skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So as a citizen of an EU country that's not prudish about sex, why do I have to suffer from the censorship of US companies?

Conversely, I found out after travelling a lot in Europe, making foreigner friends and moving to another state it's not about being prudish about sex but about nudity.

From my (admittedly limited) experience Americans are much less prudish about sex than Europeans (especially Western EU countries) but leagues more prudish about nudity.

I actually find it more reasonable coming from Poland. We should keep nudity private and at the same time be able to let ourself go and be free when interacting intimately with another human.

Again, from my experience, Germany (my new country of residence) is extremely open about nudity while at the same time being similarly repressed about sexuality. This actually made me understand why Slavic people consider Germanic people to be "cold" or "passionless" (no offence intended).
And Excel is getting cool big data features and Tableau like capabilities.
Lack of truly informed consent
Australia?

Ok, us down-under are never going to make a big impact on the total numbers. But I wonder what percentage of Ozzie Hackers read and contribute to HN.
Weeproxy: simple HTTP proxy based on URL path for personal use in Golang
The recent Macbook Pro's models are beginning to sound synonymous to "design flaw". How can such a super expensive highly sophisticated computer be unreliable that much. I guess that Apple now has hit the level-of-integration wall.
NoEstimates – Allen Holub
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> The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers

That's the main benefit with Linux. OEM drivers on MS Windows are a shit show, even on Windows 10.
The clause is meant to reduce correlation - acts of war can happen to everybody at the same time, while fires and floods only happen to a tiny percentage of customers.
Cloudflare is by far not the best example I think. They proxy thepiratebay.org after all.
You can‘t report an error to Apple
She's a bay area sex writer, and is probably kind of butthurt that work and fame ain't what it was some years ago. The internet actually was much better when "Violet Blue" was a bigger deal, but it has little to do with the number of porn search results in google news.
Not all are compromise, some are strictly bad design. And, unless you get it from some discount offer, which to be fair does come frequently, it's just expensive relative to alternatives.
Openness and Longevity
Teaching a computer to detect porn
I hope the courts study this carefully before giving a judgement - ultimately this can open a can of worms if insurance companies were to claim every malware infection as an "act of war".
It's shrinking. Tumblr is down. How long do you think reddit will resist?

Also you can launch a website like Nerve if you want, I'm sure you'll find servers to host it.

But who will know about it if you're not in Google's search results, and Facebook doesn't allow linking to your articles?
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Many thanks to the author for this very informative write-up. We are putting our open source deep learning codebase to run on raspberry with good performances for us, near 3fps for image object detection but we had little insights on how things truly worked internally to the pi. Again, very interesting, thanks.
Unless you are deploying Solaris into production, how are those kernels handling asynchronous loads.

Still plain old select(), poll() and AIO?
>Was he being sexist? Or were his detractors being ableist?

Blame games won't help us understand what happened and how to prevent it.

I think the shortest version of what happened is the linked article. You can't accurately summarize the issue into "sexism" or "ableism".
The GNU Make manual defines two variable types: recursively expanded and simple (see: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Flavors.h...).
I find the US prudishness thing so fascinating. I'm travelling at the moment, and meeting lots of Americans (and Europeans for contrast). There's definitely a huge difference in tolerance for swearing and blasphemy.

Also several well-educated and seemingly intelligent Americans who hold strong racist opinions. But that's another subject.

I guess it all comes down to the religion. Americans do seem to be more religious, specifically more Christian, and the Christian Church has always taught that sex should only be for procreation. Enjoying it is a sin, apparently. Though I can't find that anywhere in any of the commandments, or the new testament. Plenty of instruction about not murdering people, though, but that didn't seem to get through...
Ooh. That's great. I had not seen that!
Neural Architecture Search with Transfer Learning(EAT-NAS)
Study finds only small percentage of users vulnerable to fake news
ChromeOS is a North America market phenomenon, hardly used anywhere else.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...
Ah. I guess I am old and like books. Give them some money instead: https://my.fsf.org/donate/
Often anti-harassment tools are literally censorship, it’s just censorship people have collectively agreed is morally worthwhile. I feel like the Internet has shown society enough examples where free speech can have negative consequences that many people are unsure whether completely free speech is really a good thing. I’m not going to add my personal opinion to this about whether it’s good or bad, but let’s at least agree on a technical level that it is censorship by definition.
They may have less power today, but they do still exist, and do still do the same kind of work. I knew a union infiltrator in the transportation industry through a friend just a few years back.
The Pro I'm using right now is the 15" 2016 model, bought it brand new off the shelf, and had used several other models years prior to purchasing this one.

After less than 2 years of usage, the keyboard has hardly any buttons left that I haven't had to take out and clean out, and as a result -- break the clippings that hold them together.

There are also strange cracks below the screen area which makes me think the fabric is much cheaper this time around. And this whole touch bar thing... what a waste of my time and money. Absolutely unnecessary and horrendous.
Ethereum mining algorithm update which boosts GPU mining delayed
I-odd FTW, Pro-tip it emulates thumb drives too.
Make it easy to report child porn, clearly illegal content. Tumblr actually made that tedious - multiple clicks, copy and paste after searching for the report page.
My secondary phone is still a Lumia.
It's easy to see in a work environment. It's not easy to not dismiss it in favor of a promotion carrot.
Well I find myself not using the app store anymore because it's useless to find apps.

There are no filters and no way to order results.

Top downloads sometimes have worse scores than indy apps that only have a hundred downloads but work much better.
Per the article, the exclusion was "a hostile or warlike action in time of peace or war.", and part of the argument is based on the fact that the US government labeled it as a russian campaign to destabilize other countries (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...). That's not just the insurance company redefining words there...
I had the same idea :)

But to make it sustainable, it needs to generate money. Advertisers don't like seeing their brands next to pr0n, so they won't come to your site. Unless, of course, you open it to adverts from people selling sexeh stuff, who can't get an ad to appear anywhere normally.

Of course, you could charge for it... but people have been trained to expect internet services for free. Hopefully that's changing, because it needs to.
I'd like to address your attempt to de-legitimize the author based on your assumption she was "probably" born in 1999.

Firstly, a twenty year old's voice is just as valid as yours. It may be presented from a place of less experience, or it may even be even more experienced than you.

Secondly, your assumption is incorrect and the author has been a published writer since at least 1998.
Interesting. I just searched (in Oz too) and got a bunch of results; if you click on settings, is safe-search turned on? It's off for me.
Your ad free streaming services are still collecting your data.
Everybody makes mistakes, and that's fine. The issue itself can be forgiven for a technical design flaw.
BUT, what is NOT fine is trying to censor customers who have paid a lot of money for these products, trying to voice their concerns. There is simply NO excuse for doing that.

I'm absolutely disgusted by how anyone can delete forum posts that have not violated forum rules simply for exposing the company's design fault. Why have an open forum in the first place then?

I can't believe what the morale amongst the Apple employees running these forums must be whose day job is to shut the voices of these customers on no valid basis. They probably got their orders higher up in their chain.

Absolutely appalling. I will NEVER recommend Apple products to anyone around me although I'm already invested with almost all of their computer products.
Yes, as the article says, that's an official white house statement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...
Google's hiring quality is so low now a days. I knew how they used to only hire the best engineers. You could spot the difference between a Googler and others. But now I see almost anyone getting a job offer. I got one too :)

Formula for large tech companies growth is to just scale by adding engineers.
By less images, you mean 1 patched Linux kernel, that's never updated.

As I said, trade offs
Most payment processors ban selling adult content and the ones that don't explicitly ban it will often kick you off.

A developer posted about it a little bit ago (since deleted). People pay for porn subs and then their wives see it on the bank account so the one who paid makes up a story about how they must have been hacked and calls the bank to report the transaction. All these reports end up with the websites account getting shut down.

Its also an issue with selling marijuana in the places where its legal. In the modern world, visa and MasterCard have the final word on what businesses can exist.
I don't know, certainly on Netflix and partly on Amazon no one is bidding. Yet the recommendations are atrocious.

I was reading a dark fantasy book series and all the similar items were romance novels…
Cost to print, but also cost to stock (I worked with a small publisher for years, and they had to rent a big storage facility for their stock), the cost to ship, etc.

These are marginal when selling ePub, and yet it’s still expensive in France.

Wanna know something even more stupid ?

Most of the time, you can’t buy them from out of France !

I don’t know if this is still true, but two years ago I tried to buy ePub online and couldn’t because I was not in France.

Fun fact ? I was living in the Caribbean on a French island (Guadeloupe), which is run on French laws and administration.
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Journalists actively go out of their way to find adverts on controversial YouTube videos and then they email the companies involved as well as publishing it on their website to shame the companies who did not pull the adverts from YouTube.
Nx1000 in the current one, a company you've definitely heard of and used, Nx10 in the last one, which you haven't and you haven't.

FAANG aren't the only companies.
I'm living in Japan for the last four months. I'm very well aware that the inside-out maki we got in the West are not Japanese. Sashimi is not at all the typical meal, in fact it's actually not even sushi. You won't find it on most sushi platters as commonly used for parties and not even in running Sushi restaurants (yes, they are also very common here), but you will mostly find Nigiri. In supermarkets bento area you get big rolls with different fillings, but still wrapped in nori and not as fancy. Today I had a big roll with fried chicken steak in it and tonkatsu sauce on top.

But again, the discussion was what traditionally Japanese food might go well with cheese. That it's not used today is not a counter argument in this discussion.
Privilege escalation vulnerability uncovered in Microsoft Exchange
It is lacking because right now there are better, cheaper alternatives, no matter what your use case is.
Looking at the embedded market OSes, everyone is pretty keen in moving away from Linux into RTOS, mbed, NuttX, Tizen IoT, RIOT, eventually Fuchsia, ....

Who knows which ones will survive, however they all have two things in common, they aren't GPL based and just enough POSIX to keep C and C++ happy. Additionally some of them do have stable ABI for drivers.

Linux's long term victory might be constrained to the server room, and even there it is debatable, given the increase in managed runtimes for micro-services, which could even be running bare metal for what I care.
Homebrew 2.0.0 released
This was also true at Mt. Gox, FWIW, as reported by an employee that I find credible.

The sector is clownshoes. We should not be surprised by clownshoes behavior in it. There is a spirited debate on whether a putative financial firm with 9 figures under management perpetuated a nine figure control fraud or was merely markedly less sophisticated at accounting controls than the bookkeeper at my daughter’s kindergarten, that being the plausibly exculpatory option in crypto.
I can't read the article, it is behind a paywall.
Whats ruining the West+EU+JP

* ISLMAIFCATION

* Diversity

* open borders

* Socialism in Western Society

* Corrupt and broken "justice" system

* Political "correctness"

* Censorship

* WOKE and "progressive" infection in culture and media and politics

* Feminism

* Actual discrimination, hate and racism from SOCIALISTS that are ANTI WESTERN towards ANYONE That isnt an Global LEFT SOCIALIST following the "progressive" cult... Known as Intersectional hate lens and Identity "politics"
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I'm sure they have improved greatly, which is wonderful, but it's still India, as you admit yourself:

> Corruption is indeed rampant

Are you seriously claiming you couldn't get a fake record in India for USD$1m? or even USD$100k? That is a lot of money for a doctor in India. I have a trouble believing it would be all that hard.

It was probably all organised before he even got on the plane.
This isn’t a new phenomenon. The great Usenet renaming was over 30 years ago.
> I think we're getting there in terms of functionality and flexibility

One big thing that is missing IMO is getting out from under the 5% quota. If you want to write a "serious" app that might store large amounts of data locally you are under constant threat of your data being arbitrarily deleted from the device.
Limiting JavaScript?
I have read several stories about happy coal miners, actually. There seems to be something about the companionship among coal miners that makes it great (for them).

In general - if somebody does a job, presumably the alternatives would be worse. That applies to prostitution as well.
Can you share specific examples? You've left us hanging ... :)
Gorgeous article. And it shows that regardless how strong rust is, it does not hide the complexity of the subject. Very nice.
That's a strangely circular argument.
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Why would the right to strike have to be in the contract? The contract just doesn't have to ban strikes, surely?

Libertarians default to liberty, unless opted out of, that's my understanding at least.
Physics envy
TV was heavily regulated. So it is not just market, but also politics and governing.
My use case is working with motion vectors from its GPU through picam [0]. Is there an alternative?

[0] https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.13/api_array.ht...
Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics
If on mobile you can set to open everything in reader view which removes ads, pop ups and all the nonsense.
I think companies will always find ways to track you. One solution would be to create a fake bot that will feed noise to these trackers by visiting random sites and doing random google searches on your behalf.
Ask HN: First time designing a website, thoughts?
There are many other app stores. Most phones are locked down, so you can not simply use another app store, though.
http://noestimates.org/blog/

https://oikosofyseries.com/no-estimates-book-order

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/am7kp1/a_summa...

https://actionableagile.com/

https://leanpub.com/whenwillitbedone

https://www.martinfowler.com/tags/estimation.html
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So, I'm an average person hosting my email on my domain. I use it for both personal and professional reasons. I'm by no means wealthy, so even though my email address has huge value to me (from clients, to friends, to banks and digital services) I can't pay a huge price for it.

With your suggestion, someone with enough money would be able to force me to sell it. Identity thieves would have a field day with this!
Those are expensive. And their presence compromises your family's privacy.
Recaptcha use many kind of informations, among those is your IP address. If you are browsing through a VPN for example it may see that you are not browsing from a home IP but from a datacenter. In that case I think it assumes that you're a bot and makes it much harder to pass.
Yes, so you make spreadsheets for the old gen and your boss and you use G-sheets among your peers.

Now if google provides a decent convert to excell converter- they win over time.
I would kind of expect the argument about not paying out to be one of negligence on behalf of Mondelez. NotPetya uses the EternalBlue exploit which Microsoft patched in March 2017, NotPetya was late June 2017. Don't install security patches on 1,700 servers and 24,000 laptops for four months? Don't get an insurance payout.
I think the decline has to do with us not trusting Google anymore. They used to be this cool company that everyone wanted to work at but these days they are just looked at as this big behemoth that has taken control of the internet, harvesting peoples private data and flirts with the oppressive Chinese government. It is not fun to see the things you help built being misused like that. It was never their attention.
I really want one for personal webpages/projects only.
Oh, and forums.
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> They're a safe space for you to complain, and share what sucks about your job

Not trying to be a jerk here, but they're not meant to be a place just for employee to vent. They want the manager to do something about the problems. This is usually frustrating for both people, as the manager is often not empowered to fix the problem (such senior execs not having their shit together, other teams fighting, and all that usual fun stuff) and the employee gets tired of essentially asking every week for things to change, with no improvement.
Couldn’t most hacking attempts be defined as “hostile actions”? And the second part “at a time of peace or war” effectively means all the time. Seems like an extremely broad exclusion.
Well, there was the "Meat Puppets", formed in 1980.

And then Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat", published in 1990:[0]

> "They're made out of meat."

> "Meat?"

> "Meat. They're made out of meat."

> "Meat?"

> "There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

So yeah, it's a term that we old geeks use.

Recent usage by John Markoff:

> "True Names" by Vernor Vinge (1981): "The basic premise of that was, you had to basically hide your true name at all costs. It was an insight into the world we’re living in today … We have to figure it out. I think we have to go to pseudonymity or something. You’re gonna participate in this networked existence, you have to be connected to meatspace in some way."

And yes, we "have to go to pseudonymity or something". If we care about privacy, anyway.

0) http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

1) http://renaissancechambara.jp/2017/06/14/oprah-time-true-nam...
> Prostitution is not illegal in many parts of the world, and even decriminalised is some parts.

Nitpick: decriminalization means that something is still illegal, but it's not a crime.
>Let's be clear: the best targeted ads I will ever see are the ones I get from a search engine when it serves an ad for exactly the thing I was searching for....I don't know anybody who complains about this sort of ad.

This has actually nerfed search engines in my lifetime. It used to be a crawler returned as much as it could and you could search through the results; Now i get to only search through the big players who pay for their rankings.

>Never give positive feedback to an AI.

Funny; i wonder how Google profiling handles me occasionally using Google as a spell check.
Extremely easy.

I've been unwell in India, and had unwell children there. India probably sucks if you have no money, but if you have a white face or other sign of affluence, then getting to a physician or hospital is no problem at all, and the care is good.
Video striptease sounds to me like porn and I am not American. What else would it be, seriously?

Is it really normal to colleagues gathering in a striptease bar? Cause I did not encountered it, through I heard people complain about some teams and companies doing that. But that is it - complains+anger not acceptance as norm.
> "never insure that which you would be able to pay out yourself".

This is silly as a rule, IMHO. I could pay out for all new stuff if there was a fire, but it's a damn site cheaper to pay a few hundred a year for insurance.

The point of insurance isn't that they pay out an individual less than they take in, but the group in aggregate.
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Ah yes, the good old “Dildo King” ads always put a smile on my face and remind me that Germans (and Berliners even more) are not yet 100% sucked up into the US / SV stance on morality and censorship.

I noticed in Berlin startups that this is sorta changing. Seems the exported “culture of being offended” is slowly taking hold of, surprisingly, mostly younger people.
>From what I've seen, it's an unfortunate artifact of many (if not most) large companies. There are just too many places to hide.

I've yet to hear of any large company that doesn't inevitably end up this way.
From my point of view it is covered by whole section about power supplies. SD cards don't magically break because there is something wrong with RPi. They break because you loose power when writing operation is in progress.

I have 6 of RPi's and running at home without issues, no sd corruption running 24h for weeks now.

But I had a project where we used RPi as kiosk close to 10kv electric motor that was turning on and off periodically. Best power supply dedicated for RPi was not helping there because that was network fluctuation. I got loads of corrupted sd cards at that time.
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Hi Rune,

Very interesting product I must say.

For the product management role, do you need relevant experience with consumer product companies. How about small scale startup experience in edTech as founder/product guy?

Also, are you open to fully remote folks?

-Manish
If you're on Firefox, you can just open the reader view, anywhere.