skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies to USA's readers, no disrespect, I am merely trying to put some sense into throwaway2048's brain :)

Dear TA2048,

In some/many parts of this planet we don't give a poop about who is the President of the US-of-A.

But we care for our own elections (see UK referendum, Greek referendum, Catalonia referendum, elections in Austria, Hungary, Italy, etc.)

The problem surfaced NOW, and NOW we are dealing with it. We can't turn back time. Not even slow it down. But we can try/make sure it won't happen again, or at least reduce its impact.

Kind regards,
Someone-who-believes-in-democracy
> Rest assured, not everyone in technology openly embraced the externality-disregarding "move fast and break things" ideology that took hold of SV in the last decade or so.

To be honest tho, like I can't blame them, I dont think they were aware of the consequences this might have.
At least he's upfront that he's keeping info from user connecting to his website. And perhaps at the time when it was written (2008), the author considered that IP was anonymous enough, from his viewpoint, as he couldn't do much with it.
Cool idea. What's to stop a player from just right clicking and planting either a flag or uncovering a square?
Left wing and right wing in my head has always been ivory tower speak, if one is to define left wing and right wing, one would always get distinct definitions. However if one was to rely on the right or left wings for living reasons, or for work or for any realistic situation, one would be hard-pressed to survive, thus left or right wing is only a perspective adopted by those with time as even your average hardworking white-collar investment banker has no time to play in politics.

Economics in its original state is not meant to be tainted by politics (this you can find online) as economy tainted with politics is biased and true economists dont follow party lines.
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Typing in BLOCK CAPS doesn't strengthen your argument.
Their app also passed the review process.

Of course, that doesn't stop all bad actors [0]. But it's much more process-based security than the web permits.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/uber-brok...
Neat. I can just right click everything though

Also is there a penalty for being a jerk and just clicking everything regardless of if it's a mine or not?
Why not use a non-US provider then? Maybe this will lead to more support for those. I can imagine that some EU companies will now struggle even more using AWS/GCP/Azure.
Generalizing the gay club scene to all gay people is like generalizing Panama City Spring Break to all straight people.
So... Sliceline?
Who's buying $700 bikes? My bike cost under $200, and for $30 extra came with a 3 year insurance and service plan so I can drop by any affiliated store and have it cleaned, adjusted, oiled and ready to go at no cost.
Shameless plug: At my company, tensorflight.com, we use computer vision on satellite/aerial/street view imagery to extract factors used for predicting the earthquake damage. For example, construction type or the number of stories mentioned in the article.

Given factors extracted by us, to get the full picture you may use open source catastrophe modelling software, Hazus released by FEMA.
Who uses them? I know someone who wrote a GLR parser generator, but I've never seen the algorithm used in production.

I've heard of one C++ front end that uses it -- Elkhound -- but the only context I've heard of Elkhound is in GLR parsing! As far as I can tell Clang is now the state of the art. (i.e. Clang probably does everything Elkhound does, but better and faster.)

I have looked at least 30+ parsers for programming languages. I see:

- hand-written recursive descent (with operator precedence for expressions)
- yacc (Ruby, R, awk, etc.)
- ANTLR
- Bespoke parser generators
- Python's pgen.c - LL(1) with some tricks
- sqlite's Lemon - similar to Yacc except you push tokens

That's about it. I've never encountered notable usages of Earley or GLL or GLR parsing.
Innovations in Healthcare IoT Sensors: Markets estimated to reach $1.9b by 2022
Who spends $2000 a year every year on their phone + connectivity? I know there are SOME people, but they’re in the minority, for sure.
A lot of the fear I see on here about Microsoft makes me laugh. Many on here haven't got over the Micro$oft mentality from a decade ago.

With that being said, there's a huge difference in acknowledging a company becoming more developer focused, and trusting a company. You shouldn't trust any company to do "the right thing", regardless of how noble their actions may seem on the outside. As Google have shown, your motto can literally be "do not evil" and in the space of a decade you are viewed as a monster.
We used to have social logins but we ditched them for now, people want to chat pseudonymously. I would like to do the name only signup at some point. We currently use email to do:
* password recovery
* send people a summary about who got in after they have left the community

Ideally we would let people opt in to that last part. Then all we need is a way to secure access to your nick.
TL;DR "I was very concerned but the sex was good. But now I scream 'rapist' because the political climate is right."
>So how can I permanently end all telemetry, now and forever on my box.

Simple: you use a different OS that doesn't spy on you. Microsoft is under no obligation to provide a product or service to you the way you want. They've decided they only want to offer products that spy on you, and that's their right. If you don't like that, you're free to not buy or use their products, and use something else instead. There are alternatives out there that don't spy on you.
It's a matter of herd mentality. The more the issue is raised, the more people will be willing to use services from other countries instead of US-based services, which means more non-US companies will gain prominence for certain services, which will encourage even more users to switch to them.

As long as everyone thinks everything is fine if they keep using the same old US services they've always used, none of those steps will happen. Expect to get a push-back from users who prefer continuing to use US-based services so they can justify their own choice.
Yes. I think the DC mindset that highly educated wonks should tell everyone what to do is intensely anti-Democratic.
That seems freakishly slow. It’s only 1.8 km per year.
Crossrail in London was built at least 1 order of magnitude faster.
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Well, quite frankly dear, your "view" is wrong.
Why did it surface now? Everyone knew.
> More competition has not lead to better conditions for workers. We are currently at such a low level of employment that economists don't know what the natural level of employment is anymore and this is still happening to employees.

95% extreme poverty to 5%, much higher life expectancy, exponential wealth growth and low unemployement. Your first sentence plainly contradicts reality 100%.

> You're argument that "they would have had it worse" assumes that that Amazon wouldn't have employees these people if they were only making billionaires instead of people worth 100s of billions. How is western society making more money and goods than ever but the average worker is doing worse while the richest are getting richer than ever?

Because thats not whats happening. Wages stagnated while half of the population entered the workforce worldwide-> if women went back to the employement levelts of the 70's you would find wages would grow quite a bit! An that is only one of the causes: another is that such propaganda always talks about the US, but doesnt see that wages of poorest countries in south east asia, or china, have grown enormously since the 70s by basically providing cheap clothes and goods to the US.

> Unfettered capitalism doesn't lead to all boats rising

That has been the reality since its inception. This is what the people that repeat that "trickle down doesnt work" end up believing. The unnuanced opinion that if someone has money, he has wealth (which is wrong) and if someone has wealth he has stolen (wrong again) and if wealth were distributed it would be better for all (wrong again).

> To state that, in an era of less regulation than in America's golden age where we see the average citizen's life stagnating or even getting worse, we need even less regulation so that the people who are worth more than entire countries can compete better is at best putting your head in the sand and at worst being actively against your fellow man

The us is not in an era of low regulation. The Us is super regulated both federally and state level. You need to train 1500 hours in an apprenticeship to be a hair stylist in california. You cant import drugs from abroad without extreme FDA regulatory costs. Doctors from outside the US need to do a residency again to be able to get a medical license in the US. Cities indulge in nymbism to be rentist about land. Taxes have regressive implementations the state economists recognize but they cant subsistitute with simpler and fairer taxes due to legal, political and tax regulations. The us has immigration quotas, for christ sake.

The US government spends 37% of gdp. 37%! The government consumes all the wealth of billionaires together every year. You would wipe out all the billionaires in the world in one year of tax breaks for everyone in the us. The next year there are no more billionaires and you still have to pay the same taxes.
its up again for me in Bonn, Germany
Pornhub now accepts Verge (XVG)
Does this apply to data of US citizens only ? If a non-US citizen stores data on a non-US server provided by e.g Microsoft, can it be accessed by the US gov ?
What is your background?
We have some people who got in last time chatting with us and doing mock interviews here: https://communities.metachat.com/communities/ycombinator
Look, i really don't like fb's practices as much as the next guy here ( you can check my history if you want to) but are you really going to hold someone accountable for something they said when they were 19-21?
But you can teach people which ideas are toxic, and you can make sure toxic ideas don't get air time. I think people overestimate the power of the Internet compared to schooling/telly/etc.
Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud
And the moral of the story is that, if you can successfully industrialize some process, you can make lots of money even if the resulting product is thoroughly mediocre.
This reinforces the fact that US power is decoupled from geography.
I disagree with the sentiment that because you can study without a laptop, giving the students laptops is pointless. There is a lot of value in becoming familiar with modern technology and learning computer-related skills.
“Who cares, I have nothing to hide”. Why this response to privacy is so flawed
Domino's is an interesting example for many reasons, but one that hits particularly close to home is: it's become a pretty canonical case for the kinds of 'digital transformations' that large consultancies sell to big lagging enterprises.

The reason I think that's interesting is 'digital' has only been an ancillary or enabling factor in their turn-around (e.g. better converting channels + lots of good marketing). The key has come from making a _better product_. In effect the consultancies that use it as an example, are (deliberately or not) misunderstanding the significance that digital played.
ПОШЛИ НА ХУЙ!!!
> I just can't get behind the article. Starting with headline. Stock Value as a KPI is just wrong.

For a quantitative measure of a company's success in creating good pizza, stock value is a functional KPI. It shows that investors are optimistic about the company, as you said, and it does reflect the company's expansion to the world's largest pizza chain.

> Secondly, tacking on the word "startup".

It's true they aren't a startup, but are definitely startup-like in the move-fast-and-break-things department, especially relative to their peers. They're even testing autonomous robots! I know that on HN we reserve "startup" to mean "taking a big financial risk and having a core industry other than ads", but most of the public still views Google, FB, etc., as "startup" companies due to their corporate culture compared to, say, TJX or Pizza Hut or Merrill Lynch.

> Many times I find the tracker stuck at "preparing" and only to update delivered directly.

I've ordered at least half a dozen times in Boston and I've never seen that. Maybe it's human error responsible rather than Domino's system?
Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms
If it really changes the business then I'd guess that one of the smaller providers (DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr) relocates their headquarters to a EU country to circumvent that. Could at least bring non-US data centres out of scope.
Grafting calves after a loss
> If you have barricades and highly weaponized armed guards, you don't have a community. You have a war.

Or a highly pacified citizenry? ("Move on citizen. It's after dark. go home.")

What role does Youtube have in making a kumbaya kind of experience?
ПОШЛИ НА ХУЙ ПИДАРАСЫ!
Companies are double/triple-dipping with spying because consumers are happy to allow it.

Don't like it? Don't buy it. If you pay hard-earned cash for a product, and then complain that it spies on you even though you knew this before you bought it, you don't really have much cause to complain. If you really value your privacy, then put your money where your mouth is.
This was one of the best didn't read the articles I've seen in a while.
The Pentagon is going with a single cloud services provider
consider the hoodie: https://www.google.ca/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&q=zuckerberg+...
> Modern society says that as long as your actions don't harm me, you should be able to do what you wish.

No, modern law may strive for this ideal, but society doesn't. Society itself has a social aspect that goes beyond some modern liberalistic ideal. Since people are social and tribal, society will always have standards by which we live by. For example, people walking down the street naked will always be interpreted as crazy, regardless of any harm committed against other people.

> Progress is made through instability.

This depends entirely upon your definition of "progress." I personally don't think of the complete degradation of social standards as a good thing.

> You also assume that stability doesn't harm people. It clearly does.

Real life has winners and losers. Life is a system of inputs and outputs, and social pressure guides people into frameworks that lead to productive behavior in our society. Can they be taken too far? Sure. That, however, does not mean that _all_ social pressures are bad. For example, if a person is shamed for constant novelty-seeking through drinking, partying, and obnoxious behavior, a sense of shame may guide them into a mindset that allows for longer-term planning and goal seeking instead.
Linear Algebra libraries have been using GPUs for longer than molecular dynamics. What's your point?
You sure it's not checking for updates?
I like the original Klingon version: "Only Picard could go to Qo'noS."
Generally people will use "bug" to refer to any arthropod or, more loosely, to several classes of small thing including bacteria that seem animal-like but not bacteria that seem plant-like. Generally all of these usages have connotations of being bad but also not very important. For instance someone might refer to the common cold as a "bug" but generally not to Ebola.
Brave New Imperialism.
>At the family's request, CBC News is granting him anonymity because of his hope the charge will be dropped and his reputation preserved.

The only thing about this article that didn't irritate me.
It hurts to hear stigma and Emacs together in a sentence but I guess you are referring to the arcane keybindings of Emacs. In that case I use native keybindings for editing in Emacs i.e. the old Cntrl-C, Cntrl-V, Cntrl-A, Cntrl-Z, Cntrl-S and vim keybindings for executing commands i.e. for things like running code. This is a great setup for beginners so do contact me if you need Emacs to be used with native keybindings :)

Just to give an example of what can be done using org-mode, this is the project I am using to grok Literate Programming -- http://ray_tracer.surge.sh/

The whole thing is generated using one org-mode file -- https://gitlab.com/snippets/1710454

and this org-mode file is the one I work in, it will eventually generate the source code in separate files too, once I have finished the project.

This is what my setup looks like -- https://i.imgur.com/mqi8vPR.png

Anyways I can't convince you to use it, but hopefully I can convince you to give it a try, it isn't easy but it is worth it :)
"Extended Phenotype" much?

> The Extended Phenotype is a 1982 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author introduced a biological concept of the same name. The main idea is that phenotype should not be limited to biological processes such as protein biosynthesis or tissue growth, but extended to include all effects that a gene has on its environment, inside or outside the body of the individual organism.

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Totally unrelated mosquito story: A friend of mine told me about a time he was laying down resting on a hot day with a fan blowing over him to keep mosquitoes away. He watched a mozzy land in the lee of his body and walk towards him.
Not as bad as a motorized scooter but still not "perfectly fine".
Great solution give or take the occasional shooting. The shootings don’t cost much and most shooters can’t scale their killing so I guess it’s all good.
>2. Washington, D.C. and environs. The intellectual class in this city is about half conservative/Republican/libertarian and always will be — just don’t think too hard about who actually lives here!

Um....what? DC resident here. The only conservatives I see, anywhere, are tourists from the South/Midwest. The "intellectual class" is not linearly mapped to the Congress proportions. While conservative politicians (by the way most politicians live in the suburbs, outside DC) have conservative staffers, there's way more non-profits which are overwhelmingly liberal.
Toronto is 50% immigrants, LA is 40% immigrants. LA's immigrants are 2/3rds Latino, Toronto's immigrants are very broadly composed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles
>At the family's request, CBC News is granting him anonymity because of his hope the charge will be dropped and his reputation preserved.

The only part of this article that didn't irritate me.
As far as I understand, it applies to ALL data stored at any US company. A US warrant against a French company could be valid for all their data in the cloud without a confirmation by a local court even if all data is stored outside of the US (which would be necessary for physical assets)
That is wrong, they closed issues indiscriminately.

Oh, and they will keep doing so: "Legacy issues that are more than one month old will be closed by an automated process as part of this cleanup effort."
> What’s next for Domino’s Pizza?

> - VR Pizza Construction

> - Make pizza fly

> - Marketing fueled by psychology

Damn, that's Silicon Valley in summary.

What a time to be alive.
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That's mostly because of the culture of respect and patience amongst all modes in Holland. In Holland people queue politely on their single speed heavy bikes at stoplights while in San Francisco we've had multiple injuries this year on Market St from bike-on-bike collisions caused by people from the back of the "pack" timing out red lights and passing stopped riders at high speeds.
The West’s spurning of Chinese hardware firm ZTE could backfire
Yes. Why should someone be punished just because they happen to have a name that is similar to someone horrible? Humans will have trouble avoiding being influenced by that coincidence, but we should demand better from an AI.

If you are referring to the actual well-known Adolf Hitler, then there should be no need to use the name for the purposes of making decisions. You shouldn't need to use a person's name as a proxy for whether or not they are a genocidal dictator, just make the decision based on whether or not they actually are a genocidal dictator.
“End result: we actually removed more lines than we added”
Speculation is never fact
That would be kind of a strange thing to do for interns...if that's what they really were
Alibaba cloud? Presumably Chinese govt can snoop but not sure how much power US has.
Also: the author makes the point that mobile users have been conditioned to look in the app stores for stuff to use on their devices.

In other words, having a presence in app stores is important to marketing. And indeed, his new users per month rate went up after he listed in the actual app stores.
This is the right formulation. Alternatively, that the US is the only global power. Although I can't imagine the US could try something similar in China.

The real leverage it has is the base of US users.
The difference is, VPN providers, unlike ISPs normally don't have your home address and passport info[1]. Some don't have your name at all, unless your traffic leaks your identity - e.g. when you're paying for VPN service with Bitcoin. Even more, they're generally out of your jurisdiction, which acts as some barrier against frivolous requests.

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[1] In Russia every ISP is legally required to perform this sort of KYC and keep those records for a while.
Building my perfect router
The next Windows 10 update is on hold thanks to a bug
Love me some minesweeper. My favorite version is probably on the Vive. Nothing is cooler than FPV minesweeper, planting flags and working the field.

I wish this one had some zoom control.
And how does that relate to Millennium tower which has already "sunk a foot and a half"?

What if high rise building is anchored through all liquefaction-prone layers but the layers start to shift (they are on slight incline) when they get liquified? I am not expert but I can imagine it is possible that, if the structural support is long enough, just few inches of lateral movement may completely compromise the support.
I'm surprised at some of the numbers from early on in their history. The brothers bought the business with a $900 loan (maybe they had some of their own money) and had $99 in sales (not profits) their first week, with _profits_ rising to $750 a week rapidly [0]. I can't imagine making that kind of return that quickly in any business these days.

[0] http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/domino-s-in...
Azure does have sovereign clouds, for instance its Germany cloud. [1] In this case data is handled by a German company and not Microsoft and so is subject to EU law.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...
>Apologies for the complaint, but could someone please let me know why I'm being downvoted for this question?

It's likely because you're implying "dynamic" is a "buzzword" in a discussion about structural engineering and seismic movements (which is, by definition, a dynamic system).
I disagree.

Is UK occupied by US forces? Germany? Eastern EU nations? Japan?

And let's not kid ourselves on why Moon was elected. He was in large part elected because of strong disgust (justified) people felt against the previous impeached president.

Moon was elected with 40% of the votes.
This is a good movement,and lets hope that sanctions on the people enforced by authoritarian psychopathic Western regimes will be lifted up. The only known way (historically) to liberalization is through making people richer through trade,not enforcing them to be alone with poverty and populists.
Hetzner requires a copy of your ID which I find more intrusive. Does OVH?

If there is a way to sign up for Hetzner without giving them a copy of your passport, does anyone know?
Concept is pretty cool. Needs a little work still though.
Why is this news now?

Because:
everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform != everyone