skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be what they would say if they wanted to keep you using it. Although, they could say they decrypted it when they didn't to get people to switch to something possibly less secure. This is all speculation though.
It means somethings fucked with the VC system and they're finding companies that should be worthless.
> Why go through all this trouble? I’ve grown increasingly concerned this past year with how much access Google has to our lives. They are the world’s biggest advertising company and they have access to most of our web browsing

I come across this sentiment all the time, but serious question: why does this bother people?

Does anybody have practical examples of real harm being done that would have been prevented by deleting Google?
These sorts of vehicles are road legal here in Ontario under a pilot program:

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/low-speed-vehicles...

But I haven't seen much adoption. You're only allowed to drive them on roads with a speed limit of 50km/h (30mph) or lower, and at least in my city that would make them fairly impractical to get around as all the major roads that connect one community to another are 60km/h or more.
Ah, ok, so the employees will be getting money for their stock? That makes sense now.
Same experiences for me. I cut waaaaay down on news, cut out almost all TV news except for banal stuff, and in general stopped studying massively depressing topics that I was unsuited, unwilling, or unable to help solve. I’m still saddened by plenty of things, just not depressed. I also try to eat well, get plenty of sleep and exercise, and make sure not to drop social time.

All told I think th biggest difference between depressed-me, and me today is that I’ve divested myself of the illusion of control.
Sort of, but it's not registered as "commercial", driven by a professional, or anything else people would normally think of as a "delivery" vehicle. Like, if you call any vehicle that moves things from place to place a delivery vehicle then everyone who drives to the grocery store to buy milk is operating a delivery vehicle.
During the Moscow theater attack, there were 40-50 assailants holding at least 850 people hostage using, among other weapons, explosives. Vomiting from tear gas can't be relied on to stop assailants resigned to suicide from detonating explosives to kill hostages.

It was pretty damn shitty that the Russian government did little to assist doctors treating hostages in the aftermath, but aside from that their gas plan worked pretty damn well, considering the circumstance they were up against. The only other realistic option was for the Russian government to give in to the demands, as they did years before during the lesser known but larger Budyonnovsk hospital attack after conventional attacks failed (over the course of which something like 150 hostages were killed and hundreds more injured.)
> worst in the developed world

Current government policy in the UK is trying desperately to make the UK public schools steal that title.
Is it though? In most installation guides I've dealt with they recommend disabling it since it can cause random issues. i.e. The Percona XtraDB install guide.

I find that it's way too complicated of a layer that most people can't/won't learn. Compare this to the OpenBSD pledge and unveil which doesn't get in the way, and there's no way to disable them.

If you make something overly complicated, with the ability to disable it all too easily, then it won't get used.
Slack makes confidential filing to go public
PyPy offers such a long-term support; they will support their Python 2.7 interpreter indefinitely. [0]

I hope that 2019 is the year of PyPy adoption, as folks get ready to leave CPython.

[0] https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-gets-funding-from...
Why not in the charge control circuitry in the supercharger? Don’t those use some pretty big caps?
Yup. A friend working at an ad company told me when video playback is disallowed, they stream a series of JPEGS and show them frame-by-frame in sync with web audio. I saw it over two years ago. The playback looked stuttery, but it still worked.

I know last year Chrome disallowed auto playing web audio, but they probably found a way around that too. Their scripts ran directly on the host's page (not in iframe), so they could probably trigger playback after any mouse event anywhere on the page.
Behind one of the most iconic computer games is a theory of how cities die
A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers
> The audit shows that tracks in seven stations -- just 3% of the 276 underground stops -- met New York City Transit's cleaning schedule, once every three weeks. More than half the stations got between four and eight visits from an 11-person cleaning crew a year, according to the audit of cleaning records between July 2013 and June 2014.

This blew my mind. The London underground isn't exactly spotless, but it's cleaned (at least once) every day.
Hey,

I was also born in EU but moved to US with parents. I feel as living in EU is much chiller and the pace is slower. I also feel as humans have better rights in some of the countries.

I live in a upper class suburb, which is nice. However, I too would like to move back to EU, but as SE I can make a bit more in the US. I might try getting a remote gig maybe that will allow me to move. But is is hard when you have family in the US.
The other point that there are millions of boring crud apps written out there in govt/contractor land. We dont need to see these as open source, its not as if there are lots of devs that love fixing crappy crud apps in their spare time.
Show HN: Color Disc Block Puzzle – Initial Release
My wife put her foot down eventually and told me she wasn't going to be able to live with me any more after too many verbal angry outbursts. I received an ADHD diagnosis as a child but was never treated. I lived with the extreme anger all my life and only recently sought treatment as an adult. Doing that was really hard after a lifetime of people telling me it was simply a matter of adjusting my attitude and that I brought all my troubles on myself.

I'm finally on treatment after 45 years of that unending anger. It is definitely depression mixed with ADHD and anxiety. I'll have to see a therapist about potential PTSD issues. Adult depression can be a nasty mix of various issues and treating only one pillar can leave the rest to continue.

Seeking the help from a doctor was almost impossible. It took me years to get up the nerve to mention it. Why? Because it was all my fault, I had been told this so for long that I was embarrassed. What if he tells me it's just a matter of eating right and that I'm just a regular guy? I was mortified of being rejected for treatment. Thankfully that didn't happen.

It can be very hard for people to seek treatment, the stigma of not being able to perform like everybody else around you, all the while being told to just cheer up, think positive, be happy, you can do it! It's crushing.
I don't understand why there isn't a button next to the url bar in the browser that can allow/disallow auto-playing audio and/or video. This should be an easily accessible on/off switch.
img[src$="gif"]{
display:none;
}

edit: at least it prevents them from being displayed :P
B: Please bring these studies. If you do misquote the so called "mouse paradise" experiment, please read the original in detail and also further work of the author.
My wife is pregnant and the doctors realized she isn’t immune to measles. The vaccination she had was either not effective or she didn’t develope immunity.

I read a comment on Reddit where a student said they had whooping cough but were vaccinated. Turns out most of the people who had the cough went to the same doctor to get vaccinated. The vaccine he gave was presumably a bad batch.

I’d caution against exposing your family to anything if you don’t have to. Especially measles.
Not if you're an employee or investor.
Where I am the term instantly conjours up visuals of Lycra clad men and women shouting to each other as they do push ups on my driveway while someone else changes the music to a different track every 30 seconds. Generally it’s 5.45am and I hate them.
Great idea for a puzzle. It really needs a grid and an undo buffer.
Based no my limited knowledge in this field, I believe that is because it is an enclosed and controlled system. You can increase all variables (CO2, water, nutrients) together; whereas, a plant in "the wild" cannot. Most things act more conservatively in Nature versus human controlled environments.
We can definitely evolve shells more.

Most shells offer a convenient syntax around a lot of (fantastic) utilities that often mirror C libraries (notably posix). When we were working in C, having our shell mirror parts of that at times while being a very dynamic language at other times sounds great.

But we have a much more varied landscape of language and library options now, and many developers haven’t ever used C or posix.

So my thought is: what if we had a shell that was designed to interop with JS (or python, or ideally a language the user knows well), instead of C/posix. What if, instead of having to remember bash’s for loop syntax (or xargs), you could just write .map() and iterate over lines/execute commands that way?
I agree that it's a violation of the “one and only one” maxim, but that maxim is a bit hard to take as an absolute. I think the problem is that there are already a lot of ways to write things in Python, the biggest example that comes to mind is list comprehensions.

outputs = [f(x) for x in inputs]

Versus:

outputs = []
for x in inputs:
outputs.append(f(x))

The assignment expression lets you:

outputs = [y for x in inputs
if (y := f(x)) is not None]

I know that more complicated list comprehensions in Python are a bit of a sore point for some people, but I would say that they’re also inherently unpythonic, and I like them.
Interesting comment. Some research supports at least some of it:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141119125105.h...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/depressions-evolu...

While it may explain depressive moods or mindsets for many people, there's also a lot of supporting evidence for long-term, chronic, biochemical causes.
IIRC, the majority Pizzagate was centered around Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta, not the candidate herself.

John and Tony Podesta collect some very creepy art - google it. Certainly not evidence of a crime, but fairly-public figures closely connected to a presidential campaign collecting art of children bound and in morbid situations raises some eyebrows for sure.
Purl – Pixar SparkShorts
I mostly focus on consistency in this post (how to make a group of interviewers more consistent). Of course, what actually matters is accuracy (predictive utility of the interview). Obviously those are not the same thing (you could run 100% consistent interviews by just having everyone always grade “strong no”). However, I think (based on running the interview team at Triplebyte) that inconsistency is the primary obstacle to accuracy in practice. So I end up spending the majority of my time focusing on how to make interviewers more consistent.
this issue transcends facebook, and social media. a large majority of health news shared by the media is fake or misleading
The military version was likely cheaper than the SWAT model. There is a lot of surplus military hardware being bought up by local PDs.
It seems like every 72 hours they change the tune on coffee. Different study, different results.

But on social media is the weird news that gets clicks: "eat right and exercise" is not gonna get those shares.
World Magnetic Model Out-Of-Cycle Release
It's actually both. And also whether intake is repeated.

The platitude is completely wrong.
You could go other ways and downsize the battery a little bit, or tweak the definition of 100% and 0% (they play with those to keep the batteries from damaging themselves.)
> I asked about users

No, you didn't. This is what you said

> In what way has anyone had harm put on them by anything Google has done

Notice "anyone". Which was in context of

> While I don’t believe that folks working at Google are actively trying to do harm

Notice "do harm", not "do harm to its users".

And you just ignored the examples you've been given. You didn't even contest them, you simply ignored them.

Why not make an Ask HN about it, if following links or doing your own research is out of the question? This is basic stuff, why would it have to be explained all over again on every article?
It is not and never been a major defense contractor. The only majorish thing was Maven and thankfully cancelled.
> Nobody is asking for a one-size-fit-all solution

Right, because that isn't possible. Instead you choose sensible defaults that match what users want. Like it or not, the majority of users want autoplaying GIFs.

> all they are asking for is choice and control over their browser.

Which you have. It's a configuration option to disable autoplaying muted video.
Except for drills and riot control, it's illegal for militaries to use tear gas.
I went through and unfollowed every person (except for a few close family members) and disabled notifications on almost all pages. Now when I accept a new friend request, I immediately unfollow that person. I have almost no notifications and very little reason to browse Facebook, but I can still use it to contact people and respond to event invitations. I find this to be a good compromise.
That is cool looking. Reminds me of a jacked up, 80's VW Rabbit.
I suspect his current route includes both Rust and Go. :)
Buzzfeed is usually a good source for "fluff from a bored internet".
Where is "over here" for you?

The only place I've found which has wheat which doesn't make me feel icky is Italy. And the only thing I can figure out about it is fructans (they have a finicky milling process), which seems insane.

I've been all over, and as I don't actually have celiac disease (but a very direct and obvious reaction to something in wheat; sleepy internal itchy feeling) I always try the local breads. Ukraine, Russia, Spain, etc etc all gives me the heebies. Italy's bread and pizzas mostly don't.
I think warranty support and dealer network plays a role in that.
It’s important to note that in the UK a lot of people think the undercutting of the NHS by the Tories is privatization by the back door. For personal reasons (crony capitalism) and ideological reasons (small government has to be a crippled government) this appeals to people on the right in the UK and US, along with whatever passes for a Libertarian these days.
I was wondering as I played it if you had come up with some 'evil' to create the levels, as each one has an element of 'gotcha' to them. Any info on how you did this? Novice programmer here, and probably not capable of understanding anything too complex, but I'd be interested if there's anything you could point me at to try to understand how you do this sort of thing.
Would this not imply that if "my" government funded some software that "your" government would be free to take it? I'm not sure I'm keen on subsidizing "your" government all that much.

What would stop the people of/under "your" government from freeloading off the people of/under "my" government?
Wow, instead of any source, we got a wall of conspiracy horse manure.
> "Let's say you start working here, but six months later, you leave for another opportunity. Why would you leave?"

That would be such a huge red flag for a interviewee. Does this team have such severe issues with frequent turnover that the interviewer feels the need to ask such a question? Is there some sort of dysfunction in the organization that the interviewer isn't telling me about?

Not to mention, as another poster pointed out, there's no honest answer to that question that sounds good.
The trouble spot with Superchargers is usually the end of the charge, not the beginning. The batteries can usually absorb energy rather quickly when at a low rate of charge. What is really painful is the last 10% where the charge rate drops line a stone.

What would be an interesting use of this idea would be to have 10% capacity onboard in capacitors. Once you get within 10% of the desired charge level in the batteries, you quickly charge the capacitors, which then trickles into the battery over time.

This might allow you to increase the overall charge rate for the car which would help reduce wait times at Superchargers.
Providing the source does not mean giving the public commit access.
Presumably to see how attentive to details the candidates are?

I have worked with some people would would promise things and the immediately forget that they did so. This was extremely irritating. There are also people who never bother with conversation context when sending emails.

Asking for a trivial thing which needs to be done after interview shows the response to both of those questions. Will candidate forget this completely? Will they send an email with no subject or body and just an attachment alone?
“Animated gifs” are dead (ish), most likely whenever you see something that you think is a gif, it’s an auto playing video
Congrats on your relaunch! The new landing page is fantastic. I love the "Remind me" function for upcoming AMAs.
>that we've stopped thinking of ourselves as a cohesive society.

The U.S. was never thought as cohesive. It's why we started with multiple states that facilitated nations.
> Should the IRS, NSA, CIA, and FBI code all be open source?

Yes. Open source, but secret/classified (as necessary, IRS software should be open-source, period). This way the software will be a useful learning/historical resource when it's declassified in the future.
I've seen how capricious some can be with their work tools. I dated a girl whose dad ran a background check on everyone she dated without their knowledge or consent. I was 19 at the time and it seemed wrong, but reporting one of the higher up police officers in my town who now knew all my details seemed like a freedom limiting move.
I too am trying to sort through the fallout from endless context-switching. I wrote something (ranted) about it here. Shameless plug since it seems relevant:

https://medium.com/@justinseymour/my-head-a-clusterfuck-a8a2...
Since it is major public company serving many Hungarians, it can be arguing that hacker did a public service.

I understand that he did not want to admit wrongdoing, since he believed it should be considered an extenuating circumstance where public interest requires such action.
>As for Chrome's tab area, the little speaker icon no longer mutes sites as of Chrome 70 or so.

Thank you for mentioning this so I can retain my sanity. It would have never occurred to me that Google would remove a useful feature like that. (Although I can see that a right-click-mute is more useful when there are dozens of tabs that narrow the widths too much to show a speaker icon.) It must have been pure coincidence that I haven't had a need to mute a webpage since Chrome 70.

I was puzzled why both my Firefox and Chrome couldn't stop the video and your comment about the javascript click events made me look at my DNS logs. I noticed that my firewall blocks a lot of sites like "js.spotx.tv", "ntv.io", etc that's loaded by "denverpost.com" -- therefore I may be preventing some (ad) scripts from running that makes the GUI "fixes" you mentioned.
Like any massive bureaucracy federal agents have processes and policies to determine what tactics are used. Night raids may pose a higher risk of alerting the target and allow them to flee or fight from a fortified position. A person like this is far more likely to have alarms, booby traps, gas masks, and weapons stockpiles than your average citizen. Don't forget that in the US it's relatively easy to get a wide range of extremely powerful weapons.

Also the target seems to have known they were being surveilled and may have been fleeing. This may have been the agents last best chance.

There's also confirmation bias at work: a raid isn't high profile unless it's big and flashy and potentially violent. You hear more often about violent raids than quiet arrests. Even if they're reported as frequently, quiet arrests are just less memorable.
I agree that there may be edge cases where it doesn't make sense to make software open source (although I also think that the majority of software used at IRS, NSA, CIA, and FBI could be open source). However, I strongly believe that if the code is not published, it should at least be available to the government itself, s.t. if a vendor goes out of business or the government wants to change vendors they can do so without issues.
I find myself increasingly preferring email over chat
Mostly overcrowded and unstructured, breaking nursing socialization behavior of mice via massive interruption of strangers walking through nests and huge noise.

(See later experiment with "rooms" for mice.)
The strain of mice used was relatively aggressive too.

Of course, not quite applicable to humans or even apes.
It seems like the cases where regenerative braking doesn't work coincide perfectly with the season where you want simple resistive loads for fast acting interior heating.
You could get by with 28 MPH in some cities. Boston for example has a 25 MPH speed limit city-wide, unless posted otherwise. It wouldn't work in some places, but I wouldn't mind using a fancy golf cart there to run errands. That Pickman truck in the article is right up my alley.
Conversely, I think that we may soon need regulation around Hollywood's right to digitally reincarnate dead actors for use in their commercial film productions.

The idea of Universal CGI'ing George Carlin into saying politically-tinged speech he would disagree with would be a travesty. And I'm not sure how that would be prevented, save his estate successfully suing Universal.
Is it your position that utilizing open source software is freeloading?
I worked on image analysis software in a wetlab for a particular type of microscopy. They are in just this position: the lab builds and sells software. The fees are low -- on the order of $10-$15k/license. They use the proceeds entirely to fund ongoing development of the software. And the simple fact is, without these license sales, they don't have the resources to fund development. The software is open source in the sense that the licensees are given the source.

If the lab has to give the software away, all development ends, unless you have $300k/year of grants sitting around.
Because the quality is much lower. The tractor is meant to be used near capacity for thousands of hours. Lada not so much. Lada is known to rust easily, John Deer is known for quality...

Also, you are comparing two different spectrums. Maybe compare against very good farm equipment in Russia?
> It's a lot of Spring Integration, JMS Queues in between (so technically, 'events') and a traditional relational DB.

Ah, i wonder if you're working on the project i worked on at my previous job ...

> It runs very well and the business is happy.

Apparently not.
That's when you bring in the anti-drone eagles to take care of the problem.
Forgot to include our tech stack:

Frontend: React.js/Node

Backend: Java & Python

Infra: We run on GCP and AWS and use both GPU and CPUs for running our machine translate nodes. Kubernetes & Helm experience from devops candidates is greatly valued.
Agreed, but when I (pre-66) disabled animations, I didn't see an obvious UX element for "no, go ahead, this one's cool".

Edit: Actually, it seemed to be hit-or-miss. Some gifs work, some refuse to play at all.
And you will be able by installing an addon, accept that you're a minority and most people want autoplay on their GIFs.