skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this turns out to be false, I find it a more satisfying answer. "Big-wheel" as a source for the term seems quite colloquial, whereas "wheel-house" indicates a bit of underlying culture -- it's the slightly more sophisticated metaphor.
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We've had thousands of companies for years and years using every trick in the book to get people on their mailing lists and collect data about them, but now that users have the right to do something about it, that makes them the assholes?
FB were actively helping Trump too [0]. They offered employees to both campaigns as "embeds" to help coordinate social media outreach.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/08/trump-dig...
No such conspiracy theory needed: I don't think Google always uses separate IPs for each Google service. Their infrastructure is too large-scale, containerized and dynamic for that to be efficient.
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My suggestion is actually ES6. It clarifies that you're referring to "modern" JS. Also, it will change with every year.

Most people are using ES6 as the name anyways - you don't hear "ES6 JavaScript" but only "ES6".
Java was my first programming language before moving to Python. Though I have nothing to show for all the years I have been learning programming, about 6 years now, I realise I can easily pick new languages. Just last night, someone posted a link to Pony, a relatively new programming language. Ever being the procrastinator, rather than do what I should always be doing, on my mobile phone in a remote part of Somalia I saw myself almost a third through Pony’s documentation. I wouldn’t have a problem picking Pony. Last week, on a similar procrastinating mission, I saw myself halfway through a Haskell course notes and slides from a UK based university. Picking Haskell seemed also easier for me unlike what I almost always hear. As easy as that might feel to me, I have nothing to show for all the years I have been learning programming. Well, maybe, except for a few Pandas scripts that I occasionally use at work for data analysis and transforming some spreadsheets. And another script for posting data from an Excel file through a certain API – a report we need to share externally.

Now, as easy and productive a language and framework as Ruby and Rails are, the perfectionist in me couldn't adopt the same. That seems to be a big mistake I made. Just like you, I followed and internalized whatever was said about Ruby – the negative stuff. I regret not picking Ruby. And just like you, I also seem to be suffering from an analysis paralysis. Ruby and Rails, while I haven’t had the time to teach myself any of the two, they are certainly easy to pick and very capable for whatever tasks you throw at them. Pick them and stick with the two.

On the sides, I am currently also dabbling with Elixir/Phoenix and I find it easy to pick. Well, your experience might end up being different from mine. But, life shouldn’t be about what is new and shiny but what makes you productive. Elixir/Phoenix might end up being the language/framework that I will eventually complete developing something useful in but something else, here, on HN might end distracting me for the next few days/weeks. Well, we don’t know that yet. Anyway, don’t be like me, pick something you know and are good at and stick with.

You seem to also be experienced in JavaScript/Node. You could also pick a framework within that ecosystem and move ahead with - Express, Hapi, Sails, etc. Anyway, just stick with either Rails and something else within Node. But, you would rather just stick with Ruby/Rails. Within Ruby you wouldn’t have to continue wasting time and effort trying to find out which framework to use. In the meantime, just strike Go, Elixir/Phoenix from your list. They seem to be only there to distract you and make you continue wallowing in the rabbit hole that is an analysis paralysis.

Thankfully for me, I do have a non-programming job that pays the bills. At least for now. And were it not my procrastination, I probably would have been a software developer by now – if wishes were horses, they say. However, I think the lack of proper tech opportunities might have been hindering me from make a move. Well, whatever it is, do not be like me and Ruby/Rails should be great.
Dystopia was hiding behind official lies, while already being in the works: "The emails also show that Google and its partners worked extensively to develop machine learning algorithms for the Pentagon, with the goal of creating a sophisticated system that could surveil entire cities. ... 'the wisdom and strength of our people will bring about multi-order-of-magnitude improvements in safety and security for the world' ... Google intended to build a 'Google-earth-like' surveillance system ... Google’s artificial intelligence would bring 'an exquisite capability' for 'near-real time analysis'" paired with drone-killing.

[added for the down-haters]

Examples of the lies:

- concerned employees were told that Google’s DoD contract was worth only $9 million

- "Google downplayed its work, saying it had merely provided its open-source TensorFlow software to the Pentagon"

In the name of building real-time, total surveillance in support of automated killing by drones.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196880
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ever directly attacked the US or US citizens?

Why do you draw the line at "directly attacked"? We have laws that make it a crime to conspire to murder. I don't think it's unreasonable to go after people who are conspiring to attack the US or US citizens.
you are technically correct (the best kind of correct). but it's a commonly understood concept:

https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+knowledge+storage
>Google is notorious for killing products too, though.
For me, much of the same rationale would apply

Agreed. The best possible solution for making GitHub long term sustainable would be following the Mozilla model.
In this case, you are making work for a person that doesn't monetize the platform you're using. It was service that was offered in good faith, and is now, because of this useless request, not going to be available.

Instead they are being forwarded to a service that does monetize their service.
So, it's basically domain fronting.

It's okay for them, when they do it to shroud their individual services and keep you from blocking one. If I want to pass Mail and block Adsense, no dice for me.

But if I want to domain front, because I need to pass through a third party censor, tough darts for me.
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How do you know it didn't? Culture changes faster than evolution.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/79897/why-arent-classical-sta...

“Ancient Greece was a highly masculinist culture,” she explained. “They favored ‘small and taut’ genitals, as opposed to big sex organs, to show male self-control in matters of sexuality."
I think you are right about one thing, the misreading of European law that comes from living in a litigious society. Just act in good faith and GDPR will not bite.
> You couldn't, until Firefox 59. Before that, protocol handlers were not allowed to handle links to Dat/IPFS resources [0].

You could, kind of, before Firefox 57 (or at least, at some point). Implementing nsIProtocolHandler/nsIChannel/etc. correctly was difficult (and probably not from JavaScript), and distribution problems meant nobody did it.
The project is ongoing.
How does GDPR affect people in other countries with no interest in doing business in Europe? If I host a forum in the US and you ask me to remove your posts and I tell you where to stick it, what legal consequences might I face?

Erm, asking for a friend.
The root user is the root of the permission tree. All power comes from and can be taken back by the root user. Everyone else has less power.

The first program was also traditionally executed under a root user. You can see this carry forward with init scripts running as root by default.
I'll leave the technicalities to the better informed posters and post some related thoughts.

Whenever I watch lions on one of the nature channels, I think a male lion looks so majestic and powerful front on but looks as ugly and vulnerable from the back due to its testicles sticking out. When male lions fight, I get this skin crawling fear of lions ending up with torn testicles. Instinctively I cup my own like football players in the wall do.

That said, I think on bipedal animals like humans (but not stooped over primates), external testicles are not only relatively safer, they are also aesthetically good. I mean, imagine a penis sticking out of the abdomen without the testicles like a hook nose. Picture the famous Greek naked statues this way and you shall see how odd and ugly it would have been. (One might argue that humans might have been conditioned to consider this rather cropped anatomy aesthetic but that's a debate not worth having.) I often wonder if this external pair of testicles is analogous to a pair of breasts, acting like a natural jewellery that attracts mates.

There are several 'feature wish list' I have for humans. Such as. Similar to eyelids, having earlids would have helped against loud noise but I guess noise pollution was not rampant during humonoid 1.0. Same with noselids. I would have loved to have regenerating cartilage, at least, if not regenerating organs (liver is a bit odd but not fully so), but I guess humans didn't live long enough to have lifestyle issues due to joint wear and tear. As for external testicles, if not the way things are, the entire unit, including penis, should have been retractable into a pouch but I guess there weren't pool tables during ver 1.0.

This sentence form the article is gold.

> We are evolved to survive and reproduce, but not necessarily to be healthy, comfortable, or happy
He's still obliged to respond to that letter. Can't hide like this.

(guys, I'm being sarcastic)
I'd be interested to learn why there's the perspective that the LinkedIn acquisition hasn't gone well. I feel like most of the stories I've read about it have been pretty positive.
That's right. For example, an expensive new car isn't much better than a 3 year old used one, and the difference is a big chunk of money to invest. (And also being able to invest money rather than spend it on the interest on car payments.)
With a VPN on Brave on iOS, Google will only show me infinite captchas.
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With current trends in Microsoft's Developer Division, it's possible that GitHub could end up way more open if Microsoft acquired them. GitHub's core business is GitHub and they need that to stay closed to stay competitive. GitHub under Microsoft could have less financial pressure to keep closed.

Is it likely? I don't know. It is an interesting possibility though, that would certainly change the game.
Privacy badger doesn't have filters like this. That's the whole point. It sees Google doesn't respect the DNT header (it sets tracking cookies) and shuts it down. This is privacy badger working as intended.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17206747
> No lawyers required.

Phrases like this just sound weird to me. If there's a risk that someone could sue you over something, from a business perspective I have always been taught that you avoid it, period, until you get a lawyer.

I wonder if this is a cultural difference between the US and EU? Might explain some of the different reactions people have had to the legislation.
I had a look at Julia like 2-3 years ago and thought it seemed really nice to use.

The performance is of course also awesome.

So I hope we get more traction for Julia as a general purpose language. But for now I'm sticking with Node.
Credit card interest payments go to the bank. Visa/MasterCard don’t get any of that.
Can you run it with the plotting libraries loaded and have whos() return in less than 10 seconds yet?

I was excited about v0.6 but then when I learned it took >15s to do whos(), I completely gave up...
Neighbourly by Google
Maybe they could change "Ecmascript" to "ES" (forgetting that it stood for Ecmascript). Like how SciFi --> SyFy, I guess.
I'm not in the EU but must comply to their regulation.

The internet at it's base abstraction is a borderless medium without regard to locality. Imposing legislation by user region is a dangerous precedent as each region can now impose fee-seeking legislation on internet companies.
My wife is about what you're describing. Its destroyed our marriage and our future together. Not doing anything with a deadline means all the shitty tasks in life are left to me.

Just a word to the wise.
It's certainly possible. The Pixar folks had a lot of interaction with the BSD folks early on.

John Lasseter, who headed up Pixar, drew the most widely known BSD Daemon, after all.
But the coolest thing by far is that you can now go the reverse direction. If you have a ssh tunnel you can run emacsclient --tramp $file on the remote system and it will pop up on your local Emacs window.
The difficulty of childbirth is a human specialization that tradesoff against huge brains.

Nearly all mammals have external testicles
If waymo launches a self driving car either for sale or as part of some ride sharing network, will it be trouble for Tesla? Will their stock tank? Could be trouble for the model 3 production line.
So everyone can spam us without repercussions? Fuck them all. If GDPR makes their life miserable then it achieved its goal.
I don't really see this as a GDPR troll. This guy is saying he can't manage formal GDPR requests. He's running an internet forum for christs sake. We had forums before we ever had tracking, and anonymous internet handles were practically invented on forums. What's he doing exactly that he can't answer GDPR requests with a simple "we don't collect personal information"?

Of course, he probably is collecting PII, because he's using discourse. But since he says he doesn't have time to answer GDPR requests you can be pretty sure he doesn't take the time to ensure his infrastructure hasn't been owned. I'd wager he doesn't even know what PII the system he runs is collecting, so how can he be securing it on his users behalf?

It's totally reasonable for his users to ask how he's protecting their personal data. If he wants to flip tables and storm out when they ask, that's up to him. From my perspective, the system works. He wasn't making the effort his users deserve to securely store their PII, and so now he isn't storing it at all. No one had to sue anyone, no one had to go to court, and he made the sensible decision to get out of the PII game he had no business being in. Success if ever I heard it.
I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I enjoyed Masters of Doom.

Barbarians Led by Bill Gates is an older book, but interesting to get a sense of MS was like in earlier times.

Isaacson's Steve Jobs is obviously focused on Job, but gives a good sense of the companies he ran while he was there.

Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made is a good view into the Mac specifically.
> install the company’s browser extension which collects their browsing history

Yeah I think I'll pass thanks. What person would install such a thing?
Emacs API is just insane with too many special cases or with other packages unexpectedly affecting semantics. Even after stepping in debugger I often could not be sure if the things worked like I thought they should work with too much unstructured global state that is randomly poked.
Fixing Our Memcopy Troubles (for Looking Glass)
I don't trust them to be compent at operating a large scale service after their insane meltdown february last year.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/01/gitlab_data_loss/
I don't know why all these websites are shutting down due to GDPR when all you have to do is hire a competent law firm with GDPR compliance expertise to review your software and help you determine if any parts need to change to become compliant and also help you address any GDPR requests.

</sarcasm>
but I don't want to leave github. Please no.

I can't believe people are salivating over the idea of giving google more control over open source. Need to wake up to their style of evil I guess.
I was reading Kafka on the Shore and thinking that the frequent mention of crows must have some symbolic value. Then I visited Japan and I understood: Murakami was just being realistic. Crows are everywhere. It is quite ominous to walk through a quiet Japanese park (and I mean dead quiet) and suddenly see a huge flock of crows appear.
Thanks for this. I'm going to look at moving away from Dropbox.
This ignores most poor people who are too busy trying to feed their family in the short term and our society's inability to properly give them a safety net for them to learn new skills/ get ahead in life.
> Most forums ban all Tor exits.

So running an exit at home to coverup for posting on a forum that bans all Tor exits, that makes no sense.
In their house, yes.
Not to defend not giving money to the homeless, but isn't the calculation more complex than that? It's not just about how much money the bureaucracy eats, it's also how effectively the remaining portion is used, and I would think that would include actual resources delivered to people.

Certainly, altogether the calculations are extremely complicated. There's whether a given organization knows what resources to provide, whether the provided resources are going to be used even if they are otherwise "right", etc.

With all the complexity and uncertainty, directly giving to people seems like one entirely legitimate approach since it guarantees that people get resources, not that other necessary are problematic but certainly other approaches deserve certainty. Direct giving at least has "what you see is what you get".
Google Backs Away from Controversial Military Drone Project
TFS (or more accurately TFVC) is old news. Git is their new jam and it's pretty solid. ;)

(Not entirely a joke. The Windows team has moved to git, which is a fascinating sign of the times.)
Note that the observed genetic variance can be explained without any substantial drop in population (male or total):

Assume that humans are living in patrilineal clans of roughly 20 males and an equivalent number of females. All males are genetic descendants of the clan patriarch and share the same Y-chromosome markers. All females are born outside the clan and marry into it.

Now assume that 95% of clans are wiped out through a couple millenia of warfare. That Y-chromosome is now extinct; all male-line descendants of the patriarch are dead. However, genetic markers carried by the female are not extinct, because the 20 daughters born into the clan have married into 20 different clans, and at least one of them has survived.

Note that the population doesn't actually have to drop in this scenario! 95% extinction of clans over 2000 years implies only 0.15% extinction annually, assuming an exponential decay. If warfare is continuous and resources go to the victor, then one clan is exterminated, but the victorious clan quickly doubles in size as it takes the dead clan's resources (and oftentimes, womenfolk). Total population remains roughly constant, but all living descendants come from a tiny percentage of male ancestors.

Other articles about this study have made this distinction explicitly (or at least hinted about it), but it's totally missing from the headline.
Github shouldn't sell. It has an opportunity to be a once-in-a-generation tech company. I can't believe they even held the talks.
GDPR propaganda
This project has been on my list of things to explore for a year now.
The term "rich quick scheme" generally implies a con but some schemes to get rich work out such as ViaWeb which led to indirectly to this website.

"Paul : E-commerce was not my life’s work. I didn’t actually want to spend my life working on this. I did it to get money and make that money."
God yes! Please oust the GH execs too, thatd be such a blessing for the product.
No argument. Which is why a lot of cities (rightfully) pushed back on Segway's lobbying. Fundamentally you don't want stuff that goes faster than a walking pace on a sidewalk. Of course, the main reason that people might want scooters, bikes, Segways, etc. is that they are faster than walking. Assuming you're capable of walking, an electric device that can't go faster than 3 or 4 mph isn't very interesting.
How old, and how roughly how much do you spend? Thinking of replacing my '04 Civic sometime in the next 1-15 years :- )
Seems that it's not gonna help at all: https://i.imgur.com/c0vf3wd.png
Just act in good faith and GDPR will not bite.

Do you have $20million to make that gamble?
Looking forward to the big rebranding to Microsoft GitHub Team Cloud Services for Enterprise 365 2019®.
So the solution is to grow Tor usage, or use bridges with pluggable transports.
"postmaster@nsa.gov" is probably still true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
I thought he was using Discourse for his forum? Its not like I'm taking a shot at Discourse, I was just saying that it might be worthwhile to tack on an export function that is user facing to mitigate the onslaught of requests.

[edit]: @jcastro, I totally didn't realize that was already there, my bad.
I don't understand anything you said.

Can you explain?
>now, because of this useless request

No, it is because of an overreaction to a request. If they are acting in good faith then just reply