skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst I agree internet firms are trying to have their cake and eat it with respect to content filtering, I don't believe this has anything to do with the EU's actions here.

This sort of thing is just an extension of a very long running feud that goes back a decade or more, driven primarily by the newspaper industries in the EU "core" states. The German and Spanish "Google taxes" were also attempts to change how copyright works on the internet, targeted at Google News entirely to the benefit of newspaper owners, but they failed because Google just either cut deals or in Spain shut down Google News entirely.

So now the newspapers are trying to do the same thing at the EU level, working on the theory that if all EU countries act in concert then Google and Facebook will have to cut the newspapers a big cheque. Early attempts to just change copyright so the act of linking or snippetting requires a license have now warped into this wider attempt to extract money from internet companies via copyright.

There is some political background here too - newspapers can't do this by lobbying national governments directly, because the finances of newspapers is far, far, far down the list of things citizens care about and national governments are all focused on other things. Luckily for them (!) the EU doesn't care what citizen's priorities are and doesn't need to!

Moreover the EU is heavily incentivised to please the newspaper owners because it benefits from unusually positive coverage for governments in the old European media (not so much in the UK or eastern European states). Journalists have largely bought into the narrative that the EU is a glorious positive peace-filled future and as such newspapers in Germany or France heavily weight their scrutiny towards the "legacy" national governments instead. The piper is now demanding to be paid. The Commission is probably worried that if it loses the support of the press then things will get a lot harder for it in future.
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To me this looks more like transpiler output ...
So basically they invented a runtime type system. Again.
Not all that impressive, considering non-consistent code style and the like.

Also not a fan of unnecessarily cryptic variable names.
I wonder to which extent tracking data is really anonymized since users can still request to delete it, as described in the privacy policy [1].

> If you choose to delete your account, please note that while most of your information will be deleted within 30 days, it may take up to 90 days to delete all of your information, like the data recorded by your Fitbit device and other data stored in our backup systems. This is due to the size and complexity of the systems we use to store data.

[1] https://www.fitbit.com/legal/privacy-policy#your-rights-to-a...
They're not making it illegal to sell a footpath map, they're just disallowing you from paying a footpath map seller for giving your map away for free. Instead, you have to give them to people who are already giving away maps for free.
And nothing will ever be written in private, everything will be filed in a central location. As training material for the speech recognition systems of course, surely nobody would do anything sinister with the data.
Creating unscaleable energy wasting ponzi scheme mostly for darknet use is something which I personally call ultimate failure. Maybe not a technical failure, but it is sad chapter in humans history.
Theranos is shutting down
Unintended acceleration…
Really? It has horrendous naming and it isn't even using es6

function byClass (el, cl) { return el ? el.getElementsByClassName(cl) : [] }

const byClass = (el, cl) => el ? el.getElementsByClassName(cl) : []
Not really. Before the 80s brought ubiquitous personal computers, and academic cryptography became a thing, the NSA and its friends had pretty much a monopoly on strong encryption. That is, encryption was implemented by dedicated hardware. There weren't that many manufacturers, and they were under intense pressure to only sell strong encryption to the NSA and friends, and sell backdoored stuff to everyone else.

So anyway, we went through this in the 90s (the Clipper Chip). That died down, in part because terrorists and criminals weren't really using much encryption. But now we have iPhones with strong encryption, and TLAs and LEOs are seriously freaked.
In most places this code would never pass a code review and would be considered plain unacceptable. I guess I'd prefer some place where this code style is the norm.
Yep. Trading doesn't create any kind of value by itself. Instead there's (obviously) friction involved, i.e. costs (small or big, doesn't matter, it's necessarily larger than zero). If all there is is trading then it'll all grind down to waste heat after enough time.
Best part of dropping Gmail is how snappy roundcube feels. I'm way more productive. The only thing I miss is being able to snooze emails.
No need to apologize, that’s a good summary!
How does that follow?

The US does regulate domestic internet firms from time to time like with COPPA. But my daily internet experience is by and large left alone by Congress.

Whereas I have to dismiss annoying cookie popups every few hours thanks to the EU. Somehow I prefer Congress.
> Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder.

The dropbox text editor works 'ok'. It's not great, but it's clean enough that I can edit my markdown notes and they'll be synced with dropbox.
Nationwide prescription safety alert system proposed by House bill
This book's title actually got changed to My Struggle or "Sterben" Germany. The other book you're thinking of is called My Fight or "Mein Kampf". In the original Norwegian though this book shares its title with that other book.
Releasing vue-burger-menu v1.0.0
I would like to read a good book on this issue. Any recommendations? Preferably a book written by an historian.

My current understanding is that the economics did not work out because: power company borrows x billion in capital to build a nuclear power plant, interest rates in the 80's are in the double digits, activists tie up the startup of the power plant for 5-10 years doubling the cost due to interest, power company finally drops starting the plant altogether and the public eats the loss.

Of course there are all sorts of complications to what really happened, like power consumption rates going up like crazy while AC is adopted and power companies thinking that the trend would continue forever, which didn't happen.

Have something you want to believe and you can find a narrative to fit it. This is a really hard trap to avoid and I'm sure I fall in it often.
Another great list of personal knowledge bases I found by clicking through your links:

https://github.com/RichardLitt/meta-knowledge
Well, I disagree. It is abbreviated, but since the whole file is self-contained and the definitions are put at the beginning, there is enough information to infer the function's semantics without being excessively specific. I think well defined organization of abstractions is an often overlooked but surprisingly effective way to achieve readability
Morgan Stanley May Lead Palantir IPO After a Decade of Courtship
> She has deceived investors

Maybe the investors deceived themselves. If I was investing millions of bucks in a startup run by a 19 year old I'd be doing a large amount of investigation. Doesn't seem like anyone did
IIRC, the BBC documentary "Make me a German" mentioned analogous observations about the concept of working hours being used for actual work.
Or - they could just make money off you, and ignore what the EU wants!

Ultimately the EU's only recourse in things like this is to either convince the USA to act as its enforcer, or to set up a Great Firewall to stop you browsing to the NYT.
As an aside, I recently came across the argument that programs like Five Eyes were designed because of mass infiltration of immigrants/others who are not designed for Western ideas/government and that it's the price that people pay for relegation of their freedoms. So I might have been living under a rock but this argument is on the alt-right for what it's worth but I'm not entirely sure how to process it. In the sense that there's far too much irony and the lack of a unified framework of laws that work towards humanity maybe? (Sorry for the incoherent thought but I had to get this off my chest)
Oh the irony. The Minister for Home Affairs is probably one of the most hated and least trusted politicians in Australia, especially after the events of the last 2 weeks.

Perhaps the most dangerous threat is less direct - a
collapse or a loss of trust.

Trust in our institutions, in key organisations, in
our values and culture, and trust in all arms of
government and politicians.

...

A loss of trust, whether orchestrated or otherwise, has the
potential to undermine the foundations of our modern world.

The solution to that is not to enact oppressive legislation, but to stop being such completely shameless fascists.

But in general, yes I trust Australia. Not the government, not the politicians, but the people. Much less likely to shoot you (especially the police) or let you die, than many other countries.
64-byte strings are pointers.
It only exists because DOM APIs are crap, and jQuery is too big. So it ends up reimplementing parts of jQuery needed to run.
Do you have a particular goal for doing this? Is it to practise? Or to build a reputation? Or something else? What tech interests you?
Anti-migrant militias spring up in central Europe
Hasn't that changed in recent years? I've seen manuals for recent AMD GPU instruction sets.
Don't forget slices and arrays
In part the lower firing rate can be explained by other means, unions do try to work with companies when they're in a financial crisis (for example instead of firing people, they'd reduce working hours). That's sort of the point of a union really; give workers better leverage to work with the company to ensure they'll keep their jobs and have fair wages and compensations+benefits.

Of course, you'll get freeloaders but I'd argue that this is a price worth paying for because the workers benefit a lot and the company can benefit a lot too.

Plus, this isn't the point either, teachers and cops aren't hard to fire because of unions. They are civil servants, they can't negotiate their wages via unions or even strike. They also lack a number of other rights. However, they are also incredibly hard to fire if they didn't commit serious crimes or felonies, otherwise they hold their job for life.

So teachers and cops in germany have little to nothing to do with unions when it comes to being hard to fire.
> Brake fluid, for one, isn't due to be flushed until 45k / 36mo.

What? No. Without even looking, glycol based brake fluid (DOT 3/4/5.1) should be replaced at least every two years because it's hygroscopic.

Looking at the link you provided, Nissan recommends brake fluid be changed every 15,000 mi / 12 months (severe usage, page 16) or 30,000 miles / 24 months (less severe usage, page 19).
However, few of the predictions about the electric car market from this perspective have held up

Clayton Christensen making predictions throws me through a loop. I feel like he misunderstood his own thesis. My take away from Innovator's Dilemma was that (1) at every step of the game the most economically rational, profit maximizing strategy is to ride your successful business model all the way to the cliff and (2) you cannot predict what will become disruptive because success is context dependent, path dependent, and highly dynamic. If you could foresee all those interdependencies you could make a fortune in the stock market over night; but you can't. Something appears disruptive only in retrospect; beforehand it's just one among several competing alternatives, most or all of which will be forgotten.

His big solution at the end of the Innovator's Dilemma was GE-style conglomerates that spun off small ventures to test new ideas free from parent companies' economic calculus. But look at where GE and similar corporations mentioned in the book are now. That strategy does nothing to overcome the fundamental impediments to perpetual business success. Failure is inevitable, period. The only real "solution" is a financial market that can quickly reallocate capital to the manifest winners. The more efficient that capital and labor markets become, the less of an advantage large conglomerates will enjoy. But it all comes down to allocation of resources subsequent to the emergence of identifiable market trends.

I never bothered to read his other books because what was the point? He was right in the first-half of the Innovator's Dilemma; everything he wrote after that was a contradiction.
Sandberg says Facebook was slow to spot election interference
Someone with lwn account could point out `julia> (g ∘ f)(x)` and the plans to revamp `|>` to rsidd over there.
Yeah, it is interesting how that didn't happen at Theranos or Google (with the "killer drones" recently). For the former case, I'd like to refer to the book Bad Blood. For the latter, 12 people from Google resigned over that issue. The massive privacy issues occurring, Uber debacle, NSA debacle, or how about Microsoft in the '90s? IBM before that? I guess the tech sector workers get divide & conqueror-ed.
The segmentation is based on a library called jieba. It seems to work pretty well from my experience. https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba

I do notice that some generated words are bogus (compounds of other words or redundant in some way). I have a file that lists redundant words, and when I notice these words I add them to the file so the tool won't generate them again. It also lists the words that they are duplicates of, so that those words can be upranked. This is the file if you're curious: https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List/blob/mas...
If a single bank is down or Reddit (lol) then the impact is fairly limited, but if one of the 3 major cloud providers, which powers large parts of the internet is down for an entire day, then the impact is a little bit more critical I would say ;).

There's a reason why Azure has a SLA and Reddit doesn't ;)

Also if you start comparing the big companies with GitLab then we don't have to continue talking anymore. It's not ok to nuke your production db and that's why everyone in the tech scene laughs about GitLab and comparing them to Azure is like comparing a lego house to brick and mortar.
Maybe managers could get the same benefit if they would encourage employees to speak up and actually follow the advice some of them might have.
and arrays and slices and pointers.

> You can't create new parameterized types in Go

Or create functions on parameterized types (without providing concrete type parameters), which is possibly a bigger annoyance than the other one: slices are a thing, but you can't operate on arbitrary slices without reflection. As well as generic types being restricted to builtins, generic functions (e.g. close, copy, len) also are.
Maybe it's neat but this is not how anyone would write it today. This is the legacy code still left from the time before ajax was invented.
Generally you would have a different implementation for each struct you use as a key. And this is a template argument so this would certainly get in the way of folding.
How does es6 improve readability in this case? It barely removes `{}` and replaces very clear word `function` with `const` that in most languages is associated with constant values, not with functions
10 Most Expected Games of September 2018 – Month of Lara and Spidey
The second goal is achieved spot on

I don't think so.

First of all: To make a Bitcoin payment you need to install native software. At this point you are already 100% at the mercy of the author of that software. They can do whatever they want. To your secret keys and other data on your machine.

Second: Bitmain could ramp up their hashrate or group with another big miner, control the chain and reverse your transactions.

Third: As we have seen with Ethereum and the Dao fork, when the people in power decide to reassign value, they do. In this regard, a blockchain is not different from a government controlled currency.

As things currently are, I feel way more in control of fiat then of crypto.
It's sad because it's a genuinely good but rusty product. I've tried all other note taking applications - OneNote, Notion, Bear etc. and each has their own problems. I don't like OneNote's strict "notebook" organizational structure. Notion also forces you to put notes into notebooks, the interface is annoyingly slow, mobile app is just a web app that's packaged for your device, no Chrome extension, no handwriting support etc. etc. but it has a TON of amazing formatting features that I would love to see in Evernote. Bear, Google Keep etc. in my opinion are just toys.

To me, Evernote would be just perfect if it could combine the handwriting flexibility of OneNote with the advanced formatting features of Notion. Also, is it really that hard for the Evernote team to add templates?
Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
Machine code/MicroCode and How the Assembler Works [pdf]
Nice to see The Guardian so low, especially compared the NYTimes. I often come across issues with the NYT where the page starts to load and then just goes completely blank.

I think overall this list is a good indication of sites that have respect for their users.
Github Link - https://github.com/mbj36/vue-burger-menu
Bookmarked. Shared with a few of my friends who frequent Reddit. Definitely ranks up with ReadSpike in order to save some time and just get a gist of things on the Internet, or in this case, on Reddit. Don't want you to feel your work has gone unnoticed... as I have 3 tabs that open automatically to give me updates on technology and all that good stuff, your site has become my 4th. Thanks for sharing your project!
Much more pleasant to work with.

Having personally experience that era, it always saddens me to see xterm maximized to full screen size, with text mode vi or emacs, replicating the same experience I had with actual VT 100 terminals almost 30 years ago.

That is why I live in eco-systems where the communities love their IDEs.
It was almost certainly written long before ES6 was widely supported.
The sixth book actually contains hundreds of pages about Hitler.
>Free as in relatively unencumbered by government regulation. I think it's fair to say based off his "GDPR was just the first step" comment that he views increased government control of the internet as the axis along which the freedom he is referring to is measured.

Freedom in the US and Freedom in the EU are differently defined, in part because of history and culture.

The GDPR takes away some "freedoms to", but, for example, it gives me "freedom from tracking without consent" and "freedom from having my data eternally stored by a third party"/"freedom from having my data owned by a third party", which I think of as valuable freedoms to have.
HelloFresh is completely independent from Rocket internet. As a software engineer, I've been happy to work at HelloFresh.
> I'm aware. When I asked "Transmission? Do you mean the reduction gear?" the service manager was confused and started stammering when I asked why all of them need off schedule service.

Page 19, reduction gear oil should be "inspected" every 15,000 miles or 12 months. Unsure what kind of inspection they'd do, but annual replacement seems like overkill (unless Nissan cheaped out on the fluid and/or cooling).
In the meantime Germany and Sweden are having fun with Elsevier: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/universities-in-g...
No idea what your app is, but do you know if the uninstall is happening right after the first open?

I’m asking because I usually uninstall apps either:

- Months later after I notice I’m not using it

- Minutes after opening it for the first time

If you just launched your app, I imagine your uninstall is happening right away.

As an app user, let me tell you what usually makes me uninstall right away.

- App permissions that I don’t want to give. If the app keeps working 100% after I decline, I may keep it. Otherwise, uninstall.

- Prompt for account creation. If the app provides something I REALLY want, I might create an account. If I was just curios, uninstall. If the account creation is with only social accounts (SSO with Facebook or Twitter) and no option for email, uninstall. Others may vary.

- I was looking for an app that does what your app does, and while waiting for a large download, found another app that looks to do that thing better. Either screenshots, reviews, description, something convinced me that it’s better. Downloaded the other one, tried it, decided to keep it and uninstall yours.

- It’s a free app but any useful feature is behind a paid subscription or behind an in-app purchase.
The es6 syntax is LESS readable. It's less declarative. Just quicker to type if you don't have a nice editor setup.

My issue with this method is the name more than anything. I would also guess if it's even needed - probably bad application logic is requiring that ternary statement but didn't read it yet.

Ideal method name is already given - getEmementsByClassName... Really should just have a utility to default return types.
While GP's comment is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, the Manafort conviction is so newsworthy because it is such a rarity that white-collar criminals get prosecuted to this extent. It's the exception that proves the rule. Keep in mind, after the 2008 global financial crisis, in which several prominent financial institutions failed and millions of people lost their homes to foreclosure, only one banker was sentenced to jail time, and only for 30 months.
The interesting point here is that they aren't doing an ICO. This reads to me more like a blockchain exploration of a rewards system from a large company.

Far less likely to be a 'pump and dump' than the me too altcoin of the week startups who focus on ICOs and being listed on bigger exchanges instead of what value is actually being created.
Even the phone apps work pretty well while stationary:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.repsi.hear...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supersimpl...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.andr...
I certainly agree with the top half of your post but I believe the bottom is mischaracterizing Rand. As far as I know she did not wish to form a violent authoritarian state a la Lenin to "plan" society into a certain pattern. She seemed to think her desires would, when enough constraints on reasoned self-interest were removed, realize themselves through individual action. And she certainly did not forget that individuals have agency; on the contrary, Objectivism relies on individual self-interest to the intentional exclusion of pretty much all else.
I've definitely experienced what you've mentioned. Learning a word is a two-step process, first you memorize its definition, then you see it in context and its meaning sinks in. But I think both parts are useful. If I just read without flashcards I forget words too quickly, and the burden of looking up words again and again slows me down a lot.
How many investors did not invest after they investigated? We'll never know. Theranos HR and legal dept. were fierce against any whistleblowers. One person even committed suicide because of the involved stress.
User onboarding and the metrics behind it
>In part the lower firing rate can be explained by other means, unions do try to work with companies when they're in a financial crisis

The study was of dismissal rates, not redundancies. So none of the 50% reduction found in dismissals can be explained by redundancies.

Your speculation about cops and teachers is also irrelevant, as the data very convincingly shows that it’s much harder and more expensive to fire union members.
Thing is, I doubt very much you ensure that your $HOME is safe when that code is run.

And as proven by the set of Linux Security Summit 2018 talks, there is still lots of work to be done regarding security on Linux distributions.
It should be devoid of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry