skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/alex-jones-5-most-disturbing...

> "The reason there's so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation, and I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children," he said on his broadcast in 2010, according to NBC News.

> "The majority of frogs in most areas of the United States are now gay," Jones said in 2017. The claim was without evidence.
I apologize for the brash response.

The "comply with the license" part is the problem you're not seeing, using open source as SaaS is a loophole not a license feature.

An example being, I license something as open source which means if you don't pay for it (assuming there's an option for that), you are bound to follow the license I provided which means all further work has to be open source (the same license I used) and source has to be provided with the product. In an ideal world this would mean either:

1. We both get paid

2. We both contribute to open software which is available to anyone

But in our world it means, technically I'm not selling software but a service so I don't have to do shit. so the result (with scummy companies) is the following:

1. I don't get paid for software critical to your business

2. No one gets the benefit of the new product created despite my license

Hence, scum.
I couldn't name a "runaway hit/killer app", but my gf and I get plenty of use from our Echo(s). Nothing we couldn't or didn't do prior to getting them, but we genuinely find the voice interface often wins out over reaching for our phones. We use it:

• as an alarm clock

• as a radio in the morning, podcast/audiobook player in the evening

• arithmetic - e.g. when planning trips we might ask "Alexa, what's 100 Malyasian Ringgit it pounds sterling?", more conveniently than flipping to xe.com or a phone app and an answer we both hear. When cooking we might ask for weight conversions, during DIY we might ask for cm to inches, etc

• to control Hue lighting in two rooms

• to control our TV/amp/satellite ("Alexa, pause|mute the TV/set TV to channel 503/etc"). I used to love my Harmony universal remote but found it pretty cumbersome to manage, and my gf could _never_ get the hang of it like she can "Alexa, turn on/off Sky"

• to play music when I'm wfh

Rather than a hit skill/application, I'd say voice is a superior interface when doing other, dextrous stuff - getting dressed, using the hair dryer, feeding the cat, cooking, washing up, gardening, DIY, etc. Asking for the lights to turn on (the switches are not near the front door) when arriving home in the dark, saying "Alexa, goodnight" rather than turning off 4 lights and 3 devices, etc.

The only thing I dislike about it is how it fires up I'm watching WWE and the commentators use Alexa Bliss's name.
everyone is stuck on the word monopoly. Antitrust law is much larger than just monopolys.

and, if you can prove it, predatory pricing is illegal. amazon is absolutely subsidizing a bunch of stuff with profit from elsewhere. if and what and how the government can do something about that is a huge can of worms with wide reaching implications outside the tech industry.

IF the government wants to get involved with separating product development from distribution, they should be going after splitting primevideo from aws (like saying movie studios cant own theaters), or trying to prove that netflix is being unfairly charged for resources different than primevideo (price discrimination.) they should go after amazon logistics.

amazon is a vertical conglomerate problem not a monopoly problem (if its a problem at all.) whatever amazon is, the law wasnt ready for, but whether amazon is a good or bad thing is more a matter of perspective.
$25m scheme helped wealthy Americans buy their children into elite universities
The only other thing we really use it for is calling from room to room, as a glorified intercom.
I think it is well known that anyone can donate a building for easy admission. It is no secret, just something available to only the top 0.1%
I personally think that the idea that we have freedom of choice is the incorrect one.

I believe our idea of free will is an illusion created by how our mind works. Instead, our decisions come from totally predictable processes and we hallucinate the choice afterwards.
This has been part of Amazon's business model for years, they have 10,000s of products copied from their vendors. They have even copied stuff hosted on AWS in addition to open source software deployed on AWS.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/amazon-s-...
Everybody likes being part of the protected market. That's part of the problem- "Well if you're going to protect dairy, and you want my support, how about you protect my steel too?" (repeat, repeat, repeat)
> That was never true, you had to have permission from your ISP, and many forbade it (and some outright blocked those ports).

I don't know about that -- I've been running a webserver (as well as a few other servers such as email) using my residential ISP for decades, spanning several different ISPs including major national ones. It's never been a problem.
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Same as RT/Sputniknews
The arguments are about stifled competition, rather than direct consumer impact. There's less funding for early startups because it's hard to compete with the Giants, and the Giants walk where they want to. As a result, no one gets a chance to do better than the Giants are currently doing... Even if consumers are kinda ok with how things currently are.

(Now, it's also pretty easy to imagine breakups going horribly horribly wrong for consumers, precisely because consumers are pretty happy with the state of play. I would hate paying for a calendar app at this point in history, and I would also hate having to comparison shop for one that didn't suck...)
I recently signed up for MailChimp, and I am still learning the interface.

I am curious what parts of the service annoy you?
You're better of following the Twitter with the guy that discovered this (I do not have the link on hand but will post when I get to my laptop). He explains why this is not usual and concerning. He goes through unsecured MongoDB (US or China) to see what people are up to.
They wrote Beijing as 北京市 because that's how it showed up in the database. But they also wrote "BreedReady" because that's how that key also showed up in the database; all the DB keys are English, apparently (https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1104482014202351616). I'd assume it's designed around good ol' fashion fear that not all languages accessing the DB are Unicode-capable for labels and identifiers.

NextWeb's reporting on the Twitter thread suggests that the phrase may be a Chinese attempt to translate to English a Chinese word meaning "woman of child-bearing age" [https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/11/1-8m-chinese-women-de...], but we don't actually know because we have no primary source on what character was translated as "BreedReady."
Eh.. OpenOffice is (practically) dead, LibreOffice is the de-facto open source office suite [1].

MySQL is still big but MariaDB is big too and definitely favored as a default by most distributions[2].

[1] https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pulse vs https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/pulse

[2] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/distributions-which-includ...
Not sure that would help. New tuiton - $2M and 99% of students get grants of $1.930M
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that, of the possibilities, "reality we can agree on" is the least likely to be wrong.
His real identity is tied to the DMV, which ties him to the car, which is tied to the LLC; does this not deanonymize the LLC? From the LLC you get the rest of his large assets, namely his second house.
Yep. It's a pain to have to say "Alexa, ask Chevrolet to start my car". Why can't I just say "Alexa, start my car". Clearly it's the only car related skill...
A tweet from Yashar Ali:

US Attorney re the Huffman/Loughlin (among others) college scam: "We're not talking about donating a building...we're talking about fraud."

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1105493852578697217

Says quite a lot, doesn’t it.
How about making donations information blind to admissions committees?
Yes, the fork timeline/direction is different, but imho, the pattern is, big companies with their own agenda, hiding behind "open" fork. I only can imagine the amount of resources put into keeping up. Will Amazon "rebase" their version with Elastic's? I doubt that for long time. Features advantaging AWS will be pushed, for better integration with 3rd party, which basically AWS' solutions.

I hope that people will be able to use "vanilla" ES too on AWS.
The Tesla Model 3 'Superbottle' Easter Egg Is a Fascinating Packaging Solution
You highlighted a perfect example of why ZeroHedge and other contrarian news sources are so necessary: When the war drums were in full swing against Syria and every major western news outlet was breathlessly promoting intervention with propaganda of their own (pictures of shell-shocked kids, championing of the brave "freedom fighters" and white helmets, spurious claims of "chemical attacks"), ZH provided a counterpoint that challenged those perceptions.

In that particular situation, both sides were total propaganda and Syria was the grayest of gray areas. I like to think I'm not the only one who read both extremes of the reporting with a filter and arrived at my own conclusion.
My son goes through liter/day. When I was his age I went through 2L/day. When your body requires a certain nutrient it will seek it out. Now, I'm not growing any taller. Bones aren't forming, so my deman for milk has also dropped off.
Yeah, they dropped the ball on this one. Now they have a growing number of countries grounding it themselves which to me seems like a significantly worse look than if Boeing had proactively done it themselves (also keeps it in the news cycle longer as each new country adds itself to the list).
"Things like Kong, Tyk and Apigee have caching, embedded scripting, basic load balancing, etc. "

Hmmm... like Apache httpd?
I think you might have to consider getting licensed for something like this in the US. There are all sorts of AML regulations for money transmitters.
I think we're kind of agreeing. Proponents like to portray C++ as a high-level language. That's why they insist on using it instead of C. "No more manual memory management" they say, except that having to manage the compiler's handling of copies and scope exits is every bit as bad. "No more dangerous bare pointers" except that null-pointer exceptions occur just as often in C++ code as in C. That's why I distinguished it from real higher-level languages at the start. Anyone who has worked in such knows C++ doesn't meet that standard, but its proponents make the claim anyway.
This will probably get a lot of downvotes, but it's obvious that China, Singapore and the UK care more about their citizen and the safety of their people than the US currently does.
I read their stuff, though most of what I read comes out of the weekly emails. There is some actual good content, though like all other outlets, I'm sure there's some bad. Here's some of the stuff I see on their front page right now:

* China's belt-and-road

* Venezuela (worth noting they were an early reporter on the aid-burning)

* Anti-Tesla stuff

* Anti-SEC, pro-Elon Musk stuff

* Stop Brexit

* Boeing

* China's massive debt load

* They still like gold

Yes, it's clear they have their own set of biases, again like every other outlet. But they don't seem to be super far left or right, and certainly don't seem to be "russian propaganda".
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Show HN: Scapehouse – A new take on group conversations
You're probably already a member of several online group chats. It usually goes: somebody creates a group for some purpose, like a project group, an event group, or a family group, and then adds people to it. You might not know everyone in the group, or even care about the group's purpose, and leaving might make you look bad.

I spent my free time for the past few months building a service that doesn't allow you to create groups, but rather automates the process while making it less awkward. Whenever two people connnect, it automatically detects mutual friends between the two people who all know each other, and then creates a private conversation space for each group. Groups dynamically grow as mutual friends connect with one another. Rather than making it chat-style, conversations within each group are threaded to keep things organised. All you have to do is add (or remove) people you know, and Scapehouse takes care of the rest for everybody involved.

There's also a public conversation space (a "living room") for each country that people access the site from. You can only make new threads in your own country's living room, but you can reply to threads in other countries. We're starting out with just a few countries but more will be added soon.

I've released a public beta at https://scapehouse.com. The site is quite barebones at the moment, but it's fast and I made sure it works nicely on mobile as well as the desktop. To join, the only things required in the registration form are a username and password; everything else is optional and browsing living rooms doesn't require an account. Feedback is welcome!
Final step, post it all on NYTimes!

Seriously though, the toughest part about seeking anonymity is working against human nature and one's need for social validation.
Butter, yogurt, cheeses...there's lots more to dairy than just straight milk. Also, milk+espresso (cappuccinos, lattes) is still hugely popular.
My friend owns a cosmetic clinic and he needed an easy way to manage his signage. I built a small web platform over the weekend so he could do that. He started paying right away ($7/month). There are other businesses using it right now, not a big business but completely automated!
of all of the people you could be mad at about privacy you choose Mozilla to be mad at?
Here's a clickable link to the site: https://scapehouse.com
I happen to like VCL and what you can do with it. I would rather Fastly got coverage for what's possible, rather than Cloudflare Workers getting all the blog articles.

But without a cheap/free tier for smaller projects (and all my tech skills have been honed on small projects and then applied to large clients) they are not going to attract that coverage.
I wonder is the GP has been paying attention in MSM these days. I’ve read “bombshell” after “bombshell” of breaking news regarding the current administration, with nearly everything turning out to be a dud. No apologies and no retractions.
It provides them the opportunity to network with a young, impressionable kid whose parents can afford to throw $15k into a toilet and flush.

If you believe the primary purpose of a university is to educate and certify, that is indeed "not much". But if you believe that the education is secondary, and the actual primary purpose is to cultivate a social network of influential graduates and dropouts, and to act as gatekeeper to future opportunities, then that bribe is better than a perfect SAT score.

That kid will end up with seed money or angel investments from mommy and daddy, and will be able to hire some former classmates right out of the gate, and they might build a unicorn, which will forever be tagged with "founded and built by a team of University X graduates".

In that sense, no one is robbing anybody of a spot. There are genius spots, and rich idiot spots, and the only problem is getting a few from each pile into the same rooms, with a reason to talk about their futures. One way is to coerce the rich kid into studying (or cheating) their coursework by paying off the genius kid. Management training.
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And the consumer who desires fine French cheeses or the single mother who wants to give her children milk are less important because? If milk was cheaper there would be more demand for it. Of course the farmers like it.
> You will ALWAYS have a centralized authority for social. No ifs, ands, or buts.

You assert this as fact, but don't explain why you believe this to be true. I don't think your statement is self-evident at all.
I believe just insufficient developers. It seems like they're open to someone taking it on: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/on-syncthing-ios-port-again/89...
> Further, users who have tried changing their user-agent—the identification string, sent by browsers, that tells Web servers what version of which browser they are—have reported that much of the app works in both Safari and Firefox, with reports that even voice and video calls work in Firefox. It's not clear that everything works, and WebRTC is arguably persnickety enough that Microsoft would have to explicitly test and perhaps tweak its code to work in Firefox or Safari. But ultimately, none of this appears to be a fundamental tech issue.

Goes to show that companies will cut corners in silly ways whenever possible. Unless MS is called out on this repeatedly, it won't change. The noise needs to be louder on supporting Firefox (and other non-Chrome browsers). Otherwise everybody could lose.
> Certainly, it is much changed. When Altman was handed the reins, YC had just graduated 67 startups, all of them from the U.S

This is definitely wrong. Don't know how many companies had gone through YC by 2014, but my guess is it's nearly an order of magnitude larger than 67.
My point made exactly. Two separate ideas from completely different contexts smashed together to create a new, even more ridiculous statement.
> What the CN government is doing is far creepier. Individual personal entries.

Yes, thankfully there are no systems in place for the US government to verify/track someone's age (and thus infer their ability to bear children).
Does this mean ext4 is bugged too? We many filesystems with this bug, and we lived with this bug for a while. Anyway, I don't disagree on the technical cost/benefit analysis, but still, unfair.
Yum has been around for so long that I really can’t believe people still bring this up. Even a decade after yum came around, I still heard Debian people comparing “rpm” vs “apt”, which is a completely apples to oranges comparison. I can only assume that those Debian people were so out of touch with other distros that their opinions could not be trusted.
All indications are they already know what happened. This is entirely a result of Boeing trying to get this plane pushed through without requiring additional training. Problem being... they changed the behavior so that pilots flying it like a regular old 737 don't know what's happening.

I hope there is a lawsuit of some sort so that boeing doesn't pull this ever again.
> Watching someone manage their Redhat/centos servers from OSX (or even Windows) is just painful to watch, especially if something is wrong or down (which is usually when you need an admin the most).

Why ? (Genuine question, I've been doing that for years (from Windows), never had a particular issue with it, even during crises. Not that I had the choice, if I did I would probably have installed Linux.)
Did you even try to look yourself? Women of childbearing age is a subset of the population tracked by the US Census Bureau.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

https://www.census.gov/search-results.html?q=childbearing&pa...
It's also using less farm land and keeping people fed.

It's not obvious that small homesteads would be a viable way to feed the world, much less a sustainable way to do it.

I'm not claiming that industrial scale farming doesn't have environmental issues. But growing more food on less land might be a good thing.
> Often fully remote workers can find themselves becoming seconded-class employees because they get left out of many of the casual office conversations

I worked entirely remotely for about a year and I hated it. Maybe it’s not a skill I have, but I definitely felt isolated and like something was lost.

I’ve also read somewhere (sorry don’t remember the specific source) that people who work entirely remotely when others are in an office tend to lose out on things like promotions and end up making less.
Well, frankly I'm glad they are. As many people die slipping in the bathtub each year as 9/11. If acronym-agencies want to actually help society maybe they should tackle these types of real-world problems (e.g. tax-evasion of 1%) rather than building cool Snowden spy-toys.
It would be pretty cool if it could update you on things you've asked for in the past that were not possible then but are now possible.

"Hey, 3 months ago you asked for the forecast according to the ECMWF weather model, and I couldn't answer you. But now I can, so go ahead and try!".
Nah people complained about software bloat before the internet too. They e been doing that since the invention of compilers.
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I agree. I'm in the non-locality camp myself.
When will Fox News be broadcasting my show?
Aggregation Theory is brand name he made up to market his consulting services. He's not ignorant, he's selling. The business consulting and person health/self-help industries are full of this sort of thing.
You responded with half a sentence, and you're expecting what kind of reaction to that? A Sixty Minutes special? A state-level briefing? Don't judge people for matching your level of effort.
Nah, you pay with your eyeballs on the ads. The data just helps choose the ad, and doesn't need to be terribly accurate. So no, your data isn't really worth much: it's the aggregates that you've done a tiny tiny part in building that's worth a lot.
are you that stupid? just enter a bogus email.
I read all of that as a rant about "pleople cloning my open source project and making it better, stop plz".

Duh, I'm glad about the direction Amazon is going.