skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: page requires Javascript and even with an adblocker, it connects to nearly 30 tracking and ad domains.

I use Firefox + NoScript + JavaScript disabled by default.

The page was very readable as soon as I did:

View
-> Page Style
-> No Style.

That's a simple workaround for many sites. And it doesn't pull in any ad trackers either. Granted, the formatting isn't the prettiest.

Here's the start of the article:

The North Face used Wikipedia to climb to the top of Google search results

Campaign from Leo Burnett Tailor Made updated photos with images of brand, raises flags with Wikipedia editors for violating user terms

By
Ann-Christine Diaz
Published On
May 28, 2019
"Unknown or expired link." is still a problem for new submissions (not comments).

I've spent under 5 minutes editing text only to get it upon clicking on "Submit"
Google ceased to be a "web search engine" over fifteen years ago.

Life as we know it depends on Google's products and services more than we ever did on Microsoft. They have Search, OS, Browser, Device and Service under one brand. Not to mention analytics and advertising on those properties and systems.

Taking advantage of that position at the expense of participants/customers is wrong and should be prevented.

That's what monopoly busting is about - AT&T, MSFT, Alphabet/Google, makes no difference.

You can apply the same principles to health care, credit and for profit colleges. She does.
Sadly yes, but the alternative is a browser that trackers you and that allows ads to also track you.
Kinda? You need hardware at some point. AES67 was all about creating an open protocol for connecting different proprietary stuff, and frankly there's only a handful of places where I've seen open hardware worth its salt in audio. If you need high capacity, low latency audio over networked machines, you're going to need proprietary hardware/software in the chain somewhere.
Yes, this is a Chromium change.
There's also non-performance issues to be wary of Firefox. The Mr Robot surprise extension installation is something Mozilla said will never happen again, but lost them some trust. Not that Chrome is much better in that regard
Root of the problem is measuing everything in GDP.Natural resources such as rivers and oceans, topsoil and forests, the ozone layer and the atmosphere, are seen as essentially valueless—unless, of course, they are exploited and converted into revenue.
Gdp measures mainly market transactions. it ignores social costs, environmental impacts and income inequality. Seen through such a lens, the most economically productive people are cancer patients in the midst of getting a divorce. healthy people in happy marriages, in contrast, are economically invisible, and all the more so if they cook at home, walk to work, grow food in a home garden, and don’t smoke
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For any meaningful sense of "space travel", the moon and the earth are not in different locations.

Nor are we able to stay on the moon, though that is a weaker point.
> Legitimate asylum seekers can seek asylum at the border.

Not when the executive directs that they be prevented from doing so, even to the extent of closing border crossings and launching cross border armed attacks to prevent it.

The “crisis at the border” is deliberately and unsubtly manufactured to sell the response.

> the immigration system is overwhelmed by illegals

No, it's not. Both because the systems legal immigrants use don't deal with illegals and vice versa, so that simply doesn't happen in any cased because illegal immigration has been dropping for a long time to the point where there is no longer even a net inflow.

> because there is political lack of will to fix legal immigration

That's not really an accurate statement. Portraying the problem as lack of will suggests that there is a broad consensus on what it means to “fix legal immigration” but people are just afraid to stand up and vote for it, while the truth is pretty much the opposite: plenty of people are willing to stand up and vote for things that are (in the view of particular factions) “fixig legal immigration”, but there is no consensus on which of the mutually incompatible fixes to adopt, because people have diametrically opposed view of what the problem with legal immigration is and what the goals are any fix should address (and that's even before disagreements on approaches between people sharing the same view of the problem/goals.)

> I do have a vested interest

Perhaps, but clearly not much understanding, and

> and authority

Beyond the universal “authority” inherent in free speech, no.
That's true for any email, not just phising. Unless you can verify and trust all senders.
So, all commercial video content on the web?
Depending on how powerful your laptop is, you could always install a lightweight version of Linux using Hyper V (assuming you're running Windows), and install a pihole server in that. It might be a bit of a pain changing the dns settings for every network, but maybe someone else knows a way to make that easier.
More than likely, Google's lawyers were worried about DA's in various US states, cities or feds going after them. This has little or nothing to do with "morality" or "ethics." This is CYA, not a moral panic.
Uh, this is a book.
I will soon have 12. Perhaps the loss of sanity comes before the kids? It might be a prerequisite. :-)

The first kid is a huge impact. The second two each have a modest impact. After that, the food costs slowly climb up but you only really notice an impact when you outgrow a car. So if you can manage 2 or 3, you might as well have a dozen.
That's packages and other tracked mail. (That's a badly written site with several factual errors; it looks like something written in another language run through translation software)
Last page says "Page 212 of 330"

Pages 213+ are probably where they discuss cardinality.
The web, with all its warts, idiosyncrasies, and repercussions as a mature medium dominated by the very few. Maybe he'd find a way to let it thrive again, as knowledgable he was about human nature.
> How do you measure 25% of the world's intellectual output?

Neil deGrasse Tyson used Nobel prize winners as a measure (~30% of them are Jews). While I agree that it's hard to measure it is representative of the underlying picture.
>I want to be free to move onto something else if ever I get tired working on these projects (no donations = no expectations).

Well this is exactly why we wanted to hive him money. Hopefully if he gets bored someone else will carry the torch.
I think saying that American expansion was designed to control the Mississippi River is a stretch. The main expansion that occasioned it was the Louisiana Purchase, which was completely unintentional: the Americans went to France to ask for New Orleans, and were willing to pay up to $10 million for it, but Napoleon opened with an offer of all of Louisiana (doubling the size) for the bargain price of $15 million.

Louisiana wasn't a primary focus of the US foreign policy, particularly in the early 1800s. Instead, the US was more concerned with staying out of the deteriorating situation in Europe (during the Napoleonic Wars), and the main expansion targets would have been Canada and Florida.
Main author of Pathfinder here--feel free to ask any questions. :)

Thanks to Nical for the excellent writeup!
Cops Strip-Searched a 4-Year-Old After Mom's Errand Took Too Long
I wonder if it will be too difficult to maintain downstream patches for Chromium that reverts this change.
Are you claiming ProtonMail hands over message content to law enforcement? That contradicts this quote from the post:

>Furthermore, ProtonMail’s end-to-end encryption means we cannot be forced by a court to provide unencrypted message contents.
Does it actually prevent that though? Is there no other mechanism that lets extensions know the URL of the current page?
Want to fix big tech? Change what classes are reqd for a computer science degree
$99 is not nothing
Has anyone had experience with Bootstrap’s education program?
Unless this results in better education outcomes spread across the entire population in the red states, this is effectively a bid to support the Republican agenda. This will follow the same pattern as standardized testing: those with the means will pursue the best investments. Those without will be left behind. And so the cycle of inequality worsens. This is "greed is good" politics.

Think about it. If they were serious about education, why are they not investing, Koch-style, in local politics? Why are they not funding candidates who will advocate for stronger school systems, better transportation, school lunches, etc?

This has nothing to do with kids. This has everything to do with extracting as much money as possible from the most anxious, which is incidentally the rapidly vanishing elbow of middle class in the ever-steepening power law curve of wealth distribution in the US.
I really like grab for this reason. I have a friend who will think an Uber driver should get a 3/5 stars for a ride that was perfect fine. If you give a non-perfect rating in grab, it asks for a specific reason why, giving you a dialog with common reasons why. If you give a low enough rating, grab will reach out to you to understand what happened during the ride and to try to make things right.
SEO is all about reading the tea leaves. I'm expressing my personal belief and, as part of reading the SEO tea leaves, noting that there's indirect evidence that Apple agrees with my personal belief. While I appreciate your effort to somehow avoid disrespecting me while trivializing my beliefs, you have not succeeded. We'll need to agree to disagree as I don't think I can continue this discussion, sorry.
Also I think that different organizations have different thresholds for how much they can tolerate with an underperforming employee. In larger organizations, I have seen situations where an employee was not a great fit for the role they were originally hired for, but over time were able to move into a different role where they were effective. E.g. someone who can't write code to save their life, but is actually quite effective as a middle manager.

But in a startup situation where every new hire is going to make a huge impact on the team, and "money is running out" (as the article is titled), you might necessarily need to be less forgiving.
> Not really, for most of humanity's history people could barely even figure out what happened on the other side of the mountain or the sea.

And yet, for around 30,000 years people have been going off to battle to impose ideals, take stuff, or stop other folks imposing ideals and taking stuff. The average mook in those battles may not have known what was going on, nor did the folks who stayed home in relative safety, but make no mistake, the wealthy and powerful have been imposing their morality as long as there has been a threat to wealth and power... it just happens much more quickly and broadly these days.
I think the real meat of the question is the extent to which they cooperate with law enforcement. Do they respond to requests to extract keys from the client? Or used compromised keys for select users? If the government orders them to build such a mechanism to their client then encryption doesn't help. Even things like tracking the dates that messages are sent and received can make users vulnerable to correlation attacks.

I stand by the claim that the only truly secure mail is to do your own encryption and decryption client-side with open source tools. Anything done by a 3rd party service should be assumed to be compromised.
Building a Stateless API Proxy
As much as I hate to think about this - what's the probability that Google outlives the GDPR, current trends in privacy laws, or the European Union itself?
Internet of Things (IoT) Back End in .Net
Probably why they don't market it. If they did... like Dropbox, Dropbox would have to say goodbye to a lot of users, given that these users understand that Keybase doesn't have the efficiency or reliability that Dropbox has.
To Excel as a Programmer Learn a Vertical
As always, I think it's appropriate mention Brave here. They are very much going in the opposite way of other browsers. They've now for a long time had features such as being able to change scripts/third party cookies/tracking/etc on a per site basis with a single click. As an example, you can get rid of all bait and switch paywalls (such as NYT) by simply disabling scripts. In Brave that's a two click change - Lion Icon -> Toggle Enable Scripts button.

They've also added features like built-in TOR support. Right click a link and one of the context options is 'Open link in private window with Tor'. You can then change 'identities' (Tor exit node -> IP/country) with a single click as well. Absolutely awesome for geoblocked content or even just seeing what users from other countries would see. Kind of fun to play 'Google Roulette' and perform the same search from various places around the world.

And obviously there's built in ad blocking and all that good stuff. It's like a Chrome that runs absurdly fast (in part because all the rubbish is removed) and has put privacy as a #1 consideration. Of course the downside is that, as mentioned, it uses Chromium as the renderer. If Google starts bringing this stuff over to Chromium, which is probably a non-zero possibility, that's going to pose major issues to browsers like Brave.

Incidentally I was also a long time Proxomitron user!
I think because of China’s approach to IP it is impossible for companies such as Microsoft to appear there.
It's absolutely necessary in today's outrage fueled world to get your statement out as quickly as possible. The longer it takes to get a response out, the more the outraged masses dig in, and the less likely the truth will stand in peoples minds after the dust settles.
Well, maybe not for Uber, but I think it would work for Amazon.
Flipboard – Notice of Security Incident
LinkedRW – CLI to create CV and website based on your LinkedIn or a JSON file
It surely is in some ways. But in other ways, it sure seems like they have some sort of a special "relationship" (for utter lack of a better term) with consciousness.

Out of curiosity, have you tried them before?
Ran that search just now, got 5 results about using lea, the 6th was about scikit-learn.
> two repairs: both by Apple, under warranty. a replaced trackpad and a replaced display. no 3rd party involvement. 2015 MBP Retina 15" - bought I believe in 2016 from Apple website.

So you can't make the easy joke about how the new MBPs are so bad they burst on fire.
I don't see how it's a revelation that governments are able to use warrants to force companies to provide data. And we already knew that Protonmail could serve malicious code if forced to, that's been a common criticism of their mail service from day one.

To the extent that it is possible on the web today to do clientside encryption, Protonmail does clientside encryption. Yes, it's bound by platform limitations around code signing and browser crypto. But in a broad sense, all of the apps you have set to auto-update (including privacy gold-standards like Signal and Wire) are vulnerable to malicious update attacks if law enforcement is able to compel them. That has always been true.

So what new information have we actually learned at this point?

The only interesting part of this story to me was the idea that Protonmail might go beyond their legal requirements in assisting law enforcement. That part appears to be false.

No one should be using a 3rd-party service, whether advertised as "truly private" or not, under the expectation that the parent company is going to just ignore warrants and gag orders.
Here's how I think about quaternions:

1) using complex numbers:
A unit complex number (having its length/magnitude/absolute value equal to 1) form a circle, this circle corresponds to all 2d rotations
The result of multiplying two unit complex number corresponds to combination of two 2d rotations.
You can apply the rotation to a point in complex plane by multiplying that point by unit complex number that corresponds to a rotation

Quaternions are the same as complex numbers, but instead of having one imaginary part they have three, and they have slightly different rules of multiplication.
Quaternions of magnitude one form a 4d sphere, this 4d sphere corresponds to all 3d rotations.
The result of multiplying two unit quaternions corresponds to combination of two 3d rotations.
You can apply the rotation to a point in 3d space using slightly different multiplication.

2) not using complex numbers
Ine of the ways to represent 3d rotations is to choose an axis direction and and angle of rotation (surprisingly, this can represent all 3d rotations)
A unit quaternion representing this rotation will have its three imaginary parts ijk equal to sin(angle)*(axis direction vector), and the real part equal to cos(angle)
There are funny rules about how you can multiply these quaternions, and this multiplication will produce a quaternion that represents the rotation.
Why Luddites Are Fashionable Again
My favorite Uber ride was in a party van. Great way to get home after long trip at night. In an ideal system I think they'd be a 5/5 while most of my other rides would be 4/5.
Anything civilization-related is relevant to recreating civilization.

TBF he is targeting infrastructure. There's also: water, food, police, courts, legislature/executive, construction, clothing, computation, etc.
Settlement is not a formality. Money still has to change hands behind the scenes in various bank accounts. The only thing that's instant is the check for available funds. The actual transfer of money still occurs via ACH.
* I dont hear anything elsewhere, China being the only exception. And they're feared, to the point where Huawei's banned.

Not every Chinese developer could get out of China to get higher pay because of tight competition, family, and traditions.

It should be mentioned that:
1. US companies in China (like Google, Microsoft, etc.) do not give higher pay than Chinese companies (like BAT, Toutiao, Pinduoduo).
2. Apartment price in China is very high. You can't easily find an apartment inside Beijing's 5th-ring-road having a <$10,000/m2 price.

Developers that cannot go aboard can only work hard in Chinese companies to pay the apartment loan.
No, certainly not. I want an Internet with lots of business models including paywalls and large players, but also OSS, amateur bloggers, publicly funded sites, etc.

I remember an Internet back when there were only university sites and personal sites. It had a lot of flaws, but was better, I think than our situation where our data are sold and resold with no way of customer control.
I've read that this question can be answered by looking at the chirality of the chemical(s) in question. If the levorotatory and dextrorotatory isomers are unevenly distributed, that's a hint that the substance originated in biological processes.

Not sure if that's still the current thinking, or if it ever was, but I found it interesting when I ran across it.
How is Keybase funded anyway? They say they’re hiring, so money is coming from somewhere.
What features would this CRM have that would differentiate it significantly from say, Pipedrive?
There are a few short ones going from area integral comparisons.
I didn't know that they spent much time on good design :/
The only thing I miss is the ease which you can create and use different profiles in Chrome. Facilitates testing web apps. Firefox's support of multiple profiles is kludgy.
I once was curious about this so I kept track of my Google searches for a week, and it was overwhelmingly the case that what it returned was what I wanted but not what I asked vs the other way around.
American attitude???

Andy Grove: Hungarian

Nikola Tesla: Serbian

Sergey Brin: Russian

Patrick and John Collison: Irish

Mathilde Collin: French

Jerry Yang: Taiwanese
In my building, we have a similar tailgating policy, and its quite strict. A sign states that it's a federal offense and that police will be contacted.

At first I thought it was weird, but since being here I've noticed more and more unmarked and federal police vehicles parked downstairs, and several offices/floors that are unlabeled and used mainly by those guys.

I'm guessing there's some kind of diplomatic etc services that go on here which not everyone's privy to.
There will always be a trinket to keep you on the plantation.
Malaysia’s Mahathir: We try to use Huawei technology ‘as much as possible’
I think elements of that generationality are the foundations of the Log Structured Merge Trees used by KV Stores like LevelDB and RocksDB. Atleast I think that's the same concept, I'm not well read on filesystems.
Interestingly, I'm told that in Chinese culture the head is considered the best part of the fish, offered to the guest of honor, eyes included. (Source: an expat complaining about being honored with the head of the fish, and having to eat the eye to be polite.)
CVos: A bootable PDF disk image which can view itself, but still usable as a PDF
They already have region functionality in store. It is lazy to just wholesale ban apps...
Those links don’t give any evidence of industrial espionage on German companies. One even claims those no proof of it.
"Legal marijuana" is a bit of a misrepresentation. In the eyes of the law, cannabis remains illegal nation-wide. Federal law supersedes state laws on controlled substances. States like California and Washington has not so much legalized cannabis so much as they have repealed all their state laws and deliberately refuse to enforce federal law on cannabis. For everyday people, this effectively legalizes it. We can go to a store, buy a pack of joints, and walk home with zero threat of legal repercussion. But for large organizations, they still have good reason to be afraid of being subject to repercussions if they monetize or facilitate the sale of marijuana.

And regardless, plenty of large tech companies have blanket policies of avoiding controversial markets. Amazon does not sell ammo and many gun accessories (e.g. magazines). They don't sell porn either as far as I know.
I've definitely seen companies having different policies. First, the data is valuable, so keeping it when you are allowed too can be worth it for that. Second, doing a full deletion can be costly in hardware resource utilization, and sometimes even involve some manual labor. So minimizing it can be cost effective.
The GIF Inefficiency of Cloudflare
I honestly don’t know. I hear from friends that in Shenzhen at least there’s a big ecosystem of small companies helping other small companies for little more than the promise they’ll be helped in return when the time comes. In my eyes that could lead to a very positive feedback loop if it continues.
“Do as I say, not as I do” is commonly known as “hypocrisy”. It’s generally not seen as a desirable trait in many cultures.
That's in macOS System Preferences. I use it all the time. Go to Trackpad / More Gestures and check "Swipe between pages". You can also control how many fingers you want to use. I set it to three fingers so that it doesn't conflict with horizontal scrolling.
But it's just as hypocritical.
And arguably they came to America where their attitude could flourish. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist elsewhere but it’s not encouraged elsewhere.
One day, I'll make an Anki version of this.
True, believe there was some obligation to build the stuff and return to Britain fighting the war however. Left the US in an incredible advantage after WWII.
I'd call that free advertisement, good old Sturgeon's effect.
If you are considering this and it’s a small business, please consider Retool (https://tryretool.com) or something similar. The thing with SF is that it’s way too big for starting small and it’s hard to customize when you start getting bigger. You don’t need more than a couple of SQL tables to have a basic, simple, CRM and you own the data that you would be able to easily analyze in your favorite dashboard tool.