skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just using being "poor" to make excuses for bad behaviors. It's such a common occurrence in the West that people don't even think whether it is valid or not. It doesn't take copious amounts of money to not litter. It's an attitude. When I visited Vietnam my local friends kept their homes spotless, but when we were in hotels they would literally drop trash on the floor of the room even though there was a waste basket less than a meter away.Poor people don't need to litter to survive and prosper. Good waste management/sanitation habits improves lives in plenty of ways and it doesn't require wealth do to it.. It's attitudinal, not a matter of survival.
Wall Street Is Getting Cut Out of Bond Market It Long Dominated
> Only real entrepreneurs feel that itch. The rest are wantrapreneurs.

Implies that people that do it for only money are 'fake'. This is the gatekeeping part
I'm disappointed I had to go this far down into the comments to read an actual sensible rebuttal. I stand by my calling it a disorganized mess, but you'll notice I never actually say this strategy isn't paying off for the company...
They're certainly not mutually exclusive. You probably mean fully managed container orchestrators; and they certainly don't serve nowhere near the majority of businesses.
That's what all so called "influencers" do: selling their followers to a highest bidder. Actually, that's what every advertisement business do.

I wish this craze go wider and wider, so people finally stop believing what they are told from billboards, TV screens and social media apps.

I don't think that agency selling places on bus stops has actually tries any of the promoted products.
Well, there is a free tier in Wolfram Cloud, which shares the same language...
Before, people knew those were fleeting, and so they knew they had to record them if they wished to keep them.

Current platforms give an idea of permanence, so people stopped worrying about preserving what they care about, and when one closes both are lost.
This is an overly simplistic, optimistic view of disease. Method of exposure matters significantly. Note how heterosexual couples virtually never have to worry about HIV, for example, if you're unfamiliar with this concept.
It is a problem that they had to ask.

This line of thought is exactly how companies take over open markets and kill them. Google proposes:

A) "It's fine for DRM to be standardized, because anyone can just ask us to use implementations like Widevine."

then follows up with

B) "We can't possibly be expected to handle every single request that we're given! Give us a break, this is hard."

If Google wants to be the web's gatekeeper for who's allowed to stream video, then yes, they'd better be really stinking attentive to little hobby projects and startups. Because they chose to take on that responsibility.

If they don't want that responsibility, then all they have to do is stop gatekeeping. Distribute Widevine as a binary blob, but come up with some universal terms so that any browser can download and distribute it without asking permission.
Linux developer abandons VMWare lawsuit
Why do they hack computers of congressional staffers?

Why do they explicitly violate the law (re: Iran/Contras)?

Why...
I take minor aim a this part:

"but what people care about most today is about the production of software. Software licences regulate distribution, but cannot regulate production. (technically they can, but practically, they can’t. I get into this below.)"

Interestingly, I did not see the part where he really gets into this. Speaking of history, I think one thing is forgotten here: before open source, how did you produce software?? By buying closed source software, of course! So, this is the catch-22. You claim they care about the production of software, but without open source tools, you would then be at the mercy of closed source systems in order to build your software. I am not saying it is bad, but I would have never really gotten into software without GNU... Turbo-C from Mix software was cheap, but the others were too far out of reach. One day I woke up and the tools were too expensive. I don't think we want to go back there... to the same place our phones are in now.
iPad Mini 5 Teardown: Size Is Not the Problem
Too late, as people are moving away from bloated Chef and Puppet.
This show, perhaps: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/search-for-the-super-bat...
I'm motivated by solving real problems, not artificial climbing wall problems, sorry.
This is such a silly comment repeated in every thread possible. Google and Amazon both have paid customer facing products with human support and advertising. They aren't remotely exclusive.
It's a rather common practice on instagram. In the absence of some sort of official "retweet" mechanic, this is what people have taken to doing. As he mentions in the article, the response is often very positive from the original content creator, since he credits them (and presumably drives traffic to their property).
> In the same way, part of building a web browser is having the ability to render web content. If Google can block your custom browser from rendering content, then for all practical purposes they are blocking your ability to build a browser.

Eh.. in a way, but not really. It can still work as a web browser but a web site can still render however they'd like based on your user agent.

If I made a site today, I could add the same functionality if I wanted to. Since I own the site, that's my choice.

I completely agree that Google should _not_ block their content based on your custom web browser. That is evil.
Which is a better investment: real estate vs. stocks
And the shutdown seems to be fuzzy, because I can still post to Google+, +1 things, and presumably do other usual G+ things despite it telling me it's shutdown. Now I'm only occasionally reloading to watch my follower count drop as things get deleted.

I still feel the early variant of + with the original implementation of Circles (back in 2012) was one of the most useful takes on social sharing I've come across. And it worked especially well for photographers. Once they moved everybody to Collections I stopped using it with any regularity, and stuck mostly to groups/Communities. Hitching YouTube to it was basically the last straw. When I made a farewell post last month it had been about four years since my previous completely-Public post.

The platform had flaws, and I'm a bit sad to see it go, but I won't particularly miss it.

Cheers,
Can someone please give me a Tl;dr for this post ? Why would google have any say in someone making a web browser ? Where does their path have to cross ?
Hercules in New York clips? It's a goldmine.
I don't think it's too much to ask of the general public.

Think of WordPress -- free software you can either run yourself or pay a company to run for you. If you don't like a particular hosting company, you can click a button to export your data, and upload it with a new host -- or with other software that understands the WordPress export format. All of this data handling is manageable by most non-technical people. The process is hardly any different than downloading an email attachment and sending it to someone else, or uploading it somewhere.

It seems to me the biggest problem is either data not being exportable from these services, or the exported data not being machine-readable. If the format is machine-readable, developers can create alternative software that works with it; managed services can then develop around that software; everyday consumers can eventually end up with more choice, freedom, and power.
Ask this in the Amazon sellercentral forums, not here. Yes there are pro Amazon sellers here but most people here don't really know anything about how the Amazon reinstatement system works at all - as others pointed out it's unfortunately somewhat byzantine in nature.

BTW - same deal with IG, there's a process to reinstatement. Now to think about it - there's actually a skill involved with talking to BigCos, understanding how support teams are structured (and who has power/discretion), and getting resolutions in your favor. A lot of these issues come from overarching policies followed up by corner cases, so you need to present yours well basically.
>> Waiting 4 months for a minimal response from a vendor with such a large percentage of the market is unacceptable.

> Umm... expecting any kind of response from a vendor with such a large percentage of the market is... kinda arrogant.

Are you suggesting we all bow obsequiously to the great corporation?
That's not really what happened here.

If you know what's going on, MCAS is quite safe - there are two highly visible switches that kill electric trim completely (thus disengaging MCAS) and allow the pilots to take manual control. Activating these switches is a memory item (i.e. pilots have to memorize the checklist) for runaway trim and would be universal across 737 variants.

Unfortunately, it appears that both the Lion Air pilots and the Ethiopian Airlines pilots did not recognize that this was a runaway trim issue at all (or until it was too late). If the Ethiopian Airlines disaster turns out to have an identical cause to the Lion Air crash, one has to question why the pilots did not take this simple corrective action.
How common are career ambition incentives like this, among engineers (not middle management) right now? It sounds like, in Google's case, it's very intentional.

Other than the job-hopping that I started hearing about when dotcom IPOs started, engineers, from what I (perhaps naively) understood of my anecdotal experience, seemed to mostly just like to do engineering, and/or also had a sense of obligation to their project/team/duty.

About the worst I recall hearing about would be an engineer picking a language/tool because they wanted to learn it or add it to their resume, rather than because it made the most sense for corporate goals for the project.
Plenty of studies around the topic that USCI wastes a lot of green cards by sheer incompetence.
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." -- The 3rd Amendment

The early revolutionary war history overly simplified is something like this. Britain increases taxes on America. America stops paying taxes. Britain increases military presence to force America to pay taxes. America fought against the British military.

During the increased British military presence in America the British goverment did terrible things, including living in civilians homes and eating their food. This is what the parent comment meant when he said "The American revolution was started because citizens did not want the government in their homes." Ultimately, the British goverment was in American homes to help the tax collection effort, so your idea of early Americans caring a lot about taxation is also true.
cough, cough... UniCOLD
Series D (with 3 seed rounds) and 4 founders....what does the equity shares for each founder look like? 3% maybe?
"Open process" might be a good term for everything else that goes into producing open-source software.

Free software is not about licenses; they're a very limited means to an end. If we didn't have copyright, some other means would be needed.

For freedom to spread, free software has to become faster, prettier, more convenient, and more intuitive than proprietary software. I would go further than this and say that the distinction between developers and users has to become fuzzier, so that anyone can edit software without needing to be a "developer".

Sadly, developers love their arcane tools because it makes them feel elite. And the FSF / GNU project participates in this elitism by continuing to promote such arcane tools. Software like GNU Emacs only meets the absolute bare minimum of "free software"; it empowers hackers but it doesn't empower the general public.

The next movement, whatever it will be called, needs to embrace open source licensing, and open process, and end user empowerment.
What's your maximum social network?
I think the difference here is that he is actively making a claim which is based on a completely false premise. I know that Roger Federer gets paid a pretty penny to wear a Rolex, but in every ad for it he is still wearing the Rolex; Golfers swear that they trust ball X or club Y, and even though their equipment has been individually engineered to a point that mine never will, they do head to the golf course using those clubs. Giselle Bundchen never says she actually wears Victoria's Secret underwear; she just has pictures of herself taken in it.
I think we all agree that they shouldn't do this to American citizens. The problem is we can't isolate their capabilities to just foreign persons.
Uber and Lyft giving out dollar rides for $0.90 with almost no competitive moat. Pretty similar situation I think.
I will refrain from commenting on the particulars as they relate to this InfoWars of which you speak, but in general it is one of the facts upon which our society's relative safety rests, that those who wish to do harm, to deceive and to pursue malice are frequently not those amongst us most blessed with the gifts of intellect.
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Technologies Revolutionizing Commodities Shipping
In addition to what several others have said, this has the problem of being a strategy that only works because most people wouldn't do it. If everyone were running bots asking for free meals in exchange for good reviews, no one would bother reading reviews, and consequently, no one would give out free meals.
maybe you could merge the discussions from that thread to this one because this one got more traction
They burn trash and toilet paper in the ditch beside the road in Guanacaste. To be fair, the roads aren't paved, and there are no gas stations or infrastructure. Yes, ecotourism is big in Costa Rica, but they aren't perfect either. Maybe only in the touristy areas....
It's quite obvious that that's what they're referring to. Article titles necessarily require brevity.

Anyway, flagged in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...
I find it curious and saddening that this is becoming an expectation. Someone voluntarily publishes something for the world to see - they are certainly within their rights to issue a retraction, but they have long since relinquished control over others’ actions with the data they published. This is pretty fundamental to how the internet works. The fact that there is now an expectation of continued control over said data just shows how far companies like Facebook have gone toward fundamentally changing the nature of the internet.
Are C++ and ObjectiveC variants of C?
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The iPhone 5s from 2013 can run the latest OS.

The latest version of MacOS supports computers back to 2012.

But while the Mac is not a huge percentage of Apple’s revenue, by itself, it makes enough money to be a Fortune 100 company.
Benchmarking WebAssembly Runtimes
aren't you supposed to reject p-values under 0.05?
This is really nice. Now HTML is not a concern anymore. Really fit the mental model of React.

Will try this in my current project. Thanks you very much.
Historically, information was more likely to be saved by accident. If something was published in print, that means that copies of it were distributed nationally or globally, found in hundreds of homes or libraries. If the publisher went out of business, people would still have physical publications lying around. And if something came to be of historical interest 50 years later, it could be preserved forever. If a web publication or community goes out of business, where's that data going to be 50 years later?
Anaxi launches feeds to help developers manage their notifications
As another commenter says: I don’t recognise this at all - all I ever see from Bright is breathless coverage of whatever Microsoft marketing did a press release about that day.
Three additional reasons:

We don't necessarily know what's "important" in advance.

Archiving this content can be a nice public service for people who put content on the internet, don't do a good enough job preserving it themselves, and then want to access it later. I've heard "check the wayback machine" as a solution on HN for people whose blog got taken down unexpectedly from some provider and they didn't have a back up solution.

Perhaps the same as the first reason, but some of this content can turn out to be useful as evidence. It's not uncommon for public figures to take down unflattering messages they posted on social media platforms and then deny having ever made them.
And it's not the only case, JFYI:

List of airline flights that required gliding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_flights_that_r...

including several 737's (plain ones, not "MAX"), most notably:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110
What do you mean by “inherently unstable” here? We’re talking about an automatic trim system, in the case of the MAX 8; you seem to be reasoning from that to an airframe like that of the F-16 or B-2, that’s effectively unmanageable without its FBW, and I don’t understand how you’re getting there.
thats a great question
Torso would probably be good, any deeper and you get too much shadow in depressions or behind bumps, dosage matters.

But you lose head aiming into curves, so maybe somewhere in the jaw region might be interesting. You'd need an entirely new approach to fixing for sports that don't already have full face headgear, but the usual forehead position isn't exactly fashionable either (historically this position comes from mining I think, where the shadow/structure effect isn't wasted when it works on the ceiling instead of on the floor).
As much as I'm fascinated by this work and the author's tenacity, as a past user of CompuServe I'm quite alarmed at the prospect of my data falling into the hands of a random tech junkie blogging on the internet.

Verizon, if you're out there - please get a handle on this breach before my lawyers call you.
None of those are arguments for "PL experts" as none of those are specifically signs of superior PL expertise.

Multiple platforms for example are mainly about adoption (and not having much optimizations/assembly parts in the codebase, making it easier to port).

Fast compilation is something several languages manage. And being fast to compile because you don't do much (in the way of optimizations) is something most languages can manage.

"No dependencies" is also about adoption and resources (to replace popular dependencies). Nothing particular related to PL/compiler expertise about it.

Go never had a "good debugging" story, and it doesn't have the best performance either (e.g. compare with Rust, D, Crystal, etc). In certain areas like text processing it's even worse.
Funnel-web spider venom could protect stroke victims from further brain damage
GEnie seems to be another online service lost to time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie
Every time I see a new contenteditable-based editor I'm reminded of this

https://medium.com/content-uneditable/contenteditable-the-go...
In addition to those consultants, Cynthia Stine of egrowthpartners.com was recently interviewed in The Week's Jan 25, 2019 "The Last Word" column and her firm helps Amazon Sellers with Marketplace challenges.

Also, Amazon's Selling Partner Summit is taking place next week at Amazon HQ. It is currently sold out but maybe there is a waiting list ? I'll be attending primarily to make internal contacts should I ever encounter a problem with my account but I can't say for certain if that conference will be helpful in that regard. Sorry for this situation and good luck!
Schema.org Version 3.5 Released
Quite a strange definition of terrorism you have there.

When Uber stole Google's self driving secrets, do you think Uber was committing a terrorist act?
The reverse can be said about the hundreds of thousands of car crash casualties last year.
Agree that "disorganized mess" is a stretch. But pointing to a company's success doesn't make them immune to criticism either. My project often gets compared to a competing offering from Amazon. When discussing this with coworkers, I will point out the drawbacks and trade-offs of their design and why that's a WAY bigger deal for my company's customers than it is for the typical AWS user. "But they made $X last year". Yes. And we're less vulnerable to data loss. Thank you. Next.
I would still claim two differences on the user agent side of things:

First, any browser can report any user agent they want. There are a number of examples of browsers faking or changing user agents to get around sites that try to differentiate based on those strings.

Second, while any individual web site can implement logic based on the user agent, that's the sole choice of the web operator. By restricting Widevine access, Google is blocking rendering of content on other people's domains.

The non-ISP, in-browser analogy I would use would be if Google decided that in order to render an AMP page in your new browser, you first needed to get their permission. They're not just blocking their own content, they're blocking an entire category of technology.

It's also worth mentioning that even under the user agent analogy, if this headline was, "Google uses user agents to block Firefox from accessing Youtube", pretty much every person on HN would call that anti-competitive behavior worthy of regulation.
This is unnecessarily complicated. That's why I handle all subscriptions with PayPal.
Testing shrimp for antibiotic-resistant bacteria
You could have a look at ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com), a multi-model database - it may cover your use cases. Hopefully linking is ok in comments, will remove if its breaks community rules - no affiliation etc..
What if they tried the novel concept of charging users for stuff? How many people liked Reader enough to pay for it if they had started charging?
Why would it be important to a sexist? There's nothing about the hypothesis that lends itself to predicting the performance of any individual on the basis of sex. Indeed, it explicitly predicts equality on average. It only threatens the sexist position and supports the egalitarian position (it seems likely that people who are threatened by this hypothesis are actually sexists masquerading as egalitarians).
> “Violet” is a type of purple or purple–blue flower. People use the color term “violet” to mean a hue between blue and purple, without specific reference to the spectrum. People get confused about this because Newton stuck the label violet on a diagram of a color wheel one time.

If violet is between blue and purple, and indigo is between blue and violet, what are we doing here?

But yeah, color is a weirdly cultural-specific thing. For instance, "orange" used to just be considered a shade of red. (Not sure whether it's an urban legend or not, but supposedly the term "orange" to refer to a color originates from the Dutch royal house of Orange.)
Please don't take HN threads into flamewars, especially not on classic flamewar topics. This is also in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Would you please review and follow them? We ban accounts that won't.