skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Linux Kernel ABI is incredibly stable, thanks to Linus, it's only the userland built up around it by other people that doesn't give a damn about compatibility. This isn't a significant issue for other OSs because they have a well defined base system and care about compatibility (because users care about compatibility).
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You’d basically be forced to automatically take down anything that was reported to queue it for review.
Apps including gambling element.

How they found gambling in a calendar app is beyond me.

Overall impression is that they were simply given a list of app urls and they had them block them without any right to question that.
Exactly. Gambling apps are also illegal in the US and Apple is coming under scrutiny here for “loot boxes”.
There are some discussion about note-taking in the past:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406198 (123 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945882 (85 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579047 (77 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750534 (69 comments)
Neomonde is awesome. Love that place!
but isn't that part of the point? I doubt any automated system would consider driving in those conditions 'safe', so it would deal with the situation by pulling over to a safer spot and stop driving. Humans make terrible risk decisions in cases like that - continuing to drive in horrible snowstorms, etc, when the risks a way higher than our already-risky roads in normal conditions.

By not having the human make that decision, you save lives, even if some people arrive home late.

It does raise the point of 'rescue' in certain dangerous conditions like winter storms. Extreme rain in the dark can probably normally be waited out, but snowstorms and other road-closure type conditions probably warrant a different proactive rescue type response if we'll have riders with no driving ability in self-driving cars.
Right, right. Any moment now, and with flying cars, too. I am not holding my breath.
Expect more things like this to come along. The EU has tested the waters and confirmed that yes, it is safe to mandate that every dev team in the world perform a 2 week sprint at its whim, anytime if feels like it.

We're partially responsible, for having implemented our silly cookie popups and GDPR checkbox screens without pushing back hard enough.
>Or scientific articles that go against the politically correct narrative?

Wut?
It seems they were making these laws without understanding how technology works.

Consider a website, which have a moderate community and solely runned by one or two developers.

How are they going to detect the content which is oppressive.
By creating a NLP and image recognition software and run it within an hour.

If they want there country audience to have the content they like, either have a seperate internet for Europe or teach their own citizens to not visit such sites.
Are you referring to Wilaiwan's in Montpelier? Excellent place that's only open for weekday lunch, and Saturday lunch when the Farmer's Market is running in the summer.

They usually cook large batches of three dishes, and are open 11 AM to 2 PM or whenever they run out, whichever is sooner; and they do seem to frequently run out, I've found that going at 1:45 is not a good plan.
Yes. I suppose in the scope of industrial process there are basically two types of action: shoveling (a scalable technique that is understood and can be trained) and invention (creating new scalable techniques). If it's just shoveling, capital investment may very well yield higher output.

Invention on the other hand happens on a constrained pipeline.

The shoveling that looks like invention is when an existing invention is adapted (and sometimes called innovation). I presume it's hard for outsiders to say when a subject on which expertise is not yet commoditized is ready for shoveling or not.

I think this is what happened here - since everyone were hyping the AI revolution, they presumed the technique was ready for industrial adaption and only lacked in dedicated subject experts and existing processes which can be adapted. They presumed there was some core invention that could be adapted and monetized.

Given how poorly understood subject AI is, and how lucrative a self driving car would probably be, some risk taking in this area is certainly understandable. I have no idea if the investments were in line with the risks and rewards or not.
It's disappointing they are pulling VPN apps that might help with escaping the GFW. I find it funny how large tech companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple - try so hard to adopt a public image promoting western liberal values. However they all end up submitting to political censorship demands for a population of over a billion people.

I read earlier in the month even Google has caved in, despite being an example years ago by refusing to participate in censorship

But then I know their primary priority is to increase revenue/profits. Can't do that by being blocked out of such a massive market.
This could be kind of like how a lot of developing countries have excellent cellular phone networks, having mostly skipped the expensive commitment to wire.
You don't need to click a million checkboxes. All the cookies should be disabled by default. If sites require you to disable everything by hand then they're not complying with GDPR.
Well, Netherlands is a special case, of course. But relatively unknown compare to korea/thai/japan. These country population is much smaller than indonesia yet their cuisine is everywhere.
> Can we get a Triangle Food thread going?

Please, no.

Yelp is a thing. This is not what HN is for.
Google has $100,000,000,000+ in the bank and slightly more than that in revenue last year, so realistically if they need 100,000 more employees to handle this they will still be ridiculously profitable, especially when they call them contractors to avoid health care, and evade taxes on a global scale, and woo oppressive new markets like China.
How do they classify videos about Catalonian Independance?
8 or 9 is old enough to just talk about this behavior? "We fight about everything like such and such. What can we do instead of that? If we continue to fight, will our relationship get better or worse?"
Ask HN: Getting Crawled in 2018. How?
What's the best way to get your site crawled in 2018? Ping-O-Matic? Sign up with 30 Search Consoles? RPC to an undocumented URL?

Surely search engines shouldn't be requiring every person to create an account to get a site crawled. Right?
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I don't know how you get blackballed from SV, I've certainly interviewed candidates, and I'd never heard of you, so I would have hired you.

I quickly glanced though at your online work, and your portfolio contains you calling a previous manager something that would make sure I'd never hire you.

So the only evidence of blackballing is your own. I'd suggest taking it down, and trying more.
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This is my fear also. A simple side project in Europe which charges users would have to meet European VAT reporting, cookie consent, GDPR and now (if this happens) figure out how to remove extremist content within 1 hour.
Assuming there are already laws defining what you can say/publish, I'd assume that these laws are only relating to how material that is already illegal should be handled?

What is legal is of course varying between EU member states, but e.g. hate speech or nazi propaganda usually falls under the same paragraph and is already illegal.

I agree that this is a very difficult distinction, but the distinction isn't new in any place where there aren't already hate speech laws for example
Based on other comments that it's this font:

https://www.opendyslexic.org/

It looks like they recognize that they are not solving for all forms of dyslexia, but rather a few specific symptoms.
I can imagine a part of the Interstate mesh getting repurposed as SDV-only. In a city...not so fast.
You can still click only one button, if you're okay with all the tracking.
What is "extremist content"?

How can the website owner be notified?
Assuming it was reported within 1 hour
I think they just have data in Switzerland and Italy. It get's down to neighbourhood level, but not any closer.
It was what it was. There were things to learn from it. This blame game is not especially helpful?
Who would have guessed that compiled, static, non-dynamic, hardware accelerated code would be a ton more performant than runtime, highly dynamic, garbage collected and very powerful code that is not hardware accelerated.
I'm in Chicago and by far the best Thai place I've ever eaten at was a small shop in Vermont.

Have you tried Star of Siam? It's on, err.. I think maybe Illinois? Sorry, haven't been there in a while, but it's just north of the river, and a couple of blocks over from Clark Street.

Edit: this is the place. It's probably my favorite Thai restaurant in Chicago.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Star+of+Siam/@41.8906454,-...
By that definition, Babbage didn't write a program either. He didn't write opcodes. You still need a human "compiler" to translate Babbage's writing into something that could run on the engines.

Btw, this human "compiler" job was for a long time considered to be inferior work and part of the reason why the first professional software developers in mid 20th century were largely women: it was considered clerical work to translate algorithms from paper into computer programs. The Computer Girls is a good article that describes these attitudes.

http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/ensmenger-gende...
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Yes. It's hard to get many people to agree on anything.

On the other hand, it's hard to get many people to agree on anything.
Yes it does. I go from trusting one vendor (with one key) to install one package (and dependencies) to one 3rd party repo (with one key) to install N packages, and the owners of the 3rd part repo don't verify the uploaders to their repo.

That's going from trusting 1 person to trusting thousands.
I did something similar to the ending of this post, where the realization sets in that annotations are just expressions. I wanted to force the method's annotated parameters and return type before entering and exiting the method.

https://gist.github.com/kryptn/2f91fdd9f4c5b2a272472d5e1a5af...
Charging users to upload videos would solve the problem.
We are witnessing rise of totalitarian 1984esk dystopia.
My first impressions of Flatpak have been positive, with a few caveats.

As an end-user, I want my apps to be getting regular, automatic updates, which means it's vital to get them from some kind of official repo. I sympathize with the one-man developer who just wrote some cool little Electron app that he designed to be cross-platform and promptly gets bombarded by requests from his 10% Linux userbase that wants the app to be packaged for Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE/Arch repos. I get it, I've been that annoying guy[0].

So to that end, packaging once as a Flatpak and working everywhere has been great. A handful of those pesky apps I used to have to regularly check for new RPM releases are now on flathub and I can update them automatically.

With that said, flatpak support is still spotty. DNF doesn't support flatpak yet, so I had to install GNOME Software on my Cinnamon DE just to be able to easily support and update them. There's also the issue of the greatly inflated installation sizes. I'm hopeful that support will get better soon now that it's finally at 1.0.

[0]https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop...
Why would you support a legacy system that currently supports just .21% of web traffic? There is no reason to do that and you are just creating more work for yourself with very, very little payoff.
This is a great tool, and going to keep tabs on it for future use. I appreciated the package.json upload for my private repos. Kudos to whoever built it!
A Soviet spy did not spend their childhood watching Disney morning shows on TV while eating their Disney branded cereal.

So if they learned English ever so well later in life and may be perfectly fluent in the affairs of grown up and important things, they might have missed some crucial lore.
"Extremist" is a word that carries no weight without context.

Funny how laws are written before the context is formalized.
Like a blank check for future oppression.
> I was even surprised to see a Vietnamese tour group at Suvarnabhumi today (interesting to see Vietnamese with the disposal income to travel and the interest to travel to their next door neighbor).

I live in Vietnam. Virtually every middle class Vietnamese I know has been to Thailand. For two simple reasons: it is one of the few places on Earth a Vietnamese can travel visa-free and it is relatively cheap. (Especially compared to, say, Singapore, which also allows visa-free travel.)
"Work for free until we decide you're worth being paid."
Why do American CEOs get paid so much?
Just imagine the speedup after somebody finally integrates vector dot product operation into DRAM silicon.

Currently mixing CMOS and DRAM prosesses into same silicon is not cost effective for mass production. I think mixing of the processes and heating issues are the main roadblocks.
This. Someone needs to teach EU bureaucrats a lesson. A second "blackout day" (similar to what was done to protest SOPA in 2014), but limited to the EU, would be a nice idea. Things like the cookie nag screens are just absurd. They will unload much more BS if they aren't stopped early on.

Honestly, as a US based company with mainly US visitors, i would simply return HTTP 451 to any EU visitors. The risk of being sued for some silly EU law is just not worth it.
We also have the not-so-dead autopackage (listaller)
We're partially responsible

Those who implemented the user-hostile features that necessitated regulation in the first place are 100% responsible, direct your ire at them.
The MBTA case is in a bunch of ways analogous to cases where people have gotten in trouble for probing websites. The real target of the MBTA hack isn't the cards themselves, but the centralized MBTA fare collection system. You can probably do whatever you want to a card you own (in particular: you can conduct whatever research you like involving reading the cards), but once you're interacting with the fare collection system, you're communicating with a computer system you do not own or operate, and are back in CFAA country.

For that reason, I don't think the MBTA hack is a great counterexample to the parent's (well-reasoned) argument.

You'll have a difficult time building a case against the CFAA based on Aurenheimer's actions, since the prosecution was able to demonstrate with his own words that he knew he wasn't authorized to take the records. In fact, his appeal against the CFAA conviction failed with a citation to his pre-arrest appeal to the media to have him explain "the method of [his] theft".
That most reactions focus on the absurdity of a 1h deadline is proof that this technique still works wonders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
Isn’t that the one with the body scanners (at the airport)?
I believe the project is at least 2 years, but the web map at http://www.osm4dys.org/viewer/ is newer. At the very least, I heard about this recently.
I'm 38, but started working young, so probably equivalent.

1. These days I care a lot more about what the software is for, what makes it useful. So I don't need to get excited about trendy technology, I get excited about e.g. building a completely new kind of gene sequencing device that will help disease research and diagnosis. (Write about this here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/07/do-something-useful/)

2. Teaching is great, because it means all those failures weren't for nothing. Someone else can learn from them (I write a weekly newsletter of my mistakes and how to avoid them - https://codewithoutrules.com/softwareclown/), and I can learn from them (https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/10/lone-and-level-sands...).

3. At this point you can hopefully get better sense of _why_ project fails, and avoid things that are likely to fail, or try to prevent them from failing. So hopefully % of failures goes down.
End of our civilization. Wonderful. Now what was supposed to be the difference between EU and Soviet Union? That we voluntarily cheer for this and not get dragged to accept it? I am sure this opinion gets flagged as extremist soon...
Penetration testers who own a kali usb. Security experts who went to RSA one year and chatted with the NSA booth guys. Html "coders".
But THEY are the good guys, don't worry ;)
Online gambling sites like Bovada already have bitcoin deposits and withdrawals, your funds stays stable after a deposit, or you can deposit with credit card and get a check in the mail from Taiwan.
>I think removing extremist content is a good idea overall (although this then begs the question, how do you legally define extremist content?[1])

Whatever the people with power say it is. The whole point of free speech is to prevent this kind of thing. This isn’t some minor flaw you’ve identified, but the entire reason why freedom of speech is necessary.
>The first is that self-driving is super difficult, they don't really have the expertise

What about all of the talent they hired from CMU?
What problems does Flatpak solve from a user perspective? Assume the user is already using Ubuntu, and will download and run any shell script without a second thought.
Everything you say is completely applicable to Android as well, and it's not clear how that is making the platform a non-option for people. Very few people installs third party packages.

The market share of any PC desktop operating system has mostly to do with the type of office work that took place in the 90s, when computers took over.

That's slowly changing as the web is taking over, and Chromebooks, Android, Mac, and "regular" Linux desktops becomes a viable platform for sharing your work with others.
Also, reading the article, it's not that they'll hire you right away, just that they will hire you. Basically, you put your name down on a job list and when a job opens up, the next person on the list gets it.
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gambling apps are not exactly allowed here in the US either, are you insinuating that the US has authoritarian regime censorship laws too?
> No it didn't. The foreign debt didn't move an inch. If you needed to sell 1.5 billion oil barrels to repay your foreign debt at $65/barrel, you still need to sell 1.5 billion oil barrel to repay your foreign debt. No change there.

If you could produce so much oil, then you wouldn't have the debt in the first place.

So the debt actually went up by the Bolivar devaluation, because now Venezuelans must create 20 times the value they created before in order to repay the debt.
Most complaints about the appstore revolve around things like it being slow, clunky, failing to work, being designed around DRM, forbidding win32 early on, etc.

Nobody is complaining that applications are in a central location.
Yes, users acceptation is a really big deal. I'm not sure how to tackle that. I guess that if the users had the option before and don't have it now, they'll complain.

And when I think about the way you login to slack...

"Also, you are not adding any security per se, because you are delegating it to the user's email provider."

I think I do. In my case, I need an email and a way to recover the password. So, if the users email account is compromised, the account on my website is compromised too. Anything I do will only add potential breaches to the ones already existing in the users email provider ; not fix them.
I thought the same thing. I'm a native English speaker and even though I was a kid when the song came out, I understood the lyric correctly. Or maybe it was because I was a kid that I understood it correctly? I don't know, but maybe not the best example.
Is it correct to say that having disposable income for international travel is a relatively new phenomenon for the Vietnamese?
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I don't know why people are still casting aspersions on self-driving cars when Waymo is this close to market.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-th...

They're already testing with customers! Customers who love the service! They're planning for a roll-out later this year!

https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/08/waymo-snow-navigation/

They can handle rain and snow!
try to long-click the icons. I had to do that on my laptop anyhow, it's strange.
> "high performance"

I never claimed it to be performant!

"Above all, ZProc is written for safety and the ease of use."

(Read here - https://github.com/pycampers/zproc?files=1#faq)

> It's not a revolution

I totally agree. It's just a better way of doing things zmq already perfected.
Like, tell me if you've ever seen a python object that has a `dict` API, but does message passing in the background.

> central (pubsub?) server.

Central server, yes. It uses PUB-SUB for state watching and REQ-REP for everything else.

> you've just "discovered" message-passing

Guess you're right? 2 years is a peanut on the time scale...

P.S. Thanks for all the feedback, I've been dying to hear something for a while now.
Let's just hope the EU clarifies some things quite quickly with the GDPR. Basically sites can't just show large cookie dialogs explaining to users what tech they want to use to track users and show better ads.

Users should be able to 1) view the site/use the service without being tracked in any way that isn't technologically necessary (not just financially necessary). 2) Sites can't just show a dialog asking for consent and then go on as usual.

The goal of the GDPR is to have sites default to non-tracking, and just keep showing me the content, without any dialogs. And hopefully some large company will be dragged to court and fined a symbolically enormous fee, after which everyone else follows suit.
I hire for a tech company and never background or drug check my employees.
Or insist on 4 weeks per year vacation.
> But I think it's worthy of some celebration that advancements are being made in making desktop Linux usable for users and popular for developers.

I don't know about that. This "advancement" is catching up to where every other desktop OS was in the 80s.
I think his main point is that for now GDPR is just as inefficient as the cookie "law" it replaced, which I have to agree with - the only thing that will make these regulations useful is enforcement - until that happens companies will just ignore it (as we can already see with plenty of non-GDPR-compliant sites).
> With that said, flatpak support is still spotty. DNF doesn't support flatpak yet, so I had to install GNOME Software on my Cinnamon DE just to be able to easily support and update them. There's also the issue of the greatly inflated installation sizes. I'm hopeful that support will get better soon now that it's finally at 1.0.

Could you not just use the cli?

(Not trying to start a holy war, just a question)
This is a naive comment. By far and large what a few individuals can do is extremely limited compared to institutions or large companies. Belonging to a country is not equal to having power to change things. For example, even if your city think they need an airport, they cant build one by themselves out of nothing. Infrastructure and anything related to long term investment of resources is completely out of reach of individuals.
Anyone remember the US Army's replication at Abu Graib?
>>Someday, we'll just call it "food".

epic fail. Should be "Someday, we'll just call it 'Good Eats'" cue AB.
As a European victim, those cookie screens are simply exhausting.
It's pushing us users towards silos like FB/Snapchat/Apple News where we don't get constantly nagged.