skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were talking about the outrage over Dragonfly, versus the smaller outrage over lack of availability of Apple news.

By the way, can you be more specific about iCloud? The Dragonfly claim is that Google would be sharing a list of search queries per telephone number with a state company, to use however they want. Can you be clear regarding the equivalent iCloud functionality? (I don't doubt you, just interested in where the abuse would happen.) Could you give an example?
> why skeptical when he is a top applied mathematician?

I see a lot of mathematics in the book, but from skimming it, I can't see a 'killer application' as such. I'd like to see an example of a practical problem that can be solved using reasonably deep topolgical methods (beyond, say the Euler characteristic) that can't be solved in any other way.

Ghrist was championing persistent homology for network analysis as such an application a few years ago, but I'm not sure if it ever progressed beyond 'toy' problems to give state-of-the-art results.
...is this data reliable? It seems to contradict other studies I've seen. And I don't just mean that it contradicts the parts that support my point. I was under the impression that Japan had generally longer commutes than the US, for example.

But in any case, it doesn't seem to contradict anything that I said.
Same with HIPPA. If a standard is required by law, access shouldn't be gated and the document should have the same copyright status as law.
Its hard to believe this is real - considering the ftc's former position on net neutrality. Am I just being paranoid, or could this at all just be a sham investigation to appear as if the FTC is doing something, which will turn out findings that are all 'unremarkable' to further protect isps?
At times in the past I've had to stay off HN because I needed to recover emotionally from all the posts about surveillance/dystopia/etc. But I always come back because it's my primary touchstone for what's going on in the software industry. I'm curious if this newsletter could fill that role instead.
That's most likely an over usage of NVC. I can see how this format of conversation could be useful for difficult conversations. Applying it to all your professional communications not only seems like a lot of effort and burdensome, but for the reasons you mentioned, might actually be counterproductive.
I didn't wanted to say #node in the ast. The presentation or the variable names doesn't matter in terms of less code I believe. Whitney's code is obfuscated which is distinct from less code imo. To some extent. Succinct code is kind of great.

Just to confirm, I'm saying that after the user, the most important thing is less code.

In more practical terms, I'd say try "above anything else" to see where the actual limit is. From my experience, it's way further from where traditional programming is.
I like how Amazon has an MAWS movement internally, meaning "Move to AWS". I think most people think that they use AWS mostly, but they dont.

Its an interesting look behind the scenes at Amazon and how antiquated they appear to operate. Makes you wonder if Azure and Google have pretty good chances beating them down the road.

Edit: Interesting, further down one person commented that Amazon doesn't use AWS broadly because it's seen as not secure enough for certain workloads.
Gangs using dead rats to smuggle drugs into Dorset prison
If I understand correctly, that won't fix the latency problem. It will make it less severe, though.
Time for things like tor, i2p, and freenode to become more popular!
+1, doesn't it seem like ML can drive just as much GDP growth as the technology that spurred growth over the past decades? it's not clear the US will be at the forefront, but nobody is stopping investors from diversifying their portfolio globally.
And you could argue Eno's proceduralism was influenced by Cage, and Cage's proceduralism from Nancarrow... and on and on the family graph of influence goes. Not sure where the full circle is, but there's plenty of thread to tug on here.
How to turn React's source code into a programming lesson
Nah mate, the web's fine now because everything's Chrome or a reskin of Chromium.

/s
And this has what, exactly, to do with my comment?
The bankruptcy system in the western world is far too lenient; it encourages ruthless risk-taking behavior which benefits selfish people at the expense of those who are socially conscientious. This social credit system doesn't seem so bad when you put things into perspective.

If our system punished selfish people more, as a conscientious individual, I would be better off. I don't buy this bullshit that selfish people drive the engines of progress; they don't drive it; they just capture the proceeds of progress.

John D. Rockefeller himself admitted that "He who works all day, has no time to make money".
Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
It's not using midi, and yes, bird noises would be a perfect addition and totally easy to do with the Web Audio API. Great idea.
Kronecker Delta
Maybe make that type of debt dischargeable in 14 years, rather than 7? Or maybe make the clock on bankruptcy start ticking directly after graduation?
> Well, what if you do one of jobs that require you to drive?

Don't do the thing that gets your license revoked? And if it happens, get a different job?

> Plus, who said people in the developed countries don't commute, or that even if they have public transport, having to and waste extra hour or hours in many cases (to wait at stops and to change buses or subway lines, etc), is small matter in the extra effort, free time, and health impact on the person doing it compared to being able to just drive there?

Well, if it's just convenience, then that seems to fit the definition of privilege, no?

> Not everybody in Europe lives in Amsterdam or some such city, nicely close to walking distance or a single public transit line to work.

This is a ridiculous strawman. You don't need to live in a major world city to have effective non-driving commute options around.
Except the UK is bring into force a law that states:

> A person contravenes this subsection if the person makes pornographic material available on the internet to persons in the United Kingdom on a commercial basis other than in a way that secures that, at any given time, the material is not normally accessible by persons under the age of 18.

> [A notice that the section above is being contravened] must[ ... ]require the internet service provider[...] to prevent persons in the United Kingdom from being able to access the offending material using the service it provides;

That's hardly better for the Internet, and copyrighted material can _already_ be blocked by Court order - it's a small step to making that more widespread. Leaving the EU does not _necessarily_ solve this (it just moves the problem).
> But then I look at the state of state / municipal services where I live and have zero faith that my municipal government would be able to successfully do so without being horrendously corrupt.

My city's track record isn't quite as awful as yours, I think -- but even if it were, I'm not sure that would be any worse than what I have to put up with right now from Comcast.

At least if the local municipality is in charge, you have some amount of ability to reform any mismanagement. With the private sector in the absence of real competition, you have none.
Nope. ZIP codes have to support leading zeros which won't happen with a numeric entry. There could also be a hyphenated +4 suffix for pedants. Post codes must always be treated as text.
That’s a fair point. Maybe this should have been 0.1. I can’t rmemeber how the version number got decided...
French here.

To be honest in France almost nobody knows who is seating at the European Parliament, we have absolutely no visibility to what is being voted, even less who voted what.

A commonly accepted view (at least around me, I might be biased) is that our representatives there are useless, whoever they are. We had about 60% abstention in 2014's elections, I think that says it all.
Cx? Dzy? Those names were meaningless.

A programmer doesn't rely on variable names to understand what the machine does, or very little. The contrary is a myth. In other terms, you always check what a variable contains anyway. That being said, I make a distinction between obfuscated code and less code. The former is about presentation, which in my opinion you're free to decide while the later is about #node in the ast. Sort of.
Sadly, I doubt that it will fail. I don't know anybody who actually likes AMP and yet it didn't die in the past years. So probably the person who is in charge of AMP is just very good at marketing his baby inside Google.
It's Mozilla, so they should be more trustworthy with your data.

That being said, I agree with your critique. I am a 1Password customer and enjoy the fact that there are two passwords for my account (rendering keyloggers worthless).
Palantir wins competition to build Army intelligence system
The problem is what you're describing has more in common with Catholicism (particularly penances) than it does with Stoicism. The article is poorly argued. For instance, the article provides no real evidence that Dorsy gives a shit about Stoicism, and provides no real evidence that a few anecdotes of penance-like behavior is a trend, let alone has any causal link to a perceived trend of Stoicism.

Other HN commenters have suggested that the discrepancies between the behaviors described in the article and Stoicism are the result of techies corrupting Stoicism, but I think an alternative hypothesis should be considered: that the author has corrupted Stoicism in order to create a palatable narrative.
Email should be plain text, anything else is overkill. :)
And nobody is wringing their hands when something is given that name.
That broadband map is famously and wildly inaccurate.

In my area, it says I have 6 different options. In reality, I have one.
if you are born poor you miss out on the benefits that allow people to be successful. Take this site for example it encourages people to take risk and start a business. Worst that can happen if most of us fail is that we move in with our parents. If you grew up poor, maybe your parents don't have a place for you to stay if you fail so the ability to start a business is essentially closed to you as you don't have the safety blanket of your middle class colleagues.

To claim that people who declare bankruptcy are selfish is quite a blanket statement and leads me to believe that you have never known poverty. Try being poor or even border line and breaking a leg or having a child get cancer. Try getting laid off for even a few weeks when over 40% of Americans cant even come up with $400 to cover an emergency.
Well then this is going to bake your noodle: we also ask for correct name, date of birth, and emergency contact details, because those are also useful/necessary for our business.
We’ve tried to share the aims of the project in the wiki[1].

Basically having seen the revolution in usability, software design and raised expectations on mobile it was frustrating that desktop had stagnated. Having a toolkit that was slim, easy to learn, cross platform and sweet looking seemed like a worthwhile challenge :).

1: https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/wiki/Vision
My Vanguard account, which I've had since 2007, is showing 10.8% returns over the past 10 years.
That's scary stuff. If I ate at McDonald's, that would be enough to make me stop.
Please don't break the HN guidelines by going on about downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I'm just guessing, but probably it was downvoted for being a shallow dismissal (also in the guidelines). Had you made your argument a little less strident and a little more informative, it could have been a fine comment, but as it was it sounds more like a shallow reaction to the name "Non-Violent Communication" that doesn't consider what they might have meant by it. Therefore this guideline is also probably relevant: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."
I don’t think so. I think GP used the term monopoly when oligopoly would have been more appropriate. I use the term oligopoly but it’s quite common to say monopoly because it’s a very similar thing. Also Duck Duck Go is not comparable to Google Search or Bing.
In addition to what others have said here, "peloton" also means "fearless" in Finnish.

I have no idea if or why they would've used that or if they're just referring to the cycling thing, but I guess "fearless" could also be kind of fitting for this project.
> These platforms are run by big corporations that turn a huge profit

I take issue when people use the word profit to mean some evil, shameful thing. Youtube has amazing content and tools, and I'm sure a lot of their profit is re-invested in the platform. I doubt these other platforms come close in terms of functionality and UX. Peertube site design looks like it's from 2005. I know that might not be indicative of their core features, but first impressions are important, and this does not bode well.

There's a reason mainstream users never flock to these decentralized platforms: they don't have the fit and finish of a commercial venture.
Sometimes I see trigger warnings made tongue-in-cheek, as a kind of joke.

Also, it's gone beyond it's originally intended purposed and begun to be used with any sort of "extreme" content, e.g., horror/gore/jump scare videos etc, where it serves as an inducement to watching, not a warning against it.

But aside from these, in the original intended context, I don't really see the behavior you mention. Maybe it's the case that a small minority are the caricatured smug virtue signaler you portray, but if so you are painting their entire use with the brush of an extreme minority of an example.

Visit a depression support group forum. You'll see just about any post with suicide content with a trigger warning. Why? Because while it's a common issue among the depressed, suicide is also contagious in a way. People already at some risk are much more likely to attempt or succeed when exposed to content of that nature. It's not uncommon for there to be a slight uptick in suicides after a public figure commits suicide. The second of two suicides within a week from survivors of the Parkland shooting may very well have been influenced in this way, as might the third suicide of parent of a Sandy Hook victim that committed suicide a few days after that.
Why not just HTTP content negotiation?
On LG phones they add the numbers to the top of the querty keys. On Android you can install alternative keyboards.
They're a good team. The same data isn't available across different interfaces but there is definitely value in having a single core system that serves multiple apps and models.
We've warned you many times about incivility in your comments here. You've ignored our requests and continued to break the guidelines frequently. That's not ok, so I've banned your account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
haha! sadly true. I really wish they had the equivalent of aurora serverless.
Its also illegal in Russia to make negative statements about the government or state. What people say in public about leadership is quasi dictatorships is possibly different than what they think in private.
This is the same exact reason why PHP double colon errors still include the `T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM` string somewhere in the error, as various error parsers still look for it even though the error messages have been updated to be clearer. The PHP team can't remove it or it will break tons of error parsers.

https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/09/09/t-paamayim-nekudotayi...
I quit my job before I left with enough to last me about 6 months, in savings, just in case I needed it for expenses, etc.

While I was there, I started consulting and found a remote gig that didn't really care where I was located. The only downside is that you are now 12 hours off from the EST timezone in the US.

Morning meetings are now your night-time, which can be inconvenient, and you just won't be able to communicate during part of the day, but I was able to make it work.

If you want to stay longer than 3 months, you will either need to study Mandarin (which I did) and get a student visa (you will need to find a university/school that will allow you to do this..which is pretty affordable) or do a visa run where you leave and come back (I think you can do this up to 2 years).

I studied Mandarin for about a year and then traveled around Asia every few months for another year. It was a great experience.

I wanted to do this since I was 19..but couldn't make it happen until I was 30. The only issue I had was that making friends with other expats was difficult.

Most expats are in their early 20s and only interested in partying and drinking every night and teaching English during the day. If that sounds like a disaster, it is.

Many of the English schools also aren't really picky about the teachers they hire, so you will get some people that shouldn't be anywhere near a classroom..especially with elementary aged kids.
Moving to Apple does not mean you are avoiding Google. http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/09/29/google-apple-safar...

FWIW, I moved to only Google products because they are superior and more secure. I trust the people developing these products more than any other company right now.
Interesting how 12th-graders are as lonely as they where in the 70s & 80s (almost no difference). What happened in 2006 that made loneliness drop so much?
Ask HN: How to get the flexibilty of containers without the need for another OS?
I’m just a little guy who has two saas products as a sideline which make 1/4 of my income. My stack is nginx/php/mysql/jquery on lxc containers on cloud servers.

I like my setup but wonder if I could reduce my container experience even further so I don't need another OS on my host. Has anyone got a smaller footprint than my setup but with the flexibilty of containers?
Everything online is “copyright-protected”. Copyright automatically applies to anything fixed in a tangible medium of expression. So it applies to any service that lets you share content.
Also keep in mind we already had a "low" decade... the "lost decade" of 2000 through 2012-ish. That was a bad time for investing.
I wonder what the range and battery weight is?

This could make good sense for short flights. Doing this with sea planes also makes sense; for conventional aircraft, the airport might be a bottleneck which could be a safety concern if the plane is powered by a battery without enough spare capacity to wait around to land. Being able to land anywhere with smooth water mitigates that risk.
Following the reddit discussion I learned just about everything has poo on it, even somebody's toothbrush, and every other public touchscreen would be similar affected. Wash your hands before eating. The article is largly hyperhole.

"Reminds me of the myth busters episode where they tested toothbrushes in bathrooms to see if airborne poo was getting on them. It was, but they even found trace amounts of fecal matter on fresh toothbrushes straight out of the package."

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/a16b3p/poo_found...
They also leverage their 'network' of wifi hotspots (which are just all the home routers they give to cable customers). Either way I imagine they route all the traffic through a gateway on their network so are likely to have just as much opportunity to collect data and/or modify traffic as the tower operator would.
My younger brother became irrational and physically hostile after our father's death, to the point where I had to leave the house for a couple days.

My understanding is that it is somewhat normative for children of the recently deceased to get into confrontations.
I think it would be an interesting choice, that if you're sent to jail for lack of payment towards child support ( or any other debt ), the government pays your debt up to the point you get out.
I had a friend that could not afford a car. So a 2 hour round trip drive to work everyday became a 5 hour round trip bus ride. Every. Day.
Super surprised to hear it was Huawei that accidentally did this.
>The victory every for-profit entity seeks - permanent domination and monopolization of their market - is something potentially disastrous to society at large.

OTOH it's like a standard that you can build upon if it's foundational communication infrastructure (channels, touch points).

This means that stability on lower levels facilitates competition on higher levels. As long as nobody is excluded it's not problematic. It shouldn't be allowed to scrap services users depend on though, this would be a good organic regulator.
That's the reason the political process, funding, advertisements are all regulated in the UK. To supposedly prevent such things. Clearly struggling in current conditions, but redesigning the oversight is a different conversation.

It's not just one ad or campaign, or funding, but a whole interminable series of them. At some point it's no longer poetic licence and firmly into fraudulent. The vote should - based on the numerous breaches found - have been invalidated and a rerun forced, along with prosecutions for those found to have breached rules. A fraudulent contract is not held to be binding.

Not for a different answer, but for a referendum that adheres to the standing laws of the land. It matters not if the result of the rerun is another vote for leave - this time one achieve by legal means. How else to ensure that the democratic process itself remains fit for purpose and something we can have confidence in? Without the need to accommodate international observers.

Otherwise where's democracy? Why should that be OK, but fraudulent contracts or selling of investments not be? Does no amount of fraud invalidate the process for you?
That is a very accurate, succinct comment. I’m going to steal this when arguing for Terraform.
Makes it possible for me to get a ride, process payments and refunds even when the data centers are having issues or when there are temporary internet problems.

What does the facebook engineering team do?
This is not necessarily Firefox, but because reCAPTCHA is designed to be more frictionless if Google can identify the user.

If you have their tracking cookies, if you don't use a VPN, and if you block ads (which would have more tracking cookies), Google's certainty of who you are is higher, increasing the chance that you are a human.

Firefox's default settings, especially with the new Content Blocking features, are enough for reCAPTCHA to be less sure you're a human, and try to make you prove it more often.

So Google manages to sell a product (reCAPTCHA), show good intentions (bot-prevention), increase usage of Chrome (because it's a smoother experience through reCAPTCHA), and get more information on everyone.

Win x4