skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because you don't really care about privacy. If it were something else 'you cared about' you would be saying something completely different and wondering why others don't share your concern.

These things are generational and accumulated wisdom about privacy, surveillance and their cascading consequences into other aspects of society including sleepwalking into a police state are well known.

For those on the other side of the police state or who gain from these shifts, and there are many apart from many who 'just accept', these are merely to be hand waved away, 'normalized' as 'inevitable', 'not such a bad thing' or 'accepted' with quiet resignation but perhaps those with a greater appreciation of history, evolution of human societies and the perpetual quest for freedom and democracy and what it entails can take a wider view.
Thanks! I hope more people can follow this path, too.
And then for a couple of days after you gotta tell all your fellow cooks "watch the knives" or you'd all cut yourself after a month of handling what amount to stainless steel rods.
Unity: Updated Terms of Service and commitment to being an open platform
I'm not sure it's easy to find anyone willing to fund you to work on anything... But,

Mozilla is a non-profit, while I worked there I worked exclusively on free software.
And the health insurance fantastic.

Much of what you work on a GitLab, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Redhat, etc. is also open source, depending on what team you join.
I wasn't making a no true capitalism argument. I was responding to the implicit straw man that ties capitalism to apathy or complicity about corruption. Capitalists care about private corruption. They always have. That's why there are laws and norms around fraud, nepotism, embezzling, and white collar crime in general.

Just because people are creative and invent new ways to be corrupt doesn't mean captilist societies are indifferent.

I would expect people skeptical towards corporations to see some common ground here.
UPlexa Launches Android Wallet
Not quite. Systemd sucks: https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/

I have never used systemd, even though since 1999 I am GNU user.

There are many distributions without systemd:
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_distribution...

and I am using Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre the fully free GNU operating system distribution:
https://www.hyperbola.info

The game just started!
Ask HN: I think I want a divorce
I've been on HN for like 6 years, so I needed a throwaway.

Married for over 10 years. No biological kids together but we do care full-time for 2 kids. My wife and I get along great. I love her. We have fun together. It almost feels like we are friends more than spouses though. We sleep separate too because she snores and generally restless and I need quiet (ear plugs and a mask). I also only sleep 4 hours.

I think I am ready for a change. I have goals still in life. I'll never accomplish them or be given the chance to accomplish them. I've always locked myself away and worked on my ideas. Since being married I can't. I don't know when the last time was that I worked days straight hacking out a rough idea for a project. I miss that.

I've talked to my wife about it. She says she wants me to be happy, that I'm a great husband and if this is what I need to do she understands.

So why am I posting? I'd like thoughts on this? Did I miss thinking about this decision in some key aspect. Any light to be shed before I decide to change my life?
I have switched back to hotels too, due to my recent experience.

My friends and I were staying over at a 4-subroom Airbnb during the summer. The apartment looked great, and we really could not complain about the price either.

However, we started noticing that none of the furniture match; there we no more than two of the same chairs, the beds were all different, the cutlery was bent and visibly used, etc.

When two of my friends sat on the edge of a double-bed at once, the whole frame collapsed. Puzzled, we inspected further only to find custom fitted planks, badly mounted by too small screws, legs made of cheap wood, and so on.

Contacting the host, we were told that we had to reimburse him for a completely new bed, as well as the transport and installation costs. Meanwhile, we could just "sleep on the floor".

It became all to clear that the host picked up furniture from some kind of recycling station, and expected the guests to pay for it when it inevitably breaks. This way, he could continuously replace the furniture for new one, and having the guests pay for it!

Luckily, we could prove to Airbnb that the furniture was not original, and that it was modified multiple times, badly. After the whole vacation spent worrying about the communication between the host and the Airbnb, we managed to avoid having to pay.

It scares me that the host was willing and able to ignore the safety of his guests, and he got away with it without any repercussions from Airbnb.

PS: While my bad review of the host did not even put a nudge in his almost perfect 4.5/5 score, mine fell so drastically that most decent hosts might now reconsider housing me.
Test your website and monitor it with no programming skills
How to write upgradable smart contracts in solidity
So Japan is "in" the EU, because of the recent trade treaty?

This is a formal relationship, after all.
Let's not split hairs over the difference between a Republic and a Democracy. It's clear what I meant when I said "America is a democracy" and "America supports/promotes democracy". Democracy, when I use this word is simply a system of government where leaders are chosen by people in periodic elections.

I'm really not interested in nitpicking beyond that. Talk to someone else or go elsewhere if you are.
This sounds awfully similar to what the current CEO of Sears is trying to do.
>If nobody can legally do behavioral targeting in Europe, it levels the playing field.

No, it doesn't. All it means is that Europe will become even less relevant in tech than we already are. Just because European companies can't do behavioral targeting doesn't mean companies outside of the EU can't do that and the EU has no jurisdiction over them, if they can even find out that this is going on in the first place. All it will mean that European tech companies get out-competed.

Another thing you're not considering is that the EU has 30+ languages in it. I'm sure it will be great to see advertising in languages you can't even read. That will drive home the point that only France and Germany matter even more.

>Meanwhile, companies still have their advertising budgets; they'll just have to spend money on untargeted ads.

Advertising budgets don't exist in a vacuum. Their size depends on how much money they can make based on those ads. If it costs more to advertise than it brings in as sales then you just don't advertise. If targeted ads aren't a necessity then neither are online advertisements.
CoffeeScript and TypeScript are different enough that I don't think TypeScript could possibly have the same fate. CoffeeScript was all about syntax sugar, but 95% of the value of TypeScript is the typechecker that runs in your dev environment (editor, CI, etc) and has no business running in the browser. I sure hope we don't get to a world where every browser needs to implement a standards-compliant typechecker; that would be both architecturally questionable and greatly slow down improvements to the type system.

It would be nice if the browser could accept and execute TypeScript code (that is, ignore the type annotations), which would avoid the need for a transpile step, but that's a relatively minor improvement, and would certainly not be a replacement for TypeScript itself.
WeWork’s customers are also maintaining their own curated narrative. Many of them don’t actually care about ideology, they just want a hip co-working space where they can drink beer and socialize with other startups and “crush it” everyday.

It’s only fitting that the owner would also be full of shit.
The GDPR is a great piece of legislation, that significantly improves people's privacy. Your arguing about how terrible it is will not convince anybody that your industry's practices aren't evil. They will only reinforce it.
Given the speculative, provincial, emerging, & cultural nature of scientific research, a scientific paper is not a proof. Given the aggressiveness & pervasiveness of the propaganda for certain teleological ideologies, I have my doubts as to the integrity of the processes & individuals involved. Time will tell what will happen. I'll place my bet & you can place your bet...

The record snowfall in Europe does not care about the scientific paper you posted; but I'm sure a scientist will write it off as the "wierding of weather", "obviously" based mainly on anthropomorphic carbon emissions. So you can still "debunk", via appeal to authority, anybody who doubts the scientific hegemony with another scientific paper.

An effective strategy, in the face of uncertainty & incomplete knowledge, is to track the possibility space & to keep optionality (and discussion) open.

Good luck...
Corporate Governance doesn’t help when either the board is just a rubber stamp for the CEO or the CEO still holds a controlling stake in the company.

And in the case of successful founders, even without a controlling stake, just their reputation makes it harder to go against the CEO. Could anyone on the board have challenged Gates or Steve Jobs 2.0? In the modern era, who would challenge a decision by Bezos or Hastings?
I've climbed in the Andes in the past, getting as high as 6700m. I would really guess that poor sleep is the major factor aside from oxygen deprivation. It's very difficult to sleep at those altitudes, both from lack of oxygen and the difficult physical conditions.

The human body's breathing is controlled by CO2 in the blood. If you aren't getting a lot of oxygen, you aren't making enough CO2, so you are not breathing enough. This is the main cause behind altitude sickness. It takes time for your body to adjust its breathing rate.

This issue is worse at night. This is the reason behind an adage "climb high, sleep low." Many people even get Cheyne-Stokes breathing, which causes one to wake up hyperventilating kind of like sleep apnea.
When I was a kid there was a knife sharpening truck that'd come to my block (Queens, NYC) twice a year. Think ice cream man / food truck, but for sharpening knives. They would take your knives, and you come back some time later and they're as sharp as can be. For straight blades you can do it yourself, but to hone something with serrations is much more difficult and they'd do it no problem. They'd also let curious kids watch from just outside the truck :)
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You can run it. The four freedoms refer to the freedoms when you receive the software.

You can use GPL software within non-free management software within your company without problems.

What you cannot do with the GPL software is distribute it as non-free. That is all.

But how you run it for yourself, from yourself, that is up to you.
This is just the start/continuation of the WeWork world unraveling. I am familiar with the internals and there is a lot more being hidden that has yet to come out.

When the 2010's documentary gets made and they get to the section about the start-up world unraveling and being exposed, it's gonna be Theranos, Fyre and WeWork highlighted throughout. 2019 is perfect timing.
They could have actually delivered the deal had they voted in favour -- and it would have been better than no-deal -- but many leavers voted against.
That doesn't line up with your former figures or reasoning. It's not a good example.
That's a lot of reading for a tool that should be making life easier.
I've yet to hear a fair mechanism for making those kinds of distinctions in objective courtrooms instead of in subjective editorial pages and message threads.

Every group has processes, rules, and norms for deciding how to produce and distribute content.
Seems vaguely similar to another Insider Trading case relating to Slavic-descent and Marketwire: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-06/pastor-co...
And I would argue that a Macro is external language put on top of your language as a patch (hack), when your language is not expressive enough for genericity.

Then yes, there is nothing as "proper" Macro. There is just an attempt to fix a limited language in the first place.

And it is something that C++ arrived to solve ( not that badly ) currently.
This is true of many kinds of people (e.g. New Yorkers, Parisiens, text editor/programming language aficionados, etc.) They complain about whatever it is they hold dear, but take umbrage when outsiders do so.

I hate to use a NNT-popularized phrase, but it's partly because outsiders don't have "skin in the game", and their complaints don't come from a place of shared adversity and knowledge, but from a place of unearned superiority and ignorance.

In most areas in life, you have to earn the right to complain.
Isn't respiration triggered by the need to expel CO2 and not the need for O2?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
> because then you can't get rid of the rest of the social services.

Some you can get rid of, others you shouldn't. Even if you have UBI, some medical procedure might cost an individual more than they are getting in 10 years. So a proper healthcare system is still important.
CERN wants to build a particle collider that’s four times bigger than the LHC
The system I described was much more akin to something like the Better Business Bureau than a new bureaucracy. It tends to be a way to get things done in a way where both consumers and businesses want to obey them (as is rather the definition of opt-in systems). For instance I just checked the BBB entry for AirBnB [1]. It turns out that even though they aren't affiliated with the BBB, they are rapidly responding to complaints and seem to be resolving most issues. Many of the complaints/resolutions are publicly displayed. Feels rather voyeurish reading them, but it's all quite interesting!

You tend to get much better results with using a third party company (such as the BBB) since the company's action towards the company stands to have much more weight than a single consumer's. It's similar to governmental regulation, except it tends to scale more appropriately with size. E.g. 'Ma and Pop BnB' are generally not going to end up facing BBB complaints since they can resolve things 'locally.' Whereas with governmental regulatory systems 'Ma and Pop BnB' is treated in many ways the same as multibillion dollar multinational "BnB" and inadvertent noncompliance can be devastating, even when such inadvertent noncompliance in no way negatively affected anybody as you invariably end up with some rules that make sense for multinationals, but not necessarily e.g. a couple of retirees renting out a spare room.

[1] - https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-francisco/profile/rental-listi...
Anecdotal, but I've ran ads cold, targeted and re-targeted ads on Facebook for clients and eventually dropped re-targeting from the service I offer because it's extra time to build the campaign, extra cost and little to no benefit in terms of lead acquisition.
The Alaska Permanent Fund is the only one of those that even hits both of the U and I points of UBI (the rest are just I); it doesn't even target the B, though.
I don't understand your argument for not prosecuting MNPI trading. Are you saying that because the general public doesn't understand what MNPI is, the law shouldn't be enforced?

Are you taking issue with reason the law exists, or just that the people don't understand it?

And what's your basis for saying it's ineffective? From my experience, insider trading laws are taken very seriously by most of the industry.
> is just a problem requiring money

Any problem of providing fresh water for human civilization is "just a problem requiring money." It's not like there is a lack of water on the Earth. So it's kind of silly to pick one single particular aspect (diluting brine) to try to hand-wave away as just a money problem.

In general, money is a significant constraint on engineering and can't be hand-waved away.
This is a textbook case where of amateur sleuthing is a bad idea. We're not all Tsutomu Shimomura.

If there is a criminal (or civil) case, there has been no chain of custody. If you find something like this, don't even touch it, get someone qualified.

Secondly, it seems highly likely the person who created the image is not the person who emplaced it. The use of a VPN is hardly an indicator of evil intent. At least the author did not put any names in their publication.
I like to call it the 'system under test' / SUT. Then I can go on to say a unit test is a test that's fast and if it fails points to a specific problem in the SUT. Smaller SUTs obviously help satisfy both. If setting up collaborators in a bigger SUT leads to either unacceptable runtimes or too much brittleness from many things being able to go wrong, it's a signal you're not getting the value of unit testing in that place. (The test itself may or may not be valuable, other types of testing have their own value propositions.)
Leaving a country is a lot harder than selling some stock.
Along those lines, I think a heavily commented version of fff would be a great learning tool. The concepts of fff are simple enough that anyone could follow along easily without really having to learn fff first. This idea came partly from the fact that when I tried reading fff's new source code yesterday, while knowing exactly what fff does and understanding the comments completely, I was still pretty lost as to what it was doing and how it worked.
TfL gates aren't online in anything but the most basic way - the first time you use a contactless card on TfL each day they'll place a hold for 10p to verify the card is valid. They then modify that to request the total cost of travel for the previous day after that.
I remember in my first job our CEO was quite proud that he bought the whole office building himself and then rented out to his company. He said whole mortgage will be repaid in 8 years... :) I guess the only difference was that it is a small company and not a 'unicorn'.
There are two sides to the coin, a good founder/CEO that has a controlling interest in the company can make long term strategic plans without fear of repercussions from short sighted investors.
> Seems analogous to getting fed up with shady mechanics, so the next time your car breaks down you drive it over a cliff in the hopes that the wreckage will be more reliable. But I guess people do strange things when they feel like they have no control.

Exactly. Desperate people who don't see anything in the future for them or see thing getting worse, don't usually act rationally. Poverty does that to people as well, for example, and that's visible daily. They resort to payday loans, food they buy might not be healthy for them in the long term and so on.

On the other side there are usually powerful forces willing to take advantage of that irrationality and desperation.
I didn't say giving bad actor an out. Just because you have information doesn't mean you are allowed to use the information to harm me. Its still illegal to do so.
That's the total population of the entire US, not the population of people who would be eligible for the full wage. There are a number of demographic groups who would not be eligible for various reasons, eg children (~74M as of 2010 census). That reduction alone is $3 Trillion.

Beyond that, it looks like wages being roughly half of the GDP matches our current setup fairly well: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa
I'm more curious about how they hacked into the SEC database? Did they use an email trojan? Exploit an existing flaw or backdoor? If they did this via e-mail, who did they send the mail to?
Time. Would you rather deal with one website that gets a billion hits or 1000 websites that get 1 million hits each?

Negotiating deals, verifying them and all that stuff costs time and money.
Premade scraping tools?
Been looking for some web scraping tools that would be useful in e-commerce. As in, scraping information that is on page for prices, brands, images, etc., to compare between competitors and plan my own marketing strategies. But im totally new and lost in this. I know that most people write their own scripts and buy proxies. But what about premade tools, that could be used? Found this one: https://oxylabs.io/products/real-time-crawler and it seems easy to use? Anyone has tried it? Or any recommendations for this kind of thing?
See a nice comparison here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fabiospampinato/notable/ma...

from https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable
Ask HN: How to Handle Argumentative Developers?
You probably all know the drill. An engineer with strong opinions on anything and everything. Product, business, sales, ops, stack, roadmap – they have to have to understand and agree on every little detail before they’re onboard. As a leader, you want them to be onboard, you want them to see, and you want them to be happy – but you don’t want to spend eighty percent of your day arguing with them to get there.

What's the fix? I know to fire them. I know how to not go into arguments and keep the friction slow burning. I have no clue how actually solve it.
Is that limit applicable domestically - like would children be able to enforce it against a carer/parent. Or does it only apply to commercial arrangements?

Do you get to demand 20degC at work?

20degC is a bit hot for my liking, 18 degC as a minimum, perhaps - one should expect to wear a jumper in Winter.
You may mean something else by the word -- but words do have meanings. A republic is not a democracy, and a democracy is not a republic. They're different forms of government.

Many people do erroneously call the US a democracy, but that doesn't make it correct or irrelevant.
What are you talking about?

Have you read the EU's no deal plan? Ireland's no deal plan?

Their plan is this:
- Allow the UK to keep trading with the EU on WTO terms
- Do not halt trade with the UK. No need to, damages both.
- No border in Northern Ireland. They won't build it, we
won't build it, empty threat.
- Boats, Lorries, Ferries to continue as normal until
agreements made. Guess what, this is what real independent
nations do with eachother.

Ireland's agriculture industry sells 80% of its produce to the UK. It's in big trouble with no trade.

Germany sells lots of cars to the UK. It's in big trouble with no trade.

4 Million EU citizens live here, they are in big trouble with no reciprocal agreement.

French, German and Spanish fishermen rely on British waters to for fishing as they are rather lucrative - to great detriment of the British fishing industry. They are in trouble when we take them back.

Spain, France, Italy and Germany are all having economic issues the UK isn't particularly having right now. Look at jobs, youth unemployment etc.

18% of the EU's goods are exported to the UK. The whole EU is in trouble with no trade. The reverse figure is fake news thanks to the rotterdam effect.

That 8% GDP figure is ridiculous and proven to be wrong [https://capx.co/the-bank-of-englands-brexit-forecasts-arent-...]. The assumptions it makes are the worst possible and completely unrealistic. Those figures suggest that the effect on the UK economy would be worse than WW2 - a time where Europe was occupied by a hostile power and Britain was at war with trade convoys regularly being sunk.

Personally I'd be happy for Scotland to leave the Union. They are a net receiver of English taxes. Also, would never be granted EU membership thanks to our hypocritical friends in Spain and their own issue with certain parts of their country declaring independence.

The EU suits large corporations. It keeps wages for the least skilled in our society as low as possible, more workers means less pay.

All we are asking for is to be an independent nation state, just like more than 150 other countries.
TypeScript has other features such as Enums that don't exist in JavaScript but aren't pure type annotations either. It transforms into very clever bidirectional map tables.