skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in New York, FreshDirect has been the grocery delivery king[1] for a while but they had some missteps last year. I took the opportunity to try Amazon Prime Fresh.

I placed my first order and several hours past the end of my scheduled delivery time, my groceries still hadn't arrived. So I canceled the order, canceled Prime Fresh and that was that. Not a good way to win over business from the competition in what is a pretty competitive business in New York.

If my story is representative at all, it's unsurprising that their marketshare has declined, even after a very expensive acquisition.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-11/inside-ne...
Brazilians have terms that make no sense at all even in our own language. Things like greeting someone with “beleza?”(Beauty?) and the other end replying with “Jóia” (jewel). Other things include “pretending to be armless John” and “pull your small horse out of the rain”.

Most of them have some obscure meaning that is unknown to most people nowadays.
That doesn't excuse the behaviour.

And Russia is far more aggressive than other country. Even today we had Putin telling UK's government in a press conference to respect Brexit which directly helps Russia by weakening the EU/NATO.
It seems like there is a copyright issue here. Whether you register it or not, you own the copyright to works you create.

The owner of the photo in question has every right to ask outlets to ask permission or to charge for the photo.
An injection of the dna version of “on the origin of species “ will cure the holy cancer he might get.
Tacking on to your comment, one could argue that voice alongside increasing number of sensors and inputs available on smartphones are very similar paradigm shifts to that of the text-based computing to GUI shift.

We're replacing the keyboard and GUI to one that is far more ubiquitous and backgrounded, and computing experiences are based on all data that is available and economical to process rather than having things be the more traditional user giving an input and then getting an output.
Why .NET isn't used for data sciences?

Does it have numpy alternative?
Even in China, Apple is still selling all the models.
Thanks for the PS by the way. I think the post was flagged because of that indeed. #oldmember #newbieposter
I wonder if they had super-micro motherboards?
How does Oliv "takes messages on our behalf"?

Does it summarize what has happened from the time of the user's vacation?
Sleep Sounds.

And I don't time it, it's on all night.
This is more common than you might think. A company once sent me a demand that I stop distributing my game Empire as I'd copied it from them.

Turns out I had a registered copyright for it that preceded their company by about 10 years.

Some people are just shameless.
My question here is to the precise nature of Facebook's wrong doing in this instance, and why we don't expect the New York Times to provide specifics.

I am don't think any alleged previous wrongdoing answers those questions, unless you are saying there is no specific evidence of any wrong doing in the latest revelations, but we should assume there to be anyway.
The join group links are public. So not really encrypted, since the key is public.
Thelema is basically ritual magic and the direct antecedent to mid 20th century new age culture

I'm no expert, but new age? It sounds more like wicca/satanist stuff to me, nothing like new age. "Aspects of Thelema and Crowley's thought in general provided inspiration for the development of Wicca and, to a certain degree, the rise of Modern Paganism as a whole, as well as, chaos magick, and Satanism."[0]

New Age, it seems to me, comes from the very different world of the New Thought of the 1880s, Blavatsky, Besant, Steiner etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema
So Apple is going to start making their own cellular chips?
Some people have fixed expenses, besides cost of living and other normal expenses which depend on your location.
I hire a lot in SF. A remote address in the same country is usually not a barrier as we will fly people in if they make it to the on-site round. The bigger challenge is actually standing out among the 400-500 resumes we receive per job. A referral is a far better approach to getting your foot in the door that applying online
And property that had nothing to do with a crime.
Seems to be super coincidental doesn’t it...
We need to see more prosecutions of law enforcement community officers and job related civilians. How often do uniformed officers face grand jury scrutiny for lies told on the stand?
> so you ban the users? $10 gets you a new pre-paid sim card

And then when they recycle the unused number, and you get it and discover you are "lifetime banned", and I'm quite sure there's no appeal process.
Ephemeral logs.
Is this any way to shut down an API?
From the shutdown announcement of the Google+ APIs:

> On March 7, 2019, all Google+ APIs and Google+ Sign-in will be shut down completely. This will be a progressive shutdown beginning in late January, with calls to these APIs starting to intermittently fail as early as January 28, 2019.
Read the wikipedia page, it covers more than that.
Right. I'm not saying open-source developers have to start building in the same way as for profit companies. I'm saying they have to build products that are, from the user perspective, as good as the for-profit ones.

A good example here is Firefox. When it started out, it was better than the competition. Chrome pulled ahead for a while, but Mozilla responded and now it's competitive again. And Firefox has done this while advocating energetically for an open web.

Another one that interests me is WhatsApp. They built a messaging product that was clearly superior to the alternatives. They eventually sold out for billions. But there's no reason they couldn't have done that as a nonprofit. And Signal has shown that a nonprofit can still jump into the space and do good things.
Amazon was most definitely unprofitable until the last few years as a whole. They just continually went back to investors asking for more money with the promise that they'll eventually solidify profits on the books.
Fortunately, this isn't about the food. Phew! I love marzipan.
It's a bit disingenuous to claim that weboobs is some kind of an accidental acronym. The logo combined with a brief glance at the page is plenty to make it clear it's very intentional.

A quick look at http://weboob.org/applications/:
handjoob
wetboob
boobsize

Look, I enjoy a good dick and boob joke, but some people (people, not just women) get understandably uncomfortable with people start sniggering about body parts. Hence I don't do it in public. It's called basic manners.

None of your other examples set out to be interpreted that way, and most of them are a hell of a stretch. Weboobs very clearly set out to make as many immature jokes as it could.
You have to get clever when searching CL. Plenty of places that allow cats don't click the "Cats OK" box. Instead of using that search filter, include the terms -"no cats" -"no pets". In your case, -"no couples". My CL searches to filter the fake 1BRs get pretty crazy (-roommate -"room for rent" -jr -junior -studio, etc...) but their search engine handles complex queries well.
Stuxnet involved multiple 0-day exploits which state sponsors can afford to buy and deploy against even low level companies if they see fit.

Not sure how on earth people expect companies to defend against that.
> Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with research firm Bernstein, said in a note that Germnany was a small iPhone market for Apple, selling about 10 million units a year, with possibly only half of those being the older models affected by the court’s order.

Germnany? Nice one, Reuters. Try proofreading instead of totally relying on spell-check.
Australia has passed controversial laws designed to compel technology companies to grant police and security agencies access to encrypted messages. The government says the laws, a world first, are necessary to help combat terrorism and crime.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46463029
> WhatsApp should hire people to crawl those apps/sites, find the illegal groups, join, verify and ban.

This is a problem that needs a good solution, but you're literally suggesting that an arm of the one of the world's largest data collectors and propaganda engines, which offers free encrypted public communication to the masses, should fund and operate an internal spy agency whose job is to blend in and infiltrate groups and conversations in order to find illegal content. At what point is Facebook still not a mass-surveillance network?
Nonsense. Changing the means of transfer or payment model doesn't mean changing the product. This is like arguing that Dominos doesn't have to obey health rules because they're not a restaurant, they're a food delivery.

You don't get to decide which parts of your product the law applies to, and which don't. You can't bypass all firearms laws by selling holsters that just so happen to have guns in them as a free bonus. If Facebook tries this in court, the conversation will go something like this:

Court: Do you sell data?

Zuck: No, we sell access to data

Court: so if you took out the data, and gave only access to your systems, completely blank and with nothing on them, people would still want to pay just as much?

Zuck: No, our customers want the data

Court: Then you are selling data. Case closed. Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect 200 email addresses.
If you live under a government where those examples are a reason to hide, then in the eyes of that government you are technically a criminal. Doesn’t describe my government.

Even under the most oppressive governments though, there will still be a sizable majority that doesn’t have anything to hide and can feel secure using most technology, and they’ll be fine.
This is an example of the "tail wagging the dog". Whether a "State Sponsored" organization hacked IBM or someone in their mothers garage, IBM and other companies ARE responsible for keeping their customers data safe. While it's true a state sponsored entity would have more resources than a kid in a basement, IBM has the resources to pay for full time IT security professionals and for the amount of money they charge for their products and services, they should have more than enough resources to pay for decent 3rd party Security products and services. They KNOW they have a target on their back, it's their responsibility.
I've heard they will do them for free in San Francisco.
That's the DWP, and they know about it and will eventually get to fixing it but it'll take a while
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I’m sympathetic to this view. I’m not sure it will stay that way. There was a time where internet access on your phone was an extravagance. It would be difficult to appreciate the utility before living with it. If what we are talking about is a difference in perceived utility, I’m not sure how big of a difference that really is.

Utility of VAs are going up. Comfort with them is a normative thing, and history tends to point to the norms changing.
Why should I believe that AR will even be it's own unique product platform rather than just a part of every single smartphone app. Smartphones were much easier for people to adapt too since virtually everyone had already carried around wallets and keys, and I'd be hard pressed to believe that wearing glasses will ever be something that the majority of people do voluntarily, in the same way smart watches never became completely ubiquitous, short of maybe within professions where you both need your hands to be free and where visual computing would be useful.
Update: found this article on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
Uh yeah, they should have. Random USB sticks (which is how stuxnet bridged the air gap) are banned for a reason in every secure site I've heard of.
To have competitive apps built on top of open protocols, you need a big investment of time and money, so we need users to ask for it, or at least to reward companies when they invest money in it. For that, we need users to understand what they're asking for.

An example of how it might be possible to push this in the right direction is LEED. It didn't matter what the individual environmental ethics of people manufacturing electronics and designing houses was. Environmentally efficient building practices cost more, and there was no way for all the companies involved to form an opaque conspiratorial cabal to secretly impose the cost on consumers who would rather not pay it. Instead, they created LEED and used marketing to teach end consumers that LEED stood for more environmentally responsible practices.

Right now computer privacy and security are huge in the headlines, and a large number of people in the public and in industry want to do the right thing. But consumers don't know how to make the right choices, and companies aren't going to spend extra on the right thing if users are just as likely to choose something horrible. What companies need in order to invest extra capital in privacy and security is a plausible story of how to get users to choose the right thing and pay a bit more for it, if the industry builds it. They need a LEED standard for privacy and security. Then they can promote it and use it as a way to justify their investment in better, more ethical software. Corporations, schools, nonprofits, and other organizations can be pressured to make public commitments to use, or at least prefer, software that meets the standard. This won't drive horrible software out of the market, but it will create a sub-market where good software can survive.

Obviously laws and regulation are the bedrock, but in areas where consumers have a choice, we need to make it easy for them to make the right choice if they want to.
Can't reply to sibling comment...but maybe Russia taking sides at all causes people to doubt the democratic process. Should we automatically take the opposite position of Putin? That's just as subversive.
Yes, they would love to have the luxury. I doubt the parent comment is saying that engineering teams would not want to be able to produce something like that, but rather given the confines of the lust for ever increasing profit, they can't.
Sure. 12-year-olds who go on to be software developers can install it. That says nothing about the user experience of the bottom quartile of users in terms of technical aptitude.
Mm. Perhaps I should have been a little more explicit. I never meant to imply any business should be able to handle a nation-state attack. That's not feasible.

It doesn't mean they get to clean their hands of the whole thing either. They failed, and that's fine as long as they weren't being negligent. But they are still responsible for doing what they can to minimize the damage. That means, for one, informing those impacted about what is known.

So, just to be super explicit. I don't expect a business to withstand a nation-state attack. I do however expect them to do what they can to minimize the damage afterwards.
When a teammate tries to reach you during your vacation, they have an option to leave a message. When your vacation ends, you get a list of all messages that were left for you.

This help page clarifies the workflow with screenshots: https://help.oliv.ai/getting-started/how-does-the-slack-auto...
I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me!
The part people still seem to be overlooking about this story, which isn't really mentioned in this article, is that Epic has already stated the Epic Games Store is launching on Android in 2019. So they weren't just challenging Google's 30% cut for their own app, they're going to give everyone else a chance at only a 12% cut on Android too.
Amongst others, there's fine work being done at DVLA, DVSA, MOJ, DWP and Home Office Digital are in good shape too
Let's keep some perspective here. By "eavesdropping", you mean a small handful (~4000 devices) of first gen devices that were never sold to actual customers with defective touch sensors causing the recording to be activated.

The software fix pushed out simply disables the "push-to-talk" feature entirely.

Unless you think Google has some kind of motive to listen to completely randomly-triggered recording (and they don't; the data would be garbage from almost any standpoint I can imagine), your post is incredibly misleading at best and malicious fearmongering at worst.
Moving to Azure PaaS and Service Fabric (2017)
That's well and good, but existing and future clients should still be aware. The clients might decide that other service providers would be just as vulnerable, but they should not be kept in the dark.
You're completely right. Every company has a basic, fundamental obligation to respect the human rights of their customers and partners to security and privacy. This is best manifested as taking reasonable measures to ensure that this basic human right is protected.

Now, there may be a wrinkle. When discussing nation-state grade actors, there's a very real possibility that they may attack in ways that cannot reasonably have been protected against by most private-sector security programs.

What are we to think, to do, to expect in such a scenario? To what extent should be expect any company, even a large and wealthy one, to successfully fend off the full might of a large and powerful nation-state's offensive information security apparatus?

Again, you're absolutely and unquestionably right. Companies can, should, and must take reasonable measures to protect the basic human rights of security and privacy. There just might be some room for subtlety when considering what reasonable measures can accomplish.
Quit sugar for good
The crazy part is that a doctor willingly violated the Hippocratic Oath in a state that could do virtually nothing to him for following the ethics of his profession.

Mr Jackson should use civil rights group lawyers to go after that doctor.
None of those words have the same bite, in that they don't imply the belief is unfounded and probably wrong.
That doesn't really prevent anyone from attacking a hosting service like GitHub Pages or Netlify, though.
> google pulled out and revamped their practices

Give it 5 years. See if Google are just waiting for things to "cool down" before going back at it.
> This kind of system is more or less impossible in the US and it would be extremely expensive.

That's literally how Social Security works, and the fact that more guest workers pay payroll taxes into the system than are eligible to collect benefits from it actually makes it slightly cheaper than it would otherwise be.
If you look at their SEC filings, it is clear that recently (I last looked early in 2018 or late 2017), the retail business was listed as having huge losses. Losses on the order of 15-20% of gross revenue! Meanwhile, AWS was highly profitable at this time and was the reason the company as a whole was finally booking profits with margins of a paltry ~1.3% or so, if I recall correctly. The retail business has never been profitable because of the huge costs of running all those logistics and warehouses and shipping (even with their rock bottom shipping costs).

You may be right about Quill. I don't know enough about it. But regardless, at some point it's clear they surpassed the guidelines of Quill and became liable and are to this day not complying with the law in my opinion.
One afternoon I was doing some consulting work at one of HP's oldest offices. I needed to print something, so I had the printer produce a configuration page, so I could get the IP address.

Lo and behold, it was a public IP.

As in, this old-ass printer, sitting at an HP office, was sitting on the Internet. And it was connected to the office network.

Really blew my mind.

The office was very old, and there were things laying around the hallways that seemed to have been untouched for 20 or even 40 years. So I'm guessing that workhorse of a printer had been chugging away for decades, and was configured long before anyone had thought about information security.

Also, if this sounds too crazy to be possible, you can test this for yourself. If you do a Google search on the welcome page of an HP printer, you will find hundreds with public IP addresses.
We've used Amazon Fresh in the past. They gave us a few free months, so figured why not. Long story short, we stopped using it even with them throwing month after month of free service at us.

Obviously, produce was hit and miss. Mostly miss. The dumbest thing was they consistently packed produce in with cans.

Selection was terrible, and continued to get worse over time (including after the Whole Foods acquisition, which was weird).

Minimum order kept going up. Which was a double sucker punch with the reduced selection. Hard to fill the cart went they have hardly anything and keep raising the minimum.

And at some point they started sneaking in a default tip. They'd just tack on a tip without prompting you. You could change it ... if you noticed it was there (in small font mixed in with your checkout list).

And no app support.

Fresh is probably one of Amazon's most poorly executed services.
There is a reason that job posting is open: no one is willing to accept that job
Or at least don't do anything that would be considered 'suspicious' within that modern society. Of course, it is hard to know what will be considered suspicious....
> There might be plenty of good reasons not to prefer the more efficient public plan, but the fact that it would put toll road vendors out of business isn't one of them.

I have no particular sympathy for any private provider that can't compete with other private providers in the market. However, from my point of view private and public providers aren't in the same market, or even providing the same product: one is simply selling access to roads, or health care, while the other is giving these things away bundled with the dubious "service" of compelling other people to pay the bill. To me that bundled "service" is of immense negative value, and the existence of the public system is driving the providers of the unalloyed product I actually do want out of the market. So, from my point of view, the fact that the public plan would put the toll road vendors out of business and thus leave me with no decent travel options that don't involve externalizing the cost onto others is actually a good reason to oppose the public plan. (There are others: While I don't want to participate in this externalization process as an unwilling beneficiary on moral grounds, I'd also prefer not to become one of its victims.)

Of course, if there exists a way to build and maintain a road at a cost of $1 per 100 miles, there is no particular reason why that cost couldn't be payed through tolls instead of taxes, thus giving us the best of both worlds. There are basically only two ways which public services can manage to cut costs compared to a private provider. One is by externalizing the cost of the service onto non-users, and the other is by being exempt from regulations which private providers would be forced to follow (or, equivalently, having the regulations tailored to suit the public service by sympathetic legislators).

> Capitalists don't mindlessly prefer private things just because they're private.

Whereas libertarians such as myself do prefer private things simply because they're private, which is to say: because they don't involve the use of force. Which is not to say that there aren't practical reasons to prefer private systems as well—just that, to me, any system which involves force is automatically more costly than any voluntary system, which makes these other reasons more-or-less irrelevant.