skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, I'd prefer a consistent Stream interface that just sometimes doesn't have a position, and wraps other Streams with little fuss, rather than have to change gears into Source/Sink lexicon.
Walking SF first and Market people openly shooting up with their free needles. Thanks Democrats. Mainly RATS
35, if you're female, and/or not white.
I'm not sure what you're comparing but it sounds like you're comparing experienced vs. inexperienced and not necessarily older vs. younger. I'm 57 and I don't think I am that much more expensive than younger experienced backend engineers and SREs. We're all as a group a lot more expensive than people who are just starting out but that's hardly surprising. Between those of us who would be considered senior in terms of experience I might be $10k or $20k more expensive just due to salary history and growth over time but I doubt that amount is a deal breaker for the average tech company.
As a long time Gnome user... Yeah, where did they go wrong?

The upper left "hot corner"? That's a 1990's concept that violates so much.

The weird way everything changes when you hit that corner? I mean really, I want the launcher to be there all the time. And if it is hidden, why should all my windows shrink and rearrange just because I want to launch a different program? And why would the workspace switcher swing in on the right too? It's so jarring and unnecessary. Neat features, poor implementation. And and and....
> I can't always save excess food for the next meal (example: restaurant or delivered things like french fries and things like that).

This doesn't quite make sense to me. Although there are certainly items that don't keep particularly long, say, more than a day, I have trouble coming up with a common restaurant food that can't be saved at all, with proper refrigeration.

Fully cooked potatos, such as french fries, I've never had trouble with, and they even reheat well and easily in a convection toaster oven.
Agree. It seems like NYT is turning into TMZ...
Yast is great, OpenSuse's greatest strength is it's great hardware support, the best IMHO.
I'm not sure what the point here is? Aren't they just basically just reporting that Gmail offers a nicer API to read email than IMAP and App Developers have been misusing it (maybe)?
If you install an add-in, or an app, and it wants to read any of your stuff managed by google (emails, drive contents, calendar, etc) the app must request user consent. This user experience is well known and understood. The user must sign in and then also grant consent specifically to the app in question. If the user grants consent for the app to “read email” then the app will be able to read your inbox.

The article is saying that _humans_ employed with the 3rd party app development company are also able to see your email.

Users might reasonably conclude that When they grant consent, the app – the 3rd party computer software – would be able to read their email, but no human would be able to read their email. Well it turns out, once the app has consent, the app, if its designers make it so, could read your email and then save your email elsewhere. And then humans could read the contents of that email elsewhere.
Shish kebab is skewered, grilled meat.
Who doesn’t occasionally do anti-Google pieces? I’d be more skeptical if they didn’t!

That said, this does smell like a hit job.
Repl. It (YC W18) Meetup in San Francisco
I wonder how the people who thought the concern over what seemed likely to be a permanent “vacation” will spin this? Some were downright conspiratorial, selling the usual “shady forces putting out hit pieces” and “most shorted stock” limes.

Just once I’d like the conversation around Tesla to boil down to something other than tribalism.

Tesla has done some amazing things, and they show some really worrying signs. Too often though the conversation seems to be a kind of hyper-negative view posed against what increasingly feels like a Tesla/Musk cult. Nothing useful can come out of that, and it borrows the worst parts of something like the Blockchain discussion.
There are two closely intertwined but separate issues: centralization and governance.

Current web technology typically sees one entity controlling the data; if you sign up for a website, your data goes in their database. That's due to the common stack we all build on: some form of API/web server, some form of SQL/NoSQL database, some form of client. If we had a world where developers could simply and freely implement services on top of a different paradigm, we'd stop having to worry about big central entities like Facebook, Google, your local computer store, whoever -- being able to sell your data. They simply wouldn't have it. I'm not sure what that paradigm is, but IPFS, Secure Scuttlebutt, Solid, the Dat Project etc. are all interesting takes on what a solution to that problem might look like.

At the other end of the spectrum is governance, which is something sorely lacking, and allows these misinformation campaigns to spread so freely. Do we still have to worry about governance in a world where we own our own data? Yes, probably, if the surge of illegal and genuinely nasty content like Child Pornography on the new big distributed networks (eg. ZeroNet) is any indicator. Censorship is a spectrum, and while I can appreciate sticking to the view that free speech is best for all, there are some behaviours which society has mostly agreed are objectionable.

The current paradigm of each social service provider essentially being a self-determining fiefdom isn't too dissimilar to how humaity's always done things, I guess (for instance, different pubs/bars will have differing clienteles and degrees of socially acceptable behaviour), except for the scale -- which unfortunately probably does merit a change in how our current major sites are run (YouTube and Twitter in particular seem like they've been gamed incredibly well by cynical parties). I don't know how we solve this problem, but better technical underpinnings might make this a simpler problem to solve. Independently, however, I note that there are places like https://social.coop where they're trying to take that problem on head-first.

It will be interesting to see what the next few years of the internet look like. My hope is that we see some of the people interested in this problem start focussing on normal people instead of other techies; suggesting to my friends that they move to Secure Scuttlebutt is pretty hard, as the majority of them really only use their phones (or tablets).

Personally, I think something that tied together messaging and an event invitation/calendaring system would take a massive knock out of the people who are only hanging onto Facebook for those two things, but that's still a techy view of "kill centralisation" and not a social view of "how does that new platform get governed?".
> We hope Hodder and Stoughton comes to its senses and abandons its absurd demands.

I understand there are limited resources, but if this is the only consequence that can be hoped for, there is no incentive to abandon anything.
You might be interested in reading Choire’s definition of what the Styles section is/should be.

>I totally hear you that the name “Styles” can sometimes seem like a purple spotlight on a green bowl of fruit, or like a goofy headline on a serious story. We will aggressively cover politics, gender, sexuality, health, crime, shoes and contouring. These things make change in the world. You think Sports is going to cover all this?

Much more here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/reader-center/choire-sich...
Somewhat, but in practice, WebRTC punts half of the problem to the site's own code. That's why some sites using WebRTC work great almost everywhere, and others seem to work great as long as you're not on any kind of unusual connection/firewall/proxy.
Random?

Speed matters to end users. 12 Mb will not load in under a second for most users. Unless you absolutely dominate the field or have some specific redeeming feature, your users will move to your competitor services.
Consider supporting George Nachman, creator of iTerm2 over at https://www.patreon.com/gnachman.

iTerm2 seems to be the favourite terminal of macOS users… at least those that spend a large amount of their time there (especially with its native tmux support).
This seems fairly similar to the Cambridge Analytica revelation—it seems they’re reporting on access specifically granted to these apps by the user, but the data is not technically restricted from access the way you might expect when humans are involved. That is, the person isn’t authorized on access beyond having the app credentials. Does anyone else understand this? Does that sound correct?

If I am correct, we’re going to be facing a long list of shocking APIs. I also wonder why the article doesn’t mention SOX, which might provide some liability for public companies looking at PII.
> That's like saying we can't design a fighter jet so we're going to melt a ball of steel into some shape, put an engine on it, and try to fly it, and only then start optimizing. That's not engineering, that's trial and error.

Sorry, but that's a terrible analogy. "Performance", by definition of the context of this general discussion, is outside of spec. A ball of steel with an engine strapped on that doesn't fly isn't within spec. A more appropriate analogy for a fighter jet would be cost optimization (and yes, I realize that's not perfect, but bear with me). The first priority is getting the jet doing what it needs to do. If you design the thing to be made of 90% gold and platinum, then yes, optimizing cost is going to be impossible. But if you keep things semi-reasonable materials-wise, you can (presumably) optimize the manufacturing process post-facto to be more economically friendly.
I think my advantage is that I've seen more engineering cycles. New problems can sometimes be solved quicker by the hard fought for knowledge gained solving older ones.

Mark Zuckerberg famously said young people were just smarter. In my generation it was Abbie Hoffman who said not to trust anyone over thirty. They were both wrong.
Just from the outside the site seems a bit hysterical. Not something I would instinctively take seriously. You might want to add some outside, reasonable news articles or something.
Scientific Paper: Sketch to Line-Art by Waseda University
Try setting a custom schedule from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM.
WTF: "an Old"

Is that supposed to be "millennial" lingo?
Unfortunately, as the stakes increase and the outcomes become very polar and binary, tribalism increases massively :(

there's a lot of big boy money riding both long and short against tesla-- inner ape behavior starts to take over for most stakeholders
Please stop asking me to use the app
Some Third-Party Email Apps Like Edison Let Employees Read User Emails
Why do they even bother to develop worse versions of things built into Android?

They want to differentiate. In their minds, people will look at their friend's phone and go "oh wow, how do I get that sweet messaging app?" and the answer will be "You have to buy a Samsung!".

Of course, we all know it doesn't work out like that for a variety of reasons, not least of which is their inability to execute on a better clone of the existing Android apps.
> Why are you saying that "capitalism with modern mixed economies" doesn't qualify as capitalism?

I'm saying the 19th century system for which the name “capitalism” was coined was replaced basically everywhere with modern mixed economies which are a different but related system; the two share some features just as 19th Century capitalism and feudalism share some features, but they aren't the same system.

> To my knowledge, it's capitalism through and through

It's not; as many people, not least advocates of reversion to (or at least toward) the 19th Century system for which “capitalism” was coined, have noted, modern mixed economies compromise in fairly significant ways the property relations which both defenders of capitalism and it's opponents (including the ones that coined the term “capitalism” for that which they opposed) define as central to capitalism.

> I also think there's some issue with using "Marxism" to refer to some kind of programme rather than the critique of political economy from the writings of Marx and Engels.

That may be valid on some level, but even if so it's purely semantic pedantry that has no bearing on the substance of the discussion; Marx and Engels laid out a program as well as a critique of capitalism, and when we are talking about concrete economic systems that can be tried out, the program is relevant, the critique is not (it is merely the oriel motivating rationale for the concrete program.) A critique can be believed, but not instantiated.

So, if you want to mentally replace “Marxism” with “the concrete program Marx and Engels proposed to address the Marxist critique of capitalism” throughout the discussion, feel free. But don't expect the usage to catch on when the distinction between the Marxist critique and the Marxist program is generally clear from context such that no additional clarity of meaning would be succeed from making the restriction you propose to the use of “Marxism” even if I've were to agree that their is on done level a basis for that restriction.

> This kind of usage lets you get away with saying that a "mixed economy" is something even close to Marxism.

I didn't say it was close to Marxism, I said it was one of the two closest things to Marxism that had been tried (both of which are directly attributable to Marxist influence mitigated by other forces); in fact, my point was expressly that neither of those two things was close enough to Marxism to draw substantive conclusions about Marxism from either, or even both considered together.
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Red Hat employees must ask firm to cancel NSA contracts
I kinda like the idea of getting random pics from people....
I've had problems with every XPS 13 I've owned. I keep buying them only because there aren't many other options.

My XPS 13 9350's USB-C port died after a few months, the battery went bad after about 11 months, and it had graphics glitches. I sent it in for warranty repairs, they sent it back with a note that said "mainboard replaced", but had actually done no work on it: it had the same dusty board as when I sent it in, with the same dead USB-C port. By the time it was returned to me, it was out of warranty.

My XPS 13 9370 has terrible wifi and audio drivers that need to be restarted or reinstalled constantly, and it's got its own set of graphics glitches, along with a stuck pixel on the screen.
... a Yo-Yo is fun too and is 1% of the cost of the Labo, is that a fair comparison?
I always call it "death by a thousand cuts".
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/prtriage
We know that federal and state agencies, investigators and prosecutors have lied for decades about SOD. They've used parallel construction to build clean cases. And they've not disclosed evidence provided by the NSA or CIA to defendants' counsel.

Why would we assume that evidence provided by the NSA or CIA are only used in drug cases? I mean, look at the list of federal agencies involved. Why would they create a parallel system for prosecuting tax evasion, or child abuse, or whistleblowing, or whatever?

I mean, we know that there's a broad conspiracy to lie. How can we trust liars to only lie about some things? And how could we even trust denials about that?
>and entirely supports my description of the disparate impact standards

When it impacts protected classes.

>unlawful in the particular circumstances because of the absence of proof of business necessity

Yep, and we're discussing jobs where IQ correlates to performance, so once again, do you claim in such jobs IQ testing is not legal? All case law I've read supports using IQ or other cognitive testing in such cases. Do you have a case otherwise? If not, then this entire thread is moot.

We're going around in circles.
Personally, the linux UI is a little too weird for me to recommend (and I work 100% on linux intentionally!)—things like keybindings using ctrl rather than cmd/super, the insert functionality (I know zero people who intentionally use this), the crazy window management, and the middle-click-means paste hardwired into applications. Stable, sure, but stably very old and difficult to alter to your preferences. MacOS is clearly thought out on a level that hasn’t been seen on linux since, I dunno, window maker?
Open Unity Project with Context Menu
Slightly related, many fast-food restaurants are also ran on Linux (back-end server in the restaurant, the registers that connect to them, etc.).

Taco Bell's system runs on "Taco Bell Linux" (or did, anyways, 10 years or so ago). I have a copy of their CD installation discs somewhere, I meant to look into it to see what distro they were building on top of but I never got around to it.
Your reasons against "why" read more to me like "why not" as you listed things unaffected by whether they open source or not. The benefits for "why" are the same for all open source software and are not unique to this situation. The only question is if the costs are too great.
Thanks for the post, that's all really great information (I just have a stats background, not a physicist/chemist).

My immediate concern based on what you said, and not to go off on a tangent here, would actually be for the bees. You mentioned that it is the frequency and not intensity that matters for humans - is it the same case for the animals/insects that are sensitive to the frequencies?

If we are effectively shining flashlights in their faces, increasing the intensity with each successive generation of wireless, can it eventually affect their ability to pollinate? Birds pollinate as well, to a lesser extent, so it would be the same concern here, on top of the pest control and general ecosystem balance that they provide.
> I’m specifically talking about cases with tight latency requirements after the request has been received.

Were these requirements only added/measured after working on the system for a year or two? Or were they there from the start?
It's a surprise that giving one's username and password to these plugins abdicates one's privacy?

What's more surprising is the ability to earn a living by pinning one-sentence opinions to synopses of other writers' articles.
Thanks.

ICYMI, I've posted before on HN about false claims of unlawful harm that keep coming up. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845509 as a source of links; also for the thread in which it lives, which unfortunately runs to high indentation level before trailing off.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14849041 is worth a read too on the topic of law and harm.

Why does this matter now? Obviously it matters to lots of people (including here in these comments) who keep bringing me up, either to attack Mozilla or to attack me. You can search Twitter and try to keep score -- I think subtweeted sentiment has turned in my favor, but both sides keep going.

My Mozilla exit is a prop in the culture wars, even though I never harmed anyone and am still doing what I've always done: working with people from all backgrounds, innovating via open source and open web tech against the big Internet superpowers who emerge and, due to network effects, end up operating against their users' interests.

It's time to drop the prop and stop fighting. I don't expect everyone to listen, but I'll give it a shot here anyway:

What we need most, on the Web and in the world, is unity against big threats such as surveillance capitalism. Apple and Brave block third party tracking by default. I hope Mozilla will do the same if its search revenue-share deals allow that. In the mean time, if you do choose to use Firefox, you can enable its optional Tracking Protection feature.
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-channon-2

Basically he was nailed for wire fraud and his defense was... exotic. Upon conviction he sought a writ of certiorari so that the SCOTUS would hear his case on some pretty weird grounds.

http://mattchannon.org/petition.pdf

At a glance it seems like a situation in which someone thought they found a technicality to enact what amounted to fraud, and are pissed that the law doesn’t work like a compiler. Their response is another “I found a bug in the code” move and again, the law isn’t working like a compiler.

I don’t think making over five thousand accounts and returning tens of thousands of ink cartridges was really behavior that anyone could have thought was honest. It does seems like the government responded pretty harshly, but the system is rough. As to guilt, he would appear to be guilty, and his argument is that despite committing fraud, no one was actually hurt. That might even be true, but also not how breaking the law works.

Edit: tptacek said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16926663
>They want to differentiate.

mission accomplished
Then why not practice without a fly - with just a pole and a line?

You would not bother any fish, and you would derive as much enjoyment.

(I am not into fishing so I may be missing something)
There are no outside, reasonable news sources. If you can make an intro to a journalist on my behalf, that’d help.

Otherwise, your advice is like telling a poor person they should have more money.
My only issue with the touch pad is that ctrl switches scrolling into ctrl+scrolling mid-scroll-throw.

To be clearer, if you 2-finger scroll quickly and lift off before stopping, the scroll continues as if it had been thrown. This is great. If you then press ctrl (in anticipation of making a new tab, for instance), suddenly you are zooming in/out instead of scrolling up/down. This is not great.

I don't know enough about user-input to know if this is unavoidable or if it could be fixed driver or browser side.
Neat way to fire any HTTP endpoint periodically using CRONTAB format
LineageOS has had this function since CyanogenMod.
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True. But we do know that thousands of people in the criminal justice system have lied about secret evidence. If even 10% of them went to trial, I bet that relevant evidence would come out. Some of them could accept plea deals, and testify against their managers.

That's quite the fantasy, isn't it?
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>> ...are completely inflexible in regards to where applications are installed...

Why users want to install programs willy-nilly in various random places is beyond me. Having standard installation locations makes inter-operability easier. This isn't so much a thing for applications as it is for libraries, but it does come up for apps too.

With standard installations it should be possible to simply list the dependencies an application has, but then you'll still want a central repository to get them from to make it easy and keep compatible versions around.

It's not great, but it works and I have yet to see a good alternative.
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