skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this. I am surprised it is not more popular.
Once again, a much better take on what's going on here: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/council-worst-article-13/

(And previously, https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/)
Of course.... I was confused with the Cloudflare Workers thing... I just added the code directly to the website and it works fine. Thanks.
Death to AutoPlay – No More Audio and Video That Plays Automatically
So are you asserting that Clojure is not a Lisp, or that Clojure indeed uses cons cells, contrary to the comment mentioned above?
The question I always have with this stuff is this:

To attract developers, these platforms make some promises. A "review" process for supposed violations of TOS causing cancellations is always among them. But to me these "reviews" always seem either completely faked or some version of a lowest-level employee simply restating that the algo has made its choice and they are powerless.

More incriminating is that every time a story starts to go viral, it seems a higher-up jumps in and instantly fixes it. (i.e. they can deliver a "real" review if they want to)

Since you paid them money (which they never refund) and they promised you an actual review if something goes wrong (which they never seem to actually deliver)...How is this any different than selling a counterfeit product? Isn't this legally actionable fraud?
what's a 25-26hr sleep cycle?
And just for anyone who's crazy enough (edit: and I can see they’ve come out already in the comments here) to say that he deserved it because he associated with some non-reputable people...

My Google account was entered as a recovery email address by someone else. Most likely because it was a single letter removed from an abbreviation of their real legal name. I got an email informing me of that fact and instantly disavowed any association with the link right there in the email.

What should happen but a year later but Google letting me know that "your Google account [other email] was deleted due to a violation of our Terms of Service that was left unresolved.".

I tried to contact Google, I tried to disavow the account again, no reply and a dead page. My account isn't dead, but I seem to be irreversibly linked (the hypothetical Google term would be 'avowed' I guess, given that the opposite 'disavowal' was in the URI to reverse the process) to a ToS violation severe enough to warrant account deletion through no fault of my own. Simply because a random person signing up for a new account on the other side of the world typoed i instead of u.

For all I know my reputation with Google is so bad that a single click on the wrong YouTube video or a new algorithm with marginally different scoring running on my account will delete it all. I have zero certainty through no fault of my own.

Edit: Could hypothetically be a great way of shutting up political dissidents (and their YouTube accounts) or anyone you don't like. List their email as a recovery address on ten new accounts, get ToS violations on all of them before they get a chance to disavow them (do it while they're likely sleeping maybe) and you're done.
They changed the rules by vall8ng it harassment, so if you do the same now (write "fuck /u/modname") you get muted and then banned on reoffending.
Base href is "i.annihil.us". Let's hope the Sony lawyers don't read source.
Every EEA country will have to implement this directive on their own.
Wait. How did they use the delivery app without a smartphone?
> I don't see how you can not be reliant on Apple/Google.

This is the very definition of a monopoly, isn't it? If the government was working properly, it would be ready to break up these companies, as well in other areas of oligopoly such as oil and banking.
This is why I didn't even blink when Apple cancelled Google's Fisherprice Certificate. Google cancels accounts on a whim daily, and in a lot of cases don't even have the decency to tell you why they cancelled your account and 'destroyed' your business; they deserve no sympathy. At least here they gave something resembling a faint reason. I hope the authors find a solution soon.
Is it unfair to form a poor opinion of Google because it's typical for people to only ever share bad experiences? Anecdotally I feel like I have come across so many of these stories, and each of them sound terrible / symptomatic of a broken/apathetic company.

It feels like the money keeps rolling in through ad revenues, and then spent on developing projects like Inbox, Reader, and 5 chat apps, all of which get discontinued.

Is Google (the company & team) turning into a Dilbert Comic?
Recurring revenue: a path to sustainability in your solo freelancing firm
It's quite strange and yet makes sense, that embedded salaries are lower than easier higher level development. On the one hand, embedded is NOT the kind of thing some random 14 year old kid can do, whereas iOS/Android/Web is. But unfortunately, there's just not the plethora of jobs demanding embedded folks.
Mods for individual subreddits can do whatever they want with their own subreddits. That is completely different issue from the reddit admins that run the whole site.
That is exactly what happened the last few times this was tried.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/link-tax-experiences-germany-...

Germany's experience: Google did not display news snippets from publishers unless they waived their right to be paid. They all eventually capitulated. Spain's experience: the Spanish version of this law did not have an opt out provision. Thus, Google News simply closed shop in Spain.

For some reason, the regulators do not believe Google when Google says they do not make money on Google News. But it is true. Google News is a "halo" property. Like Google Keep, it isn't itself a money-making endeavor. Google pays for it on the theory that providing that service will make the overall suite of services more compelling to users. But it's not worth much to Google, and you can see this by the paucity of Google's investment in the property compared to almost anything else.

Maybe the theory is that Google will stay in business and pay because they're worried about competitors filling the gap? But if this service is not economically viable for Google to run, how could it possibly be more viable for a competitor to step into this space? The outcome of a link tax will simply be that Google News ceases to operate in the EU, is my bet. That's a fine result for some people, although I doubt it's the intended one. But I guess that the EU politicians and bureaucrats will delude themselves into believing some other outcome is possible until the very moment it happens.

Thing that really makes this puzzling is Google News barely shows snippets any more. At least when I load the page, it only shows article titles.

The publishers and regulators are such fools on this topic. They think people need the news. The opposite is the truth. The news needs viewers. If it's harder to find interesting news, people spend their time on something else.
cuBLAS does GEMM.
When I was reading, it was a African-American woman.

(NB: Look at the guest book)
Reprisals would be severe
App stores are the least-unreliable mechanism I have to trust executable code. I don’t even enable JavaScript by default.

Do you have an alternative trust mechanism that can’t be subverted via, for example, algorithmic voting?
> Google cannot ban a website!

But they can make them really difficult to find.

> iOS is this weird dying phone OS that Apple is keeping alive even though there really aren't that many users.

lol. There are more than a billion iOS users worldwide…
So technically take the youtube description section and squeeze it as a buggy overlay on top of the video is a "viewer first" move?

I'm confused :(
Reupping Nadia Eghbal's excellent, Lemonade Stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source

https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work. Hopefully, projects and contributors will find this helpful in figuring out the best options for them.
Welding, woodworking, fixing cars, painting and drawing, playing musical instruments, reading books.
Chronic inflammation is bad. Temporal inflammation is usually good.
My adwords account was terminated after 7 years of inactivity for some violation regarding how I used my original $100 free credit to experiment with click metrics. I got a similar letter when I appealed. I didn't realize it until a couple years after it was terminated when I wanted to promote a self made product. I have to use someone else's account now to run my ads. It feels excessive.
Register HTTP routes in a fusionjs app
I am going to assume that the problem is Google once again using an automated, AI powered system that's designed to prevent abuse. Only it's too draconian - if not downright faulty - and punishes innocent devs but that Google has decided that's an ok trade-off because the system prevents enough abuse and is much cheaper than employing more human beings for their abuse prevention efforts. So what if 10% of all abuse patterns are false positives - they have millions of devs lining up to be part of the Google Play ecosystem.

Google has similar problems with automated, AI powered systems at Adsense, Adwords, Youtube, GCP etc, and the constant abuse and total lack of communication they've put their customers through has had many of them abandoning these platforms.

Meanwhile, their poor treatment of customers keep reinforcing the notion that Google simply cannot offer the level of customer service people need to run their businesses, and that's one problem they can't code or AI themselves out of.
Because you can build products around the open-source core. So then you are selling enterprise products, not services.
Congratulations on shipping. The name, the copy, the pitch, the popups all made me wonder if maybe this was satire, though. I suppose I’m not the intended audience, but it was all too obnoxious and I just wanted to leave this site.
>App stores are the least-unreliable mechanism I have to trust executable code.

And yet almost weekly I read a new story about malicious apps being found in app stores. Like this one posted today:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...

Personally I trust things from app stores about as much as I trust random things from the web.
Being shocked about this happening in 2019 in either Apple's or Google's app store represents an incredible lack of even cursory research on the author's part. Unless the author shares specific details showing that the ban of the associated account was inappropriate, my reaction is: good, glad you got booted.

If one of the people you chose to associate your account with was previously a bad actor or involved with one, there's no reason to give you the benefit of the doubt because you have at least demonstrated bad judgement. For years people have been playing a game of whack-a-mole where when one account gets terminated they pop up with another. Since your entire business apparently depended on the app stores (a bad idea to begin with) being in good standing with them is therefore vital and it was incumbent on you to vet the people you were in business with. (i.e. sure, be in business with them if you choose. But if you decide to associate your single point of failure business account with them and they fail to disclose that they were associated with something shady in the past, your beef is with them not the app store)
Neither am I. Try getting customer support for other services. Good luck.
There's a difference between what you expect, and how you think things should be. Linus was probably making a normative statement, not a prediction.
Captain Marvel seems to be a reoccurring cosmic title like Green Lantern, it seems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(Marvel_Comics)...

The version in the upcoming film is also called Ms. Marvel.
To add to Portugal: there is still a lot of fine print to their drug laws, so it's less of a drug free-for-all than some people think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

Further, Czech Republic and Portugal both have among the most "friendly" drug laws in Europe when it comes to possession, but the countries have different results in terms of treatment entrants and overdoses, despite having a similar (15-64) year old population:
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/countries/drug-reports/2018/port...
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/countries/drug-reports/2018/czec...

Drugs have an intertwined societal variable that goes beyond laws. Here are two countries, roughly same populations, similar stances on drug possession, but different drug use patterns and outcomes. It shows nothing is guaranteed.

In terms of the War on Drugs, who knows how that long that fight will go on between the Cops and Robbers, but to make peoples' lives easier that are not part of the game, we should at least decriminalize possession to make it more like having weed in legal or decrim states where the worst is throwing away your stuff or getting a small fine.

Obviously, decriminalized possession doesn't mean there are no rules; alcohol is legal but I can't drink a 12-pack on my way home from work. There's still personal responsibility that comes with indulging. It doesn't make sense wasting time and resources to go after some festival kids with molly, or a few stoners smoking a blunt behind 7-11. It's like going through the trouble to pull a penny out of a fish tank. These people aren't any more "criminal" than traffic speeders.

The War on Drugs will still go on even if possession is legalized as long as there is money involved. Dealers, traffickers, gangs, and cartels will still be pursued by law enforcement. Like other businesses, when someone controls the manufacturing and distribution, they stand to make a lot of money while the demand is there for their supply, and they don't want to give up that monopoly.

Drugs are complicated because it's one thing to regulate and allow the transaction of "placid" drugs like cannabis, but it's difficult to imagine a recreational uppers/downers dispensary selling meth and heroin. I don't know if a government can give it "stamp of approval" for such activity when it could cause a lot of harm in the hands of rogue capitalists, and I don't know what could be done to decrease the demand for those drugs, other than advocate for using "less-bad" alternatives like cannabis.
Please. This is not a court of law. Google, as a business, is cutting ties with your business because your business has toes to someone who shat in their backyard. It’s not your fault if you didn’t know, that’s unfair, but they are entitled to protect themselves too. Sometimes life is unfair and bad breaks happen.
Exactly. Sounds like maybe courts should have higher filing fees.
Wasn't javascript the main way to get moving elements in webpages? Here they're using css animations, which definitely weren't around in those days. So I guess the style is throwback, not the implementation...
> whole governance around the code base

Yes, ideally you want to have some highly competent in-house technical ability to assess the quality and maintainability of the codebase that is being produced, separately from the business requirements,
otherwise there is a fair chance that you may end up with a lot of low quality code and a system that cannot be safely or cheaply modified.

I've seen a couple of organisations outsource development, keeping only project management and domain expertise in house, but having no in house ability to assess the quality of technical work.

Don't do that. If your vendors fill your project with the most profitable least experienced/capable developers, after enough years of that you'll get to have exciting meetings about "we're no longer able to estimate how long it will take to make changes to the system".
Junk bonds (high yield) are a small subset of corporate bonds. But it’s true that even investment grade debt is not as good as it used to be.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-10/corpor...
Missed that. However, visiting the courthouse is of little utility as they charge more to print per page than if you printed at home. Also, given the complexity of many cases, it's simply not feasible to go the Courthouse and wade through an entire docket - especially for neophytes unfamiliar with legal terminology.
I also staged it on my blog and it's working awesome http://staging.ahmet.im/blog/index.html . I wonder if CMS tools or static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Pelican etc) should have an option for rel="preload". But I guess it still requires some JS for preload on hover, so is this library going to take off now?
Is it seriously that big a deal that a website uses Javascript?
> iOS is this weird dying phone OS that Apple is keeping alive even though there really aren't that many users

I don't think it should be given the priority developers give it, but 15% globally and 30% in the US are a lot of people.

They're also far more eager to spend than Android users.
Rendering on the Web: Performance Tradeoffs
that's bullshit. It could be run similar to Wikipedia.
> it's typically IPs blacklists that you find yourself dealing with if you're sending emails from your webserver(s).

Why wouldn't they blacklist the domain if they know that IP is associated with your domain?

Would the domain blacklist only happen after you've had several IP addresses blacklisted?
semantic mapping is neat
Google has the burden of proof to show why they are guilty by mere association, but won't do it, likely because they don't want to reveal any information about how they determine who is violating the ToS. There should be greater transparency and a better appeals process, but there won't be.

At the very least it doesn't seem that Google has thought of a better way to handle the scenario where an honest client relies upon a firm that has within it one bad actor, which seems kind of short-sighted given the heavy-handed nature of their policy - ban and delete someone else's work..
Which is why I phrased it “least unreliable” rather than “best”.
Siri doesn't need to go to the cloud to play songs on my iTunes or set an alarm to wake me up in an hour or dictate a message- that's all on my phone. It only needs to use the cloud for the speech processing. Which is what prompted my comment.

There's no reason a voice-activated app couldn't play music from my network-attached storage if it could parse the commands.
The review money is ridiculously small when compared to the investment they made.
Therefore, companies pay for a license to avoid having to provide the full source of their application. Is that right?
Effectively, but not nominally. Which is why it's so sleezy.
If I am in a similar situation, but in a third-world country, with a few $K to spare, does anyone have any advice on how to put some money for the future?
cool-thanks.
>Isn't this legally actionable fraud?

Does it matter if it is? B2B lawsuits only get down to the actual law if the parties have a relatively equal amount of money. A small or medium business going after google _after google has shut off their revenue_ is not going to ever win
I think you should be crediting sandboxing for that.
I'm not sure what you're driving at here.
Ask HN: Why have podcast and audio book apps not improved much?
I was listening to a podcast today, and as usual, the first few minutes contained blather that I wanted to skip through.

Why have podcast apps or podcast audio files not evolved to contain metadata allowing the user to skip around yet (eg. bookmarks)?

Why do e-books from audible.com still use obviously old tech, as evidenced by poor sound quality, chapters with arbitrary numbering only, no metadata, and bookended by the same ancient clip saying "This!... is Audible."
Ask HN: Most enjoyable source code to read?
I don’t mean the ones with jokes or puns in the comments, I mean from a code readability and overall code elegance standpoint.. which repos / source code did you find most pleasant to read?

For example I recall someone mentioning some code written by Terry Tao and that it was very easy to understand and enjoyable to read.
That would make sense, but in this particular case the fee is for copies of deeds and other public documents that are in bound volumes in the record room.

It’s entirely self service.
Thank you for the links. I have to admit it was an eye opening experience. We take our access to judicial proceedings (as well as laws, but that's beyond the point) as essentially a civic right, that seeing others nations embracing a different philosophy on the matter is quite shocking.
The decisions are based on what is contained in those other filings.
WHO recommends rescheduling cannabis in international law for the first time
It's 300KB of JS and 3.5MB of content. Viewing it back then would be very, very painful (and even today could be way faster).
Would it make sense to combine them? Instant turbo links.
A Quest for Better Sleep with Fitbit Data Analysis (2016)
Keto worked for me. I lost 80 pounds - 320 down to 240 - in about a year. I’ve kept it off for a year and a half since I went back to a typical diet.

I still have more to lose, but I’m not nearly so motivated to do it. It’s also much less stressful to think about now that I know how to do it.
I actually just got my Google Ads account suspended because I forgot to update my billing address before adding a new card.

The suspension was for "suspicious billing activity", tried appealing twice with the correct billing address, and was told the suspension is final (some automated email) both times.

They won't take my calls because the account is suspended, which leaves me not being able to advertise on the #1 service to do so.

It's completely unacceptable, especially for a business in their position. One tiny mistake leads you to a lifetime of suspension to a service vital to almost any business.
It doesn't just "use JavaScript", it's entirely implemented in JS. Without JS, you just have an empty site with no markup.
No, it was all gifs, blink and marquee tags.
Correct, and most of the mods I've encountered are very user-hostile. I miss the times when the admins would smack them down for that kind of crap. Oh well, the times they are a changin'!
Just to be clear, Netflix has been profitable every year since 2008, so it is not using deferred losses. I also would like to know how it did it.
> I had created a Google Developer Account simply so I could pass on the login details to my app developers who uploaded and updated the app via my account each time.

Sounds like one of those developers was previously banned for violating ToS and Google suspects the author is the same person with a new account trying to evade the ban. Instead of sharing login details, the correct thing to do is add a user and give them permission to upload. Not let them pretend to be you.

The situation sucks but Google's action seems reasonable? Like they can't just let people create new accounts to evade bans.
Tons of restaurants in Seattle have eliminated tipping entirely and have a high wage for waitstaff.
I find the Overcast app pretty workable.

In your blather situation, you'd just set forward skip to 30s and hit it a few times. Podcasts are for profit and so if you aren't paying...you are the product. I don't think a bookmark after the ads is going to be a thing.

I do like the idea of having content areas and being able to navigate between them! Why on earth not indeed!

I wish Overcast did a better job of queuing and making fresh content available in an intuitive way. I've gone so far as to watch youtube videos to see if I'm doing it right or not...
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> "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."