skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is significant room for private policing in this space.

This past Saturday I went for my run at approximately 9:45AM, on my run I got a text from my bank of suspicious activity on both my credit and debit card for a total of $1,000. When I got back to my car it all made sense as my passenger window was smashed and my “run bag” with my keys and wallet stolen.

By the time I the cops got there for the report, I spoke to the bank located the time/store (footlocker) the cards were used, I had spoken with the store manager and confirmed 2 men used multiple cards that were declined and confirmed the store had video but the request must be made through HQ.

The cops dont follow up on this and request the video and footlocker won’t give it to me. I know I could go to the store and grease the wheel to get a copy of the video (which I may do). It’s so crazy because no one care more than the victim of crimes to see the criminals face justice, and the technology is in place for things like stolen credit cards or stolen phones but then corporate America gets in the way.

I’d love to have a public platform where victims of crimes could force corporations to playall and publish the facts of these cases and crowdsource the identity of the criminals. Any advice?
Windows 2000 and Windows 7. Those were the most polished versions, IMO.

Even though Windows 10 is technically better, the unpredictable experience brought about by the update system is a step backwards.
Sorry, I copy pasted without double checking. Now fixed!
> No == vs ===, although typeof has a simpler equivalent

Sure, but elm has its own issues with comparison as these are essentially implemented as a compiler hack, and only comparable (ie primitive or lists/tulles thereof) types can be used as keys for the built in map type (so you need to know about primitive types too)
Ugh, the touchpad. You’re right about that, and I’ve forgotten about it because my current work-issued ThinkPad spends almost 100% of its time on a dock.

Maybe the Surface is my next machine. Who knows what will be out there when I finally have to let this laptop go.
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Probably in Ireland. It seems to me that (aka: I have no data) the vast majority of Irish use an iPhone.

The carriers have iPhones at roughly the same price as a half-decent Android phone, and those that can't afford to do that, get them second hand (usually older models..).

I have an Android, and I know several techie friends with Androids, but "normal people" have iPhones.

Really - It's almost a surprise to see someone with an Android here..
So you mean the discount is for the hardware under the assumption that the users will consent, not actually direct compensation for sending data to the police?
There's no fee, and no need to submit any code.

The entire approval process is documented on our website: https://opensource.org/approval
Are we sure it isn't the other way around? You will be able to pay for permission to NOT install Google apps?
So by me saying that the term might be interpreted differently by different people - since it can't be owned by anyone now that it's in wide use (and hence implying there's different opinions out there) you assume that I fail to see there's a multitude of different opinions on the matter? That's exactly the point I was making.
Thanks for the link and your opinion!
What am I missing here? Google isn't changing the data they gather via their apps. They're adding a $ cost for access to it.

You're basically paying twice - with your more expensive Android devices, and Google's regular data tracking. This is bad for Europe
I remember I had to go through a couple of hoops with outlook.com and gmail(?) using some un-/under-documented web sites to get "approved" (sending a mail, getting a reply, typing reply in web form).

And in my experience the major services have unpredictable spam filter behavior.

I even saw Google being cute and assuming mail in Japanese was spam - because my profile is western.

So yeah. If your goal is 100% (not high 90s) deliverability - including the odd big attachement or foreign encoding mail - it's not trivial.

Thankfully I don't care that much if a recepient at Gmail or outlook don't get my mail;it's their fault. If it's a problem the recipient should move to a more reliable mail provider.

It's obviously not as easy for commercial/work mail...
Flip phones, like the Startac.
Fitbit bought Pebble just to kill it. I will never buy a fitbit.
Gmail, not so much. The Play store and Google Mobile Services are the critical ecosystem pieces.
> Our policy pages are clear on why we ban licenses, even things like AGPL. You'll note they are not economic concerns (IE google won't be able to monetize), but compliance ones.

AGPL compliance wouldn't be that difficult if you remove making money from the equation. So indirectly your compliance concerns are based on economic concerns.
Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain = Passive Income (Forever?)
Did you base the habit-building in the app around any particular methodology or research? Or, is it just any replacement is good replacement?

I'm not sure if there's a golden rule to helping those with addiction; I'm just glad that developers are exploring this arena.
nobody including me on this thread has read this article, welcome to HN.
I take it the datastore change is just an api change? (There isn't any data migration needed, is there?)

It looks like memcache is moving to a third-party service now instead of a built-in api. Is performance different? Does anyone have experience with this?
Like google probably wipe and maybe shred. I thought they were all shredded but it turns out they do sell decommissioned drives if they can be verified as 100% wiped.

Google actually recently upgraded to using a robotic arm to manage the wiping and shredding of drives. [0]

[0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/robots-n...
This looks great, I'd love to have a local backup of saved documents. Currently I'm using pocket which I love because it's so easy to share a document from any of my different devices (personal laptop, mobile phone, work laptop). However I'm worried about the service going away or any of the "desktop version" of the links going stale (pocket's rendering isn't always perfect). Any thoughts about support for pulling from Pocket as a data source? Pocket has an API you could hit, find any new links, and download them.
OSI seems to recognize they don't own the term. https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
> I’d love to have a public platform where victims of crimes could force corporations to playall and publish the facts of these cases and crowdsource the identity of the criminals. Any advice?

I believe you're thinking of the "discovery" phase of a lawsuit.
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This seems like FUD to me.

While OSI may have coined the term "open source" as a reaction to the word "free software" in the past, it did not invent the idea of free software. Rather, the term open source was a reaction to the desire for commerical enterprises to avoid saying software was free.

Now it rejects the same argument from developers of software to make a profit, which I find ironic relative to the founding mission.

Previously, Commons Clause was called out in aggressive terms in twitter, rather than seeking to understand the underlying rationale.

Some of my thoughts:

https://medium.com/@michaeldehaan/why-open-source-needs-new-...

I am left to believe OSI views this as a useful political time to self-market, or otherwise sees licenses like this - which intend to fairly compensate software developers - as something that does not promote the interests of those that primarily fund it.

I'm sorry, but we don't need a gatekeeper anymore.
In my case it was the white plastic MacBook (non pro).
I used to think this. Then I was bored for so long that I got used to it, and found no creative thoughts flowing out of me anymore. It's a balance, unfortunately. I sometimes think that having a procrastinating undercurrent is almost a necessary requirement for creativity juice to start flowing (or maybe that's just the environment I've been creative in for so long that it's what I'm habituated to).
> surely one of the most pertinent moral positions of the Odyssey is the idea that justice will prevail: the good guy wins and gets the girl, the bad guys lose.

There's nothing good about Odysseus; he's a bad person and, IMHO, one of the most annoying, obnoxious personalities in literature. He leads his group around murdering and pillaging, not to mention using and manipulating - he's renowned for his lying and trickery. He gets his men killed over and over due to his capricious, pointless acts of ego - at one point much of his fleet is sunk and men die because he pointlessly taunts enemies as they sail away. But if someone should act against him, he switches to victimhood and moral outrage - poor Odysseus! All his troubles and tribulations!

In the end he returns home alone, having gotten all his men killed, and encounters the 'suitors', who presume that with him missing for 20 years, likely he won't return. They are peaceably [EDIT: up to a point then that changed; see the reply below], though obnoxiously in some ways, competing to see who gets his throne and his wife's hand - leaving the choice to her [EDIT: though as the reply below states, she is being forced to marry one of them; she can't say no]. He slaughters them all, indiscriminately, for their presumption. The slave girls (did I mention that he takes and keeps slaves?) that are suspected (there is no trial or evidence or anything more than someone's accusation) of the grave crime of dalliances with the suitors, he unceremoniously has a rope wrapped around all their necks and hangs them together. Then he says, we need to replenish our stocks - depleted so unfairly by the mean suitors! - so we'll soon set out to raid and steal them.

Is this a good man? Did the good guy win? The Odyssey is a rich story of and study in personality and in human relations, and in politics; it's not at all about justice.
This is a great blog post.

It was interesting to see how they approached moving from a linear data model to a tree structured data model. Is anyone aware of similar work with graph structured data, as you find in electronic design automation? Think collaborative schematic editing.
Thinking about q3, q4, q1/19 - the i-pace won't come in their small 20k annual run rate until next year, so it doesn't matter much for now. It does look like a reasonable car. Probably better interior than the tesla, decent range, good design - without access to superchargers not very practical for long trips, but I think it's a perfect example of what legacy automakers can do if they try hard. The other big question is where will they get enough batteries to mass produce an ev - apparently that's a major reason they can't make many. It's the best competitor to the tesla so far. Does that car have chademo or ccs charging? I've never seen a ccs charger, wonder if there is one around seattle.

The chevy bolt is a great little car, it's just not as a sexy as the m3 (will tesla take this over from bmw's namespace :-)). Of course it's half the price of the current selling model 3's. I think the bolt is a fine car, not too sexy, but sales in the us are anemic, yet people complain they are hard to find. Also gm isn't making many of them, perhaps for same reason as ipace. hyundai kona ev looks like a nice car too.

All those cars are inferior evs to even the model 3, but they aren't that far away. If only they could mass produce them, and the biggie, get auto dealers to try to sell them - that's the part that's really missing so far. It's literally against their own interest at least in the short term to sell evs.

I think you should look out more than 6 months. Tesla has enough customers world wide for the 3 to sell another 100-150k of them - remember they are hardly even selling them in Canada up to now, just recently ramped up. It's only after the pent up demand is handled that we'll know. I'd say look at what q3 and q4 next year do - Tesla sales are set through mid next year just be putting their cars in other countries. The optimistic case if they'll reduce manu. costs and be able to make the base short range model and survive making a 35k car. Meanwhile, and this is the exciting bit, the higher-midrange of bmw, mercedes, audi, maybe low end porsche will face significantly reduced sales because of model 3. Those companies aren't doomed, but the 3 is so awesome, there's so much pent up demand. Even in seattle the sales office was packed last weekend, and they put 100s and 100s of them on the road last month.
They're referring specifically to The Open Source Definition[1] outlined by the Open Source Initiative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
This is fantastic. By placing a cost on Google Apps, competitors have a viable place to provide an alternative offer at a lower price. This is exactly the sort of change we need here in the US as well. Mission success in Europe.

Probably the biggest question I have is that they still appear to be selling "bundles" according to the article, which seems contrary to the European decision. Is a phone manufacturer who licenses "the bundle" allowed to omit apps from the bundles? Or have the bundles been narrowly defined around the EU's current ruling of which bundles aren't allowed, and they're still going to force OEMs to carry specific sets of Google apps?
Answer: branding.
> I would agree, but what does 'sensible' mean? I think many times the offender didn't think they were doing anything wrong. I think people need to speak directly to what is ok and what is not ok so that there's a shared understanding.

Ah, yeah, that's exactly what I meant. The "rules" need to be clarified and spelled out as much as possible. It's just that I'm not smart enough to decide on what they should be (in part also because I'm very adaptable and extremely tolerant to behaviour others consider inappropriate).
I'd describe him as the second designer I'd hire. Possibly invaluable to the endeavor, but not the single source of truth.
Augur (with their REP token) is a decentralized Oracle, with two caveats:

1. the price feed used by Augur for USD/REP is currency centralized, but will become decentralized in v2.

2. Augur v2 will use the DAI stablecoin, so that markets are effectively denominated in USD. DAI uses a semi-centralized price feed for the collateral backing the stablecoin.

I'm a dev of https://predictions.global
> Low carbohydrate real, organic foods improve vascular function and prevent insulin resistance in the organs

Yes, low carb can reduce chronic hyperglycemia and thereby keep insulin resistance at bay. I wouldn't be surprised if there were vascular benefits from avoiding processed foods as well. What's with the cherry-picking in your quote?

And I don't know who Steven Buhner is, but you rarely see ad hominem arguments in such raw form on HN these days, not to mention an overall response that adds so little and in such a rude tone. Please try harder or go elsewhere.
It's not that I never share things, I'd just rather ctrl-C/ctrl-V than waste a bunch of screen space on every single webpage.

Looks like Firefox's reader view fixes it, I'll just need to get in the habit of using that instead of the Kill Sticky Headers bookmarklet as things catch on and circumvent it... https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

I can only assume the thought process of whoever writes these social bars is "People are hiding our share buttons instead of clicking them! MAYBE IF WE SHOVE IT IN THEIR FACES REPEATEDLY THEY'LL LIKE THAT BETTER AND WANT TO SHARE!"

Gruber sums up my feelings nicely: https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
According to this article the highest paid worker in Silicon Valley, a product manager, earns $133k a year on average.

For comparison purposes, I suggest you take a look at US News Best Jobs, which contains a roundup of BLS data by region. Here's a sampling of some other salaries for the Silicon Valley area:

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings

The top paying market for software developers (the #1 job, apparently) is San Jose, at $133k a year median pay.

Physician Asst: $138k a year in Santa Rosa CA

Nurse Practitioner (#4): $158k/yr in San Francisco, CA

Registered nurse (#18): $138k/yr in San Francisco

Lawyer (#33): $193k/yr in San Jose (top market)

This is median, rather than average, and is a bit more recent than the $133k cited in the article. There are other factors of course, pay isn't the only thing that matters, stability, age discrimination, working environment, possibility of doing good. The median doesn't include the upper range for high talent (I think nursing salaries tend to be more compressed around the mean, whereas lawyer and programmers have longer tails).

But overall, the data doesn't really support the notion that programmers are especially well paid when compared to fields available to skilled and educated people, including in (perhaps especially in) Silicon Valley.
> You want to re-evaluate the first amendment?

I don't.

> You don't want freedom of press?

I do.

> Let me guess. You also want to abolish the second amendment.

I don't.

> Why don't you just move to somewhere they don't have those rights. Like in south america. They don't have guns, free speech, anything like that. Like brazil, venezuela, or ecuador.

It's almost like you deliberately chose the least charitable interpretation of my point to avoid rebutting the actual argument I was making.

Here's an example of a doctrine that likely wouldn't run afoul of the first amendment (impinging on neither freedom of speech, the press, or religion). These also likely wouldn't impinge on the second amendment, nor steer us towards economic disaster:

* You can record in a public place

* You cannot use facial recognition software on the recording without the consent of those that were recorded

* Provide some limited exceptions to the above for small-scale private purposes or academic research
> Much like we used to think dietary fat created visceral fat, and dietary cholesterol created blood cholestero

Those have been debunked. You're running on that same assumption, correct?

> we've been operating under the assumption that eating sugar is the primary cause of high blood sugar leading to insulin resistance

That's called Type 2 Diabetes. I don't know if that's an assumption?

> When you look at the glycemic index and glycemic load of foods, it's actually wheat that comes out on top.

Wheat is glucose though, not fructose.

Cutting soda out of your diet is probably better than having a naked sandwich.

I would say that switching to whole wheat from white bread is a positive, though.
The state of the Octoverse 2018
Ah thanks. I only knew about Caligari, but never used it. Just saw it at trade shows back in the day.

I was the PC guy on our computing parties. :/
If you aren't talented at figuring that out, then don't ask for dates in high stakes situations. Only ask in low stakes situations where a no isn't a big problem.

This means don't ask colleagues for a date. Instead, ask social acquaintances from other parts of your life.

Whether you are socially savvy or not, you should treat all business associates first and foremost as people looking to benefit professionally from their relationship with you. Treating women like their professional life is irrelevant because you find them hot is fundamentally not going to go good places. It tends to undermine them professionally. This isn't a way to "win friends and influence people."
The problem is Google forcing the phone makers to bundle Google apps that has nothing to do with Google Play to be able to ship Google Play. There is precedent here with Internet Explorer.
It's great to be able to go get the original commit when the time comes to try the (possibly modified) change again.
This at Medium seems relevant from an Amazon employee on the facial recognition aspect of this.

https://medium.com/s/story/im-an-amazon-employee-my-company-...
Only if you're completely ignoring the context, which is MongoDB asked OSI to approve their license as "Open Source" - OSI isn't in a position to do so immediately, and so in OSI's estimation, MongoDB isn't "Open Source"
A practical introduction to IPFS
I guess you have to make your whole frontend open source if you use their editor under that license? I'm not sure how GPL interacts with scripting languages. Do you have to run GPL scripts on a GPL'd interpreter for it to be permissible?

Regardless, the pricing for their commercial offering seems really intense. $29/mo for 25 MAU? I feel like they're missing a few zeroes there. Maybe they meant 2,500 MAU? 25,000 MAU? The demo I played with makes it clear that the editor component is rather nice, but I would rather look at alternatives at that price. I would imagine the collaborative nature is what influences the price, but somehow Google Docs and MS Office do fine with collaboration as a core product feature without charging >$1/MAU just for that feature.
I run circles around the meat eaters in my life. My latest change was replacing maple syrup with date sugar. I also started drinking matcha often. The change to a Whole Foods sugar made all the difference in the stability of my energy levels. Matcha also makes the caffeine buzz a lot more steady, manageable, and even calm. Changing out processed foods for Whole Foods might outweigh the carb/fat/protein differences. There’s still a lot to biology and nutrition we don’t know, in my first hand experience.
He doesn't come across as toxic. At worst, he's not a team player. That can be a problem, but I'd argue not being able to tolerate or channel these individuals definitely is a portend of a bad corporate culture.
They'll pass the price on to their consumers, or make their own stand-ins.
I just made the switch off recently. It actually is a lot more seamless than you'd expect. You can still snooze emails, and then "archive" (mark as done) everything that is taken care of/replied to/no longer needs your attention. Those are probably the two biggest pieces of the Inbox workflow that are pretty much identical in Gmail.

It's not quite as integrated, but all of the pieces are still there. For using reminders, you'll have to use google Keep. And for tasks without reminders, you can use Google Tasks.

On the plus side, it feels like Google stopped maintaining Inbox a while ago and it was getting horribly slow for me. The new gmail is amazingly responsive in comparison. I'm actually glad I made the switch for that reason alone (I had to make the switch before march because the Android Inbox App stopped working - it would crash within second after I opened it every time).
Doesn't more people moving to IPv6 mean the v4 pool gets rehydrated? What are the security implications of moving beyond HAProxy? Surely this is going to take a while.
The article is correct, you're mistaken. While AOSP is licensed under Apache 2.0, in order to bundle the Play Store and associated Google services you have to agree to MADA[0]. No major manufacturer, except Amazon, ships an AOSP variant without Google's Services.

Arguably many of Android's core APIs now flow through Play Store Services (e.g. Location Services).

[0] PDF warning: http://www.benedelman.org/docs/htc-mada.pdf
Phone manufacturers don't need to bundle Google apps, and we'd all be better off if they didn't.
The authority on word definitions is a dictionary, so that we don't have to argue like that.

This definition seems suitable:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source