skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. I'm not so sure. The EU parliament is usually pretty savvy on civil rights and freedom issues like this. I'm genuinely surprised that this law passed.

However, it's hard to fathom the EU parliament sometimes because it's such a broad and diverse bunch of people and interests forced into such a small political space.

If someone asked me to play devils advocate for this decision, I'd probably appeal to people's fear of foreign disinformation campaigns and the impact they're having on western democracies. I could probably cobble together a semi-compelling argument about how Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, have inadvertently handed the enemies of the west the most powerful propaganda tool in all of human history, and those enemies are using it to great effect. Or how marketing companies have convinced millions of parents worldwide to not vaccinate their children through the internet. Or how organisations like Monsanto astroturf the web and misquote or misrepresent scientific reports or news articles to make it seem like Greenpeace promote and advocate using DDT.

I'd then go on to argue that information can and must be free to share, but nefarious misinformation should not be free from punishment nor protected by law. And so, the age of anonymous and unaccountable publishing platforms must come to an end. If they don't want to be held accountable for the content they publish, then that's fine. But that just means we restrict the type of content they're allowed to publish. After all, we have advertising standards that the press and broadcasters adhere to. We have rules around when and how "traditional" media can report on politics. So the Youtubes, Twitters, Reddits, and Facebooks of the world can either fall in line with those rules, or carry on as they are but simply refrain from anything that could be perceived as advertising or political reporting... which is pretty much everything except dick picks I think.

Now, I'm pretending to defend this law. Don't assume I believe any of what I just said. I actually think this law abhorrent. And while I do have concerns about the unrestrained power and influence of the web, I don't think this law is the answer to my concerns. But if I put my mind to selling this law to people who don't know as much about the web as I do, I think this kind of argument would be effective. On some people at least. And MEP's aren't technical people. They're political people. And I think it would be pretty easy to scare them into backing this law whilst appealing to their sense of justice, fairness, and honesty.
If you value privacy and usability, I highly suggest you to replace Skype with something else.
90% or 1rep routines don't work well for natural lifters, every body has different composition so you need to find what works best for you, following the routines of enhanced builders is sure to give you only frustration and injuries. Same with bulking-cutting, it's hard to lose 15% of body fat without losing muscle as a natty, not impossible but not in 8 weeks as you see in training videos.
There was essentially no new news in the hacked emails -- People had been reporting for years that Schmidt was supporting HRC's presidential bid, including forming a startup to help her with engineering talent:

https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-workin...
>n terms of the government assistance, that is largely unrelated to the employer(s). There is a government program that determines person X is eligible for assistance and person X takes advantage of that program.

Walmart bears direct responsibility for these laws, they lobby for and write them.

Food stamps, renamed SNAP, is a $70+B a year program and 20% is spent at Walmart.

Walmart public statement:

“Our business operations are subject to numerous risks, factors, and uncertainties, domestically and internationally, which are outside our control. These factors include... changes in the amount of payments made under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan and other public assistance plans, [and] changes in the eligibility requirements of public assistance plans.”
"(00:54:33) An employee asks what Google is going to do about “misinformation” and “fake news” shared by “low-information voters.” Pichai responds by stating that “investments in machine learning and AI” are a “big opportunity” to fix the problem."

Anyone find this disturbing? They're trying to use AI to manipulate what users 'should' see?
Should be 'again'.
> People are so incredibly desperate to attribute things to people who haven't really done anything. I hate Cuomo too, but I'm not going to descend into nonsense peddling in order to fight him. It only serves to undermine any actual effort of resistance to the man.

The New York State political machine is incredibly corrupt and interconnected. And Cuomo himself is more powerful and influential at all levels of state government (which includes country-level positions) than any governor since, well, his father. It's really not unreasonable to suspect he had a hand in this.

What Cuomo wants, Cuomo gets.
Henry Hindsight 2020 - Make the Web great again.
The sidebar tasks is the same as the classic tasks, just a new view. If you they will appear on the old tasks interface and on calendar if you add a date.

The third tasks interface is in keep ;)
There will definitely be clever attempts to game the system, but bringing the experience into the browser, and onto the user's device, gives us the home advantage.

We have a passionate group of security-minded folks internally who have been exploring ways to game the system, and closing those holes preemptively.

I'd love to see us publish something in the future about specific types of attacks which work on the present-day model, but not on our model. Additionally, what types of new attacks could be possible, and how we've prepared.

Suffice it to say, having the home-field (the user's machine) advantage is going to play well in our favor.

Great topic!
Your DMCA (section 117) [1] specifies allowing the creation of copies if you "own" a copy. You own a copy (you have own the rights to a copy), and by torrenting, you are making a digital copy. I don't see any difference between, say, a transfer of bits from CD-ROM to your HDD, and back to another CD-ROM, vs transferring the bits over the internet from some copy on another computer. Nowhere does it say "original media". You seemed to have inserted that verbiage yourself, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

(a)Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.—Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.

The next section allows for selling/transferring that copy (if you, for example, burned Microsoft XP onto a CD-R) if you have authorization from the copyright holder (whatever that means). By torrenting, you are not engaging in the act of transferring the license, so it doesn't seem to apply here. Maybe the seeder is violating something, but I can't see the downloader (who already owns the license) running afoul of anything.

(b)Lease, Sale, or Other Transfer of Additional Copy or Adaptation.—

Any exact copies prepared in accordance with the provisions of this section may be leased, sold, or otherwise transferred, along with the copy from which such copies were prepared, only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program. Adaptations so prepared may be transferred only with the authorization of the copyright owner.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
I am with progressing and pay $180 for 50/100/50 with collision and uninsured.
Yes, but that's also the reason why Linux has as much hardware support out of the box: because it forces drivers to be developed in-tree.
> maybe this is true, maybe not. But polls show he is up 40 points on her[0]. Maybe internal polling shows a different race, but not clear to me from publicly available information that he is feeling "real heat".

He's trying to run up the score to make it look like he has a mandate. If Nixon gets anything close to what Teachout got four years ago, it'll look bad for his 2020 presidential run.
To clarify, this has recently changed. In 2017 you could not accept money in your WeChat account without a Chinese card or bank account. As of 2018, adding a foreign credit card enables the "money" feature" and allows you to receive funds.
Using AI to manipulate what you see is already happening - especially if you browse the web without an adblocker.
Thank you for the excellent response, and for linking to the issue on file. Glad to hear that it's already on our radar, and being tracked.

All the best!
I'm pretty short. Maybe that's it. Otherwise it's kind of mystifying to me.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17974365
When Schmidt was ousted, people speculated that it was in part due to his links to the candidate who lost
what game?
Totally understand your point. I think the main thing I'm trying to achieve with my comment is that consumers should understand that the reported feature size will correlate weaker in the future to overall performance than it used to. Nanometer is still the preferred marketing feature of choice but there is a large class of innovative techniques that are maturing the semiconductor fabrication space right now that are going to contribute more and more to the real world performance than feature size.

As feature size shrinks new fabs will need to be created to support the manufacturing, a Fab is a multi billion dollar investment. Eventually the industry will have to choose if feature size is something we will continue to push in favor of investment in other techniques.
I don't think I care; cheating in a game doesn't seem like sufficient cause to lose it to me. Ban from multiplayer, sure, but lose access to the game or even your whole library? Seems excessive.
"CEO" and "founder" are very different job descriptions. An MBA can be very useful for a peacetime CEO [1]. It is basically useless for a wartime CEO or founder (all of whom are wartime CEOs).

An MBA basically teaches you how to apply rational analysis and best practices to the running of an existing business unit. This works great during normal times, when your company has a competitive advantage, you know what it is, you have a large and growing customer base, and you are making a profit on every transaction. It works terribly when the default outcome, if you follow all the best practices and do everything you're supposed to, is that you'll fail miserably. This is the situation most founders are in - if their market opportunity were obvious to someone with an MBA, then someone with an MBA working for a big company with lots of resources would already have done it.

[1] https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2/
I've used the internet long enough to not want to spend another second reading a lie someone wrote a news article about.
The core of Google's business model is using AI to manipulate what people see. (Hint: Mostly ads.) Whether you want to argue it's politically-biased is a separate discussion.

Spam filtering is arguably using AI to manipulate what the user sees. In that case, it's less spam. A lot of AI is focused on finding what's the most interesting/valuable to the user, removing "bad" data, etc.

Members of most political parties, arguably, would like fake news and misinformation to be curated away, it's just that those parties often disagree with what news is "fake".
The bigger benefit is that architecture is so simple to understand.

The world starts with a request and ends with the last byte being sent. No worrying about shared state, no worrying about multiple application servers, no worrying about crashes or blocking operations reducing performance for everyone, etc...

It's just so simple that it let's you just focus on building something without worrying about all of the "software engineering" work that is all too often self-inflicted complexity.
Google's penchant for killing products is why I moved away from them for even their stable products. I want a company to be okay with having a stable platform of boring work to build exciting things on top of and Google isn't that company. Add to that my lack of trust in Google to not spy even when it says it won't, and it was just a perfect series of events. I honestly think the phone jack removal might have been the defining moment when I decided to move to an iPhone 6S. They will pry that phone jack from my cold dead hands.
That business risk is primarily related to the fact that consumers using SNAP shop at Walmart, without regard to whether that shopper is a Walmart employee or not. If a consumer shops at Walmart using SNAP and SNAP is reduced or discontinued, that's a revenue risk for Walmart.

If the concern of a sub-thread is Walmart lobbying for self-serving programs for general consumers, I agree with that as a concern, but it's no damn different than the epi-pen people arguing to stock epi-pens in schools by policy, the AED manufacturers campaigning to have AEDs installed all around, etc. I thought this sub-thread was concerned with Walmart employees being on government support programs and that being Walmart's problem to alleviate.
> Your [large] employer benefits from the system and wants it to stay.
>
> Edit: as others have pointed out, it is the large companies who benefit at the expense of small companies and employees.

This is completely wrong. The amount of money that employers have to pay in order to subsidize public insurance (which is the literal reason that prices are not transparent) is orders of magnitude more than what they can quantifiably get from you working that extra summer, or what have you.
I don't understand how you are inferring the weight of each thing in a list. In fact, that quote directly contradicts you.
Yes but the DMCA section mentioned explicitly allows you to make copies for archive (or even for resale!), if you own the right to a copy already.

"legal media that you already own" is not mentioned anywhere in that DMCA section.
> Government, through the legal system and regulation, already has that authority. We all live and operate under the law; there are many things businesses (and individuals) can't do and and others they must do. I still don't see what distinguishes these rules from existing rules in that respect.

If it already has that authority, then what is this law that Warren is proposing? My understanding is that it's a whole new sort of authority. Although there is a pending law in California that gives it the power to regulate board constitution, government is not currently able to do what the act allows.

Or are you saying that there are laws that govern corporations therefore the government can do anything arbitrarily? If so, that's not really how things work.

> Could you provide a substantial basis for this prediction?

I suspect that I couldn't offer anything that you would accept. "General public benefit" is the one that most obviously suggests future malleability à la the "general welfare" clause of the Constitution.
The solution is actually free college education for everyone who wants it, even if not everyone will be able to use it on their job the only solution is massively easier access to quality education that teaches you how to think, not what to think. The lack of critical thinking skills is a real problem but its largely by designs, some in DC think having an economic draft is a good thing and an educated population is not welcomed.
Yes. Thank you! Snoozing emails changed my life.

The one thing I miss from Inbox is being able to see my Done/Archived emails in the order archived. (So I can see recently archived emails, even if they're old emails.)

Swipe to snooze would also be nice.
Yeah sorry I was referring to people. Although the US is a massive landmass too which I also forget sometimes.
What benefit to facebook is there from open sourcing technology they have developed?
> Isn't that the value you're getting out of the mobile browser, not the rendering engine?

Cannot comment on iOS, but the main value of Firefox on Android (vs. the default Chrome) is that it runs extensions, particularly uBlock Origin.
What is normally covered during a Google TGIF all-hands, especially during a slow week? I imagine this is not the normal.
For the most part you won't have a problem with credit cards in very touristy areas. Once you leave the bubble, however, the acceptance rate for credit cards in China drops very quickly.
Wow they get lots of comments over at Breitbart. 11k on TFA, 35k on a soundbite from Cher, 22k for some ridiculous complaint about Serena (hmmm, is this some sort of theme?), 3500 on some guy having a heart attack. Is this normal for partisan news sites? They need to figure out some way of monetizing those comments.
Yeah, but this directly has ramifications for our democracy, doesn't it? It looks they're actively trying to prevent certain content from being seen while exposing the content Google executives feel the masses 'should' see. This doesn't seem very neutral to me. The leaked video is quite disturbing.
6 ways from the Mythical Man Month, right?
Yeah... Reading this, it smacked of a possible combination of poor tool choice and over-engineering (which I've been guilty of plenty). I built a video processing/workflow application in Scala with Akka a few years ago and debugging that was hard enough, eventually it was refactored to a simpler Kotlin/Spring application... Actor systems are great for certain use cases but you can really hurt the transparency of your app if you aren't careful. I can't imagine maintaining the OP's application at scale for this use case, but maybe they have someone smarter than me!
It's normally product announcements and any other issues/news about the company along with a Q&A session with the top leadership.
Do you think that if I wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Times that included plagiarised content, that they could, should and would detect that prior to publishing?
I believe OP was confusing real life for Grand Theft Auto, where after an amount of time on the run, the cops stop looking for you.
When I was in school we learned assembly using a “toy” assembly language - that is, one not tied to any real world architecture and deliberately designed to be easy for students to work with.
That's because you'd rather reap the benefits of market irrationality than solid business fundamentals. Admittedly, that attitude has worked well in the past ahem fifteen years.

The thing with irrationality is that it's hard to predict. The people that make the right bet get hailed as genius visionaries, the losers are simply forgotten. A good CEO is not a gambler, they're consistent and they can execute, but alas that's not good material to dramatize in the media.
I didn't have to read the article. I just watched the leaked video with my own eyes in its entirety.
These days, the Chinese and Russians can get whatever they want from companies like Equifax without leaving the comfort of their own homes or dealing with messy human interactions. Either one of them can, and most likely did, hack Equifax at will.

I would be surprised if a large company with very good security practices could resist them indefinitely, Equifax wasn't going to hold them off.

The difference between state actors and regular thieves is the state actors don't want anyone to know about it. Sony got wrecked by North Korea because they wanted them to feel the pain. That could happen at almost any company, just the state actors want a long-term strategic advantage not a short-term one.

The ubiquity of technology in all aspects of our society makes us extremely vulnerable to losing a digital war. We have so much more to lose, and so much more surface area vulnerable to attack. Seriously, North Korea was able to assert their will on us just to (successfully) keep a movie from being released to theaters.
I found out the hard way that you can't play a single Steam game if you haven't connected it to the internet in 30 days.

Nothing clarifies the difference between purchase and rental when you try booting Steam up on a laptop for a 12 hour bus ride across Mexico and you can't play a single game.

You just have this "meh, hasn't affected me" mindset.
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I logged in for the first time to see what it was.. same deal here, have stopped adopting new Google products since 2013 (the Reader debacle naturally)
> Agreed, though I could really have done without every damn site having an extra popup that gives me a choice that isn't a choice...click accept.

That would be a violation of the GDPR, this is the site owners actively ignoring the rule and just being a dick.

Also, since opting-out has to be as easy as opting-in those popups should be displayed on every page view after you've accepted.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-huge-profit-oriented-software-c...
It's on the Pete Lowe Adserver list directly, since Heap is in fact a tracking system and domain: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?showintro=0;hostforma...
The University of Florida Still Makes Money Off Gatorade
> They need to figure out some way of monetizing those comments.

The people funding those sites are cleaning up with the votes they've bought in this way. The comments are the monetization.
>It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.

Like, just using text? Maybe even send it through a syntax highlighter first?

I can't be the only one that was irked at Amazon for spending years making their product promo pages or prominent buttons as hard-coded images instead of text.
Horribly inaccessible, over the top, looks terrible on HiDPI devices, looks terrible on a non-Mac because it was clear that their designers were using OS X font rendering, so it looked totally inconsistent.

My favorite part is being on mobile and having to scroll left and right to see the image, or the image has been fit-to-scale is flatly impossibly too small to read.

I feel stodgy, but this entire effort is annoying. Just like the stupid GIFs on project READMEs that play too slow or too fast and have to be watched 50 times to grasp what's going on. Meanwhile asciinema exists and is superior in every way (seekable, pausable, text-selectable, etc).
Damn those scare quotes are really scary.
I have very significant problems with allowing my browser to be its own OS.
> Don't bring up work

I would bet from that statement you're not interested much in hearing about other people jobs and/or willing to talk about your own. But, well, I am, on both counts. YMMV.

Since we're talking about scripted conversation, why not design a more evolved script that takes into account some people like to talk about their X, and some don't, such as:

"Is your job interesting (smile) ?"

If yes: question further and listen

If not: say "good, mine neither (smile)"

My take is it would work in some regions of the world where somewhat blunt, tongue-in-cheek questions, a tiny bit of healthy self-derogative sarcasm, and some obvious white lies aren't necessarily bad things.
You might be thinking of the ARM printed on plastic as thin film electronics: http://armdevices.net/2017/05/21/0-01-flexible-plastic-arm-p...
Smartphone apps to help you stay safe and connected during hurricanes
I submitted this way earlier today and got some message from the site I had never seen before that it was already submitted but it did not show it to me like it usually does, and it was nowhere to be found.

I think this guy got it through because he did not use the original Breitbart link.

My recent fox story about google got the silent ban as well.
You know, I'm pretty sure they have stopped looking for D. B. Cooper.