skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDuckGo seems to be a metasearch engine that pulls from other sources and integrates the results somehow. It mainly uses Bing/Yahoo search. Yandex is also one of its sources. It shouldn't have a lot of risk if it's anonymizing the data sent to Yandex. I think there's bigger risk in network-level hacks of Ukraine by Russia where they could look at traffic directly or via stolen logs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

https://duck.co/help/results/sources
I'm slightly confused by this comment. If it was important for you to not have traceable DNA, why wouldn't you just not submit it?
I wish more VPS providers offered OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I remember using FreeBSD a lot when I was 12-17 just messing around and setting up servers, etc but eventually moved to Debian because VPS' at the time didn't really offer these that much (reliably.)
Yeah I get that you believe my reply is toxic. You are wrong there btw.

It wasn't about the point in the first place, rather the "I am not against X, but <statement which contradicts X>" formulation.
Too many people have for too long treated Perl as way to blackmail their employers into not firing them, by developing an unmaintainable code base that nobody else can understand. Do you really want to be "that guy", or clean up after them yourself? (I say "that guy" because the Perl community is historically hostile to women, with the "hooters girls" at trade show booths, etc.)

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Randal_Schwartz

"He's the Hooter's guy, right?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20080328132126/https://www.oblom...

http://blogs.perl.org/users/joe_mcmahon1/2012/08/why-im-cons...

And have you ever tried to hire a competent experienced Perl programmer? They're extremely hard to find, and very expensive, and usually would rather be working with some other language. Sure, incompetent ones are a dime a dozen, but hiring those and setting them loose just starts the vicious cycle again.

All of the competent Perl programmers have long since been hired up by companies desperately trying to find people qualified to work on their old toxic legacy code bases that they're stuck with. Like Booking.com for example.

And writing new code in Perl is insane. There's absolutely nothing special about Perl 5 or Perl 6 that solves any problems you can't easily solve in most other languages.

Perl's much larger problems totally overwhelm the minor conveniences from its "syntactic syrup of ipecac" that perversely appeals those few people who think saving a few keystrokes at the expense of readability, instead of spelling words out with letters instead of line-noise punctuation and acronyms, is the sole goal of software development.

Perl 6 is a joke, a slow moving parody of itself that missed the boat decades ago, and it's absolutely never going to catch up with JavaScript or Python.

If you really want to optimize your career for programming toxic legacy code that's too ugly for anyone else to touch, you should have learned COBOL before the Y2K "crisis". But in the long term, you might have regretted it:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
In my experience "regulatory wall" is created by not refreshing regulations often enough, and by corruption and lobbying creating regulation with the sole purpose of limiting competition, instead of protecting the consumer. We need to lower the bar to get rid of bad regulation (making a vote issue?).

We should work towards minimizing the abuse of regulations (we will never be able to eliminate it) rather than be afraid of adding more regulations.
I have been thinking along similar lines, so if you ever start anything up please get in touch.

I think in order to pull this off one needs to build a new kind of personal computer from the ground up with specific end designs in mind.

I have become particularly attached to the idea that the "window manager" equivalent of such a system would be "Hypercard-like" in that all windows, icons, and behaviors at that level can be described, explored, and manipulated in the Hypercard-like thing. It would be powerful and enough for most users. If they needed to go deeper, they could peel back a layer and discover the (high level) systems language, someting like Lisp or Smalltalk with easy library abstractions that can also be explored and learned etc. Hopefully that makes sense.
Which ones? And don't say JavaScript or Ruby now. ;)
FYI, the company that extracted the most from Android through patent-related legal threats was Microsoft, that collected billions in patent royalties from Android vendors[1][2]. While more extensive, it generated less noise partly because the companies MS came after didn't have the same PR machine as the one Oracle came after... (a cynic would say that the result of the case was what would be expected from a battle between a company with a great legal department and a company with a great PR department).

Large software companies (except MS) are far more often the target of patent infringement lawsuits/threats than the perpetrator.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft...

[2]: https://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15...
BitBench – Visually dissect and analyze bit strings
> “we’re just a technology company that happens to fly airplanes”

What is he smoking? What’s the main application or use of their technology?
Oliver Byrne's Colored “Elements of Euclid” Re-Created in TeX [pdf]
Vox is just trying to delegitimize the election ahead of a potential loss. They did the same thing for the Supreme Court. Textbook fearmongering.
It's not magic man. You haven't studied and pondered these concepts for decades, as Hawking and his peers have. I love science but let's tone down the intelligence and hero worship a bit.
That's been reported, yes, but really the thing to know about Gab in 2018 is that it seems to be like 80% bots and 20% white supremacist UGC, which is what really makes it look more normal than it is.
My experiance with food companies is that this is just a way for the company to excuse their own shitty practices which drive customers off. Of cause I’m going to be “loyal” if price quality and reliability are all on point. But almost every food related service I’ve tried have a great pitch but suck on at least two of those three points. If people where dumping them after just one week they had mayor issues that where not related to regulations.
Data in itself can be typed. For JSON objects the equivalent type is usually called a Record. Within a single strictly typed program, data is transferred between methods and functions and the shape of this data would be described by a type.

There is not much of a difference, theoretically speaking, when data is passed between functions inside an app, or between apps via some network api. What you describe is actually a real issue in typing. Types are lost across systems. JSON is not strictly typed, neither is XML or SQL. So if I have a typed application that spits out data to these formats I lose type checking. If you think about it, even jumping across abstractions from one typed language (say rust on the backend) to another typed language (say typescript on the frontend) you will lose type safety due to incompatibilities between languages.

I don't know if there's research into or thought going into solving this issue. But a universal type language/syntax that can be translated into respective type systems across api abstractions could lend a lot to safety of entire ecosystems. There is no type safety across http services and designing a system to overcome this issue is very possible and to my knowledge not something people have thought about yet. New idea?

Imagine a language/framework that compiles into web apps and microservices on some cloud provider. The language has syntax that allows me to decorate functions to specify which microservice it runs on. Data transfer between microservices can now be placed in some binary format or maybe the language has syntax that allows me to specify human readability. Either way the language abstracts away the devops and webapp layer and combines it into a single source code... this would allow type checking of the shape of data to not happen just within an app, but across services.

Is there such a framework/language that does this? I'm positive it can be done. I would totally love to work on an idea like this. The microservice fad talked up modularity between services but in practice people realized that microservices are too complicated. Perhaps an entire language framework that combines the web app layer and dev ops layer and adds type checking across services would solve this issue.
Slides for folks that don't want to watch a video:

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/slides/ZGC-Jfokus-2018.p...
Wow, that site is absolutely amazing. Fun seeing the great sea all at once! Do you write/blog about working on that?
Suggesting that the key issue is how not filtering would be perceived, beyond the circle of the conference attendees, itself seems to be flirting with concern trolling.
I've been using it for years (how many years I can't quite recall, but at least 4 or 5). Haven't looked back. If I really need Google results, I can always stick "!g " in front of the search.
I agree, but to give Elon the benefit of the doubt for a moment, labeling it "Mad Max" may actually discourage people from setting their car to it (as people often perceive themselves to not be reckless), whereas labeling that setting something like "Often" may lead to it being selected more frequently. Of course, this can also backfire if people select "Mad Max" because it's the only one with a funny label.
BINGO!

Validating source code does nothing. Even setting aside the fact that firmware and hardware level exploits could be running in any given voting machine, what guarantee do we have that the code in the repository is the code actually running on the machine at the app layer? Or, if you're REALLY security minded like myself, what guarantee do we have that the compiler and build environment didn't slip something in? (I guess that borders more on "paranoid" than "security minded", but you get the idea.)
Saucy Business
Notes was like a combination of the worst qualities of SharePoint and Excel. Like SharePoint, it was "enterprise software" first and foremost, so no attention whatsoever was given to providing a friendly user interface. And like Excel, while to technical people it looks like a God-spited monstrosity, it allowed a certain type of non-technical person to solve problems on their own that would otherwise have required buying expensive software or getting programming help from their IT department (which, in the enterprise, good luck).

So it ended up growing like kudzu, wedging itself into all sorts of weird niches. And because it had the affection of both the enterprise "IT strategists" and that certain type of non-technical end user, once it grew into one of those niches it was insanely hard to dislodge from it. You had to point your flamethrowers in two directions at once.
I am getting targeted promoted tweet on Twitter for the same quora question.
How the sound of silence rejuvenates the soul
Unless you specify open testing protocols that also test for cheating (like VW emissions).

It shouldn't be this hard to vote and to trust a certified outcome. Regulators require businesses to run with specified parameters, why do elections get off the hook?
Saying porn isn't appropriate in some environments isn't the same as "being against porn" (=being generally opposed to it), so there is no contradiction.
...what? Did you never play duck-duck-go(/ose) as a child?
I tried googling around for Matthew Simon and couldn't find anything, even with San Jose State University added to the search terms (found from "Look Inside" on Amazon for the book--worth a look by itself). I'm a bit disappointed, was hoping for a zany blog or old school static site to enjoy.
No, it's not. This can be read either as Tesla wants you to read it, that the only reason they're setting it this way is because legislators demand it, or the way you should read it, which is that Tesla will find any possible excuse to blame you for not paying enough attention when the car makes a mistake and kills you.
The Renault Twizy would fit your description.
Anyone who doesn't live in one of the 15 countries that Amazon retail operates? AWS is available almost everywhere.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-mur...
I wonder how many ridesharing deaths are related passengers not wearing seatbelts. I certainly didn't wear seatbelts when I first got in Lyft and Uber rides. I think was that because I never got into the habit of wearing seatbelts in taxis for some reason.
its easy enough to get the VUK after the fact. It really depends who/when the silkscreen printing is done.
Not only this, but the levels of herbicides+pesticides in grocery-store brand teas is apparently terrible.

I've had a friend who worked at a chemical testing lab for a grocery chain who flat out stopped drinking tea - even organic certified - after running the tests for the client. Every single brand tested positive for quantities a trained biochemist wasn't comfortable with.

I can't imagine how bad concentrated extracts are.
I short while ago, I was surprised to find my tech-illiterate family members and friends using DuckDuckGo without me having the privacy talk with them (many of them cited that they feel Google has finally crossed the line).

The thing is that people (including those who don't use DDG) remember "the goofy-looking duck". DuckDuckGo would be extremely foolish to throw away the mind share they built so far.

Besides, for whatever it's worth, I happen to like the name and logo. I think it's very memorable and has character unlike generic startup name #13.
Yes, that paper LHD (from a colleague of mine) does use online stochastic modeling of the workload to make better decisions. So this definitely fits the bill
You raise money at higher valuation multiples if you can convince people you're a tech company.
'Hot Dog Water' vendor makes a splash at Vancouver Goop wellness summit
Elections are run by states, not by the federal government, and the most problematic voting situations in the US are usually where Republicans have control of state legislature.
Federal government has very little, of any, control over how states conduct their elections.
It turns out that most caching algorithms we use in practice (CDNs, memcached, storage, etc.) are still pretty far from the optimal hit ratio/ miss ratio.

See, e.g., recent work that exposes that gap (I'm an author)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dberger1/pdf/2018PracticalBound_SIGM...

https://github.com/dasebe/optimalwebcaching
I think RMS' thinking is stuck in the 80s and 90s. This hinders the whole free software movement. I can see three main points where he is behind the times:

1. Permissive licensing actually helps the cause by spreading free software more widely, saturating demand faster, and displacing all proprietary software. It also avoids the contradiction when free software developers use their power to spread software freedom by force.

2. What RMS is afraid of is front-ending of free software with proprietary facades. This is why free software must extend through the whole stack all the way to the end user and it must be complemented with non-profits that deliver complete services to users. Non-profits can also ensure de facto freedom whilst licenses only barely protect de jure freedom.

3. Internet is not about communication. It's about remote operation of server-side software. Software freedoms must extend to teleoperated software, for example through the above mentioned non-profits.
At the hospital where my wife gave birth, they gave wristbands with some sort of sensor in them to spouses, partners, etc. The only way (for civilians, I assume) in to the maternity ward would open for you if you had one. It wouldn't if you didn't.

There were some other precautions they told us about to prevent someone coming in and snatching a newborn but it's been too many years to remember them.
That's pretty typical of any modern glass cockpit plane. See the 787 cockpit for comparison: https://www.engadget.com/gallery/boeing-787-dreamliner-cockp...
I agree that Vulkan isn't necessary, but neither is OpenGL, or a GPU at all. A software rasterizer would be the way to go. Even a mobile CPU should be able to rasterize 2048 polygons per frame at 256x192 using fixed point math. That's almost Quake 1 levels of graphics, and Quake 1 was software rendered in 1996 on 75 Mhz Pentium 1s.

Edit: Reading other articles on the site, it seems like they started with a software renderer. I wonder why they decided to try OpenGL?
A lot of CRDTs are append-only.

But not all! Quite a few that are state-based, auto-compacting, space-saving, small & efficient!

More info in a discussion on this: https://twitter.com/marknadal/status/1008610024875122688
The era of tech washing their hands of being accountable for user generated content on their platform is over. YouTube works quite hard to keep their platform safe. It's still not good enough. But I'm sure they have more people working on that problem than have ever worked on Gab.
I'm moving to Go, as much as I dislike the language. Java is bulky. I need to buy servers from Linode, but on a budget. Because Java 11 is not supported on the alpine docker, the apps take up 512 MB even with stack set to 128k and heap at 64m. I can do the same systems in Go for a fraction of the sitting still memory consumption. I also get better performance/MB of RAM.

Add to this that Spring is becoming a sprawling behemoth with massively outdated tutorials lurking in the top results of Google. At this point I wanted something that was easy, GC'ed, with good tooling. That's Go. DLang looked promising, but it's not easy. It also suffers from the out-of-date tutorials and books issue (my D book still says I have to pick between Pheobos and Tango collections). C++ seemed like overkill. Go provides a simple binary with a simple runtime with a simple RAM pattern.

I do like Java. I know it well. I'm literally typing this with a Java Ring on (https://www.ebay.com/itm/JAVA-RING-RARE-Sun-Microsystems-JAV...). Sadly, the JVM at this point doesn't fit my needs. Go is pretty terrible in some of aspects, errors and the way the community decides to carve files up, and the annoying way functions on structures float freely within a file, but I couldn't find another language that compiled to a binary, was simple, and had good library support for threading (so OCAMLs out)and RabbitMQ.
>But only PayPal has so many "banned for no reason" horror stories

There is always a reason. The reason this time is probably:

"Gab is a popular gathering place for alt-right activists and white nationalists whose views are unwelcome or banned on other social media platforms. Early members included the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website. Other well known users have included controversial media personalities Alex Jones and Carl Benjamin."

https://globalnews.ca/news/4604015/gab-pittsburgh-shooting-f...
I'm from India and every ejection since 1950s has been called rigged by the Opposition. The party which is in power now, has written a book on EVM tampering and the party which was in power for most of the time have rubbished EvM tampering.

Now that roles have reversed, so have their claims.

Coming to the point, isn't US using paperballots? All the papers in my nation say US holds elections via paperballots and not EVMs.

And why the heck do EVMs exist? Who verifies if they are fine or not? We know very well abouhow elections are rigged in third world dictatorships.

There needs to be a standard.
Exactly.

Always remember that youre reading marketing fluff first. Be able to unpack the motivations behind the fluff and you find that money is the reason.
Quantum Network to Test Unhackable Communications
> You do realize that 99% of people feel cold in 40F.

Yes, I addressed that in my last sentence. You presume I don't feel the cold, I do, I've just learnt how to tolerate it. Buddhist monks can dry wet towels in -40 weather. The human body is rather more tolerant of cold than you might think.

Also, source on 99%?
Presumably OP was interested in the details of the DNA assay without being integrated accurately into a larger corpus of genetic data.
If you’re in the mood for something zany and tech related there’s always Fabian Pascal:

http://www.dbdebunk.com/2018/07/lenin-trotsky-data-managemen...
This is what you said, and it's clearly biased because you work for Google. That is the definition of bias.

> Would you trust Google, a company that has delivered real value, has helped democratize access to knowledge at a global scale and has everything to lose if it was revealed that they are misusing sensitive information
You shill on HN for basically every Google-related thread, so it's not like they'd need to use Google to find out you had connections to them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17094934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267828

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18179176
I did this for 23andMe. If I were truly privacy conscious I wouldn't have submitted at all, but this at least provides a small layer of defense in some minor threat models. What was funny, though, was when I did the search for relatives feature after, it listed a bunch of people with my fairly unique real last name, so oh well. Neat bit of evidence that the sequencing worked anyway.
I think the ability to solve a criminal act via the technique described is perfectly valid. It's quite ingenious in fact.

What GREATLY concerns me is the thought of what happens when one of these companies gets down on their luck and sells all this data to an insurance company. Can you imagine what would happen to your rates and coverage if it comes back that your family has, say, a predisposition towards diabetes or cancer? There needs to be legislation enacted to strictly control how this information gets used. Furthermore an individual should be allowed to control how that information is shared and be able to opt out of any scenarios they are not comfortable with. Law enforcement scenarios could be exempt but tightly regulated to avoid abuse.

[edit] - its been pointed out that insurance co's can't do what I am describing (which is awesome btw). I think my point stands about the implications of this data being monetized to our detriment.
What places? Like houses?
Ghandi
Guys, we've had three terrorist attacks this week, and a lot of us are just kind of tired of the partisan sniping.

Can we just kind of give it a rest for a little while? It really is a bad time right now.
Is that your response to the gigantic list of legitimate concerns about our Swiss-cheese election system... it’s all a conspiracy by the media?
If you mean an imbalanced strength/development of muscles, then no it's not -- that's my point. Generally speaking, developing an accurate perception of how you hold your body and retraining how you hold it is the solution. An imbalance of muscle development has nothing to do with posture for the vast, vast, vast majority of people -- and it's arguably the biggest popular misconception.
The end of this year is going to be such a dumpster fire for us. I think I've got about a hundred developers with a mix of Linux, Mac, and Windows. The corporate overlords are mostly sticking to JDK 1.8, which is fine -- RHEL has a LTS for that on Linux. The developer desktops are all over the place right now, however. The jump from 8 to 9+, for those of saddled with legacy crap code, has been somewhat painful. Got to wonder how many years I'll be seeing a 8u191 (or whatever the last release is) on the windows/osx boxes.
Try it! http://www.gunswap.co/
A couple things worth mentioning:

- It's a self reported based survey.

- Of all those surveyed, the results are those who responded. That could bias there results.

- Replacing an Uber with a scooter doesn't necessarily mean cars usage has been reduced.

Yes. This sounds promising. I hope so!! But let's get some hard data. Please?