skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "Multiple tax files of Dutch citizens had been published via www.docplayer.nl"

I don't speak or read Dutch, so I couldn't watch the video clip, but my guess is these tax files contained important and sensitive information. They were probably scraped from a government website.
Wouldn’t the dumb investors be avoiding it now? I think the smart investors would ideally form an opinion based on fundamentals instead of which buzzword is hot right now.
I have to be honest. Even at the time I didn't regard it as racist, but I sure as hell have avoided that term other than retelling the story ever since.
Multithreading is the stronger positive.

I'm guessing 8-bit strings is a minor positive, on the basis that you really don't need to deal with non-ASCII text in that kind of setting, and there's probably some performance benefit to not supporting it. Even if you stick to characters from 7-bit ASCII in your own data, if the strings are technically UTF-8 or UTF-16, then the fact that it's a variable-length encoding means that more string operations will involve costly branch instructions. And if UTF-32, your strings will be 4x as big as they need to be.

Not working on non-Unix is neutral. There's no benefit to it, but nothing was going to be running on Windows, anyway, so there'd have been no harm in it, either.
How to build a roadmap for early market products
Google employees: We no longer believe the company places values over profits
Not disagreeing with you, but with a lot of our manufacturing happening in China there is definitely a different kind of presence.

But still, not sure if they would give up the low cost of manufacturing for this. Frankly, the regime makes that possible.
Facebook knew of Russian threat even in 2014
It all started when we abandoned all the advances in UI that were accomplished by IBM and Microsoft (yes, Microsoft) in the 80s and let art majors start designing "UX".
There are probably millions of people with negative opinions about Google. The number of people who understand both Google's practices and the GDPR well enough to write a complaint is probably a lot lower.

Most people just use Internet services to get things done, rather than experimenting with them enough to know how they work. And they believe rumors.
It was flagkilled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543614

It definitely falls more on the political side than the tech side.
How many Chinese social credit points would the family members of the signer lose if a Googler were to sign this letter?
DNSpionage Campaign Targets Middle East
Really though, I felt similarly to OP until I read On Lisp[0] and Let Over Lambda[1]. They are chock full of explicit examples. You can only learn so much from StackOverflow questions and Quora answers.

I also hear good things about Paradigms of AI Programming, but I haven't read it yet. From Peter Norvig's retro on the book[2], here are the lessons in it which involve macros:

Design patterns can be used informally, or can be abstracted into a formal function, macro, or data type (often involving higher-order functions). [p. 177]

We can write a compiler as a set of macros. [p. 277]

If you can understand how to write and when to use once-only, then you truly understand macros [p. 853]

A word to the wise: don't get carried away with macros [p. 855]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
[1] https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc
[2] https://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB
You assume they don't already have leverage in Google. I would be more surprised if the Chinese haven't already found ways to leverage Google for external influence (akin to Russia, Iran, etc. via Facebook).

But I agree with the core point - the 'legal' influence would bother me just as much.
Too bad that first post card showed niagara falls - Ew. It is the antithesis of the open road spirit
Price.
Reliability.
Performance.
Confusion

Price is obvious, buying a second battery can be a hundred dollar affair and then the confusion sets in as a lot of time the spare batteries are not exactly the same as the original, most manufacturers offer spares in lower amperage to make the price lower. Confusion over volts versus amperage and how it applies to functionality. Performance system because these air cooled solutions will run down faster in tall or wet grass and battery reliability hasn't been great.

anecdotal
I owned a Ryobi 40V mower. Sold with a 5Amp battery. It was around four hundred dollars. A second battery a hundred and fifty dollars. If you had anything beyond a small lawn you need two or more else you just take an hour off. Grass gets tall or wet the motor works harder and battery life takes a hit and worse it got hot. A hot battery will not charge. Needless to say I returned it. the New 56V systems use a completely different batter and the higher amperage batteries are approaching four hundred dollars just for the battery.
Year-End Report Card on 2018 Top Tech Trends: IEEE Computer Society
The fact Supreme is 50% owned by the Carlyle Group, a massive private equity firm, is kind of a joke no? It's the total antithesis of what street/skate culture stands for.
Very cool thanks for sharing the project! I used fortran in college for meteorology, had a very oldschool professor. There was another guy who taught Matlab, i liked fortran more honestly. It was the old style fortran , reading thru your repo i think this version does look much more modern.

After writing code in fortran and running on a shared cluster with a buttload of CPU and RAM, working in a software shop doing python science stuff on a mac makes me miss the speed. I didnt give a about how big my source data was , but now with python, occasionally i miss the ol static typed compiled days. I am giddy when i get to do some numpy matrix array type stuff instead of just glueing things together with python magic!
Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)
> You can't sideload an app on an iOS device, you can't run unsigned apps, and there is no version of iOS you can run without the App Store. Unless you jailbreak.

This is not quite true. If you write your own app you can install it on your iOS device. If someone put an iOS app on, say, Github, you could easily install it. No need for the App Store or Apple's review process. An app does not need to be signed unless you want to submit it to the App Store. Also, you can install iOS without using the App Store if you have a developer account.

I'm not disagreeing with you that iOS is far less open than Android.
I don't think there is a single explanation, since the current state of nuclear is so diverse:

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/20180902wnisr2018...
Possible... But we know from a previous pesticide problem - DDT - just how disastrous a single chemical can be. And that was in the seventies: Big Ag has only gotten bigger since. I think agriculture has to be treated as the main cause unless definitive evidence to the contrary is produced. (And at the scales we're talking about, that evidence should be pretty easy to turn up, if it exists...)
Please do not refer to madness as "your." "This" would

be preferable. Also, I do not recognize that "our"
language should change to address a tiny minority
wishing to be referred to in a non-binary sense.

The analog between using computers and non-binary
self-identification is a strawman/woman/person/thing.
Which straw<something> will be acceptable?
In University I worked for a professor translating FORTRAN77 code to C. Tools existed for this, but did not produce human readable C code.

There is still a ton of Fortran code in academia.
Not to be cynical, but did another company take over that work for them? Did the police get their MRAPs?
Yeah, I understand your point and agree with it, it just probably wasn't very clear to me first, what was your intention and where you are going with the argument.
I like that sentence btw, very short and nice example!

edit: Nice, thank you for the link!
New tech needs to be easier and better, or it's not worth having. Forcing people to use bluetooth is not easier, and it's not better, so it' a bad idea. Period.

This is about what's good for Apple (and other companies making a similar change, plus the people who sell the peripherals), and not what's better for the users.
Sumatra PDF is nice. It is portable and remembers where you left off.
> Lawns are useful for standing on outdoors

Are they? Over here in Germany, most lawns I see, that ain't in parks, usually have "Keep off the lawn!" signs.
True, but outside of memory ordering, x86_64 and ARM64 are probably among the easiest to port between. Endianness, alignment and type sizes are the same, for example. Plus a lot of code already has been ported to both.
you got the idea, when a company allocates resources for mobile, the rest gets less, ultimately that's N platforms to support, and the less platforms, the less costs.
PDF page 53 of the document with canonical URI of [1], resolved by the doi.org resolver [2] to a pdf with a NIST URL [3].

[1] doi:10.6028/NIST.IR.8202

[2] https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8202

[3] https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
I think at a minimum, blockchains also require some kind of byzantine consensus mechanism to manage mutations over a (potentially) hostile p2p network.

(Yes, private permissioned blockchains aren't necessarily p2p, but I'd argue that they need to use byzantine consensus too -- otherwise there's no reason not to just use a managed database instead.)
Only dev instances should see zero traffic, any production site will have > 0 load at all times.
The Myth of Truth: How the System Automatically Excludes Truth
Exactly, then they wonder why readership is declining.
>and still no path for insurance/storage/reprocessing etc.

Exactly the same argument applies to carbon waste. Every closed nuclear plant or nuclear plant not built means there is more carbon waste.

Edit: Can someone explain the downvotes? By carbon waste I mean CO2 emissions. We look set to destroy our civilization in the next few decades due to their elevated level.

Nuclear waste is tangible, CO2 is abstract, but other than that I don't see the difference between them.

No one has insurance for the damage caused by excess CO2, we don't have good ways of storing most of it, and we have only limited, tentative efforts to reprocess it from the atmosphere.

Instead of nuclear waste, we chose carbon waste by building more power sources that use carbon.
> one big misconception is that blockchain will magically solve the interoperability issue where multiple parties have data in disparate formats.

That reminds me so hard of RDF/"linked data", which was (and is still in some sectors) popular for same motivation I think.

Data interoperability is a real problem, with real pain, which is why people get so excited about tech they think will solve it. But no magic technology is going to solve it, it's a human problem. (At least I can see _why_ people (wrongly) thought RDF would; no idea how they arrived at that misconception of blockchain).
There are hundreds of thousands of developers around the world who dream every day about working at Google. If you think a few dozen engineers aren't replaceable by a company like Google, you are wrong.
I'm no investor, but I assume a whole year of the markets crashing would discourage people.
FAIR and NYU Share FastMRI Tools; Release Largest-Ever MRI Dataset
Yeah, it seems like it's more of Google's desire than China's, even, which especially makes it questionable.
"Your product offers a differentiated type of messaging and encourages users to invite their friends to join them on the new messaging platform." ... "That’s the limitation of this strategy: If the messaging experience isn’t actually better in-product than over SMS or email, users will just find it annoying."

What kind of "differentiation" are they thinking of? I would pay good money to not have to deal with any (more) proprietary chat systems. They're all annoying. "Download the app" and "Register here" are just synonyms for "Back" and "Mark as spam".

There's a couple tech giants whose chat systems I use, only because I've got friends and colleagues who use them. Unless your new chat system will get me a job, or is the only way 1/3 of my friends will send messages online, I'm not going to touch it.

I don't understand how we ended up with so many incompatible chat systems today. Did we learn nothing from SMTP? Is XMPP not good enough? Are we so petty that compatible communications are somehow an anathema?
Making technical decisions when you can't know the right answer
Nondisclosed-by-default research, and how this policy fits into our strategy
Fonts and typefaces have unique copyright laws that are different from other forms of art/communication. I made a more detailed comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541934
>If a sword has snapped in half was it welded back together

I'm not aware of any physical period examples of this happening HOWEVER the Gísla saga mentions a broken sword being used to fashion a spearhead.

Melting the metal back into bar stock would have been a waste of time and resources if you could just forge it into something else. The above example of making a spearhead, as you suggest making a shorter blade is logical, someone could have just reused it to pattern weld (pattern welding existed by the 2nd century in Europe) another implement.
One perfect use case is amateur radio cloud logging. Logbook of the World[0] is the defacto standard, which implements cryptographic signing, but the database is centralized, and it's consistently broken, lagging, and needs frequent updates and downtime, and due to this it probably costs a lot of money to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and her members. Blockchain is the perfect solution IMO.

[0]: http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world
>or at least against HOA rules

WTF!? I am from Europe, is this really a thing? Although,it wouldn't surprise me, watching American Movies, lawn and suburbia seems inseparable.
while we colloquially say CAT5, any new wiring should be CAT6 (or 6A) nowadays since the cost difference is negligible for much more bandwidth.
Thats why we still use it at my work (CFD). Its easier to produce fast matrix/linear algebra code than C++ for a scientist who is not a Software Engineer.
How to start an NYC startup in 3 steps
If they break a lot, you should find better headphones.

My JLab Audio Diego earbuds have lasted for the past two years, and I don't treat them well—they stay in my back pocket, and have experienced several trips through the washing machine.

And if they ever do break, the cost of a replacement is $15. That's barely more than the cost of the headphone jack to lightning adapter that I would need if I upgraded from my 6S.

And they have a flat cord that very rarely gets tangled.
As opposed to the 45% it takes to sells video game in retail.

https://kotaku.com/5479698/what-your-60-really-buys
Deceived? It’s not deception, it’s user laziness. Laws shouldn’t exist because people are lazy.

If so called “dark patterns” (subjective) are deceptive then you could argue most of commerce is deceptive. If I go to a retail store and am guided toward a product that I don’t necessarily need, is that deception? If a car salesman convinces me to buy his mostly useless extended warranty, is that deception? Where is the line?

Most commerce relies on information asymmetry. People are just picking on the tech industry because they’re highly profitable.
NIST would apparently have you believe that a spreadsheet & email are just as effective.
Clickbait garbage: According to Alexa the site is ranked as the 209,334 most visited site in the world, and the 3,945 most popular site in The Netherlands.
> all of this is extremely reductionist at best and trying to push a malicious self serving agenda at the worst which can cause havoc in hands of any stupid policy makers.

First thing that came to mind for me was eugenics. This kind of pseudoscience is very dangerous.
Git isn't decentralized, each data store has an owner.
We’re talking about different places.
The article and other sources report the majority of bankruptcies are in the dairy industry. It’s the result of US-Canadian trade disputes and overcapacity in the dairy industry which precedes the dispute. The CAD-USD exchange rate doesn't help either.

A gallon of 2% milk in Canada is about double the price in the US. I think its reasonable to assume that if Trudeau can't bring retail food prices down and resolve this dispute he's going to have to go back to surf boarding and substitute teaching in 2020.
It's been a few months since I checked, maybe they just happened to not have them when I was looking, thanks!
Here's one library from Google, used by Certificate Transparency: https://github.com/google/trillian
Most commercial buildings have extensive landscaping but try to limit huge patches of green grass as it's hard and expensive to maintain - unless they're using it as a signal for wealth and opulence (like a fancy hotel) or labour is really cheap.

If you've ever had a chance to run/play on modern artificial turf it's amazing. I think most facilities would love to switch to it but it's super expensive.
Ask HN: How to iterate product when you don't have many users?
I'm curious what are some best practices when you need to get initial feedback from real organic users, but your product currently has very few users (just beta launched for instance)
You can buy a Netflix subscription through the App Store but you don’t have to. Netflix must have decided it was worth it.
> I get the impression ATM that copyright infringement is legal as long as nobody complains.

Copyright infringement is never legal. Yes, it's often not enforced until someone complains, but there is a difference between enforcement and legality.

> TL;DR it's not a crime if nobody complains.

It is a crime even if nobody complains, you're just not getting caught or reprimanded. It is possible to hurt someone without getting caught. That doesn't make it okay.
Bush Jr. also did a lot of destruction with the war on terror, and before that we had the war on drugs... Etc. Its something ongoing since the early days with the US (and most countries). Sometimes someone gets into power, but even if they wished to do great things, I get a feeling that they would not be allowed to do so.
NIST nailed it :)
I have a few questions:

1. A company is offering services in exchange of personal information.

2. Clients are perfectly voluntarily and most of them knowingly using those services, volunteering their personal information.

3. Why in hell should a third party forbid the above mentioned two parties to conduct business under the treat of physical retaliation (being thrown to jail or shot in case you resist arrest)? Isn't it yet another "crime" without a victim? Don't we have way too many of those "crimes" already? How exactly are those regulators better than Shariah "politicians"?
> he's not racist, by the way

Literally his first appearance in the NYT was for being a racist asshole - https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/07/30/1973-meet-d...
China regularly makes people disappear. They are the epitome of a 1984 style totalitarian state: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/asia/fan-bingbing-china-opini...
I'm not a programmer, I'm an academic. Topics in my academic specialty routinely get posted on HN. When they do, I browse the comments section, look for users who exhibit many signs of lacking rigor and/or intellectual honesty, and add to my filter accordingly, on the grounds that their opinions on programming topics are probably not worth reading either.

I'm also a Chinese person. China matters is like an extra AOS for me and so I apply cosmetic filters for the same reasons
Do you really think Google stepping in would prevent them from selling ads to unlicensed hospitals, etc.? If anything, this represents Google’s willingness to violate the moral standards of their own employees (I’m talking about the majority, and leadership prior to being corrupted by greed) no matter what, so long as it means growing their revenue/profit.

It was clearly demonstrated that all Google cares about is money, when they canceled project Maven immediately after protest, yet refuse to back down on Dragonfly. The only difference? Dragonfly promises to be immensely profitable, whereas Maven was small enough that the employees lost over it was assessed to cost more than the project’s profit.

So you really think that Google would then suddenly develop the moral fortitude, out of thin air, to reject bad ads in China that are nonetheless profitable? Even if their policy is to do so now, don’t expect that to stay — remember, their policy used to be ’we will not be complicit in censorship, because it is morally wrong, period.’

And even if it did, many would argue that it’s still a bad idea to seek a short term good at the expense of the long term. Enabling state censorship by giving the state more advanced censorship tech, could be seen as akin to enabling a heroin addict by giving them more heroin. Sure, they’ll feel good and they won’t suffer withdrawal. But overall it’s going to lead to a very dark place that ultimately yields extreme suffering and often even death.
> There is no implicit licence. This is an oft-circulated but fallacious rationalization made by computer people that is not in line with the law.

> The law does not recognize any such thing

Okay, so you said it three times, but it doesn't make it true. Implied license is a real legal doctrine in both the general law of licenses and copyright in particular, at least in the US.

See, just for a random case incorporating this doctrine, Effects Associates, Inc. v. Cohen, 908 F.2d 555, 9th. Cir. (1990) https://m.openjurist.org/908/f2d/555/effects-associates-inc-...
I don't understand how typeface licensing works. I normally just pay once and be done with it (essentially buying it) but this thread makes it sound like you need to pay by usage or something?
Boy I can't wait for Eugenics 2.0! I'm sure it will be better the second time around.
A lot of places will confiscate your property and potentially throw you in prison if you don't grow and maintain a lawn our laws were written in the 1950s when nobody heard the word carbon footprint.
> (At least I can see _why_ people (wrongly) thought RDF would; no idea how they arrived at that misconception of blockchain)

There was briefly the bad idea that "NoSQL means we don't have to care about our schemas anymore" bridging the other two bad ideas.
Here are the rules: you can offer subscription on your site, but you can't link to it in the app. If you want to buy a subscription for Netflix/Spotify in the app, then Apple will take 30% cut.
Some sites give this option with increased price by 30% to move payments to their sites, some don't.
The last step should be "You should use git"
You’re really going to compare domains with their near infinite options in both Tld and address characters to a seat on public transportation and affordable housing? I’m just embarrassed for the argument at this point.
iwantmyname.com for domains, simple registration with very little upselling or marketing gumpf

CloudFlare for DNS

Vultr or DigitalOcean for hosting
A technology which incentivizes consuming all available resources and favors those with the most sounds like a perfect fit for amateur radio.
Congestion Pricing Was Unpopular in Stockholm – Until People Saw It in Action
I was honestly expecting a picture of the word "No".
Obligatory quote when Fortran comes up:

"I don't know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN."
-- C.A.R. Hoare, ca. 1982