skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Google doesn't literally sell my personal information. They collect it and use it to match a demographic that advertisers want. But the fact remains that Google collects my personal information -- they couldn't match my demographic otherwise. And that means that Google itself is a giant repository of everyone's personal information, even if they choose (today) not to sell it, not to give it to governments on demand, and not to misuse it in any other way. But should we trust them forever not to do so? And why?
From Wikipedia [0]:

The engine also reuses code from other games in the Quake series, including QuakeWorld, and Quake II, but this reuse is minimal in comparison to that of the original Quake.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc#Development
I recall rallies where they or someone related was still waving their hammer and sickle flag around.

Italy certainly has its share of modern center-left people, but it still has outright communists as well.
This is the part most people don't realise.

They see Alpine at 5Mb and Ubuntu at 80Mb. They mentally multiply, without realising that each of these will be pulled once for each image built on top of them.

For a large cluster it's a wash. You might as well use Ubuntu, Centos -- anything where there are people working fulltime to fix CVEs quickly.
Sure, we need naive wish lists, but for open source to be more than a curios historical blip and not fall into a Venezuelan disaster, the least we can demand of FSF and OSI is to give us a proper open source license so those who want to _do_ open source work can also succeed commercially. They need to understand and address problems faced by MongoDB, Redis, Elastic et. al. and support their needs with a new license (something better than AGPL). Not flat out dismiss the problems and swipe it under the rug.
US legislator proposes loot box ban
It's probably put in a way that can cause flame wars.
> For those annoyed by the occasionally harmful American hegemony, just wait till you see what China is going to do.

There are plenty of abuses to call out on all sides, but let's not resort to euphemisms when comparing the historical abuses [1] of one side to future abuses from another. It's a great disservice to all those who have been just "occasionally harmed" (I'm sure they don't feel the same way as you do).

[1] https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...
I think you should analyze the source of traffic first. Install Google webmaster tools to get the list of top keywords your site is ranking for. GWT tells you the exact number of impressions/clicks which first of all confirm if the traffic is legit and second of all tell you exactly what people are searching for coming to your site and the sites that are linking to you (also a good indicator of what your audience is visiting)

Once you have that data you have a very clearly defined target audience to go after via a product or custom advertising
Protonmail advertises special end to end encryption thats only available when sending emails to other protonmail users. Others get the standard TLS that every provider uses. Recently they added a feature convert emails a link to a page that asks the non-protonmail user for a password (not a private key or login) and then decrypts the email in the browser, which I find pretty worthless.
> Sam pledged fealty to the idea of men’s rights because, as he said, his former administrator had privileged girls’ words and experiences over boys’, and that’s how all of his troubles had started in the first place.

I wonder how common this dynamic is now.
That's partly because Linux is so hard to run. I bought an xps 13 because it is supposed to have official Ubuntu support and I still get weird errors on start-up, and crashes sometimes when I plug 2 external monitors in.
What you are missing is that the ideology are not equivalent. If you meet an extreme socialist and disagree, even if it's violent, it's still an opinion issue. But if you are say black and meet an extreme fascist, then you have no option, they hate what you are not what you think.
I changed my default search engine and homepage to DuckDuckGo. Two weeks later, I didn't even realize I was still using DuckDuckGo -> it's that good. Once people realize this, and how easy it is to switch, google may be in trouble.

i don't have anything against google. I just think, having only 1 search engine is too much power for any 1 company, no matter how benevolent.
Comparing Nazis and Communists is like comparing the Black Death with smallpox. You can come up with reasons why one was worse than the other, but it doesn’t shed light on any problems we’re having here in 2019.
It looks like Google is loosing hacker confidence while Microsoft is gaining them.
Am not able to keep count of the number of times I have been burnt because of Google's decision to drop support for their products, change functionality after buying then and inane UI changes.
Contrast that to experience with Microsoft, I can't recall that many instances.
In the US (I should say in MA, which is what I know best) the firing process is already trivial. The only real deterrent for firing someone is that it is an emotionally difficult task. I've been on both sides of that table, fwiw.

I absolutely love what you're after, though. I'm sick of companies that hire people to create trivial web or phone apps based on their skill at solving deep graph or search problems. (This, frankly, is part blind emulation of Google (& its peers), and part an effort by recent CS grads to ensure that they only have to work with people exactly like themselves. That is to say, it's a form of standardized prejudice.)

For nearly every dev positions, craft, tenacity, and people skills are vastly more important than algorithm chops.

I have yet to come across a company where the interviewers are better at interviewing than all but the most abysmal programming candidates are at programming. This kind of questioning of the status quo is much needed.
> Are Europeans worried about Nazis?

Where are you in Europe? In my experience, lots of Europeans are worried about fascism. Not necessarily Nazis, but fascism and extremism.
There’s a marked difference between targeting ads based on the surrounding content and targeting ads based on my age, gender, location, browsing history, purchasing history, religion, job, income, and social network.

Claims that they are equivalent feel like an attempt to normalize such invasive ad targeting.
Definitely seen these studies. I think they are from a few years back though, so the relevance might be in question. I don't think the newer versions of laseregg, netatmo, awair, or any of the other leading brands are on there. What I love about that study (and find funny) are the A-F ratings. If you look at the averages... both foobot and awair have the same grades (2 As, 2 Bs, and a D), yet one of them gets an A and other gets a C.
Electric motorbike startups in India serve people who cannot afford Uber or Ola
This article comes across as the epitome of FAKE
Oh, and they dont support PGP with non protonmail users, locking you into their proprietary junk.
Don't feel bad. You've discovered the charming little fact that the registry API will report compressed size and the Docker daemon will report uncompressed size.
Nothing in my comment said they were equivalent - As with all things, it scales with technological advancements, which also includes new responsibilities (that this article is mentioning).
I don't like either but for some reason the commies get the pass.

Also, it is noteworthy everything started when the kid was falsely accused of sexual harassment (which some feminists would call "rape" happily!) and yet the left hive wants us to believe that such false accusations are exceptionally rare. Well, the kid was told by a Nazi the obvious: these things can and do happen and nobody will stand for you as a white man.

Want to squash the alt-right? Stop lying.
In most of Europe WW2 was just a terrible ordeal. In Germany it's a source of great shame.

But the US? WW2 was the making of modern America. The US was catapulted into a world leader position, and got to feel like a badass hero doing it. And WW2 was the US's first major overseas conflict. Nazis are the archetypical "enemy without".
It's probably a consequence of the media. Proclaiming yourself a nazi is still an easy way to provoke outrage and get media attention in America, so attention-seekers abuse it.

Also Americans value free speech over most things. Proclaiming yourself a Nazi in Europe would probably have more severe consequences socially. In Germany it could land you in prison.
Hi – it has been possible to delete your Brilliant account for several years. You can do so here: https://brilliant.org/account/social/connections/
lol. It won't be an issue because no one will relocate for a two month job.
Such an indemnity clause is nearly universal and as a general rule enforceable. Otherwise, what are they paying you $100 for? The person in the best position to know what the damages are is you. Uber doesn't want to pay you $100 just so you can come back later and take another bite at the apple.

Imagine if you walked out of a store having paid $10 for some merchandise, only to have the merchant come knocking at your door two weeks later saying that you need to pay another $10.
One of the principle purposes of all contracts, and the law generally, is to provide finality. In the case of a settlement, there's little if any finality for the defendant if you don't agree to indemnify.

If $100 isn't enough to cover your future risk, then propose amendments (e.g. larger payment, a more explicitly circumscribed indemnity, etc) and if necessary take them to small claims court where you can recover for the immediate harm while preserving your future options.

There are general limitations on such clauses, accumulated over hundreds of years of legal evolution which bends, ever so slightly, toward fair outcomes. There's also supplementing legislative protections, typically stylized "consumer protections" when involving the hoi polloi. I wouldn't venture to say whether the indemnity clause would protect Uber if the claimant came down with an STD; it might or it might not, depending on the state, the context, and possibly even the sentiments of a jury. (In the case that it would protect Uber, consider that it's unlikely Uber who smeared the feces, so it's hardly that unfair from a moral standpoint unless there was gross negligence involved, such as the driver knowing the feces was there or Uber knowing that a driver was regularly in such incidents.)

What makes arbitration clauses problematic, as opposed to indemnification, is that the Federal Arbitration Act has been reinterpreted (beginning ~75 years after the fact) by a conservative court to foreclose state-based protections regarding fair enforcement of such clauses, and there are few if any federal-based limitations.
Adventure of the Week: Michael Crichton's Amazon (1984)
Don't forget about VLC.
It's unrealistic that an organization can predict exactly what users want. If you try to do that, it's like central planning of the economy. It just doesn't maximize people's happiness.

However, if you give them lots of control and monitor choices, you can modify your defaults to improve that situation... but don't expect preferences to remain static.
It's a stretch, but maybe they're talking about anonymous vs non-anymous donors? That's the biggest thing in the ethics section of the Wikipedia page.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_tourism
Yeah, I don't think so. I work on other OSS and happily use Slack because it's fun and easy (I used to use IRC). I'm not conflicted at all because I appreciate a good UX. I think it would be totally awesome if more open source developers realized that people will use whatever is better for them which often doesn't mean prioritizing openness over usability or features.

I totally get the value of a non-corporate, non-centralized solution. It just needs to have at least as good of a UX for me to switch back to using it.
Inheritance versus Composition
In addition to there being no scientific consensus on narcissism, and it having multiple meanings, another problem with the word is that it has become a reddit/internet meme, where you have random people arbitrarily accusing people of being narcissistic. Because of this, it's starting to lose any meaning at least in general topic internet forums.
As someone going through the shit gauntlet of coding interviews for junior dev positions, I would love this. I’m hardworking, tenacious, self motivated, etc. None of this is communicated by having me implement binary search
I agree with with your disagreement. I've always approached notebooks as a prototyping tool first and a presentation tool second. I see Jupyter more as an example of an early Interactive programming tool that just happens to be useful for presentation and teaching purposes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_programming)

And regarding sharing -- particularly with notebooks you should be really cautious about sharing and opening them. The security model is not exactly bullet proof.
Fascinating question. I certainly wouldn't be surprised at all if they account for a substantial portion of online participants, but I don't know of any data on the matter.
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New Analysis Debunks Controversial Claim About the Origin of Humanity
> Convenience always wins. Always.

Not at all. There are million examples of human society choosing long term and social benefits over short term and personal rewards.
I saw a similar thing with a religious apologist, they had a very specific claim ready to throw out out to me on a specific supposed "prophecy", and later googling that I got page after page of religious propaganda. They'd targeted that particular thing, rather than trying to take over more general listings for "prophecy in the bible", so that only articles that agreed with them showed up.

It took some creative googling to eventually get to an actual academic historical paper on the subject, which then of course immediately blew what they claimed out of the water.
Also one big deal is how Apple handles key distribution. They absolutely could MitM that connection to get access to the user's keychain and the UI doesn't really give the user any feasible way to detect that Apple has added their own key instead of just the key for your other device that Apple doesn't control. It's "end to end encrypted" but if you just handwave away key distribution and leave that up to Apple, what's the point other than a marketing gimmick?
Google-related, but I'd submit that YouTube is one of the prime culprits. Kids like stuff like video games. Video game recommendations devolve into chud territory in two hops - fascist in three or four.
As it happens, you're describing one of the motivations for Cloud Native Buildpacks[0]: consistent image layering leading to (very) efficient image updates.

Images built from dockerfiles can do this too, but it requires some degree of centralisation and control. Recently folks have done this with One Multibuild To Rule Them All.

By the time you're going to the trouble of reinventing buildpacks ... why not just use buildpacks? Let someone else worry about watching all the upstream dependencies, let someone else find and fix all the weird things that build systems can barf up, let someone else do all the heavy testing so you don't have to.

Disclosure: I worked on Cloud Native Buildpacks for a little while.

[0] https://buildpacks.io/
If a socialist gets in power it takes all your property and decides what you have to do for the rest of your life.
If an alt-righter gets in power free speech is protected and so are all nations, except those that want to destroy other innocent nations.
Socialism is seizing privste property and enslaving people by definition.
The alt-right has many flavors but the core is free nations for all peaceful people of all colors and cultures + free speech.
That's the truth, anything else is a complete misrepresentation.
Yes. The question of CO2 and the difficulty reconciling Satish with practically all other CO2 studies has been a question of interest to ggreer & me since it was first raised on LW years ago: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nk0/what_is_up_with_car...
Critical thinking? As the story presents it, his conversions to and from alt-right were entirely emotion based.
There are MMO-like MC servers.
Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar
What resonated with me is how impossible it is, as a kid, to make sense of being in the school system. The interaction with an administrator was school discipline gone awry... but it could have easily been something else. (Discipline is the most likely, there are tons of misguided zero-tolerance policies.) I'm lucky that my parents were advocates and organizers and that they knew people in the school administration. When a teacher emotionally abused me in class I was in a different class the next week. When I ran out of math classes to take at high school, I took them at college.

Years afterwards I was tutoring a high school student in mathematics. They asked me a question about school and I felt a moment of panic, as I remembered all of the shit that I went through.

By the time I finished college, it made sense to me. I could make it through an awful class or cut through red tape and weird requirements. I knew that I had survived a couple decades of bullshit, I was still here, and a little extra bullshit wasn't going to kill me. But at age 14, I remember being angry and upset all the time about things that happened at school.
Huh, that's certainly a more fundamental reason that the NES frame is that length...!

I wonder if people involved with early film and video had a lot of 60:1 gearing available because of clocks or something (or just thought it was a very intuitive division to use).
Are you in Eastern Washington or Western? When I think "Canada" and "cold" I sure as hell don't think "Vancouver".
They don't fail to understand it. They just realize that if people don't push back, they won't have freedom to tinker even when they need it.
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I'm partial to a simpler and complete solution: just always force display of href text on hyperlinks, ignoring the markup that's between <a> and </a>. Nothing good comes from displaying the text/image instead of the actual URL; at best it's used (usually overused) for extra aesthetic touch that's not otherwise useful, at worst it's used by advertisers and scammers to lie to people about the link's destination (tracking links and phishing).
I would argue that Sun's innovative output was a much larger missed opportunity than anything Docker has developed (then again, hindsight is 20-20). Yes, Docker has a lot of hype and has "brought containers to the masses" but I would argue it's nowhere near as revolutionary as ZFS/Zones/DTrace/etc. If I had been born 10-15 years earlier, I would've hoped to work for Sun. I've never wished to work for Docker.

As someone who maintains the container runtime underlying Docker (and contributes all over the stack), in my view there is a lot more innovative "core" engineering happening in the LXC/LXD camp than in the Docker camp. There are far more kernel patches coming out of LXC (and more kernel maintainers developing LXC) than have come out of Docker. And let's not forget, LXC came first to modern Linux containers. There is a lot of work going into Docker, but I guess I put more of an emphasis on OS engineering to determine who more innovative engineering on systems tools.

(Yes, there is Kubernetes but that's not a Docker project. If anything, Swarm emphasises my point. LXD has clustering too and they support real live migration between cluster nodes -- though CRIU has historically been a bit hairy.)
What's the benefit of having reserve currency status?

US States have right and left been legalizing precious metals for currency this last year, perhaps in preparation for a return to the gold standard and dumping federal reserve notes after an audit of the federal reserve...
The first user account is considered an administrator account on most distros by default, so it has sudo privileges.

If you can do what you said with a non-wheel/sudo account, that would be a serious vulnerability.
Because it's interesting. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Interesting historical material is always welcome on Hacker News. It's true that this story includes the words "Nazi" and "Gestapo" in its title; but not all such titles point to uninteresting flamebait, only most of them. Here we're interested in the exceptions to things.
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear, but that's kind-of my point. You can make a site by knowing how to use some subset of stuff, but the rest you use as a black box - whether it is importing a bunch of third party libraries or being able to build a web app without understanding how cross-site attacks work, etc etc so at some point you either have to learn these little gotchyas all over the place or they go un-fixed.

Like how many sites still don't have mandatory HTTPS even though it is free and easy?
That's suboptimal but worthless might be too strong a word to describe it.

It's definitely better than nothing.

The proprietary thing does not look good I admit. But maybe they think the open stack is easy to pwn?
Especially given that key distribution is totally up to Apple and the end user has no practical way to verify that the key for "My iMac" is really the same key that's actually used by your iMac.
I find it curious that you got downvoted. I'm European as well and I have had the same question for a while. We have far-right, nationalist parties and even more extreme fringe groups, but no threat of secret Nazis.

Maybe it's because we had to deal with the consequences of the actual Nazis and they're not just comic book villains to us. Or because it's the last big war America fought in with a clear bad guy, whereas more recent events are harder to defend.
Even those in the ascendant tech industry, like myself, bash California because the California government not only does nothing to help the tech industry, they actively pursue policies that hurt the tech industry.

If anything, my taxes are being used to fund idiots in the state capitol that hurt the value of the equity compensation I get from my employer. I really wish my employer were located in any state but California. Paying high taxes for a government that actively works against your interests just adds insult to injury.
well 60 * 17 = 1020 (about as close as you can get to a millisecond with integers), so it lines up pretty well.
> Control is what you need when you want something and it won’t happen on its own.

Err. Well. No, not usually. Usually it runs the other way. I want control because I specifically do not want you taking over my life, not because I disagree with the way you're taking it over. I don't want it to happen on its own.

I can imagine the author in an automaker board room, arguing vehemently that if they only move from a ten-speed automatic transmission to a twelve-gear, the smoothness and low-end power will make it so nobody wants a manual transmission anymore.

But that simply isn't the case. Freedom has inherent value. Simplicity and approachability have inherent value. People prefer to drive rather than fly or take a train because they want to be in the front seat - literally. Control has a value to it that far exceeds the mere pedestrian concern of whether your approach was good enough.
The problem is your comment adds nothing to the conversation
Unfortunately I've heard this story more than once now. School faculty are terrified of public scandals and many of them are checked out of their jobs. So they tend to take the path of least resistance (blame the boy just in case, to avoid ending up on the news).

The solution is probably some variation of "pay teachers more."