skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if they are flooded with applications, no they won't; they can safely bet that there is another applicant with similar qualifications and more accessible OSS presence.

That is quite unlikely. You are overestimating amount of programmers with non minimal oss presence. And, if they are flooded they won't search you by name. They might maybe click on cv link.

> That's just a few different shades of "weird" as a person.

That is small price for having control, really.
The faux-progressive modern perspective is to consider ostensibly true things as literally true.
It's bad because it's by default signing you into a service you didn't ask to be signed into, and don't have an easy option of turning this off.

Sure, it doesn't automatically sync your browsing history now, but we all know change happens gradually. It's just a "feature" to be enabled later.

I've never once signed into chrome in my life (on purpose). I don't want anything synced between browsers, I like to try and limit what gets kept in the cloud, and with this change they've simply just taken the option away from the user.

Yes, I'm sure that I'm in the minority, but I'm taking this opportunity to start switching to Firefox, switching my mail provider, and am hoping to send them a GDPR request to delete all of my data.

It's not necessarily just this issue that made me do it, it's just the tipping point for me that says.. "ok, this company has gotten too big off people's data, and i no longer wish to be a part of feeding that machine"

Just my 2 cents.
Surprisingly difficult for a personal-professional email if you have a somewhat common name. Nearly everything under the main TLDs was bought up ages ago. The issue can be mitigated with some creative branding work, but that’s arguably not any easier.
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Did BPS consider applying the changes to only one or
a few high schools and their feeder schools? Perhaps
the realities of distribution of students among schools
in Boston not allow doing such a beta test?
Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12
Use unGoogled-chromium (Electron issue)
Apache/Let's Encrypt mod_md now handles “merging” of domain certificates
Assuming you deal with software, I'd guess that's because someone has committed them to a repo. It's one of the reasons Mac-based devs should always have a global .gitignore file.
Solarwinds S-1
Yes, every website now asks for consent to "use cookies" because GDPR "requires us to to ask this". These are weasel words, there is absolutely NO NEED to ask for this. The word "cookie" occurs only once in the GDPR directive text, in a list of examples of personally identifiable data, next to "IP address". Yet no site ever asks me for permission to use my ip address, somehow.

The GDPR does have a requirement to ask for consent to do things like tracking my interests/behavior on a site and sending it to marketing data companies for specificly named purposes. I have yet to find the first website that uses plain language when asking for consent, and I can't wait for the first fines to be handed out.
Haha, very funny.

Disclaimer: been running Ubuntu Studio for 10 years, and it is still the #1 music-/audio- processing system in my studio, which of course has great MacOS stuff too, but still .. UbuntuStudio .. just freakin' great audio, on Linux. Suspends just fine too.

(Clue: its jackd. I nuked pulseaudio from orbit.)
I'm not talking about ethics or business models.

I just say that pretty much every site, device and service out there violates the primary rule of the GDPR. They all store data about their users without the users consent.

One of the main points of the GDPR is that the user has to actively agree to storage of data. Making it very clear that storing can not be the default. Yet when you visit the New York Times today, they tell you:

By clicking "I Accept" or "X" on this banner,
or using our site, you consent to the use of
cookies unless you have disabled them.

In one form or another every site, service and device out there is doing exactly this. Making it the default to store data about the user.
The carbon offset for a ton of emissions was a few dollars on my last flight. How is $94 feasible? Even a tenth of that seems too high
I have an SE but holding space bar doesn’t seem to do anything..
It seems the amount of change was a large problem. Was it attempted to minimize either number of student start times changed or total delta of minutes changed? Was it discussed how this could be done incrementally to slowly move towards more optimal start times?
It's worked in the past. What other option is there?
DuckDuckGo doesn't really do it's own indexing, it's essentially just a reskin of Bing search.
What do you need to be open source? Using Codebuild, you just put a buildspec.yml file in the root directory of your source directory containing a few import statements, and a list of wildcard file specifications to tell CodeBuild what to include in your zip file artifact.

It's not like there is a lot of "vendor lock in" for a 10 line yml file.
Hacktoberfest is back and celebrating its fifth year
meat-eating robots would probably be more efficient, right?
What is (or was) the difference between signing in to Gmail in the browser, vs signing in to the browser without sync?

(You might feel that this is a tipping point but it's still not a GDPR issue as far as I can tell.)
Reminds me of those "How will I explain the results of the 2016 election to my 5 year old!!!"

... they don't care. At all.
I believe that Steve Yegge got it right in https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v... and it is all about your political leaning. Or more precisely, it is about how much ceremony you are willing to go through for some promised benefit. If you're willing to go through a lot of ceremony, you're a software conservative. If you don't see a point to the ceremony (either because it gets in your way, or you don't believe that the promised benefit is no that big), then you're a software liberal. Which you are likely to be is a combination of a function of your personality, and what kind of software you write.

It really isn't about competence. Competent programmers can fall into either camp. However there is a strong tendency for people to conclude that people who disagree with them are incompetent. As you just did. And then backed up to realize that there are good people who disagree with you.

I would also disagree with your weaker conclusion. In general bad programmers agree with whatever role-model they have most recently imprinted on. If they've picked up a Java book that talks about typing, they assume that it is right and types are worthwhile. If they pick up a PHP book, then vice versa. The current popularity of Javascript and Python mean that a lot are going to be on the dynamic side, but far from all.
I think you're misunderstanding me. I don't believe abuse is an expression of love, and certainly didn't intend for my comment to be interpreted that way. My claim was someone can abuse someone and also love them. It seems like you disagree with that statement, which is fine. I don't think we will resolve that disagreement online.
You haven't answered the question of where the money will come from. Healthcare provider organizations are generally unwilling to pay such duty fees. HL7 FHIR is great but it does nothing to address the cost structure. This is a political and economic problem, not a technical problem.
Certainly once you control for mechanisms by which discrimination is enacted some of the effects of discrimination disappear. I don't understand why people think that is exculpatory rather than explanatory, indicating which interventions might effectively address the discrimination.
They probably registered the name very early in their corporate life. At some point, they had a real business, and a business critical domain name, but they didn't realize they needed to do something different. My CEO registered our business names at network solutions, sigh.

Anyway, as a wakeup call -- if you have a business critical domain name, you need to find (and use) a registrar that has a registry lock procedure for the TLD you're in. A registry lock means the registry won't process changes from your registrar unless you authorize them, which makes it a lot harder to change things on purpose, or by an attacker. I imagine abuse takedowns could still go through though -- but there will at least be more people who know you care about your domain.
Don't create the content if you have such poor ethics and imagination that violating people left right and center is the only way you can sustain yourself. How many people even realize the extent and repurcussions of the information you are taking from them?
Is there an "explain like I'm 5" intro to FIDO2 that explains how FIDO2 as the single factor is more secure than the user entering username (not password) and then using a CTAP1 token? (Also, how do you log in to multiple accounts on the same service with FIDO2?)

How many usernames can a Yubikey 5 remember in the FIDO2 mode? CTAP1 requires no storage beyond a token-wide counter.
"Because the experience is so nice."

If the experience is "so nice" why are so many people outraged? The data suggests this is a terrible experience to look up and suddenly see you've been auto-logged into a browser without your consent. Terrible UX.
Do you mind dumbing this down a bit for me? What you wrote has gone completely over my head here. What is "faux-progressive modern" and what is the thing being considered true even if it's only "ostensibly true"?
Yes, there's a long list of options:

https://imgur.com/a/qsM0LGZ
Wait a sec... My gaming PC (2x AMD R9 290X, 8 GB video memory) is absolutely awful with a lot of (esp. Ubisoft) games like Assassins Creed or Watch_Dogs. I just assumed the games weren't optimized for AMD hardware. That is based partly off the Nvidia logos that are shown during startup and in the graphical settings menu.

There's also graphical issues at high resolutions. I've been planning on buying an Nvidia GPU so I can actually play games at a decent frame rate.

Are you telling me part (or all?) of the problem is bad drivers? I got the drivers from Windows Update rather than from AMD so they would just update themselves and be the correct ones.
Solving the genome puzzle – about the UK rare disease initiative
Guess what - the old Internet created plenty of content for free, without incentive of monetization, yet people still did it. The Web has suffered greatly as a result of the bullshit mindset that just because you put something online, you are entitled to make money for it.
I've got about 80k messages total across two mail accounts, and it works fine. Scrolling through it takes time, but everything else is fine. Searching, filtering, sorting and switching mailboxes are not instantaneous, but reasonably fast. Certainly not unwieldy.
Poland Package Forwarding Launches International Package Forwarding Service
> It's a lot easier to maintain web servers if they are only using the http protocol and not https. Does that mean I should not enable https?

I think that's a totally different issue and I think it's harmful to this discussion to bring such an issue in.

The case of http vs https is not one of user security vs user convenience; it's user security vs sysadmin convenience.

There's a different tradeoff with giving user's more security which is less convenient for you to maintain, and you typically should do this (this is stuff like https, supporting 2fa, etc).

The better comparison is sharing data with third parties to provide users conveniences. This is a comparison between user's data security and user's convenience. That's the tradeoff being discussed.

Bringing in unrelated things like http vs https will only serve to muddy the waters and damage your point.
> For generic Europeans wanting to invest in stock market you don't have much choice. There are couple of archaic and/or dodgy brokers with shitty apps (or no apps at all, just some bad websites built decade ago an never upgraded).

What's wrong with Degiro[1], founded in 2013, and available in 18 European countries?

[1] https://www.degiro.eu/
Why would it violate GDPR? Logging IPs, especially short-term, is pretty easy to justify
I feel Sarah Bagley, a Lowell factory worker, wrote essentially the definitive answer to this line of argument in the 19th Century:

> Whenever I raise the point that it is immoral to shut us up in a close room twelve hours a day in the most monotonous and tedious of employment, I am told that we have come to the mills voluntarily and we can leave when we will. Voluntary! Let us look a little at this remarkable form of human freedom. Do we from mere choice leave our fathers’ dwellings, the firesides where all of our friends, where too our earliest and fondest recollections cluster, for the factory and the Corporations boarding house? By what charm do these great companies immure human creatures in the bloom of youth and first glow of life within their mills, away from their homes and kindred? A slave too goes voluntarily to his task, but his will is in some manner quickened by the whip of the overseer.

> The whip which brings us to Lowell is NECESSITY. We must have money; a father’s debts are to be paid, an aged mother to be sup- ported, a brother’s ambition to be aided, and so the factories are supplied. Is this to act from free will? When a man is starving he is compelled to pay his neighbor, who happens to have bread, the most exorbitant price for it, and his neighbor may appease his conscience, if conscience he chance to have, by the reflection that it is altogether a voluntary bargain. Is any one such a fool as to suppose that out of six thousand factory girls of Lowell, sixty would be there if they could help it? Everybody knows that it is necessity alone, in some form or other, that takes us to Lowell and keeps us there. Is this freedom? To my mind it is slavery quite as really as any in Turkey or Carolina. It matters little as to the fact of slavery, whether the slave be compelled to his task by the whip of the over- seer or the wages of the Lowell Corporation. In either case it is not free will, leading the laborer to work, but an outward necessity that puts free will out of the question.
Lehman crisis-10 years later
Thus, another maxim: It doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you've got a User, the computer is doing the work, and as long as the computer is doing work for someone, there is a User.

Alas, which leads to this: Programmers are often the worst kind of User.
Thanks for the info.

>As for data modeling, I found that inheritance isn't such a useful tool in practice.

True. It can lock you into a particular style and hierarchy. Plus, inheritance just to inherit the methods of the superclass seems like overkill or sometimes might be a wrong approach. Personally I think composition can often be more flexible than inheritance.
How is it not? I remember being bombarded with news along the lines of 'New Firefox is blazingly fast!'. Which one is that? How do I get a version that has the new engine?
Generally it isn't the content creators doing this. It's the ad companies, as content creators are busy creating content and not advertising schemes. What is needed is ethical ad monitization choices.
How is regulation to protect people from being taken advantage of by malicious data-mining practices "worse" than the actual practice of maliciously mining data to rip people off?
Super late edit: apparently they dropped Bannon's show back in January and I didn't notice. Phew.
Man, a "DJB custom search engine" would probably be amazeballs. You would submit queries via an environment variable with additional data on FD6 and get data back 1024 chars at a time, prefixed in TAI64N, and IPv6 sites would be completely banned.

I'd use the F- out of that.
This remember me of a game a friend and me buy from a store. I don't remember the name.

We try to play it for hours. We die at every step.

Only the character was visible. All the rest was pitch black.

We die a lot.

Eventually, memorizing each die pattern, we found a tiny bit of light on the background.

Then, I increase the monitor bright. What idiots!
These are the figures from 2015 [1] Subway/bus fares are $2.75 each way (obviously lower with a monthly pass) which covers about 30% of the total so the cost per rider is ~$8 per trip. The overall figures include commuter rail but I'm just assuming that doesn't change the percentage covered by fares all that much. The MBTA carries about 1 million riders per weekday.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/02/how-mbta-makes-...
The NSA revelations shown that governments are doing mass surveillance for real and it is not just a nonsense conspiracy. Right now maybe only ver few might get affected by this. But if in the future the people in power use that information against you or your people you will regret it to exchange your privacy for convenience.
More accurately said, Ms. Ehmke is the creator both of the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto site, and of the CoC adopted by the Linux kernel project.

Far more is being made of this situation than seems merited by the facts. That it's easy to do I recognize, but that ease is no excuse.
Hugo 0.49: Directory Based Archetypes
Interstate upgrade includes a plan for automated trucks for Foxconn
Definitely taking care of the elderly is a huge problem we don't have a good solution for, but the technology is a long ways from being able to do that safely.
Only works on iOS 12.
Where your analogy breaks down is that the company is a spin-out of a hospital lab. This is usually encouraged by academic institutions. For example, at my university, if I develop an algorithm that I want to commercialize then they might encourage me to found a startup. Then, they could take equity in the startup or give an exclusive license to the patent (where I am the inventor) to my startup. Many academic institutions encourage these activities to get research out of academic papers to create products with real world benefit.
The engagement of the MIT team is interesting, but this reads to me like a classic failure of a "big-bang" rollout, rather than a gradual adoption. Was there any back and forth to create a slower-paced rollout plan?
SQL Server 2019 Released
There's a lot of stuff in this space that hasn't been done yet, but that's for a very good reason. First of all, it doesn't pass the toothbrush test: it's the type of thing that's super valuable the first time you visit but you don't really need to come back to it over and over.

Second big problem: SEO. Search engines like long form written content, they don't know how to value tools that slice and dice data: they simply don't see any value in it and you'll never get SEO from it.
> I would disclose and recuse myself from any such decision.

Disclosure is the key. As long as the people making the decision and cutting the check (investors, board, and officers) are aware of the conflict of interest, they can choose what your involvement should be.

For example, if you hire an AI expert as a consultant on evaluating AI companies, it may be with the explicit intent to buy the company for which he works as well as evaluate other companies in the space. This is one way to check people out before making an even bigger commitment.

In certain fields, there are so few "experts" that there may be no possibility of avoiding a conflict of interest because everybody is interconnected.
Sridhar Sir, having met you twice and argued with you, I am expecting a domain registrar coming from Zoho stable.
> why are so many people outraged?

Whenever you think that many people are outraged and someone else claims that it's not the case, the logical conclusion is that you or both of you are in bubbles.

Is it possible that you, a hacker news poster, are in a bubble whereby you've heard the opinion of tech-savy people, but not the opinion of the average mom who doesn't even realize the auto-login is the reason her android phone is now suggesting browser history from her desktop?
Saying "just use common sense" is very pat and appealing in cases where we have direct apprehension about the domain in question- such as in plane geometry- but in cases where we have no direct access to a question aside from experiment and abstract reasoning (such as deep history or physics,) how do you distinguish "common sense" from simple conservatism?

I'd imagine there's plenty of possible reasons pre-Clovis Americans wouldn't have been as numerous or left as much evidence as Clovis-people did; most obviously, that the continent was much colder, and therefore supportive of much smaller populations, than it was in the Clovis culture era- particularly in the northern regions, where it's often objected that they "should" have left remains. Obviously, this isn't an argument that there were pre-Clovis settlers, but an example of why the idea can't be objected out-of-hand through "common sense."
I think he makes an assumption that is fundamentally incorrect in the vast majority of cases: that the people owning the programs care about specification.

There is a huge, dark-matter body of software development that goes on in the world under the thumb of megalomaniacs whose only metric of productivity is how much unpaid overtime his programmers are working.
PPACA is the incremental change. There wasn't the political capital to effectively destroy the health insurance industry by leaving only VIP insurance (really it's not insurance, it's a "pay extra to cut in front of the line" product).

Democrats apparently didn't have the votes to even make Medicare or Medicaid an optional buy-in, to compete with marketplace insurance. This in particular is necessary in a huge land area of the U.S. where there's only one or two insurance providers.
users, and their generated data along with the potential to monetize whatever service they are consuming, is the new "revenue"

they can also integrate the tech to be more competitive, or they can shut the service (currently a competitor) down and hope to pick up a portion of those listeners
In what culture calling someone a fucking inbred imbecile would be considered polite?
Do you want a robot apocalypse? Because this is how we get a robot apocalypse.
The registrar maintains the records that specify which nameservers, i.e. DNS servers, will resolve names for that domain. The registrar simply changes that record to point to nameservers that they operate, and with DNS entries that “take it offline”.
Hey Bob, I super love this series. Everyone I know who's into PL likes it, so great work :)

A little thing in your section about the different UTFs: I've heard UTF-16 is a lot better than UTF-8 for East Asian languages because pretty much all those codepoints are multibyte. I don't _necessarily_ think anything you wrote was invalid, but just FYI.
The cookie law predates GDPR by quite a bit doesn't it?
I think you need to rethink who's entitled here.
Your assumption that they generate more revenue is sexist and incorrect. In 2015, when the complaint was made, the women's team raised more revenue than the men's team: https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016/04/06/uswnt-us-soccer-...

(The reason is simple: the men's team sucks, while the women's is one of the best in the world and is the only reason why the US has ever won a World Cup. The revenue discrepancy would be even more, of course, if both World Cups received equal rewards for winning.)

You are probably correct, though, that sexist assumptions like yours are why they are paid less. You aren't helping your case about how we should assume the best of the people speaking out in support of discrimination, though.
Right, that’s why I specifically said “monetary incentive”. There will always be non-monetary reasons to create content.

Are you proposing that trying to make money using the internet is morally wrong? Or just that collecting user data is wrong? Or that collecting data without consent and a clear explanation is wrong? Because if the line is drawn at the latter, then that’s what GDPR is for, and so I don’t understand why people would be upset about having to click through a bunch of notices that try to make it clear how user data is being used.