skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like most of Brad Smith's initiatives, but I hope the end-goal here isn't to just put more Windows on voting machines. Because the last voting machines that got Windows are some of the least secure devices around, many of them still unpatched for many years.

I know that's not all Microsoft's fault, but if that's their "solution" or others similar to it, then we'd be better off without them in the long term.

And that's without even mentioning the whole issue around proprietary software being used in the voting process (even if it's just for counting votes, because nobody ever checks or audits those after the fact anyways, and the numbers are always taken at face value).
C++ is just super hard in its design: it can’t be parsed easily, so for a long time custom compilers were impossible. It’s support for generics was based on was basically macro expansion, it’s multiple inheritance scheme was poorly thought out. It was just painful to do anything with it as a user of the language or an implementer. OOP people were never much of a formal crowd, and they had plenty of niche languages to base their research around (smalltalk, CLOS, Eiffel, BETA, ...).

And when Java came along, acedemics breathed a sigh of relief: finally they could work on a “practical” language that wasn’t totally insane. And everyone else who really didn’t need to be using C++ in the first place has similar ideas.
> you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role

I have no horse in this race. Not sure how you got that impression.
He will probably not be paid more if he works an additional 70 hours instead of commuting..
I was looking into it a bit before. The smallest RDS instance was like 11 dollars per month and can't use spot instances (naturally).

If you do use spot instance with a local postgres on EBS, it comes down to about 4 dollars per month all together. With instance store, that should be around 3 dollars.

These are for t2 micro. If you use bigger instances, the money difference will be huge.

RDS is just way too expensive for small projects.
3%! Luxury! Best I've pulled off for sitting around is 0.9%pa.

"I have an offer from OtherCo. But I'd like to stay here. Could you match it?"

"We don't negotiate salaries."
This doesn't make sense at all. So are you saying that India or China is more developed than Singapore because their aggregate "strength" whatever that means is greater than Singapore?
This was not a good idea to read at work. I tried to control the giggle but still coworkers noticed and I had to show them.

It's hard not to anthropomorphize the neural net and have a little bit of pity/laughter at its struggle to paint even remotely accurate pictures
That's a good point I think- we put people in jail because a) we've always put people in jail and b) we still can't think of anything better to do. As justifications for screwing peoples' lives up go, this one's pretty weak.

Oh and, er- please don't misunderstand me. I'm not accusing you of trying to excuse anything.
It hurts small startups trying to perpetuate the same blatant disregard for human rights as American startups have done in the past. It doesn't hurt small startups that are privacy-aware and treat their users with respect.

Not giving users a way to delete their accounts was never okay. Tracking user behavior without consent was never okay. Holding users' data hostage was never okay. Not giving people a way to correct the data you keep about them was never okay.

US startups have been playing on easy mode by getting to ignore human rights and just follow the local letter of the law even when going international.

If anything you'd think HN "classical liberals" would love this as it evens the playing field, allowing for fairer competition between already privacy-aware EU companies and the previously unfairly advantaged US companies entering the EU market. Of course this assumes you think privacy and data ownership should be protected as human rights in the first place.
Makona – decentralised platform for tracking donations to NGOS: their tech stack
I find it massively depends on the commute. Previously, I often had to travel to visit my SO which was an hour away by train. As I almost always had a seat I could watch Coursera videos on my phone.

However, I have a 20-30 minute bus ride to work everyday in which there are never free seats and you are often lucky if you even have room to reach into your pocket let alone watch videos on your phone.

It's hard to see any benefit to the latter commute as being rammed in like cattle doesn't aid self-reflection either.
It is very interesting to know if running .net core on Linux gives you better performance than on Windows. If you don't get any perf. penalty then moving to Linux saves you a lot in Windows Server licenses! And if Linux is faster then there is really no reason to stay with Windows Server anymore.
How Crunchbase News Redesigned Its Website
> That’s not greed, that’s smart business.

It's usually both, when we talk about screwing others in a legal way. But we have to keep the big picture in mind. For people to live together, they need to perceive society to be kind of fair. Otherwise they don't have a problem burning it to the ground... by e.g. voting for a moron to govern them in hope for change.

Having reasonable pressure on prices (including wages) to improve the economy is beneficial to society. Citizens having to compete with people that show an uncomfortable similarity to slaves (especially the dependency on employer aspect) seems beyond that.
Contact them and they have to delete the account manually.
> So does this mean there is money out there for the kind of tumblr/blog weirdness people like to read?

Sort of, if you've got the rare personality that can turn a blog into a form of entertainment. Along with the unrelenting dedication to do it in a rote fashion week after week for years. Once the audience latches on, you're not allowed to take a long hiatus or change what you do. Dooce (dooce.com) comes to mind, her blog had very primitive beginnings prior to growing into a serious monetized traffic destination for a time. I like to call them Howard Stern personalities, people that are gifted entertainers. You may not like their brand of content or personality (I don't care for people like Stern and Glenn Beck for example), but they've got the magic sauce for some audience base.

I spent a lot of time in the early blogosphere, circa 1998-2004 or so. Something that was amazing to observe, was how many very talented personalities were unable to break through to that ultimate next level of popularity. They seemingly had everything it required (whether wit, charm, skilled story telling, et al.) and still couldn't get there. The world has a lot of brilliant people that never break through for any number of countless reasons.
I did not examine the claims in detail, but a few sport teams announced they will use a kit made from recovered ocean plastics. Probably worth looking into it?

[1]http://www.espn.com/soccer/blog/the-toe-poke/65/post/3569720...
I love the section on the name "dynamic programming" (arguably the worst term in all of computer science):

The 1950s were not
good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was
Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological
fear and hatred of the word, research. I’m not using the
term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse,
he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used
the term, research, in his presence. You can imagine how he
felt, then, about the term, mathematical. The RAND Cor-
poration was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force
had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do
something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact
that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first
place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in
thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word, ‘programming.’
I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this
was multistage, this was time-varying. I thought, let’s kill
two birds with one stone. Let’s take a word that has an
absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property
as an adjective, and that is it’s impossible to use the word,
dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning.
It’s impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was
a good name. It was something not even a Congressman
could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities

Basically: "I more or less randomly picked two words that sounded good in a government bureaucracy". Makes sense!
This is an excellent idea, especially because the system is automated and allows anything and everything through.

Just submit whatever politically incorrect thing you like in with a bunch of P2P links and watch the dissent disappear :)

Instructions and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787302
We're also talking huge VRAM jumps, and RAM manufactoring has also hiked prices.
I don't think the files Thanos deleted actually belonged to him.
Sounds like Eco

https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/
Most industries can profit from more, better information. The entire field of data science is evolving so quickly and I truly believe it will bring huge productivity changes 10-20 years down the line.
I'm stunned every time people try to get privacy with Google.

It's Google! I wish I could make you understand but I probably can't.... :(
The brain only hates slowpokes when it's been told, repeatedly, that it hates slowpokes.

Things are annoying if they are not as you want them to be, and you do not have as much control over them as you would like.

Patience is a skill, like any other. You can train yourself to be more patient by exposing yourself to situations where you need to be patient.
... who was underpaid, to a level where properly living is out of the question. Who was abused and threatened into unpaid overtime.

Just saying there's other considerations too. I get that these practices mean that it's likely a better burrito, but it's wrong.
> If I download the Ubuntu Desktop ISO, I still get my download immediately

Actually you have to click past a "please donate some money" nagging dialogue.

It may be a little annoying (at least if you download ISOs all the time), but it's obvious what they are asking for, not to mention why.

And it's definitely not dishonest, so it doesn't tarnish their reputation as a trust-worthy company.
An advocacy group in NYC wants people to stop circumcising their infant sons
Then I don't understand "I can never forgive the police for taking a sample of the meat to check if it was beef." If it's forbidden in that state, where's the problem with sampling ?
For their N97 promo video Nokia faked the whole UI of the phone: https://youtu.be/vJpEuMidcSU
"It’s clear that democracies around the world are under attack. Foreign entities are launching cyber strikes to disrupt elections and sow discord. Unfortunately, the internet has become an avenue for some governments to steal and leak information, spread disinformation, and probe and potentially attempt to tamper with voting systems. We saw this during the United States general election in 2016, last May during the French presidential election, and now in a broadening way as Americans are preparing for the November midterm elections."

Now that is a strong first paragraph. Microsoft is essentially saying that Russia did indeed influence the 2016 election (presumably in collaboration with Trump). I know the facts are public, but I did not expect such a big company to take such a political position.
So he stayed for years in a below market house then received a nice wad of cash for the key. All courtesy of the US taxpayer who ended up on the hook for the massive Wall Street bankruptcies that made walking away from a $1 million dollar property a thing.

It reads like he was quite ready to undercut Rosa and Adrian and take up payments with the original lender, only that he was unable to untangle the mess, and Adrian beat him to the punch by essentially forging some documents.
Usenet was fun while it lasted. But september will probably never end.
Does offering the source not qualify as offering something? What is the closed source company offering that you are ok with giving your email away?

Really an honest question. I find Docker useful, and was put back also by the email/ login request, but why are they getting so much hate, compared to every other company, just because of this?
I used Tumblr for years. From probably 2008 until 2017.

It's not entirely optional to interact with radicalised elements on Tumblr. The tagging system lets them find you, and then they can brigade you if you fall foul of whatever pet cause they have.

This happened to me when I'd posted a photo of my dog. She's my pride and joy, and it was a harmless and cute photo of her jumping to catch a ball in the air. My mistake was using the caption "Good girl!" and tag #goodgirl. (I also tagged #dog, #fetch, #springerspaniel, #spaniel.)

I was flooded with follows from people, mostly men but also some young-ish girls, in the "daddy dom" community (their main tag seems to be #ddlg, but #goodgirl was enough for them to find me). That was a pretty disturbing subculture with definitely uncomfortable elements of abuse built right into the foundation of it.

I was also reblogged and targeted by a group of people who had decided that by "gendering" my female dog, I was a bigot. They mercilessly harrassed me. They flooded my inbox with abusive message: "dirty cis scum, kill yourself", things like that.
They reblogged my photo saying some pretty vile things about me and my poor dog. In their reblogs they utterly misrepresented what I'd said, reposted it endlessly, called me transphobic, a bigot, threatened to dox me.

In the end I abandoned my entire blog there and deleted it. As far as I know, there's no way to get my dog's photo removed from Tumblr or get the hateful reblogs taken down. I reported them all for abuse and harassment, but Tumblr did nothing. Tumblr's staff don't care. They would never respond on Twitter or by email or to my reports through the form on the site. Just radio silence.

This is purely anecdotal, I know. I know someone else who also accidentally drew the ire of Tumblr and ended up having to delete their blog and leave the platform to escape a sustained campaign of harassment and threats from a similar group of people. Again, Tumblr-the-company did nothing to stop it.
I've been reading Dan Walsh's blog about podman & cri-o:

https://medium.com/@rhatdan

(Disclaimer, I work in the same company, but not in the same department/group)
So what's the alternative? Innumerate libertarian pipe dreams? Bolshevik revolution?
Yeah because Google cares about your privacy....no way would they want to remain friends with the ad industry. No they are YOUR friend. Of course. They don't even charge for their service to billions of people. Truly altruistic company.
Given how hostile some content providers are towards the GDPR I always assumed pressing X means they will violate the law and store my data anyway.

I mean, most of them already violate that clause where consent for advertising or tracking should be opt-in, not opt-out. X implying consent is just an extension of that.
Well spotted and thank you! I have fixed it :)
CPanel can do nightly backups. If something goes wrong, roll back a day or 3 and try again.

I've been using this method since WP was first added to Fantastico, way back in the day. A form of lazy versioning I guess.

We're not talking about companies who need high availability. Your personal blog can handle a day down while you restore from backup (it's just a few clicks from the CPanel, the wait for the email saying it's ready).
Between a $15 bottle and a $30 dollar bottle I wouldn't expect a big difference in service level, so double the tip would not be justified. So I can see what you mean, the connection between price and services rendered is a loose one.

Although if I'm in a restaurant with $500 wines I usually expect the service to include a wine educated sommelier to create a good wine pairing depending on my taste preferences and the food I ordered. That is a lot different from just bringing the bottle.

I expect the restaurant to also be a lot cleaner and more detail-oriented with its service and presentation in that price range.

All in all I think tipping in general is wrong though. The chef making my food has the most influence on my experience and at the same time usually doesn't get a tip (I live in Germany currently, so no tipping out here, but even in the US I think they never get that much). I think waiters are obviously opposed to getting rid of tips. They might complain about the lower minimum wage, but the fact is if they're friendly they get a lot more money than for any unskilled job, especially because tips aren't taxed.

A friend of mine in uni used to waitress at a bar. She said her wage is 4€/h. I asked her why she's doing it. She said she gets between 30€/h in tax free tips. That's roughly the net wage of an engineer in Europe (although you don't get the payments into social security, but most people don't think that far ahead). And this was in Germany, a low tipping country. I imagine in the US if you're friendly and fast at serving you can make much more.
When you say "my content", are you referring to content that you created, like a blog or online resource or are you referring to content your users created? Also is the information they're copying factual in nature (like a map or results of a calculation)?

If it's factual in nature: It's not protected by copyright.

If it's content your users created: You are not the copyright holder and cannot file a DMCA takedown notice. Your best bet is really going to be making yourself unscrapable.

If it's content you created: File a DMCA takedown notice.
What is this site? It doesn't seem to display anything except the title page.

Edit: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PDbj62...
Yep! A nice example is Equatorial Guinea, which has a GDP per capita comparable to Croatia's, and yet, "the UN says that less than half of the population has access to clean drinking water and that 20% of children die before reaching the age of five" [0]

There's few trickle down effects because the ruling family spends it all on stuff like shopping trips to Paris.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea
If a German buys bottled water, in the most cases it will be sparkling water. At least that's my experience, and the stock at the shop I frequent is >80% sparkling.

I suppose most of those who don't drink sparkling water get it from the tap; at least this holds for the people I know. Remember, water quality is quite good here, only a few areas have a bad taste to their tap water (still drinking water quality though).

Edit: I don't think he counts other beverages, just sales of sparkling vs. non-sparkling water.
Reminds me of what my kids are drawing.
Yeah, I can see where there'd be cases where SSRIs and SNRIs wouldn't work out; everyone's situation is a little different.

It seems like there's a problem in the general case though, if you have doctors that are a little too quick to prescribe benzos and refer the prescribing of antidepressants to a specialist. For those that live in an area with a shortage of mental health professionals, it might take a month or two to see a psychiatrist (and then maybe only after talking to a therapist or something first), and then maybe a few weeks more before the antidepressants start working, which is longer than anyone ought to be on benzos if they can at all help it.
Just some un-prompted feedback. I work in US politics. I'm not a full time researcher but my baseline insider knowledge is probably pretty high.

I don't think that would be good enough for a poll used by most US political campaigns. Even the tiny amount of news funded surveys care about xtabs with meaningful voter data. I have seen a few huge response rate online surveys for a simple presidential head to head but it's a tiny market without more voter data attached and only for giant races with news tracking.

I think knowing what census tract one of these machines is in wouldn't be enough data for political surveys, same w example of being near a university.

We actually field online surveys but we use voter file data to target and we ask for respondent info to match back to voter file. We mostly only use them to measure our digital ad's recall and persuasion.

I wonder if your product would be a better fit for say a brand advertiser; everyone is a potential customer versus in the US few people vote. Plus it's easy to measure 1-10 do you like this CPG or have you seen an ad recently.

I also think there are some potential cool use cases using ML to infer gender, age bracket, race. For instance in live person polls often times the interviewer makes a note of the voice's likely gender. Again more valuable for a brand advertiser to know those demos for simple CPG attitude surveys. Really the best value for my work would be if could match a persons photo to like FB's db or maybe in China lol
Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
For years it was not really true. You need DI framework? Study all benchmarks and comparisons for 10 most common DI frameworks. Need ORM? Welcome to the NHibernate vs Entity Framework debate. Logging? Here you go with another 10 choices.
This article utterly misrepresents Tumblr as some kind of paradise. It's definitely not. It's as good and bad as Twitter or Facebook or whatever else. I used Tumblr for years, from probably 2008 until 2017.

The real problem as I see it is there's a large, vocal, vicious echo-chamber effect at play. A lot of its userbase are quite radical and aggressive in their beliefs, and the reblogging system makes it easy to use the platform for bully. It's not entirely optional to interact with radicalised elements on Tumblr. The tagging system lets them find you, and then they can brigade you if you fall foul of whatever pet cause they have.

This happened to me when I'd posted a photo of my dog. She's my pride and joy, and it was a harmless and cute photo of her jumping to catch a ball in the air. My mistake was using the caption "Good girl!" and tag #goodgirl. (I also tagged #dog, #fetch, #springerspaniel, #spaniel.)

I was flooded with follows from people, mostly men but also some young-ish girls, in the "daddy dom" community (their main tag seems to be #ddlg, but #goodgirl was enough for them to find me). That was a pretty disturbing subculture with definitely uncomfortable elements of abuse built right into the foundation of it.

I was also reblogged and targeted by a group of people who had decided that by "gendering" my female dog, I was a bigot. They mercilessly harrassed me. They flooded my inbox with abusive message: "dirty cis scum, kill yourself", things like that. They reblogged my photo saying some pretty vile things about me and my poor dog. In their reblogs they utterly misrepresented what I'd said, reposted it endlessly, called me transphobic, a bigot, threatened to dox me.

In the end I abandoned my entire blog there and deleted it. As far as I know, there's no way to get my dog's photo removed from Tumblr or get the hateful reblogs taken down. I reported them all for abuse and harassment, but Tumblr did nothing. Tumblr's staff don't care. They would never respond on Twitter or by email or to my reports through the form on the site. Just radio silence.

This is purely anecdotal of course. I know someone else who also accidentally drew the ire of Tumblr and ended up having to delete their blog and leave the platform to escape a sustained campaign of harassment and threats from a similar group of people. Again, Tumblr-the-company did nothing to stop it.
How many software developers work on adware?

People gotta eat somehow.