skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I am being sarcastic. There may be a benefit to customers but your products will have calls to action on them to download and install an Amazon app on your phone when you’re in a retailer like Target or Best Buy. I think that’s the real reason for the transparency program.
Keep in mind that delicious had changed hands multiple times by that point. The original founders were paid when they were acquired by Yahoo, not delicious.
New York's MTA, and the general budgetary situation, is mostly mismanaged, not impossible to keep up. And New York certainly doesn't get its fair share of the tax money raised within its city limits; not from the state and not from the federal government.

Consider that Nassau County, home of the first suburbs and one of the wealthiest counties in America by median income, has been under state fiscal control since 2000 because it simply cannot balance a budget. New York City infrastructure looks downright peachy compared to Nassau's troubles.
This isn't really any different than StartPage. What I find a good search-flow is that instead of doing a !g [search] I just use !sp [search], instead. That way you don't land on Google for the search at all but you get the entire list of results and StartPage has a better stance on privacy.

Regarding DDG on general, I've been using it exclusively as my first search provider and it has ramped in quality searches at a nice clip. I find myself bouncing through to the above search-flow less and less over time and I'm now in the process of deGoogling other things.

Keep donating to those privacy focused services where you can! DDG is a prime example of showing how these services can exist without an agenda, other than customer oriented features.
> There have been a number of states that have legally mandated that there can be no more than one precollege level math course before being allowed to take college algebra.

This seems... unlikely. By "college algebra", do you mean "a group is a structure with the following properties", or "x is called a variable"?
What prevents a counterfeiter from copying the barcode?
I think there are a ton of very well-spoken arguments for why everyone, yes even those who "do nothing wrong," should care about privacy, and I would encourage you to look at those. Mostly because the people who publicly speak about this are much more eloquent than I, and have thought much more on the topic.

That said, I think it boils down to this: we all want privacy, but digital privacy is a hard problem because we are not "wired" to understand it. Humans are not good at interacting with systems with perfect memory, huge computational power, and extremely insightful statistical modeling capabilities.

This affects us differently than interacting with a person. Now, a machine can categorize you automatically based on political beliefs, religious beliefs, friend networks, conversational style, etc. This can be used to target you for (arguably unethical) influence via surgically targeted propaganda, or to retroactively mark you as a dissident in a tyrannical regime based on a comment you made off-hand years before the regime took power.

Left unchecked, these invasive tracking systems could be used for a myriad of unethical purposes. And even if you "do nothing wrong," it's important to remember that in most legal systems, it's very difficult to lead a normal life and never break any laws. Add to that the very, very long records these systems are capable of keeping on you, and I think it's clear why many people, myself included, wish to minimize our presence on platforms such as Google.
Wonder what Kymco and SanYang are doing in the electric scooter market given their dominance in some markets.
Not really surprising that sales people can sell themselves better than engineers.

Senior Directors on the other hand...
Leaked A16z data reveals how much Silicon Valley startup execs really get paid
> I am in a union.

And yet you're posting on here about administration under paying you and forcing you to teach using certain materials? Seems like that would be issues to raise with the union.

> You’ve made a lot of assumptions about me and what happens in departments.

You told us what happens. I responded to what you yourself had to say, and those are "assumptions?" Seems like a trap, you provide anecdotes then attack those that criticise your own anecdotes for making assumptions? If you didn't want to discuss your situation then why raise it? And if we don't have the full picture isn't that your fault?

> I’m guessing you aren’t employed as a faculty member at a college. I don’t know if this is the case but your assertions feel like someone who is speaking about things they peripherally understand.

Weren't you just barating me for making assumptions? Yours are wrong, very wrong. My perception is from working in a University and seeing what goes on, seeing my colleagues sell out the students for fairly measly personal gains.

> You really think this?

I've worked in academia within the US and outside of. So, yes I think this. This type of exploitative publishing doesn't gain traction in e.g. Europe not because it doesn't have benefits to professors (it does) but because they view it as immoral to push their students under a bus to gain for themselves.

> I reiterate, the forces at play are not as simplistic as you appear to think. And the solution definitely isn’t as simplistic as the one you gave.

I didn't provide a solution. I suggested that students and the public at large start criticizing the gatekeepers for this issue rather than a scapegoat. At the very least they should feel bad about their poor behaviour.
Sub-millisecond STWs.

https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
> You could run Bing (or Google for that matter) in an incognito window and get the same effect.

That is incorrect information. Generally speaking, incognito windows limit the retention of information on your computer; they do not prevent others from collecting information about you. As a simple example, Google and Bing still could track you by your IP address.

From DuckDuckGo:[0]

Think “Incognito” mode blocks Google from watching what you’re doing? Think again. Private browsing modes are marketed to make you think that if it's not in your device’s browser history, it never happened. Sadly, that couldn't be further from the truth.[1]

Or just read their article, "Is Private Browsing Really Private?"[1]

[0] https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/

[1] https://spreadprivacy.com/is-private-browsing-really-private...
Next time, please mouse over the corresponding comments time stamp, next to the authors name, and copy&paste the link into your comment. Just because it's the top comment at the time of your writing doesn't mean it's always the top comment, right?

I think you mean this one (yes, it's still the top comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098416
That's what a lot of websites do, and it's called "editorial choices".
Its a good course written by sharp people. Unfortunately the production quality rivals an 11 year old using their parents iPhone 4s and crayons. Just needed to put that out there, because it stopped me mid-course... I just couldn't anymore
Announcing launch of SmartReader – An AI-powered feedback analysis platform
Sub-1ms STW pauses, even for very large heaps.
[Deprecation] Using unescaped '#' characters in a data URI body is deprecated and will be removed in M71, around December 2018. Please use '%23' instead. See https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5656049583390720 for more details.
https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

Seems like it can go sub 1ms
I don't think the author was claiming that this is a rigorous benchmark, but I can see how it might look that way. I agree that it could have been framed a bit better, but I also don't think the author was trying to make any bold declarations.

The technical aspects of the article are interesting and well written, but only if it is not viewed as an exercise in rigorous benchmarking.

The context here was that the Rust program was a reimplementation of an existing C program, as part of an effort to learn Rust.
Putting individual stickers on items is more expensive than you’d think. And most box manufacturers are set up for printing lots of the identical box - changing those lines would be hard.
Afaik, they are only for rent and capped at 25kph (same Paris). And even those one cannot just buy as an individual I believe.

I would like to own the real deal like in Taiwan - without restrictions they can do up to 100 kph.
The funny thing is that a huge part of the world hasn't realized yet that a blockchain is in fact a p2p network with the addition of increased trust in the form of proof-of-work. If you could define work on a bug, providing a changeset, reviewing a changeset, running tests on a changeset as proof-of-work, you could actually define a development system based on a blockchain.
On this subject, if you folks haven't heard about the evolution of "mexican blood tabloids", which is so disgusting I can hardly stand it, you need to see this [please know that the irony of this statement is not lost on me - I'm not saying you need to read these tabloids, but am suggesting you need to see how this machine is working and why it evolved]:
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/622275371/working-the-night-s...
I just discovered a directory with all those 'goodies':

https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/tree/mas...

To use them you can take a look at the file and search for the term 'triggers' which should give you a hint.

Edit: Goodies seem to be just one category. The other categories can be found here: https://duck.co/ia
So what's the point of using ddg instead of google if you do this?
I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich year ago because it's spot on:

Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to
one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and
Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos,
and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made
by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

(For some reason I was downvoted -4 last time)
Yeah I also live in Texas and can confirm this. Unless your work has a shower and everything, your coworkers will hate being around you if you bike to work. And even then it’s a miserable experience.
I'm really amazed by the adoption of DDG by HN crowd. It's totally unusable for me. I can barely find stuff and I have to resort to google in 95% of cases. Do I have to relearn how to goo.. scratch that, duck duck go stuff?
Meditation -

I wouldn't say I've mastered it, but after 4+ years of study and practice including several 5-7 day retreats I can honestly say I'm far more emotionally balanced, calmer, happier, more insightful, more confident and comfortable in my own skin, better at dealing with setbacks and difficulties, ...

There's many things that call themselves meditation and as far as I can tell the majority of them are legit. I'd advocate picking one large and well established school / method and sticking with it for a few years rather than attempting a breadth-first search of the space or going into some niche branch that really just has one charismatic instructor.
it lists the discussion for me, place 16 currently. You might have accidentally hit the "hide" button.
Does that prove that every triangle has angles adding up to 180, or just that one?
It's showing up just fine for me as well:

https://i.imgur.com/ayMhwiO.png
The appearance of this is significant.

For many years, I was annoyed whenever I saw one of these “hardening” or “securing” guides (for any platform), without knowing why. But I eventually figured it out: If you have to do extra steps to your system to “harden” it or otherwise secure it, it is either a toy system not meant for production use, or it is an old system which has ossified and needs hardening because of a lack of upstream updates and maintenance. And it annoyed me because you shouldn’t be running any such systems in production anyway – “hardening” such systems is not tenable in the long run.

The fact that macOS has been neglected by Apple should not be news to anyone (earlier it was especially obvious for the Unix parts, but lately it has been all of it), but this is another sign of it.
> New York isn't so much fixing it as adapting to a long-term future with fewer, slower, less predictable trains. Their only hope is a multi-decade-scale IT project (positive train control) which is to say, they have no hope.

I think this is a gross exaggeration. New York's subway has pulled back from the precipice before; in the '70s the subway was literally falling to pieces on the ground, with routine derailments, trains running at 5MPH everywhere due to the state of the tracks, and record levels of crime. It got to the point where a triage plan suggested cutting out entire lines, including the L, which is now one of the most congested.

Today's issues can mostly be attributed to neoliberal City and State administrations (Giuliani, Pataki, Bloomberg, both Cuomos) that consistently cut MTA funding to tell a future national electorate that they balanced a budget. As a result the MTA took on debt, the interest of which is almost entirely responsible for all the fare hikes in recent memory.

Add in a near-crippling focus on safety in operations above all else, including speed, and it explains the current train unreliability.
Not to be pedantic but every country has places you can get killed for trespassing.
VIM - it makes programming more enjoyable, but I use it for other kinds of text editing as well.
> The C version was compiled with GCC 7.3.0 with -O2 level optimizations; the Rust version was compiled with 1.29.0 with --release.

Isn't rust based on LLVM?

It would make more sense, for a true apples to apples comparison, to use clang instead of GCC.

Not that I'm pro-C or anti-rust or anything but the beginning of the article goes on about previous tests not being fair.
The victors always write the history, but only a few wealthy people actually 'win' a war.

'You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake'. Jeannette Rankin
Activism work, and the research and learning about the world to try to do it better.
Ask HN: Canadians on TN visas are you worried about tomorrow's NAFTA deadline?
That's just a standard disclaimer. Has anyone actually tried it?

VW documentation says to use B5 or lower in my car, as well, and it's known to be one of the best engines ever for biodiesel. The previous owner and I have run B99 in it for years with no problems at all.

It's not much different from running Linux on your computer. Just because they don't test it that way doesn't mean it will necessarily cause problems.
While I have no doubt this paid dividends for you, I'm not convinced that the cost/benefit is greater on the whole than alternatively spending those 4 years doing real-world development. Subjective, sure, but from my perspective there are too many amazing self-taught developers and too many subpar ones with degrees to automatically justify the 4 year time and money cost for the average person (concerning skill, career prospects have their own reasoning w/ degrees of course).

One of the biggest things one learns is the ability to self-teach. Unfortunately college charges a lot of time and money to learn via their chosen methodology which doesn't fit many people. At worst it can build a dependence on teacher-pupil classroom settings to learn new approaches, hence so many training sessions and stagnation in their absence.
As a tautology, it's not that one approach is necessarily better than another, but we must remember that one approach is not necessarily better than another.
I made an an open-source, web-based bookmarking server to host my bookamrks privately.

Currently it uses sqlite, for ease of deployment.

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

Demo: (uname demo, passwd demo)

http://penrose77.cloudapp.net:3000/u:demo
They make great engines but do they make great battery and motors too? What other parts are sophisticated on a scooter? How would they compete with Chinese rivals? I live in China but have never seen anything from any manufacturer other than local ones. I've always wondered why there isn't a Honda scooter. It seems these scooters tend to weigh and ride more like bicycles (light & slow) rather than motorcycles (heavy and fast). Do they require very different design / manufacture skillsets? Some analysis on this would make interesting reading.
No criticism intended but how is git based on a merkle tree? Commits reference each others hash to build a DAG, but in a merkle tree, if I understand correctly, the non-leaf nodes are actually only having the purpose of simplifying a hash check of the underlying leaf nodes, a tradeoff between processing (checking all the hashes) and storage space (storing the non-leaf nodes additionally to the actual data). Just learned about a few days ago though, might be incorrect.
At least they seem to have more monetization options than Wikipedia, which has no ads at all.

Also, ads related to the current query can be considered personalized.
It is even more complex than that. This source code (and the compiled binaries) does not contain the PC-specific DOS code, which were supposed to be written by the OEM (in PC case that probably means IBM). In order to build bootable DOS out of this you have to link SYSINIT.OBJ and SYSIMES.OBJ and your hardware interface code into binary (on PC the result of that is IBMIO.COM for PC-DOS and IO.SYS for MS-DOS for PC) and if you want to boot from floppy you also have to provide some kind of bootloader.
I don't get it, I've been using the native equivalent "forever", aka keywords, you just get to set your own, and don't need to use ! (but you can't put them at the end, which has utility on DDG).
How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF
When can I get my privacy first @duckduckgo email address?
Bang patterns are awesome!

Tip for non-English speakers

!wen for English wikipedia if your default language is something else.
https://github.com/solid/solid - Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized Web applications based on Linked Data principles.
That's not necessarily true. They could use a classifier to figure out the subject of the query (e.g. programming, cooking, travel) and then modify the query sent to Bing or whatever backend they use. Bonus points if they actually expose this on the UI, in a way that allows you to remove the personalization

"array reverse [JavaScript x]"

"camping sites [Near Lake Tahoe x]"
The Texas model has been to keep growing to the point where the old suburbs are now practically just part of their city.

Richardson (home of Texas Instruments) is literally* just another part of downtown Dallas now. In another decade, Oklahoma City will just be the newest suburb of Dallas.

*not literally. Though also not entirely a joke.
I like the title and premise of the article, but a list of tips with no description makes this feel like the standard "Tweak Ur Registry" article. I know OP is the author so I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I think adding details would improve things.

To give specific examples, it is totally unclear why the article recommends creating an unprivileged account (the default user account is already unprivileged without entering a password for anything and it is unclear how e.g. su admin -> sudo command is any more secure than sudo command). If someone has local access to the machine and the admin password, you're toast whether you are logged in as admin or as an unprivileged user. Is the risk malicious processes? Maybe there is some specific authentication procedure somewhere in MacOS where defaulting to an unprivileged user makes sense, but the site does not describe one.

Another example: The article recommends going into Gatekeeper and making it less secure. The default option, I believe, is to only allow App Store programs to launch without complaining. So "only App Store and code signed apps" is actually the more convenient, LESS secure option. I do it immediately because I don't want to be stuck with the App Store, which is useless. But turning off a security feature for convenience isn't hardening.

Later; on second boot, turn off apps that want access to Camera/Microphone/Full Disk. This seems straightforward enough and worth doing, except the first step in this list was to format your computer and if you've been following the steps thusfar, no apps have access to Camera, Microphone, or Full Disk. If I remember correctly, after installing new applications, they need to do a system API prompt to gain access to those things.

And then the back half is mostly about replacing Google stuff with privacy-focused alternatives. Privacy and security aren't diametrically opposed, but they aren't the same thing either. Also, despite arguing to opt-out of Google things, the earlier "change your DNS" tip recommends using Google DNS. Also, while I use a VPN for certain use cases, recommending installing a commercial VPN places an enormous amount of trust in the VPN provider -- it's true that they probably have more incentive than Google to respect your privacy from a logging perspective, but from a security point of view, it would seem it would be way easier to compromise a small VPN provider and try to MITM some of their connections without detection than to do the same to a commercial ISP.

So overall I think the article could use a title change to reflect that much of the advice is not MacOS-specific; fleshing out to make clear how some of the changes actually prevent against security threats; and more thought given to whether this is an article about privacy, security, or both, and thus whether readers should be given information about cases when the two might be at odds with each other.

(You may have very good answers to all of these things, but adding them to the article would be more useful than replying with them here)
What? The goal of a PhD is to train somebody to be a researcher and collaborator. The best way to do this is to collaborate with them on research. Collaborators deserve authorship.

I understand that many labs are hierarchical with ideas solely handed down from top to bottom, but removing advisor authorship is a big step.
This is crazy!

Is this notion prevalent everywhere in US?

Shouldn't it be otherwise, like the student is hardworking and is persistent enough to get a Masters?
I think this definition is too limiting. I do agree with data collection part though.

Webcams, thermostats, bulbs, wrist watches, tv...

Basically any electronics we have used since forever without issues would now need to be connected to the internet. Mostly for zero consumer benefit.

For most of these, Ardunios and Raspberry PIs would be overkill.
Incognito it
I think you misread Tango's comment. He's not saying the asteroid rover landing is trash, quite the opposite.

@Tango: I think you're right about the inability of most consumers of US media to form intelligent opinions and discussion about such abstract events. However, I would charge the media to convey the importance of such events. On the other hand, sadly, long gone are the days of consumption of in depth aggregated (the best & richest) media and also the personal investments of time people used to make consuming such rich content. Here are the days of real housewives of 'blank' (feel free to subsitute housewives for politicians). We can [must] do better.
See also (slightly dated) https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.s...
Aliasing Artifacts and Accidental Algorithmic Art [pdf]
Hey. Fellow African here :)

What part of Africa are you in? Asking because I work at Flutterwave, flutterwave.com (a payment processing company) and we can definitely help you to process payments.
State of memory safety in Linux
Thanks for the nice guide. I wouldn’t use Google DNS as a default though, they don’t have a good record when it comes to respecting privacy.
I second this, kudos for the app!