skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook bills itself as a communications platform which follows rules which this didn’t violate so this is more akin to a newspaper refusing to run an ad which criticized them or a bar evicting someone who politely disagreed with the owner. Even if they successfully avoided regulation as a monopoly I would not be surprised if this led to people suing them for content which they didn’t take down on the theory that once you make arbitrary editorial decisions you’re responsible for everything.

At the very least it would also give pause to all of the media companies whose content has made them so much money, since you’d have to ask which other areas would be meddled with. That doesn’t need to be a legal process to have an impact on their business.
It is surreal to commute and work in SF. I take BART or Caltrain to work and amazed every day to see hundreds of thousands of engineers, product managers, sales people, data scientists get off in Embarcadero and walk to their destination. If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I play “backpack bingo”, where I try to identify someone’s employer from their backpack
I have good faith belief that all software on torrent trackers are in public domain or had permission from the copyright holder.
Renoise is absolutely wonderful. I've bought it, use it all the time, and can heartily recommend it.

But it's not an Ardour replacement. Some of their features overlap, but you can't do things like record long clips of audio in Renoise, while that's a core feature in Ardour.

Also, the workflow for Renoise is just not something most people are used to or will want to spend the time adjusting to -- though I certainly encourage them to give it a chance, as it's great alternative to the mouse-oriented piano roll workflow in traditional DAWs.

So I think for most Linux users, Ardour is going to probably be the DAW that they're most used to and the one most appropriate for recording and manipulating audio for screencasts and videos, with Renoise unfortunately relegated just to music production by tracker fans.
It appears so. My town already has an Aldi on one end of town, but they just bought up some land on the other side of town to open another one (much closer to the university campus). According to the PR around it, the US branch of Aldi is spending something like $5B to expand to 2500 stores (a quick Wikipedia search indicates that they have ~1900).
Combine that with the fact that the company creating the social credit system just invested $300 million into reddit.
Breakup Facebook rhetoric is so counterproductive. It achieves nothing. It solves no problem.

The country has real problems. “I don’t like Facebook” isn’t even remotely one of them. I won’t be voting for her, that’s for sure.
Seven Implementations of Incremetal at Jane Street (2016)
Leighton Gray gave a version of this talk at the Full Indie Summit in Vancouver in 2017. It's great to see her able to give this at GDC!
How's breaking them up going to stop that?

Usage policies and how these companies handle what's said about them by their users seem completely orthogonal to whether they're one company or many.
I took a look at their sales page and one of the examples given is about automatically building profiles of people in a casino and monitoring their emotions/habits as they win/lose/buy drinks.
Sounds like what Trader Joes does. Although, slightly better I guess. https://www.businessinsider.com/trader-joes-sales-strategy-2...

Less products, cheaper, better service etc.
How do you read this thing? All I see is "React Three Fiber".

It put my laptop on Takeoff mode (fans full speed!) with Firefox.
its not strictly speaking an unrelated crime. It wasn't like a drunk driving offense. He was being rewarded for his positive contributions as an employee and people are criticizing that reward based on his alleged negative behavior as an employee.
keeping the system proprietary will make it harder for them to understand what you are doing; but that will also be very limiting move - in the enterprise software space.
To be fair, I have in the past had ads automatically 'removed' in approval process which use the logo that have nothing to do with FB, just happen to use the logo. Same with 'March Madness.' They have automated approvals which catch use of the logo.
> How is this any different from a person walking into a store and asking to place an ad inside the store calling for breakup or shutting down of said store? What store owner would ever allow such a thing?

I think this is a valid point, but it depends on the community the store is in and what it's selling.

What if it's in a town that just had a school shooting and is selling fully automatic rifles? The store owner doesn't have to allow it, you're right, but I can understand why the store would come under fire (see what I did there?)

But my point is you need to ask your self an important question: should the gun shop owner's right to run a store and earn a living outweigh the demands (a safer community, perhaps?) of the people living in that community, especially if it's a large majority of that community? The answer for me is very clear.

Facebook haven't been going around shooting people, but they have clearly shown themselves to be a very nasty piece of work and I'm personally unsure what value they add to society as a closed, proprietary monolith.

Now think about what Facebook has been doing wrong, and what more wrongs could be planned behind its closed doors, and ask your self the above question: is this for the betterment of society or only the small group of hyper-rich stakeholders?

No, Facebook should not be forced to keep the adverts up. It's their network after all, but the adverts should prompt them to ask themselves the same above question about their own actions and existence, and work with society, not against it, to resolve the problems being presented.

These adverts should open a dialogue, not simply be silenced.

(And on a side note: it's actually quite unsettling to see only a few big ad networks in existence and they can control who gets to advertise what... not good.)
When was the last time your carrier played an ad down the line while you were trying to have a conversation?
clickbait shit article that's just talking about corporate art and monuments
>> Last week, Nature, one of the top scientific journals in the world, ran a review written by Lise Eliot of Gina Rippon’s new book, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

For the record, I posted that article on HN 9 days ago. It was almost immediately flagged (going by the fact it collected 18 points). This one seems to have lasted at least twice as long - and I don't understand why. In terms of a controversy, an article in Nature is the definition of an uncontroversial, respected source, whereas Quillette is rather the exact opposite. If a serious debate can be had, it should be over an article on Nature, not an article on Quillette.

I don't want to put this in words like "why was my article downvoted", which would sound too much as if I'm nursing some kind of petty grudge, but the same thing has happened to other articles I've posted previously on matters of gender equality in the sciences, while, for example, articles about James Damore are left alone. Is James Damore less controversial than Gina Rippon?

I must say that I do get a strong feeling that one side of this issue is treated very differently than the other by a significant proportion of users on HN.
Aldi does what Aldi does?
Your missing the point. How is the transfer communicated? Common law traditions and statutes.
Block it via /etc/hosts
Trader Joe's is Aldi North (Nord).

Aldi is Aldi South (Sud).

Same company, just split between 2 brothers.
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What we need is a Regex parser written in this language, and I can finally start on my HTML renderer font.
easily solved by using rolling distros instead. Use Solus, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch and you are set with the latest packages.
This will not be built in house at a fraction of the cost. In fact, it will be a massive, _massive_ waste of time.

But it is part of a business critical flow, and therefore handing it over to a third party is absolutely unthinkable.
Fair take. The US could penalize/limit/tariff those outside megacorps like China does though, right? I'm not sure trade should be completely free when an outside competitor can skirt your local laws.
> not just a single symbol

One element is already one more than the minimum required for a "set".

If the empty set is cited as evidence for existential claims, then we should complain, but that it's empty, not that it isn't a set. :)

> couldn't quickly find any reference on CO-59.

First hit on Google for "CO-59コード"

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO-59

The link to the .jpg image is unfortunately broken, but the text describes what is included: hiragana, katakana, the dakuten and handakuten attributed characters in both （ば、ぱ、バ、パ、…）, the small っ、ゃ、ゅ、ょ in both, the touyou kanji (daily use characters, predecessor of jouyou concept), some punctuation marks and "野球ボールの絵文字" (baseball emoji).

Article says that CO-59 was used in the first Japanese language word-processor, the JW-10:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/JW-10

This is what appears to be the original source for that image: http://etlcdb.db.aist.go.jp/etlcdb/etln/etl2/e2code.jpg

I just replaced the nonworking URL in the above page.

It doesn't just have a baseball but some symbols in the same group: diamond, triangle, star, filled and empty circle. It includes roman characters in upper case, circled characters, double digit characers up to 59 (presumably for compact time representation) and other things.
Go talk to your vendor management team about getting a $2/mo contract signed. What does support look like because if this goes down at 2 AM, business is impacted.

Legal needs to review because it is sending employee PII (emails, phone numbers, etc) to a third party, who now knows the individuals in critical "approval roles".

Next hit up security and have them do an audit since this is going to be part of a security control. For bonus points, the internal pentest team finds a bypass that ApproveAPI needs to fix.

Your $150k a year developer is now spending 3-5 hours a week for 3 weeks shepherding a vendor onboarding for something they could have built and tested in a few hours.
The problem in the US is that the places that would most benefit from Aldi are generally the places Aldi least wants to locate at.

People who drive SUVs don't need another choice for groceries--people who can't afford SUVs do.
On what exactly?
Given how widely used nginx is, wouldn’t a community maintained fork be the most likely outcome of things changing for the worse?
"...work becomes just something you do to pay the bills."

And the flipside of separating things like that, is that when activities you enjoy are freed completely from having to be a source of money, they sometimes can start to be more fun and meaningful in their own right.
> I wish more companies with resources such as Google would take a stand and fight.

I believe it has less to do with being well resourced and more to do with keeping internal politics and corporate secrets out of public court records
> Which is more like a recipe than a novel.

Courts strongly disagree with you.
The answer to questions 1, 3, and 4 is 'because free speech' (not to be confused with the 1st amendment).

Once a business is large enough to substantially affect which messages can get attention, if they restrict certain messages, they're restricting speech - speech is no good if you can't get anyone to hear you. Facebook isn't big enough to entirely stifle a message, but they can substantially reduce its reach. That's the problem with corporate control of ads and communication - they act as a filter on which ideas they'll let through.

That answers question 2 - if it's a small store, the person can place the ad in plenty of other places, and it'll still get enough attention. But if the store happens to own 80% of all ad space in the town...

Edit: I should clarify - this is all about ethical should/should not, and (as remarked by the child comment) not meant to imply there currently exists a legal basis to force Facebook to run the ads. It's important not to confuse what the law is, with that we'd like it to be.
I wonder how much of this is just because of the failure of Bay Area-wide fast public transit.

BART never made it to the peninsula and electrification of Caltrain is taking its sweet time. The only remaining option seems for everyone to crowd into SF :/.
Yuma raising $500k to feed you before anyone does
We've been working on Yuma for the last year and pivoted at the 6 month mark. We became a weekly meal subscription that automatically stocks your personalized meals at your workplace. For the latter 6 months, we grew at 14% WoW to get to $20k MRR—all bootstrapped.

The cool thing about Yuma is not the tasty meals or the novel UI/UX, but it's the data that we collect and how we use it. We believe what we do can serve the customer in negative time.

We're based up in Montréal, Canada, and are raising $500k usd. You see... our network is small but our ambitions are really big. We want to work with SV based investors - people deep in the trenches of tech. But cold emails don't do us justice. We rethought things and decided to bring the right investors to us. We built our own version of a Kickstarter page on our website with a contact form at the end, check it out: www.itsyuma.com/investors.

Our humble request of the HN community is to share the link mentioned above, up-vote this post, or whatever could help us reach the right investors.

This is a long shot of course. Taking our raising strategy to HN is a bet we're making because we believe people here can relate to what we're going through. It's not going to be easy to build the foodservice of the future, but your help will make it a tad bit easier.

- Adam
Please dont play stupid.
Exit polls are not done everywhere, and in some countries they are even illegal. Just make soliciting around poll stations is illegal and the problem is solved.
Actually, in the US "Abandoned Vehicle" is a legal thing and depending on local laws you might very well be able to claim, and get title to a vehicle that has been abandoned on your property. And the abandonment period can be really short, 48 hrs in some states. It depends on your state's definition of "abandoned vehicle", and local laws, and it will probably require a few trips to the DMV and might require filing in small claims court, but there is a legal process for gaining ownership of a vehicle that has been left on your property.

Same for any lost property, if you find something valuable (wallet full of cash), you generally have to turn it in to the police, and there is a notification process to try to find the owner, and after a period of time (generally 3 months), if no one has claimed it, it's yours. Again, local laws are going to differ, but the general legal concept, that "A finder of property acquires no rights in mislaid property, is entitled to possession of lost property against everyone except the true owner, and is entitled to keep abandoned property."[1] is common.

There's some old saying about possession being 9/10ths of the law....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_mislaid,_and_abandoned_p...
It's clever how one can restart sshd, after editing sshd_config, without losing the ssh connection. Very thoughtful, and counter-intuitive.
How does that have anything to do with viability? If you are an artist and there is an amazing tool with a fairly big user base but not as big as photoshop how does that stop you using krita in any way?

Its not viable if you ignore all the ways it is viable.
Not OP, but here are some (IMO big) advantages Apache has over nginx (FOSS):

- Provides HTTP caching (via mod_cache)

- Simplifies the deployment stack by providing built-in interpreters for dynamic languages. e.g. mod_php (i.e. you don't need php-fpm), mod_wsgi (i.e. you don't need gunicorn)

- Load-balancer upstream affinity ("stickiness") based on HTTP cookies

- Load-balancing based on upstream's connection count (via mod_heartbeat)

- Built-in Let's Encrypt integration (via mod_md)

tl;dr provides a lot of features out of the box -- some people may see this as "bloat" or overly tight coupling, but this provides simplicity.
Installed and ran fine, appears to perform fine using some basic examples. Obligatory fractals - https://ibb.co/f40sFdx.

sudo apt install cmake git-core libboost-all-dev libdouble-conversion-dev libopenexr-dev libtbb-dev libglm-dev gedit checkinstall && sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxi-dev && git clone --recursive https://github.com/doug-moen/curv; cd curv; make; sudo checkinstall -D; sudo dpkg -i ./curv.deb

Then used this from the examples:

make_shape {
dist : everything.dist,
colour (x,y,_,_) :
let z = [x,y];
color = [0,0,0];
done = false;
in do
for (i in 0 ..< 100) (
if (!done) (
z := csqr(z) + [x,y];
if (dot(z,z) > 4)
let cr = (i-1)-log(log(dot(z,z))/log 2)/log 2;
in (
color := [0.95+.012*cr, 1, .2+.4*(1+sin(.3*cr))];
done := true;
)
)
);
in sRGB.HSV color,
bbox : [[-2.5,-2,-2],[1.5,2,2]],
is_2d : true,
}
If the source is available, I absolutely can use the software—regardless of license. The only thing preventing me from doing so would be either criminal or civil law, and while IANAL, I don’t believe there are criminal penalties for license violations. The copyright holder would have to sue me, and prove that I violated the license, and then they might be able to get a court to force me to stop, pay them, or both.

I am curious whether there are any practical observations, one way or the other, about the AGPL’s enforceability.
Aldi has a crazy strong marketing presence(astroturfing), and despite claim to be low cost, I have not seen that in cost comparisons

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/grocer-comparison-aldi-wa...

Crazy loss leaders get people into the store, but 1$/lb more expensive meats kill any cost savings immediately.
Not all of us work in small startups. The enterprise needs webservers too!
He makes electric cars and spaceships, of course there will be people like you who find a reason to hate him. The contrarians who should just be ignored and brushed away as annoying little squeaky voices as the future drifts further and further away from their ignorant tiny little brains
You are clearly baking in your Twilio/Mailgun costs in to the per-approval price. Why not just let me provide an API key and charge $5/mo for the service itself?
It's a dumb way of phrasing it. The author likely tried to reduce ambiguity, but ended up increasing it.

My guess would be that "currently ever use the service" means "currently use the service, even if just sporadically."

As you say, "currently use the service" would have been sufficient.
> Unfortunately, we are seeing other examples where open source maintainers are muddying the waters between the open source community and the proprietary code they create to monetize the open source.

As I understand it, Amazon took ElasticSearch and monetized it, therefore competing directly with Elastic (the company that develops ElasticSearch). Elastic felt Amazon was taking advantage of Elastic's commitment to open source, and started developing new features under a proprietary license, but releasing them for free. The idea was to prevent their work from benefiting a competitor.

Basically in this blog post, Amazon is trying to make the case that they're a Good Tech Company and Elastic are the Bad Guys or something. Generally I'm all for nuance and "the truth is probably somewhere in the middle", but Elastic is the rare company that truly is committed to open source (at least at the current moment in history) and Amazon is, well, Amazon.
Isn’t that the point of LinkedIn? To be found? If you have someone’s name... used to be you could find out where they lived and their phone number, in a book that a private company sent to everyone’s house.
It's not clever when you consider most people aren't supportive of it. There's definitely a classist kind of fury right now, aimed a little bit at 'big corps' and 'the rich' - but I seriously doubt it extends to such moves.

Most people that use Facebook probably like it, pretty much, and don't suffer any visible consequences of their ostensible loss of privacy.

Similar for Google.

I think a smarter approach would be some regulation that hit home, particularly on privacy etc..
GOP funds messaging sites that look remarkably like trusted local news
Thanks, I updated my comment.
What’s their monopoly on? Serious question. Too many people like using fb so we break them up? lolwut.

Is fb actively stifling competition? Is there a market failure?
Spy-Bot: A Cloud Pentesting Approach
1.) If a founder got baited into illegal acts by a VC, they should be fired immediately. Not sure how you fire a VC, but that sort of thing should end that VC's career as well.

2.) It's irrelevant that he built a billion dollar business. He was well compensated throughout his time at Google, he knew the terms of his compensation package and presumably was fine with it given that he didn't leave voluntarily. This is a case where he was given an enormous compensation package AFTER a crime was discovered that is directly related to his job function. If you lead a team, your function is to lead it well. Hitting on your subordinates and worse is NOT leading it well, regardless of the success of that team.

He should have been fired, for cause, with zero severance. Google should have accepted the inevitable lawsuit. Stand up for your values even if you lose in court, otherwise they're meaningless.

I'm tired of assholes being rewarded and worshipped in the valley. It is possible to not be a horrible person and still accomplish great things. And if it's not, then it's probably not worth the great things if you lose your ethics in the process.
This is great! I haven't tried the boards (yet) but it's difficult to find good industrial ready boards out there. Combine that with the difficulty of handling precise & consistent timing below 1 ms in Linux then these boards are a real gem!
Clink the link to their Github page in the upper left corner.
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On average, a boring approval wastes maybe 1 minute between the requester waiting and the approver opening whatever system they use for approval. Over 100 approvals, this is 100 minutes wasted.

At $100 per hour for a professional, you could save around $159 by using this service.

Seems like the pricing works out to me. You just have to figure out how much time is wasted in traditional approval and how much time this approval method saves the customers.
You just have to think of it as a sign-off rather than an approval, and you can quickly come up with many use cases for it.

For example, imagine that you are responsible for rolling the build this week, and you need to get a sign off from an assigned person on each sister team, confirming that they tested their feature area before you push the trigger and roll the build. You can either email and try to contact each person individually, but the cleanest way to solve this issue would be to create a multi-person approval, where you can track the status of a sign off for each sister team in real time. Approval serves as an affirmation in this scenario.