skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like Aaron Swartz. Is it really necessary to send 15 officers and / or sentence people to 20+ years in prison for downloading freely available information?

Aaron Swartz faced a longer prison sentence than most murderers within the US, and the sentence for murder in almost any other country in the world.

Common sense has completely gone out the window in both policing, and the criminal justice system.

Was anyone injured? Did anyone suffer financial loss? Fear to self? Any form of significant damage at all? The answer to all the previous questions is a definitive and resounding NO!
Isn't it the robustness of distributed power rather than the benign dictatorship that turns ugly due to too much centralized power during leadership changes?
Also, pickups most probably wont ever be "designed" to be self driving cars. They may have that has an option in the distant future. But given they are (supposed) to be farm/woodland/workhorses vehicles, they will stay mostly as they are for a very, very long time and give Ford a century to adapt (or milk the cow, kill the cow, eat the cow and close shop). The US/Canada is full of thousand of miles of woodland tracks and farmland unpaved tracks self driving vehicle will never be able to map. So unless they can drive fully on instruments including snow and very close trees. People really do live at the end of these tracks (at least in the Appalachians) and owns pickup trucks just to get home (and the status symbol thing).

As for the pickups as "status symbol", it's irrelevant because the very symbol is the offroad "real work, real duty, real matcho mens" factor. Given Ford seems (as an outside observer) not to care about electric and self driving, focusing on bigger Lincolns and the F-series makes total sense as a business plan.

1) Let the other spend their billions developing their hipster tech

2) Use reliable incomes that will outlive any trend

3) Get mature technology on the cheap once it's commonplace.

4) Ignore "carmaker has a service" because it's not their core competence and there will be profitless races to the bottom by the "data warehouse" players (rather than profit for the carmakers)

5) Profit
Why “Why-Run” Mode in Chef Is Considered Harmful
It is too easy to say "those persons are no longer responsible". I do not care who was responsible, I do not care how the company was structured or who was calling the shots. The company reaped the rewards, they get to keep the responsibilities.

It is a boring argument, being repeated ad-nausea: "nobody is responsible anymore". And, since companies (and states) are perfectly aware that the market / society will forget in a couple of decades what they are doing now, they keep on doing whatever they like. Guess what, some of us are not willing to forget.

> Your hyperbole and childish "M$" name-calling do nothing to support your argument.

You call it "childish name calling", I call it "guerrilla marketing". It seems to work.
Maybe they took a guess it was your birthday and you only noticed it because it actually was.
Case in point: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup...
I've had this conversation before. I want "IoT" stuff to connect to a bridge I control. Even that does not need to go outside of the network, I can VPN into my network if I need access.

But John Doe does not care, he wants convenience to the point where the IoT manufacturer knows everything about how they use the product.
What kind of VPN? If you mean using the router to connect the LAN to a VPN, then this[1] report should put to rest the idea that they are trustworthy.

If it's an end-to-end VPN, it's doubtful most of these devices have the power to run a client.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16847716
Attention @ https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Oh I completely understand that. What I meant to really say is that at least in some realms we already do consider IP addresses as personal information that should be protected.
All discrimination already is doing this, just indirectly. There's always an implication. The major one in the US is that harder working people are ethically better than lazy people. This combined with the belief that hard work equals success allows for very easy punishment based mindsets to spread.
> Western media intends to portrait "china" as one single top-down entity, but as a matter of fact it's not.

Are you saying this article does that? I don't see anything in it that does. Can you quote me anything in it that does?

> There are thousands of bureaucratic federal or local government branches can start an Internet crackdown.

You seem to be wanting to imply that this precludes the existence of attempts that come from a higher level.
To be specific, what is the probability that the next word is "sdh7777asljashd_"?

Any word level model trained on any dataset will say it is zero. But that is incorrect; humans know that there is always a probability that some arbitrary sequence of characters will suddenly appear in text (think a GUID in technical documentation). To account for this, the model's author has to make sure to smooth the output so it doesn't produce these zero probabilities.

No amount of data can ever fix this problem (although more data can put better bounds on the smoothing factor).
me too, I've swung back to Bill, amazon, google, youtube, facebook, none of them are going to help us, Bill on the other hand, I trust you Bill, I love your surface book, I love your international approach, make the geeks proud again :)
I do not blame M$ for competing. I blame them for FUDding.

It could perfectly be that M$ had the better product or better TCO, or better support, or better whatever. But advancing their cause by FUDding was not ok.
You can take that too far - they can think you're a bum and refuse to talk to you. (Happened to me!)

But yeah, it's very plain that how you are treated by a salesman and what they offer and at what price is very strongly connected with how you dress, are groomed, speak, what car you drove up in, etc.
Scala ? OO/Functionnal JVM based language. Not the purest FP language ever, but it is used a lot (Finance, web...).

Any lisp (Scheme, Closure...)

Prolog: logic programming. Tell the computer what you know, ask a question and let it compute the answer for you.
> especially around resharding. Foursquare had a 17 hour downtime in 2010 due to hitting a sharding edge case

so I opened link

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/15/troubles-with-sha...

> What Happened? The problem went something like: Foursquare uses MongoDB to store user data on two EC2 nodes, each of which has 66GB of RAM

There's your problem. Using Mongo sharding in production in 2010.
If you never go to Facebook, Safari will prevent Facebook from building a profile across the sites you visit. For each parent site, Facebook will receive different cookies, which defeats their system.
Yes. Listings are removed from Google, Bing etc all of the time. Recently, a subreddit dedicated to sharing beer was removed from Reddit. Youtube recently banned certain gun-related videos [1] on its platform.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43500714
I was under the impression you can disable all of the telemetry. Is that not the case ?

And Pro really refers to Prosumer not Professional.
Please don't post generic ideological rhetoric to Hacker News. The more generic it is, the less information it contains, and the more off-topic and predictable the discussion gets.

That's not a disagreement with your politics; we just know from long experience what these tangents turn into, and they're all the same.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16851723 and marked it off-topic.
This is going to be amazing. Microsoft always comes up with such cool ideas. Now its kernel for IoT.
Having worked in the similar industry ~10 years ago, with all of the debug tools installed in the system, even then I have had a separate Windows bootable system for gaming, since nearly all of the protected games were interfering with debugging tools in different ways.

So pretty strange author is surprised by that.
You can opt out of FB ads without having an account via http://optout.aboutads.info.

Not sure why their site only sometimes shows this link :/.
M$ was fighting the GPL, which was a license that users were freely choosing. And it was fighting it, in great part, by actively lying.
There's a difference between the very literal definition of "sexual content" that you mention and the notion of "sexually explicit content" that the person you're replying to mentioned.
I've had software of mine flagged by overeager antivirus just for being new and uncommon. It labels it as "WS.Reputation.1". If that's the only detection it's most likely nothing to worry about.
Ask HN: How to Make Money from Open Source Mobile App?
I'm currently working on a mobile app to be released to both the app store and play store. I am thinking about making it open source, cause OSS Rocks!

But some extra bucks wouldn't hurt, so how do I make some (coffee money) while making the App Open Source?

It's a feed reader, so not the next billion dollar idea
This is what the LibreOffice project is trying to achieve via EasyHacks.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks

We are always trying to get in new developers, and we have a masssive and often confusing codebase. Easy Hacks give newbies a way of getting their feet wet, in a way that actually helps improve the codebase.
wow, what a lousy cheap offer, if I turned up to work and they could not get the office door to open, I would go home and expect to get paid.
You might find the film Samsara quite interesting. It's a timeline documentary showing how people live all over the world. Timelapses show the interconnectedness of things that happen too slowly for us to appreciate. Like star trails.

The film evokes a sense of how things are connected and all the suffering we create due to a desire to alleviate suffering.
Should I ask to add the repricing feature in Magento Walmart integrator?
Indeed, and he says "keep on doing them" :P
Regulation is required, our industry needs to realize it’s not always about the bottom line and disruption. The products we make have real world consequences and they need to be addressed before a “let’s just ship this now to make a quick buck” launch.

I’m glad there were actually some companies that waited to test out their products and work with SFMTA.

This unregulated ship fast theme is no different than handling personal data irresponsibly. Companies that don’t care about the public and only their bottom line should be penalized.
That's still how I usually cook, more or less.
> precludes the existence of attempts that come from a higher level

They do exist, but 80% cases you see online is not. There's big rule is 属地原则 which topics online must be traced back to its geographical local agency to manage. Actions taken by central government exists but just rare. e.g. 严打.
Gates has done good work since leaving MS but I wouldn't say he mellowed out towards the end of his time at Microsoft. He was still very much proactively trying to control 3rd parties. Whether it was IRC via Microsoft Chat (which was actually a pretty cool idea but it didn't belong on public IRC servers), MSN, IE Vs Netscape wars, then IE Vs HTML wars (eg ActiveX, Silver light, etc). The whole Java wars (which did eventually give us .NET so some good eventually came of it, but it took years before .NET matured). MS Office Vs open standards (eventually we got a compromise with OOXML but it still feels like the battle was lost given every other office suite used the non-propriatory ODF).

And this is all without going into how he tried to destroy Linux, control UNIX, successfully destroyed competing DOS platforms (eg DR DOS), blocked OEMs / shops from selling PCs with competing OSs (or was it machines without Windows preinstalled? I forget now), ruined EeePCs and their form factors (by selling With dies at a loss), etc.

I think the only reason Gates didn't try his luck with data collection was because it simply wasn't a thing back then.

That said, I do still respect the guy even though I disliked his products and how he monopolised the market. Which is more than I can say about Balmer.
Sounds more like a PR push for Microsoft after lobbying fairly well on the cloud front. But, comparing google to Microsoft? You must be joking.
I remind you, very sensitive data is handled on Windows 10 Pro machines. Or would you require each doctor to maintain an Enterprise IT infrastructure.

Here in Germany, it is still controversial whether Windows 10 machines can be used in public services at all.
The article mentions MPTP, the street drug byproduct that caused a Parkinson's-like condition. I learned about that at university while studying neuropharmacology - those cases led to a huge leap forwards in Parkinson's research:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345642/
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>I hope that this would be a boon for transit costs in America which are ridiculous compared to Europe [0].

What is special about America's underground bedrock, compared to Europe's, that today's existing tunnel boring technology cannot solve in America, leading to high costs?

>But part of the problem lies with transit advocates in the US, who think tech and Elon Musk are a threat to transit. [1]

Transit advocates, like Jarrett Walker (as you linked), who view public transit in the US (of the "put a bunch of people on a bus or train" type) as a service that is already useful but often deficiently funded and poorly maintained, are extremely rational to be wary, especially when technologists like Elon Musk view transit as primarily a highway-building exercise. Elon's original vision for The Boring Company was basically a re-skinned highway tunnel. Instead of onramps and offramps you have elevators, and instead of "cars" traveling on "roads" you get high speed cars traveling inside tunneled roads. His most recent announcement, to "prioritize pedestrians over cars" (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/972245615735222273), looks an awful lot like a bus that runs on a freeway. To transit advocates this just looks like more of the same.
> Nuclear weapons simulations, drone AI, smart bombs - all good.

Why are you assuming people's positions on those topics? I've seen people bring them up.
5 things I wish I'd known about Kubernetes before I started
Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorials (2004-2018)
This sounds awfully close to a No True Scotsman type of argument. Also, are you implying only "serious" people should not get speed upon?
The only way to not be an asshole riding one on the sidewalk is to essentially not go faster than walking, at which point why bother?
I don't think that's the case.

Facebook's ad/privacy page told me KLM had shared data with Facebook. I don't remember agreeing to that, I'm diligent at unticking the box or whatever, but in any case, I doubt it only goes one way.

KLM's website includes at least 15 trackers.

I'm looking forward to 25 May. I will write to all these companies, and demand that they stop sharing my data.
Watchdogs vs. Snowflakes
yes that was the problem SV trolls downvoting
2003 called and wants it HTML back. Seriously, the web today with JavaScript disabled?

Grandma configuring her what now?
Ok, put it this way: they should be sabotaged if they're never going to be as good as native apps. Seeing as they're not going to be, and Apple has standards for how it's phone behaves and the quality of the ecosystem, I have no problems with them essentially insisting that developers build proper apps.
So that's what it is. Got a TV connected via a D-port to HDMI adapter and the stupid machine wakes when I want to just turn off the TV after I put the PC to sleep.

Googling didn't get me too far obviously.
Average rating on iOS is 4.4 for my Ionic App.

Average rating on Android is 4.1

Especially the iOS app is almost indistinguishable from a native iOS app. Ionic is very well designed to mimic native UI controls.

In the end, it doesn’t really matter if your native UI lot runs some sliding animation in 60fps or if the very same animation is done in JS and runs with 60fps.
TLDR: writer with "a bunch of half-baked ideas" whose plan is to "pitch a tech startup and get obscenely rich while writing a book about how to pitch a tech startup and get obscenely rich – the Silicon Valley way" moves to "Hacker Condo" in San Francisco, conflates it (SoMA) with Silicon Valley, does other cliche tech bro things, namedrops an incoherent sequence of tech brands (Soylent, TaskRabbit, and then LifeHacker??), claims startup communities such as Hacker News are shovel merchants, reminds us that "profit-hunger, philistinism and misanthropy are and always have been at the core of the enterprise" and concludes "new breed of Silicon Valley billionaires knew exactly what they were doing. The plan was to take all the money and run – to Mars, if necessary"

This is what the author had to say about job security for programmers:

many programmers who had “made it” in Silicon Valley were scrambling to promote themselves from coder to “founder” ... the programmers knew that their own ladder to prosperity was on fire and disintegrating fast. They knew that well-paid programming jobs would also soon turn to smoke and ash, as the proliferation of learn-to-code courses around the world lowered the market value of their skills, and as advances in artificial intelligence allowed for computers to take over more of the mundane work of producing software.

This seems to be a plug for their book "Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon." Here's one of the Amazon reviews and I quote, "If you don't have any ideas and can't succeed, write a book about it"
How Not to Make Your Projects Succeed with ImmutableJS – Part 1
How is that related to the parent comment? Those trades pre-GFC weren't on dark pools, that was mostly voice (over-the-phone trading).
I am not talking about dependencies, I am talking about COM exports from kernel32, than manifests, multiple versions of same library on the system which now matches linux xzy.so,xzy.so.1,... they had a clean userspace with backward compatibility, now they are having a mess.
Musk isn't limited to Twitter. ;) There are many good long-form videos (interviews, lectures, Q&As) on youtube. An oldie but a goodie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegOUmgKB4E

If you think Musk doesn't care about Earth problems, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCuDxpccYM

Wait But Why is certainly popular, but it's not good at delimiting where Elon Musk's words end and Tim Urban's speculation begins. I also found oversimplifications and even downright inaccuracies. I'd recommend treating it as an introduction to Elon Musk's thinking, not as some final revelation.
A web site is running on someone else's hardware or running on your hardware but dependent upon others resources to operate. In theory you could open the websites sources but since the goal of app stores seems to be finding ways to monetize peoples data or get them to pay you monthly the end result will probably be unfriendly to tinkers, unfree, and closed.

This generation will be poorer and dumber than the last.
That ordering accurately represents market share.
>else we end up with things like the millions of dead ebikes we see in China

We end up with things like this in America too: https://slate.com/business/2018/04/astounding-photos-capture...
They are forking Riot, and deploying a closed federation of Matrix servers. That is what they mean by “it’s based on open source software”
In NLP, data is very much NOT a source of objective truth.

Language has too much implied context and meaning which is communicated outside the text under analysis. Embeddings attempt to capture this, but they aren't as good as humans.

"XXXXX is a dog of a movie" - does this mean the movie was bad or was the author playing with words when the movie is about dogs?
LCZero plays Stockfish 1.0 at TCEC
I have a kid and don't use a stroller - in fact, strollers are kinda one of my pet peeves. They consume tons of space on sidewalks and in restaurants. I'd much rather have sidewalks full of parked scooters that I might at least occasionally use.

But you know what? I'm pretty tolerant, and I'm willing to put up with a little mild inconvenience that allows other people to make their lives significantly easier. I wish everyone else felt likewise.
I've heard that in western countries there are people who track torrent users and threaten them with blackmailing letters. So people are afraid to use torrents to download pirated movies. If that's true, it can be a reason of Neflix success: fear, not convenience.

In my country nobody cares about torrents and I don't know anyone who's using Netflix. There are some people, who don't know how to properly use computer, I can imagine that they could pay for something like that, but that's because they have no other choice, not because they like to pay.
You can donate here:

https://www.nirsoft.net/donate.html
It’s also a good way to get some sterilized water into your system.
Why-run still has a ton of value.

One of the fastest ways to develop a new wrapper cookbook that assembles together a bunch of community cookbooks and custom glue is to rapidly iterate from within a machine.

You may want to stop me and say "but what about test kitchen?" - and yeah, it's very useful, but there are a lot of things that are more difficult or time consuming to mock out in kitchen than one might like, e.g. interfacing with services like certificate and credential repositories, registering with other network services, etc. that you sometimes need to turn around in short order.

So, bang out a cookbook with the basics and get it onto the chef server, run the initial version on a host, and then edit the cached version on a host using the --skip-cookbook-sync parameter to the chef client to run the local copy. Doing this in why-run mode gives you the fastest iteration times possible in a production-like environment. For small changes needed ASAP to production, it's similarly the quickest path to something that will converge. Especially since you're generally going to be running your test machine on real hardware, instead of your over-taxed workstation...

Of course, when this is all done with, you need to sync your work back to your cookbook repository and let it run through the proper CI/CD workflows, update compliance tests if you have them, etc. but the time-to-deploy on production is lower than any other way I've tried.

Dirty practice? Sure, maybe, but honestly there's so much posting on HN about overly-idealized practices that sound great on paper but just aren't the kind of thing overworked DevOps people have time for. Figuring out how to use shortcuts is often the name of the game.
Yeah it makes me wonder too. Especially when good companies are stocked with top degrees. Can they all just be crushing the interview? Is the degree that predictive?
Almost all trucks are used like cars in the same environments 99.9% of the time with the added ability to haul things.

The use case you describe is best served by having a manual override button and retaining a traditional steering wheel as opposed to having a different more manual product
Waste of time to go to dealer to negotiate. Do everything over the phone. Never relent their insistence to come in. Finalize price over phone. Done. Success.
If you want to avoid strict regulations move to a red state and go cowboy on your scooter. San Francisco is a conservative place when it comes to the community.