skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It mentions Indian cities specifically in the mission page "In big cities across India, it’s getting harder to get good answers" https://neighbourly.google.com/mission/. I'm a European living in the US, so it's unlikely to be doing some kind of special targeting.
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Civil asset forfeiture is where the government directly steals your money without being supported probable cause and without being supported by Oath or affirmation. A sham trial is held against your money where you must prove your innocence to re-secure your effects. The money is then used to fund the police agency. Many have adjusted theirs budgets with the expected amount they will seize from the public.

You are not secure in your persons, houses, papers, or effects within the United States of America. They may be seized at any time on flimsy justification.
>>> No, the primary difference is that we deploy drones in areas we are not engaged in warfare, and to assassinate various individuals in foreign countries where we are not at war.

>> The US hasn't been officialy "at war" in a long time. I think the last one was World War II.

> If you believe that then how you call the military operations in recent years and present?

Wars, for the most part.
Root runs the root process. Processes form a tree.

There are no root "permissions", because permissions are not a tree structure. Users can't give permissions to other users, recursively.
I'm on Linux and it looks fine for me.
Shall we talk Nokia...
A genetically modified organism could end malaria and save millions of lives
Yea, but this emboldens them because they can now point to EU and say that this is what normal countries do, long arm[0] people around.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-arm_jurisdiction
> They're much less comfortable than the traditional seats when you're trying to sleep though.

For you, not the person behind whose knees you're crushing.
This is really dependent on where you are. Where I live in Mountain View you're absolutely right. Where my dad lives 20 minutes from a paved road in the middle of California with no cell service, his truck is quite literally his only mode of transportation. Of course these are extremes, but most people live somewhere in the middle. Owning an EV will never be less limiting than owning an ICE vehicle. Whether it's an acceptable trade off will always be an individual decision.
With all due respect, but it seems apparent that you are not familiar with how electric distribution utilities work, especially in a deregulated state like California, how CAISO and its market mechanisms work, or how CPUC works.

If you are a reader that is not well-versed in how the grid works, please disregard the parent's comment.

I work in this space. I view this noisemaking as harmful to the public as they likely do not fully understand how the electricity delivery system (the grid) works, and this only serves to infuriate them and increase distrust.
For trucks one could easily see trucking companies just leasing batteries from Truck Stops. Where the truck driver stops, picks up a fully charged battery and then drops it off at another truck stop 300 miles later. Rinse lather repeat all the way from New Jersey to Utah.

Compressed gas cylinders sort of work this way. When you 'refill' a cylinder you just swap the empty one for a full one. You can even swap different sizes as needed. Which might also be useful for trucks.
Don't own a house to have one burn down on me.

Private fire services would be a thing in a governmentless society

Why should I be forced to pay someones salary?
AFAIK the timeline of profitability is somewhat like this:

- really profitable after introducing private repos
- burning quite some money for growth after they took VC money
- really profitable again after they changed their pricing to per-seat pricing
Most CA utilities have low income programs[1]. On top of that, most rate plans are 'progressive' in that they charge more the more you use[2].

[1]https://www.pge.com/care
[2] https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...
I suspect China will eventually regret creating it's own dystopian society. (Some would argue it is already there.)

And anyways, please explain the bogeyman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17210194
A Miata textile driver's seat. It was like an egg cup perfectly shaped for me. It's very lightly padded, but the plastic is supportively shaped so that it's not a problem. The seat is sloped so you don't feel like you're going to slide out, and you stretch your legs out forward, with a foot rest to keep your knees at a comfortable angle. Someday I'll achieve my dream of using one as a desk chair.
The YouTube search team works closely with the web search team and uses many of the same technologies. However, they optimize for different metrics and goals.
That's what Facebook Marketplace is for.
Wow, that is very India focused indeed... They even mention the deluge of good morning messages typical of Indian WhatsApp groups!
Approval voting seems like a good choice from the "wake up tomorrow and not much changes exept that we have a better voting system" perspective. It is a good choice if "not much changes" is attractive to you. To me it seems like it would be similar to Fusion nominations in effect, maybe a slightly larger effect.

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

But IMO it sidesteps the most important issues, which are related to what happens after the election. Currently, only people who vote for a winning candidate are really represented. The system assumes that differences in opinion are largely regional but we actually have strong differences of opinion within each region. It seems to me that there are two basic ways to improve this (that I can think of, I'm sure there are more).

1) Change how elected representatives vote. Instead of each representative getting one vote yes or no, a representative might vote X% yes and Y% no. In this system the representatives would ideally be nonpartisan, with systems outside the government used for collective influence.

2) Look at voting in terms of how each individual picks the representative that best represents them personally with some limitations such as fitting within a particular number of total representatives ("subscribing" to a representative as excalibur puts it). Voting for each individual would then be expected to be between fairly similar candidates, but possibly a completely separate set of candidates than someone you live with who has a significantly different perspective. Lots of complicated possibilities here. One notable suboption would be a two layer system where the person you vote for is not the final representative, but someone who closely monitors politics on behalf of a small number of people and votes for the representatives who make the detailed decisions. This person could be nonpartisan and local as in #1, leaving a combined system where a large number of local nonpartisan representatives are primarily responsible for setting up a partisan government with a composition that accurately reflects constituents (I'm not sure this would be the best option, just one possible option).
I have been thinking a lot about creating localized versions of services like reddit and facebook so that people could be more in touch with what is actually going on around them instead of this kind of national narrative.

It seems unfair that there is only room for so many famous people, so many inventors, so many journalists, because all of the attention (money) aggregates towards the top.

If you could have, say, a local Martha Stewart that actually can subsist and become quite wealthy by sticking to a couple counties in a State, the whole system becomes much more valuable to each individual who participates.

The way it is now your value is almost nonexistent, there is such a high barrier of entry to virality, it's like winning the lottery. What if it was easier to go viral in your own home town, build a career off of it, and never have to make the front page of any national website?

Sorry, bit of a rant, but services like this hint that other people are thinking similarly. I'd like to see a much bigger push into fragmenting the web, and moreso fragmenting the attention share. It moves much like the economy, trickle up.
> this wasn't just an "insane" guy at the top who now left the company and everything's cool

Satya Nadella has completely re-organized MS inside-and-out since taking the helm in 2014. It is a VERY different company than it was even 5 years ago. In March [1], Microsoft even went so far as to officially disband the Windows department and merge it into something called "Experiences & Devices".

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176220/microsoft-window...
> Say, the data can only be accessed by the CEO personally. For privacy reasons, okay? Very reasonable, and totally in the spirit of the GDPR.

Then the company has the same costs in making any use of the data, at which point they might as well not even collect it.

> Of course, this is an hypothetical, not-really-serious exaggeration. But it demonstrates the effect that would certainly happen on a much smaller scale.

But the scale makes all the difference. If they literally require the CEO to fly to Norway an stay in a hotel then it would add millions of dollars to the cost, but it's also manifestly unreasonable.

They can easily add some nominally unnecessary bureaucracy to the process that adds a few percent to the cost and get away with it, but that isn't really going to deter a lot of people.

The more they try to get away with, the more likely they make it that the regulators will crawl inside them and lay eggs. It's a losing trade off just so you can spite your own customers.
Agreed. Most of the time I just resort to right-clicking an e-mail and choosing Find Related > Messages [from sender | in this conversation]
>But minorities always just "ignore it" - but that doesn't mean it doesn't affect them.

Everyone has to go to school, the park, etc, and I pay the same tax so having an environment that is pleasant for everyone is a required property. I can't ignore someone shouting to me insulting slurs for who I am. But no one has to go to 4chan, if someone feels offended they can just not visit it.

I would quote "Shit my dad says" on this: "Don't focus on the one guy who hates you. You don't go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile of dog shit."
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... or Trello
What if they are right?
They've stated that they want to bring this to other platforms as well.

https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/4
Whether they can or can not defines if the company is successful or not.

Some can.
The sort of person who goes for a job in the public eye is not the sort of person who is mentally stable. The constant need for validation from other will in due course found to be yet another mental illness.

That entertainment industries are filled with people like this suffering while being ridiculously successful is a universal across virtually all media.
The same Wikipedia article states:

"The drones are flown by United States Air Force pilots located at an unnamed base in the United States. US Department of Defense armed drones, which also sometimes take part in strikes on terrorist targets, are flown by US Air Force pilots located at Creech Air Force Base and Holloman Air Force Base."
Twitter tried this (jelly.co) and it didn't catch on.

I think the challenge is that the question base is so broad and most local experience revolves around things to see and do, which is largely a solved problem between Yelp, StubHub, Google Maps and Google Search.

Also, I've found that if people don't want to use the massive number of local reviews already on those sites, they tend to ask their actual friends. Why ask a single random person a question when dozens or hundreds have already posted a review about a local experience?
i'm also a big fan of the atom editor
I'm not a search engineer, but here's my understanding.

Gmail search isn't bad, it just is using a less complete set of signals to intuit what you're searching for. It's more of a "garbage in, garbage out" model than a "we can intuit what you want based on how millions of other people have reacted to the results of this query." That's because you're the only one searching against this data set (your email).

What's an example of something you've had trouble finding via search? There might be better ways to conduct your search. I've lived for 10+ years with my primary organization strategy being to rely on Gmail search, and have found it extremely effective.
I'm not sure where this ended up going, but there was some legal challenge claiming otherwise:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/31/case-incredib...
This is amazing, but I feel like there is something fundamentally lacking from <img> if you have to do all this bullshit just to get an image to display.

Why can’t the image and DOM spec be upgraded to include lazy loading and touch to download? I can’t think of a use case where you wouldn’t want this.
Ask HN: Credit-by-examination for CS degrees?
Are there any particularly well-known credit-by-examination opportunities to fast-track a bachelor in computer science?

I don't expect to test-out of an entire education program, more curious if anything.
Most companies leave startup status long before they are profitable. It has much more to do with the stability and maturity of the business model and whether it can be scaled.
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I believe Tor browser is already just a version of Firefox if I'm not mistaken. What would be the advantage of integrating with Firefox as opposed to say, a VPN integrated into the browser via a plugin. Just seems a little redundant and Tor is beginning to seem dated also with new solutions popping up and making the pitfalls of Tor more apparent.
Voting doesn't need to result in a single winner, I'd suggest you check out the concept of a leveling seats, which, coupled with IRV, are probably be enough to knock a lot of western democracies out of partisan lock situations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_seat
Data can be used for great things, e.g. longitudinal data in healthcare. I think seeing data as a liability might reduce the speed of progress

I think the word "can" is acting as a euphemism or term of elision here, since "longitudinal data in healthcare" includes things like the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment.
That's why I think Holland has quite a progressive voting system with such a small theshold and 17 parties ending up in the Parliament.
Slight tangent, but what's with the Yahoo purple?
I would contribute to a project like this. Instead is subreddit urls it's neighborhood or town name? Does Brooklyn have one but also NYC? Park Slope?
If the outcome is that they're adding more features to make the product better who cares? That's competition functioning as intended.
Dunno about PaaS, but journalistic standards that require citations are clearly dead af over at Infoworld.
US millionaire charged with labourer's nuclear bunker death
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And if your apartment doesn't have a washer and dryer, at some point you'll need clean clothes. My point is why should I subsidize your charger?
All of their services and ad networks use the "regular" names (like youtube.com and google-analytics.com) for these services and webpages, so any browser or mobile device will be looking up IPs via those names. And it's not like they're using CNAMEs that point to mixed-in names either.

You can block them selectively using proxies without issue.

As far as 1e100.net goes, I'm not sure where that would be applicable or why it's an issue.

Now, if you're looking to do that kind of selective blocking at the IP/netblock layer... good luck. That's a nearly impossible task since large network service providers like Google have so many network spaces coming and going and can move around their services as demand dictates. It's a core competency.

And that wouldn't matter whether they were all part of one domain or all kept separate.

Unless your strategy was to work out which netblocks each business unit's domains were authoratitive for on reverse lookup and then blocking all of that.

But that's ... making a lot of assumptions.
IPO?
Remember sidewalk? There have been a number of players who could have parlayed into nextdoors turf, but have not been successful. Google has the budget and heft, so maybe.
youre really going to cite mitsubishi and siemens conduct during wwii as uh something you dont see anything wrong about?? you might want to do some homework on that....
We had this in the 80's and 90's with dialup BBSes.
With the Internet / web, we lost the local "community" feel...
It was an app to play music. I fear that is has been transformed into some amalgamation of an app/media store, a mobile device wrangler, one interface to your Apple ID account - and a lot of good features that now kinda are half broken. Lots of stillborn features too - wasn't there a music social media integration that went nowhere? It's not very light on memory usage, either.

It was so nice to rip a CD, have it part of your library, and well that's it. Search worked great, everything just worked.

The UX is just so bad now, I don't even want to listen to the music I have saved. It's literally changed my music listening behavior.
>The constant need for validation from other will in due course found to be yet another mental illness.

Do personality disorders count as mental illness, or are they distinct?
I'm confused. The research in question is "how can we make sure that a superintelligence would be morally aligned with humans". Why would dealing with DDOS attacks would be the right first step? It seems completely unrelated.
The Preview PDF handling drives me mental too. Luckily it's not outright unusable for me, but it's still a pain. Buy Apple, they said... Apple always looks after the details :(

Happens on both my Macbook Pros, too - a early 2015 13" (i7-5557U) with Sierra, and a mid 2014 15" (i7-4980HQ with discrete GPU) with High Sierra. The symptoms for me, with the proviso that I'm not in OS X right now to double check:

1. set Preview to open PDFs at 100% zoom, 1 page at a time. Open a PDF. Preview opens the window at the right size, then pops some scrollbars in. Now the client area is smaller, and that means the window is the wrong size! - which means the mouse wheel scrolls the view, rather than scrolling from page to page. Gets me every damn time.

(This could be related, I imagine, to that setting that forces scrollbars always to be displayed. I suppose it's too much to expect Apple's QA to have a test matrix that encompasses this case)

2. scroll from page to page. Each new page appears blurry - or, if lucky, merely wonky - for a fraction of a second, then replaced with the clearer rendering one might expect. Actually quite distracting when scrolling page by page! - and when scrolling at keyboard repeat rate, the clearer version never has time to appear, making it impossible to scroll through a document visually at full speed

3. when resizing the Preview window, some sizes look mucky - looks like the sort of thing you get if you render to an offscreen buffer that's 1 or 2 pixel the wrong size, or add the 0.5 to only one edge of your quad, and so on. Really annoying
My favorite piece of Unix curiosa to add in this thread is that there was once, briefly, a Unix where the root user was called "avatar".

This amused me when I found out about it so I started using it as my username on IRC. Meaning the name that shows up in your vhost when you join channels, back in the days people who joined with root@host would be yelled at for using IRC as root. So I joined with avatar@host and no one cared. :)
That pretty much already exists if it's easily identifiable that you are the same user on both services.
Anyone else have a problem with this? Someone else will be doing this work in place of Google, as it is inevitable that AI and defense will merge. So for those reasons, IMO, it is childish to quit and try to not assert some ethical control over something while you can.

Maybe the next co. who fills the contract will be the one where the AI engineers who quit now work?

TLDR: Get the program killed, or control it on your terms ethically. Don't pass it off on the next highest bidder.
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it looks like the 'r' and 's' characters are like 10% larger for some reason.
Amazon?

They seem to handle acquisitions well. Zappos, Audible, Twitch...
Not too keen on GitHub being acquired. If Microsoft wants to do something good here, they should give GitHub enough money to form a Foundation similar to Mozilla. That would be the best way GitHub could pursue its mission.
You could vote against the politicians who supported Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General who openly supports and wants to expand civil asset forfeiture.

Here's the list of senators who voted for a man calling for expansion of stealing from the public:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/08/us/politics/j...
One of my least favorite aspects of airline seats is that it seems like the curvature is designed for someone of average height--which I totally get--but extraordinarily uncomfortable for people outside of that range. I'm looking at you, United economy regional planes. I'm 6'2", and the base of my skull lands exactly at a sharp, hard edge on those planes and leads to utter misery. I'm not sure how to fix that. Just bitching. This is the internet after all.
I used my European Visa debit card in USA few years ago without any problems.
> In my opinion it's recommended to do with something that's not a public domain at all ...

The recommended practice, AFAIK, is to register a public domain for the purpose. See the recent HN discussion of .home.arpa for all the reasoning and arguments and counter-counter-counter-points.
Because that turned out so well for Etsy.
Judges in the US routinely dismiss frivolous cases[1] with prejudice.

And in fact even filing a frivolous case can result in fines or jail time for contempt.

So no, you can’t in practice sue someone for anything.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frivolous_litigation