skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your point that Google haven't censored more than 5 times, or that Google mostly censors people who aren't famous/memorable and therefore it's hard to name 5?

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/816mzt/big_alph...

Perhaps you're saying that, if provided with a list of 5 examples, you would defend why Google chose to censor in those specific cases. Unfortunately I don't know enough about the details of all these cases to be able to pick 5 particularly controversial examples, but I still feel uneasy about the amount of power Google has to silence opinions it disagrees with.
Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software
If you don't trust a provider the obvious choice is to use another one.
I've been working on and off on my own tiny computer. Mostly MicroPython.

I finally got it the stage where I wrote an editor - and I've been using it.

Not a good editor. Append only, has to be typed directly into the machine. Does that classify?
Go look it up; they aren't claiming that. You're fighting a strawman. What they are claiming that they are preserving some record of the information that makes you up on the hope that it would be sufficient for future engineers to reconstruct some version of you. All they are claiming is that cryonic vitrification or aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation preserves in an information-theory sense the microstructure of the brain to sufficient detail that the connectome can be reconstructed by physically realizable scanning mechanisms, which we might not have now but are permitted by the laws of physics.

That's a much weaker argument, but one which actually IS supported by actual scientific papers in the field. And it's all that cryonics organizations have ever argued for.
Migrants who don’t want to assimilate into your culture are far more expensive than the labor costs you’re saving.
> It's three times faster than 8.8.8.8

You mean 3x faster for you, right? We're talking about a geographically distributed system here... for me it's not too different. Or do you mean their DNS servers are somehow by their nature 3x faster than Google's at responding?
I'm just happy an average Joe could set precedence for more lawsuits against a scumbag evil corporation that does more harm than good on this planet. About time!
Me. On the death of my physical body, my assets will be transferred to a trust fund with 90% going as a bounty to whoever can bring me back to "life", preferably not in flesh and bones (only 50% if I get put in a human body)

Part of it fiat, part of it will be crypto with the interdiction to sell 2/3 of it, just in case fiat money has some 1929 like catastrophy.

I think greed will be a good enough incentive and motivator, if more people do the same thing, for a company to develop the technology and collect the bounties.

And with BIP39 some assets can also be stored in your brain- so as to not be destitute if this scheme works.
Air Travel Consumer Report [pdf]
That's extremely hyperbolic. I've worked on multiple C++ FEs and it's orders of magnitude more complex than Swift.
JokeBot 2000 writez all.
The people with the reddest hair in the world (2014)
> That's a theoretical problem.

Currently.

> You wouldn't be able to realistically intimidate 10,000 people and watch each one drop their ballot into a box.

Your fanatical followers and/or henchman can do that. You can also use photos/videos to watch "your" voters more scalably. Another option is to pay them rather than intimidating.
Also, South Korea just went through the same backtracking.
Sorry to hear! I hope you find a mean ass attorney who bites the shit out of Monsanto.
As a C compiler engineer I can assure you it has problems.
That has always been true for the last 10 years at least, at least they’ve been talking about it. When it actually happens will be notable however.
Thanks for explaining why I hated _The Goal_, 2 pages of business advice ("Try kaizen and supply chain optimization") wrapped in a Twilight-esque padding of alcoholism, loveless marriage, and parenting.
> Hardly anyone does it

I suspect there is a lot of it but it’s probably not coordinated enough to swing an election.

> because the reward is small and the penalty is huge.

I’d argue the reward is major and the chance of getting caught and prosecuted is almost nil.

For example voting illegally for dems could get amnesty on the table.

And the threat of penalty? Well my local liquor store got robbed for about $600 cash last month. The guy who did it is multiple orders of magnitude more likely to get caught than an illegal voter. Yet the jail time didn’t stop him.
As of 8, they integrated that portion into main tree because it was ridiculous and a bit of a pain for the 98% of the world who wasn't under US sanction to have to do that. It's "legitimate" again - so all the Iranians that want Java have to download it from the source tree.
FYI: You can also disable those histories by specific app or delete it in bulk in a few clicks.
As I see it this thought process only takes you so far in most areas of importance. The main purpose of an ITT is for those areas for which capturing knowledge and comprehension of that is trickier.

In the hard sciences, objective truth serves and you can talk of approximating towards something truer than before. That is something linear. The model gets measurably improved.

Most of everything else in society, economy, social, politics, ecology - I don't think runs well on such thinking to the point using it is counterproductive aka you will not survive by thinking like this. Practical people with rational ideas inserted into the political arena appear to typically get eaten alive. You're left with ogres, hopefully enlightened ones. It's likely the spectacularly convoluted nature of human politics is responsible for our biological evolution - like A/B testing with millions of lives, there's a nice essay musing on the cruelty of ourselves called Meditations on Moloch at Slatestarcodex.

Objective truths remain in all of those areas, society, economy, social, politics, ecology but they're the kind of truths which are not especially helpful. There's these cyclical patterns, emergent phenomenons.

One day the model will be Fedualism, another Liberalism, another day Communism, another day another -ism, but what is really going on? So maybe some of the time some people are wrong, but more often the new -ism is saying "incomplete model" and if your society decreases in complexity it may even start to say something like "reduce model", deregulate, even promote anarchy.

The most appropriate model is that of a Garden. You may grow blackberry plants or oak trees, but you can't really think of "how do I optimize it all" because bluntly you're not that intelligent and nobody is that intelligent. Instead you get weeds, experiments, patterns of growth, environmental conditions, incentives, bad weather - all those joys. In one way you may read scientific literature on optimizing particulars - but I wouldn't say that's what Gardeners really do unless their only goal is to produce spuds - and even then any farmer will update you on just how much of that is outside their control. It's like that with Society but we're in a worse devil of a position. Talk about legacy code, yikes.

tldr; You're maybe not looking for "the truth" as wondering "how do you get a benevolent gardener" and still deal with the slugs :-).
How is this different from a financial advisor?

How are you going to make money at that price point with the level of service you outline here?
ICOs Have Sold Nearly 100,000 ETH in the Past 30 Days
"...an aircraft will generate a sonic boom along the length of its flight path at a rate of one mile per thousand feet."

Can someone explain what is being measured as one mile per thousand feet?
Also in this space, some Atom devs are working on a new editor/engine in Rust and have recently shifted focus to CRDT as a way to get collaborative editing and advanced SCM-like scenarios.

The editor is called 'xray' and the CRDT tech is Eon. They have some info here and you can find more in the repo/branches.
https://github.com/atom/xray/blob/master/docs/updates/2018_0...

If you're into the client/server model of Xi, xray is targetting the same, including an in-browser experience connecting to a remote backed. Similarly, there is Theia-IDE which actually seems the most advanced in terms of a functional in-browser editor with a client/server model.

I think these tools are going to enable entire new generations of programmers on super low end hardware where their editor services and toolchains are running in a remote DC.

There are others in this space with similar tech, but most seem focused on very specific niches and use cases. If there are other softwares that hit the collaborative editing, CRDT, and in-browser experience points, I'd love to hear about them.
This was discussed in TFA.
If, if, if: yes I know, there is no guarantee. There is no proof. I make bets. There is little profit to be found where there is no risk involved. Immortality is just that biggest profit possible, for which many risks must be taken.

You know what's worse than my bets: someone not making them. That person sure is never coming back when the body and brain rot and turns to dust.

Anyway, if that is what you want, and you made an informed decision, I respect our differences
Classing China in with Japan and Italy on this is weird and probably incorrect. Chinese women generally work after having kids, and take advantages of lots of child care resources missing from the other two countries (grand parents, lots of daycare/kindergartens). Chinese (especially Shanghainese) men are more likely to be henpecked, and they will do house work.
So either Dell got hacked and they didn't notice, or they got hacked and didn't report it... Nice
Incompetent developers?
One mile wide per thousand feet in altitude?
Oh my. Not correct. Participation in democracy is not quasi-governmental.
Couldn't they have just bought something from you and gotten your return address that way?
How would a DNS query reveal which Reddit post you clicked on?
Ah, you're right. I should have read your comment more carefully.

> ChakraCore has a well-optimized, pure interpreter mode which complies with iOS’ restrictions.

(Which does not include runtime-compilation.)
It can only be passed to grandchildren when the children (the parents of the grandchildren, and all of their siblings) are all dead already. This rarely happens, which is why property tax inheritance almost never ends up going to someone with young children.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/prop-13-transfers-to-g...
Right. So that's a DRM argument which is a whole extra world of pain. But using blockchain? Really? Especially since DRM's of various varieties are well understood, standardised and implemented - can't they just use one of those?

And... if it 'aint broke...
That AI Winter can't come soon enough.
I did not know about the iframe's srcdoc attribute which all these creative hacks use in order to get javascript evaluated. Just yesterday I created http://localhorst.43z.one to play with saving websites in the browsers localstorage and I used innerHTML and 'reinsertion' of script nodes to make js execute.
What is the failure rate of modern ordinance?
Start with a 3 species model. Imagine a shallow, closed sea, in which there is a shark, a plesiosaur, and a bird. We need to explain why the shark and the bird survive, but the plesiosaur goes extinct.

An asteroid hits somewhere, causing environmental change. For the rest of this comment, I'm going to refer to temperature as a short-hand way of referring to any environmental change.

The shallow, closed sea is undergoing temperature change, so the environment for bacteria and viruses is rapidly changing, therefore new species of bacteria and viruses are emerging at a high speed.

The shark is safe because the shark has general purpose macrophages which fights all pathogens with equal efficiency -- the shark does not care whether a pathogen is new or old, because the shark has a disease fighting system which does not rely on the principle of immunity. Sharks are 350 million years old -- they evolved long before immunity existed.

The plesiosaur and the bird are both in danger, because they have a system of disease fighting that does rely on immunity -- they are efficient at fighting off pathogens they've already been exposed to, but they are inefficient at fighting off pathogens that they have never been exposed to.

The birds see half the flock grow sick and die, so some instinctual fear of disease kicks in and the birds fly away from the shallow, closed sea.

The plesiosaur has no escape. Their disease fighting system is inefficient when dealing with new diseases, and they are in a bath of new diseases, from which they can not escape. They go extinct.

Immunity is the best model I've seen so far for explaining which species went extinct and which species survived.
I use Google Maps, but that doesn't require you allow them long-term tracking of your location. It'll continue to work.

(Disclaimer, below is about maps, and my personal anecdote. Ignore as necessary.)

(Though I must say, I'm in the process of trialing a new mapping app. Because Google have failed me.

I live in a suburb that was created 2 years ago. It replaced part of an old suburb, and a new area that hadn't been assigned. They created a new postcode for this new suburb too. Two years on, Google doesn't know it exists, so my address doesn't exist. It has my road, but no name, no numbers.

I tried out OSM And+ (via FDroid), and Android mapping program, based mostly on OpenStreetMaps. It has my suburb, and my address. Since about 1 year, 10 months ago. The directions are flawless, and it has a decent GPS voice.

However, it doesn't have as decent coverage of the Points-Of-Interest stuff that Google Maps has, but I'm fine with that, never used them anyway, apart from finding the nearest fast food place or gas station on a long trip.

And the public transport stuff is hit & miss. But I can't keep up with bus timelines in my area myself, they change about once every 3 months because of strikes.)
Heroku has "private spaces" which will give you a fixed set of outbound IPs, AWS VPC peering, and a firewall via Trusted IP Ranges.

Heroku is surprisingly nice as an enterprise customer.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/private-spaces#stable-...
Social media and specifically Instagram stories has simply enabled a new mode of living. Living used to be 1:1, now it can be 1:many. People who have embraced this new way of living may seem incomprehensible to those who still choose to live 1:1. As it has been, and will continue to be forever, people who choose a new mode of living will be judged, ostracized and scrutinized but those who don’t agree with their way of living.

I would argue this same judgement and confusion has persisted through history. “Oh now women are showing their ankles how terrible” “oh now people don’t wear dinner jackets to dinner, how horrible” “oh now teenagers are having sex, how horrible” “oh now people have sex before marriage how horrible” “oh now people watch tv instead of read how horrible” and on and on and on. Change is inevitable. Before you start to judge how others choose to live, perhaps examine your own viewpoints and biases.

Are these downsides to change? Yes. Can you ever stop it? No. I think it’s easy to say “oh kids These days do blank how horrible”. And articles like this come along and selectively interview people to prove how horrible it is, so we can all run around with our panties in a collective bunch about how horrible everything is.
I'd have to disagree on the front of having an outrageous fee such as that on a storefront. Some people could make great games and those same people might not have the same opportunities to acquire funds to pay for that fee. Of course, the storefront isn't really needed, but at times it feels like certain storefronts are almost suicide not to release to.

For instance, I released recently (in my mind) a pretty nice and functional app for Android. Not getting much traction, but that's fine, I wasn't totally expecting that. Where my problem lies is that, a large part of the mobile market, those on iOS, don't get to have the app. As their storefront costs $100 yearly to publish to. On top of requiring a Mac to develop on (easily in the thousands of dollars).

I feel that the barriers of entry for developing (and publishing) applications and games should be lower, and rather instead of introducing these fees that won't do anything to people that have money and just want to release their broken asset store mashup onto a storefront. In my mind, the best solution would be better moderation and curation.
Yes[1], export is controlled. Oracle Java contains an implementation of cryptographic primitives, similar in scope and purpose to OpenSSL.

Microsoft does not sell products to any sanctioned countries[2].

Note that [1] has a giant loophole for open source software, which requires notice but not permission - so builds of .NET Core, OpenJDK, OpenSSL itself, and so on, can be exported no problem. Also, programs built WITH the primitives are "mass market", so are exemptable that way.

[1]: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption
[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/exporting/faq.aspx
This perspective is bullshit. You can do anything you want, without real fear, no matter who you are. There's a panoply of literature to help you change your mindset. Seek it out.

> They all have the money to do anything they want without any real fear, whereas I do not. I don't have their wide friend groups at my company, and the lifestyles of the people at my company are decidedly "normal" because of my peers' advanced ages and differing priorities (many have kids and didn't go to elite schools).

This is an excuse. I am not anything like the friends you described, and I have a wide circle of friends, and do exactly what I want in life. So does everyone I call a close friend. They all come from completely different backgrounds. It took years of hard work to get here. Start now.

Sorry for the off-topic post in this thread, but I think it's deeply important to refute this kind of thinking. Don't waste your life.
Been using pi-hole for over a year with no issues. Not sure what's going on with your experience.
No solitude is not healthy. Only our shitty 21st century individualism pushes from industry and media have shifted things in that direction and almost nobody is happy doing it.
Well, in that regard, so is Python; the GC is only used to resolve cycles, and can be disabled.
Yeah, no. There was massive extinction of single cell creatures (forams, for example) and also plants, which don't have immune systems.

A good match for the extinction patterns is which species could survive a prolonged interruption of photosynthesis.
Ironically you might have inadvertently provided the answer to your own question. If Google make money from a website owner (in the EU, for example), and that website owner makes money (using their website) from someone in a restricted country, then an imaginative prosecutor could argue that Google are guilty of knowingly facilitating some sort of "money laundering", from the restricted country to Google themselves.

This is not much more far-fetched than the idea that a site like The Pirate Bay is guilty of "conspiring" with its users to infringe copyright.
No, I mean faster across a broad benchmark suite from 227 globally distributed test locations. 1.1.1.1 is faster in every region - in Africa and Oceania, they're faster by over 100ms on average. It's conceivable that some users could get faster resolution from 8.8.8.8, but highly unlikely.

https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

Cloudflare are a CDN company. Running a fast geographically distributed system is their core competence.
They just stop showing your history to you on the website. Don't think for a second that they don't still have it.
> I've had Americans seriously tell me that the country is on the brink of civil war

It's probably not a good idea to make value judgments based on the predictions of people obsessed with hysterical political news sources by companies who have make a living selling the public a worldview divided on stark black/white us vs them tribal lines. Where every minor bit of inane news coming out of Washington is blown up into big stories to fuel some grand political drama that never ends.

Meanwhile the world IRL for the vast majority has hardly changed at all in any significant way.
Ask HN: Excel sheets like online app
I remember seeing an App which looked like Google/Excel sheets and had lot of other functionalities.

It also had public sheets
They also provided free templates for user to get started
It was a web application

I was initially checking it out for (Facebook) Lead management and it looked pretty good.

But I don't remember the name and can't find the bookmark.

Do you guys know such application?
Are you sure you know what dns and google dns is about?
Seriously. You'd think they'd have an internal Web DAM on top of S3 and productize it.
Also no dowry needed for male children.
The animals you mentioned have active, as well as learned immunity. The systems in vertebrates are quite similiar. I'm not sure what your point is.
This is also the case for bicycles, however it's purpose is more about dissuading cyclists who don't consider themselves guests on the pavement:

> The introduction of the fixed penalty is not aimed at responsible cyclists who sometimes feel obliged to use the pavement out of fear of traffic and who show consideration to other pavement users when doing so. Chief police officers, who are responsible for enforcement, acknowledge that many cyclists, particularly children and young people, are afraid to cycle on the road, sensitivity and careful use of police discretion is required.

Pavements are for people, if you want to ride on it that is fine, but you have no right of way over people on foot.

The carriage law should not be removed outright but amended similarly while making it clear it's not ok to make pavements dangerous for pedestrians.
No, all shipped through FBA.
Then why are you ranting about it? If you dont believe what they say about the service why waste our time with your diatribe.
Apparently the modest nature of my proposal wasnt clear enough. I forget to really punch sarcasm in text.

My point: cost is always a consideration. And in voting, has a direct correlation to such issues as deployment and voter ability to... well, vote.
It seems like a good solution to CryoLogic and your discussion might be for services to allow you to choose what you would like censored. For instance 'yzmtf2008' could simply say, don't show me content like this.

Obviously there are some challenges in the 'like this' part, but it seems like it might scale better and be less prone to centralized censorship problems than the current mechanism.

The sad part is that 'yzmtf2008' will exist inside of a vacuum and will miss out on things that appear crazy and may actually be true, but perhaps the upside is that this person may be more productive in other areas of life by defocusing on distractions.
> Waiting at the DMV once in a great while is a very, very small penalty.

> People just complain too much, in my opinion.

Spot on.

I’ve had to wait in line for hours in India - and even the poorest in India can do it without major complaint.

I mean yes you try and avoid it... but if it’s a 5 hour wait once every 10 years you just suck it up.

In reality the Democrats know there are a bunch of people who don’t care about politics and know nothing about the candidates or policies but can be cajoled into voting for team blue.
why is the the link in bold?

edit: ah, it appears that it is using non-ascii characters that look like bold versions of other characters? (Is that allowed?)
Github being owned by Microsoft has 0 relevance for any competent technical organization.
It has nothing to do with their DNS.
Unless you want to claim that Google is now a tool of the Government (A), then your point of censorship and free speech are moot.

(A): This extraordinary claim would require extraordinary evidence.