skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What arguments don't work?

The truth is that FSF is primarily a political organization. It is more of a political organization than any other open source foundation, eg they do things like refuse to endorse any OS that distributes any piece of non-free (read: GPL) software. They advocate against non-GPL open source as harmful. They guide their projects to be technically worse if it supports the political mission.

There is confusion here about what Stallmans role even is since he isn't an active technical contributor: his role to make sure the political vision is being enforced in the projects under FSF/GNU stewardship and that is exactly what he is doing here.

Basically, if something is not advancing the goals of the FSF then it shouldn't be a part of the FSF. It isn't news that the goal of the FSF isn't to make high quality software and they just think free software is the pragmatically best model to achieve that:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.en.html

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-pract...
I'm going to become a bail bondman and refuse to serve people of color. I bet I'll get tons of accolades for being so progressive.
Trello launches largest user interface overhaul to date
>Contrary to what a lot of people think these are generally not robots. They're just people with a very short training period governed by an extremely didactic decision tree.

That's essentially a bot made of flesh and bone. If there's no room for critical thought, you are essentially just software that breathes.
According to Patio11 on a previous thread - yes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960480
iPhone 7 started at $650
For now, yes. Historically, corporations become more and more abusive until there's a public backlash that gets them regulated. Something like "there must be some clearly-defined way to get a response from a human" seems like plausible legislation.
> The Koch brothers have a vested interest in pointing out examples (and this is one of them), where liberal feel-good policies make the lives of actual poor people worse.

The cash bail system and the bail bonds industry it supports are not “liberal feel good” policies.
The world almost ended in 1983
Right, it'd be really hard in this case. Only being armchair-level interested in UBI I'd have to be content hoping that real economists and UBI researchers would come up with ways to test or at least address the risk. Maybe there are ways to do computer models around that, or ways to structure a roll-out so that it is very clearly a "trial" until various macro impacts can be measured. Another way to test, at least in the US and similarly organized governments, is to rely on states to implement. 50 different parallel experiments measuring UBI vs no-UBI impact. The trick would be to measure fairly and transparently, and react without political spin and bias, which I don't really see happening soon.

My other motivation for posting is hoping that reporters and other HN readers would see there is skepticism besides just "it'd make people lazy".
Am I crazy, I can't see a live demo page.
Americans never use the word "burgle". The first time I heard British people saying it, I wanted to cut my ears off.
Unicode in JavaScript
The React State Museum: View the Hottest State Management Libs for React
Oh thanks for the correction. I thought green meant OP
Researchers develop portable 3-D skin printer to repair deep wounds
What It’s Like to Be a Bot
I did describe both (Google could do a much better job with the integration on GCP/GKE), but by "Kubernetes first" I meant the latter.

Databases run fine on Kubernetes and have been doing fine since 1.7, and the meme that Docker is bad for stateful apps is a getting a bit old. The challenges are mostly the same as with running databases on a VM or bare metal. In particular, you need to know how to manage HA.

The weakest point is perhaps that Kubernetes's scheduler completely ignores disk I/O, so you have to bare careful to avoid sharing a node with multiple disk-heavy apps that will compete for resources. This is includes the file system cache; for example, PostgreSQL works best when it can rely on the OS to cache pages, so you don't want other apps (including Docker and Kubernetes themselves) to compete there.

That said, I wasn't saying that a hosted solution shouldn't also offer VMs. Just that Kubernetes should be the main entrypoint and control plane. And someone figured out a way to run VMs via Kubernetes [1], which is a neat example of a solution to the lack of integration I was complaining about earlier.

[1] https://www.mirantis.com/blog/virtlet-run-vms-as-kubernetes-...
I do that every day with uMatrix[1], only overriding hosts when needed. I also turn off all CSS animation with Stylus.[2] The Web is becoming unusable without that.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
As Cryptocurrencies Rise, Who Needs Banks?
CodeWeavers Has Released CrossOver 17.5.0 and Removed the Legacy X Window System
Speaking from the perspective of someone who did some amount of web stuff with maps.

Mapbox feels really good. API, docs and rendering performance all of this is really good. Although it's not an obvious choice if you are starting fresh. I personally find the pricing impossible to digest. Probably sounds reasonable for well-founded startups from developed countries. If your doing a bootstrapped product and can't pay 500$ it's not for you.

Google Maps. the v3 it's here for a while. The API feels good, but not great, Stack Overflow is your documentation. Rendering performance is bad, rendering performance with (many) markers without some hacks is terrible, rendering performance on mobile is even worse. I'm trying to figure out what new the pricing means for me.

Leaflet and OpenStreetMap look like a better choice for all hobby projects and small product from now on.
I know a guy who built a single-page web app for a blog. Really.

It takes a few seconds to load the post titles, it'll make your computer grind to a halt if you have more than two tabs of it open, it took months to write, and it doesn't do anything you couldn't do with plain HTML and some AJAX request handlers... but Brawndo has electrolytes!

I bet it looks pretty good on his resume.
An AI speed test shows clever coders can still beat tech giants
Neither does the regular death penalty un-murder anyone. But as long as our society feels it has the right to end human lives, it should absolutely have the right to dissolve corporations; and corporations are capable of much greater harm than individuals.

Capital punishment is meant as a deterrent, not a preventative measure (well, really, it's revenge for the mob) and so it could potentially work much better with corporations than with individuals.
The New Extend – Extend – Blog
It sounds like 60% should have bail set at or below $1k
> azure has secondary region built into their blob solution, which is essentially what you're describing

How does Azure's secondary region capability provide cloud vendor redundancy?
NASA and Amazon Set Up in France to Stop Drones Hitting Planes
But dollars are always on the line, and that’s why they’re protecting customers outside of China and complying with the authoritarian Chinese gov in China. Most countries don’t have draconian measures like China does to make sure that companies comply with their every demand.
There's also test pads to wire up to and/or build a new port.
Nope. What changes is that any device for which you've previously been prompted to "Trust this device?" saying yes will no longer make the iPhone trust that computer forever, only seven days. Unless you unlock the iPhone again.
hey... that's a pretty good overview. thx!
How browsers should handle autoplay restrictions
Question:

For someone who is already comparatively poor (ie. no savings), why is "being a fugitive who also owes someone money" worse than "being a fugitive"?
It's not great when the notification box is styled like native UI to make it seem more legitimate, although it is nice that the page doesn't just flat out request notification permissions.
Ticketmaster to Use Facial Recognition in Place of Tickets for Venue Entry
AI at massive scale, and Reinforcement Learning in industry
FYI, maybe too late for you to see this, but I first looked at browse->netflix, then I switched it to amazon, same movies listed there (netflix movies). I did not sign in.
You'd ideally want a dev process where all your developers were capable of conducting integration test runs with Burp; you'd probably set up a checklist of authz tests, and set up some custom wordlists for Intruder for database, filesystem, and DOM injection vectors.
Please do yourself a favour and read "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
US will label GMO foods with smiley faces and sunshine
Guess I was more responding to the speculation of a Skynet scenario than of a company screwing over a "small subset" of customers which plainly does routinely happen.
You can install iOS 11.4 beta and find out one way or the other; it doesn’t seem like anyone has done so yet, and since no one thought to do so before today’s post, no one will know for 7 days assuming they start today.
Okay. That doesn't mean it isn't used as a unique identifier.
Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Rural Environments Without Detailed Prior Maps [pdf]
> At some point (maybe after the popularity of Google Maps?)

I feel like there was a huge uptick in developers ignoring users with JS turned off when Angular and React started becoming popular. It's interesting to note that big tech companies, who have a financial interest in pushing websites away from progressive enhancement techniques, were the ones behind the creation of those frameworks.
Did you miss "This story appears in the May 31, 2018 issue of Forbes" below the byline of this article?
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Other "evil" companies like Google instead refused to do business with such regime. Apple actively helps the regime by banning VPN apps and preventing Chinese people from installing them from 3rd party sources.
Top 5 Best Search Engines That Do Not Track You
Do Google ads have the general effect of suppressing competition, or is it just for bail companies?
Many other posters suggest that native search results (still allowed) will better find legitimate and helpful bail bond companies
Is it known how those greykey devices even work? AFAIK iOS blocks many consecutive attempts to enter pin, so brute force would take too much time. It seems that greykey device can bypass this restriction using USB. Why Apple didn't just patch this vulnerability instead of disabling USB?
- International payroll: often impacts tax situation
- Adjusting to remote collaboration. e.g. no more walls of sticky notes; can no longer rely on water cooler conversations or "quick meetings"
- Timezones
Say a user drops their phone in a desk drawer and goes on an 8 day hiking trip.

He/she comes back and can't remember their passcode. Is the phone now a brick?
I'm not totally sure why. The life living on the boarder between France and Switzerland seems pretty idyllic (but at the end of university you don't think about that so much). I got the feeling it was just that going to work where your dad is isn't very appealing no matter where it is.
The reverse is true for me, I'd choose 15 hours in a flat-bed vs 7 hours in an ordinary seat.
Michael Pollam has written about this extensively... the proliferation of "magic ingredients" that confer "healthy" status on the same old food. "Ancient grains" are just starch. Omega-3 fatty acids are just oil. Etc. The fashion changes, but the structure stays the same.

Chain restaurant food relies on year-round availability of ingredients of consistent quality (although "seasonal menus" exist, they're more about marketing than availability, the illusion of freshness again). Lots of white flour, vegetable oil, refined sugar, factory-farmed meats. Restaurants are more factory than art. Raw ingredients go in, get turned to finished products and sold on-site.
Do you speak one language only?
Even one additional language would change your perspective here. You won't be able to translate all that properly into one language.

A people's language is a window into their culture and their being.
Each language (and even dialect) have their own insightful and delightful quirks.

I could only lamely elaborate here on own experience.
There are Kiosk uses of iPads where this could be an issue. Often those devices are mounted 24/7 inside a secure housing and left on but communicate with external devices. Now someone will have to reset them once a week.

Edit: thanks for the clarification below. I had the implementation wrong in my head. And yes, I realize this is a fairly edge use case, just one that affects my industry.
When I say "companies like Equifax" I don't mean credit monitoring services. I mean any company which has a regulatory or business requirement to verify you are the person you say you are. They all use SSNs, and most of them require your consent to operate.
5 Tools for Faster Development in React
This Is PHP Framework Written in C. It Is Simple, Fast, Standard, Security
Click "text-only version" in the Google cache header.
I suspect it is a reference to "The Flywheel Effect" espoused by business author Jim Collins: https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-flywheel.html

I'm not an expert, and I'm not sure that this in fact a valid interpretation of that concept, but I know that it's a popular concept in certain business circles.
Would you recommend Manning to a first-time author?
Knuth has a great sense of humor in his books and exercices. I also like Stallman's jokes, but I can concede that they are sligthly less funny than Knuth's.
>Rent-seeking is an individual's or entity's use of company, organizational or individual resources to obtain economic gain without reciprocating any benefits to society through wealth creation.

Does reordering charges to overdraft someone more than they should be provide economic benefit to society at large? No. Does it give the bank additional economic gain? Yes.

Does charging higher than necessary interest rates to low-income, low-information consumers provide economic benefit to society at large? No.[1] Does it give the lender additional economic gain? Yes.

It is rent seeking, quite clearly.

[1]: In fact, there's a decent argument to be made that in the long term it lowers the velocity of money and actively harms the economy.
Apple places their customers first and developers second. They build devices for humans, not the mutant lizard people from space who develop software.
I love the first comment

> Maybe use another map projection?
I think from your comment you may be from Europe, so in that case for added context, you may be underestimating how uncommon Pozidriv screws and screwdrivers are in the United States. I have never seen a Pozidriv screw on any manufactured product other than Ikea furniture in the US. You cannot buy Pozidriv screws or drivers at major hardware stores (try searching "Pozidriv" on Lowes, Home Depot, or Ace Hardware), with the exception of one or two drivers that are in stock online only.

So consider that this is an extremely rare fastener format in the US market, and which looks almost identical to Phillips (the most common US screwdriver). I think many people like myself who are interested in tools and hardware are aware of Pozidriv and can identify it easily, but I can completely see why the average US consumer mistakes it for Phillips.
What exactly is the pain with international payrolls? I don’t quite understand..
the latter is a subset of the former.
In a free country like the US aspires to be, not every aspect of everyone's life must be mediated by the government.

Your argument undermines itself.
When the government fails to act, private parties may act in their own best interest. Private interests may be moral, not purely economical. Pushing Google to sell ads at a discount (compared to the cost of building a reputable website) is as bad as pushing a water dealer to cut their prices.

And finally, it's cold comfort to the thousands (millions?) of abused people for a rich elite to tell everyone else that they should merely lobby and wait until the government deigns to lift the yoke, instead of taking direct action to help.
There are more alternatives to Google & Mapbox that mostly use OpenStreetMap as a backing data source:

https://openmaptiles.org (only map tiles)
https://stadiamaps.com (map tiles, static maps & routing)
https://www.thunderforest.com (only maps)
https://geocoder.opencagedata.com (only geocoding)
https://geocode.earth (only geocoding)

A laundry listing: https://switch2osm.org/providers/

Tile providers are very thankful for the excellent rendering libraries built by Mapbox, Mapzen, and the Leaflet project. Most maps either use Leaflet.js or MapBox GL JS (open source) for their rendering agent, now that Mapzen is defunct (although their rendering library, tangrams, is now open source).

(I am a co-founder of Stadia Maps.)
Microservices testing: hard but not impossible and five strategies
This can't be upvoted enough. Making sure your site works from the ground up will improve the product, the process and the developer. Less, easier to read code, less development time, easier to maintain, more and better understanding of the subject matter. And probably better usability as well, since one took the time to think it through.

Sometime you have to cut corners, sure, but if you know what you are doing, the PE way is probably the easier one from the start.
I'd say #4. I am remote and my company has a hard time providing, tracking, maintaining, and upgrading the gear employees need to do their job. It currently involves a lot of manual data entry, trips to the UPS store by both HQ staff and remote employees. Especially an issue when the person who is ordering gear doesn't understand the gear or the needs of the employee.
That's not realistic unless you don't plan on maintaining the code. Even if you do have a process to constantly move compiled Javascript into Excel, let's say you lose a minute each time (which is really generous as the code grows). Assuming you make 60 changes a month, you could lose 12 hours of time per year just because TS support isn't built into Excel.
Pretty sure you can always wipe the phone.
The shrinking middle class is having a huge impact on housing
Microsoft wants serious, non-gaming developers to make more money
Blog seems to be hugged to death, so I might be uninformed.

What exactly happens after the 7 days? My girlfriend's iPad got blocked on vacation (bluetooth keyboard in a bag causing random inputs). To get it fixed, we needed to connect to a computer. Would this mean that if you don't get to a computer within 7 days it would be essentially be bricked?
"And these are Prime items, sold by the manufacturer, but they're stilling coming counterfeit."

Part of this sentence isn't true.
Sounds like they just patched a glaring security hole, late in the game? I'm not even sure how useful the "7 days" thing is - it's certainly better than leaving "permanent" keys on various "once trusted" computers.

But still leaves the window wide open to sneak-and-peek to mirror the drive of a matchbook left in a hotel room, and then later acquire the phone.

So better than keeping the old behaviour which was obviously broken, I guess?
How chipmakers are weathering slowing smartphone sales
The example map in the Wikipedia article is tiny.

This article has bigger ones:

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/authagraph-...
What problem is this framework trying to solve? Not trolling, just trying to understand the scenario where this is the no-brainer, gotta use this framework.
The biggest challenge with remote is coordination. I've now managed 4 remote teams. The turn-around time between communication cycles with people on the other side of the globe can drastically increase the time it takes to get consensus on issues that locally might take 10 minutes.

I can recall several times where clearly (or so we thought) laid out plans were given over to have them come back a week later with some measure of misunderstanding. The 2 solutions to this have either been micromanaging the remote team, which is painful or time consuming -- or giving the team enough autonomy to work independently, which is risky.
s/Ming/Qing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuang_Guandong

During the first two centuries of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this part of China, the traditional homeland of the ruling Manchus, was, with few exceptions, closed to settlement by Han Chinese civilians, with only certain Manchu Bannermen, Mongol Bannermen, and Chinese Bannermen allowed in.
> That's "wrongthink"--a view that seems obviously true to a certain set, only because they're not willing to think too hard about the situation.

That's extremely uncharitable. It's possible for people who disagree with you to have well-justified opinions. E.g., this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17021747
Demonizing and discouraging industries that cater to poor people as “exploitative” (fast food, pay day lending, low quality housing) is a liberal feel good policy.
Maybe if the story author had written a bot to reply "I don't understand. Please tell me what I did wrong." to every bot-generated email from Amazon, he could have made a more entertaining story. He could include some graphs of the reply-counts, estimate the AZ bot's latency, and draw out some maps of the various routes taken by the messages.
I think this speaks more to differences between people than anything else. If 5-10 extra hours a week for 6-12 months burns you out on a topic, writing a 250+ page technical book is probably not a great use of your time if the finances alone don't make it worth it.
I wouldn't say that all media is PR specifically, but it's true that all media is bought and paid for by somebody. It might be a giant corporation paying a mechanical turk to write what they want. It might be somebody with the luxury of taking their own time to write. It might be a professional journalist working for a publication that sells ad space to pay its bills, and which doesn't want to piss off ad buyers.
Any recommendations other than Coinbase?
> What if the person was simply serving those files for himself over the internet (I've done it countless times) and Google caught it because the author was careless with handling DNS entries?

Author here, I reached out to DO because as a fellow content creator I felt morally obligated to report this.

I wouldn't like someone pirating my content and the people who created those 390,000+ PDFs put a lot of their time into making their content.

> There's no harm, it does not affect your life, why go through the effort of bringing trouble to someone else because of your own lack of care with sensitive issues such as DNS entries?

It does affect my life. I noticed now that there has been a couple of copyright infringement notices submit towards my domain (because of this PDF incident).

When you run an online business and your website is your entire brand, something like that is a big deal.

Also if you Googled for my name before I removed the A record, that SSL subdomain was coming up which was competing with my actual site's content. Not good!
Amazon’s Fake Review Economy
Super common where I live in the US as well. Lots of wood screws use them, but they show up in pretty much every fastener application.
Well even without all that, the TV makes for easy/quick changes at a low price compared to commercial signage printing stock
If the edge use-case you have prevented is a drawback to the 0.000001% of users, I think it's worth it for the greater good, and obviously Apple does too.
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I don't know if that was deliberate on your part, but the "liberal feel good policies" here refers to "banning and harsh regulation of payday lending and bail bonds places".
It blows my mind that you think it's a matter of "can't" over "don't want to"...