skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right! News outlets consistently choosing to favor their own revenues over a basic human right to private is very surprising.

Perhaps they made a choice that looks the same from the outside, but could perhaps be very different from the inside? GDPR implementation is rarely as cheap, straightforward, or easy as some of its adherents might have you think. It can be a large, difficult, expensive undertaking. It may be worth bearing in mind that not every journalistic outlet has a sizable, disciplined, competent technical organization or the financial wherewithal to acquire one rapidly. These days, running a newspaper is famously a poor business.

Might it be possible that organizations, faced with a choice between an easy way to cut some costs and a potentially non-trivial investment for marginal return, might in some circumstances opt for the former?

Again, you're absolutely right that this looks like a crass choice between naked greed and basic human rights. It's just possible that it might be more.
Tech companies don’t need to spy on conversations to know what you're saying
That was sloppy wording on my part but the idea stands. "The rest of the social services" should be interpreted as only the social services that serve a similar purpose.

I'm a Canadian and basically think you all need to fix your healthcare system anyways, but for simplicities sake I'll just declare that to not be part of what I meant by the rest.
"Adam Neumann, WeWork’s chief executive, who leased the property to WeWork after buying it.." Is this even legal? I smell conflict of interest.
High school my best paying job was assembling busses for Chance Coach for $18/hr (in 2002 dollars). I mainly installed windows, seats, and A/C units. This was not easy work, it was not in air conditioning, and coworkers didn't like working with "a kid". I truly appreciate my SE career now though and I think it taught me a lot about resiliency and getting your hands dirty.
I wonder if this has more to do with what level of success is sufficient for individuals vs teams. If you're doing this for money, teams need to be 2x+ as profitable. This would track with the result that larger teams are more likely to start have a non-profit.

In a world where you're swinging for the fences, this model would still argue for teams.
Reading the original Unix paper [video]
+1 these, I wish they were default for git. Much better both for beginners and experienced users.
"When evidence of growing abuse of the drug became clear in the early 2000s, one of them, Richard Sackler, advised pushing blame onto people who had become addicted.

“We have to hammer on abusers in every way possible,” Mr. Sackler wrote in an email in 2001, when he was president of the company, Purdue Pharma. “They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals.”"

Addiction is a physical and biological process as opposed to a willful individual choice and any company that produces drugs and studies their affects on the body should be at the forefront of understanding that. It appears that Sackler willfully chose to paint people addicted to his product in a negative light in pursuit of profits.

These are people that are prescribed this medication by their doctors whom they trust. These doctors in turn are pressured / bribed by the pharmaceutical companies to act as dispensaries for these pills to the detriment of the patients they are supposed to be protecting.
> This is another case of regulation benefiting the bigger players

> curious what downvotes are disagreeing with here

not downvoting but I suppose it might be that your post comes across as saying that's necessarily a bad thing.

if you need to be a big publisher to mamage doing well-behaved (not ad-net served ads) and you aren't a big player - then my opinion is you should shut down rather than use ad-nets. I don't care whether 80% of content and jobs just disappear in the process. Integrity and privacy are more importanmt than both.
I think there is still room to explore "less corruptible" alternatives. It is easy to fall into the "law of excluded middle" trap. If we are only willing to accept an incorruptible alternative to a current system then we are not likely to make progress.
what's wrong in using Taleb's phrase?
It was offical party line and tought in schools though. It was in school curriculum that USSR was a socialist system which should eventually lead to a communist society but it was not yet communism but more of a staging area which should lead there in the end.
> But I think it's very important to remember that companies can have moral standards and follow them. Many companies don't sell-out in crucial ways, and throwing one's hands up and condemning them all is punishing the ones that stay true.

I agree, which is why I criticize shallow analysis of a company's motivation based on its skin-deep marketing veneer.

In this case it's not even moral standards - the implication is that WeWork's CEO is neglecting his fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value by lining his pocket instead.

That's in fact a corruption of capitalism, it's illegal, and he can be sued for that by shareholders.

> I think moral outrage is a very important and effective market force.

I completely agree, which is why it's important to look beyond the marketing.

If a company can breach standards of morality and decency, but get away thanks to some 30 seconds commercial featuring smiling kids, then we will not be effective as a public in enforcing those very real consequences that companies should face for their actions.
Humbly, I'd disagree that's the best, though this is a superb _part_ of the picture to teach Git well. These are nearly the last steps, I would say.

When new colleagues joined our firm and hadn't yet learned Git, the problems were always the same: uncertainty. They didn't know which Git operations were safe, and they didn't understand how to perform seemingly risky maneuvers with zero risk. They're used to even more dangerous tools that can wipe your work in a second - and, to be fair, Git can as well. The difference is that once you understand Git, you never have to worry about losing work.

So the way I would teach Git is to honestly start with the graph. Show it in action with pictures. Show how to always keep references to commits around to ensure work sticks around. Show how branching and stashing work, let them be confident that the tool will keep everything right where you left it.

_Then_, once they're confident in the basics, weave in the remote repositories.
Main difference being that Ghosn is currently sitting in a jail cell in Japan, awaiting trial...
I think it just depends on the kind of product you're building. It sounds like you were tackling a fairly ambitious problem, so maybe it couldn't have been done by one person.

I've been working on a small bootstrapped service. There have been some long hours, but nothing too crazy. I've also taken a few breaks to do some contract projects (I'm actually looking for a new project now, and you can find some links in my HN profile.) I'm working on a fairly niche product, so I think I can afford to go at a slower pace and not have any cofounders.

Sometimes a startup idea does require a team and some VC funding. Those ones are far more risky and have a lower chance of success, but it's a totally different game.
"Once mutual funds and pension funds start investing in WeWork, then I’ll care."

there is a good chance that pension funds have already invested in WeWork, directly or indirectly. Where do you think the money is coming from? The VCs aren't putting in their own money.
A weird metric.
Did anyone call today? No? I guess everything is fine then.

They voted for TRUMP?? Why the h-ll didn't they call first?
"he was maybe their sixth choice out of the original group"

As soon as he won the nomination, they all fell in line. So clearly he was the "conservative peoples" choice, but not the "conservative establishment" choice. Once he was elected, republicans (even the establishment) further fell into line by continuing to support, condone and cover for his (and the GOP leadership's) corruption.

"Independents and particularly white women elected Trump"

Independents sure but white ... republican women voted for him too. Being a "white woman' does not automatically make you a liberal democrat.

"Hillary's massive $2 billion political campaign"

Cute. All presidential campaigns are massive on the $ scale.

"Hillary's failure to resonate with independent white women and minorities, particularly black voters, sank her campaign."

Lots of factors contributed to Hillary's loss, it was not just "white women and minorities" who failed her.

Anecdotally, the people who have admitted to me (they feel shame BTW) voting for Trump did so out of their own self-interest. They thought they were "shaking up the system".
Also, only show ones without always-on, cloud-connected listening devices.
I agree with the intuition, but not sure that I agree with the takeaways (in particular the lack of knowledge of the ground truth). I mean it is a problem, but there are bigger, more practical mechanisms at work tool.

In terms of sample distribution - let's say that you have an online model serving traffic (and the outcomes of that traffic are logged as your training & holdout data). Then, when you train a wildly different model, it may start picking other things to serve that the original model never served - and therefore, there was no training data. This is a pretty fundamental and hard problem.

Second, funny thing, but sometimes you can't use the same metric for training as you do for evaluating your model online. I don't want to (can't) get into details, but it's also a pretty fundamental and hard problem.

Last, the production traffic always shifts. Using historical data, given how much current models are "reactive" and "compression-like", as opposed to true generalization - they perform worse given fresh traffic that changed slightly from e.g. 5 days ago. If your training data is "day -10 to day -3", your holdout is "day -2 to day 0" - models will likely perform worse on holdout than pure overfit theories would have you assume (mind you, still plenty enough to have a ton of value), but when you launch it on day 1, it will perform worse still - as day 1 is different from days -10 to day -3.

I haven't done the analysis, but I'd assume that for non-historical models where you don't need to structure your holdout data to be from the "future" - that they'd perform better when you first launch them online.
I like Stross' essays, but I think this one is slightly off the mark. Sure, everything he says makes sense, more or less, but we also have to ask whether this convergence happens for a reason other than the simple one he outlines.

After all, we can see examples of convergent evolution is a huge variety of fields - biological evolution, product design, scientific theories etc. If independent groups/individuals set out to achieve some aim, oftentimes their answers will turn out very similar to each other. And there's nothing that says "The People" have to find some particular solution intuitively appealing. In this case, he says alternatives aren't presented as choices, but is that because of the mechanism he outlines, or because those choices aren't really choices and were whittled out for very good reasons?

I actually think anti-vaccine thought can be very helpful in explaining way more than the anti-vax movemement. At its core it represents a set of people raised in a safe, secure environment without the living memory or first-hand experience of a problem. Only logical, rational, book-memory remains, as well as the "rituals". But this sort of memory is weak, unintuitive and requires a certain mindset and education. So opponents start to question whether this thing is even real, they employ stronger, emotional arguments, they appear as "outsiders" demanding "choices" etc.

So how much of this is the Iron Law of Oligarchy and how much is the Anti-vax mindset spreading to the political realm?
Best part is the text in the LEGAL document:

# Legal information
My lawyer tells me I am allowed to smack anyone saying this program is illegal with a flyswatter.
I haven't really thought through my moral position in detail and I probably wouldn't answer this even if I did. I'm just a random person on the internet.
Some design decisions aren’t great. For instance, given a service key (effectively the identifier for the service to page), there is no way to tell if it’s for use in the v1 or v2 API. No identifiers in the key that you can check offline, and nothing in the API that you can check it against. They are just uuid’s with the hyphens removes, which is a sort of bizarre formate. So if you have a service that generates pages with user provided service keys (i.e. any custom integration), you either need users to also specify which API version it’s for, which is prone to errors, or blindly try one API version and then if it fails try the other, which increases complexity.

Not a deal breaker by any means, but indicates to me a relatively inexperienced team designing the APIs.
This is covered in the story. They sent email to SEC employees.
Ford’s sweaty robot bottom can simulate 10 years of seat use in mere days
Just something to remember the next time a startup CEO tells you that "we" have to "work hard and give up some of our compensation" to "make a positive change in the world".
>It's funny to me, because AirBnB runs in to all the same problems we had with hotels a hundred years ago.

To a point. I find it a bit silly to regulate a single person renting out their house occasionally for short stretches (read: most users of AirBnB) to a corporation with multiple purpose built, million dollar facilities on expensive commercial property with their own staff and so forth.
Good taste attracts loyal customers
Pensions funds currently invest in venture capital funds. They also invest in REITs which are directly impacted by WeWork's business model.
This is rich coming from Redhat that does shady things with subscription license agreements and open-source software.
Nothing unlisted, although the Associate TAM and Associate EDR roles might be worth a look.
> An industry can only be disruptive for so long.

I think another thing people tend to forget: regulations are often there for a real reason. Especially in the US there's a vocal majority who thinks that regulations are the problem. It's true sometimes. The reasons for the regulation were either bad in the first place, or have "aged out." But a lot of times: the regulation in the way of some business is there to protect consumers.
Should we build Git repo backups into rsync.net?
That was mentioned in another post; there's a fallback "graceful appear" css animation, to prevent pop-in; normally the AMP JS will do this appear animation, but script / tracking blockers block the AMP javascript, thus the fallback causes a poor UX.
We have two properties listed on Airbnb and have been a "superhost" for half a year.

Our listing has extra fees if there are more than 2 people booking and there have been a number of instances where guests would sneak in extra people.

We got a security camera for one of our listings recently. It's an attached suite with a private entrance. The camera is installed outside and it's disclosed with a check box toggled in Airbnb's listing settings.

Being a private person myself, I would not put a camera inside spaces meant private for guests. In these times, I'm even a bit wary on adding a CO alarm because guests might think it's a spy camera.

Obviously, not everyone has the same standards. The host described in the post is quite rude. I wouldn't communicate that way with a guest. Hopefully, Airbnb will reopen the case given the attention it has received.
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Change builds up like a sneeze. The vested interests resist until the dam bursts. That can take centuries. I recommend thinking about other things than politics for personal happiness.
What in particular upsets you about it? It's pretty readable to me, and unlike C++ ranges, is actually fairly terse.
But did you need an ad to get you to do that? Seems like that's the one ad you don't need to see.
There was a time (Napster -> Bearsahre/Limewire/Kazaa) when I would have been excited about something like this. As I've become more financially stable, and have more hardware for music to integrate into I look at a project like this and think: How can I share music links with my friends easily? How do I get these songs on my watch? How do I get these songs on my phone? How do I play these from my home speakers? How easy is going to be for my partner to do all of the same things?

The user experience bar for a music service has gone up since the days of Napster. If you primarily use one computer and that's your audio experience, this probably works well. I've found that I'm increasingly playing podcasts and music in different locations and going back to a centralized playing source is not an experience I want.
Well I don't know much about the whole cyber economy but I don't think smaller sites are somehow entitled to advertising spending.

If you run a website you are going to have to work hard to get Volkswagen to put ads on your site. Explain to them why they should care. The NYT started out small too.
It’s possible to retire there and only live on Social Security. My brother in law was there for 10 years, married a Tica, but they are back in the US so his kid gets a real education. Things like mail, road maintenance, power, and water are not always guaranteed.
I participated in a trek in Nepal, the high point of which was ascending to the peak of Kala Patthar (chosen because of the great views of Everest it offers; we got great photos of an avalanche in progress there). It's 5,644.5 m (18,519 ft). We absolutely felt the lack of oxygen. It was a strange feeling, like nothing else I've experienced. I definitely wouldn't have had the competence to do much else than mindlessly climb up and mindlessly climb down again on the day we did the peak (other than snapping some photos)!

My wife is a retinal surgeon. She was interested in the effects high altitude on the retina, since the retina can, in some ways, almost be almost considered to be part of the brain. At a lower elevation than the top of Kala Patthar, she took out a magnification instrument and could spot some mild hemorrhaging on my retina. Not enough to worry about but enough that she could see it. It was interesting and a bit scary to think what could be going on in our brains.

I can't imagine how people climb Everest without oxygen. But one factor is that most of them probably take more time to acclimatize than we did. (It took us 2 weeks to trek to the peak.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Patthar
Just to counter your point - I worked from home as a freelancer for about 4 years. I decided I wanted separation between church and state, as it were. Definitely wasn't ready for a contract, but have been in a WeWork for 3+ years now (and am still happy to not have to commit to location/broadband/cleaner/whatever). I'm sure I could have paid for cheaper work space (although, London) - but the money I've made from meeting people here and chatting over lunch / coffee that I didn't have when I worked from home and attended meetups has more than covered everything I've spent. Not to mention my productivity increased noticeably.
I believe it might be sought after is because it is a free alternative (although not sure if it contains ads or not, I don't see any mention of it anywhere - and I haven't used it).
They should know better, that's their job. They are expected to have the knowledge and skills needed to know better. The fact that they willfully disregard that knowledge to satisfy the sales goals of a pharmaceutical salesman is egregious.
Thinking out loud here, it seems like this behaves very similarly to leverage in that it kind of magnifies his gains or losses from wework. If Wework succeeds he can squeeze the company for more rent. If Wework fails, suddenly he also has a bunch of broken leases. (Although he has a floor to his losses from the real estate since he can eventually rerent it, maybe at a lower price)

Another interesting aspect of this is that he can basically insider trade with impunity since real estate isn't a security. Who knows when/where WeWork will open an office next? Well, he does, and can buy a place cheaply (I don't imagine WeWork presence affects the real estate price much, but in principle it could).
Yep, that and some paragraph above that was enough for me to close the tab.
Sad, because it means they aren't actually representatives. At least not of those who dont make phone calls.
To be fair, I did qualify my statement with a “could”. IANAL.

This likely depends on where it happens as well, and how aggressive the legal system is there. I know that I’ve heard of cases where a high school official was attempting to handle a situation where a student was distributing nude pictures of another student via their phone, and because the teacher forwarded the message to themselves so that they could show law enforcement, the teacher ended up being charged with possession of child porn.

I guess all I’m saying is that I wouldn’t want to be in a position where I could inadvertently capture something like that. Maybe 90% of the time you’re fine as long as you handle it properly, but we’ve all seen situations where someone ends up in a bad situation despite having no ill intentions.
> he has more than 65% of the overall share vote

So when WeWork responded with

-"The board is aware of it and has approved it"

they probably meant

-"Neuman is aware of it and has approved it" right ?
Spotify recently removed six songs in my "offline" playlist from its library, so I can no longer play them. If this actually saves music files, that's a big plus.
I basically do two things to make sure type checking doesn't slow me down:

1) Use emitOnly: true. This means that if your code has type errors, it still compiles. And you can fix the type error later.

2) Never use any directly. Not all anys are equal. Some are there because you don't have the time to figure out a proper type annotation. Others are there because you can express a proper annotation, but think that it's just not worth the effort. And some anys are there because the type system is not capable of expressing the type you have in mind.

What you want to do is to clearly annotate your intention when you're typing something as any. So what I do is to simply disallow directly using any, and instead, use a few global type aliases that better communicate my intention:

type $FixMe = any // Fix this type, preferably before accepting the PR
type $IntentionalAny = any // This `any` is intentional => never has to be fixed
type $Unexpressable = any // TS cannot express the proper type atm

I often put these aliases in a defs.d.ts file and use them instead of any.
It seems like calling this "Popcorn Time" for music isn't necessarily a great comparison.

PT allowed streaming playback of torrented movies and was very clearly piracy and illegal.

Meanwhile, this seems like an aggregator for existing free sources of music (Bandcamp, YouTube, SoundCloud).

That said, it looks like a cool hobby project and a great alternative for folks who want/need a multi-source music client. Google Play Music was my go-to service for a long time since I could not only get streaming access but also upload my own local files to their servers for playback anywhere. Most of that local music came from Bandcamp.
And for those of us who are not founders, this is some new material: https://sarahbrownmarketing.com/power-to-the-startup-people-...
Is that how you are supposed to deal with that? How is one supposed to improve as a human if one does not know where their mistakes are? If I did something wrong I would like to know.

I did not contact that person anyways and I doubt there is a way. But at least knowing when I was blocked could help me deduce what might be the reason.

Honestly I do find this quite upsetting.