skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bounty hunter can't call up Google and get access to my location. If i were on T-Mobile or Sprint, they could[1]. This is not a theoretical difference.

Being concerned about how Google could potentially in the future abuse all the data they've collected is a completely valid concern, but they're in no way a larger threat than the companies currently actively exploiting that data.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-b...
At the time you posted this comment, there was already at least one other hacker news reader complaining about Google Reader in this thread. Check any other thread about Google killing a thing, on this site or any other, and it's always there.
If you have ever seen any attempt by any government to regulate software you would know this to be a Lovecraftian nightmare, and not a solution.
I think most game companies are terrified of the monthly fee after the row of corpses of "WoW killers" that depended on a monthly subscription.

Most believe that "WoW is the only thing in the world that can command a monthly fee and it'd be hubris to think your new game could do it."
Yes. `git bug webui` will start a local web server to serve a js app and a GraphQL API as a backend.
Can We Become Immortal?
Lots of people still have the mindset that http is the default and https signals a high level of trustworthiness.

What we're shifting towards (and maybe already are there) is https is default, and an http-only site is an amateur setup, on the same level as hosting your site via IP (no domain name at all) or with a url like http://myisp.net/~mycompany/default.htm.

Like it or not, browsers are treating sites like this now, and you don't see many "Secured by TrustworthyCo SSL" golden padlock badge images anymore.
I'm always amazed how expensive mobile plans in the US are.

Google Fi Unlimited + 6 GB of is $80 a month.
In Poland you get the same for around $6.5, prepaid.

On the other hand AT&T Prepaid $40 Monthly Plan has everything unlimited and 8 GB of data, so why would anyone use Google Fi?
Show HN: Portable Forth Written in C, ASM, and XMacros
Another option is that machine vision will improve to the point where Lidars are less of a necessity. This is in fact the thing Tesla is attempting to do, although they are far from pulling it off!
Hot, Young and Snarky: But where is the diversity in today TV actors?
Note to self: Keep a pet-puzzle(s) that is difficult but solvable. As I grow old, keep solving the puzzles to determine how senile I am. No need to believe others assertions at face value.
> given that Asians are doing better as a group than white people

They're not. They have higher median household income. Median household income does not determine whether one ethnic group does better than another ethnic group. It only determines if their median household income is doing better.

And if you think money is the end-all-be-all, white people are the tops. "96.1 percent of the 1.2 million households in the top one percent by income were white, a total of about 1,150,000 households. In addition, these families were found to have a median net asset worth of $8.3 million dollars."

One thing, the median amount of money that a household has, is different than another thing, which is aggregate political, social, and economic power.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio-moore/americas-financ...
The point was that leaving a vehicle in a parking space is not an indicator of abandonment because ownership of a vehicle is based on registration, not physical possession. The same is not true of scooters, and that makes all the difference.
Support did ...
I can't find anything on their website that suggests such a use is any more purposeful than taking someone's personal bike off a rack. And I found a page saying it beeps at you in complaint because you're not authorized.
Certainly birds might not adapt to be less sensitive. I certainly would hope that research will be done to check how the type of EM pollution will affect nature. It might not but it also might over time.
Life would be so much better without an income tax. It's a bad idea to tax people trading with each other. Win/win actions are something that should be encouraged. I'd support some kind of national land value tax in the US if we nullified the 16th amendment at the same time.
The suggestion to read books doesn't sound to me like suggesting people avoid critical thinking; quite the opposite.

"Riddled with bias" doesn't make sense to me. Any book - one about maths, as much as one about the world - is written from a point of view. This is the "bias" that phrases like "riddled with bias" seem to suggest can - and should be - completely eradicated. But the decision what to include in a book, what to exclude, for example, is a personal one. (It's why committees have a bad name.) All we know of the world is how it appears to 'biased' individuals. There's no eliminating the human factor, and the desire to do so seems to me futile and misconceived.

"...every mind has a new compass, a new north, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind; as every man, with whatever family resemblances, has a new countenance, new manner, new voice, new thoughts, and new character. Whilst he shares with all mankind the gift of reason, and the moral sentiment, there is a teaching for him from within, which is leading him in a new path, and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society. We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ...A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet, that every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and that it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path, with more or less variation from any other man’s. He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it; learns to be at home with himself; learns to watch the delicate hints and insights that come to him, and to have the entire assurance of his own mind. And in this self-respect, or hearkening to the privatest oracle, he consults his ease, I may say, or need never be at a loss. In morals this is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent; not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his way, but to bring out your own new way; to each his own method, style, wit, eloquence." - Emerson, Greatness
Schmidt & Hunter (1998) "The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology" was a metaanalysis of hiring across many fields and wound up noting that the only metric with any positive signal was if one measured General Mental Ability and work samples from prior work. And even then the signal wasn't great
That's what I was waiting for, but I was totally underwhelmed! Maybe it's just expectations vs reality.
Had this same experience many years ago traveling from Hamburg to Copenhagen. I had no idea there would be a boat involved in the trip. "Gee, this is a long stop... and where are we?" only to realize we the train was actually parked and still moving.
No it isn't lol
Haven't tried it, was going to give it as a gift. Now I'm wondering if it's going to be maintained, since it's a pretty cloud-dependent device.
Ah. My glancing-fu is not strong. Thank you.
Can you share what "equity" means in the context of social justice?

Over the years I have tried to understand what "equity" means. I have been unable to comprehend "equity", despite reading many articles and definitions and listening to many discussions, I do not understand what "equity" is.
Shutdown Is Hurting Cybersecurity – consequences could last long after
I don’t want the rest of the world competing for my job and driving down wages. This may be good for companies but I have to look out for my own interests and if they let the other 95 % in it would affect me by decrease pay, more likely to have ageism discrimination, etc.
It fixes one "fraud" path - where somebody seizes control of an account and holds it for ransom. Since the account itself is effectively destroyed by any flagging, it's then of no use as a hostage. An account that is flagged in any way is no longer of any use at all, no point to taking them over.

Of course, a scammer could threaten to destroy your accounts, and can do so very easily and credibly... So that's not exactly a huge improvement.
Not really.

There are protections in both cases. But they are different.

For instance, in the USA, there is no requirement that you have a mechanism to provide information stored at home to law enforcement, even under warrant/court order. If you have one, they can compel you to use it, but if you don't they have no remediation.

But a cloud provider is legally required to have that mechanism, and when order if they don't exercise it, they are punished. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act.
I really like way Avaya and Cisco DNA do automation. It’s all centrally managed and it uses VXLAN so no vlans have to be present. Just say you want vlan 20 here and here and it takes care of the rest
I can. I don't want to take away from Google's user hostile practices etc., but Fi is kind of a must have for people who travel overseas frequently but don't stay in a particular country long enough to subscribe to the local mobile system.

You can almost always find a better local deal that works great if you don't move around too much, but Fi is a fantastic "common denominator". Since I've had it I've traveled to...maybe 15 countries in Europe, Central America and Asia and it's worked amazingly well and turned otherwise expensive roaming charges or juggling of sims into normal operations.

It has a weird kind of "global citizen" feel to it that I've never felt any other way. Step off the plane, turn your phone off airplane mode and you're good to go.

Driving across Europe and I received "welcome to <country>" while using Google maps just like driving across the U.S. where it says "welcome to <state>".

It's also pretty cheap, even if you blow your usage caps and try to go unlimited (Google will cap the charges at some point).

If you stay in one place or travel abroad rarely, I'd say skip it, you can get a local provider with more service cheaper. But if you might end up in an unknown country and just don't want the hassle, it's pretty awesome.
Ahh, those are the boards I couldn't find sample code for, thanks! Adafruit is a godsend.
So many successful products canned.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Also, the Google Search API (not the site search) which was useful was killed off as well.
You don’t have to be a follower of a famous mathematician to find sadness in the intellectual decline of someone.

Our ability to preserve bodies far longer than mind is a major problem for everyone.
> If Coca-Cola tomorrow said ("our bad, we're sorry"), switched to a low/zero calorie sweetener blend (Stevia, Erythritol, Monk Fruit maybe a little aspartame) with approximate flavor and completely dropped sugar / HFCS then I'd believe they give a crap about tackling obesity.

They've already tried that with "Coca-Cola Life" [0] but people also need to buy this stuff for it to stick and many people are fickle about their "coke taste".

Case in point: I could never stand the taste of the "light" and "zero" variants, and because I don't drink this stuff to hydrate, but for the taste, I will always go for the version that tastes best to me because it's not something I drink that regularly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Life
We all have to remember HN commenters are irrelevant as far as marketing any product. If you see the embarrassing "Show HN" posts for Dropbox, interviewcake and other startups, you can see that being hated by HN has zero relation to the success of a product. Right now Quora is getting a lot of hate here, while they may be on the verge of a $1 billion IPO. We need to realize that our views really don't matter and in some cases are counter productive.
VR porn is really powerful in browser. I'm not sure if that relates to anything I just wanted to let you know that there's hope
I agree, thanks for the reminder. As an example, I was working with Mass Spectrometry data recently, and found a list of about 20-30 possible formats for that topic alone (mostly proprietary) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_spectrometry_data_format
If you're making those decisions because you're bitter over Google Reader, I think Google's not the one that's hurting.....
Actually implement Patreon's rules of conduct and abide by them. What Patreon has been doing doesn't even fit with what Jack Conte said they were doing, and what their terms of service actually say. The reason given why Sargon of Akkad was banned, was because he used some unsavory language to try and offend white nationalists on a YouTube stream apart from Patreon and not on his own channels. And yet, some searching revealed that Patreon has other creators who use the same language on Patreon who were not banned. Furthermore, there is funding of groups engaging in violence on Patreon, but this isn't being banned in accordance to their terms of service. (Many say this is because those groups are farther left leaning.)

How does Go Fund Me keep from turning into the mother of all money laundries?
Right, but if you had data that were just that confidential to you, that's the easy part. Just encrypt it and don't let anybody look. I don't really have that kind of data, but I do have a lot of stuff that's just private, in the sense that I don't have anything to hide, but I close the door when I'm in the toilet. So, really private data, encrypt it, store copies in many safe places, you're done.

That's not really what Solid is about. Solid is not just about me, it is about us. The stuff we do together. The sharing we do, but we share not just with anybody, but with someone we trust. It may be something really trivial: I share my grocery shopping list with my wife. It is not sensitive by any means, but it is also nobody else's business. Those are data used on my terms. Nobody should be peeking into my life to map me, as I go along with my daily business, but my daily business consists of interacting with a lot of people, and I do share and I want to share, but I want personal data control.

Now, personal data control is really the key to permissionless innovation. So, we're not just doing it to protect from snooping, once people have their data then you get a level playing field were there can be competition for the best user experiences.
there's really not a whole lot standing in the way of this being a possibility
It’s fair to call out the other definitions, but unfair to downvote.
My experience with Microsoft is very positive one. I had issue once with Windows on my old gaming machine. I called them, regular support couldn't help me, but they scheduled call with their dev center or something. I got to talk with very knowledgable lady, who not only directed me what to do to resolve problem, but also explained well what was the issue and all made perfect sense.

I was genuinely impressed. I think this was because my issue was not trivial and I got to talk with developers.
I think you're already a bit late.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkk8k/how-las-tr...
By RDF did you mean RDF/XML specifically? JSON-LD is still RDF, it's just serialized differently, which is fine, I like RDF, but OP may have more specific concerns than the syntax.
Many good people get fooled by programs to push a narrative.
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"Most of such if not all things will fail and have to be replaced before then."

That's what they always say but when the time comes the old stuff is still around. Happened with Y2K stuff, happened with old Cobol code.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX to lay off 10% of its workforce
I don't agree with this. Wealth was tied to land in the past but not anymore. If there were something that could be equated with a land as a resource then I'd support the effort but an income tax is more of a catch all for the various ways that wealth can be generated. I think it's a rule that should be used in a more effective (and simpler) manner but I definitely still support an income tax.
You don’t need a card of any sort to pay for stuff in Apple’s ecosystem.

iTunes gift cards are readily available at common retail outlets, which take cash, and can be used for apps, iCloud, and the rest of it.

Sucks that GP got his debit card blacklisted, that would annoy me as well, but “bricked”? c’mon.
DNS at the root level is not decentralized. .com, .io, .net etc are centralized and even owned by for-profit companies.
Killing off products that don't have enough interest doesn't seem to be stupid at all. That's how they shift dev effort onto developing new services and extending services that do have sufficient interest.
Chicago dug the world's biggest flood-stopping tunnel-  wrong solution?
The examples in the FAQ imply that they consider separate binaries that share “complex” data structures to be parts of the same program, blurring the line for what counts as dynamic linking.
Sounds like 90% of their employees will be working an extra 10% more hours per week
It is a good thing SpaceX has kept private. This is a category that does not seem like the company would be better off public.
hot damn!

I really appreciate the walk through of the apache bench (ab) results and learning process even though it didn't get them to their objective - I've been thinking about using ab myself, and these are great things to know.

I took down a few notes while reading the article:

- mentions use of apache bench ( ab ) command for load testing

- mentions use of ganglia tool

- mentions configuring HAProxy for multi-core using nbproc setting

- mentions the 'parallel' tool for running commands in parallel

- simulate long run requests by having the server delay a little vs client (work around for ab deficiencies )

- have the server also send different response lengths back simulating varying load

- pdsh tool to remote parallel shell (ssh) sessions

- vegeta tool - that got them to their scalability / tipping point objective

- nodejs (used for their backends) had a default request timeout of 2 mins

- used dmesg to learn that haproxy was running out of mem (at around 1.2mm conns)

- pdsh to run vegeta tool on multiple machines (acting as clients) - script included in article

- mentions haproxy maxconn setting - and verification by checking proc fs limits for the haproxy pid
Is this a bad sign for SpaceX? Is ‘getting leaner’ why they’re really doing this?
There are projects aiming to decentralize DNS and SSL as well. Handshake[1] decentralizes root DNS and enforces ownership through public-key cryptography. This gets rid of the need for Certificate Authorities which decentralizes both DNS and SSL in one go.

Disclaimer: building a registrar[2] for Handshake so we're pretty excited about it!

[1] https://handshake.org/
[2] https://namebase.io
I’m totally disinterested in a political discussion here, I’m just asking about how your idea could comply with anti-laundering, KYC laws and regulations. As to how GoFundMe works, they cooperate with law enforcement and say so in their TOS, as well as adhering to KYC for withdrawal.

https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001977868-...
According to the FAQ on gnu.org, it's fine to distribute non-free artwork with a GPLed game:

> Keep in mind that some programs, particularly video games, can have artwork/audio that is licensed separately from the underlying GPLed game.[0]

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
Had no idea they had 6000 employees..
> He describes himself as a "classical British liberal”

“Classical liberal”, with or without “British”, is a standard self-identification for modern conservatives, especially right-libertarians; a very wide portion of the political spectrum—reaching pretty far both left and right and everywhere in between—in the modern West, especially the Anglo-American subset, has or claims roots in 18th century British liberal thought.

> However, since he also criticizes the far left, the far left tars him as Alt-Right,

Lots of people criticize the far left without being labelled Alt-Right; OTOH, he does seem to be from a space slightly more libertarian though equally far right and equally, or nearly so, xenophobic on most social axes to the Alt-Right. So there is a real, if perhaps exquisitely fine, distinction there.
from the article: " Google says it’ll continue to support Chromecast Audio users"...
10% is a big fraction. How often do large, stable companies execute a layoff like that? Sometimes layoffs can be not so bad, for example when that's the company's way of clearing off the managers' firing wishlist without incurring legal trouble. However at 10% of the workforce, this may be a change of direction away from R&D and towards sitting on the falcon 9 and launching to LEO.
This means that in practice, DNS is not decentralized.
One of the odd things about the clip he got banned for, was that the most likely way it could have come to the attention of Patreon, was for the Alt-Right to have submitted it. Basically, it looks like Patreon was doing the bidding of the Alt-Right by doing what's politically convenient for the far left.

To say he is alt right is unreasonable and incorrect, although for some he is certainly divisive.

That's basically the same kind of tactics religious fundamentalists tried to pull in shaming homosexuals way back when. That sort of social manipulation through dishonest labeling, that spirit of squashing dissent -- it's the same kind of tribalist petty evil practiced by bigots back in the day. People who know better need to stand up and call it out.
I didn't like drinking pure water until I was into my 20s, it's really difficult to appreciate it when you've grown up on all kinds of juices and sodas because then you are pretty much conditioned to expect some kind of taste from your hydration.

Also: Water isn't just water, there's quite some difference in taste depending on the water source. To this day there's certain "brands" I like drinking and others that I'm having a hard time drinking because I don't like the taste.
Slack ‘seriously’ thinking about going public with a direct listing: source
> And again, I think this is a naive way to look at things. It doesn't help anyone that cars have become nominally cheaper if healthcare has increased 900% above inflation since 1960.

It helps people that use cars, for one, which is a massive portion of Americans. And it's not just cars that are cheaper. Transportation is far cheaper. A coast to coast plane ticket is more than 20 times cheaper than it was in the 1980s. Again, you keep referencing specific costs, like healthcare, that have risen but then make the unsubstantiated conclusion that that overall costs have risen. People are spending more on some things like healthcare, but the studies conducted found that proportional to income meeting needs is cheaper.

> Cheaper internet access can't possibly offset the fact that rent has added 130% above inflation (US average $610 in 1960, $1405 today, both in today's dollars).

Again, it's not just cheap internet. On average, goods and services are getting cheaper across the board. You keep giving specific exceptions to the overall trend, as though it disproves it. That's as ineffective as claiming that global warming is false, because a few regions experienced cooling. One, two, or even three specific exceptions to an overall trend does not disprove that trend.

> You have to establish a hierarchy of needs if you want your analysis to have any utility whatsoever

That is exactly what the article I linked to did: they identified a set of necessities and calculated to cost of those necessities relative to post tax income over time.

By contrast, so far you have repeatedly cited increased costs of exactly three types goods and services.

The former is a much more comprehensive analysis than the latter.