skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip-side, however, many average people don't want former criminals in their society, near their kids, etc.

How do you separate the ones who actually want to get back on track and live a normal life, and the ones that plan on committing more crimes as soon as they get out? If you were to offer your home as a halfway house or something similar, would you feel safe without any sort of guarantee for your safety?
Indeed. Making a good product is a marketing move.
> In the meantime everyone wants a "senior" (I put that in quotes because everyone's idea was absurdly different) and nobody wants anyone who is learning.

One company's senior engineer is another company's junior engineer. People sometimes "graduate" out of mid-level companies and into a Fortune 500 company. There should be a way to rank companies this way - maybe by scraping thousands of resumes to see where engineers spend their late 20s?
A new restaurant just opened in my neighborhood called "All Square". They are staffed entirely by ex-cons, as a way to get them decent jobs. Cool idea, I'd love to see it become more widespread.
I'm a big fan of that idea.

Imho the beauty of your BAT system (the way it is envisioned) is it's independency from the current model of monetizing the web, which is ads, gradually evolving towards direct transmission between publisher and consumer.

Ads in the way they work on the web are just a very inefficient system of transferring this value, and they don't serve the original function of marketing anymore. It turned into a big game of psychological warfare.

The system is so inefficient that it finances almost the complete operation of Alphabet/Google.

As a user I don't know how the system works in the background, and when I read the recent news about Brave attacking Google for GDPR violation it was the first time I read about RTB and the technical aspects in the media. People need to know, so they can decide if they want to feed such a system!

Funding Choices seems to be a part of Google's answer to the growing problem of ad-blockers, but it can also bee seen as Google's answer to competition like Brave/BAT.

I read somewhere that under the umbrella of Funding Choices Google is also experimenting with subscriptions like BAT, but without the token.

I don't know how successful Google is with this, but this might be a tough competition for Brave, they will fight tooth and nails, and they control the Android ecosystem.

BAT is attractive for power users as you ride on the wave of privacy-friendliness which Google can't, but I think the real challenge will be the average user that wants a standardized, seamless cross-platform solution that can be used as the main payment gateway for accessing content, which is increasingly via gated Apps.

With Google controlling so much of the market with Android and Chrome, I wonder how they will react to BAT if it ever becomes successful, as they could theoretically quickly scale any competitive project.

I think the biggest advantage of BAT would be if big players could acknowledge it as a de-facto standard for decentralized transfer of micro-payments and privacy friendly ad networks. For this to happen it would be necessary to be somewhat "Open-Source", i.e. not strictly tied to a singly company controlling much of the tokens. I am thinking in line of an open consortium with different players holding a significant part of the BAT tokens each.
Of course. As with all claims and features, we must constantly be critical of them and the motivations behind them.
In San Francisco at least, it really does mean nothing happens. There have been instances of stabbings (non-lethal) and the perpetrator was spotted in public days later.
> The cop would rather catch a normal kid in wrong place at wrong time because that kid will not fight back.

That sounds like a real problem to fix - incentivizing our law enforcement to go after "easy" targets does not create the sort of society I want to be in. I don't see how increasing sentences helps change this (if the sentences are being selectively applied anyway), and gun ownership is likewise orthogonal (shooting "easy" targets doesn't sound better, nor does encouraging vigilantism, which you did NOT suggest, but is a logical conclusion if law enforcement isn't doing their job).

Any ideas on how to improve the equal application of law enforcement?
You might find the computer hobbyist magazine BYTE special issue on Lisp from August 1979 vol 4 no 8 to be interesting. It is linked here, with lots of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033439

I don't recall much influence from Lisp on personal computing in its early days (late 70s early 80s). There were Lisp interpreters available for some of the popular computers but they couldn't do much besides pedagogical exercises like in The Little Schemer (which I think hadn't appeared yet) - I recall one system only supported about 1600 CONS cells.

I recall Pascal was much more influential with Apple users. There was a whole operating system UCSD Pascal which was somewhat popular in the late 1970s that ran on Apple II.
Google Cloud Tests Devices for Private Data Centers
Ask HN: Recommend in-depth, comparative, critical programming podcasts
I've had trouble finding non-academic podcasts covering languages, frameworks, hosted services, cloud providers, etc. that go beyond the introductory, conceptual, and overly credulous. I'd like to hear comparisons of competing offers/techniques/and technologies, and discussion of what the adoption of a given tool looks like at scale.
https://github.com/kaffe/kaffe/blob/master/FAQ/FAQ.ps2linux

Nothing really. It's basically a MIPS CPU with some custom additional SIMD hardware. There's at least one open source JVM implementation that works on PS2 Linux. Sun announced plans to release an official JVM for the PS2 but it never happened. The Dreamcast had a web browser that could run Java applets though.
I'm not in favor of permanently being on Summer time, which is one of the options. Humans are already too disconnected from the physical world, I'd hate to see us completely lose the association of "Noon" with the Sun being at it's highest point in the sky. Yeah, I know. Hopeless romantic...

But I'd love to see the end of Daylight Saving Time. I hate the biannual screwing of my body clock.
Florida's election fiasco in 2000 won Bush the election.
Their deep packet inspection tech is very very good.
They haven't much highlighted privacy in keynotes, marketing material etc. in the past. For the longest time, it was tucked away in the iOS security white paper. Now they're ramping it up.

I am just arguing against GP's dismissal of Apple's stance on privacy as a marketing move. I believe it's truly close to their heart, and it's a happy coincidence that it's also increasingly a marketable asset (given the despicable data collection practices of the big tech/advertisement firms).

But neither me nor, presumably, GP has privileged inside information on Apple's true motives (and surely they're multifaceted and complex and not monolithic anyway). So, just asserting that it's purely a marketing move and then furthermore implying that a deviating assessment is delusional strikes me as unjustified.
"Who are these 'I want free stuff' people?"

It's pretty much everyone. It's just that everyone also knows you can't actually go into a political debate with "GIVE ME FREE STUFF" and expect to get very far. But of course we all want free stuff. I want free stuff. I've got the discipline to know better than to vote for it (because for one thing I know there is no such thing as "free"), but I damned well want it.

But of course there's plenty of BI advocates who want free stuff. You can find plenty of people musing on how they'd live on nothing but the BI in any conversation on HN, if they could.
Because the point isn't to give people more free time; it's to let people go home when they run out of mental energy and wouldn't be doing anything useful for the rest of their workday anyway.

Even if you were only working one day a week, you wouldn't be able to do 8 hours of contiguous useful information-work.
Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Haha, didn't expect my blog to ever get to the front page of HN and my $5/month DO droplet couldn't keep up. I resized it and now I'm putting Cloudflare in front of it, so hopefully it will stay up now.
The only problem I have with it is you can't use them for password fields. It would be nice if my password manager could provide a keyboard.
Wouldn’t this bill, if passed, also be set by the law? Its not blaming anyone, it is setting standards we expect companies to comply with.
Looks like I was on the right track, it was a "criminal investigation" and:

"During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents."

https://www.space.com/41852-sunspot-solar-observatory-openin...
> Everything still has to go through the EU Parliament, no need to panic...

As if the EU Parliament has never voted for half-baked ideas that have disproportionate impact for its member states?
Source/tl;dr?
Net-zero emissions energy systems
Didn't mean to suggest that it does.
No idea, I didn't dig into it. I think it had the general "Settings" gear as the icon so maybe it's provided by iOS?
"We fully embrace Javascript as dynamically typed language"

Ok, but why? Do you not think there's an advantage in having a difference between strings and numbers?

"1" == 1?

You can chose that if you want, surely, but what are the advantages of 'embracing' this?
Darpa Wants to Find Botnets Before They Attack
Mayors call for annual Europe-wide car-free day
Here, we review the special challenges associated with an energy system that does not add any CO2 to the atmosphere (a net-zero emissions energy system). We discuss prominent technological opportunities and barriers for eliminating and/or managing emissions related to the difficult-to-decarbonize services; pitfalls in which near-term actions may make it more difficult or costly to achieve the net-zero emissions goal; and critical areas for research, development, demonstration, and deployment. It may take decades to research, develop, and deploy these new technologies.
Pollution falls 30% on car-free day in Belgium
The city refuses to enforce property crimes. Even if the police make an arrest, nothing comes out of it. Many residents consider it to be "criminalizing poverty", thus it is socially unacceptable to enforce property crimes. Sure, there are specific roles (e.g. the District Attorney) that have control over this, but they answer to city hall, and they respond to voters' desires. Ultimately it's on us residents for how property crime became de-facto legal.
The site is currently inaccessible, possibly due to being "hugged to death".

Would ActivityPub be able to solve this issue?
I think you should read that carefully.
I've never understood this mentality. If you can dump something to the terminal and use tmux search, you could just as easily use `less` which is pretty much purpose built for this.
Yes, there is a deep meaning you're missing... namely, that the drop in juvenile detention mirrors a drop in crime across all parts of society.
I find my focus and attention has the same rhythm you describe. I thought I was the only one!

I make sure I get a solid amount (7+ hours) of sleep every night and try to maintain consistency with sleep times - but I feel like I don't really "wake up" until after lunch. Even though I'm fully awake all morning - I feel like my mind doesn't focus or get into the groove, as you put it, until well after 4pm - and then its time go home.
> Your data should be alive in 80 years, especially if you are

How do they deal with obsolescence?

Software that used to exist 50 years ago doesn't run today, and most of those formats (if they aren't text formats) are either obsolete or completely unsupported. Emulators exist, but nobody actually uses it. Part of this is because software becomes obsolete over time, and part of that is because hardware becomes obsolete.

How are they going to make software today that will run on new computers in 80 years, or how will they make software
and data formats backwards compatible for 80 years?
It is an impressive accomplishment; but like GPA, not an indicator-of-success in venture.
Sure. At the same time they provide useful input from real users too. Humans are good at spotting fake from real input on this kind of surveys. In the end it is merely a way of including ideas and details that sometimes are overlooked.

Source: I've supported some of the European Union activities.
I use the swipable Google keyboard and it's generally OK. About 5% of the time an app will use the default Apple one, I think because they're using some kind of secure entry API.
Have you checked their iOS security guide? It has a section on internet/cloud services.

https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....

EDIT to add: DuckDuckGo gave me the above link for the iOS 11 version, but it has actually been updated already for iOS 12.
Thanks, I will take a look. At first blush it seems like things have changed and the free offering isn't what it used to be -- 5 accounts not 20, and as someone else mentioned, perhaps no custom domain.

But it's worth looking into, because at first glance their lowest paid option fits my general requirements and is only $36/year/user, which is less than ProtonMail.
I don't think the SFPD cares about any crime TBH. Parents car got broken into and 3 purses stolen, and... nothing. They took a note, but nothing else.
No, but not turning on telemetry does.
Protonmail requires a credit card, your phone number, and javascript, while harping on about their privacy and Switzerland insulation.

What about crypto, no javascript and no phone number?

Free email providers do the no javascript and no phone number thing.

It is like trying its hardest to collect your information

It reminds me of Nigerian scammers, they intentionally say ridiculous things to weed out people smart enough to walk away.
You don't get X-rays without radiation, either. For that matter, you don't get sunshine without radiation.

The problem with fear of radiation is that all radiation gets dumped under that label, without any nuance as to the amount or kind. A properly-operating nuclear plant will emit radiation, but in amounts that should be less than the background levels. A failing nuclear plant can emit catastrophic amounts. The two really need to be in two different categories in peoples' minds, because they are not similar at all.
Ah dang. That's something I would really miss from Android (Kepass Keyboard).
One doesn't even need a VPN -- anyone can submit a response. It's basically on the honor code.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations_en
Summer time only for me. I have no interest in it getting dark near 5pm. (SF Bay Area)
I used to work as a management consultant in McKinsey and did several pricing engagements.

The Firm in question is almost exclusively focused on pricing projects and "price before product" framing is probably helpful in convincing potential clients. Take with a grain of salt.
There is almost no CO2 on the atmosphere.
Half-baked or not, the point is that everyone gets a say
Interesting wish list. Some items are quite easy to implement, some require more developer hands. I think after the 1.0 release there will be some distinct shape of the desktop environment and style guide/project plan. We can discuss it then. If you are ready to take some feature to implement - we can join our efforts.
Is this a new discovery? A few years ago I remember seeing water droplets navigating a maze in a youtube video but I don't know if they went into enough detail about how the mechanism worked.
This looks like an article from 2013. "Last updated 2013-06-12" is in the footer
It's not hard to distinguish a VPN connection by behaviour pattern really. Some simple features to detect:

Both small packets and maxing out the window size in one stream. Lack of DNS queries from the host. Single connection dominating the bandwidth.

There's a reason for all of those of course, but put them together on a residential connection: almost certainly a VPN user.

And these are all really simple heuristics. In practice, we know you can identify which Netflix video are you watching just by the packet sizes/timing.
> This is nonsense. Gmail is free. Inbox was free.
> What exactly do they owe you?

This is oversimplified. Google makes products expecting something in return: users provide it data and ad revenue. More directly, users invest time and thought into learning it and integrating it into their lives. Google invited people to depend on it, and after they did, it killed the product. That's real hours wasted for real people. It's not irrational for them to feel betrayed.

Yes, Google has the right to kill a product, just as you have the right to tell a party guest to leave your house. But don't expect them to love you afterward.

> Not enough people were using Inbox. It was an experiment and now they're moving on.

Why weren't enough people using Inbox? Speaking personally, I never tried it because I expected exactly this. I don't want to waste my time on things that will be shuttered.

Google seems to think that each product is an independent experiment. But it seems more likely that each "experiment" they end contributes to the failure of subsequent ones.

Google doesn't owe people products. But people don't owe Google goodwill, either. And without goodwill, it can't launch new products.
Presumably retail stores have insurance to cover this. I wonder if we can get data on the cost of insurance or general actuarial data that might be better than what the crime statistics would show.

Although the police should have these statistics as well, since it is probably impossible to file a claim without a police report in hand.
Definitely not. Changing clocks has known connections to health risks including traffic fatalities. Lots of people hate it for good reason. A couple of internet searches should be enough to convince you that it's a real issue. If you are unsure of what search terms to try, I suggest "fuck dst"
>groups of youths filling up their backpacks with store items and running off laughing. They don't even run more than a block before slowing down to walk because they know nothing will happen.

i'm completely against locking them up and ruining their lives for what in most cases is just a [stupid] fun for them. We do know that the brain of teenager is biologically flawed to correctly estimate risks/consequences of things like that. Yet it is the duty of society to help correct the flaw and teach them a lesson. I think something like allowing store owners to shoot using salt charges (an old USSR method for situations like this, no serious injury, yet supposed to be very painful for a few days) will make these youngsters running much faster and laughing less :)

In more general - while corporal punishment is an unquestionably bad thing on its own, when it comes to the choice of corporal punishment vs. situation of 2nd graders already having a rap sheet, i'm not sure what is better for society long-term.
> The system is so inefficient that it finances almost the complete operation of Alphabet/Google.

Since Youtube is wildly unprofitable, Alphabet/Google has to be funneling in money generated from other sources. Thus, Youtube is funded by ads, just mostly not from the ads on Youtube.
Ex-Google man says he was asked to write software to censor news in 2006
I hate to break this to you but at least in continental Europe, you don't find a big area where the sun is at its highest point in the sky.

The CET timezone has that property for the town of Goerlitz or, to a slightly less extend, Vienna. That means almost all of Germany, France, and Spain doesn't already have that property.
Isn't "brighter, more saturated" basically the opposite of "more washed out"?
I, for one, welcome these new Terms and Conditions.
I've always wanted to abolish not only DST, but time zones in general. Sure, it's cool that noon means the sun is high, but increasingly the cost of managing anything across zones (or across days, or both) is notably higher than the relatively rare cost of learning "I moved to a new state, my work hours are during daylight, 3pm-11pm".

When coordinating we can just use the same times. "Conference call will be at 5pm." "That's early for me, can we make it 6pm?" Instead of "Okay, call will be at 9am" "In what time zone?" "Eastern". "that's 6am for me, can we make it 8?" "You mean 10am? Sure".

I had a road trip to the grand Canyon. Nothing like crossing from Pacific, to Mountain, to AZ (with no DST) and into federal land in AZ (with DST). Coordinated with another couple coming to the same spot from a different direction. It was...non-trivial...and we often gave up on actually knowing when something was, being happy if we were coordinated within a few hours.
> one thing I know there is no such thing as "free"

In the US, given the production-yields of present agricultural technology, only 1% of the population would need to be employed to feed 100% of the population. That seems pretty "free."

I don't know how it would work out for other things (housing, clothing, etc.) but I expect it would be similar (with e.g. at most 10% of the population needing to work to support 100% of the population, which is less than the percentage of people who want to work regardless of personal necessity.)

In other words: we've already nearly reached post-scarcity. We should probably figure out a way to take advantage of that.
His example for Asus sounds particularly off. According to him they outsold $299 product leaving money on the table. In reality in a hyper competitive market that is incredibly price sensitive the price point and the matching features were likely the main reason for it selling like hotcakes. Increasing the price even $25-50 could completely wreck that equation.
To be fair, Adam Grant's LinkedIn post is 3 sentences long and hardly offers much thought on the subject.

In the CNBC article, they reference a study of staff in a Swedish nursing home where they reduced the work day shifts from 8 hours to 6 hours. While productivity and quality of life may have increased, a quick calculation would show that the nursing home would now have to pay for 4 shifts of staff each day as opposed to only 3 shifts. Without knowing more about that particular nursing home, I'd imagine needing to employ an additional shift of people to be a pretty big hurdle to actually implementing such a program.
I've completed a few water fasts before I came across Dr. Longo work. The main reason he created the FMD is because they couldn't get people to volunteer for a water-only fast and then compliance was an issue. I'm now used to water-only fasting and hunger goes away completely by second or third day. I've heard anecdotally that hunger doesn't subside as well for everyone on the FMD as you're still eating, but haven't tried it myself.

This is the first time I'm working intensively during the fast (I worked through the weekend) and I've been incredibly productive. I also prepared really well: I was eating more than a pound of dark leafy green a day for the last month (in two high micronutrient smoothies for breakfast and lunch) and I used a sauna everyday for the week before the fast. I feel better today than I have in a long time, my energy is excellent.

That's not to say there aren't any side effects, I had some pretty bad lower back pain which made getting to sleep last night difficult, but I've come to expect it and it comes and goes throughout the day usually starting on the third day. I occasionally have some heart burn as well, but it hasn't been as bad this time. My first fast was the most difficult, but it was medically supervised at the True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. They supervise in-patient water-only fasts up to 40 days.
It seems like a group thing where they buy credibility with industry insiders. IPO's are all about lending credibility (that's why investment banks take a huge chunk), and the do-nothing hires are apparently related to that.