skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol mate you're really not getting it. You said "the geography is a bit of an issue for physical goods". I'm saying, when you can order a sheep from new zealand, or a USB stick from China, and have it show up a few days or a week later, this isn't really a good argument.
> I think one of the things that makes HN and Reddit very different, is that the content is not personalized and tailored to maximize user engagement

This is the single evil thing about Facebook. And it's evil, evil, evil. It's like an AI Skinner box.

No. It actually is an AI Skinner box.
A great book in a similar vein is Proofs from THE BOOK by Martin Aigner, Karl H. Hofmann, Günter M. Ziegler.

It's a reference to Paul Erdős and his notion of "The Book" in which God had written down the most beautiful and elegant proofs.
No, Google wrecked Google+. It was very promising in its early days and many considered it the best social network at the time, but Google kept mismanaging it: forcing YouTube users on it which nobody wanted, removing popular features, unwanted redesigns, etc.

Google had something really nice. Sure, it wasn't as big as Facebook, but the idea that something needs to be as big as Facebook to count as successful is incredibly harmful. Google+ was successful; it was home to lots of vibrant communities, it launched businesses, it brought people together and helped them organise cool stuff. It's just not what Google wanted it to be, and they destroyed it trying to force it to become something it wasn't.

And dropping Google+ (after dropping a number of other Google applications), has made people very distrustful about Google. This was a group of Google-loving early adopters who now distrust anything that Google does.
Anyway measuring emissions this way is pointless when the production is simply offshored to other countries.
This kind of program doesn't just suck up the data of the people who opted in with (theoretically) clear knowledge of what it means, it also likely pulls in data about the other people they communicate with using their phone, and none of those people consented to anything.

Even if we were to pretend that isn't the case, why is it so necessary for companies to be able to suck up so much data about people? Why shouldn't we insist that companies respect our privacy in the same way we respect each others' privacy (I'm assuming that you don't go and peek into your neighbours' windows to figure out what they've been buying recently).
Some people in the US think that this good will is God given and not the result of decades of hard work so they are very willing to squander it.
Indeed - they're pretty lax as countries go and there's other ways as well. Only downside is it's virtually impossible for a foreign citizen to get permanent residency for China, so you'll be renewing that visa every two years for the rest of your life.
> Yeah, except that the US has reduced emissions more than any other country

Starting from insanely high emission levels

> and is highly competitive on a per-capita percentage basis.

No. That's just false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
> I have a few felonies for playing with bitcoins

What is the charge. It wasn't 'playing with bitcoins'. Was it fraud? If so, I would be hesitant to hire someone, especially if they are coding in areas where money or other high security was required. I believe while everyone makes mistakes, morals tend to stay the same. So for me I would consider if a charge was a mistake anyone could make, or someone of dubious morals.

Side question: are you allowed to ask for a potential employees charge sheet? If you just see 'yes' to criminal record you may hesitate to hire someone. If you see what they did you can see if it was recent, many, types of offences and you may be more reasonable based on the facts.
Streamroot wins the first public tender for peer-to-peer video delivery
Wow, I lost over 30 points for suggestions that they, and their jpost spam was bs. Way to go HN.
Note, you do need to track the version of Postgres. So a backup from a PG 8 may need to be reloaded into PG 8 before upgrading to PG 9, 10, 11, etc
The conversion is F = (9/5) C + 32 .

If F = C then C = (9/5) C + 32 => (1-9/5)C = 32 => C = 32/(1-9/5) = -40.
I'm not looking down my nose at anyone who chooses to sell their data, they are very welcome to go and do that on Android.

What I am doing though, is keeping watch for erosions of my privacy, and the privacy of the people whose data I have been entrusted with.

Don't casually wipe that away with your laissez-faire approach.
Please make a NARCOS out of this!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the link. At some point he says "the gadgets are the true people of the Earth", which more or less resembles what Jacques Ellul first wrote about 60 years ago [1]:

> Hard determinists would view technology as developing independent from social concerns. They would say that technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our social activity and its meaning.

and

> According to this view of determinism we organize ourselves to meet the needs of technology and the outcome of this organization is beyond our control or we do not have the freedom to make a choice regarding the outcome (autonomous technology) (...) In his 1954 work The Technological Society, Ellul essentially posits that technology, by virtue of its power through efficiency, determines which social aspects are best suited for its own development through a process of natural selection.

I used to be a pretty big believer in things like "technology will make everything better", but after reading some of Ellul's books I've started to have my doubts about that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism#Hard...
Because it'll be the worse trade deal anybody has signed in the history of the world for Britain.
> these DINKs refuse to sacrifice anything materially
> to have children. They have lots of adult toys and
> other conveniences, but somehow can't find the
> money to raise a child.

Well, some DINK's don't want children. Not everyone has to reproduce. There's many different factors involved here than material comfort.

Also, in many American cities, public school is totally out of the question (if you actually care about having well-educated children). Families either have to send their kids to elite private schools at ~20K/per year OR they have to move to somewhere on the periphery of the city where schools are good but you have other trade-offs in time or money. These aren't selfish materialistic concerns they're real obstacles that cause people to defer having children.
I think the real point is that LIDAR has its own shortcomings. Currently the range is too limited, it's sensitive to fog and rain (more than cameras) and it's very expensive. Note that Tesla's for example don't only use cameras, they do have radar and use that to "see" two cars ahead even now. Still they don't use LIDAR and Musk's thesis is that this particular tech isn't needed and overly expensive and cumbersome
Perhaps the iron curtain, I think was not such a great barrier as portrayed by the Western Media, people could mail things across it, and travel across it wasn't much different from crossing international borders now, I think there was even regular passenger ferry between FRG and USSR. Between East Berlin and west Berlin, there seems to have been much daily movement of people, like people living in West Berlin but working in East Berlin, etc.
Can Square Compete with PayPal on Mobile?
It's actually a good move:

a. Trump can now say he 'fixed' the h1-b system :)

b. Due to all the visa restrictions talks, US universities were seeing drop in foreign MS students, that will likely get fixed.
I'd put an asterisk on "totally", considering the app is still available for Android[0]. They acted quickly when their hand was caught in the cookie jar, they didn't suddenly grow a conscience.

[0] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Yes. I think it's a bit ironic the OP didn't mention the CPU overhead to essentially go from

binary -> ASCII -> binary
The answers to 2, 2 and 4 are pretty clearly no.

For 1 and the first 2, dynamic tolls are the smart solution. Also applies to the second 2. If people want to go faster, let's tax them for it.
It’s astounding that we live in a time when this needs to be questioned, but with Trump’s recent NOAA appointment, there is actually some risk regarding what public feeds will continue to operate,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

Barry Myers enriched himself by repackaging government-provided weather feeds and has long advocated that only private firms should be able to distribute forecasts based on those feeds to the public.

His argument is that it presents unfair competition if people can consume the forecasts from a government entity that has public funds and military support to deploy sensor networks, satellites, etc.

Ironically, he also holds the position that for any type of forecast, like hurricanes or severe weather, for which there could feasibly be legal culpability if an incorrect forecast leads to damage or loss of life, the government should be responsible for those warning systems and private weather corporations should not be required to provide data for these types of events.
Yes, transfer pricing - but that's how the parent companies would move profits from the UK to elsewhere by licensing their IP to their legal entities in the UK.

Of course, it might be UK brands licensing their IP?
If there's one thing about Brexit that Britain can agree on, it's that the deal that's being offered by the EU is awful. It lead to the largest House of Commons defeat for a key government bill in history, and it polls terribly with pretty much everyone. That's why the EU (and most of the British press) have been using the fact that May managed to trade some bad parts of their proposal with differently bad replacements to spin the whole thing as the UK's doing. Pundits also like to potray the EU as an inanimate object incapable of culpability for anything and the UK as the only one responsible for changing.

Also, we don't even know that most of the EU is united even on Brexit - they've carefully held off their required votes on the Brexit deal until after the UK gets it through Parliament, which doesn't look like happening any time soon.
The author is assuming a certain context here: that we are interested in the specific problem of transferring binary resources to a web browser. I appreciate in isolation this sentence seems incorrect, but if we assume good faith on the part of the author it's clear what they're trying to get at.

They are using 'base64 encoded' as a shorthand for 'as an embedded base64 blob inside an HTML page.' - to distinguish it from 'as an individually requested resource'.

So what they are referring to is that by embedding resources as base64 blobs inside HTML pages, and transferring those over SSL, an observer sees one large encrypted bundle being requested. If you transfer the resources as separate response entities, then an observer sees the large HTML bundle request, followed by the series of specific resources - and they can infer from the sizes and patterns of those requests some things about the page requested or the resources used.

(for example, if I know the size of the HTML and every image on wikipedia, perhaps by observing the set of sizes of resources being downloaded by a client over HTTPS I can determine which wikipedia pages a client is browsing?)
Querying the Blockchain Using the Graph
At St Andrews University (where I studied Philosophy in the late 1980s), there were two (physically linked) Philosophy Departments. The Dept of Moral Philosophy, and the Dept of Logic and Metaphysics. An undergraduate Philosophy degree involved courses from both departments.
Strawberry pints from farms which do not utilize unregulated workers come in typically at about $6 to $7 pint. They’re typically smaller scale, so large scale can have them at retail for around $5. If that helps all of us, the farmer the temporary worker and consumers, I don’t see a problem with it. Strawberries and such aren’t staples like wheat and rice (highly mechanized and automated).
It has serious security risks that are too expensive to fix for a useless project?
Google's data-gathering app may have also violated Apple's policies
Git-cipher: Tools for storing encrypted content in Git
TCV closes $3B fund aimed at consumer internet, IT infrastructure and services
"Oops, we got caught" is exactly the explanation.

Everything about this app, from how it was coded, how it was signed, how it was distributed and how it was documented on google.com was done with full knowledge of what was going on - it had to be.

You can't build, release, or document an app like this without knowing that you're outside the normal App Store process.
> changing UI also means maintaining two different UIs(the old and the new)-

Why would you need to maintain the old UI? Backwards compatibility isn't an issue, since no one is screenscraping and doing image recognition to interact with the UI.

Besides, what we're discussing are relatively minor changes to update appearance, such as different font, color scheme, graphics assets, etc. No significant changes wrt UX--with how the user interacts with the program.
Please no. While I am sure half the submitters are automated (every NYT article? Really?), it is not a net positive.
This is going to be the really unfortunate legacy of Trump: disastrous foreign policy and the loss of soft power.

1. Denial of Russia's meddling in US election because it runs counter to Trump's ego and he had a weird soft spot for autocrats.

2. The baseless termination of the Iran nuclear Accord as essentially a capitulation to Israel and Israeli interests. There was no violation of the agreement. The best the administrative could come up with was that Iran was violating the "spirit" of the agreement with actions that took place prior to it. WTF?

3. Giving North Korea a pass, a country that actually has unchecked nuclear ambitions and a deplorable human rights record.

4. Giving Saudi Arabia a pass on killing a US permanent resident in Turkey (Trump asked on camera "he's not a citizen right?"). Why? Because they're an ally. Why exactly is that? Well because of Iraq. Why was Iraq an enemy? Well because of Iran. Why was Iran an enemy? Well because we incited a revolution there to remove a democratically elected government leading to a hardline religious revolution so they didn't like is. Then we propped up a dictator and supplied him with arms, commenting a war that killed millions. Yeah ok. But hey MBS is another Putin in the making so that's fine.

Honestly the only bright spot in this (and there really is one) is that China's misdeeds seem to be getting called out.

Anyway the whole Iran thing just makes me angry. The best thing we could do there is work towards normalization is relations. Three internal politics were slowly becoming more moderate. Isolating them gives more power to the hardliners.

But that's really the story of the disproportionate power Israel has over US foreign policy. Gone are the days when Eisenhower told them to get the hell out of Sinai.
I'd love to have a general archive of all public Google+ posts. I've seen some great and valuable discussions there.
+1 for Three.js - its API is very accessible and easy to understand even for people without prior graphics experience.
> Well, there’s the minor issue of Iran’s totalitarian regime consistently announcing their intent to destroy Israel and devestate the U.S.A, and taking actual steps to support the same.

You do realize this rhetoric goes both ways, right? Israeli politicians often make genocidal statements towards other countries including Lebanon, Palestine and Iran, so spare me this crying.

Iran may have rhetoric, but Iran isn't occupying anyone. The same cannot be said for Israel.

In fact when there is a terrorist attack in the US, Iran tends to condemn it, despite the non-existent relations, whereas US lawmakers say "Iran deserves it", when the same happens over there.

As for sponsoring terrorism; Israel has been proven to be shipping weapons to Islamic radicals in Syria, is increasingly buddy buddy with Saudi Arabia & the UAE, commits regular war crimes, including in other countries etc., so again, spare me.

> I am Israeli and completely left-wing by the way

That's great, however from my personal observation, what "left-wing" means in Israel is much more to the right than in other parts of the world. In fact you've fallen for right-wing talking points, it seems.

> there are many steps both Israel and the U.S. could take to mitigate the threat from Iran without war, such as strengthening moderate forces in the middle-east

There's no threat from Iran to other nations that I could see, do they perhaps have some proxy forces? Sure. Does Israel? Sure. Does the U.S. Sure, exponentially more. Do the Saudis and Emiratis? You bet.

As an European, I just don't get the Israeli fixation with Iran, apart for deflection purposes, it's not a great regime, but not worse than the 75% of the world's dictatorships the U.S. does support.

For the US I at least get it more; control of their resources, for the Saudis and to a lesser extent the Emiratis, it also has a religious angle, but for Israel, it seems to be purely for propaganda purposes.

P.S. Am not even going to get into Israelis smearing anyone critical of Israeli policies as an anti-Semite, which is not only reprehensible, but it also assumes that the Israeli government speaks for all Jews, which is itself rather anti-Semitic if you ask me.
I use Code42 CrashPlan[0]. This has clients for MacOS, Linux and Windows and it's been flawless since I started using it years ago for personal and business use.

Going by the names and the descriptions I've read, the overloaded term 'backup' only applies to Carbon Copy Cloner and Clonezilla in the sense that they make a copy of your storage, so don't protect against corruption (such as ransomware, or you accidentally corrupting files, or deleting files...) Please let me know if I'm wrong on this. Of course you can do real backups with a clone-only tool if you rotate the backup media yourself, but I prefer this aspect to be handled automatically.

[0] https://www.crashplan.com
if I run an ice cream collective, where 10 people make ice cream and share the results amongst themselves in a Universal Basic Ice cream scheme, but ice cream making is hard because the tubs are 30kg and hard to carry, I'm going to have a disincentive from letting frail people in to my collective since it will mean less ice cream for the rest of us. I will, however, be OK letting in strong people, or young people with promise, because I want to keep getting ice cream when I'm old.

How is a bigger market less output per capita better?

Say your countryA has 100 people each capable of producing $100 worth of stuff in a day. You introduce a UBI of $50. People have $50 left over

The neighboring countryB has a lot of uneducated people (good folks! Just as smart. Just had less opportunity to learn) who move to your own.

If five of countryB's people move to countryA they can go to school and draw on public resources and become skilled and make a future net positive contribution without too much drain on countryA in the present. You've got 20 countryA folks for every one countryB person. A few % cut in UBI or few % raise in taxes won't hurt

If fifty of them do it it becomes a much larger burden on the present - now there are only two countryA'ers to support countryB'ers. The support systems that everyone relies on will be stretched pretty thin.

I'm very much in favour of migration and am, in fact, an immigrant (left the US). But the more a government spends on its people the more it demands back from them, in the aggregate.
Depends on the use-case really. I use raid (if any) for performance reasons, so I prefer hardware raid with a nice controller and some lots of spindles where flash is not an option. I would never implement this with a software raid solution for reasons.
There's a text-printer 'Cedilla' (https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/cedilla/) that uses this composition across large parts of Unicode - to quite good effect it seems.

The Teletype doesn't do backspace (!) but can do carriage-return... so e.g. to print "Björk" , the text is: BJORK(CR)(space)(space)(quote). I have a Teensy microcontroller that already handles some ANSI-escape characters, and implements the 'backspace' ^[[D this way (https://github.com/hughpyle/ASR33/blob/master/firmware/ansi_...). Next on the backlog is "bold", using a similar strategy. Fun times :)
Free trade is a socially acceptable excuse Brexit voters can use to mask the real reasons they voted to leave. As is sovereignty.
This isn't about ideology, it is about pragmatics. The accumulation and analysis of vast bodies of behavioural data by bad actors will inevitably lead them to develop and deploy increasingly indirect and long-term methods of subverting individual agency, to their own benefit.

How about subtle data-directed lobbying to cause subtle data-directed changes to the educational system to create subtle data-directed vulnerabilities to manipulation in adulthood?

There are plenty of examples in the real world, throughout history. It is going to get a whole lot worse, and it has the potential to never get better.
that doesn't work in the US because you'll get charged court/jail fees that will wipe away any money you saved.
> Strawberry pints from farms which do not utilize unregulated workers

There is no such thing as “unregulated workers”, just employers that don't obey the regulations applicable to their workers.
Michael Nyqvist, co-star of the new film “Hunter Killer,” died in 2017
Best Inspiration for UI UX Design
"You will not copy this game!"
Meditations. You learn to focus on something for as long as you wish. Fewer distractions. It helped me a lot because I'm the one who's extra multitasking, which wasn't productive enough. I've started meditating, and it changed my workflow completely.
Shameless plug: Done here for displaying images in modern terminals: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

I was wondering if I should try this for a more complete set of unicode characters (opposed to just block graphics), but I'd need find a good way to match slightly off positioning. Perhaps just register the same character multiple times, shifted by one px in each direction?
How do we get another round of that?
In 2017 KGB is literally the Russian Government.
Blogs are much closer to the way the Web should be than social networks are. Have your own space. The only thing is that I would like an easy system that would allow me to follow multiple blogs in a social-network style stream/feed.

I hear Hubzilla might do something like that.
> Your Dept of Agriculture is one of the most socialist "redistributors of wealth" in the world.

Redistribution from the many to the wealthy few isn't socialist redistribution.
Correct me if I got this wrong, but what we are talking about is basically having a hardware encryption processor and tmp-like module within the cpu chip itself, sitting between the memory controller and the cpu. Does that also cover the L caches?
Agreed - I appreciate the sheer variance in comment quality and the threads are easy to consume. To take something like /ck/ (cooking), you have a mix of some generally good advice, along with a fair amount of madness and absurdity. The mix works for me. I am glad they split off the "work-safe" boards to 4channel.
As I read this, I was envisioning a plant nursery, which I thought was a genius idea. Give the old people something simple to do like take care of plants! I guess children would work too. :)
I’ve used Racket in the past. Personally, I’d still never use it for production because the learning curve is fairly steep AND as this post highlights - there are still bugs being worked out in basic features like “set”.

However, overall I like the language. So, overtime I think it’ll have its day in the sun.
Umm... if "they" wreck your life completely, you might be tempted to. Go read up Iran's history in the 20th century.