skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunatey, in my experience Gnome is simply by far the most "modern" DE regarding this kind of features, basically the only one able to compete with Windows and macOS (For example, the touchpad behaves like I would expect in 2019). I haven't used KDE in a while so I have no idea about their Wayland situation (at this point, I simply refuse to mess with Xorg config files, so it's Wayland or nothing for me, at least on laptops).
I really don't want to be a Gnome evangelist, but it's really the only option for some kind of features
There's a difference between the junk that many countries pay Chinese factories to make and ship, which is garbage almost immediately upon manufacture, and particle board furniture and fast fashion clothing which, while lower quality, is still useful and in the common case gets as much use as the expensive stuff. IKEA is disposable but not quickly disposed of. Considering it uses less and cheaper material, and ships efficiently as flat pack, it's an ecologically sound alternative to heirloom furniture.

Also national stereotypes are weird.
> Do readers gain something more from watching fellow humans have their lives stolen from them?

I'd say so, yes. Humans are not good at emotionally responding to descriptions of things we've never witnessed. Museums covering atrocities like the holocaust use visual aids, to help visitors comprehend the tragedy at an emotional level.

I imagine journalists who are accustomed to seeing such things don't understand this well, because it's hard to imagine how you'd feel about something if you weren't familiar with it.
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Yeah you are probably right. For shame. Also, thanks for Graal!
If criminal law isn't capable of handling a hacker who hacked 1.5 million victims, criminal law is broken.

(If Facebook changed its name to Lulzsec2.0 of course the FBI would be very interested in the situation.)

And while the previous commenter quoted the part of the CFAA that mentions fraud, fraud isn't necessary to violate the CFAA. All you need to do is exceed authorized access to any internet-connected computer. Is there any doubt that Facebook has admitted to doing that?
Two points:

1.) The US FTC really needs to update its working definition of a monopoly. “Consumer welfare” is normally shown via price and since free services are always free, it’s a tough thing to argue.

2.) Facebook owns about 70% of the social networking space, and Google and Facebook have a virtual lock on online advertising. Moreover, through its share buttons, Facebook has created a web full of data gathering - the sheer amount of information they have makes them very hard to compete against. Add in some regulatory issues in the Instagram and Whatsapp regulations and there’s an image of a company that’s just about impossible to compete against and that has used its clout to bring net harm to consumers.
Permissions to read text messages is another one that gets me. I know not many people use SMS as their primary communication but how can you be so astonishingly blasé about your data to save typing in a code?
I mean, Nintendo does it, and then makes you buy them again, and again with zero transfer of accounts to new machines.
That's a log way from being the whole story, then or now. In the 1870s ok unemployment was high at 25%, but the rate of growth of the population had only just dipped below 30% per decade. Job growth was actually also booming, just not as much.

Similarly if we take a global view over the last few decades, China added hundreds of millions of people to the labour force. It's been the period of the greatest reduction in poverty ever. That's got to count for something.

EDIT
In fact enormous wealth has been created, and it's not all been concentrated in the top 1%. The bottom 30% or so globally has also benefited massively. It just hasn't really benefited mid range workers in the West, but let's not pretend the last few decades have been a disaster, or even particularly bad in the grand scheme of things.
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"Argument: "If earth was flat it would look flat. Earth looks flat therefore it must be flat."

It's no longer faith, it's reason now. Doesn't matter that you ignore all the counterarguments."

Exactly! Otherwise literally everyone on earth could be said to be acting on 'blind faith' because nearly everyone holds at least one or two mistaken beliefs out of some prejudice or unwillingness to examine the counterarguments.
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Some reviewers are showing the "do not remove it" packaging that they got. Picky little primate fingers! But some did not get that packaging.
Are you really arguing that everything can be bootstrapped without up front investment? I know many things can, but equally many cannot in non geological time.
Excellent answer.
If, as a Polish speaker, all you have really dealt with is Russian and Ukrainian, then you probably underestimate how different the Slavic languages are. Ukrainian and Polish are often considered mutually intelligible (at international events it is not unusual to see Ukrainians and Poles chatting with each other, each speaking their own language). Poles have already been exposed to a lot of Russian, either passively through media and literature or Communist-era schooling.

Yet there are plenty of Slavic languages that will completely baffle Poles. A Polish acquaintance with whom I traveled in the former Yugoslavia found that she could not even get the gist of television talk shows. Even within Poland, speakers of Polish admit to not understanding a single word of spoken Kashubian, even though Kashubian belongs to the same sub-branch of Slavic as Polish (Lechitic) and, on paper, does not seem so different from Polish at all.
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What is your source? I'm interested to investigate... ;-)
The checks and balances they put in place to prevent irregularities - in this case their supreme court.

"the supreme court has now voided the result on the grounds that voters were not given full information, and the vote must be re-run."

If only British referendums were similarly protected...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47879777
> But there is a certain dismissiveness amongst many folks like us of anything not invented by the pharmaceutical industry

I don't think that's true. The cures don't need to be invented by the pharmaceutical industry to be taken seriously. But they do need to be studied and commercialized by the pharmaceutical industry to be taken seriously.

How could you take seriously a pharmaceutical product which is rejected by its own industry? Obviously it's not commercializable in an honest way if that's the case, or someone would have done it by now.
I am sad by how incredibly accurate this statement is. Great comment, but geez, let me put my head back in the sand...:)
having fun https://imgur.com/2x33moE
Are they just flat out teaching people how to be super deceptive and how to tactically play stupid in MBA programs nowadays?
Unfortunately not a lawyer so even my creative reinterpretation is moot but I was thinking along the lines of class action. Why can’t that group of people form a class? Is there really no damage here?

Of course we need actual fundamental privacy protection.
Safe for the user, not to the computer I assume.
I can second your experience, but you are also using some very "affordable" pens as far as nibs go. The Lamy entry level pens are great design, but their steel nibs are painful to write with. The VP is a wonderful engineering feat, but the nibs are smaller than their equivalently named European versions (I found writing much nicer with a Euro F and a Japanese M, for example).

Ink and paper do make a difference; coated papers make things glide but the ink may run. Some papers soak too much ink making globs. Some inks tend to dry out in the nib or flow poorly.

So, I've had bad experience with each of the above, but I also have now set my expectations to a better level. And sometimes you do get surprised (I got a Pelikan Stola III somewhere in Europe for around $40 and it was really nice; some info at this random site: https://www.penchalet.com/fine_pens/fountain_pens/pelikan_st...).

So, yeah, low end stuff varies. But worth experimenting because when you find a good one, it makes writing fun again.
I think many people (including the DFO community) already do that. People also consider the notion of multiple objectives important here I believe
While I have little sympathy for the BNP or other "far-right" groups, it still troubles me that a corporation -- an American one, even -- rather than our elected government should be making the decisions as to which political groups (that are not illegal, AFAIK) and voices should be silenced.
Did you encounter any issues with Wayland? I've heard that it's not production-ready and that's why ubuntu decided to go with Xorg in 18.04.
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that post was a revelation to me and led me down the path of making object detection classifiers for various projects. I was shocked at how easy it was to build a classifier that was as good as a human, but faster (or more accurate than a human in the same amount of time).

I ended up learning there is a whole area of computer vision in industry- relatively "boring" stuff like just looking at a line of bottles going by. I went on a tour of the money making machines in DC and they stream sheets of bills by industrial vision cameras to detect whether the bills are within QC.

Still amazes me people get paid to do this. To me it's just like a big fun game.
You need to meet more MBA graduates. The stupidity ratio will astound you.
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That's cool, if you plan to work on the same technology forever.
I think why vim/emacs users have over IDE users is that when you change technology or company or team, you can just change some things about your config and keep working. Try replacing a cool IDE for assembly with a cool IDE for PHP and then a cool IDE for Clojure.
The idea of handing over my banking password to any third party is crazy. Mind you, I'd love an API that I could use to easily pull all of my banking details into my local system. There are a few ways to do this currently, but nothing simple, open, and standard.

P.S. As you seem to be a non-native English speaker, the word you wanted to use was "scrapes" not "scraps".
I'm not sure the "free" version of the product exists. After installing from here https://www.sqlgate.com/product/download and handing over a lot of personal information, I received a time-limited trial version. Uninstalled.
in fact, this was already posted in the past [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17600629], which is when I suggested them to include recursive drawing, but that user doesn't seem to be active around here

you can go to their blog / contact us if you need to get in touch with them
Hungary’s lexical stock is indeed an unusual mixture of its Uralic inheritance, West Old Turkic loans, early Slavic loans, and Ottoman-era Turkish loans. At the same time, so much of the modern Hungarian language is the result of intellectuals creating calques on German terminology during the 19th-century language reform. (To the point that already knowing German will massively help learners to memorize Hungarian verbs.) This represented a big rupture in the language, and it is part of why pre-19th-century Hungarian looks so different.
Let’s not be ignorant of the idea of one or two senior developers each given a suitcase full of cash. It’s not like learning to program magically gives you unbreakable ethics.

Even at this point, you’re not getting a mass exodus of workers from Facebook. Those in there are choosing to be there at this point. Koolaid or not.

But you are right, scope creep in the “unethical” aspects and it can suddenly be “no one’s fault”. That isn’t a bad plan.
how is this better than DataGrip?
I second that recommendation of Latro in the Mist!
App update cycles are slow so this would break old versions of his apps.
By UK you mean Theresa May. No-deal is what leavers want. Remain is what remainers want.
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.... this is like saying "why do you need a second monitor for your PC? just buy two PC's"

A two-screen smartphone is something I'd love to have, if bendable screen smartphones end up tanking. Multi-tasking is something that would be so much more convenient (say, writing notes while looking at a certain website, or discussing something with a friend while referencing a website, or ... etc). These are things that I already do with my smartphone, but it's just a huge pain in the ass because of the single screen.
I realize this is classic old-man-yells-at-cloud, but I don't understand why every online article these days, even the technical ones, need to have a giant "amusing" gif every two paragraphs. Do people not pay attention otherwise?
Obligatory Neil Gaiman quote: "Peace really was a gentle Midwestern memoir the first time I read it. It only became a horror novel on the second or the third reading."
My main annoyance, so to say, with DataGrip is their certificate handling. It ignores the root certs in MacOS keychain and I have to add those in the app.

But other than that I love it. It's replaced all other SQL tools/ide/admin I've used.
I retained an IP lawyer for a copyright troll a few years back over an image that we used on a blog that was credited properly when we used it, but the copyright troll bought the image, and was demanding about $12000 for the license. IP lawyer was only around $500 for retainer, and he made the troll disappear (not sure how, but also do not care).

Sometimes just the threat that you will actually go to court over something will make a troll back off.
> Floor staff should have near-total autonomy to decide what to sell. Store managers control merchandising, negotiating prices directly with suppliers, and decide how to change sales displays...

Does that scale? What's the point of a mega-corp at that point, beyond providing capital to start a local store?
I don't think people using Android are different from those using iOS and recognise that that most popular alternative 'store' for Android does not seem to fall victim to these problems. This is very much related to the fact that F-Droid only hosts free software but the same thing could be done for iOS if Apple lifted its heavy control over the platform and its users. I see no reason why a similar free software store for iOS would turn into a scumware-infested hell hole.
I don't recall ever hearing that Facebook made a mistake which decreased the amount of data they collected or their usage thereof. Can anyone provide an example?
Your impression is incorrect. No-dealers do not expect EU policies when out of the EU.
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Don't know why you are being downvoted. Thunderbird was marketed as having a bayesian filter a decade or more ago.
I have a huge treasure trove of my art, music, and writing from my childhood stored in stuffit archives on a Jaz drive. How much will you charge to retrieve them for me?
Abuse your trust? The better question is why are you trusting them in the first place? If you actually read the TOS of a service, you'd know that they are usually quite forthright with what they are going to do.

If a murderer knocks on your door, informs you that if you let them in they're going to brutally murder you, but you choose to ignore that because they brought you free stuff, you don't get to complain about being murdered later.
> За is a preposition with meaning = behind.

In the case of Russian, the za here is not a preposition literally meaning ‘behind’ but rather an already fully grammaticalized marker of inchoative aspect that one encounters in a number of other verbs like засыпать ‘to fall asleep’. Russian запомнить is analyzable as ‘start’ + ‘remembering’.
See #1 - http://mentalfloss.com/article/67583/12-crispy-facts-about-p...
I used Xubuntu for many years, but somehow having my own Linux machine became less and less important, even as a developer.

Now I just have Windows 10 and macOS Mojave.

For Linux stuff, I spin up a Cloud9 EC2 instance.
It's not just about lawsuits. I've seen cases (hospitals) where checklists drew pushback from doctors because they didn't like being questioned by nurses who noticed them making mistakes. It impinged on their egos. Implementing checklists requires a certain amount of humility that just isn't there in many cases.
Personally, I believe that the savings made on not needing a good computer and sufficiant network bandwidth to run games with Stadia aren't worth it. And there's nothing that will stop Google from pulling the plug on the service like they did with other projects.
If I remember anything from the "Getting Things Done" training is precisely this:

Writing down tasks saves you a lot of brain cycles and also removes worries, as otherwise you have to be constantly "refreshing cache" on pending tasks to not forget about them.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but things like this happen. Someone gets the task to implement a login and either doesn't realize they should be using OAuth or is simply too lazy to do so. Next, someone has the idea to suggest friends, so let's grab some email contacts for that purpose.

That stuff happens all the time at small companies. While it's certainly bad practice, it's often not evil intent, but just lack of technical skills (for the former issue) and missing sense for potential privacy issues (for the latter).

In case of a large company like Facebook, one could expect they'd have processes and education in place to prevent such incidents, but I guess this happened a while back when FB was much smaller than it is now.
I’m more surprised that people are still being “surprised” that Facebook isn’t a wholesome company out to make the world a better place through algorithmic social manipulation.
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I was struck by something reading this article: almost none of the applications have names that express their function. If you haven't used it, what does Thunar do? Parole? GIMP? Gigolo, Garcon, or Ristretto? I don't see what's wrong with a name that has something to say about what your program does.
This isn't the right takeaway

Schools like Harvard have become more and more adept at correlating themselves with success

At the same time they cause it less and less

Harvard is really a place for people who don't actually need Harvard to succeed

You don't need Harvard either
It's not hacking. It's social engineering. It's no different than some smooth talking "Nigerian" getting your grandmother to cut a check. No systems were hacked here, no technical errors or design loopholes were exploited. People were persuaded into doing things that gave Facebook the access it needed to obtain the contact info.
what if you had a petabyte of contacts. would that DDOS facebook?
And there will be no oversight or testing of the prompt, the API or the people bringing the two together?

Nobody will test this? No developer in team C will consider what they're doing?
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Just to give them the benefit of the doubt:

When every public-facing thing you build is centered on hoovering up data, you're going to have two broad classes of errors. Hoovering up too little data, which doesn't hit the news, and hoovering up too much, which does.

That said, when your "errors" directly line your pockets, you're not entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
Would you like me to OCR them all? Where should I upload the TXT versions?
I think having a distinct separation between back-ends and swappable front-ends would be a good thing, but by this point, it would require government intervention to make it happen. Twitter, Facebook, etc. froze out third-party clients to protect their advertising revenue. They're not going to let third-party clients back in unless they're forced to, and such a move by the government would be tantamount to declaring war on the advertising industry, so, it's not likely to happen.
> I'd love an API that I could use to easily pull all of my banking details into my local system.

This is almost non-existend for personal banking. First and only case by now I’ve encountered was in Czechia:

https://www.fio.cz/bank-services/internetbanking-api
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I can't recommend SpaCy enough. We use their Prodigy[1] app here at work, it's outstanding.

After experimenting with gensim, nltk, and most everything else under the sun, we primarily rely on SpaCy now with some TensorFlow for specific models.

1. https://prodi.gy/
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Scipio ERP is very hackable and free. https://www.scipioerp.com
also doesn't really federate
Depends what you use it for. For driving directions, there are plenty of alternatives. An excellent one is a standalone GPS device like a Garmin nüvi or a TomTom, which works entirely offline (except traffic reports, which are received over FM radio or Bluetooth). The only time I actually use Google Maps is when I'm at my PC, and Bing maps works just as well.
This is like the app version of "sorry honey, I totally didn't mean to stick it your butt but it was dark".

Facebook knew exactly what they were doing but they're playing dumb because it's less insulting to the recipient that way and they feel that will minimize the response.
Related:

WhatsApp on iOS recently updated, and now will only show phone numbers for contacts UNLESS I upload my contacts.

In the UI if I click on a number it will take me to the profile where I can see that users name ~Tom, but wow, waddamove... Have we reached the point where FB can't make any more money until they go deeper or is this just drag-net "data is the new oil"
spaCy's license has evolved over time. I know when its creator was discussing it on HN a few years ago, he had it under AGPL [0]:

> This was my understanding --- actually I designed the licensing structure of this project around the assumption that companies would not want to use GPL licensed code commercially. I offer an AGPL license, and offer a commercial license for a fixed fee.

A couple years ago or so it went MIT, I think he might have mentioned it on HN at the time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8944705
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ith a margin of error due to the relatively low speed of sound

The typical frequency of video (frames) is ~30Hz. Maybe 24Hz for cinematic effect. Maybe 240Hz for super slow motion (but then you're not syncing with sound). 60Hz (sixty frames per second) is probably the upper end of what you are likely to have sync.
> This may be an unpopular opinion, but things like this happen.

Yes, and at Facebook in the context of data gathering they seem to happen ALL THE TIME. So if they did actually care about privacy they'd make changes to curb these sort of "mistakes", but taken in aggregate the relentless "bugs" show a pattern of willful malevolence.
Much less egregious behavior than this resulted in anti-trust action against Microsoft in the 90s. We are far past due to start working on breaking up these abusive giants.