skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no it doesn't. facebook was always pretty good at asking for permission. it showed you that so and so app will have access to this and that. and people blindly clicked it, because they wanted the maffia wars, the mob wars, the farmville, the latest zinga shitclick time waster to one up their friends in imaginary internet point games. (I tried them too, then luckily the fad wore off.)

FB has to show who they sell data to, that's the new part basically. They will probably show a long list of random companies. It'll look a bit scary, people will get accustomed to it. (FB will find a dark pattern that minimizes the attrition due to any permission/consent step in their money machine.)
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I've flown 8 hours Doha to London on an A319, it was fine. Not as good as the A350 or 787, but a nice change, and certainly better than anything BA have.
Like car buying. In the UK many people buy over powered cars as if they're going to be racing them, preferring speed over comfort/durability/economy. Then they commute in them sitting alone in super-accelerating, high-speed, family-sized vehicles in traffic jams going under 30mph.
I think this behaviour is caused by the wrath of the hivemind. I imagine that it is common in reddit users to have a separate account for posting as an insurance against hivemind rage which can be invoked easily for unexpected reasons. And for others, it is easier to not get involved, get the value from the answers and comments you find. Avoid the abuse and emotional mud slinging. Life is too short.
Same for Twitter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18883114
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If there is anything at all that you can do to automate parts of the unpleasant tasks that I have to do, I try to do that. Sometimes it takes quite a bit of thought to figure out a way to automate something, and sometimes it's staring you in the face. Anything you can do to shave off time from these tasks is probably worth the effort.

Another thing to do is to delegate them if possible. As an example, some people really dislike keeping their houses clean, so they'll hire someone to do that. Obviously, YMMV, and it may be that you cannot afford to delegate a task, or there's some other problem (e.g. you cannot offload work onto another freelancer due to an NDA, etc.).
Hmmm This might make the dark net more mainstream
The same can be said for every other EU law.

Net neutrality regulations include vague language that allows "reasonable network management", which is a multi-million dollar legal hassle that stresses small ISP owners. And I shudder to think how Duck Duck Go's programmers will manage to comply with the EU's "right to be forgotten [from a search engine's results]".

I hope the politicians in Washington, D.C. recognize that America is the world's last refuge for small business growth and economic innovation.
The exploitation of cheap, foreign labour

Case in point, the EU is already working to prevent/mitigate this [1]: per 2021, local business must pay adequate local wages even to foreign workers.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-moves-toward-wage-equality-for-fore...
All games have a gap between the actual experience of play and the "mind's eye" game when filtered through the player's imagination, expectations, and out-of-game material. For Eve this is very large. But that's mostly because the mind game of Eve is so tremendous and all-consuming, while the real game involves a lot of waiting.

Note that the "mind's eye" game exists even for games that don't, or haven't yet been released - people build it from promises and trailers. This can go very badly (No Man's Sky) or well (Star Citizen) for the developers.

I played Eve for a while, and enjoyed it. But it was also clear that it absolutely required sealing yourself in a bubble for every play session, and at higher levels letting it take over your life.
No, I do not wish that.
Do them immediately when I first realize I need to do them.
Also Quest has a custom cooling solution with fans, that makes a large difference.

Slotting in a smartphone doesn't have cooling optimised for this kind of use case at all.
David Bowie Predicting Power of the Internet (1999)
There are a number of people in this thread explaining how the policy prevented them from participating, and usually caused them to quit participating entirely.
Like car buying everywhere. For as rapidly as Teslas can accelerate off the line, I don't think I've ever had one out pull me leaving a light, and I'm never flooring it either
Maybe it is just me, but I've seen this issue multiple times where a programmer used a regular expression thinking they were clever, only to have it backfire later when there was some corner case not covered by their regex (which likely would have obviously been caught if they had just taken the time to write out each case as an if statement). You're usually just gaining complexity in exchange for fewer lines of code, and I'm not sure that is always the best tradeoff. Something to keep in mind when deciding whether or not to use regular expressions.

With that being said, your list of things to know are all things I have to know for my job (these are things almost all programmers should know, in fact) and I would not consider myself a low-level or systems programmer, just an application programmer.
No. The EU is a scam. The tax payer is being used to develop markets that will be exploited for a small minorities gain and the profits siphoned away offshore. Socialism is bullshit. The eastern countries are presently queuing up to get their payoffs. Again the politicians are getting their silver pennies and selling the people out. Will it work? As soon the rates of interest kickin and people are squeezed they will head back to the Russians - with their new infrastructure etc.. The EU is a very, very bad joke..
With respect, the examples you gave seem like more of a problem with employment law and governance in individual countries than with the EU as an institution.

The gilet jaunes were/are angry about a carbon tax and lack of wealth taxes. Not Brussels or brain drain.

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy, though not perfect, keeps huge swathes of rural Europe afloat. Its regional development funds builds infrastructure in areas that can't afford it.

You can't really blame the EU for bland vegetables either. That's just silly. The French aren't exactly appropriating Croatian tomatoes by force. It just means that (thanks to the EU) producers can get a higher price for their goods by exporting tariff-free to another country, so they do. Why wouldn't they?
No one in their right mind is moving from New York to Nevada. More likely, in fact much more likely, is that the double taxation policy that was carved out against high-tax-base states is corrected once Republican national losses continue to pile up.

One can only hope that democrats remember how important it was to harm high-output states when they regain power and provide equivalent justice to the loaner states.
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Like Greece?
only the centralized public trackers are "affected". and the fact that they are still around and kicking, and distributed decentralized anonymous reputation-market systems are pretty empty shows that that policing is rather weak (otherwise people would move toward the "policing resistant" networks)
It’s too early to say how GDPR has impacted the landscape as no significant enforcement has happened.

Their are major complaints outstanding against Google, Facebook & the IAB that will define how online publishers can be funded once they are litigated.
FWIW I think he's wrong. Basically, when writing C, you should write code the same as if you'd write it in C++, except that you're using C.

Because sometimes that's annoying, things can get less type safe, but in your head, there's a C++ program that you're representing.
So Unity alerted them that where in breach, they had an ongoing discussion in which unity finally came to the conclusion that they where in fact not in breach... and then they changed the conditions and punished them. Is that how that is to be understood? I mean otherwise why alert them if being in breach before the license change, or why no punish them under the old license but change it first and then punish them?
I installed the game again during christmas, but on the login screen I was greeted by the happy little message that my carrier is currently parked in space. Will have to get the other account subscribed first just to scout the area out before activating the other.
What I remember of playing it 12 years ago was that I became quite adept at spreadsheets.
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DDG can safely rely on Bing for that.
> it's perfectly functioning and always has been.

The EU is far from "perfectly functioning". It functions pretty well but it's not perfect. There's some non-negligible group in pretty much every country that rightfully has some major gripe with the EU. If there wasn't we wouldn't have things like Brexit. I get that you can't please everyone but if the UK GTFOing isn't indicative of some sort of imperfection than I don't know what is.
Ask HN: What lang and web stack is both popular and similar to Ruby and Rails?
By lang, I mean language.

I need that monk like enlightenment which Ruby and Rails have given me.

By popularity, I mean adoption at industry wide and scalable.
But even if it's a fork, then I know it's not the same thing. It could be very similar, but I expect some differences.
I'm curious about this flurry of freshly created accounts that seem to be responding to me...?
> but a large % will shave their legs

well for 51% of the population in places like the US and UK, it's also a cultural thing...
Is that new? Here's my experience of how and where they're placed:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.65301,-2.0079976,12.25z

That's the M6 toll, a road the folks who control such things would like you to pay them money to drive on. Note that it runs beside the perfectly straight 4 lane A5, which predated it, and, simultaneous to the toll road opening had its speed limit reduced to like 30 miles an hour and speed cameras installed every 200 yards along the entire length.

Hard to imagine the whole thing became that much of an accident hot spot right at that moment.
Interesting. Germany and France have gotten plenty out of it. The Eastern EU is in the 'honeymoon' period, or rather being fattened for the milking...
Their initial response was to cite the following text:

> Entries deemed by CTA in their sole discretion to be immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with CTA’s image will be disqualified. CTA reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any entry at any time which, in CTA’s opinion, endangers the safety or well being of any person, or fails to comply with these Official Rules.

So, if they didn't call it immoral, they called it obscene, indecent or profane.
I've of the richest most powerful people on the planet, whose creation is able to influence democracy; most people probably dream of being such a person?
No, it implies that almost everyone goes to Steam.
Hello, Europe Here Is Romania [video]
That doesn't mean that contacting MEPs "doesn't work", you can't expect them to change their opinion immediately based on receiving one email from one of their constituents.
I learned it with "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment".

> as a self-respecting software engineer

Then you probably already know more about C than you realise: if, while, for, etc. all work the same as most other languages.

What you're probably not used to is needing to define functions in advance, pointers, and memory (de)allocation.

If you learn by doing, then with google and github, you can create a few simplified versions of unix utilities (cat, ls, grep -F).

If you're on Windows, I recommend using a Linux VM, WSL, or Cygwin - it's easier to setup than the C tooling in Windows (and you're stealth learning something else).

Once you know C, you can then move onto C++ (I stopped at C).
Bungie very much has the feeling of space combat down since Halo. Played Marathon using the keypad =)
Edit to add: I see lots of people saying things along the lines of "keep money and family separate". That is a very privileged attitude. It's very hard to enjoy money when people you love are going through hardships that would be solved by an infusion of cash. Obviously it's important not to give more than you can afford but you would be surprised by the number of people in tech who are sending money home in one way or another.

(This is the generic “you”, not you in particular).

I would say don’t let family or anyone else borrow money. If anyone is going through hardships, just give it to them. It makes things a lot easier on them and you both. If you can’t afford to give it to them, don’t put yourself in a position that you are depending on getting the money back.

I’ve found that often, if they can, they will pay you back anyway.
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I'm not sure I see any evidence the latter one happens in the forseeable future. Many high tax states hold top-performing cities which are struggling to handle massive incoming migration that has been happening a good 20 years.

The biggest gripe in my cost of living is by far housing. If I moved back to my home town in Florida, it would be so I can live near my parents and so I can afford a house . Not for taxes.

I suppose states
without top cities, like Vermont, might run into problems. But even that is speculation - how many people actually uproot their lives just to save on state income tax?
Ah Wikipedia, the gold standard in science.
Not make information illegal to possess?

We don't make footage of car hackings illegal to own, why should this be any different?

At the end of the day, the harm is already done, no point causing more.
Yes, it's normally websites run by "good people" (some non-commercial organisation) that let you easily say yes/no. Media websites implement the dark pattern of Yes/[wilderness of options page].

This is pre-GDPR, but it feels like since GDPR there's been a real uptick in this.
I'm not going to spend my day finding evidence to convince you. You seem to be the sort of person that demands unreasonable amounts of evidence (clearly no one has studied every dairy cow to see if the suffer when their baby is taken away, or monitored every factory farm to see how the animals are treated. In fact with USA ag gag laws this is very hard anyway - big agriculture money buys the law makers) knowing that you won't then need to consider that your food choices support cruelty. If you are OK with the knowledge that sentient intelligent beings (where's the evidence that cows are intelligent, right?!) are treated as nothing more than a commodity, or slave, and if you can't understand (without evidence!) that taking a baby from an animal would cause it to suffer, then good luck to you, and enjoy your milk. I find it sad when common sense and compassion lose to statistics and numbers. (for the record, a simple google search seemed to return quite a few reports on psychological studies done on farm animals - if you are genuinely interested/concerned, and I doubt you are, then give a whirl). Ciao.
I recommend trying Pixel Dungeon (similar to Rogue) or Sprouted Pixel Dungeon (similar to Hack) on Android first.
This is the fascinating start of an amazing trend -- happenings in massive alternate realities are becoming newsworthy in their own right (because the complexity, scale, realism, immersiveness, and mass-participation of these simulations). RPO is well on its way to becoming real.
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I agree. It's my opinion its become toxic over the past few years. Generally speaking I prefer unmoderated discussion forums. I rather choose what to read instead of being "protected".
>now you should be free and bold to click the disagree / refuse / no-cookies button and get the experience you expect.

This button doesn't exist in 90% of cases. Websites tend to dump you into a complex, deliberately tedious to edit options UI rather than providing a "No" button.
Self-modifying Lisp, perhaps? Do Turing tapes count?

Really the main use of these techniques (and the article has a telltale in its use of the word "shellcode") is injecting code into a program that was not originally intended to be modifiable. Usually (although not always) across a security boundary.
I’ve seen a lot that give you yes/no options. Some of them tell you that you can’t use the site, sorry, when you click no, but I’ve noticed many let me continue on anyway.

Of course, I’ve seen even more that give you only an accept option... that, or as sibling commenter said yes/wilderness of options.
The EU doesn’t have net neutrality. I know this because I’ve seen offers which include zero-rating Netflix.

America isn’t free from regulatory capture, despite being historically better at innovation than either my home nation or my nation of birth.
It's not OSI because it places even more restrictions on usage than AGPL did, but this is very much matter of context and interpretation. If GNU would have created it it would have been welcomed by GNU-ers a lot better.

I sort of agree with their sentiment, but of course they are late to the have-cake-will-have-it-and-eaten-it-too party, as now AWS was able to fork the last AGPL-ed version and be done with it.
google has you covered, but here some starters:

Germany tackles benefit abuse as migration soars from eastern EU https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-immigration/germa...

Germany benefits from the exploitation of Eastern European workers – a shocking documentary of BR television channel https://trans.info/en/germany-benefits-from-the-exploitation...

Europe's 'food apartheid': are brands in the east lower quality than in the west? https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/sep/15/europes-f...

Food brands 'cheat' eastern European shoppers with inferior products https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/sep/15/food-bran...
Language Server implementation for Swift... meaning that writing, compiling, and debugging Swift (and Obj-C) in Visual Studio Code is just around the corner? What other editors/IDEs use Language Server?
> Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues”

Am I reading correctly that when you have a forum (e.g. Discourse) which is non-commercial i.e. for an open community, that any users uploading stuff or quoting article sections are exempt from this regulation (even though the forum is hosted on Discourse servers on a paid plan)?
Yupp. I already have/had depression. It would worry me taking it.
>From my understanding: "organise and promote" means it is not simple hosting, and "in order to make a profit" excludes organizations like Wikimedia Commons and "large amounts" most likely excludes smaller websites like fan sites, and "uploaded by their users" exclude search engines.

All these things are very interpretable and can be the root to abuse and mistakes.
Blind people still interact with others.
I'm finding it hard to imagine what kind of evidence would be of use in a scenario like this. Some kind of Gartner hand-wavey focus-group thing?
Aliexpress short lived sessions. Why?
Hi HNers,
I have observed over the course of several months a phenomenon that leaves me baffled.
aliexpress.com, the retail website for alibaba, has extremely short lived authentication on its website. They keep users logged in for a few hours at most before having to reauthenticate with username/password.

The alibaba group is no amateur, so I'm inclined to belive this is a deliberate practice, however I cannot figure out what is the advantage of doing this vs for example amazon.com, which keeps users authenticated basically forever.
Just like moving next to an airport and then complaining about the noise. Those same victims likely received a discount on property price as compensation.
Standard ML Support for Visual Studio Code
Yeah, I'm just trying to point out, that not much would be won by that.

You either need to change the semantic of the language (CPython) or live with a slow JIT for some of the most used features of the language... And changing the semantic of the language is pretty terrible - it fragments your libraries introduces unbreakable borders prohibiting cross package optimizations and extensability, and much worse, CPython is now basically a language that combines the bad stuff of python and C ;) I know, that's a bit too cynical, but coming from a well designed language for JIT (Julia), that's how CPython starts looking to me. You will simply never reach the elegance of a language that was designed from scratch for this.

What I want to point out is, that the whole topic is bigger than "JIT my one slow function and make it fast"! A good read about this topic is:
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/why-numba-and-cython-are-...
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What momentum? From the Apple team?

Sales and stock price are plummeting at Apple. And from another HN thread, developers are finding people/businesses are going back to web instead of App.

Out of all the languages, Swift and Obj C are my 'how much longer until they go away?' languages.

Is there anything showing growth?

EDIT: Obligatory, Apple users can't handle talking about Apple.
I think AWS already identified a lot of "DB tech locked" Mongo users who wanted AWS stamped mongo, or at least they now can undercut/compete-with Atlas.

Even if MongoDB goes out of business, or becomes less popular AWS benefits as they can keep selling to these "legacy" customers their super-stable AWSgoDB, and said customers will just eat it all up without thinking.
"scenic bike paths"

We obviously live in different UKs.

It is more of a weekend rider thing, I note theres still only one sit up and beg, to the two drop handled bikes.

Edit:
Just to add, that picture is quite encouraging. People actually cycling in 'normal' clothes, a sign of an improving cycling culture. Hopefully it will spread to the rest of the UK.
From the article:

> This was one of the European Parliament’s main improvements to the text. Unfortunately, it is now in danger of being dropped in negotiations.
I wonder if you can calibrate it with sample co-ordinates, like the clone tool in Photoshop. Then it prints from that area onto the target area.
Both Unity and Unreal Engine are multiplatform enough to support compiling a Linux version of your game just by clicking your mouse -- everything just works out-of-the-box with no extra work needed. That's why there have been so many more Linux games on Steam in the last few years than there ever have before (I remember 10 years ago when the iD Software games were pretty much all we Linux gamers had).

It's AAA games that use their own engines and developers that are too lazy to click the Compile for Linux button in Unity that are holding us back.
In taking a look again at their login page, I realized that it might be an effort to nudge users towards using social logins instead of username/pwd.
Pakistan’s army is to blame for the poverty of the country’s 208m citizens
Use handwritten snail mail; generally the less effort a communication medium takes the less the politicians pay attention. Though with how many of them are on board you may want to start researching up on their opponents for the next election
If you have some space to spare, consider femtolisp: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
HSTS errors can be bypassed on Chrome by entering "thisisunsafe", if anyone wants to bypass these HSTS errors. Of course you probably shouldn't have to this: it is unsafe.
I've been using langserver in NeoVim for the past year and it's been great.
Most of it does not sound like issue with EU, but issue with specific countries. Polish people working through shady Polish companies in Germany is not EU issue, it is mostly Polish issue and partially German issue.