skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>just like we should be outraged by websites that sell your data without your explicit consent.

At least some of the onus is on you to be more discriminate with whom you share your data. As the sibling says, assume the worst.

It's fun to expound about "how things should be" but sometimes you have to deal with "how things actually are".
After doing software for almost 30 years now, I honestly believe Agile has been the most destructive thing to happen to the industry. Software has become buggy shit that's shoveled out the door as fast as possible. It's not just your development team, it's all development teams.

Windows 10 update deleting your files? Is it the lack of testing, poor code quality, too many features or not enough engineers?

Ultimately it's going to boil down to some cargo cult scrum process of reviews, retros, and bs that we are all familiar with, and Windows 10 is buggy. Android is buggy. iOS is buggy. Nobody cares about the software. They blindly follow the process.
Yay, one more app I can't install because I want control over my own device.

I've already had to contact a few devs to be able to use paid apps because they thought that root = pirate.
To be honest, using a transistors analogy may keep you on the wrong path for a long time as well :) There is not a lot of "digital" going on in those cells...
Only in the U.S. can managers pretend pensions are a give away and not part of the wage.
Why doesn’t it scale? People used to have to pay for access to all of these articles (and still do BTW). It’s actually become way cheaper to read a wide variety of sources.

Your statement comes off as really entitled.
I do think it was/is an attempt to bring us all together (humor can do that for painful subjects). Similar to Facebook's original vision, I think the creators didn't realize what in fact they DID create - a divisive platform that is driving us all apart.
Which organizations are those? Ones that are funded based on how much hysteria they whip up to justify stealing from people? I don't care about organizations opinions or statements, I care about the math. When the math is clearly incorrect, and we keep being told the world is ending because the incorrect math says so, there's a problem. Climate hysterians hate Monckton, and rage about how evil and wrong he is because "his opinions do not match the scientific consensus", but none of them refute the simple, factual errors he brought up. Mathematical errors that have been confirmed by mathematicians: https://mythesmanciesetmathematiques.wordpress.com/2016/09/1...

All of the models you mention use the completely incorrect math for feedbacks that will worsen warming caused by CO2. They literally all use the 3K per doubling figure. Despite it being proven wrong mathematically, and proven wrong historically as these models have all been wrong for the last 20 years of observed data.
Is there no legal minimum number of paid vacation days in the US?
If it is a while since you last tried the switch, startpage is worth a go.

I recently built a new laptop and set it as the default, after several failed attempts in the past. I now rarely find myself struggling with tech related searches as I had done previously. Consequently, it has stuck this time. YMMV obvs.
>The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires?

I think it's because the tech industry is positively lousy with deluded persons who see themselves as embryonic billionaires. When you believe your asshole sprays gold coins every time you update a git repo, you tend to overlook that production is arranged under capitalism to have the ownership class expropriate the majority of the value that workers create.
They're trying to repeat that in the automotive industry, as well as IoT. It's why most automakers have been resistant to adopting Waymo software.
The browser is the system. JavaScript is a language.

With such a definition of multithreaded language wouldn't Brainfuck also be one?
I agree that my estimate could be too big, but I do think there is a potential to increase the forestation in the north. Because of the warmer climate, Iceland can grow aspen. The government is planning to grow tree in a large part of the island, but the have a problem with free roaming sheeps. The land the can only sustain shrubs and moss could grow trees now.

Some countries are increasing the forestation as well https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/01/northern-forest-...
Wait - transistors are not digital they're analog. And neurons are terribly digital, acting as rate controllers and pulse counters and dividers and so on.
Isn't the story that the script he was given was to say "one small step for a man", but on the day he flubbed his line and actually did say "one small step for man"
A microphone and a blog. Throw in a book for good measure.
I subscribe to a couple of sites. I won't be subscribing for an extra monthly fee I can't afford just to read one or two articles linked on HN. Therefore I have two options: don't read the article, or bypass the paywall.

In both options, the outcome for the site is exactly the same. So, not being a masochist, why shouldn't I choose the outcome that benefits me without harming anyone else?
I absolutely support such programs. Similarly to adblockers and DRM, they show that the mechanisms used to generate money simply does not work. Technically it is impossible to expose content to a (web crawler) robot but not to a human (inverse CAPTCHA). And technically it is impossible to control pixels on a free user device.

Publishers, if you want to have people pay for your content, make honest paid subscriptions and deal with it that you vanish from the openly accessible web.
I believe the only purpose of that "JDK 10.0.99" is to remove all existing JDK 10 installations (and push you to use either JDK 8, if installed, or JDK 11).
Perhaps we need to question the basic assumption that these ideas and values are worth a damn. The C3 project that started this whole circus twenty years ago completely failed[0] after if its primary business subject matter expert burnt out. This stuff only works when you have really good people committed to each other and their goal. That just isn't something you can expect to find in most of corporate america. If things are so bad that you are bringing in a process consultant, its almost a surety that agile cannot work for you.

[0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?WasChryslerComprehensiveCompensationSucc...
Geometry analysis features in Aspose.GIS
China is the only country that can produce modern electronics at global scales. If you piss them off, your company will be bankrupt in weeks.
Do you have any support for this argument at all? It seems to overlook the reality of the situation. When one car is in a collision with another, regardless of their relative velocities, when they collide, in a serious accident they will both rapidly decelerate to a speed of zero. That's what the danger is. Their absolute speed has dangers above and beyond their relative velocities -- less control of the vehicle and greater kinetic energy wrt the environment.So, a car traveling at 25 hitting a car moving at 5 may have a 20 kph/mph differential, but the danger is minimal compared to a car traveling at 95 hitting a car at 85, where both vehicles quickly go down to zero, rolling and smashing into barriers and other vehicles along the way.
Retweeting doesn't bias content; it's rather the opposite: making it easy for people to share content they like removes a longstanding bias. The old models of broadcast media selected content to fit the biases of a few powerful media executives.

You may find the choices of the average person "divisive or simplistic" but the Retweet button doesn't dictate their choices.

"Policing" content, however, is all about dictating people's choices, motivated by the thought that the "police" know better than less powerful people, and reestablishing the biased filter controlled by the powerful (new-)media executives.
Hospitals in the US not only benefit from unpublished pricing, they also benefit from the situation of customers.

A lot of their customers will be unable to compare multiple hospitals and "shop around", so to speak. Either because their conditions is life threatening, they're actively dying or they're no longer responsive. The ambulance, in any rational scenario, will drive you to the closest hospital in terms of time-spent-driving

So from a corporate perspective it's perfect; the customer arrives and you're legally obligated to start spending money while they are likely unable to object and then you can bill them for it.
It’s hardly having their cake and eating it too. It’s the equivalent to wanting placement at a news vendor. Your API idea isn’t a bad one, but I hardly think that these news organizations are at fault for wanting to be discoverable, while also wanting money in exchange for their hard work.
Have you bought one? What are your experiences with PureOS as a phone OS, considering the underlying hardware? One issue with Firefox OS was the non-fit between phone hardware and OS hardware requirements...
Right, it's theoretically dangerous, or I'd say practically: "please think when using it"... though I personally couldn't find any other serious problematic example other than typing something clearly dangerous in the first place. And I personally found it immensely useful in the other, non-dangerous cases. So I just took the chance and went with the idea, and then wanted to share it with you, so you might also find it useful, maybe! :) Also... umm... you know, a tool isn't really truly Unixy if you can't hurt yourself with it, right? ;P

That said, I'm starting to think — should I include a note about the potential dangers in the readme?... they seemed glaringly obvious to me (at least in case of rm-like commands), but can there be readers/users, to whom they'd not be obvious?...

edit: Ok, I tried to add a warning in the Readme, that's something I can do easily, and if it helps someone, worth it...
Consolidation, centralisation, and the Internet architecture
For a code review you need to understand and follow the process regardless, or you won't be able to make a good call about whether or not the patch makes sense. Even if you do that, having the code already written is almost always faster in my experience.
Maybe you want to fix your server, it is down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/scg.unibe.ch
so the 2018 version would be the page being a fancy animation that you play by scrolling, right?
I agree.

I developed a system for subscription payments that (1) is resistant to falsifying visits and (2) preserves user privacy. I got a US patent late last year[0], so that I might enjoy being a bit of a lightning rod for downvotes.

The gist is that the publisher can ask "is this person a member of the subscription pool?" and get a yes or no. And that's all they can get. I can't easily prevent them from using other mechanisms but I can refuse to make the problem worse.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9853964B2/en
> everyone around me [...] every time they get a new phone

Reality: people who feel that they need help, and for most features it's a one-time trip with settings passed from phone to phone as you upgrade.
Response To: The State of Agile Software in 2018
True. However, logic gates constructed from transistors are digital. I'm wondering what the corresponding higher level neuronal structure would be...
How interesting! Ive known several people with brown recluse bites and I always assumed the (rather unpalatable) necrosis was from the venom, not some cofactor like bacteria.

Upon reflection, it makes total sense. The presentations they had would be identical to serious infection, ie visible red marks on the skin tracing blood vessels and following the blood flow.
Neurons are already logic gates. And FFT devices, and discriminators and ...
We A/B Tested Our Employees’ Lunch and the Results Were Astounding
That's not true anymore with the new JVM tech
The JVM uses the memory to optimize the garbage collection, so it is a tradeoff between memory usage and speed (favoring the latter).
You can’t solve a political problem through technological means, you can only provide workarounds. Geeky, awkward workarounds. TOR is an example of this.
> Lots of tiny things can be done now, with relatively little effort.

Those little things of "low effort" have just as little impact. Those things that are significant (transportation, meat consumption, heating) would also represent significant changes to my level of comfort. I like meat. I like being warm. I like not walking everywhere. I dislike public transport. I like long hot showers. I like to keep my PC running.

On the other hand, I can budget some money for the "luxury" of being carbon neutral. I can also not do that and keep on living the way do. The money is on the table, those changes to my lifestyle aren't.
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that Apple was in fact aware of those issues, and has in fact worked both on documenting them and fixing them: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

This is transparency - following through and actually giving a damn about things like child labor. They found 2 cases of underage labor in 2017 after auditing 756 facilities and over 1.3M workers. They made it a core violation of their supplier code, meaning that if and when underage labor is found via audit, that supplier loses its business with Apple.

Go read the report - you might find that Apple is a pretty damn thorough company when it comes to responsible labor. Is there more they could do? Yes, there always is - but they're doing quite well so far.
You might want to do something atomic with that clear.
Apple's behavior is Tying, which is worse not better and is traditionally dealt with in anti-trust legislation.

(You can't buy a license for any Apple OS for use on other hardware. You can buy a Android OS phone from any participating vendor. The vendor can refuse to pay Google and install any store.)
Stock gains are taxed with capital gain tax, which is typically a lot lower than income tax. Here in Norway CGT is at 28%, an unattainably low figure for income tax on professional salary. You can also tax deduct losses.
I've worked at four companies that have claimed to do agile development. Not one of them has deeply embraced the principles of doing so. Generally they have added a few easy practices, like stand-up meetings and sprints. They've kept large-scale chunks assigned to specific developers, defining both the work to be done and the time to do it, and substantial design docs. Unit testing tends to be spotty.

We're not living in Agile World. We're living in Fake Agile World.

I have some reservations about true-blue agile, but I'd be willing to give it a shot. Let's do Fundamentalist Scrum once. I'd be up for it. At least I'd know whether it works or not.
Many engineers worked to create a free and open Internet, but political power has been very effective in regulating and limiting the Internet.
Right - a head-on collision between objects of equal mass and velocity is equivalent to one hitting a brick wall (or immovable object) - it loses all its kinetic energy on the spot, turning it into heat and mechanical work (e.g. crushing the car and driver). Objects of slightly different mass or velocity means the work done on each is shifted, the heavier or faster one 'winning' a bit but still. The absolute values of the velocities are hugely important.
That seems interesting. Are you working on it still?
Siri is far behind because Apple has a pro-privacy stance.

They've effectively hamstrung themselves by anonymising the data and not cross-correlating between users as much as Google does.

Google on the other hand has no qualms about using the mountains of data they collect on every single user on their platforms. They can teach Google Assistant stuff that Siri can't even try to do yet.
I wouldn’t say it’s an acceptable way. It’s just the only way people see/know to deal with unbearable shame.

Unfortunately, in most cases killing yourself doesn’t actually help anyone, and now they have your death to deal with as well (funerals are a fun expense if you’re already struggling to pay the bills).
> Do what services should do? Review the content before it's publicly available to ensure it's not breaking laws.

Yes, but how would they do this better than YouTube can? I just feel like it's better to deal with copyright after the fact. A big part of YouTube basically runs on fair use for example. Legislation like article 13 could hurt this doctrine.

> I feel the opposite. For far too long, internet companies have taken liberties of everything being 'opt out' instead of 'opt in'. This is another example of that.

But, it would affect primarily content creators of any kind. Well, the kind that isn't massive and can enter into sweeping deals with rights holders. This might not mean much to a lot of people. But the whole concept or commentary, reaction, memes, etc. and more broadly still, the internet in general relies on people being able to copy and repost and link stuff quickly and without fuss. You would basically change the internet to be even more corporate (i.e. favor big over small creators) than it is today.
> Which is ironic because python and perl are extremely similar.

Would you mind expanding on this a bit? It's been a while since I did perl, but I remember it being fairly distinct from python, other than being a dynamically-typed "interpreted" language.
I love articles like this. I have no idea why my tastes in music are so eclectic. (Well it might be something to do with a European Dad that never really understood rock'n'roll whose uncle was a church organist and a Mum who was an assistant to radio station manager and ...) Anyway I'm always look out for artists that have new ways to form sound into compositions. I used to listen to The Daily Planet radio programme on the Aussie ABC, but unfortunately funding for that was taken away. I'd get the playlist and try and find sources to listen to more of the artist or album. So it is great to find lists of songs that others draw interest from that fine from a whole range of genre. Anybody have other go-to lists they use?
If it’s self evident, then it should be rudimentary to study.
There is no required paid leave in the US. No paid vacation, no paid sick leave, no paid parental leave.

*edited a typo.
I once hired this guy, whom I'd met at a 2600 meet up at Union Station in LA, to work for me at one of the first web-development agencies in California. I had him all set up as a sysadmin doing sysadmin'y things, got him a new SGI machine as requested, sat him in the corner and watched him type away happily, doing web-development/sysadmin'y things.

Little did I know that he was writing his seminal paper in a terminal on the side .. "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" has gone on to be one of the most famous of Phrack articles .. if only I'd known, I would've asked to proof-read it first. ;)

(Likewise: hi @AlephOne!)
Sneakers is a fun movie based in computer security and pen testing (and classic government conspiracies).
I love the random discovery aspect of music.

I recently had to drive to Pristina, Kosovo and experience the endless misery of the border crossings on the way. I spent more total time in the lines waiting to cross the border than I did driving from Austria.

And that cloud had a silver lining, because at each border, I discovered new music belting out from the hundreds of other drivers also waiting in the hell of border crossing. Nothing would Shazaam, however. The licks and melodies and clear synth lines, or strumming chords of quaint (to me) nearly unrecognisable string instruments that were belting out over the fields were very enticing, and I could really only get a taste of the music these folks were listening to.

On the way back out (the hell was repeated) I noticed the stalls on the side of the road at the Kosovo border, selling cheap CD's of local artists .. so I took the swing and bought a whole, random set of them. Artists I would never have known. And, while a lot of the Kosovo rap is irksome and mundane (at least of my selection), there are a number of gems in the mix - stuff that I really, really like for some reason. And I'd never, in my life, have encountered it if not for those border crossings.

Music really transcends mans banal nature and turns us all into angels.
Little Big City – WebGL rendering of map data as a small planet
How did the early Macintoshes update the display?
Look at the study, not just the summary. What does "preindustrial levels" mean? Preindustrial includes over 4 billion years, including years with no life on earth. It includes the absolute highest and absolute lowest levels of atmospheric CO2 ever in the history of the planet. They chose a very low level that would give them the biggest results, and compared it to a hypothetical future level which isn't actually possible to achieve because there's not enough carbon stored in all the fossil fuels on the planet to get close to it if we burned every drop. Yes, record low atmospheric CO2 means shellfish have slightly thicker shells. Does that have an actual benefit for shellfish, much less entire global ecology? Those low CO2 levels are unquestionably bad for other things, like plants, and humans. Shellfish survived previous high CO2 levels just fine, we have the fossils, they existed. They can go ahead and have slightly thinner shells, while we have more plants and more food.

Also, we're talking about coral bleaching and it being blamed on CO2 despite absolutely no evidence, and despite the fact that some coral reefs are seeing normal growth, while others which are in major pollution streams from Asian rivers are seeing bleaching events. But it has to be CO2 because Al Gore says so! Ignore the billions of tons of toxic waste being pumped into the Ocean by China and India and Africa! Europeans and North Americans are the problem with their evil CO2! They need to become poor like everyone else to save the planet!
Some argue No True Scotsman. That is, any agile process can be faulted so we keep searching for a pure agile somewhere (that actually works). If true the lesson is, agile doesn't work anywhere (or nearly nowhere)
Is there a hard drug equivalent of Godwin's law?
The only thing you will get from a patent on that is that nobody will use it b/c it's patented. So you're effectively blocking one road to solving the problem. There are others, of course - it's not like there's just one way of doing that.
While that's conceptually true, there is little transferable skills between the two.
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Makes for a splendid email sig.
Fortunately (or unfortunately?) I don’t make the offers, I just decide if they’re technically competent enough.

At least in Japan I believe the offers to be fairly competetive as well (top 30% ish).
This works if you have a person(s) for a period of time. But, the longer they work for you 100% of the time, and the more team members you have in a jurisdiction the more likely the team members are to be considered employees and that you have established a business in the jurisdiction. At least in the UK the separate company and 'invoice' rule is important, but there are a number of other questions used to determine if someone is an employee.

As you note, the other big problem is that it places you in a very uncertain situation with labour law / labour relations.