skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes TOS is forced. Imagine living in an area with only a single ISP. You can technically forego internet access, but for most people that is not a realistic option.

But even in the case of Amazon, TOS is forced on you in the sense that you have no way of negotiating it. It is not a meeting of the minds; they write it and you sign it, often without even reading it. This is not the assumption with which contract law was written.
I totally get how people can support these leaders, and how they can look good from the inside. What I don’t get is taking a really bad one and, long after it became obvious he was horrible in every way, saying that he was good until he went crazy. (Edit: more accurately, I understand how a person can do that, but not without being a sympathizer or at the very least an apologist.) What I really don’t get is taking that and saying that the notion that he and his party were pure evil from the start was a retcon by the victors.
Popular file encryption software Fort, and the future of the project
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I use DDG on my phone, still Google on my desktop.

While there are a lot of things to like about DDG, the searches are still pretty rubbish.

What's worst about DDG is that it is absolutely useless at location searches.

The one that really bugs me is "Nottingham Weather". Location set to UK, yet it returns the weather for White March, MD

Nottingham, population 700,000, but somehow a road in White Marsh, MD, America, population 9,513, is the result it shows.

If I'm searching a venue, pub, club, etc. with United Kingdom set, it usually returns US bars or venues with the same name.

Anything technical Google is also much better at filtering the dross and returning something meaningful, though that might be because it's learnt the programming languages, etc. I use.
Exactly! Looks like the 'deliberately take umbrage over a specific interpretation of what you've written' crew have arrived. Clearly I didn't mean 3D or audio apps aren't real world problems, I meant I can solve (some) real world problems with Python.
Is there a way to exclude results that don't actually contain all of the search terms? For example, results for +chicken +neutrino should not include this [1] because the word chicken isn't there. Quotes and plus signs both fail this everywhere I know of in 2018.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/once-again-physicist...
Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill Road
I see your point, but isn't that a problem for any enforcement scheme? Unless Amazon is going to invest the energy of their own employees into determining what is fake and what isn't, the best you can do is rely on the signal you get from customers when they return items (legitimately or not).
I have been the the complete abyss of creating muscular skeletal issues for myself. If you really don't want to mess around I think swimming is the way to go. Couple with curcumin / boswellia / magnesium to take the edge off. If you really nail down the exercise / nutrition etc you can slowly but surely reverse these varieties of problems (personal experience)
What is the best way to learn typing well? Any particular app?

Also, what is the criteria - speed / accuracy?
As we, on HN, were song for the ride to done extent I got the impression that Weinberg (sp?) was doing it for idealistic reasons rather than having a business model to start with.

Anyone know what headcount they're working with now?
> I expect they're working on AI tech which can read the whole web and directly answer your questions rather than having to use an extract of a webpage at all.

GDELT
searx or startpage are search engines that show google results so you could try them as a fall back before you finally try google. !searx and !sp are the bangs you can put anywhere in the DuckDuckGo query

for maps, im really liking maps.me on mobile (its called "maps" in the fdroid store). its a good simple app that lets you add bookmarks and group them in folders, and its good for navigation since it has a 3d view.
osmAnd is another great app but its more of a poweruser app that does a lot of things so there is a lot going on in the UI.

i switched to protonVPN last year from PIA and im especially glad after seeing the smear campaign PIA were part of a few months ago where they were trying to stir up rumours about other VPN services. (one of them forget to remove their google account profile picture from one of the screenshots and was caught out that way).
they provide a good service but whether you want to give your money to a shady company like that is up to you

i use resilio sync myself. syncthing is open source so is probably the better choice for privacy, but im not in any rush to switch since nothing is being stored online.

i have a few GBs of files on backblaze but havnt really started using it yet. is there anything shady about backblaze that i dont know about or are you just keeping things offline just to be safe?
Counter for how many times the barcode had been checked.
> Keep donating to those privacy focused services where you can!

As good a moment as any to publicly express gratitude to the donations DDG has provide to us (Terms of Service; Didn't Read) and several other privacy-focused projects, which has been of great help.
They could toss a couple up into orbit and scan the whole earth...maybe?
Maybe I am just naive, but this all seems terrible. There are paragraphs of ideology everywhere for every aspect of this and nothing boils down to any understandable description of what engineering mechanisms I can use or how it solves the problems laid out.

I really want to like this, but if I spend 15 minutes clicking the guides, the “build a solid app on your lunch break” link, and going all over the site, and I still don’t have the foggiest idea of the actual engineering mechanisms, something is wrong.

It is hard for me to believe some consortium of really knowledgeable web architects and inventors made this. It feels like a PR website with attractive purple colors to make me feel cozy. But I want to know really how it works!
It doesn't seem like a very good system. Counterfeiters will simply buy a real batch of products, and then copy each T-code onto their counterfeits 1000 times, then resell both the real and the counterfeit.
In all honesty, it's a great design. I think people will be a bit confused as to what position you're applying to. If you were in UX, or Graphic Design it's well and good -almost a requirement to have as such. I'd recommend also creating a bland and boring Time New Roman formatted resume just in case, for everything else.
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

That's not correct. The first account created is an Admin account. It has more privileges than a Standard account.

Try the following in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 as a Standard account then again as an Admin account. Open a terminal shell, and:

cd /Applications
touch fubar

That will succeed in one of the accounts and fail with

Permission denied

in the other account. It is left as an exercise for the user to figure out which is which. :)
This sounds like Blockstack. They've been in production with this for at least a year now.
“draw an arbitrary triangle” means this works with any triangle.
Still use google for “150 usd to cad” conversions. Use it for translation. Use it for relevant news. Use it for accurate localized searches. Use it for finding relevant sourcing of companies. Calling DuckDuckGo a replacement of google is no where near right. Bing is more relevant. And people seem to hate on Bing. The only reason people love DuckDuckGo is because of the perceived privacy. But the NSA blows that right away.
The restriction must be on the hardware part of the development kit. I don't see how they could forbid anybody to copy the software.
That is your fault for not making the right contract. If it is really important that they stick around for more than a year, it has to be in the contract, with penalties if they quit earlier.
>These evolutionary computer systems may almost appear to demonstrate a kind of sentience as they dispense graceful solutions to complex problems.

Stanislaw Lem wrote about this in Summa Technologiae. He looked at evolution as an alternative way to acquire knowledge (alternative to intelligence). Interestingly, this implies there could be other ways too. But the point is, he postulated that both are examples of the same class of phenomena, which is a fascinating way to look at it.

(He did write about artificial evolution as well. And simulation. In 1964. That book aged extremely well and is full of interesting ideas.)
Please change "solid" to "Solid" (note capital) in the title.
The problem is that sometimes the ideas flow from bottom to top while the credit is top to bottom.
Ikea do their own Eneloops actually.

> the cheap LADDA rechargeables that Ikea sells might actually be rolling off the same production line as Panasonic’s pricier Eneloop Pro batteries.

https://gizmodo.com/are-ikeas-7-rechargeable-batteries-actua...
applications :(

Does anyone else feel nostalgia for the pre-"web app" days of the internet? I'm talking about personal sites on Geocities and web rings built on communities of shared interest.

The browser was an application for navigating hyperlinked information. Other applications include email clients, news readers, FTP clients, and IRC clients. You never had to download a megabyte of minified JavaScript just to read a 500-word article; you never would, since it took about ten minutes to download a megabyte on a blazingly fast 14.4 modem.
Yes, but make 5 fakes with each real product barcode, then intermingle them, and there will still be no way to seperate the real ones from the fakes.
Ask HN: How secure is Protonmail really?
... and should I move my custom domain over to it for email?
Can we even understand what the responses of a neuron ‘represent’?
Weight is also a factor. You can fold and carry a electric scooter into your office and store it next to your desk. You can't do that with a gas scooter, the lightest ones are about 220 lbs.
Seconding swimming, just make sure you have good form. Also, if you’re having musculoskeletal issues, maybe pick a couple different activities and do them in rotation. Diversity in workouts is good if your objective is to stay healthy/generally strong as opposed to having a particular physique or because you want to excel at a sport.
Give me a good reason why defaults chosen by a macOS user would be more secure than those chosen by a security team working full time on developing the system.

This article isn't even that bad if you are willing to make your system less practical, but even here you are potentially making your system less secure as suggested in some other comments.
Wouldn't that be travel to the future? Just experience right now.
> But the NSA blows that right away.

Can you elaborate on this?
The way I read it, it’s not on every save, but on every time you try running the tests.
I suppose the only way it could have been prevented would be knowing in advance what would happen in case of contact, having the self restraint to not allow any intrusion and to spread vaccines. Ie. having our current technology.

But really it seems like it would have happened whenever American population centers contacted more than a dozen Eurasians.
Well, one of the features my own news platform had was a giant banner saying any influences behind the piece (like the presence of review copies, personal relationships with sources, etc), with the rule being that the platform would ban those who lied. So I guess that's like the flip side of this idea.

But the issue is that regardless of what you do, controversy and biases will creep in for all kinds of reasons. Even if the company doesn't gain anything, the writer/creator likely gains from their work being heavily shared...
It’s also far slower to resolve queries and returning information. Doesn’t work without JavaScript. Needs !g for a lot of things. Wish it could be a google replacement but traffic or not. It ain’t.
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I'd think the concerns in such a system would be the authentication of students, and having their transcripts online and secured. You likely already have some of that in place, so extending existing systems might make more sense than pushing confidential student data into a new platform.

Do you have the software support in your organization to look into something like that? If not, I may be willing to help out - I'm leaving the corporate world in a week or two, thinking about starting a non-profit software organization to solve problems like this for other non-profits, education, etc. And I would need some initial projects to work on to get that idea rolling. My email is in my profile if that sounds interesting.
One would think that after a few years of working on this he'd have built a place to post content using it.

EDIT: at least there's the original outside medium on their project page, but seems like just a static squarespace page: https://www.inrupt.com/blog/one-small-step-for-the-web
It's basically turned all the world's media into the equivalent of a tabloid. Things like the Daily Mail and the Sun and the Daily Star were doing this sort of thing way before the internet ever existed, and now the ad model has basically turned their style of reporting into the only way to make money.
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To do that, for every 5 fakes you make you need to buy 1 genuine product - to copy the code from it. That's not profitable this way.
Precrastination: The fierce urgency of now
If you're a vi user, edit ~/.inputrc and add:

set editing-mode vi
set keymap vi-command

This changes readline behavior from emacs to vi. This, along with "set -o vi" in bash, are really handy (though can be frustrating for others if you ever share a keyboard pair programming).
Learning English. It allowed me to work as a remote developer. I earn a lot more than senior developers who work locally.
The servers used to return your results most likely made with intel hardware (known backdoors or open holes). Sophisticated, even mind blowing levels of encryption breaking and penetration. If you think your data is encrypted online, or that it can’t be traced at every step. You’re wrong. There is no privacy on the internet. The best privacy we all have is the power button.

Then you walk outside and facial recognition takes over.

Privacy is dead.
Avoiding “holey” lines is in fact is what the Knuth-Plass algorithm tries to do, and in general it results in “tighter” (less whitespace) paragraphs than alternative algorithms (those that look at only one line at a time). If you'd like even less space, you can just set a smaller “ideal” width of a space — if you have an example of a paragraph (and font, and line width) for which you think the spacing is not optimal, I can show you what I mean.
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It's just a quick way for the user to also try Google. I usually do search in DDG (default search) if I don't get good results I append !g to get results. Most often though Google doesn't give me much better results.
https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works

Ok, I like it. Throw in some homomorphic encryption in the future, and maybe we can reverse all this SaaSS nonsense of today.

I love the data stays owned by the user. It's how it should be. I hope the system has some provisions against applications encrypting the data on on user's POD.
Discipline is learning how to want to do something, not how to make yourself do something.
In the United States college algebra is a course that covers things like the quadratic formula, solving basic exponential equations and things like that.
Trees before forest, much? No bridge age stats needed, here. Corruption:

"In the late 1990s, corrosion and other problems with the easternmost of the three towers on the Genoa bridge became serious enough that their supports were given a similar refurbishment.

...

For reasons it has not fully explained, Autostrade, which took over management of the bridge in 1999, did not carry out the same operation on the supports of the other two towers — including the tower that collapsed.

...

Autostrade won the concession to run nearly half of Italy’s highways from a cash-strapped Italian government, starting in 1999. After that, there were no major renovations of the Morandi bridge.

...

But their far-right partner in the coalition, the League, led by the deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, has been more cautious.

The party, when it was still named the Northern League, received a 150,000-euro donation from Autostrade, which has given to other political parties as well.

In 2008, Mr. Salvini and his Northern League voted in Parliament in favor of renewing the license to Autostrade."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/06/world/europe/...
> I was trying to edit the full hsk1-6 flashcard set to just show hsk5.

> But I didn't manage to find the right tools.

This is by far the worst part of those decks (which I am also using). You are literally encouraged to just browse the cards and delete the levels that you're not using. It's really not user friendly.
That is simply not true. The $1.5B is cost spent to get a single drug approved and includes cost of failure, i.e. Spend on drugs that end up not getting approved. The data that supports this comes from a sampling of pharma company r&d spend

The NIH funds about $30B in research each year, NSF about $7B. The top 15 pharma companies spend ~$70B on r&d a year. VCs invest $10-15B / year as of the last few years. Globally all pharma companies spend over $200B on r&d
Google Launches Fresh IT Course for Americans, Access to Jobs and Scholarships
Seems like a better marketed, but less-technically well thought out version of Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io). Perhaps they should have acquired the IP from Kenton Varda.
> It would be monopolistic behavior when done by major companies

Right. And when done by non-monopolies, we call it "competition".

What if I made a color picker that competes with your other HN-person-color-picker? How does that work? If my color picker gets a search engine feature, am I unfairly intercepting traffic from DDG?
I'm not sure about FlatPaks, but at least Snaps have a "classic" confinement mode which removes all restrictions: https://docs.snapcraft.io/reference/confinement

(Also: a Snap would be great!)
Yeah that's true but I disagree it's a good idea. Most AAA shops still use non-GC languages because they need the full control/cannot waste ms on random GC pass.
macOS is pretty secure by default but there are some extra steps you can take towards improving on that regard, Apple itself has a bunch of very basic steps listed here: https://help.apple.com/machelp/mac/10.12/index.html#/mh11389
But you'd have to try an infinite number of triangles before you were convinced that it worked for all of them.
Great! I'd love to talk more. I don't see your email posted in your profile though.

Email me: ivandequesada@gmail.com
Tesla big battery defies skeptics
Because the rider may not have the Uber app installed, or be associated with the trip in any way according to Uber's systems.
your screenshot is from "Hacker News" - I'm referring to hckrnews(.com). I checked again and added a screen shot to me initial post.
Should I care about free speech if I have nothing controversial to say?
I assume you are also referring to "Hacker News" - I mean hckrnews(.com)
You can go to the SEC EDGAR website and search for 10-K filings for large pharma companies -- Roche, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck etc. they summarize their financials including r&d spend. Most big pharma companies spend $5-12B / year on r&d and it can take 10 years to get approval
You're right that somehow pre-war Wehrmacht has got a reputation as being something they were very much not - efficient and high tech. It was only 80% of German artillery that was horse drawn or more accurately only partially motorised at the outbreak of war. German infantry was entirely on foot (and frequently commandeered or stole bicycles). More importantly, Wehrmacht supply and logistics were woefully lacking mechanisation. The highly mechanised blitzkrieg was certainly partially PR, but was also a reaction the fact that the army was so poorly equipped in 39. They focused mechanisation on achieving full mechanisation rather than spreading it "fairly" across regiments. The had a small number of completely mechanised regiments, with fully modern equipment, and "the rest".

Still, you can't escape the fact blitzkrieg was also effective. It was effective as tactics had not evolved far from WW1 trench warfare. It was but a very small part of the military whole.

There were lots of shortcomings in the German war machine - for example, they never developed a successful 4 engine bomber severely limiting the bomb loads they could send, and range.

As to holocaust, my UK history lessons, before this mini series was made, and books referred to "the holocaust" as the main term, occasionally referring to the Nazi term "the final solution".
It’s non free, but italki.com may suit your needs.
Do most laptops that people currently get to run Linux, like the Dell XPS or the Thinkpad X1 have a touchpad that support multi-finger-gestures that could be configured with this? If I ever were to switch from a MacBook to a Linux machine, I’d definitely be very interested in having the equivalent of BetterTouchTool for custom gestures in applications (assuming the hardware supports it)
On my own domain where I've set up a mail server, I've never received that much spam. I have the impression that people are more civilized now than in the late 2000s with respect to emails. In my case at least, unsubscribe links work reasonably well.
Why disable the captive portal detection? Is macOS detecting MITMing for you bad?
Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
The power and domination can not accept critics. All big companies are involved in war communication on their own activities.
FB just reacts as Monsanto or Texaco/Chevron do with all possible means.
I think I am among the winners. I would not exist had nazi won and implemented their plan.
The comment I was responding to was implying that coupons were an outdated marketing strategy. I was saying that I think it can help companies achieve higher margins by selling at higher prices to wealthier customers, while still achieving sales at lower (but still profitable) prices with less wealthy customers.

I wasn't making any comment on the social good of price discrimination. I agree with you that some pricing strategies (buying in bulk, buying without loans/interest, rewards cards, etc) may tend to reward the wealthy. But that wasn't related to the point I was trying to make. I was trying to say that coupons seem like they could still be a useful marketing strategy for improving companies average margins per sale.
I disagree with you, nevertheless I upvoted you.

It's so galling that legit opinions, which are well presented are trashed, just because they go against the direction of the polit bureau.
That page doesn't explain how it works at all :(
Thanks for your feedback!

I agree with your points and I updated the post so.
> Maybe I am just naive, but this all seems terrible.

I do have most respect for TBH and I would consider everything he thinks and writes about, but this does not sound too good to me either.

The idea of linked data and semantic web has been around for almost two decades now and I have yet to see an application, technique or site that amazes me. On the contrary, most of the things in this space I have seen are bloated, unusable or simply unnecessary - whereas every paper sounds like revolution is around the corner. In that combination, it is the worst of both worlds: academic output, that claims practicality and fails to deliver.

Peter Norvig put it best, when he said: "The semantic web is the future of the web and always will be."

A recent discussion touches upon a few problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18023408.