skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand her point, it's just not consistent. Where is my option to support people who would have had a career had it not been killed by some powerful abuser?

The choice isn't "art or no art". That choice is made for us when someone decides to wield their power over someone else. Our only choice is which art we ignore: that of famous abusers or that of their victims. The "arts consumer" loses out either way.
Agreed always value at 0 or even -1
Everyone’s Missing the Obvious About the Declining U.S. Birth Rate
agreed - backups have nothing to do with an instance. i should be able to spin up and down postgresql instances, but backups should be stored (and billed) as per cloud storage rates.
The irony is that Apple and Google and most larger tech companies require every single one of their own employees to install these certs on their phone.
No, Facebook/Google internal apps fall into two categories:

- Utilities that are only useful to employees of those companies (cafeteria menus, shuttle schedules, resources for salespeople on the go, etc.).

- Pre-release/testing (aka dogfood) versions of the apps they distribute to the public, for employees to use and find bugs on before they make it out to normal users.

Neither of those are pools that Apple wants to play in.

...and I guess there's a third category:

- Apps used gain "competitive intelligence" and spy on users.
I spent part of my Christmas vacation removing malware from family Macs, no issues on Windows.

Annecdotes probably aren't that useful here though.
The fact remains that your anecdote bears no relation whatsoever--as in it neither supports nor refutes--kawfey's comment (which you quoted here). Therefore, if it is not "a thinly veiled crucifixion of Google" (as myself and the sibling commenter gathered from your comment) then what is it?
Code readability matters
Can we stop talking about how privacy laws are hitting devs, and start talking how they will benefit people?

Boohoo, poor devs need to finally pay attention to people’s private data.
your attitude is everything wrong with front end development
Maybe iOS could allow sideloading of normal apps but not VPNs or CA certificates.
That's fair, but Doordash, Square and Instacart don't have that ability either. They're distributing their apps via the same sideloading mechanism.
> Cosby was always creepy

Always? At all times? Congratulations on seeing it coming; you're luckier than apparently a few dozen women.

> blurring of people

Which is a worse fallacy, blurring Cosby into Louis into Keillor into Barr, or blurring Barr into Keilorr into Louis into Cosby? Or how about this: each case is different?

> market based companies not wanting anything to do with you any more because you suck

More precisely: coordinated pressure campaigns to intimidate market-based companies, and a lack of pushback from the people who just want to stream some R. Kelley, but are too scared to speak up.

> in no way analogous

When platforms act in concert under pressure through culture-wide groupthink, it might not technically be Soviet censorship, but it's pretty damn analogous.
They're not even doing work for hire. They're selling rights to data, likely non-exclusive.
It depends somewhat on the transgression and how it relates to thr works.

Cosby's "lovable american Dad" character is incongruous with the crimes he committed and that really does diminish the work.

Rosanne's charcter is flawed by design along with the rest of the realistic family. Throwing in racism (or stupidity, if she didn't intend it in a racist way) fits just fine with the character and does not diminish the great series that it was.
Usually a hard pull isn't done for a bank account (it is for loans though). A soft pull is done instead, which has essentially no credit impact.
This is why you shouldn’t roll your own hardware (unless you have very, very specific needs).
You might take a second to click on 'carbocation's name and see what his background is. I think you've missed some subtext.
An Unprecedentedly Thorough Evolution Experiment
Seems a bit of a double standard around here. When Apple's doing it, "shut up and take my freedom!" When anyone else is doing it, it's "those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither."
Ask not if Language X or Framework Y is Dying
I can't say this is going to make a big difference in how I use pandas but I've ran into the bizarre "can't have nans in an int Series" annoyance in almost every pandas project I've worked on, so good on them for fixing that.
got a link for a description of Client vs Server side decorations?
And did they abolish the still-existing consequences of their centuries-long slave trade? Have they paid trillions of dollars in reparations?

It was easy for Britain to abolish their slave trade: it existed almost entirely on foreign soil. They could just walk away from their misdeeds and wash their hands of it. The consequences became a problem for someone else.

The US dealt with the consequences of European slavery and it's still dealing with the consequences of European slavery. Europe isn't dealing with the consequences of their slavery, they've conveniently dodged that responsibility for hundreds of years. Hundreds of years before the US existed, the European empires were bringing slaves to North and South America. Even more slaves were taken to Latin America by the European empires than to the colonies of North America.

If Western Europe today had to pay fair reparations for the slaves they took to the Americas and the slave trade generally, several major economies in Europe would instantly collapse.
Do you have a source that supports that Locast is running ads?
Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS
The way to detect receivers is by detecting the characteristic radiation from the most common type of receiver circuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver#Local...
Thanks for sharing! This looks great
> The fact remains that your anecdote bears no relation whatsoever--as in it neither supports nor refutes--kawfey's comment

Here's the poster's comment:

> I'm still not convinced that "being tracked" in my day-to-day life is a negative thing.

I provided an anecdote where "being track" in my day-to-day life was a negative thing. I don't believe it's that hard to follow.
Come work with us and improve it: https://repl.it/jobs
We're still small/founding stage (7 people) so you can have a lot of impact. Feel free to email me directly amjad@repl.it
Google (or any company) wouldn't have a single point of failure for alerts like that. :P Those alerts would hit email, phone, etc. all at the same time.
Why doesn't roadmap.com fit the bill?
The irony is NY Times have probably paid Hacker News to promote this article here.

Besides that, what makes you think news is more accurate if its paid for ?
You've identified a partial list of apps which might be bad for user privacy. Could you produce an exhaustive list, though? And specific policy defining what would constitute a violating app?
I don't understand. Some Linux machines I'm responsible for are targets. I build what few things I need from source in a sandbox, fetch the source from entities I trust and verify the integrity. And yes, I do read the code, because if I'm building it that usually means I needed to patch it.
Seems a bit of a double standard around here.

It’s almost as if the contradictory opinions were voiced by...different individuals.
Unclear on my part. “Them” refers to commenters who associate BFN with the listicle site.

It is the fault of BuzzFeed News, yes.
In fairness, you're comparing a situation where you already know the specialised knowledge to one where you do not. Higher order components are simple in React precisely because you know the framework inside out and you know what a JSX transform does, internally, sight unseen.

That's not particularly intuitive! It just feels that way because you know it well.

> There's always a 'Vue' way to do it, rather than a 'Javascript' way to do it.

I mean, come on. There's a 'React' way to do almost everything too. Want to create an element? No document.createElement for you, you'll be wanting to import ReactDOM, make a class that extends Component (or make a stateless component via a function. Also not intuitive!), then render that component into the DOM.
Google blocks domains from Chrome all the time, for the same reason as Apple blocked Google: it was deemed malicious.

https://safebrowsing.google.com/
Show HN: Generate multilevel geohashes similar to Google's S2 cells
The problem is not that they report differently, but that they fixate on a particular part of the whole picture, and emphasize it beyond all proportion, while neglecting other parts of the picture. It's like if you asked somebody to describe an elephant for you and they'd spend 99% of the time on its tail, describing it in a minute detail up to each hair on its end, and then spending only a couple of words on the rest of the animal - would you be able to adequately imagine what an elephant look like? You probably would think it's like some hairy snake or something :) That's the kind of coverage some biased news outlets provide.
Apple already does this; you need to be part of the paid developer program to be able to sign VPN apps.
Instead you two should just swap jobs
Par for the course: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-as...
> Thanks to the fantastic work by Jasper St. Pierre, GJS now supports overriding virtual functions.

It's very unfortunate Jasper is no longer participating in the GNOME community. I'm hopeful he'll one day return.
> Because it's the job of the justice system to mete out punishment, not the modern day equivalent of a lynch mob.

This should be so glaringly obvious.

A common problem when someone finishes serving their jail time as allotted by said justice system, the (much more low-key) lynch mob doesn't want to hire them just yet.

But what doesn't happen is this: the prisoner, by some stroke of luck, gets a job in a say a car factory, and suddenly everyone else in that factory should loose their job, and I'm a bad person for wanting to drive a car that the ex-felon worked on.
It can't be that difficult for people to admit they consume products that were created under less than ideal conditions.
When NOT to Sell Benefits and What to Do Instead
At least the way I'm reading Apple's terms, those cases fall more cleanly into the Employee category (which includes 1099 contractors, as defined in the terms).
I mean, it was Bing not too long ago...
That was a great series for something lots of people say doesn’t exist in the slightest.
> I don’t understand people who are acting offended

Once the reasoning boils down to offense I know I am dealing with either intentional hostility or stupidity. Regardless of which of those is the problem I stop wasting energy thinking about it.

For people confused or further offended by this sentiment I suggest reading Principles by Ray Dalio.
Its probably a good idea for grandma to have a phone you can not possibly mess up with but it sucks for everyone else that there is no setting to escape bubblewrap mode. I love how linux distros are set up. I can easily find trusted software in the repos but nothing stops me from running anything I want if needed and I understand the risks of running stuff outside of those repos.
I've always wondered if developers ever submit fake info the first time they sign up for a job, get an offer to take the coding test and learn the questions. Then sign up with their real details and cruise through.

Is this something anyone has ever noticed or done?
LOL, fascinating. Normally I frown on scammy purveyors of overpriced shit, but in this case I'm all in favor of it.
I'd think "extension" in this case means "hand in a jwt with expiration/renewal fields still valid, get a new jwt with extended expiration".

Obviously the renewal service would need to be able to sign the new/extended token.
We Moved from Wordpress to React and Raised $80 Mill
I'm... At a loss for words.

Do you not trust your own justice system?
Google's got a wide reaching PR plan
OK, it was unfair to say 'always', but a more nuanced version of my point would have been: "it does not strengthen a case to claim that only in retrospect could Cosby, performer of the infamous 'Spanish Fly' routine, can be considered too creepy to be 'America's Dad'".

Soviet censorship involved the exercise of the hard power of the state to achieve permanent removal of the person or their imprisonment for political reasons, and the 'groupthink' attitudes referred to here involved wholesale redaction of news and the historical record. "Pretty damn analogous" is true only if we consider a slap in the face "pretty damn analogous" to murder.
I wonder whether the atmospheric conditions have some unknown effect on certain types of electronics, especially detectors of photons of any kind, preventing them from working as intended.

Story time: a few years ago I used to work in a building which was intended for many more workers than we actually were there (some floors were completely empty). The garage was big and had parking places for a lot of us, but we were only given a few electrionic keys for the garage door. A lot of us, including me, came to work by bus, so basically there were parking places for all of those who came by car, yet we only had like 10 keys for 20-25 people.

We knew that the keys were easy to disassemble and reassemble, so we devised a solution: using arduino, we created a device that (via a cheap prepaid SIM card) was capable of receiving phone calls, and when any of our numbers called the device, an actuator pressed the internal components of the electronic key. Pointing this device to a window near the garage door was good enough. So, every morning, people called the number of the device, and just by doing that, the door would open automatically.

The thing is: it always worked at the evening, between 16 and 18h. But in the mornings, and especially in cloudy or misty mornings, sometimes it wouldn't work. We tried to investigate but we never knew why this was.

I wonder if a similar phenomenon is happening here.
The Saturday Paper is quite good. It's only a weekly, but really, there's usually only enough truly important stories around to fill a paper a week, which is why there's so much ephemera and filler in the daily news.
They didn't have a backup?!? Look how much they are paying for data recovery!
Potentially related anecdote: A few years ago I attended a trade show in UAE. At the time I was a R&D director for a mobile security company. Recruiting was blatant, I was (verbally) offered >400k base + signing to live in UAE for one year. Declined, but my partner and I definitely had a conversation about it. Even now, and especially at that time, that was a life-changing amount of money. However, it seemed to me that the company was a government-backed org with goals of attracting cyber talent, training local talent, and IMO weaponizing that knowledge. It also seemed that the company had an endless pit of money.

I wonder how much these folks accepted...
Recruiter: I heard back and got approval for a new offer and I wanted to see what you thought. We’d like to offer you a {salary + annual bonus} of $180,000. In addition to that, we would like to offer $400,000 in RSUs that vest over four years. Lastly, I was able to get approval for a $90,000 {signing bonus + relocation expenses} package. That would put your four-year compensation package at around $1,210,000, or an annual compensation package of around $300,000. What do you think?

Author: Yeah, I’ll sign that.

And that was that.
In all likelihood it will have to have work done on each and every possible wayland environment to work unless everyone can agree on standards.

The logical solution is to use X for now.
So less than 0.13% market share then.

Assuming you have any way to reliably identify which state your users are in -- which means we're back to "privacy regulations" encouraging companies to collect more data on their users.
A very long time ago, I used to enjoy reading The Times (British newspaper) for exactly that reason. It was a very thin newspaper with 1 page of editorials and virtually no fluff sections (like leisure, travel,etc). Just news.

I haven't seen the print paper in a very long time, but I go to their website and see the following headlines: Sunday Times journalist was murdered by Assad, Bitter split on assisted dying hits Royal College of Physicians, Snow Alert as Britain stuck in deep freeze, Killer driver law a farce - says Olympic star, Labour MPs branded cowards for 'selling votes' to help May's deal, Job interviewer 'was like abusive ex', Giving Statins to older people could save 8000 lives a year, Times Christmas appeal attracts record donations, Improve or face closure - Steiner schools warned, Woman reunited with train driver who stopped her killing herself.

Where is the news? Virtually every headline is either exaggerated or clickbait or both. The article on the killing of the journalist is at least news worthy, but the headline is way over the top -- "US court determines Assad regime liable in journalist killing" would be much more neutral. There is a debate on assisted dying in the Royal College, but when has there not been? What's this about? It might snow in Britain. In February. Wow. "Killer driver law"... obviously a story, but obviously not unbiased... The rest of it is fodder for the tabloids. What the heck happened to the newspaper?

The Times is one of the oldest and most respected newspapers in the world. And while it has always been biased (as they all are), it has an amazing reputation for journalism since the latter half of the 1700s! But people don't want news. They want shock and awe. It drives me crazy.
> an industry all too willing to throw away years of hard earned knowledge, experience and purpose built tools in order to chase the shiny tools the popular kids are using.

Why do you think people in the industry are doing this? There must be multiple factors behind this.
I know very few people would, and I would be one of them. It would be a huge respite.
They are a dictator sure, but a benevolent one.
>And what makes you so sure that the BBC's handling of those stories isn't the correct one? Your personal bias, of course.

Well, actual verified accounts and statistics for one. BBC loves nothing more than highlighting USA shootings - despite near historic record lows of gun violence and definitely lows of gun ownership to crime ratios.

BBC does this because they want to “prove” how much better they are not being allowed the choice of how to defend yourself. It’s British smugness 101.

Btw... Did you see the school shooting last week where the aggresor was wearing a smash the patriarchy shirt - no you probably did not, and definitely didn’t see it on BBC.

Narrative and Bias. BBC can be trusted at all on firearms anywhere.
>When design patterns came along, Java folks talked about them as though they were a wonderful new invention.

Your history is wrong. Design patterns became popular with the release of the GoF book, which was written using C++ and was published in 1994 -- before Java was even released.
Removing the subjective aspects in hiring, especially developers.
Then only tune your TV to PBS, that way the rest of us will get to avoid having this tedious conversation yet again.
That's fair criticism. I wouldn't want to host anything mission critical on the platform, but for the price I am quite pleased with what I get.
> I wonder whether the atmospheric conditions have some unknown effect on certain types of electronics, especially detectors of photons of any kind, preventing them from working as intended.

Well, atmospheric conditions have pretty well known effects on electromagnetic transmissions; the presence of water, particularly, interferes with (both scaterring and attenuating) signals that would transmit well through dry air.
> Where is my option...?

There is an established path for group action here:

1. Vote

2. Pass a law that says powerful abusers are bad

3. When someone's convicted of wielding power in a mean way, the justice system will punish them by due process

4. People learn what will get punished

5. The artists you wish you could see will be less scared away

6. You get the art you want!

Notice how throughout this entire process, you don't get to tell me, of the art that exists today, what I'm allowed to read or watch or listen to.

On the other hand, cheating that hangman and bullying the platforms feels a little bit like, how to say, wielding your power over someone else.
An underlying theme I've noticed to this article and the response here is that of people's attitudes towards ex felons. It's as if you believe that they are permanently lesser people; that their moral fibre is beyond redemption and they should never be allowed to enjoy the comforts of life, let alone pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

You either punish and forgive your citizens, or else you admit that you're going to oppress them forever.
Can't wait till rogue arrays of lasers start beaming advertisements directly into your ear while walking down the street.
I'll look into them, thanks!

Edit: found this writeup that exicitly states no tracking for subs. Thanks again for mentioning them!

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2018/03/ars-pro-now-free-of-tr...
While I appreciate that the author rightly calls out the cult-like mob justice of the progressive movement as overly cruel and destructive, the final section reveals an inherently selfish motive for this piece. He appears less concerned with artists being treated fairly or justly and more with whether he can enjoy what they made after the person has been destroyed.

IMHO, here's something devilish about seeing societal injustices, pretending it's futile to fight back, but then pleading for society to spare the art from their rampage. If we're going to let this be the new status quo, then protecting the art should be the least of our worries.
The product matters little in some cases. Marketing can succeed with vaporware. Sales can succeed without an actual working product as long as they focus on the decision maker and have vender lockin. HR, c.level execs don't need a working product just a concept.

Product development rarely provides features that can be self fueling for marketing/sales. Brands rarely need killer product features they need a targeted story.

It is much easier to have a successful company without a product than it is to have a successful company that trys to use product features as a marketing department.
Please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I should have the ability to do so if I so choose.

And what about the manufacturer? Why should it be their legal responsibility to satisfy your whims for programmable interfaces?

Not to mention what you're mentioning that what you're suggesting will make the iPhone incredibly insecure.
Wouldn't Apple close the developer account for a violation by a small developer rather than just revoking their enterprise certificate?
Without limit? Everyone has broken a law at some point.

Economic confiscations are supposed to take the proceeds of crime, not erase everything you've ever done and remove any chance of you earning again. Where is rehabilitation in your "justice"?

No point rehabilitating, or having a change of heart is there? May as well make the sentence for every crime or misdemeanour a whole life tariff.
The GDPR means you need a lawful basis for processing the data. Not that you can't process it at all.

There's lots of talk about consent as a basis for processing. For lots of purposes "Legitimate Interests" is likely a better basis. You'll have to perform a legitimate interests assessment and be able to justify that the potential negative impact of your processing is outweighed by the benefits.

The ICO has a interactive tool for selecting a basis for processing https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/l... with links to more information.