skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google fundamentally doesn't respect user privacy, and people should use Firefox.

This has been true for a many years now but I still see tech people ignoring it completely.

I no longer believe tech people are very intelligent. They are easily lured into whatever good looking tech comes along and will sacrifice their privacy at the drop of a hat.
”The more value the stamp has, the more resources can be applied to determining if it is fake.”

True, but that doesn’t work that well for paintings. Why would it work better for stamps?
It matters to me. The reasons the parent outlined are roughly the factors used for my personal trust rating when considering if I mind veering off topic momentarily while reading.
Or Australia.
Tech people were never very intelligent. By definition, they were (and are) informed/educated in one specific discipline, but that has no correlation whatsoever with being intelligent.

This is true regardless of the discipline. You can meet astoundingly stupid heart surgeons, astrophysics PhDs, etc.
> It had the potential to ruin the company by cannibalizing iPod sales

It would only cannibalize iPod sales if it was a success, and then it isn't a problem at all.
Seems everyone is tuning out but for different reasons.

I still read a lot of news, but I don't like the dish I'm being served, exactly because it is not just straight reporting but rather is a non-stop stream of journalists' personal political opinions masquerading as analysis and news. I actually would prefer to just read their press releases unfiltered, if there was an organisation that aggregated the ones I'd happen to be interested in, in a trustworthy way.
Every credit card has a forced arbitration agreement that prohibits class actions.
Can you elaborate on Google helping in Sun's downfall.

I seem to be missing a historical bit there.
Unix Text Processing Transcription Project (2004)
The issue I have with commercial web design is the lack of restraint. Just because you’re able to do something doesn’t mean you should. Rare is the commercial web designer able to just leave the damn content alone. A good website is unnoticeable to the user, allowing them to focus on the content. Instead commercial web design has always managed to find creative ways to make the user fight the website to access the content.
I don't want to spend money. Not even a few quid, because a scummy company suddenly doesn't let me access my device, which I "own" for years without surrendering even more personal information.

That's apart from what other posters explained. That in a lot of countries you can't just get a sim from a kiosk, or a vending machine without proper identification.
Google didn't "expressly design" YouTube to manipulate people, come on, that's a wildly uncharitable view. Virtually all popular content hosting sites have some form of recommendation system - because people like them. Claiming it's all a conspiracy to manipulate people is the same school of thought that says all advertising is manipulation, all businesses are run by psychopaths, etc. It's fairytale stuff.
Games run a subset of network connections: Consumer Homelines.

They don't run in corporate networks, over public wifi or over mobile networks, all three frequently block non-standard ports (my city's free wifi blocks everything except 80 and 443, DNS is hijacked).

These three network types are also important, maybe more important than simple home landlines since they affect the people paying shitloads of cash or represent a very significant marketshare.
XML-separated values? It sounds like some kind of (easily detected) side-band, or an xkcd cartoon.
> plastic everywhere, RF radiation through wifi, chemical infested food and toys etc.

All of these are common in China as well. There is a lucrative business in importing baby formula from Western countries due to past food safety scandals.

But maybe the differing onset of that kind of pollution would still allow treating it as a natural experiment.
Hi, op here. They're asking me for any phone number, not for one tied to the account (there is none). I've confirmed this by comparing with the message a friend sees with two factor authentication turned on.

Some people are posting here saying they got in using a stranger's number so I still don't understand how providing a number proves who I am.
Consumerism hardly unique to America. There are societies far more status-oriented and focused on consumerism than America and they don't exhibit pervasive social isolation. (Often it's just the opposite.)
When the Bottom type is included in a language it usually exhibits sub typing behavior. That can be expressed in Haskell, too:

{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}

type Bottom = forall a. a -- zero inhabitants

f :: Bottom -> a
f x = x

That passes the type checker just fine.
Use TypeScript, it has come a very long way since it was released. It tracks very closely to JavaScript and it has an active community, shared types for libraries, and great editor support (VSCode and others). Using maximum strictness and tslint you can pretty much vaporize most of the bugs that Crockford warned about without even running your code.

https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/getting-... (ssl cert expired today -_-)
Doesn't Apple do that too?

One of the reasons I use Linux on my MacBook.
The solution for me was leaving Seattle altogether. What a desperately difficult place to get human interaction in.
I see all the comments as if its a bad thing, is it a bad thing? I don't hate it.
I just don't believe in this "social conditioning" thing. I've seen absolutely no evidence for it in my life. My sister grew up with three older brothers and we became a programmer, an electrician, and a mechanic. Right from birth she was surrounded by computers, electronics, engines and gears. She is not interested and will not be interested no matter how hard someone like you tries to make her interested. She is instead an artist and a wonderful one. She just did what she wanted to do.

I've had intimate relationships with more than twenty women in my life. I've had friendships and professional relationships with many times more. I'd hazard to guess that my experience with women is way above average for this forum. I've not met a single one who told me they really wanted to be a scientist/engineer/programmer etc but found that society didn't let them. In fact, I find the contrary to be true: the ones that have chosen those fields were offered more encouragement than I ever was.

Just let people do what they want to do.
Crises precipitate change
Is this open source? If so where I can find the source code?
I understand the measures they have to go to to stop bots, but Google have more than enough data to know these accounts are not bots (they have years' of browsing history and whatever other hooks they use on Chromeos). Unfortunately these accounts were created years ago and I assumed 'recovery options' would only be required if I forgot my password (which I never would). Beginner's mistake.
This is almost identical to the study of combinatorial species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_species)
Cashvertising was interesting - it's more for marketeers but if you're writing your own copy on your landing page it has useful to checklists
An E-waste Microfactory Launched at Univ of New South Wales
For a YouTube alternative I'd recommend hooktube, which is basically Startpage for YouTube. With an appropriately hardened browser it should be fine; if the Bitchute crowd is who Google is removing from YT, I'd say their doing something right for once.

The Qanon crap is literally a 4chan prank.
That article doesn't seem to indicate it's "fake news". Snopes says there's no definitive answer as to why they left, and that different sources give conflicting information. I'm not sure that level of uncertainty rises to the level of stating it's "fake news".

At any rate, there are plenty of clearer examples of CNN reporting things that are false. Glenn Greenwald writes a lot on this topic. See the articles he's written about CNN, MSBC, retracted coverage of Russia etc:

https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/
It actually doesn't [1] [2]. But if it did, then just avoid both.

[1] Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men: results of a meta-analysis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224

[2] Soybean isoflavone exposure does not have feminizing effects on men: a critical examination of the clinical evidence.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20378106
Boulder, CO and Seattle, WA were extremely socially frustrating places for me. In Seattle, they make it pretty clear they don't want to know you or talk to you. In Boulder, they seem like they do, but then they never show up.

Denver was a totally different scene. Oakland, is pretty amazing. Berlin, in the acroyoga scene, incredible.

Don't let yourself stay in cities that make you really unhappy!
Forced arbitration needs to go, as a concept. I can’t imagine any situations where it makes sense.
Even if you removed that number from you account immediately after logging in, something tells me google will not forget that association.

He might not had an account then, but could create one in the future. So now if either of you messes up or does anything even remotely suspicious (in google's eyes) - say goodbye to your account.
And... what problem do they solve? They create an application which you have to download over-and-over again instead of providing downloadable application which starts quickly. Then there is a boatload of problems (how to store data, how to refresh data) and then reinventing technologies to solve those problems that didn't exist in the first place.
Supposedly the benefit is being portable and "independent" therefore we are required to install Chrome everywhere.

I recently toyed a bit with JavaWebStart and JavaFX and... this is quite nice actually - it allows easily distribute portable applications, that look good (IMHO) and they are cached well (or you can provide normal binary to download). And quite often they are smaller. The problem is - Java got this label of "slow and bloated" but nowadays Java apps are way snappier and start faster (and they are smaller) than JavaScript SPAs…
Thanks for the site tip, I will use that site from now on.
Google is pushing Swift with a Tensorflow port, and if they were even remotely interested in doing a Java port for training, it would've happened already. I will say, no Apple or MS for me thanks.

I hope Scala with Scala native continues to thrive, and for any additional pet projects not in Scala, frankly Python sounds pretty appealing to me as someone who eschews dynamic typing. 3.6 seems to have added some type inference, and it's popularity is up there with Java/C++/JS... Rust might be an option too.
If you were running Linux on it wouldn't this be a non-issue?
And if there was any kind of genetic motivation for doing that (and almost everything is partly heritable) we'd see more of those genes next generation, so likely some of her kids would go down that route too and there we go...
In Nim's case it is the same.
This is like dmenu but it stays in the terminal. I've needed something like this in the past before for some scripts. Neat.
You don't have to use Oracle JDK, Azul offer their implementation plus OpenJDK 11 has all the goodies from Oracle JDK.
Tor browser. I use it on desktop and mobile for my day to day browsing, the network is much faster than it was in the past.
Yes -- opam and dune are complimentary. I normally use dune (formerly known as "jbuilder") as the build system within my packages, which I then publish and install via opam. Dune does the fast incremental builds, while opam deals with version constraint solving, downloading and general package metadata.

There are some interesting experiments combining the two more closely -- take a look at "duniverse" https://github.com/avsm/duniverse which is a prototype system which would use opam to solve package version constraints and download the sources, allowing dune to build everything at once. The nice thing about this is that you could patch one of your dependencies and then dune will be able to perform an incremental build, as if all the code was in one big project. I'm personally hoping this will help speed up Mirage development as it can be time-consuming to propose a change to an interface and then find all the places that need changing (a cost of having lots of small repos versus a big monorepo)
Personally I think auto login should be opt in and never a default or requirement.

Specially when it's Google. They are super creepy and facilitators of a future where users have zero privacy but don't have the intelligence to care about it.
It's completely overblown. Don't believe a thing you read in the news.

My last company opened a new office in non major US cities last year. The next day the newpapers published the article <Corp is moving to new town after Brexit>. There is no relation, we had to get back to them to redo the announcement.

About my current bank, there is a published article from a major media outlet specifically saying that my department stopped hiring and is being moved overseas because of Brexit. It couldn't be further from the truth, we've been hiring dozens of people over the last years. I don't know who to complain to to have this removed.
https://www.sqlite.org/csv.html

>The CSV Virtual Table

>The CSV virtual table reads RFC 4180 formatted comma-separated values, and returns that content as if it were rows and columns of an SQL table.

>The CSV virtual table is useful to applications that need to bulk-load large amounts of comma-separated value content. The CSV virtual table is also useful as a template source file for implementing other virtual tables.

>The CSV virtual table is not built into the SQLite amalgamation. It is available as a separate source file that can be compiled into a loadable extension. Typical usage of the CSV virtual table from the command-line shell would be something like this:
Last time I was there in Denmark I had to provide a CPR number to enable the SIM card. For the non-danish people the CPR number is basically your lifetime number for everything from social security, to tax, payroll, etc.
The difference is that Mozilla's analytics are disabled by default in Klar to comply with German law.
> If you take men on a high-protein diet—”meat, fish, poultry, egg white[s]”—and switch them to a high-carb diet of “bread, vegetables, fruit, and [sugary junk,]” their cortisol levels drop about a quarter within ten days. At the same time, their testosterone levels shoot up by about the same amount.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-effect-of-animal-protei...

> After the intake of cow milk, serum estrone (E1) and progesterone concentrations significantly increased, and serum luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone and testosterone significantly decreased in men

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19496976
Your anecdote is a sample size of one that shouldn't be extrapolated from.

Personally having my entire browsing history linked to my name and sent off to a company for analysis and profit is a concern, and this is a deal breaker for me. As such I will no longer be using Chrome as my default browser.
Honestly, I find it very refreshing to read SF from different decades — if only to occasionally get away from the dystopias of today's tomorrow.

Sure, space rockets with paper printouts (Heinlein's juvenile bildungsroman Starman Jones) may seem silly today, but I find that it adds to the flavor of yesterday's tomorrows.
Can you also activate it and use it?

Because I've seen SIM cards that can be bought in supermarkets in another country, but then you need to show your ID to an operator over Skype to activate it.
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For me, eating reduces productivity, as well as drinking alcohol, so I abstain from both while working. The distinction being that while working I modify my behavior to be productive, however, during leisure time I do not have the goal of being productive, I have the goal of relaxation and my preferences now include food and sometimes drink.
TV "news" people interviewing themselves.
Perhaps this is linked to social media. Men now have 300+ friends (of which perhaps half are male), which is far more compared to the past.
Ah - sorry - I got an external hub; read this initially as I was waking up and completely misunderstood.
The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity
I see, I forgot to mention - d scsi gives only basic manufacturer info and tests fail.

Does your drive work in uas mode?
The main problem I see with account containers — still — is that you can't say "this container can only have certain websites in it". For example, if you put reddit in a "social" container, but click on links to the stories, then you have all of your cookies and stuff polluting the social container.
I thought the same thing, and also wonder what effect it will have on the next generation, through epigenetic inheritance.
For all of the features, paid G Suite users get the shaft. Google Home? Nope. Switching between accounts? Nope, that's a pain as well.
Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa Has a Really Weird Cold Spot
The best strategy is to not use Google however. It's not like you need to in 2018 anymore. There are better services for almost anything out there, although you may have to pay a few dollars for some of them.

Well worth it since they are superior to Google. For email, Fastmail is king.
I do a lot of development in ScalaJS.

And what you are talking about is just ridiculous. There are very few real world (if any) Scala projects that don't rely on least some Java based libraries. Either directly or through transitive dependencies.
HTTrack is something that has been around for years and can rewrite the pages it downloads to internal links to the archived webpage.
Beg your pardon: You say "essential features" and your page lists things like "Animated anchor links".

In my humble opinion the problem is the common misconception of what is "essential". Which in the end maybe only consists of the answer "the content".
Librarians are pretty brutal about shelf space and 'discards' are ruthless and based on readership as you noticed.

In UK most public libraries will offer to get a book in on the 'inter-library loan' system - there is usually a charge. University libraries (https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/) are (mostly) accessible through this system.

The other strategy would be to try to increase readership of philosophy books perhaps starting with texts accessible to the teenager age range (Sophie's World?, the various comic book options?)
I didn't know this one. Love it.
I appreciate the librarians because they're one of the very few people who stand up against ubiquitous government surveillance. It's nice to have a place where I am not profiled based on what I browse.
I think, eventually, the whole stack will get rewritten from the ground up. Someone is going to come up with a minimal OS that can be run on virtual machines that implements LLVM in a provably correct way, the OS hooks will get reimplemented as libraries for all the languages, and over a few years or so the entire cloud infrastructure will simply switch over.

I think we're already half the way there, Amazon Linux is how widely deployed already? The surface area between application logic and OS code is shrinking by the year, once serverless goes mainstream then even application code will start to get rare, pushed to only those specific projects that require human interaction. Everything else is 'mere' computation, something that can be specified purely algorithmically and executed by anything.

The OS will only be relevant in the context of personal computing, the human interface to the machine kingdom which shed those trappings decades ago.

20-30 years down the road I see a translation layer unifying all three major, now solely personal, operating systems, and a fundamental, free software core being driven out, eventually supplanting proprietary development. Apple will do its best to retain tight coupling between their hardware and software, but they'll slowly fade just like Microsoft did as programming itself is revealed to consist of two main activities, intricate UX and comparatively dumb data plumbing, with a small priesthood of hardware driver maintainers / database developers for those who still want to do 'real' programming.

Everybody will be able to code at some level and it'll be amazing.
No. Why would you spread lies like that?
And then what does said government do with that data? They can buy and sell my information all they want. I don't care. Nothing has happened to me. Nothing will happen to me. I only wish I started a business to cater to people who live with such great fear as so many companies have been doing for the past 10 years or so.

The boogie man went away when I turned five years old.
Java Interview Questions for Freshers – 200+ Questions
Increasing the channel size to 2 is the correct fix.

You don't want to read twice because then you would block waiting for both messages.

When the channel size is two the two inner writing goroutines can succeed on their write to the channel even if nothing reads from it.

The channel has three references, the outer receiver, and the two inner senders. The receiver finishes as soon as its able to receive the first message.

So what happens is one of the messages is sent and received, the other is sent and just sits in the channel. Then the channel has no more references and is garbage collected, so there's no memory leak.

Also goroutines are scheduled onto threads. So these orphaned goroutines that can't complete eat up memory (their call stack + the channel which can't be completed) as well as put pressure on the scheduler. (though the scheduler is efficient and can handle millions of goroutines) That's why it makes sense to refer to this as a memory leak.
Would arguments against meritocracy apply to hospital surgeons?
An efficient clustering algorithm based on Z-Score ranking method
This is great news, especially in stark constrast to other articles in the front page of HN right now.
a book will come out of those articles http://pierrchen.blogspot.com/2018/09/book.html
Your analogy is poor. I didn't say I left my computer wide open for bad guys to look at. I said I don't care if they publish my address in the phone book.
CloudFlare's customers can choose whether the backhaul, between CloudFlare and their own web servers, is HTTP, HTTPS with a CloudFlare issued private certicate, or HTTPS using publicly trusted certs from the Web PKI.

If you choose either of the latter two options, bad guys can't MITM you, the middle option has the benefit that they can't even MITM you by subverting a public CA (since only CloudFlare's own certs are trusted) the latter option has the benefit that you can "just" switch off CloudFlare and your site now works as an ordinary HTTPS site with no changes, if you ever want to do that.
" they almost all earn median-or-above salaries at 25 (~72k)."

So you do realize that that most people cannot earn median or above salaries' by definition, right?

The number of toilets that need cleaning per capita, in Switzerland is probably similar to that metric in the USA ...
Also check out fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Show HN: Filter video scenes by faces
This is not smart money fleeing, it is old money.

Why would all of today’s young engineers, who collectively consume marijuana and concentrates by the ton, suddenly take issue with one of their foremost peers partaking in the same activity? It makes more sense that the older investors who are making a bet on this generation’s promising stallion, in their eyes, are seeing what is to them, aberrant behavior. Given how often and well honored the theme of “older generation not progressing with the times” is, seems much more likely especially when thought in the same context as Occam’s Assertion.