skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more surprised to see this was at a UK warehouse. I thought Europe had labor laws that would prevent this kind of bs from happening. Which makes me think it must be a thing at all the other facilities too.

Found a pretty big discussion about it on reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8cmonj/rushed_am...
Commercial software licensing has always been a PITA, especially at the enterprise level. I just thank sweet baby Jesus every day I don't have to deal with IBM or Oracle.
> it's too early to claim that these effects will disproportionately harm small companies.

It's not too early to claim that the risks are disproportionate. Those of us with small companies really just count on subjective enforcement. Sadly, it seems everyone says "do nothing wrong, nothing to worry about" with these kinds of laws and don't understand risk management or the cost of conformance.
One big problem is search. Search determines what we see (outside of what we learn of from our peers or primary sources of info).

A "cacophony of different sites and voices" may be more fair, but it isn't very useful. Most people shouldn't have a public voice, because most people don't have anything valuable (or accurate) to say.

This includes me, of course, on many subjects. But here on HN, if many people think that my comments are garbage, they vote me down and at least new readers will be somewhat forewarned that my content may be of questionable value.

Search was first supposed to help us find things. But when there were too many things to find, it should have helped us identify the good stuff. Instead, search is now 90% bogus results that are generated to help steer people to a particular product or service.

So honestly, some walled gardens where people reasonably knowledgeable about the local subject can affect the visibility of the content within the silo, at least visitors less able to discern good from bad will probably see more good than bad.

Of course, sites need money to operate, so then comes the corruption of the system. Even sites that try to be neutral still end up making some concessions in order to get funded by some source (and the corporations or political groups have the money, so they end up with influence).
TV, Newspaper ads exists with its limited trackability. Banner ads existed long before tracking. So your point is mute.

In fact, I think tracking has reduced ads. If not, ads would be a throw at the wall regardless of what works affair.
Hackers stole high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank
U.S. bans American companies from selling to Chinese phone maker ZTE
I'd say it's probably against their best interest to do so. People would just start buying "not commingled" items only, which would be a big hit to their shipping times.

Looking at the seller rating is probably the best you can do aside from messaging or going somewhere else.
If every fund is getting the majority of their strategies from the same academic papers, that must do wonders for the profit :)
well, at least you can choose from text or graphical user interfaces to browse and select the options needed to build a kernel!
I know IPFS is happy to help with implementation advice on discuss.ipfs.io or #ipfs on IRC, they did for me.

It does depend on the scale of your data and whether you want upload data in a streaming or discrete fashion. If by segmentize you mean to like chunk your data into smaller sections, then that is handled automatically by both DAT and IPFS.
My router is affected but I would never enable UPnP or remote management ...
The goal of course is that technology like RSS is presented in a way to non-technical users so that they are happy to use it without needing too learn all about it.
Their websites were briefly directing to this site. Looks like a weak password exposed them.

Private keys and passwords here - [redacted]
Uh? In this case I'd say it's published in the correct place. The guy works for O'Reilly, the post is about his work, it's published on O'Reilly's website.

I would have agreed with you if it was published on Medium or Blogger or whatever.
Google Prank Pushes for Self-Driving Bicycles in Amsterdam
U.S. companies banned from selling components to ZTE
2 things. If the market crashes Softbank have enough money to ride it out and they are investing heavily in things that will become seamlessly embedded in every day life.
> we actually removed more lines than we added

My best year, I removed 10,000 lines of code more than I added without removing any functionality from the project (and in fact adding some new features). It isn't always a good thing to do this- but when it is, you know it as soon as you start reading the code.

I often wish I could be paid just to refactor and rewrite existing code bases to make them more maintainable.
it's true of many doctors as well. the difference is both doctors and bankers do it for a few years at the beginning of their careers, and in exchange are promised a path to a real reward -- they get promoted, and their pay increases in a job where they can work more reasonable hours.

these Amazon warehouse jobs don't lead to being a millionaire. they don't even lead to a decent career. i doubt you could even get promoted to Amazon low-level management out of one of these jobs. it is pure exploitation.
There is deactivate and delete option for years now.

Zuckerberg stated that they delete all of the data after user deletes their account (not deactivate).
Coachella Rave
US Companies banned from selling components to ZTE
Consider that there were 80-column "hacks" for even the Commodore 64 (using a 1MHz 6510) that did this: emulate text mode on a high res (for C64) graphics screen.

M68k 7.16Mhz/8MHz Amiga's didn't have a text mode.

The amount of data to copy to scroll text wasn't that huge even in graphics modes.
There will always be ways to track and identify people. If all else fails, you build your profiles from the stream of keyboard and mouse events the user generates on your website.

Okay, it's maybe a bit cynic, but stuff like this will happen if the web browsers are twisted further to provide the appearance of privacy and security to the user.
I've been begging my wife for years to let me upgrade the crap modem that the ISP is loaning us. She's terrified that if I touch anything, it's all going to break, and since she works out of the house, she won't be able to get online. Sigh...
There were ways around that.
I used GnuPG, is that good enough (assuming a 16 char random password)?
> The EU system rewards small-player innovation and limits the creation of very large, dominant, monopolistic big players.

I disagree. Do you believe this is the case today or is it the goal? From what I understand, the gap is quite large between number of small companies based on environment. Many of us with smaller companies stand on the shoulder of giants. Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good, and that can mean the financial incentive to become large spurs those of us who are small. Artificial ceilings, however altruistic people tell themselves they are by limiting the big, bad, scary companies, often are just a low tide lowering all boats in a trickle-down way.
When I discovered BBS'es at 15 ( 1988 ) my life changed considerably. It was, as mentioned below, like a secret Goonies tunnel to the upside down......

I ended up running my own BBS on my C64 and had to get a job to pay for the extra phone line and the array of 1581 3.5 drives I had to buy to support it. I was up all hours of the night talking to people who logged in. Trying out new BBS software, getting into ASCII art, warez, demos, etc. was a lot of fun.

It got so bad my mom had to sit me down and tell me that I had to go outside and ride my bike, play football, etc.

Nearly 30 years later I am still working with software everyday and enjoying ever minute of it. I do have to remind myself to go outside.......
Only thing I could find about Softbank and paradise papers is a few lines in a NHK world article [1]:

> Telecom giant Softbank Group set up a business entity based in the Cayman Islands to operate an investment fund four years ago. The name of the company's CEO, Masayoshi Son, was mentioned in one of the documents.

> Softbank says it registered the investment fund there to avoid dual taxation for its investors.

While suspicious, this seems like too little evidence to support a broad statement such as "softbank is the acceptable face of dodgy money".

[1]https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/nhknewsline/backstories/bign...
Trump rule hits startups: Foreign entrepreneurs need not apply
The official browser is actually Webkit based. I believe Maemo was the last OS in that lineage to use a Gecko browser (microB).
Dr Von Noizeman's Nuclear Bomb Defused with Radare2
You are right about this. I suggest you to report it in the repos or forum, they are somewhat responsive to it and it definitely would be a plus for everyone.

You also have Orange from Biolab, although is way less powerful but it has some cool nodes and AFAIK it was possible to open up nodes config without connecting them to anything.
Nah. Technically a graphical interface is an interface that is facilitated through the use of graphics. Not all computer interfaces are graphical. Some interfaces are audio/voice (such as Alexa and Siri, Screen readers for the blind). Etc.

I think the point I was making is that “what is a GUI” is not objective. And its colloquial definition may also evolve over time. The fundamental question right now is, is text graphical? Some would say no. I’d say yes. What about code highlighting? Code hinting? The buttons on your text editor? aren’t those graphical? Of course they are. I’d argue that they are the best GUI for crafting custom computer instructions.
Although I don't disagree with your point, that wasn't my point. My point is that these things have different aspects (some of which are arguably useful, some perhaps in your eyes less so or not) but removing them has serious consequences. It is easy to be against something (for example, paying taxes) but removing taxation has serious consequences which have to be accounted for.
My buddy bought his house in the city in 2011. I was going to do the same but a 3400/mo mortgage seemed fucking nuts.

His house has more than doubled in equity though, so not too bad from his perspective. I moved back to the midwest where shit is reasonable, now I just blow that 3400/mo on fun stuff instead of mortgage/rent.
If it's just a random string, how do you store your password?
Actually no, it was just a coincidence that it was here on HN a few days before I decided to share AskXML. My project was inspired by lack of tools to query stackexchange's data dumps effectively. :)
It's not just social media, and it's not just ads, about which other people responded to you.

The root of the problem - or at least the trunk very close to the root - is Software as a Service. It's the trend of turning software into services. Sure, it's nice for the vendors, and it's nice for corporate clients who can write off responsibility to a third party. But it also makes you no longer in control of your data, and the code that runs on it. The availability of your work becomes completely dependent on business decisions of third parties, which can - and frequently do - disappear suddenly. It's what leads to proliferation of ads, surveillance and growth strategies like dumbing down software to the point of almost complete uselessness.

If technology is meant to be - or at least is capable of being - empowering to individuals, then turning everything into a service is an exact opposite of that.
Relational Programming Language
Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages
Interesting how badly I was misunderstood.

My point was not that they would be about the same thing. My point is that GDPR is pretty clearly about the rights of the little guy. Lack of net neutrality is clearly about the rights of big businesses. Neither alone does not seem to do that much good or harm. But if those attitudes are permanent in the legislating systems, that will have an effect.

So do you believe companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook are going hire the best people, make the best money and offer the best content? It could be. Or there could be something disruptive. Where is that disruptive going to happen?
Simple User Login in a Vue.js Web Application
For the battery problem, what about the proliferation of wireless charging ?
You know who is also good at propaganda? Government and state.

Can you prove that FDA improves the outcome? Is FDA somehow free from lobbying, or are the people working there consistently uninfluenced by certain counterproductive incentives? How could we go about ever proving that the absence or existence of a government agency has improved conditions overall? Sorry if this comes off as lecturing, but these are questions that I think should be asked and is not intended for you specifically.

In any case, you cannot take away that FDA approval likely costs millions of dollars and makes it more costly to introduce a drug. It is self-evident that making something more expensive to do reduces the incentive to do it (weighed against the potential profit).
The skeptic in me thinks that this story is Volvo trying to counter the bad news of their car killing a pedestrian with good news of how many drivers haven't died.

Although it's not their fault for the crash, celebrating the safety of an SUV, when it's size and extra weight means that crashes with pedestrians will more likely end in death, seems odd.
Midwest? Buy 10-15 rent houses in a college town and retire.

My neighbor owns 15 houses and lives in Europe most the year. I'm working on the same path (may buy their homes in the next year or two, we're in discussions).
Coase's transaction cost theory of the firm seems to imply that low cost, ubiquitous transactions would lead to a reduction in the size of corporations generally, which might do something to redress the imbalance of power between individuals and corporations as well.
I don't see how residential real-estate investors are to blame for your poor decisions. No one is forcing you to accept a low offer.
Arrays in array languages are functions of their indices, and many array operations can be viewed as compositions of functions on those indices.
DeferPanic secures $1.5 M seed round to popularize unikernel concept
> I often wish I could be paid just to refactor and rewrite existing code bases to make them more maintainable.

Yeah, me too--I'm very good at it and it's quite satisfying. Unfortunately it's very hard to communicate the business value of it (although the business value is huge in some cases).
Discrimination in the name of campus diversity is not acceptable
Thousands of Advertisers Shun Breitbart, but Amazon Remains
If you thought they were trying to determine which one to use, you misread the situation.
Would guess the Pixel is more secure. Google poject zero is first rate in terms of finding and mitigation of vulnerabilities. Pixel also gets monthly updates. Have a pixel 2 XL and love the phone and highly recommend.
Unfortunately the alcohol with the heaviest marketing is also the shittiest. Bland watery beer, sugary swill blended shots that are just meant to be knocked back as quickly as possible, and cheap nasty spirits, which are just meant to be mixed with soda or energy drinks.

There is certainly a drinking culture problem, and it is specifically a lack of culture and taste.

Give me a high quality wine or whisky or even a well-mixed drink made with quality ingredients. Something to savor and enjoy, instead of just chugging it as quickly as possible.

I'm in Malaga on vacation at the moment, and there is definitely something to be said for one glass of good wine with dinner and one glass of good sherry with dessert, and that's it. Not knocking back endless rows of shitty shots.

Drinking to get "hammered" is the real problem. Drinking a smaller amount of something well-made that tickles your taste buds and intrigues you is so much more fun.
TV model: I am paying for basic channels. Yet I am paying for selected channels, say National Geographic or BBC Earth if I want to get those.

Will this schema work with Internet? Like if I want FB I will pay for facebook's dedicated TCP/IP port access.

Sounds crazy of course but could it be something along these lines?
More source code doesn't necessarily result in a bigger compiled kernel. Your distro isn't enabling every single option at compile time.

Oh, and you can compile your own kernel if you like - it's a really simple process. :)
I’m envious. You essentially worked in the presence of a dying race of wizards.
Show HN: Windtalk – Let windows/iframes invoke each other's functions or objects
PySolFC 2.2– an open-source collection of card Solitaire/Mahjong games
[PySolFC](http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/) is a free and open-source collection of over 1,000 card Solitaire and Mahjong games with many features and solver/analysis tools. It is almost [20 years old](http://solitaire.vegard2.net/pysol.html), and the current development efforts are concentrated on [the GitHub repository](https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC).

The PySolFC developers are happy to announce a new stable release, 2.2.0, of PySolFC (the last one was in distant 2009!). Among the new features are:

* Compatibility with both Python 3.x and Python 2.7.
* Support for the Kivy user-interface toolkit, for Android devices and other systems.
* A Microsoft Windows binary installer.
* Support for dealing all [Freecell Pro deals](http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/faq.html#what_are_ms_deals) by specifying "ms100000", or similar, as the seed.
* Support for the [Black Hole and All in a Row solver](http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/black-hole-solitaire-solver/) was added.
* Test suite and [CI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) have been added to the repository.
* The code now passes [flake8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8) validation.

You can find [download links](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pysolfc/files/PySolFC/) for current Windows, source code, and Android versions.
Packages for Linux/BSD/etc. distributions and operating systems should be made
available soon from the downstream packagers.
How to update locate database on macOS
Would Americans Accept Putting Health Care on a Budget?
Honestly I think Europes structure is mostly perfect for small agile companies. It is not very welcoming to big business however.

It's easy to found a company and pay a fair flat rate percentage tax rate as eu (or schengen for this topic) citizen. It's just not economical to stay here once you get big tho.
My first wife tried this uncooperative shit with our home (I bought before we were married). I told her I'd sell it for exactly what we owe if she didn't take my fair offer.

Probably should have just gone ahead and done that but I didn't want to move.
Pixel book now supports gnu/Linux applications out of the box on ChromeOS 67. So might get you close.
Are they under fire for any particular known reason?
All existing business processes tolerate high error rates. They have to, because anything that people do by hand will necessarily have a high error rate. So when programmers come to automate an existing business process, they often vastly overestimate the value of correctness at least in the short term: if the program does the wrong thing even 1% of the time, it's really not a problem, because the processes around this process will be built to tolerate that.

In the long term, correctness may become more valuable. An analogy: when factories first switched to electric power, they simply connected electric motors to the existing driveshafts used to distribute steam power around the factory, and only realised small improvements in productivity that way. But once factories were more fully converted to electric power, it became possible to rearrange machines to suit workflows (rather than being arranged around the driveshafts) and this lead to much bigger productivity gains.
With so many MOOC's about, the question "why should I read YOUR specific blog ?" still remains.

- Is it your CV (your portfolio to the outside world) ?

- Did you stumble/are stumbling across something that you didn't find many answers to ?

- Did you find a better path than the beaten one?

I've not found any of the above reasons, hence I've not blogged. Maybe I'm wrong.
Sounds like a great marketing hack / donation scam quite honestly.
Give me a ring if you all ever find a place that lets us use our powers to their fullest. I feel like realizing removing more code that you put back is usually a good thing is a tipping point in a coder's career.
Index funds are already diversified. When you invest in one, you are betting that the entire economy or a sector of the economy, depending on the index fund, will increase in value.
CEVA’s NeuPro Chips Promise Up to 12.5 TOPS Embedded AI Performance
Where in the article did you read anything suggesting that "They took the distance to the border (white matter) of all the points in a region."? I read the article, but didn't find anything like that.
Well, I have one issue/question about this statement.

Turing-completeness would be a measure of computational equivalence, but that -- and I don't know if this is the right way to phrase it -- that is not the same as "presentational" equivalence.

A modern computer program does computations, but also displays them a certain way and TM's are silent on how you display the results of the computation. (To drive the point home, under no circumstances could Turing's ticker tape machine ever light up a single pixel on a screen.)

So, if you had an infinitely fast actual Turing Machine with infinite memory, you could tell me where the video game should go, and how the web page should render and what the regression visualization would look like, but not actually show it to me.

Ordinarily this is a pedantic argument to make but in the case of a GUI it is not. The GUI has to actually encode literally an infinite number of options to display the data in addition to computing it. This is particularly important for video games for instance.

So, I think you could have a theoretically complete Turing Machine and still not do the things that a modern computing language does.
Is there a study on the (in)effectiveness of online ad campaigns? Is it or is it not a bubble that drives all this ad publisher to the ad platforms instead of buying ads more directly? I don't know the prices but I can bet buying an ad directly from a vlogger is cheaper and more effective than any ad platform out there. Is it really the dumbness of ad publishers that keep this system alive or is it me that I'm really ignorant when it comes to the economy of internet?
The article implies it's easy to get fired, so no need to resign...
If you have a lot of money in your cryptocurrency wallet you should at least consider using a hardware GnuPG "smartcard" like nitrokey or yubikey. This way even if they get your passphrase they still need access to your hardware token (and vice-versa). There are also hardware wallets specifically meant for cryptocurrencies which I suppose have the advantage of not requiring you to decrypt your wallet on your drive before you make a transaction.
I'm pretty sure some of Fernando's early work on ipython was funded through his NSF grants.
- the non-deterministic part is largely a jury trial system, which has people who are not legal professionals, nor have domain knowledge required to grasp the problem at hand sufficiently to be able to pass a judgement. Same applies to judges of course, but specialization is likely to help

- the legal system is lacking a hard rule requiring the penalty for a violation of a law by a business to exceed the profits the business made due to the violation by a significant margin. If a car maker failing to recall faulty cars was guaranteed to be fined no less than 10x the cost of the recall if caught the decision making process would be quite different.
And for the hot dogs. Don't forget the hot dogs.