skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this app earlier today and it's been working pretty great. It appears to be developed by Google's Jigsaw[0] organization and is surprisingly unknown.

Where I live quite a few sites are blocked by the government and while Drony[1] has been quite helpful it's incredibly outdated and, as per the latest update, become really ad-ridden.

[0]: https://jigsaw.google.com/

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sandroprox...
> >...people externally often think Google is on some evil plan...

> The real bad guys don't ever think they are evil.

At least seen from the inside, it's often funny (and sad) to see all kinds of crazy speculation about the greater evil goal of nefarious decisions made, all the while whatever is happening is usually a mixture of software bugs and incompetence on our side.

It's like a clown show, where the evil mastermind turns out to just be me incorrectly checking for a null value in some if condition, or my PM having no idea how to rationalize two features together.

I guess that comes with large corporation status, and a certain failure to communicate. Not sure if it's avoidable at all. It does teach you something about perception vs intent, I guess.
is it? I have never, ever seen it used and I've lived in the UK my whole life.
Why the phrase 'space tourism' should be avoided at all costs UK
No, I'm not. Although I'm a heavy Linux user if that means anything at all.

I'm just stating the plain obvious.
Kubernetes backup with Heptio Ark
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...
Office of 20 here. Now almost everyone's in agreement that we'll move off Chrome. And we'll recommend our families and friends do the same.

This is how Firefox (pre-bloat) gained traction at the expense of IE, and this is how chrome gained traction at the expense of Firefox/IE.

And now this is how chrome's market share will decline as tech leaders, journalists and then the public find out how much of a privacy nightmare it really is.
The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite today
They are not treating you as second class citizen, they are saying they haven't trust you to be human yet. Which is the whole point of capcha.

You want Google to not know about you. You want to be a stranger to them. And you are complaining that they don't trust stranger, which you want to be, as much as someone they know?
Pandora used to have a CLI that I would use daily - I could hop into a tab and + or - a song and get a constantly updating playlist. I haven’t used it in years though.
Is machine-generated art still art?
That's a deep rabbit hole. What about the will of those on JusticeServed? Were they free to decide to be on that?

As a naive young person, I hoped that a metal illness was just that, an illness that can be cured.

After discovering mine, the curtain was pulled back, revealing the 'trick' all along behind the illusion of cure, was just suppression. Bacteria are killed, sometimes Viruses too. But thoughts, and feelings cannot be cured or killed, they must be suppressed.

For 'Free Will', one should be free to control one's will.

I can't pass through doors in the first try, or the 20th, sometimes when I'm by myself.

Some people cower right before a fight they've prepared for, for months, they knew fight day was coming.

Anger kills people, people 'see red'.

If these thoughts and feelings are your will, hopefully we find out that they're free, not you.
Webmacs – keyboard driven (emacs key bindings) browser
English words of French origin are normally considered formal. Back when the French invaded England the rich spoke French, while the poor spoke Anglo Saxon. The words mutated and changed but words of French origin are now formal because of this.
No IT staff in my shop. And the last 3 version upgrades have removed all my extensions, while trying to force the Google Drive extension on my installation. So the thing is, I’m heavily reliant on 1Password, and force uninstalling that extension has made Chrome useless to me. I refuse to reinstall my extensions again and I refuse to log in to Chrome to have my extensions synced. If they want to break my browser on autopilot, they can fuck off.
I wish there was a way to navigate to weirdly specific categories and have 6+ podcasts on screen at once. Great idea!
I sincerely apologize if I offended anyone's belief in physics. But at least I know that some of the greatest philosophers thought about the nature of Time the way I do. They said Time is not an independent physical entity to be measured. If you call me a crank, as @canhascodez did, for repeating what Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Bergson, Henry James and others said then so be it.

To clarify some more why I think time is not measurable I wrote a short essay and I posted here for anyone interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cKtorWUj5lUeRXJ0iPB9kaLd...
I guess it’s a matter of timing. And simple, clear messages as a source.
Whatsapp payments can be a massive cash cow. Whatsapp is a core part of life in India and I can easily see them becoming the WeChat of this country
Startup A seems better, 20k more than market rate sounds really good for a startup, and based on very recent HN threads (but also some bias from badly made personal decisions), it's hard for employees to make money from options so best assume they are worth 0 when making a decision like this. You should get market rate at least, then everything extra can go toward more money or more stock, whichever excites you to work more.

But, there are several other factors that may contribute more to your happiness:

- Who will you report to in each company? How many levels under the CEO/CTO? Politics can suck the life out of you and make you not want to work even when you are making more.

- How many hours of work per week is really expected? Is it corporate 9-5 or startup 9-5 (aka 9-9). Only way to get that info is from people working there.

- How many days of vacation do you get? Is it a loose 'open vacation' policy or do you actually get a fixed number of days that you can take off? Preferably it's the latter.

- What percentage of the company do your stock options make up? Do you know the number of shares outstanding, liquidation preferences, etc.

- What kind of work will you do? Does the domain and the stack interest you? Does this help you reach your career goals?

Hope this helps, good luck!

EDIT: Formatting.
Happened to me as well (with no corporate IT around)
Language-Based Expression of Reliability and Parallelism for Low-Power Computing [pdf]
You made the best decision you could at the time.

That’s the only thing and best thing you can ever do in life.
Far from "advancing" anything, unpaid overtime consolidates the employee's role as a slave. A company that demands unpaid overtime is a mismanaged and exploitative company.
Cafe in Tokyo Employs Robots That Are Controlled by the Disabled
Why is he in a better position? She probably will try to manipulate him more than a stranger trying to help. Also, he is bound to get triggered interacting with her. I would think he would be in a worse position to help her then others.
What GDPR Means to American Firms?
You can clean out ~/.config/chromium/ in a cron job or in a wrapper script around the chrom{e,ium} binary.
Not just that but also risk a big fine; "regular" GDPR violations (when warnings are ignored) can be tens of millions, anti-trust fines can be half a billion easily. The EU compensates for tax loopholes via big fines.
Possibly.

Their gain?

- Less of a monopoly status.

Their losses?

- The privacy concerned.

- Ad-blocker users.

- Over-opinionated users.

Good move, for them.
The problem Australia has at all levels of governance is that those who we elect to represent us, represent the party before they represent the electorate. In addition to that, most of our elected representatives (House or Representatives and the Senate) are lacking in that essential item called a backbone. To find the truth of this, go talk to your representative at each level and try to get them to make public statements about subjects that are important to you.

As far as the major political parties are concerned, their obvious differences are really minor and their hidden similarities are major. In the last few years, we have had our federal politicians vote bipartisanly for various legislation that was ostensibly aimed at preventing terrorism and yet, this country already had extensive legislation that covered those particular matters (all of it under criminal offences).

One idea that has been discussed at various time in private is for each piece of legislation to be explained to each electorate and have a response return to parliament. So, instead of each representative voting on party lines, he/she would have to submit from their electorate the number of yes's, the number of no's and the number of abstentions.

For any legislation to actually pass, the total number of yes votes from all electorates would have to be more than the total of no votes added to the total of abstentions. This would mean that for any legislation to be passed, the representative would have to work very hard to convince his/her electorate that they would need to vote yes for the proposal. The benefits of each legislation would have to be carefully articulated before getting traction.

In addition, we could require that all legislation contain a sunset clause of say five years, after which the legislation would be null and void. For any extension, it would need to go back to the electorates again.

One benefit of such a scheme, is the slow-down of new legislation and another would be that old legislation that no longer held the attention would fade away.

I know, I know, this is a pipe dream and will never happen. But such a scheme would have the benefit that political parties would in all likelihood diminish.
I would say ProtonMail:

https://protonmail.com/
Android's first phone, the T-Mobile G1, almost looked like a BlackBerry
one.one.one.one - the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver
Ask HN: Whats the best desktop/laptop configuration for software development
I'm a seasoned developer and my existing laptop needs to be replaced. Whats the best desktop/laptop configuration like CPU, RAM, HDD for mobile and web software development these days that recommended. I'm not into gaming so graphics capabilities are not priority but ability to scale hardware would be nice to have. Any suggestions would be helpful for my purchase. Thanks in advance.
I identity with this - it bugs me that I haven't done as a Kevin (and people like him) when not only has he had the success but exited and moved on with his life.

I go to the gym most days and am pretty well disciplined but I still feel this way every so often (I've been ill earlier this week so I'm feeling down, which is probably what bought this on). How does someone get traditional discipline?
China shuts down 4000 websites
To answer my own question, yes Hangouts does work fine in Firefox. Not tried screen sharing yet but video calls work for me.
Ask HN: Software for designing software
Hi all,

being a hobby programmer for a couple of years, I want to step it up and try my hands in something rather sophisticated at work.

Whilst in the past, I was working here and there on some projects which were in the 10k+ LOC range, I would like to tackle this project as professional as possible.

Is there any program/service with which is being used in the designing phase of a tool/software? E.g. something where you type down the objectives, functionality, flowcharts perhaps, track time etc.? Or is all of this being done in other mediums (onenote, kanban etc.)?
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Makes History with Baby at UN Assembly
Coincidentaly I switched from Google services a week before this Chrome fiasco. I am happy with the switch for services, but was hard to accept laggy firefox ui on mac or safari without some plugins. This made it 100% easier.
Revitalization of Commodore's Amiga Continues with Exciting New Retro Hardware
Facebook sends Sphero robots so classrooms can apply coding education
The best way to communicate "stop doing stupid shit" to google is not use their services/applications when they do stupid shit. Losing market share/customers is far more impactful than any (currently possible) fines.
Awesome, looking forward to hear what you think :)
Rare two-headed snake found in garden in Virginia
Show HN: Invoking OpenFaaS serverless functions from Siri
> In the unlikely event equity is worth anything, converting it to cold hard cash is not always straight forward.

People rarely seem to understand this. A successful exit doesn't necessarily mean employees will get paid. A friend experienced this when Google bought the start-up he had been at for 2 years. Employees had to wait a year for an earn-out period. They had to re-interview for their positions, and fired if they didn't meet Google's impossibly high standards.

(edited to clean-up a grammatical error)
Just tried it on 69.0.3497.100 and all cookies were deleted and I was logged out from the browser. I also remember seeing a message "you will stay signed on to your Google account" but it seems to have disappeared (or maybe it only shows if you have sync enabled which I don't)
I really puzzles me how could anyone have ever trusted Chrome.
Ask HN: As a graduate student, how can I finance my applications abroad in Iran?
Please read till the end, this is basically a cry for help...

So basically I'm applying abroad this year and here's the situation:

1. Iran's economy is plummeting due to US sanctions and internal corruption.

>> 1 USD used to equal 36,000 Iranian Rial in January 2018. Today, that same dollar equals 160,000 Rial.

2. I have to apply to at least 20 universities in order to have a slight chance of admission.

3. Each university requires (on average) $100 as application fees, and around $50 for TOEFL and GRE reports.

4. The TOEFL and GRE themselves cost $225 and $205 respectively. Some middleman websites exist that pay these fees in dollars, but you have to pay them an additional %7 commission.

5. The only way of acquiring USD is by buying it illegally from currency exchanges, at a much higher price.

6. Nearly no way of sending money or receiving some from someone outside Iran.

7. FATF law has not passed yet in Iran. In case it fails to be ratified, even Russia and China won't be able to trade with Iran.

8. On top of all that, in nearly 40 days, another set of US sanctions will be forced and they target Iran's oil. Iran's economy relies heavily on oil.

So, this is what's happening here. Amidst all this, a lot of students and I are trying to apply abroad and have serious problems financially. The budget I had set aside for my applications is now worth one forth of what it used to be 4 months ago.

Any ideas that might help? You advice is really appreciated. Thank you so much.
I certainly do care. Gov't in my country is pushing for an integrated EHR hat looks like yours (except the level of security is much higher 'cose the data are not anonymous), but the way those records are used is a bit shady.

But the way it is pushed onto citizens is clearly wrong. Basically the doctor proposes you to switch to that system, citing the advantages, but not the disadvantages...

Also, with EHR, "ananymous data" doesn't mean much : your name is always on the papers produced by the doctors :-/ So anonymisation means : either remove identification data, or make sure it doesn't appear first hand. In both cases, in requires an action, and given the scale of the stuff, it won't be practical...
Cybersecurity Startup Sequretek Raises $3.7 Mn from Unicorn India Ventures
Thanks for that insight, it makes sense.

Big corporations usually pick some good rule of thumb (use data based decisions) and pervert it until it's a blind rule.

Now I can see some understand some of Google bad decisions, sentiment and grudges aren't easy to measure. I can find some aspect of a google product annoying but not bother me much. Still, annoying thinks add up and most users, like 99,9% users don't write complains publicly so they can't never tell. It's also harder to account for network effects like the family geek stop caring about chrome and moved the whole family and friends to firefox.

An estimated negative impact in 0,1% can really mean last push for 1% of users. Add several episodes like this and you can destroy a company.
Oh boy, I am since one hour thinking about how to formulate it so its really crystal clear, maybe someone have a suggestion.

In my head isolation and containerization are two completely different problems. If you really want "complete" isolation in plash you'd just had to setuid/setgid/setgroups away from the namespaced root user. Then as far as the kernel is concerned you would be a different user and if you are the only process with this uid you are completely isolated. Maybe I'll add an flag for that.

EDIT:

I am not happy with it at all but changed it:

- Security: Traditional per user isolation. Containers run completely unprivileged.

Containerisation and sandboxing are two different things. Sandboxing in major container software is fundamentally broken !111
Not exactly.

Imagine a china mug full of water. You can see the mug and the water being held in by the mug.

Now imagine a glass of water. The purest most transparent glass ever, with an identical refraction index as the water. You can't see the glass. You just see the water being held together by something. You don't know the glass exists.

You 'invent' the glass to explain the behaviour of the water, seeing as you know the how the mug affects the water.
> Meanwhile, I have lost hundreds or thousands of potential sales from people who may have paid, but have now been tempted to join your illegal caper. Everyone revels in the very public theft.

No you haven't, and there lies the crux of the argument. Many of those who helped themselves to the free copy wouldn't have purchased it at the retail price anyways, even if there were no free copy to be had. There is a financial loss yes, but multiplying the total number of free copies by the profit to the author off purchased copy yields a greatly exaggerated figure.
Do you think they care that techies get annoyed at Chrome? If you’re browsing google.com - which most people on the internet outside of China are doing - without Chrome, you get an intrusive notice telling you that installing Chrome is the best thing you can do.

Approximately 99.99% of those people do not know what cookies are, nor do they care.
How we used Event Sourcing to build seven of Creately’s key features
The reality is you don't have a will, just variables & events creating the person you are in the current moment.
Take Database Development to the Enterprise Level with DbForge Studio for Oracle
Similar themes in DHH’s “The Day I Became a Millionaire”, https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-day-i-became-a-millionaire-55...
I've never trusted Chrome but it was (and still is to a degree) faster and more secure than Firefox, so here we are
Dropping chrome is not enough. Switch to bing (Just as good as G), or ddg if you really want. Then ditch android which is the spy in your pocket. If you're installing G analytics for clients then choose an alternative (I'm open to suggestions here).

It's really time to disentangle ourselves from google. They've quietly and effectively insinuated themselves across the web. Enough is enough.
You can use Kotlin instead of Apache Groovy as the build language for Gradle, but virtually no-one uses it there.
AmoyShare AnyUTube for Windows V7.0.0 (6 months license)
Another confirmation that engineers and product developers are no longer in control at Google.

Engineering and product first is how Google won the game initially, very easy to forget that when the money rolls in massively and the power structures move away from those driving forces.

Microsoft already went through this engineering/product growth to bizdev/marketing control to stagnation and is already in the return to engineering/product first phase. Basically their own Ballmer era is what Google is entering.

Bizdev + marketing are hugely important, but the products and engineering need to be the focus. It is much easier to bizdev and market a product and engineering led system/focus, though success through this is always forgotten when massive success comes around because engineering/research and development are hard to quantify and put metrics to which the power structures move away from.

Let's hope there are factions of engineering/product focused people in Google that can gain back control.
You can't really, which is what got HTC into major trouble (iirc).
The implantation of a vagal nerve stimulator is not a dangerous procedure. It is less invasive than for a pacemaker for example.

What most likely happened is that the patient recovered to the point where they were able to feed themselves, or at least to swallow food. They then inhaled some, which is a common occurrence in brain damaged patients, leading to the pneumonia and the subsequent death.
What will you replace gmail with?
Read: they want a cut of the meagre income of FOSS developers.
‘Highly Aggressive’ Green Crabs from Canada Menace Maine’s Coast
Yubikey still saves you from a PC malware but I would suggest anyone not to store your yubikey besides your computer (or laptop bag) but to attach to your phone/keychain so it's on you all the time since it's safer that way.
Since the Eula comes with the driver, hetzner (and other hardware rentals) shouldn't be covered directly. They don't download and install the driver for you, so aren't a party of that contract in any case.
This is usually the case for this kind of thing, yes. Cheap biscuits are a really cheap bulk product while the margins on the fresh ingredients are higher, and people making their own are doing so as a hobby luxury.
You might need to wait for Flutter to mature. I presume they'll use a custom build tool instead of Gradle, and Dart as their build language instead of Apache Groovy.
"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
It's likely that all dumb phone traffic is already monitored in China (so be careful in phone conversations / text messages), but yeah, if you want your personal files kept personal don't carry them on a mobile or otherwise internet connected device.
I have a passive income of €1.5k/month without being a millionaire. Some of my friends are millionaires and we are basically equal. We all can choose to work and are free, this makes all the difference.

The main differentiator between rich people and others is the fact that rich people don't have to work. This is the biggest freedom. I figured out that I don't need to be rich to do that.
I still work, but I mainly do this because I want to. I say no to things that I don't like and I've never been employed (I'm an employer myself).

I wouldn't trade this freedom for 10-20k/month (which I could achieve, but I would have to work my a* off). Deciding what to do with your time is the ultimate freedom.

edit: I worked like this in the past (making good money and having lots of stress), but nowadays I don't see the point anymore. Even if you like your work, wouldn't you prefer to work on your own visions and on your own terms?
Yes, this is what has been defined as "Latin" Time, JFYI:

http://reboot.pro/topic/1013-h7pluginbuilder/?p=16104

and it doesn't affect only software projects.

Shouldn't apply - in theory - to Germans, but as the following post suggests about the Brandenburg airport, it may.

Empirically this rule of thumb tends to be more accurate that the better known ninety-ninety rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
FastMail looks like a good option!
You are getting it backwards. Google regards its end-users interests alright. You are just misunderstanding who the end-users are.
Can I import my Chrome passwords into FF?