skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I disagree with the premise. The accusation only holds if your definition of "selling data" includes any transaction where data is leaked as part of a transaction.

This seems equivalent to arguing that poachers don't actually "kill" elephants, it's just an unintended side effect of shooting them and ripping their tusks out.
Ah, “net send”. I remember it fondly. For a brief period almost 20 years ago I worked for a medium sized desktop software company. They had draconian restrictions on what we could do on the work computers. The only approved form of electronic communication was email, nothing instant. Many folks hated email, so the only real way to get an answer from a colleague was to get up and walk over. Being that I hated being interrupted by others walking up, I tried to be responsive to emails, but folks in the org were so used to others not looking, they just always defaulted to walking up. I then realized that while everything was very locked down, for some reason net send wasn’t. First in a small group of folks I told, but soon most of the office knew and was using it, tech folks and otherwise. Then someone had to go and see what else the net command could do. Said malicious person started rebooting other people’s machines. Needless to say, this got IT security involved (IT was in the Corp office, so hadn’t learned about our usage till then somehow). This lead to an investigation and ultimately it came to be known I started the usage. IT tried to blame the malicious loss of work due to the reboots on me, but thankfully my boss argued correctly I had nothing to do with that, they needed to find the real perp. IT’s solution was to put in a very crappy IM system (can’t remember what it was), lock down net command, and not bother finding the malicious person. Their “ultimate spite” though was to block me from using the new IM system (actually it sucked so bad it wasn’t really a loss) as “I was shown to misuse resources”. Needless to say, I didn’t stay much longer and jumped ship for a better job.
"The Pokemon games are very complex for games designed for children, as are games like Yokai Watch"

This is one of those "don't underestimate children" times. I was playing Ultima 4 at the age kids play Pokemon nowadays. But it's definitely designed for 10-14 year olds, and I wouldn't even be surprised a 14 year old not wearing nostalgia goggles would actually start to notice it's getting kinda easy.

A lot of that "complexity" is just fluff. Non-competitive Pokemon is still like most other (J)RPGs; ultimately, an answer to every problem (not the answer, but an answer) is to trade time for levels and just blast your way through the next boss. And time is what kids have at that age.

A systemic problem with the genre and the exponential-power-gain treadmill. There are solutions, like the Shin Megami Tensei approach of greatly raising the power of non-level-related elements, or the Disgaea approach of just embracing it and going nuts, and some other things (Elder Scrolls has tried a couple of solutions though I'm not in love with either of Oblivion's or Skyrim's attempts to solve this) but the exponential-power-gain approach is still pretty dominant.
1. [citation needed]
2. How is this relevant to this article?
Well yeah, factory farmed monoculture anything is worse for the environment - organic or not... time to plug permaculture once again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

Anyone interested in learning more - this is a great free introduction: https://open.oregonstate.edu/courses/permaculture/
This thread is getting too deep and too narrow (visually) to read on HN. So I will summarize and stop here.

1. It is a good observation that Jupyter runtime follows an agent-based computation model instead of the MVC of smalltalk, or functional reactive Spreadsheets. Theoretically they are equivalent in the Turing sense. But this model opens huge opportunities that allow it to mimic how human brain and human societies work. It is all about messages, context containers and just-in-time computation.

2. This paradigm change also affects how we grow (instead of building) software architecture, which is the topic of the root of this HN submission. In the build/develop paradigm, software engineers focused on requirements, specification, foundation, frameworks, ..., i.e., the house building metaphor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns ) But if you are growing a software project, there is no architecture. Then you should use agriculture metaphors: ecosystem, environment, energy cycle, water cycle, etc. It is about seeding, weeding, environment control, harvesting and sustainability. Push it a little bit further, programmers in this paradigm are more like software farmers than data plumbers in a data warehouse or code assemblers in a factory.

It was a nice discussion in a virtual public square. I enjoyed it a lot. I hope you did as well.
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You really think the relationship between a boss and an employee is symmetrical?
That Oomph your hip hop collection has been lacking
Good place to work != Good investment

They aren't making any money. They aren't a good investment to anyone, Verizon or otherwise.
Yes, it's amazing how less you spend, and how much your health and attitude improves when the environment is conducive to being outside on your bike, skates, or shoes! A mountain range far enough away that it doesn't feel like a barrier, but close enough to look to for awe. I am thinking about LV, or back to Indonesia where I lived for over a year in the rice fields of East Java. Now, I am trying to see how I can build a business in a remote area without being a remote worker. I find trying to do what I do back here in NY/NJ doesn't work for me. I like the separation of worlds.
PDF: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-12/54667-budgetop...
Great to see that you're supporting Apache Arrow! That makes it so much easier to gradually switch over.
> there is no counterbalance of power or risk on the part of the employer

If there is no power or risk on the part of the employer then why do some countries have a law requiring that you give the employer a notice period? It's to reduce their risk.

In my country can sued for their damages if you leave without a notice period - real damages such as having to hire more expensive temporary staff to do your job until they can find someone else permanent. That's their risk.
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I agree. Without somewhat maniacal (of the obsessive enthusiasm variety) personalities grand achievements would be difficult to realize. It takes that kind of person.

I tend to dislike hatchet-jobs like this article, as they're flush with stories that appear absolutely bonkers on the surface, and very light on detail of positive interactions of any kind. The man may be a bit bananas, but all great men and women are, at least a bit. As a cautionary tale, it's a powerful article. But I hardly see it has objective in it's reporting, and serving a somewhat click-baity audience already dubious of the man.
yeah that makes a lot more sense, i'm years out of school and i was never good at Irish but the word stuck out.
And if it is a publicly trusted CA, it now gets to explain to browser and OS vendors how it managed to fail to comply with a required policy. (although there's of course difficulty in proving that a DNS entry existed)
Well, this is a British publication and an Irish product. Britain and Ireland are separate countries (apart from the small part of Ireland that isn't).

It'd be weird if a travel, culture and food publication couldn't do an article on Casu Marzu or Champagne so I don't see why this is any different.
> You really think the relationship between a boss and an employee is symmetrical?

I did not say that. You've either mis-read what I said or you're wilfully misunderstanding.

I said that the law is symmetrical. I didn't say the relationship was. I also didn't say that the risk was.
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It sounds like you've already figured it out.

You were requiring TLSv1.2 but some other remote mail systems didn't support it and were unable to fallback and, as a result, couldn't negotiate a secure connection.

Or did I miss something?
“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.”

I really wish technical books were still written like this. Though if Thompson posted this on HN as a comment he probably would have been downvoted.
The only time I used Instacart was to order from Costco. That was until I found jet.com. I will go to jet before amazon now, it is super easy ordering groceries from them, probably my biggest pain living in Manhattan. Haven't had any problems and they always drop the bags off outside my door (In a walk up apartment in Manhattan).
> "Google one" sounds like... nothing. "What is it???"

It sounds precisely like Amazon's "Prime" brand, and it's no coincidence. It's a sunk-cost feature to convince you to come back (like membership shopping clubs - Costco, Sams). Unfortunately I don't think it has the draw of 'free shipping' (+ music/TV/etc).
1. US military is only 16-18% of federal spending. Entitlements like social security, medicaid, and welfare make up 65-70% of federal spending. The majority of military spending is on salaries and benefits anyway, it's essentially a welfare program itself

>delivers the least

2. most major advancements in tech and healthcare are due to the military. Silicon Valley was built on military spending. Self driving cars were initially funded by DARPA. AI was funded by military. If you have a job in the tech industry you can thank the US military

There's also the minor detail of the US navy making global trade possible and the strength of the US military making traditional war pointless which has resulted in the last few decades being the most peaceful in human history in terms of probability of dying in combat
I'm sure they'll fix that soon
Hm, does this solve the 'consumer-level support' (or lack thereof) problem?

I can't tell if the experts are essentially human tutorials or if they can actually escalate issues.
Bad headline to IMO a much bigger story. Aaron’s metadata was swept up in, apparently, an NSL grab of a massive trove of email headers from the University of Pittsburg.

A case ostensibly linked to “Al Qaeda” allowed the FBI claim they had a basis to request a massive dump of email metadata from the University of Pittsburg IT department. We don’t know exactly how much data was collected, just that Aaron’s email happens to be on Page 27 of an Appendix.

All this metadata is stored indefinitely and is accessible in the course of any unrelated investigation.

The legal standard the FBI has to meet to be able to NSL this information from a target is described as “a hunch”.
As a side-side note:

>Border Patrol jobs with the CBP have been notoriously difficult to fill, in large part because of the polygraph exam applicants are required to undergo. The AP reported that 2 out of 3 applicants fail the exam

Does that mean that the polygraph is extremely restrictive or that 66% of applicants are liars?

I mean, even if it is not applicable/valid in court, I believe most federal and government agencies use them internally, there was something on HN some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18431683

So, set aside how accurate it is, a number of people can pass it to get (or keep) a federal job, so it might be that the "quality" of people attemptng to enroll to CBP is "lower"?
It's so true. People take these stories as hard truth, when in fact many studies on economics (and social sciences in general) are hard to replicate. [1]

1. https://www.nber.org/papers/w13026
Wait, again? Did I miss another million dollar weed joke?
Maybe "One Place" would have been better. I saw the article title and I thought it was a new smartphone or something
Reminds me of this FEMA contracting failure:

>FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered.

>For this huge task, FEMA tapped Tiffany Brown, an Atlanta entrepreneur with no experience in large-scale disaster relief and at least five canceled government contracts in her past. FEMA awarded her $156 million for the job, and Ms. Brown, who is the sole owner and employee of her company, Tribute Contracting LLC, set out to find some help.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/fema-contract-puerto-r...
By being very expensive to run. In 2016, they had 8500 employees. In comparison, the 5th most popular website (reddit) has <250 and has not exactly been the greatest financial success story either.

The primary business that Yahoo is in is really content production. And content production just isn't as high margin as search.
Here is a function that I use for exactly this:

https://gist.github.com/fikovnik/e0fa86aea29f761b6a4ddcfda46...
Can't you just set autosell conditions to do the equivalent of the function with less time sensitivity? If you can't handle a $10 drop cut out at a $5 and lock in savings if it rises by $15.
I figured that it would be Google One (beta) for 7 years first.
For the last year or so, the mass of Tesla negativity around here at least used to pretend to be around their product or market or finances. Now that they're doing really well, all thats left is a torrent of increasingly comical over-the-top denunciations of Musk.
I would say government run and government funded is actually best. Government applied, government funded, contractor executed is garbage and a rort.
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I'm not sure what it says about me or Friedman, but if I'm choosing to buy someone a gift I don't care about the cost but I will attempt to make it something they like, and refrain from gift-giving if I don't think I can do that. (Or give money, I suppose.)

On the other hand, when spending other people's money on myself, for example lunches for business travel, I am incredibly cost conscious. I've skipped dinner a couple times because I felt the airport meals were too expensive. (The same was true when I was a child and spending my parents' money.)

Clearly they should put me in charge of governement budgets.
Pinterest is that it’s a fantastic way to browse collections (“recipes”, “decorating ideas”, “gift ideas”) which are both stable and visual.

I use Pinterest on a weekly basis for recipes because my wife and I share a board. Evidently I’m a power user by their metric.

But the problem is they are bound by impossible growth projections, which prevent them from making Pinterest into the best once-weekly-recipe-tool.

In my opinion their search for social media dominance is a real drawback.
I wrote this article a few years back, but I think the lessons are still very relevant:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2010/05/27/learning-lessons-f...
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Google briefly had a feature (back in the ExpertSexChange days) where you could ban a domain from your search results. I miss that feature. Now Pinterest gets blocked at DNS via pi-hole. At least it is something.
I'm really surprised by how poorly Yahoo has managed...Yahoo, but especially their movies page.

I used to use movies.yahoo.com as my hub for trailers and showtimes, even in the era of top Google. Now, the first thing you see is a mishmash of entertainment news, presented in a boring vertical format. There's no prioritization of the biggest movies being released, no big horizontal banners sliding with the newest movie releases being shown off, etc. It's boring, innavigable word vomit on a white background. I can't even fathom why the decision was made to make it so boring and useless. How could this have possibly made Yahoo better?
I agree, so I looked at running image detection offline on a raspberry pi and wrote a post about it. It can't do anywhere near real time object detection on the larger YOLO models, but real time detection is often unnecessary. Also there are smaller models (e.g. yolo-mini) that can likely give you an acceptable frame rate.

https://medium.com/ml-everything/offline-object-detection-an...
I like this quote ... and agree with the spirit of it.

That said, some central governing body does need to make sure certain needs of the community are taken care of. That way, we ensure that the whole community is taken care of and we're not in an every man for himself scenario where the "strong" prevail and the "weak" die off. When the government provides military to protect it's citizens, it does so for all citizens, not just the rich, not just the city dwellers. I guess the question is -to what else does this apply and to what extent?
Huh I thought it was the Calcium Carbonate needing to be broken free. I guess that is more good news for clean energy - get that down (not a trivial task) and you only have to worry about that component.
>fairly rusty Irish

mines worse
the bureaucracy we have in government is used for ensuring these types of things don't happen. It's why there are committees, reviews, approval chains out the wazoo

Those committees are very expensive, tho'. Every one of them is an example of a bureaucrat spending money on his or her colleagues, and in return they will be appointed to committees and boards and fact-finding junkets and all the rest.
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<offtopic>

I wish we had a few years without tech buzzwords. Web 2.0, virtualization, devops, cloud, containers, microservices, serverless... I'd so, so much like to focus on something existing and make it work well. Maybe we wouldn't have 20+ crappy chat systems, but one good federated xmpp or matrix.

</offtopic>
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IIRC the main sandboxing comes from a wrapper around libc that restricts pathnames used in open() and friends. It seems reasonably well designed for its intent but probably not super difficult to escape. Certainly if the C library adds another entry point, it won't be obvious that there's a new way around.

What the Compiler Explorer has going for it in this regard is that there's very little treasure to be found once you escape. No user accounts, no passwords, no security questions, no financial transactions, etc.

Compiler Explorer doesn't execute the programs it builds, so the risk is limited to what you can convince the compiler/assembler to do on your behalf.
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I had to switch back to Spotify a while ago to give my wife access to the premium I was already paying for via the family plan because Google Play Music doesn't support family plans for gsuite accounts.

If they addressed this issue I would probably consider consolidating Dropbox, Spotify, and maybe some other stuff into a single Google One subscription but I suppose grandfathered free gsuite accounts are a low priority for these things.
A long time before the Verizon acquisition Yahoo spent a lot of money trying to build big google-like cloud scale datacenters in a place with cheap electricity. If Yahoo is effectively worthless, I foresee some empty space...
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Your bandwidth numbers are … extremely optimistic … unless you're only targeting business users at large companies. Worse, that's the wrong number to care about: what impacts user-perceived performance far more is latency and that's where something render-blocking like a huge pile of CSS really matters.

If you care about people on wireless connections, with less than perfect fiber connections, etc. a 500KB CSS file is going to add seconds to the total page load time and users will see it more often because the size will get it evicted from small caches more frequently. HTTP/2 won't help because the entire CSS file needs to be transferred before the page renders.
User Interface experiences actually haven't improved since 1991 when RISC OS 3.0 came out
Adobe is serious about XD, though. There were some decisions which in hindsight might've been suboptimal, let's say. So XD didn't move as fast as many expected. But I feel it's picking up speed. Did you use it recently? As I understand it, while it may not be better for everybody just yet, it definitely holds a candle to Sketch now.
> The accusation only holds if your definition of "selling data" includes any transaction where data is leaked as part of a transaction. Importantly, in the ad model the information leakage is an unintended (but unavoidable) side effect.

So, if leaking data isn't their primary intent, it's cool if it happens — even if Facebook knows there's a causal relationship between their advertising model and data leakage? Why should a company not be liable for known externalities of their business?
Isn't satire always trying to make a serious statement? Or at least, good satire?
Obviously they’re rationalising and justifying it to themselves or they wouldn’t be doing it. I get it. But that doesn’t make it a bad decision. I’ve heard a LOT of stories where people went way above and beyond what they had to and then got dropped like they were nothing when it didn’t suit the employer anymore and very, very, very few stories where it worked out well for the employee.
I do not see the purpose it serves

Yeah, you do, you said so in the first paragraph. But as I just told my wife, it’s why I (and you, I presume) aren’t billionaires: I’m all focused on how it serves the user, while completely ignoring that I’ve built a Christmas wish list for adults and I can beat that monetization drum until the head breaks.
>and US and their trade partners enjoy safe trade routes

Bingo, and that's from the Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard actively patrolling GLOBAL waters.

Maritime piracy alone is a considerable economic threat, yes in the 21st century. An estimated 2 BILLION dollars a year is spent on naval operations just off the coast of Somalia (PDF WARNING - PDF WARNING - PDF WARNING http://www.ics-shipping.org/docs/default-source/Piracy-Docs/... )

In this article from 2014 ( https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/134829/annual-global-... ), again just Somalia, "The OEF estimates the total cost of piracy off the coast of Somalia at US$7–US$12 billion in 2010; US$6.6–US$6.9 billion in 2011 42 and US$5.7–US$6.1 billion in 2012".

Between 2008 and 2012 alone JUST the U.S. Navy responded to 1139 piracy incidents https://www.navy.mil/ah_online/antipiracy/index.html that's an average of 0.78 incidents a day.

It's not just the U.S. patrolling either. China has launched at least 20 anti-piracy floatillas since 2009 http://cimsec.org/chinas-anti-piracy-flotillas-by-the-number...
Maybe that's the problem is that we only value as a culture what is valuable to investors.
The thing is it really manipulation if people actually all refer to Mitch McConnell as a turtle mockingly? SEO is a known "game" and arms race.

Correctness in a factual accuracy sense vs what people say are two very different search spaces and only the later is generically possible without knowing everything upfront.
This article seems incorrect. Oath is Yahoo + AOL.

Goodwill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)) is the amount you paid for an acquistion, above and beyond the fair-market book value of a company.

Just per the article, AOL was $4.4B and Yahoo was $4.5B. Now, just ignoring any tuck in acquisitions that Oath has made as a unit (presumably goodwill being rolled up under it), you have $9.9B in acquisition costs with $4.8B in goodwill initially.

They are just saying they overpaid by $4.6B, and it's now worth $5.3B. If any CPAs are out there would love to know if my interpretation is right.
It’s hard to read on mobile due to your formatting, but based on knowledge I have of both (and lack of details in your story), I think the most your friend can claim is “broke my ymail/gmail”, not broke either service.