skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having grown up with a national forest as my literal backyard, its amusing and sad to hear so much nonsense spewed in this thread. Yes, we need to protect the wild, and inculcate respect for it in those that live in and visit it. My issue is with the naivety of proposed "solutions".

One of the best examples I can give, though I have many, is this: my grandfather was a logger and firefighter in this forest in the 70s. During my lifetime though, the PhD environmentalists came to dominate the forest service, and as logging waned they stopped listening to the old timers about how to take care of the forest. My grandfather would try to tell them they needed to let loggers thin the forest out, and to do more control burns and let them burn longer.

As a kid I dismissed his ramblings, thinking; "they have PhDs! they know better than us!"... and then after I left home, after the pine beetle infestation, poof: two fires within a few years of each other that burned over 500,000 acres of that national forest I grew up in... and it is still recovering to this day, and doesnt look the same. Old trails I used to walk dont exist anymore. Mud slides from the fire have covered up old fishing spots. Etc.

City slickers love to wax poetic about the forest, and then show up and destroy it, and want to send in their environmentalists to fix it their way, while those of us who live in those forests are greater stewards than they ever have been. Then after the forest service or BLM phds have fucked things up, they get sent off to some other poor areas forest, where they arent native and dont listen to the natives.

Another example for this thread: many are claiming cattle ruin forest. on the contrary, cattle have become an important part of keeping the forest healthy, including ranchers taking care of forest land the forest service doesnt have the resources to fix...

Just thought some people might want to hear a slightly different perspective on this issue. Now of course Im talking about smaller localized forests compared to the giant ecosystems the article covers, but I think those microcosms should serve as a warning for anyone wanting to tackle those larger ecosystems in a similar manner. Namely, listen to locals who know the forest better than you do.
Just dont use them, like you dont use MySpace. There is nothing forcing people to use them, and nothing outright preventing a new competitor.

WhatsApp was a startup competitor at one stage too - it competed well enough to grow big enough to compete with Facebook & Google. Sure Facebook brought them out, but what is to stop the next WhatsApp? Likewise MySpace was too pervasive not to use at one point too, yet look at what happened to that when this little cool new thing called Facebook appeared.

Basically it comes down to user behavior, not any explicit "control" that Facebook et al have over individual's use of the internet.
The one that stands out for me was my first major IT company. They gave a standard 25 day holiday allowance (about normal for UK), but they had an option right on the intranet where you could buy or sell up to 5 days in either direction for a salary adjustment - so you could increase your holidays up to 30 days for a slightly lower monthly pay, or reduce it to 20 days and get paid a little more each month. It seemed like a great idea that I haven't seen anywhere else.
You're equating my signed/sealed/delivered package management to javascript??

??

??????

Really? You honestly don't see a difference? I have a chain of trust with my OS manufacturer (apple) and a defecto trust with a centralised entity for most of my applications (IE; my company for things that we build, or the home-brew project for most other packages)

I should not have that trust with any idiot who manages to get a signed SSL certificate; IE: the whole internet.
Complaining about an open web is just a proxy for complaining about establishment ideas being challenged. You see in Britain with the complaints against the Leave Campaign; you see it in the United States with the rise of Trump; you see it in the European Union with the complaints against far-right candidates. The governing elites don't like it when you challenge their assumptions, and instead of making an argument about their positions or governing better, they complain about Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

I'm American and racists have always been here, Trump isn't new. And in Europe, it isn't insane to want to control your borders and not have rules made in Brussels that you must follow made by bureaucrats that aren't accountable to your nation. It's a crazy idea I know, but politicians have problems with these notions and blame the tools the opposition used to organize instead of being better.

Facebook, Google, and Twitter have problems and they need some reforms, but the rise of companies is not nearly the sinister event people make it out to be.
lets spell it out then

https://obeygiant.com/propaganda/manifesto/
Obviously written by a non-expert /s
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> I lay most of the blame on the schools.

I'm a high school teacher, and I've been in this world for a long time. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the issue of pay yet. The median pay for teachers in the US is around $50k. Starting salaries are under $40k. Max pay is around $70-$90k, but it takes 10-15 years to get there, and in many states the max pay isn't this high.

If you're a good high school CS teacher, you can basically walk out the door and get a job that will double your salary. How many of you have been in a field where your pay absolutely does not depend on the quality of your work? I am leaving the classroom after this year, to focus more on technical work. It feels entirely different to be heading into work where the better my performance is, the more I'll get paid.

I've been teaching for 24 years, so I'm not leaving just for pay reasons. But I don't think we can look at solutions to better HS CS education without addressing the issue of teacher pay. If I were graduating college today with the skills I had 20 years ago, I'm not sure I'd go into the classroom.
The power of the tech workforce is massive. It's like the dockworkers of the modern era. I really hope we start to see this realised.
I love me the Sriracha ketchup. I also like mixing my own with Franks or Franks wing sauce.

I don't ever eat normal ketchup
What about a stolen user password and an actor, who already uses your token? Can the targeted user kick him out by resetting his / her password?
Normal mushrooms quite protein rich as well, 2.5 g protein for every 4.3 g of carbs: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/301907?format=Full

(Not to mention nuts, peas, lentils, etc)
Why use this? Just give it time, something will arise from this that will have terrible ramifications. Either a privacy breach, or malware insertion, or key logging, or hidden coin mining... something. Mark my words.
Google's tracking everything you do on _their properties_ to begin with because they're a marketing company. Use DuckDuckGo if you don't like that. The pearl clutching in this thread is unreal.
And if that doesn't happen then he proposes breaking up the tech giants, which solves the problem how?
> They would open themselves up to huge amounts of foreign manipulation and political sabotage.

I'd like to know how you envision this happening. Like, China calls Google's CDO and says "We'd love to see more Chinese hires, we might consider sending you a welcome-back invitation"?
That's interesting as the Spark api was inspired by Pandas
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I think a good example is cars. Imagine having a Ford car that you could only get repaired at Ford dealerships, that only took Ford bumper stickers or other accessories, and only could get filled up with Ford gas at Ford gas stations. I think most people would agree that would be a problem, and we are getting dangerously close to that with smart phones.
“Hey did you see the video of stunt”
Why Google and Facebook will need external vendor for geo IP DB? They have GPS data (or location based on WiFi / Cellular triangulation if GPS is switched off) and can name own geo IP DB. Given number of users this DB will be more accurate than most other vendors can provide.
Burp Plugin for JWT decoding / attacks
https://github.com/mvetsch/JWT4B
The issue is that the firewall protects the interests of a political regime instead of a capitalist one. It is a complicated topic but I see decentralized technologies as a more viable way of preserving digital freedom.
I suppose Tolkien perhaps is in the company of Mervyn Peake, and perhaps the earlier William Morris, with regards to world-building.
Well that's another debate
* You need to un-bundle features. identity from social feed from storage

* require data, interaction and reputation portability.

- be able to search for a user on twitter by their facebook username(if the user agrees).

- be able to request a transaction or feedback is transferable to other platforms if both users agree.

- look up john smiths reputation on amazon is 5 stars.

* Transparency around security, transparency around pricing and income from your data and an ability to pay to opt out.

- get an invoice we made $30 this month display ads to you.

- $4 from Statefarm, $2 from viagra etc.

* ability to delete data from a service.
Top reason for me always was :

> You cannot invalidate individual JWT tokens
And there are more security problems. Unlike sessions - which can be invalidated by the server whenever it feels like it - individual stateless JWT tokens cannot be invalidated. By design, they will be valid until they expire, no matter what happens. This means that you cannot, for example, invalidate the session of an attacker after detecting a compromise. You also cannot invalidate old sessions when a user changes their password.

> You are essentially powerless, and cannot 'kill' a session without building complex (and stateful!) infrastructure to explicitly detect and reject them, defeating the entire point of using stateless JWT tokens to begin with.
When you see a storefront psychic, which appears to have no customers, in a place where it would seem the rent wouldn't support a handful of $20 readings a day, there is a reason why. People don't understand how widespread psychic fraud is or how much money they are stealing.

Other religions or cults tend to be more ambiguous in the direct benefits donors will be receiving but often the general premise is the same.
Title is misleading. The article is about a new license, MongoDB's Server Side Public License, that is scarier (to freeloaders) than the GPL.
A new theme is created for a framework at about the same rate that mosquitoes reproduce.
So in summary Flickr is giving free users hosting for 1000 photos of unlimited quality vs. 1TB of free storage to refocus on photography vs. data mining for advertising. Makes sense to me.
I'm glad you're interested! The world could use more people tackling spam.

I'm not going to discuss signals for obvious reasons. Suffice it to say web browsers are very complex pieces of software and attackers are often constrained in ways you might not expect. There are many interesting things you can do.

I have no idea how much effort Google will make to support old browsers going forward, sorry. To be double-super-clear, I haven't worked there for quite a while now. Over time the world is moving to what big enterprises call "evergreen" software, where they don't get involved in approving every update and things are kept silently fresh. With time you'll see discussion of old browsers and what to do about being compatible with old browsers die out.

Straightforward login API: that's OAuth. The idea is that the login is always done by the end user, the human, and that the UI flow is always directly with the account provider. So if you're a desktop app you have to open an embedded web browser, or open a URL to the login service and intercept the response somehow. Then your app is logged in and can automate things within the bounds set by the APIs. It's a good tradeoff - whilst more painful for developers than just asking for a username/password with custom UI each time, it's a lot more adaptable and secure. It's also easily wrapped up in libraries and OS services, so the pain of interacting with the custom web browser needs be borne by only a small number of devs.
I'm doing very few of those things, and while it weighs on me, I think the net effect on my happiness is a drop in the bucket compared to any efforts to affect my direct surroundings positively. Do you do volunteer work, or anything in that direction? It might feel insignificant, but it's important to remember you're human, and likely to be affected more by 'direct' things, however pointless they might seem in the grander scheme.

The way I see it, it's a bit like putting on your own oxygen mask first. I've been burned out on working on 'bigger things', and in hindsight I wish I'd made sure to have 'smaller things' alongside to provide me with positive energy.
How Mark Zuckerberg Became Too Big to Fail
Did you seriously just praise the authoritarian control of information in China?
Nah, there's no way to prove that it doesn't. To prove fraud would require an examination of the soul both before and after tithing.
Those are great! I find the OWASP cheat sheet[1] useful as well but I’m going to keep the pentesterlab cheetsheet bookmarked for easier to digest to similar data. Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/JSON_Web_Token_(JWT)_Cheat_S...
It’s a difficult problem to solve. For example the phrase, “I want to have a serious conversation about immigration” can mean that you want to have an intellectually honest, detailed conversation about immigration. You want to talk about the pros and cons and how best to balance them for everyone involved, seek out more perspectives and information, and in general shine some light on an issue that often generates nothing, but heat.

Or it can be the prelude to a racist scree laden with FUD. We have to be careful not to let the the purveyors of the latter poison the well against the former group, but it can be hard to manage when people are smart enough to disguise their intentions.
Indulgences aren't a thing.

The Catholic church today encourages giving "from the heart" without a specific tithe, and doesn't have a concept of indulgences. Mainline protestant churches fundamentally rejected the practice of indulgence. Evangelical churches are different from church to church by nature.
In general, the current trend of value accumulating in companies with more revenue than the GDP of most countries, is something that is killing diversity. Capitalism with one monopolist is not that much better than communist style centrally run planned economies. Both are inefficient and ultimately self serving.

However, instead of breaking up companies, maybe it is better to constrain their ability to accumulate this much power and wealth. Big companies are treated way too nicely by governments. They get to dodge taxes, ignore regulations, lean on smaller players in the market, lean on politicians to look the other way or legislate in their favor, hoard patents, kill off competitors with unfair behavior, etc.

Just level the playing field and restore competition.
Amazing, never heard of Graphene before. Just checking them out now. Been dabbling lately in Neo for a couple of projects I'm currently working on and feels like a natural fit.

Thank you for your insights.
I'm curious about this.

As I mentioned in another comment, I think the concept of hierarchy is somewhat difficult to understand initially. But it is a key abstraction for almost everything having to do with computers, and especially programming.

Programming is all about understanding abstraction, at some base level. I don't know how many junior programmers I've encountered that look at source code and see it as a linear set of instructions, and just never developed the skills to abstract the problem first.

Once you understand hierarchy, the world changes a little bit. The filesystem is a simple example, but often the first a person encounters.
Cattle are good for forests? I'm sorry but you're going to have to backup that statement.
Actually the opposite is true. Transistors are approximately linear in half-open state, as in Class A, and non-linear at the extremes (when either fully open or fully closed).
Maybe it's not a problem.
The thing about it is, also in reply to of George Eliot below by steerpike, is that, I'm not talking about, I don't think, authors who were suspected of being female. But, as with the case of Shakespeare and Shelley, the taking of authorship from one extant given individual to another who happens to be more conveniently attributed (i.e., those who are attributed with writing Shakespeare's plays are always upper-class British.)

It is interesting to note about Tiptree is that, after the revelation, is to look at the timeline of reviewer and commentator documentation from the time and how there was this whole chunk of the community that overnight did a 180 from thinking a male Tiptree was a decent to good writer to 'we / I always knew she wasn't that much'. Similar statements can be made for C.L. Moore, and others. (However, I don't mean to claim that the entirety, or even a substantial part of the SF community feels such, but I do find it interesting that the percentage of the community which does hold such seems to align, roughly, with the percentage of the relevant populations involved with the question of the authenticity of authorship of people such as Shakespeare and Shelley.)

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The thing I think I'm trying to get at is that there seems to have been a shift, that is, Shakespeare and Shelley are so fundamental to a certain class of western identity, that it almost seems as the transfer of their authorship is to 'polish them up', because, while a few---if you were to just interview people off the street at random---know Austen and the Brontes, fewer Eliot, but who in the English-speaking world doesn't know some version of Frankenstein or that Shakespeare is supposed to be some big deal? (And even with Twilight, and what people seem to know of Heathcliff and Cathy, it's modernly, as with Jane Eyre, cast in the modern romantic (eros) mode, thereby deracinating them of their inherent social commentary.)
It will prevent the hatred to be easily propagated to a large population — control the reach of the polluting voices. Scale of Twitter has given a microphone to these voices which they are exploiting. Hope is with the power split, it will just not be a problem in the first place.
We're going in that direction with cars as well (EVs specifically).
I believe that inciting violence against others is wrong, but at no point did I argue that we shouldn't have laws against aggressive behavior. Those are two different concepts.
In any meaningful sense, search is infrastructure now. So is email, etc.
Guessing that Israel feels (or was explicitly told to be) unleashed to act against Iran by the Trump administration after Bolton entered.
Found a podcast redistributer that has it https://player.fm/series/commons/corruption-2-how-vancouver-...
As mentioned in a sibling comment, I have heard people put Mervyn Peake and William Morris in the same bracket as Tolkien.
The battery swelled just after the end of first year, so I had to replace it. The replacement still gives me around 2-3 hrs depending on usage.

This is the old Galago Pro (I reviewed it at [0]), not the new aluminium one.

[0]: https://captnemo.in/blog/2014/07/04/galago-ultra-pro-review/
> In 2013, Yahoo lost sight of what makes Flickr truly special and responded to a changing landscape in online photo sharing by giving every Flickr user a staggering terabyte of free storage

Well, that's one way to make the only remaining feature of your product sound like a bad thing...
Users may wish to log out sooner than 30 minutes too.
As someone who has been to China. This is the worst part about going there. Try finding or enjoying anything online where half the sites are blocked.
> And also: how exactly do I explain to my children that the world they're growing-up in is in a dire state and soon may not even be able to support anything like a normal life for them? Ideas anyone?

They'll think it's normal, which is the real tragedy, but that's been happening for generations already. Your idea of normal is not as rich as your ancestors'. Wasn't North America abundant with wildlife when the Europeans arrived?

Tangential xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1321/
Why do you trust governments so much?
Tl:dr: storage is expensive, and we aren't going to be giving it away when you're not giving us enough revenue
> If mutation itself ceases due to the prerequisite, evolution does too.

But then your reply doesn't make sense. Here's what parent said:

> There are plenty of attempts to think about other systems, implement them, and advocate for change. They all lack something important: success.

That part would imply that mutation is happening, just unsuccessfully. If you wanted to disagree with that, then your analogy was just confusing.
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> will always have an obligation to their own interests first,

The producer will usually favor its own interests. Not always. You could have used SQLite. No one forced you to use Mongo.
Not at all. This is portrayed as a way of fixing the incentive structure of the web by making people pay for content, but it only fixes part of the problem. Time tracking is not the same as users making an active choice about what contributes value to their lives (e.g., choosing to pay for a subscription). I would hate to see this compensation mechanism become widespread.
Not true. Encode a token and validate it against a constant, which you change in case of a compromise.
Pandas' syntax and conventions are significantly more cumbersome than R, but it does pretty well given the Python syntax and convention that it has to work with. I haven't done a lot with pandas because of how difficult it is to remember the syntax and API, but I feel it's good enough that if you're already a Python user, you can stick to doing your data work in pandas rather than move over to R.
Patent entities like this had a direct influence over transit tracking apps (many free and meant to help people recover some of their time each day).

I hope this unlocks the many small guys who were sitting on the sidelines after seeing other smaller entities be chased with a demand letter.
Top tech companies say no problem with employees interviewing for other jobs
Yeah but the main complaint (i.e. the large exit package) was already changed a few years before this. To be clear I'm walking out for the protest but I don't really see this as a big fight against management, if I think that my managers are lying to me at every level and they don't take sexual assault them I should just leave the company. The thing is that while I don't agree with a lot of what they say they've generally been sincere with me in the past.
I'm sorry, but who is _forcing_ you to do anything?
Washington Post gives this claim "one Pinocchio". [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/did-a...
Network effects are hard to tackle when there are established players. The easiest thing is to wait until Twitter and Facebook lose the coolness factor and the next generation is hungry for something else.