skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Google Cloud Security and Compliance Whitepaper" linked elsewhere on this thread:
https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo...

Relevant bits start at page 12:

"G Suite customers own their data, not Google."

"There is no advertising in the G Suite Core Services, and we have no plans to change this in the future"

etc.

Ultimately the biggest cudgel you have to wield here is in the sales contract you're signing, but my understanding is that the baseline privacy guarantees are standard for all customers at the strictest level -- people actually opt to reduce the restrictions on their data so that new features get built with their use cases in mind (otherwise we wouldn't know what those actual use cases were).

A lot of companies use G Suite and a lot of them have very strict privacy + security requirements. This is the same platform used by fintech companies, healthcare companies, MegaCorps, etc.

Sort of a thing with all non-web-search Google products: I can't fathom how people see the $5B/quarter "other revenue" line on our earnings statements and think that just doesn't matter and somehow we have to get the "real" money from ads. We definitely did ads-supported-consumer first and we've been doing it the longest and it makes the most money, but how many email providers would kill to have half of that quarter as their annual revenue? G Suite, Cloud, etc are very real businesses in their own right and that's even while being very young and coming from a company that didn't start with any inherent strengths in enterprise markets.
I am 50 now and I definitely feel that my body can't endure hard training that well anymore and little injuries just keep accumulating. I am now doing a relatively mild yoga routine every morning and I feel I can maintain that for a long time.

I always wonder how the people over 40 training for a triathlon do in the long run. Do they accumulate more and more problems until they can't do it anymore? How do they handle injuries that don't allow them to run anymore?
Most companies are more pragmatic than this. Change adds risk, and companies which select RHEL are relying on it's stability and enterprise support, and will likely continue to do so, until there is a real, material reason to reconsider, such as IBM changing the pricing or service agreement.

(Note as a comparison, individuals who distrust Microsoft moved their projects off GitHub when it was acquired, but most businesses, even those in direct competition with Microsoft, such as Google, did not.)
That askscience AMA is really interesting
Could you argue that, with UPMC owning the hospital and also offering the best insurance plan for the area, the mandate increases the number of people buying their plan who otherwise would not?

> evil government insurance mandate

Don't try to gin us up. Honestly, I'd prefer single-payer. The stop-gap insurance mandate is far from optimal, which is why a lot of us don't like it - not because we think it's "evil."
Ask HN: Is there a way to turn a list of queries into a Google's first result?
I have a list of 1000's of search queries and would like to have a link to the first result of a google seach for each query.

Is this possible with python or some other way?

thanks
Yay finally 4.18 Kernel in RHEL.
Prediction: this thread is going to be a honeypot for ICO advertisers and bad opinions.

No ICO has had a real utility in my opinion. Some smart contracts and some cryptocurrencies do seem to be getting there, but not the ICOs I'm afraid.
Look at the interview process these days. There are plenty of people capable of doing the jobs out, but who can be bothered to jump through all the nonsense hoops?
I respectfully disagree with this notion - just pay more to workers. There are many people who in this very thread talk about sustainability of businesses, especially those cannot survive without lower wage jobs. All the while ignoring the reasons behind why businesses actually do that.

Couple of years ago, I traveled to US for the first time. And the most startling thing for me was - the relative price of stuff in US. Let's take for example - McDonalds. In US, they use the cheapest ingredients and pay workers minimum wage to keep food costs low and accessible. Sure, you might say the food is shit but cheap and accessible nonetheless. In contrast, my native country (a developing one) they use same cheap ingredients and "decent pay" to employees. The end result is that 95% of the population cannot afford their burgers. McDonald's burgers are considered luxury items.

So, I think people should also think along those line. Why are companies actually not willing to pay more? It is easy for everyone to be cynical and say cheap labor benefits few millionaires/billionaires but that is not the full story.
Full title is: "Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it."
The people in these countries dont respect programmers, they pay them peanuts. How are they going to innovate?
Decentralized exchange protocols like https://0xproject.com/ and https://kyber.network/
> the recent Tesla occupational-safety case, the statute of limitations ran from time of the incident until time of resolution, so stalling did cancel the government intervention.

The one with Tesla I am familiar with ran to filing action. The investigation found previously-unknown potential violations which were too far in the past for CalOSHA to initiate legal action regarding them.

Do you have a source for something else?
It has worked great in the US, see the DARPA challenges etc. Plenty of those programs have worked out, it is pointless to point only at failed ones.
I wouldn't give up being able to use a computer for a billion dollars!
Yes, but it will eventually only be accessible via the old API.
There is plenty of reason to see it as a bit grim, but a lot of good has been done. I was specifically thinking of the industrial revolution and the abysmal human rights records, pollution and desperate mill towns which ground people to death. It’s a low bar, but things have got better.
Agreed, he won't know the ramifications of burgeoning security issues without someone else telling him what to think.
I love this, and wish it well.

I currently host my personal repositories on GitLab, as I see the monoculture that has developed around GitHub to be dangerous for the community in the long term. I went ahead and created an account on sr.ht, and subscribed for the $20 / year plan. Whether or not I end up using the service (though I think I will), I'm happy to spend $20 to support this work.

One note - the billing plans seem to be recurring right now. If you could offer an option to make a one-time payment, that would be much appreciated. If anyone else is interested in subscribing to support the project but doesn't want a recurring charge on their card, you can go to https://meta.sr.ht/billing and "cancel", which will turn off autorenewal but leave your account active for the term for which you've paid.
>My personal view is that it's dumb to use 'inherited wealth' as a gauge of a person's character or competence

For others, for example, inherited wealth means inherited culture (from their cultivated parents etc). It's not as much "inherited wealth" but inherited class (as in the sentence "this man has class").

Plus, even if it's not the perfect gauge of "character of competence", respecting such a wealth order can be argued that results in a stabler society than one where people always compete for a place at the top.

Not saying that I agree with those arguments (and they are not the sole ones fans of that arrangement make).

>For the past century, that view has also been the majority view in the West.

Depends, because there's a very real classism in both the US and (even more so) the UK for example. Both in that rich families take care of their own, consider themselves a separate league above the rest, and see outsiders as intruders, and in the very real sense that for all "startup rags to riches" success stories, those in top don't change that much:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-10/rich-k...

https://newrepublic.com/article/116462/family-wealth-lasts-t...

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

And people still consider nouveaux-rich ("new money") as gaudy and uncultivated.
A large proportion of US economists are employed by the Fed and government agencies. Many others in academia do government-sponsored research. Not surprisingly, they won't advance in their careers if they advocate for fewer government interventions in the market.
> not based on merit but based on market capture

I'm not sure about that distinction. Users prefer something about YouTube compared to it's competitors. That's merit, even if it's not the particular merits that content creators would prefer.
Which is a good thing.

As for FB itself, once upon a time Hi5 and MySpace were all that matter for social networking.

Also many European social networking sites like Xing are doing pretty ok, in spite of GDPR.
Augur is the best example. It's live, and works very similarly to how it was conceived. It's slow and relatively expensive (1-2% per transaction), but that was the plan all along, get something out there that can be improved and iterated on. they have a roadmap in place to make it faster and cheaper. They have pushed out like 8 or so updates since going live in July.
Having humans doing customer service is not something google will ever do well. It’s not in their DNA. They are all about solving big problems with fancy algorithms.

There is a reason Google keeps on making failed social networking products and a 100 messaging apps. They are far more interested in algorithms that can scale than messy little customer issues.

The problem is that you can’t deliver great customer service with algorithms just yet.
Just signed up. I like the old fashioned user URL, reminds me the age of public_html

https://lists.sr.ht/~ontouchstart

BTW, please add a nice 404 so people won't see that you're running nginx/1.14.0 :-)

https://sr.ht/~ontouchstart
> For providers that service insurance companies, its impossible. The insurance decides what to charge. First, it doesnt matter if the doctor charges 100 or 1000, if the insurance covers it.

That's a fair point -- so fix that. The insurance company wants to decide how much they'll pay, so let them, and let it be on the low side and then let there be lower cost plans that only pay 80% or 65% of even that cost. Then publish the price list and let the customer choose their provider and pay out of pocket any amount above what the insurance company pays. This deal where the customer pays the same amount no matter which provider they use is poison.

> Second, most health-services that matter are insurance-based: its a cost after you got the disease, which changes the decisions you get: if you are on Anthem and get cancer and see cancer treatment is cheaper on Cigna, are you going to change the entire doctor panel that diagnosed you? (Which btw ,is a degrade of medical care).

Which is another reason why they should stop doing that, and just have a list of services they cover and the amount they pay under your plan. Then you go wherever and get the service and pay the difference between the insurance coverage you bought and the price the provider charges. There should be no such thing as out-of-network. If someone else charges more and you're willing to pay the difference, there you go.
I'm pretty sure the labor theory of value was more central to Adam Smith's work than the Invisible Hand.
About as many that left Github when it was acquired by Microsoft.
STORJ is releasing its v3 of the network next year. Their community managers and company are hiding data and making their network less and less transparent (stopped publishing public data regarding network usage, data breakout per payout address, transparency and automation around usage logs and payouts), but it is still a product and dev side is making huge progress on it.

https://storj.io/
Trove of newly released NASA audio puts you backstage during Apollo 11
https://airswap.io
My Algorithm professor in College had never used a Computer. He had a phd in Mathematics. Started off teaching Mathematics. When CS department was setup, he was invited to teach Maths in CS department. Then he switched to teaching subjects like Algorithms, Data Structures etc. He had never sat in-front of a Computer in life.
I occasionally have a fantasy about Apple putting their latest
A-X chip on a SBC form factor for $50 and open sourcing the drivers and letting people go nuts with it.

It's one of those things that will never ever happen because we don't live in a perfect universe.
Too bad it doesn't come with Python 3.7, only 3.6. Fedora 29 managed to switch to 3.7, although it was released just two weeks ago.
Are you seriously arguing a fingerprint is an aesthetic symbolic pointer in the way a name is? That you are going to just refer to other people (whether IRL or online) by "fingerprint"? That people choose their fingerprints based on what they think will be a good one? That there can just be a simple process to arbitrarily change their fingerprint if they later decide they'd prefer another one?

Because all of those apply to user IDs.
Introduction to NativeScript
> where the entry of new producers is prevented or highly restricted.

Is there a term for when a new entry can be easily killed if the other party simply decides to duplicate their product/service/offering? Google and FB do not prevent entry, but they sure can kill new entrants easily with funding. See Instagram implementing 'Stories' which killed Vine. See Twitter Periscope killing Merekat, etc.....
There are lots of products and services that require massive amounts of resources, time, and research in order to compete. Like spacecraft, military aircraft, pharmaceuticals, etc. Basically you can only compete on those fronts if you are a billionare/huge corporation. It would be very hard for a new player to compete with SpaceX given their head start. That doesn't mean SpaceX has a monopoly on spacecraft, you can always buy a Russian rocket.

A monopoly (in my mind) would be more like Comcast. Since they've lobbied for laws in a lot of places that make it extremely hard to dig up the ground and put in new telecomm infrastructure, they completely control the supply of terrestrial internet service and there are literally no other ISP choices in many places. Thus, your only alternatives are non-terrestrial ISPs (LTE, satellite, etc).
I must have missed this. I really appreciate the intersection of art, satire and technology in the concept.
But isn't this the very definition of fascism? Industry and government scheming together at the cost of the little guy?
World Bank pulls $300m Tanzania loan over pregnant schoolgirl ban
You are being willfully ignorant and have a poor grasp of what a "free market" is.

Healthcare isn't a "free market" because of massive information asymmetry (detailed prices for services, consumer education needed to evaluate information), high barrier to competition, and of course the literal product being your life.

Whereas cars are much closer to a free market. Sure, you might need to drive to work, or you can take a bus or other public transportation, ride a bike, walk, move closer or to another area somewhere this is easier to do, find a job that lets you work from home, etc.

If you choose to buy a car you can gather tons of information, pick a product to fit your specific budget, and end up with something that works everywhere. You can sell the product in the future. Contrast this with healthcare where you can't generally evaluate the information, have minimal to no pricing choices (especially in certain time sensitive situations), etc.
Well, yes you do, because the thing that makes this complicated is all the various out of process dependencies like the database.
Yeah, but why not switch to dnf entirely since this is a major release? Fedora dropped yum some time ago.
That answers my question : why do these guys keep redesigning a perfectly fine UI, making it actually worse than it was, not solving any real UX issues?
Why favor big companies that already have resources?
I think the argument here is that people are too reactionary with their health and aren't capable of planning in advance. I would say if public and private interests were in alignment here it could look something like the lobby against smoking cigarettes. People are giving up smoking in droves because of many public campaigns to educate people. If people were only reactionary they would smoke until they started getting sick, but people are capable of being educated to behave rationally in a free market, I think.
Interesting point, and it brings up an interesting question: how to publish the password in such a way that it can be verified that it happened, and when. You'd want something publicly timestamped. Twitter might suffice.
Is there anything public on release date aims?
Other than Bancor I'm not sure these count as ICOs. There's a lot of successful smart contracts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/comments/5oyr28/maker_ico_...
It's a common sentiment amongst those who think they're educated about security. Just like "rotate passwords at rapid intervals and you must satisfy this baroque complex set of requirements for them too" is common sentiment. Unfortunately.
Not sure about QNT but NMR and VXV definitely
Please do a Show HN when you do so!
Super Airdrop Festival from Bithumb
TLDR : actual progress is slower than expected ;)

The article also mentions skepticism over China HW efforts, and and also compute shortages, which i find surprising

I generally feel that the compute is solvable given time/funding/R&D. But i am a software guy ..
IBM was saved by an outsider Louis Gerstner - who worked outside computer industry before entering IBM... Maybe this was his critical advantage...
That one bit me really hard today.

We're using hundreds of raspberry's as digital signage devices and before deploying them I checked a few of them and found out that sometimes the source files of the app were empty.

After a lot of headscratching and googling we boiled it down to a write delay to the SD card.

If you do echo "test" > test.txt and power off the device like 5 sec. after, and power it on again, there was a file called test.txt with 0 bytes.

I'm still baffled how something like this can be a common problem especially since raspberry pi usage is so widespread
I love that you are able to support FreeBSD but Travis CI couldn't even be bothered. Is there support for Windows as well?
Ask HN: Why not use cloud seeding to fight forest fires
That's not my point. My point is that people don't take long term risk of mother nature screwing them into account when they're deciding where to live, they just look at the short term benefits. They don't bother to account for there being a high chance of mother nature destroying their home within their lifetime.

"Surf and ski in the same day brah" is an example of a short term benefit.
as long as peter thiel's on the board you generally have to assume they're doing at least this level of scummy shit.
High level, low level formally refers to the level of abstraction of the virtual machine of the programming language with respect to the "target" model of computation. We say assemblers are "low level" since it adds very little abstraction to the von neumann machine it's intended to run on, on the other hand, python programs compile to a long set of instructions. One can formalize this concept using Kolmogorov complexity. (i.e. what's the size of smallest assembler program implementing python)
I did a full heads down comparison of a bunch of text editors for Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) and their practical features and I ended up going with Summernote:

https://summernote.org/

it's definitely not perfect and seems to not be developed as much as the others but it handles copy and paste VERY well. I can literally copy test from my editor (intellij) and it keeps the formatting perfectly.

With Polar users need a way to reliably annotate their books and having a quality text editing component is important.

I think I'm going to look at Slate too but also look at CKEditor5... both seem like really decent options.
If he was 25 in '75 I doubt that his staff was sorting his _e_mail.
This is complicated(even for developers) and requires additional devices. People hate extra devices. Verdict: fail!
Users prefer something about YouTube compared to it's competitors

That something is the vast amount of copyrighted content...
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
If your business can't afford a higher wage, you don't deserve to be in business. McDonalds isn't going to go out of business paying more, it'll come out of shareholder profits.

@coredog64: I agree that Starbucks would be a better example.
really cool, I like it
Enter Solokeys [0]. They support U2F out of the box, and they say OpenPGP (can be used for SSH) is in the works.

I've yet to receive mine, so I don't know if they work or not..

[0] https://solokeys.com
I didn't notice anyone mention shipping container homes.
If built with fireproofing in mind (ie the builder refrains from adding any flammable materials to the outside walls), I'd imagine they'd be fairly impervious by default.

Granted, they're not very pretty 'by default' (although they can be made so and still remain flame-proof) but as far as practicality/value/safety goes, that is what I would do if I was buying/building a home in a place like CA.
After checking out the website I would say I'm very skeptical about the actual value it delivers.

This is basically a wrapper around Etheruem with more buzz words. Nothing interesting going on.
The reason Google remains market dominant is because nobody is offering alternatives that the larger consumer market cares about, including DDG. People are more than willing to sell themselves to advertisers for a good experience, and that's exactly what Google provides.

If some search engine came and produced vastly superior results to Google, people would absolutely switch. That's how Google came to power in the first place: their results were just better.

Not sure what we can be expected to do. Split up Facebook and everyone will eventually flock to 1 maybe two services. Split up Google and you take away the majority of "free to use" apps because those are dependent on Google's advertising.
Spotify makes a play for the Middle East with an Arabic service
My advice as an internet nobody:

Don't worry about that dumb crap. JS is a good language. It's come a long way since its dark early days.

People who shit on JS and on those that like it are usually not worth your time. I find those people are more interested in displaying their intellect or superiority by being condescending. It's not helpful.

Read and watch Douglas Crockford if you haven't. He has extracted the best aspects of Javascript to focus on. If you take his advice then I believe you will find JS to be a very good companion.

Just don't let JS be your only language. No language should be your only language.
Keeping salaries low for proven engineers is the height of short sightedness.
I don't mind those questions in an interview as long as the recruiter is not just reading them from a paper sheet, and actually know this stuff. This can be a way to find a candidate with a strong theorical CS background. Which can be relevant for some positions.

Now, I've seen my fair share of recruiters that did not really understand the topic at hand when asking theorical CS questions, let alone the desired answer. I do so always get really suspicious when they occur.
Twilio to acquire Sendgrid