skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your first paragraph is spot on. And why do people do that?

I also agree that your second paragraph is the logical conclusion of a materialist starting point - that is, the physical universe is all there is. There is really no other conclusion from that starting point.

But that leaves us with no free will (automatons don't decide anything).

It leaves us without love. (Real love is choosing to do what's best for the other person, and we can't choose. And even what we feel as love is just neurons and biochemicals doing canned mechanistic responses.)

It leaves is with no morals. (When a rock falls off a cliff, you don't say that it should have fallen differently, or not fallen at all. We don't think morals apply to mere material objects that are merely obeying the laws of physics, no matter how complex they are.)

It leaves us with no truth. (Our brains evolved to get a good enough answer fast enough, not to discover truth in any absolute, platonic sense. And when we "think", we're just letting those neurons do what they're wired to do, without knowing all the bugs in the hardware.)

But we also have years of experience of what it means to live as a human being. We experience choosing, loving, knowing that some things are right and others are wrong, and discovering truth. We know, via first-hand experience of living, that "complex automatons" does not adequately describe human life.

It's kind of like putting on a t-shirt backwards. It covers all the places that need covering, but it just doesn't fit. And no matter how you try to move it around and re-arrange it, it still doesn't fit. In the same way, the logical conclusions of the materialist starting point don't fit our experience of what it is to live as human beings.

This leaves us with two possible responses. The first is that, out of random chance, the universe has created complex automatons that have the experience of being (and the desire to be) more than automatons - to be genuinely personal, rather than just the impersonal plus complexity. Those perceptions are wrong, and those desires will forever be unfulfilled. It would be cruel, except that the universe doesn't have motivations, and to to call it cruel is a category error.

The second possibility is that the materialist starting point is mistaken - that there is more than merely matter and the laws of physics. This is what I believe. More strongly, I believe that our experience of living as humans is evidence that the materialist starting point is mistaken.

When the Bible says that God made man in His own image, it is saying something about this 21st-century argument. It is saying that there was a first there was personal, not impersonal, and that God (someone, not just something) created humans to also be someone, not just something. And therefore, our experience of being personal rather than impersonal is in line with what has always been.
Apple's Business Beyond the iPhone
I love DDG (and have been using it as my primary search engine for about six months) but I feel like the hacker community (including me) forgets that DDG is a for-profit corporation, and that at some level posting these kinds of links is more or less the same as just giving them free advertising.
Yes, Skype / Skype for business uses Microsoft’s centralised servers including for authentication.
who's talking about land? This is about antennas on preexisting poles, which exist for the purpose of literally supporting infrastructure. Furthermore any asshole (such as myself) can register an LLC and thus be one of those 'evil corporations' you speak of. So this regulation you seem so dead against would actually be protecting your right to place a 5G antenna.

Since you mentioned 'fair value' for land -- why is it you are arguing FOR rent seeking? That's extortion, not fair valuation.
Digital signal processing http://dspguide.com
> Join the Apple Developer Enterprise Program for 299 USD per year and get everything you need to start distributing proprietary in-house apps to your employees.

From the page describing the program: https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/
You can include associated entities by using expand, e.g. order with orderlines. See: https://www.odata.org/getting-started/basic-tutorial/#expand

The oData contract, $metadata, describes an entire domain model, including associations between entities. You can use expand to join entities over these associations.

You can request multiple queries in one http operation using batch requests: https://www.odata.org/getting-started/advanced-tutorial/#bat...
> I’ve been doing it for years.

Who is asking you do to this? I have not had a single request -- ever -- in 15 years of web development. Hey more power to you if you want to disable JS, but the world will be leaving you behind.
I think this is closer to what I think has happened. The internet is used by such a large percentage of the population that "weird" sites now are going to be smaller in relation to sites that appeal to "the masses." The ratio of "weirdos to non-weirdos" on the internet today is significantly smaller than the mid 90s. "The masses" were very underrepresented online back then. :)
Samy is still your hero and you know it!
It was. The early 90’s-2000 had a hugely creative backbone which ultimately was crushed by businesses.
What Happens When You Drop Facebook?
Nothing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
I'm pretty happy the way that Facebook is signaling the security of iOS by complaining that they have no other way to break into phones except by social engineering people to install root certificates.

This episode is a win-win.
try:

"weather: toronto" instead
Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?
My girlfriend has a Nest at her work which saved her last week when the power cycled and the heating system turned off. She was able to restart it from home.

I wouldn't be so thrilled to have a thermostat that requires internet to function at home. Or is that only for those networked features?
No. Hedge funds make money on asset allocation and asymmetric information, i.e. exclusive
market information (see Quandl). They don't make alpha with complex trading rules.
> why bad things are really actually bad.

In a material universe there is no objective good or bad.
To add to this, the few remaining pockets of anonymity are still as weird as ever :)
Not everyone who signed up, or who is signed up, is capable of giving informed consent (those under 18). There is also a lack of understanding of exactly how much information is being collected - it's one thing to say 'we will track all your traffic' and another to understand the long term implications of that action.

Also, I'd just like to call out how much of an outright lie the phrase "Your [...] data will never be shared or sold to anyone outside of Google" is. If Google were to go into bankruptcy procedures at some point in the future, that data is simply another asset which will be sold off to someone else, with no respect for the privacy policy it was collected under (not to mention how privacy policies can change and retroactively cover data already collected).
Exactly. "Let's all take a step back" or "I'd like to challenge that". Makes you sound insightful while knowing nothing.
It seems like you don’t care that Facebook was happy to breach their contract with Apple here. It may not be ‘illegal’, but it’s certainly a civil tort.

Here’s a question: if Facebook is willing to breach this important contract with a company as powerful as Apple and think they’d get away with it, how much do you think they respect contracts they make with their customers?
Actions should only be done if its on screen. It sounds like the AI has everything on screen.
> How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

-- David Foster Wallace
If I want to have a private conversation where the details of what are said are undiscoverable, I believe that's a right that people should have in a "free country", including over the internet, over phone, and so on. The fact is, I can, using some combination of math and secrets, accomplish this.

I don't think anyone on earth has the right to collect/record/see the contents of my communications other than me and the other participants, until there's reasonable suspicion of a crime.

Covert dragnet snooping is an evil means to any end, and it damages the moral standing of the society that does it.
It's marketing for their search engine
I've been into the 2600 homebrew scene since "Making Games for the Atari 2600" came out a few years ago. I haven't made anything useful yet, but the community is great and very active. There's an awesome twitch channel[1] dedicated to 2600 homebrew, ZeroPageHomebrew. They do 2 shows a week, ~2 hours each. The developers and various AtariAge people are usually active in the chat. They're doing an awards show in February for homebrews made last year.

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew
Missing features I wish DuckDuckGo had (and reasons why I manually type google.com even though I have DDG set as my default browser:
- sports searches. If I search for “Washington Capitals”, I want to know when they’re playing next and what channel it’s on, as well as the results of their past game. This goes for any time I search for a sports team.
- searches for dictionary terms should one-box the definition (for instance, today I looked up mortified with “mortified definition”). I should see the one-box of what I’m looking for.
- one-boxing in general: stack overflow answers, definitions, calculations (feet to meters, grams to pounds, etc), sports, time zones, cities, monuments, etc.

The search results from DDG just feel “off” compared to google search. I want to like DDG and I keep attempting to use it; but it’s failing at making relevant information immediately available at my fingertips.
Does that matter? That data will be around forever (longer than Google). Do you trust every person (and lawyer) Google will ever hire from here on out, and every company who will purchase that data once Google is gone?
My experiences doesn't reflect yours exactly, but I know what you mean. Go is still a fairly young language, so I think the patterns are still establishing themselves. But I think progress is being made and much of the code I've seen lately has been pretty good.

Regarding libraries, best practice is to use CSP sparingly and to design the API as blocking calls so the applications have the choice of using the call directly or wrapping it with CSP.
"640k ought to be enough for everyone."

Setting some arbitrary hard-limit is counter-productive and shortsighted. That quote is infamous for exactly the same reasons that this claim is flawed.

Lots of unanswered questions here, e.g. what happens if a 500byte javascript file then does a load of XHR requests that download more JS: what happens then? does the connection just get closed as soon as you pass 5mb? That will break the internet for lots of users. Plus what happens if I down load a couple of kilobytes of javascript that ends up allocating many gigabytes of memory? Is that ok because it was under 5mb of over-the-wire-bytes?

I can easily imagine a 5mb+ web application. Sure you might not like that, but it does not make that a bad situation.

If you don't like javascript, then the answer is simple: disable it. If you want to use javascript but feel like a particular website is using too much resources, then the answer is simple: dont visit it. You have choice.
Infinity Wells and Deep Work
1. "Doing X is good, even if X is illegal" is not a great stance.

2. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc. Try again.
That probably means i haven't read anything from medium recently. Wasn't aware of it.
Things that work without JS are typically much faster, more responsive and more consistent in terms of user experience. A competitive advantage over what young frontend developers produce these days.
I think it has to do with the human perception between "free" and "any amount", no matter how small.
Importance of Idempotency for Payments
In a material universe there is no objective good or bad.

I'm willing to bet that there's a sadist out there who, if they had you under their control, could eventually convince you there is definite objective bad.
Yet they overcome the auto industry lobby’s efforts and many others’...
http://list.org/
The "immersive experience" would have that cursor move at a solid 60FPS and negligible latency. Amiga had hardware sprites, and even software-managed sprites had comparable performance.
From what I've read, the Facebook research app installed a new root certificate on the device which allowed man-in-the-middle interception of all encrypted internet traffic. Which is obviously a huge issue.

From what I've read, the Google app does not appear to be doing this.

I am assuming the main reason that Apple revoked the enterprise distribution certificate for Facebook is due to this man-in-the-middle attack on encrypted traffic. The fact that they are solely circumventing the Appstore using an enterprise distribution certificate is a different issue.

Is my understanding of all this true? It would seem to me that Google isn't really doing anything that bad and Facebook has had its enterprise distribution certificate revoked for good reason.
Building a social network is difficult even with almost infinite money. Apple has failed miserably. So has Google.
Customers choose iPhones fully aware of the fact they Apple regulates apps. It’s a selling point.

If they don’t like it, there are plenty of Android variants for them to choose, which differentiate themselves precisely by having this difference.

Apple having this power benefits everyone.
I don't think the complaints are about office suite access, as that has a fallback in case of failed auth. It's more about IM/VOIP/email, OneDrive/SharePoint, Azure cloud, etc.
I don't think this is a problem unique to Wisconsin
I disagree with your position that 'Free speech is a good thing even when the speech is bad...' on the premise that intent matters in democracy. In this case, 'free speech' was really 'paid speech' whose intent was not to argue the relative merits or problems of one policy or candidate but cynically targeted with the intent to achieve a specific outcome for a client. It makes no difference if the speech is domestic or foreign, legal or illegal.

Taken to an extreme, the ecosystem of speech and ideas that democracy relies upon becomes a wilderness where it becomes impossible to discern who is articulating their real opinions and who is simply making a bad-faith argument in which they do not necessarily believe in order to get a paycheck.
You can build your own binaries for commercial use. Caddy's code is under the Apache 2.0 license.
How to Start Selling on Amazon (Step by Step Guide 2019)
I read these sorts of articles as a learning exercise by the author. Teaching others is often considered one of the better ways to learn a subject and just look at them that way. And I assume new users will make those same mistakes anyways, so it doesn't bother me.
It is a compelling read; especially given that there are so many ideas that never materialize (for better or for worse) because the lack of technical expertise. I really like the idea of accessibility for not so technical dreamers.
"A random walk down Wall Street" is quite the contradiction of a book, though. It simultaneously claims that markets are so efficient that a lay-person cannot profit from them while acknowledging the existence of asset bubbles. The whole "efficient market hypothesis" to me seems much more like a religious belief among neoclassical finance types than anything actually scientific.

Furthermore, there's a fair amount of research that suggests that Brownian motion/random walk does not at all explain the movements of a stock's price [1][2][3]

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=346975

[2] http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s6558.pdf

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4538722?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
We're already required to perform an audit by Google every 12 months (I've mentioned the requirements of this below, but it basically amounts to the same thing), would this be acceptable?
What makes you think NAT prevents you from receiving connections on your home PC? You can "easily" set up a server:

https://blog.mindorks.com/how-to-convert-your-laptop-desktop...

Ok - it isn't something for the faint of heart - but it can be done. If your public IP changes often - you'll have to use a service like this:

https://freedns.afraid.org/

Many if not most home router/firewalls have some provision to allow you to resolve thru NAT to a server at home.

Please note that this -may- violate TOS with your ISP; most officially don't allow servers, but some turn a blind eye to it as long as you aren't hosting something nefarious or popular (and if you are hosting something popular, it's better to just bite the bullet and get actual server hosting somewhere, given how cheap and easy it is today).
> we know it was safe on takeoff

Or rather, as airworthy as any other MAX flying around.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, as I haven't seen any evidence linked contradicting what you said.
Can I ask. Do you write or maintain OSS code? Do you have large number of users? Do you work full time on OSS? Because your opinions are incredibly naive.
I was like 20/21 then, without any kind of bills as they were all under parents name. I missed on elections, so didn't have election ID. I had an ICICI account though for years, and it was for a fact rejected back in 2014, and that is exactly why I opened SBI. Maybe they changed the rule now. And that is exactly the reason why I or some of my friends had an nationalized bank account back then. My complain here is that govt keeps changing rules, and SBI is kind of safe choice even though I don't use it for anything.
RSS - (partially) Google killed it.

My first website was about about TNG and why DS9 sucked balls.

Ironic since I now consider DS9 the better series (but TNG still has the truly stand out episodes, I think young me was just oblivious to a lot of the subtler stuff but I digress), it was shockingly bad (and I'd been programming since the 80's, HTML was just weird).

I spent about five years hating the crap out of it and never even considered web development as a career, if you'd have asked me back then I'd have said you'd claw the compiler out of my cold dead hands.

20 odd-years later and I do enterprise web dev (and C#/WPF and Java)
I’m one of the people requesting this kind of thing. Just because your helpdesk or sales is not forwarding my requests to you doesn’t mean I haven’t made them.

I also ask my ISP to support ipv6, but I imagine the same thing happens there. Engineers never get the memo because it’s deemed unimportant by people who make decisions.
My challenge on Android is that Hangouts calls have zero ability to filter.
Unfortunately I don't think there are too many shortcuts. You really have to figure out what is important to you and try to stand by that. Doing something new can help you turn the page, but if it doesn't change your perspective you might end up with the same problems. It could also be that you are in the wrong environment.
Go check out /r/office365, this is a fairly irrelevant question to this discussion.
Because people want what they create to be seen by other people.

And today that means they have to use Instagram or Twitter. Or maybe Medium. Or something else very highly constrained.

So you see a fucktonne of creativity within the very narrow bounds of those formats: Our level of innovation when it comes to the 280-character format is through the goddamn roof.

Otherwise, the perceived effort required to create something innovating and fun/weird simply isn't worth the result. Unless you're doing it for a client.
> Free speech is a good thing [...] even when it's illegal.

What do you mean? Illegal speech is, by definition, not free speech. Not all speech is free.

And why would it be good in general to say things in public that are illegal to say?
> Here’s a question: if Facebook is willing to breach this important contract with Apple and think they’d get away with it, how much do you think they respect contracts they make with their customers?

Not at all? I don't trust any government or company pretty much these days. It's all a game of "who is most likely to screw you up in the least bad way", (corporate) ethics have gone totally downhill.

Basically, Apple wants to extract the maximum profit - and thus bans competing app stores, forcing their cut on every transaction, and banning everything which may be legal but not in their "ethical desires" (like porn) and thus hindering the informed choice of their customers.

That being sad, what Facebook is trying to do here is deeply disgusting, but if it helps break Apple's walled garden, I'm willing to cut them some slack.
Huge crash in Pennsylvania storm
Completely agree! Quality is poor and content is often entry level, I only ever navigate to medium if it's a post on Hacker News.
I'd venture to say that 95% of quality dev tutorials online are "evangelism" by companies.

Medium certainly has its share of muck, but there are also a lot of good tutorials on it.
you don't have to do the full URL just type "!g Washington capitals"
Learning what exactly? How to type 'sudo ./flash'? Oh come on. Modifying the BIOS himself let him delve into technical details far more than flashing some ready-made BIOS ever would. And it's knowledge that can be used to interact with other BIOS's as well. The specific detail of where the whitelist is irrelevant - what's important is finding out how to dump the BIOS, how to open/read it, learning enough about UEFI to not get completely lost, how to make changes, how to sign it (or not) and get it working with the modified version. This is knowledge that one can apply to any number of devices with UEFI. Knowledge of how to flash coreboot is limited to the handful of devices that the developers have ported it to, and everybody else is just shit out of luck (aside from the fact that you haven't learned anything).
We should invent a term for this, if it doesn't already exist?

"I'm going to get downvoted, but..." - proceeds to get upvoted

"Unpopular opinion: " - is actually a popular opinion
What we are buying is a right to access the product via the service we are buying it from. Nothing more. And the price we pay for that right is the market value of it.
What helps me is well-defined tasks. I put them in Trello and prioritize them. I tell myself that I can not go to another task without finishing a previous one. I also tell myself the sooner I finish the more time I will have for myself. I think the first steps are about discovering what works for you and what does not.

I don't think you will fix this problem instantly. It will take time, so don't panic. Also remember that some days you are gonna be less productive than usual, don't be hard on yourself then.