skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I love about Signal is their philosophy of "if it's not user friendly, nobody will use it, therefore it won't help anybody."

It's kind of like how Apple will combine security updates with stuff like new emojis: to increase the incentive for the general populus to update.

I sometimes compare Signal to iMessage, except it's cross-platform and private.
That's been tried so many times I've lost count; none of them ever gain any traction. I'm not really sure why, but at a guess I suspect it comes down to Google being able to outspend and already having deals with every major phone manufacturer and mobile provider.
Is ArangoSearch an Enterprise feature or is it available in the free Community Edition?
I bet someone will say now RAM is cheap. :D
I agree with you.
Same result on current Firefox with Windows 10
That’s a lot of the reason a large part of the US is pro gun. A few hundred people with weapons can cause so much pain they can negotiate with a nation (see the troubles in Ireland, especially near the end).

Point is, so long as a populous is armed it can strike fear in the government. Australia doesn’t allow guns in its citizens hands any more. They gave up their rights, now the government can do what it wants without fear.
By all accounts of those events, the people being assaulted by the riot police in this case went inside the restaurant to seek shelter from the tear gas. Restaurant employees were giving them water. Are you deliberately spreading lies or are you just just misrepresenting your wild guess as sound information ?
This is yet another Bloomberg article that highlights their lack of ability to directly perceive cryptocurrencies. They tend to get them confused with the parasitic financial markets that have sprouted up adjacent because that is their business and what matters to their readers. It's like describing an elephant by observing the behavior of the flies that swarm it's droppings.
Technical communities like this have to accept their role in perpetuating false narratives and a naive perspective of the world where everyone acts in good faith.

Like the exploding complexity in browsers touched on recently that makes it now impossible for small teams to develop in effect rewarding billion dollar companies and guaranteeing centralization and vested interests. Once done these are nearly impossible to reverse making it all the more important for the scrutiny to happen while it is happening.

Similarly there is something completely disingenuous and false about those who have been pushing ssl on the pretext of 'concern' end user privacy and surveillance when the response by the tech community both in comment and action to Snowden and Assange's revelations and invasive surveillance by Google, Facebook and others remains embarrassing if not non existent and in case of the latter even supportive, again promoting centralization and a few interests.
Equity means "equality of outcome". That's another way of saying "look which group is at the bottom of the hierarchy and improve their condition at the expense of those at the top". This is quite the opposite of what we, as a liberal, individualistic society want to achieve - we want equality of opportunity, so that everyone plays the game according to the same rules, but the outcome should be determined by competition, not through quotas or redistribution of goods. Because that's a Marxist way of taking care of problems, and we all know how well that went every single time they tried it.
It's funny Triplelift was even bidding that much. Maybe some publishers have detected the issue before it was known and milked it with ad networks.
Brave is rent-seeking the entire Internet and doesn’t deserve serious mention.
See https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-info...
Wouldn't the optimal strategy be just to stand still then?
We all have biases and those are largely shaped by media and pop culture and to a lesser extent personal experience. The talk of diversity evokes a lot of emotion. I sometimes think the focus ought to be not on race/religion/ethinicity but rather on how to prevent our assumptions from adversely affecting others.

There is a need for diversity training but the way I’ve seen it done is off putting to the people who need it most. All it ends up being is a virtue signaling fest for so called allies of minority groups and the real harm persists - people making false, often times demeaning, assumptions about others that adversely affect them.

I work in academia and have never been outside of academia. My belief about diversity training comes solely from my experiences within academia. Do companies spend time on diversity training? Is it a yearly training like it is in parts of academia? Do you find the way it is done off putting? Helpful?
For a huge "site battery" like this, what does lithium ion offer over storing energy as mechanical potential energy (pumping/moving something uphill)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage#Mechanical_stor...

I'm sure the battery can come online faster, but a it seems like a small battery can provide the "quick response" while the gravity-driven generator comes online.
Yes, but if there is any question, keep a really low profile. I know people who directly violated crazy non-competes and took jobs with direct competitors basically working the same position.

Skip the usual conferences for a year or two, fail to update linked-in in any meaningful way. Keep your mouth closed, and it becomes really hard for a company to toss cease and desist letters if they aren't even sure where your working. Going dark may not be a perfect defense, but lack of evidence makes it a lot harder.
Local on demand delivery service. Optimized and cheap. Packages. People. Files. Food. Drinks. Etc
jq is a C program.

In theory a truly specific program could work better. In practise, the broad scope of jq allows you to discover the operations you need and respond to changes in requirements without being locked into custom code, and any given programmer probably couldn't do the same job better.
What would be the downside of "pulling an Edge" and just making Firefox a Chrome fork with some Mozilla specific features? There's an alternative to Google, Mozilla saves a ton of money/time on duplicated effort, and developers only have to worry about testing against Blink/Webkit.

Servo/Quantum is cool, but it seems to be too late for that. I'm worried that Mozilla is simply in denial about this and when reality sets in course correction will be significantly more painful.
In my understanding, the most valuable service academic journals provide is peer review. If reviewers start accepting online submissions, people could simply send them links to their online articles hosted on their site or blog. Content would be licensed under the CC-BY-SA. If it passes peer review, the journal would simply link to it and also provide a PDF copy. Journals would become a directory of peer reviewed works.
Jean Sammet: Designer of COBOL
Not true. See https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-info...

Doesn't require factory built, does not require license.
So when is someone going to start a Sex-Positive Blogging Platform? These communities have always been marginalized by generic hosters - why not make one dedicated to the content?

Ohhh, right..... the advertisers.
StrongLoop – In the Loop – December 2018
The chap who came up with the term "meritocracy" actually did it in a dystopian novel:

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

A recent comment by the author, Michael Dunlop Young:

"It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."
Sincerely, I thank you for this post. In our current era, many people blindly follow what their echo chamber has to say. Your post is a refreshing reminder on the difference between advocating a position, as opposed to merely presenting one. The nuance is lost on many.
The court made the correct decision, but the idea that this sets some sort of anti-SEC precedent is false. It's more like the SEC just made a minor mistake in their court filing and then got told to go back and fix it.

It does offer legal protection to people who only did an airdrop and not an ICO, but realistically the SEC wasn't going to go after any of these people anyway unless they solicited exchanges to list their token.
Who wants a highly-engaged VC?
Uh, crashing??? I, like, never actually switched to Chrome in the first place (only using it sometimes for sites that "only work in IE^H^HChrome"), am using Firefox on multiple computers on Linux and Windows, and absolutely don't remember it crashing, for years at least!

(edit: tweaked to clarify)

edit 2: using Firefox on mobile (Android) too, for ~2 years now (i.e., since I have a smartphone), cannot recall a single crash over that timeframe either.
6 JavaScript User Authentication Libraries for 2019
Maybe. But I really-really wish we had Australia’s STV system here in the USA.
Leisure Suit Larry's source code reaches over $10,000 in eBay bids
This type of Bloomberg is typical of the 'glass half empty' variant of financial 'stories'. As others have explained not accurate and only discussing a future moment in time at the end of the options cycle'. Bloomberg was also full of 'glass half full' bitcoin articles a few months ago. Their quality seems to be descending, reminds me of what happened to Forbes a few years ago.
Battery manufacturing is actually advancing fairly quickly. The costs has been dropping at a pretty steady, steep rate for last 15-20 years.
>The larger subtext of the entire diversity conversation is learning to coexist. It's not about black people, women, the LGBTQ community, or any other single group. It's about a better working environment for everyone indefinitely. Being against that is literally pathological.

You claim the site doesn't have thoughtful comments and then you build up a strawman of diversity efforts and then claim being against it is 'literally pathological'. This is the problem.

People with grievances about how diversity programs are ineffective or are causing harm are labeled as 'pathological', etc by people on the left because they think the criticisms are against diversity in the first place. You are making enemies out of people who believe in equal opportunity because they point out flaws and injustices in diversity programs.

I recommend that you reflect on your positions if you want to build bridges. Assuming that everyone who points out flaws in an approach are against the much larger goal is a good way to needlessly divide everyone.
Usually the place where you realize you forgot your password is the login form. So the 'standard' link/button/whatever below/next to/in proximity of the login form works quite well for this.

Since the spec is intended for password managers and other user agents, it makes sense to have a standard location to access such functionality.

Also the page could be anything (i.e. doesn't have to be a redirect) so theoretically AWS could set up an account chooser that has links to all the appropriate places for your accounts
Statistically speaking - yes. I realy want to know what O2 had in mind by saying that.
That was precisely the point of FirefoxOS. Mozilla knew years ago that the browser wars would come to hinge upon platform defaults. If you want to have a dominant browser these days, you also need to ship hardware yourself, and you then need to convince people to use it.
The local town was host to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava which featured the Charge of the Light Brigade. The item may only be readily available around then, or got introduced to foreign armiers then.
> we should all be able to recognize it from miles away from nowaday.

Oh but we do. Then we rationalize it away, because "this time...". Like we do for Big Rewrites.

It might have something to do with the fact that programming is mostly a craft you learn by doing it, so we overvalue "doing it again" because that's how we usually get better.
Long Term Potentiation
The energy density of mechanical storage is pretty terrible, and you need the right geography to help.
(a) It takes several years to plan a project and then build it. So, this decision was made years ago, not "today".

(b) Battery prices (and pricing for the balance of the system) have dropped pretty rapidly, I'm not sure why you're claiming otherwise. There have been recent years where these systems have dropped in price by ~25%[1]. That's not insignificant.

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/not-so-fast-battery-prices-...
This would be great, but like you said, the sites you would really want to use this for would likely never implement it. Unless it were a requirement of something like GDPR..
CSIS raised the same alarm, article also cites the head of MI6 calling out Huawei 5G products
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadas-spy...

5 eyes alliance wants the monopoly on selling backdoored telecom equip is my cynical take from all the Huawei shenanigans lately like their CFO getting arrested yesterday.
One thing to keep in mind is that there is a big difference between Indian developers who work for outsourcing firms in India and Indian developers who work directly for American firms here in the States.

I've personally worked with a lot of great Indian developers (H1Bs, naturalized U.S. citizens, and native born U.S. citizens). I've never worked with an Indian outsourcing firm, but I've also never heard anything good about them from people who have.
If they have the capability to effectively ban all porn, they have the capability to fight child porn. This is something every legal site which allows image uploads has to deal with - every platform capable of hosting images will be used to host child porn, that's axiomatic. Yet somehow 4chan, Reddit and other large image-centric sites are at least willing to put in the effort without banning adult content wholesale.

And, just like Youtube suddenly "discovering" an entire industry of exploitative child videos on their platform, I have a difficult time believing Tumblr's owners didn't know this was an issue, given how widespread NSFW content is on their platform. The truth is, Tumblr was willing to look the other way on child porn until it directly harmed their monetization efforts.
>>This is one thing I never understood. Im conservative and race rarely crosses my mind.

I agree. And it probably explains phenomena like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/white-liber...
France’s Combustible Climate Politics
Stipulating that self-driving cars that can operate in dense urban areas in a wide range of weather conditions will exist some day...

Lots of people are still going to own cars, especially as you get to less dense areas where parking isn't difficult or expensive and cars are needed on a daily basis to go places, store things, etc.

What possible advantage, other than fleeting brand recognition, does Lyft or Uber have in a world where self-driving is a standard car feature? Why wouldn't Avis, Hertz, National, <insert new or existing fleet management company here> operate those short-term rentals? Or even the car manufacturers--although based on past behavior--they probably are primarily interested in building cars.
> On the other hand there are benefits to the ecosystem - find my iphone for example.

What does this have to do with an ecosystem? Lots of other devices on the market support similar or superior features.
Just to be clear, I'm not against helping other people. This is what I meant by NOT giving to charity - https://www.keela.co/blog/nonprofit-resources/charity-vs-phi...

"Don't give a man a fish, teach him how to fish"
The Archimedes absolutely blew the popular 16-bit 68000 machines (Ataris and Amigas) out of the water, that's for sure. Although to be fair it was more expensive.
Funny to see that an introduction to my favorite editor... from the year I was born.

I know it is a very different beast than what I use today. Still amazing to see that some core ideas have managed to keep it ticking all of these years.
I would recommend educating yourself on a contemporary Napoleon biography (I really loved Napoleon: A Life) before making such a strong claim. Napoleon is a very complex figure and your kind of blanket statement here is the kind I was rebelling against in my original comment.

The issue here is that writing a good account on Napoleon is very difficult. His enemies disseminated nonsense about him, and he was very careful about his public image even as a very young man.

I could get into the history: but Napoleon was fighting feudal leaders who aimed to restore the monarchy in France. They declared war on him many more times than he on them. The Napoleonic Code is one of the most influential documents in history and through it and Napoleon's influence helped spread the ideals of the French Revolution throughout Europe. Of course there are many negative things to say about Napoleon, but he is a very interesting person who deserves a look.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/we-better-off-napoleo...
The discussion was about specs/standards for .Well-Known. I pointed out that Apple's isn't in the list.

In that context I don't follow why you think linking to Apple's development guide helps clarify anything? It still isn't a specified standard, and still isn't on the list of them.
Posting like this (I would say unsubstantive flamebait but really it's just dross) will get your account banned. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When did the EFF turn into a porn advocacy group? Doesn't seem to really fit with what their core mission is supposed to be. And we should remember that what likely led to this was that there was a large amount of child porn being posted to the website. Advertisers probably didn't like that very much, and I imagine Verizon isn't interested in running a porn site anyways.
I disagree. They have presented an alternative to the current system of surveillance capitalism without forcing anyone into their platform.

I don’t really love the browser and wish the Brave protocol was available for Firefox, but hopefully we can get there sometime in the future.
I believe this comparison benchmark could be useful for you and you can expand further with more tests. Although I got downvoted for sharing a link.

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/blob/master/README.md
nodejs comes to mind!
Assuming he sold as many Bitcoin as he bought calls for, the options cost more than 20% of Bitcoin's highest price ever. (Black-Scholes is a harsh mistress.)

c.f. http://data.ledgerx.com/top100, Ctrl-F "2017-12-20 8:39 am"
No SOX!
I'm not US based, or in the industry so I don't have any direct experience, but your experience is surprising to hear.

From what I understood there was more a problem with sexism than racism in tech.
Also from my understanding Hispanics have also been marginalised (thought maybe not to the same extent).

Id appreciate your thoughts.
Nope. ARM and MIPS used concepts from RISC but that's where the similarity ends.
That was Microsoft before its transition over the past few years. Essentially every single product it’s own vertical with nothing shared, this went right down to having separate switches and server racks managed by separate people.

It’s quite an amazing transformation Microsoft has gone through, never complete of course, but still impressive.
> Eventually, Google will do something that is an abuse of their monopoly power.

This is one of Mozilla's problems: they constantly advertise privacy, etc. and while I agree their views in general, most users don't care. If you position yourself as the privacy respecting web browser, you will only ever get the tiny niche of people who care and everyone else who sees your marketing will just roll their eyes and makes jokes about tinfoil hats. That's not to say that Mozilla should do all the anti-competitive things Google does, just that they need to stop advertising themselves this way if they ever want to get any reasonable market share back (unless they want to be a niche browser for people who don't like Google, which is fine if that's all they want to do).

That being said, I don't see how any amount of marketing can fix Mozilla's problem for the same reasons the article pointed out.
You misunderstand. I'm saying that being against a better working environment for everyone is literally pathological because it's antisocial behavior. I didn't say disagreeing with the way companies approach diversity is pathological.
Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer
No. Liability is money you have an obligation to transfer.

Dreams that involve money are not liabilities, at all.
> I don't think the Colin Kaepernick approach is going to work on this, I think it's just going to take a while.

Did you mean "do" rather than "don't"? If not, I'm not sure how to interpret that statement.
OP here- I agree that that discussions are more interesting. A question about a stack is actually something we encourage and will encourage more in the comments for Decisions. But there are still a lot of problem/solution combos that can be useful without a discussion attached (these usually come in the form of full blog posts).

Our hope is actually that over time, you'll end up with this repository of discussions around problems/solutions for a wide range of use cases that you can come back to whenever you need help.
"We’ve seen great adoption with both among our G Suite customers."

That's nice. For people I've talked to it would be more accurate to say: we forced users off their old working solution onto this and they didn't quit yet.
Ex-Hong Kong politician faces jail after bribery conviction in US
If it makes you feel any better, corporate culture is soul-crushing to anyone with a soul.

Which isn't to devalue your experience - speech patterns in particular are likely an area where you have to code-switch much more drastically than, say, northern whites.
would it suck less if blacks were held to the same standards as other races when hiring?
Funny that Uber/Lyft get categorized as "ride-hailing" when they specifically don't allow you to hail a cab, only request one in advance.

But the alternative seems to be "ride-sharing", which is utter feel-good bullshit outside of the small percentage who use Uber Pool or Lyft Line, so I suppose it's the best we've got.
That's because they've done a shit job of building out a business that could act as the autotaxi. They are terribly placed to take advantage of self-driving vehicles, even if they perfect one, and they are spending in ways that are completely useless towards that long-term goal.

A self-driving taxi company is going to look a lot like a car dealership that doesn't sell cars, or a lot like a taxi company that doesn't have any drivers. They're going to have a huge number of cars, parking lots to store cars that aren't in use, and technicians to service, clean and fuel vehicles periodically.

Uber has none of these.

Meanwhile, they're blowing through most of their venture capital selling rides below cost.

This does nothing for their self-driving goals, because they aren't acquiring a "market", because there is no stickiness in taxi customers. It just wastes capital they will one day need to buy a huge number of self-driving vehicles and their maintenance facilities throughout the world.

They would be better off sitting on that giant pile of money, or operate as a cash-losing taxi company so they can build out their maintenance facilities with venture capital while having regular drivers drive regular cars (which could also be serving as platforms for data gathering and training machine learning models).
> But both pieces of news, the professor and CFO arrested are blocked in WeChat and Weibo so no one knew about it.

Stop it.

https://imgur.com/a/X4tTzpb
Usually for me

function > indistinguishability

when I'm trying to get something done. That's where I would start with a 5th grader.