inch laptop as recently as 2015.
> Takeoff is the hardest part requiring the most power, unfortunately.

So, we just need a catapult system for commercial aircraft (like used on aircraft carriers, only lower acceleration since you are doing it to reduce the amount of energy needed from the engines, not to shorten the take-off distance.)
Dell Precision 9560 works really well with Ubuntu in my experience.

Not perfect though. Keyboard is usable but thin, 16:9 sucks, glossy screen sucks, had to get a matte film cover to tone it down.

4k rocks though, thunderbolt docking station pretty good also.
(the only thing being close is the thinkpad if you want to try the switch from trackpad to trackpoint)
>you have a straightforward relation between the written form and how you say it

This is one of the things I love about Spanish. I've heard people say that English is easier to read than Spanish. I don't know what those people are smoking, but I think it would be too strong for me ;-) Seriously, how would anyone know how to pronounce words like "enough" without hearing them first?
That article brings up good points about synchronizing data. I intentionally do not keep my friends' names in my contacts (I primarily use recent numbers, and I started storing a few anonymous names when Signal required use of actual contact entries) because I do not want my friends' data to be sent to whatever random service I might have installed.

Given the whole Cambridge Analytica thing this seems good.
Ask HN: Stories about your hesitant Ask HN posts that blew you away
Looking forward to hearing inspiring stories on Ask HN, when you were hesitant to ask something, but, you did it anyway, and what followed blew your mind! Please share!
I'm hopeful that Zuckerberg has matured at least slightly in the intervening 14 years.
A bit of background: I'm a system administrator of a large computing cluster, and I also develop high performance scientific computing as my side-academic life. The software I develop targets clusters similar to I administer, so I use a lot of Linux, and the software I develop makes the development workstations scream during testing.

I personally own a MacBook Pro, and my office gave me (actually I wanted them to buy) an HP EliteBook 850 G2. HP EliteBook is a terrific Linux machine. Everything works out of the box. The backside is accessible with a single latch. It has semi-metal body, reasonably slim and light. Better, it lasts 7 hours on battery (which can be easily replaced), has upgradeable RAM, a separate M2 slot for an additional SSD if you need multi terabyte hard drives, and an eDPI screen (I don't remember the resolution, but it's high). Oh, it has 180 degree hinges, which are non-exotic type.

If you want to go berserk, you can add WWAN with GPS support.

It has some convenience features too. Glass touchpad, a very good backlit keyboard and better than acceptable speakers. If you want good audio, headphone jack is very good sounding. The machine I use is dual core, very low voltage variant, but the performance is more than enough for 90% of the tasks I perform at office. Since it's very low voltage, it's very very quiet and cool.

All-in-all it's a developer's dream if you want to step away from MacBook.

Addendum: I disabled the external AMD GPU on it, I use Intel's on-cpu GPU, and I've driven 1920x1200 screens over DP without any problems, inc. hot-plug support.

Last, but not the least: HP has a fantastic BIOS which also has nice amenities like advanced charge cutoff and restart percentages like Lenovo Thinkpads.
There are almost daily commits going to it, but the rate of commits is not the same as when a project started. By your logic any stable project on Github is dead. Also by your logic, when person grows in height until they reach their mid twenties and their growth stagnate, as they've reached their maximum potential, we can call them dead. Assuming you're above 25, by your logic you are dead as well.

If you spend little time at the forums you'll realize there are plenty of people using it with active community contributions and thriving open source projects and commercial businesses built on top of it.

Technology goes through phases (hype cycle) and Meteor is at a stable phase.

A lot of the comments here are ignorant about the the progress made in the last two years, to be able to form objective opinion, one need to proper research and not just listen to the FUD.
From the article

"Fyi, the above chart was actually just a simplified promo for a much larger chart - a Writing Systems of the World poster. So, if you're concerned about the fact that thorn, wynn, or any other letters are missing, rest assured that they were indeed included on the main chart."
How do you call a system of government that by definition does not operate in a free market of ideas, respects individual freedom and property rights and consists of a
monolithic political ideology?

>"Only defeatist quitters speak in such absolutes."

Can you have a system that does not conserve energy? No, there such things as absolutes.

Communism besides being the mother of all bad ideas and the most vile ideology humanity has created is also deeply internally flawed and essentially ensures that it's final outcome can never be reached.

And even if we take that final outcome as our starting point it has no mechanism to sustain itself once there is no government and now laws that dictate social behaviour anyone can do whatever they want and no one can stop them.

So if at T+0 we have the withering of the state and perfect communism at T+1 nothing would stop me from taking control over whatever resource I want and saying well fuck you now you gotta pay.
With a remote work arrangement it would be lovely to travel by Zeppelin (or ship, or train, for that matter).
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was wondering what type of journalist would decide to write an article like this, then realized the author came out of Gawker.
> Why can't I load some 3rd party tools?

You can, you just need assurance that they're also GDPR compliant if you want to be GDPR compliant.

If the third-party violates GDPR, but requires your website to run on (e.g. third-party JS, other types of beacons), I think judges are going to have a dim view on that, and so you can't simply claim that it's them, not you. (There may be mitigations, e.g. if you have a contract with them that spells out GDPR compliance, but then they break that - but how many people have contracts for the JS they embed?)

Edit: One way this argument could be laid out is that by including such third-parties in your website, you're instructing the browser to load them, and therefore effectively forwarding GDPR-related data to them. Technically, this isn't really too different from a REST API call you'd perform on the server, or an AJAX call (although the server call doesn't necessarily forward e.g. the IP).
I have no problems on KDE for home use, I think the problems are mixing multiple screens with different pixel densities.
Sheets of tiny bubbles could bring a sense of touch to VR
I have always wanted to make a set of reusable, "erasable" index cards, perhaps constructed out of "whiteboard" material.
What? Why?

The market rewards working services over not-yet-working ones - it's not surprising that customers who prefer a more complicated service will use the less complicated one in the meantime. There's also all sorts of confounding things with social networks like network effects.

Capitalism is one way to get at a society's preferences. It is not the only way, nor is it able to perfectly determine a society's preferences.
My science and math classes were much more rigorous at my community college than they were at a major 4-year university. Yes, there are a lot of fluff courses and people at community colleges in respect to an aspiring academic and/or professional, but in general the science and mathematics courses are filled with serious people. AND SO MUCH CHEAPER.
Agreed, I doubt this and if they have evidence, should link to a source/study.
+1

or potentially look at a CI cluster if compilations/whatever is most taxing the laptop
It probably did, but the pilot didn't have time to do the engine restart procedure. Also when something like this happens if there's only you flying the plane you need to prioritize getting on the ground. In a plane, depending on altitude and where I was, I would land immediately or set up the most efficient glide based on what the manual says then do engine restart procedures.
Here's #2 running a pretty similar cocktail (ublock origin, umatrix, privacy badger, httpseverywhere, cookie autodelete and decentraleyes).

There's dozens of us! Dozens!

But more seriously, there's actually lots of us. You don't hear about us because we don't narcissistically post about it on facebook. We just block shitty software and move on with our lives.

I have no stats for you though, because stats are usually collected through third party trackers, and I block them all, so I'm never represented on anyones metrics. Based on some rough stats like these[1] and my own experience, I'd guess something like 1-3% of the population in western countries.

[1] https://www.quantable.com/analytics/how-many-users-block-goo...
Its time for the country to stop watching television and thinking thats how they should be (almost everyone on television either lives an upper-middle class life, or is a terribly smart poor person). Most Americans CAN NOT afford college right now-not without going so helplessly in debt as to be a wage slave for the rest of their life (or even worse cash out their parents hard won gains to pay for their useless degree)
Canadian media treat the word "Canadian" as an honorific and optimize for the number of times they can use it. It has been that way for as long as I can remember.

We changed the title to use a representative phrase from the article, and added the year.
I have always thought Coelho's books sucked but never had the chutzpah to read any. I remember a girl talking to me about the Alchemist and trying to convince me it didn't suck and that I had to read it to form an opinion. I went and described the book to her and she said "So you've read it!" and I said "No, that's my point."

Coelho's books are like pornography. It may give a glimpse to febrile teenagers into the world of sex, but easily mislead these teenagers into thinking: "So I guess this is what sex is like in real life". They may spend a lifetime stuck on that kind of content. Think of all the readers we have lost to that shitty style. It's fascinating, but you could say: "Where does the sun go when it sets and what does it owe to the wolves? No one knows, but the wolves howl in the dark and, my friend Karkadan, the moon notices." and stick a Paulo Coelho to it and nobody will be the wiser.

The guy ships product, though.
Do not make the mistake of comparing Redux with new Context API

Read the 1st comment in the thread [0] for explanation

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/84d4m5/heres_how_r...
My goal is to live the life I want to live knowing that what I want will change over time. My biggest drive right now is to gain financial independence through both lowering my cost of living, a high savings rate and continuing to grow my income. I work full time as a software developer but have also started a business on the side with a partner. That is part of my strategy of increasing income. Recently, I've realized that business, while bootstrap profitable, is not going to grow as fast as I want so I am going to start another business (and I expect this cycle will continue until I reach FI -- it may continue beyond that as it is fun).

So my goal is overall happiness with financial independence being a key part of it. I should note that I do not strive to be excessively frugal -- just cut where it doesn't impact myself or my partner. I've also elected to have children and I think that contributes positively to my overall happiness although it can be expensive and they can take a lot of time (so I think that is very much an individual choice).
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I think the problem with 1 is that the usefulness of Facebook, for a lot of people, comes from having darn near anyone they ever knew on the platform.

There's the benefit of being able to trivially connect with friends, family and acquaintances by a few degrees. But since that applies to those users too, and the overlap is partial, the user graph grows unbounded.
If you limit it in some way, then you necessarily will have some users at an edge with a restricted experience. That's likely very bad for business.

With point 2 there's the general overall argument of whether these concrete, codified social networks should exist at all - whether they are healthy to society or people compared to the more limited gossip circles they would be in otherwise.
I don't think it's clear cut to call it worse and I don't know if we can put that cat back in the bag even if we wanted to.
Getting access to the mount point on the helicopter is too difficult if you're tipped over and hanging off of it while immersed in frigid water. Much better would be a parachute style quick release on your own body.
I don't think the likes of Facebook "ghost profiles" are really a big deal. They do provide some benefit to the users of the services.
Note the link in the article to throwaway credit card number provider (and yc company) Final is no longer valid because Final is defunct. Well, the link works, but you can no longer sign up.
I agree. 10 min was all I could bare. It's just a big mix of sound bites.
> likely the company would not like the data being used that way because it would risk their relationship with their users

Not that I subscribe to the same fears of the parent comment, but they’ve already shown plenty of willingness to abuse their relationship with their customers for business gain. It reveals their character (or lack thereof).

No reason to assume that character would change given a different arena like politics. Although neither is there a reason to assume that Mark has political ambitions.