skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder what is the impact for those who just take Soylent for their meals. Does the lack of variety of nutrients kill of some bacteria in the gut and are they worse off for it?
A middle ground I really like are these mixed residential suburbs I'm seeing more in Ontario. On one street you'll find 3 car garage houses all the way down to 6-unit townhouses. All circling the same park with an apartment building on the far corner.
Seems pretty nasty to me.

Algorithmic "recommendations" are at best a questionable value-add to users, and they are routinely used as a justification for gathering and correlating personal information. The disclosure agreement is also conveniently vague and full of exploitable holes. Par for the course.

Dragging children into the surveillance-capitalism meatgrinder is especially gross. Don't make business models like this.
I cancelled my subscription and deleted Spotify because of that. I can do with streaming of local radio and my own music.

I really hope the EU hits them hard with a GDPR investigation, the amount of identifiable data they collect with reCaptcha is unacceptable.
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This is a better link than the earlier post about this today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060252), but it's likely to suffer from the same problem: all threads about Assange have become the same. They all angrily relitigate the whole story from scratch. Receptivity, curiosity, and information exchange—what HN exists for—are low; indignation and repetition—the two most fatal qualities—are high. If this continues, we're going to start moderating these threads more heavily, not for or against Assange, but to protect HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm confused about your post. Was, "it could have been so much better," referring to Go's brand guide? And if so, how does that jive with "the worse the branding, the better"?

Are you saying a sophisticated brand agency would intentionally brand worse because it's the expectation for a successful programming language? If I'm a design agency, I would reject bad design even if it's expected and commonplace. Although, there might be good features in the bad design, which I think should be kept.

In the end, this brand guide is not just about the language. The first section is all about identifying the audience and helping communication in the community, which I think is more important than the details mentioned later on (colors/typography/logo/etc).

> Go was created by a team of programmers who value honest, open communication, without exaggeration or excess. Our dialogue with one another and the broader community adheres to the following

I don't really believe that this statement is true, but I think expressing this aspiration is important.

I think the Rust language website is quite good too, since it has all the details of the code of conduct and contribution info, but it's not a fair comparison since it's a superset of brand guidelines.

My complaint would be that the Rust website actually has a far superior visual design than the Go website, but I don't think there's a problem Go's brand book. My 2 cents, or 5. :\
Fastmail is great. It ticks all of your points except the privacy changes in Australia. It didn’t change for the better. FastMail Hase some statements about that. Check their blog.
>Patent licensing fees were a big part of the equation, which led to inability to lower costs to compete.

Yes. OP asserted that too. Like OP, you haven't actually given a reason why. Here's some counter-arguments:

1) BB grew exponentially all the while paying Qualcomm licensing fees - why didn't it affect them then?

2) EVERYONE was paying the same licensing fees to Qualcomm. You couldn't build a smartphone connected to the cellular network and not pay those fees. So are you saying that it affected BB more than it affected Apple, Palm, MS, Samsung, etc. ?
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Yes the impact of nuclear fallout is minimal. Hence why we bury spent fuel miles underground and as far away from people as possible... because its so innocuous.
What if "being happy" for them means watching Youtube all day and playing computer games?

That's what I'm struggling with with my 15 year old. This is currently affecting his GPA to the point where it'd limit his college options to community college, and maybe not even that (since you do have to work even there to not fail).

I simply can't convince him that this is not a good use of his time, and he will regret it profoundly later in life.
> Except Google didn't provide interoperability, you can't run Java applications on Android.

You don't get to pick your own narrow definition of "interoperability" and claim that it's the only one that applies. Requiring 100% compatibility with compiled code quite obviously makes it trivial for the creator of the original work to completely subvert that right to reverse engineer. European courts would almost certainly choose to interpret that right in a way that allows it to have real power.
> some people here thought for themselves and analyzed the technology and ideas on its merits

I was mining back in 2011, so I'm very familiar with the technology and its merits. I've witnessed the price swings, the FOMO, the exchange "hacks". I'm very active in Bitcoin discussions under a pseudonym.

My conclusion: the technology and the price are orthogonal.
>"When Apache resigned from the JCP in protest based on its inability to obtain a license..."

Wasn't Apache seeking a license for a collection of tests, not the right to implement the API itself? And what, under Oracle's argument, would be the legal status of GNU GCJ/Classpath?
How is mosh in there? Mosh is something to make ssh more reliable, how would that be a trend?
The Philippines is now the only country in the world that denies divorce to the majority of its citizens; it is the last holdout among a group of staunchly Catholic countries where the church has fought hard to enforce its views on the sanctity of marriage. Pope Francis, who visited the Philippines last week, has urged his bishops to take a more forgiving stance toward divorced Catholics, but this is a moot point in the Philippines: There is no such thing as a divorced Catholic.
Alacritty + Tmux (+ WM/DE keybinds) does the job for me. Good performance, cross-platform, able to edit the config file on the fly. But it doesn't have tabs. That's what I use Tmux (with plugins) for. You can make Alacritty fullscreen with a keybind. I also had to change some default configuration settings.
Fake followers/likes no doubt. Hell I could knock on 10 doors and sell one tshirt.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response, this is all helpful feedback that I will share with the team.

It's been on my backlog for a while to rewrite the Apollo Client intro section to give developers the high level overview you're looking for. Now that Apollo Federation is out, I have some time on my calendar to do exactly that. :) Would you be open to reviewing the new section once it's done? If you're interested, send me an email at peggy [at] apollographql.com.

If it's still confusing after that, then we can chalk it up to a problem with the library. I suspect that it's a docs problem since the intro hasn't been overhauled since I joined the company almost 2 years ago.
Any suggestion on what would be a safe substitute?
I'm not sure that the article is particularly useful -- not enough information, very speculative -- but _wow_, that's an excellent headline.
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Email is unlikely to be the only service you need. Add github and your at 14$ a month per person. Keep going and it really does add up fairly quickly.
I know people get to large numbers of followers by buying bots etc, maybe that's a route she took (no idea), or maybe her relevancy with real users is the issue. If people were no longer getting her content in their feeds because instagram decided here posts weren't getting enough interaction she could have a huge number of followers but no reach. So maybe that's the more important metric, interaction instead of followers.
The thing is, it's a command line tool that requires the user to go out and manually do just about everything. Export the files, set up the repo, create a Netlify account, configure everything there, hook it into GitHub, etc. In the end, all the tool really does is convert files to Markdown and then use Gatsby as an SSG. If you already had the knowledge to do everything else, why not just do that yourself and not be stuck with somebody else's opinionated choices?
I find this one more... down to Earth(?) and despite being more of a love story, it touches almost every subject there is to touch.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2934916/
https://youtu.be/Xe8ptlQ1_FQ
Most jobs are boring, but I find interesting things to learn in almost every boring task I've been given over my career. It keeps me interested and can be used as building blocks to work on something more interesting.

I don't think there's any way around this. Even if you run your own company, 99% of the work isn't glamorous or world-changing..but needs to be done.

"Ideally, I don't want to spend my whole day in front of a computer. But I do want to make enough money to go on vacation occasionally, and I want the flexibility and mobility that it seems like only the tech industry is offering these days. Millennials, right?"

I wanted this too, so about 10 years ago I started contracting. I can work from anywhere and many times, I only need a decent internet connection (which is available in most parts of the world).

I traveled all around Asia for a year, while coding at night.
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There is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that actually [0].

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201400...
copper pipes with a screw on fitting at the end that is removable.
But this means you can hack the hackers by playing musical chairs in a way that forces opponents to constantly meet and deal with new people they've yet come to familiarize themselves with.

If you know them, you can send someone their way, such that you control their controls.
Many are not real, that's part of the point of all these stories (don't ever evaluate an "influencer" by number of followers displayed). The other part is that with the barrier so damn low for "influencers" to sell their "merch" to their "communities," it's a saturated market, especially for those who don't bring anything special to the table.
Note that this is only necessary because the 2018 Republican Congress voted to allow ISPs to sell user data.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/house-votes-to-a...
In that it is GPL+Link Exception licensed. The copyright still belongs to Oracle. See this[0] example:

> Copyright (c) 1997, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

> This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only

[0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...
Microsoft practically begs Windows users to fix wormable BlueKeep flaw
I mean, yes, but to go from severe ASD behaviors to neurotypical is vastly different than perhaps some behavioral artifacts from a headache or stomach pain. I think your conclusion is greatly understating the result.
File a police report for the social engineering. Report that too your bank and amazon in a written, semi official letter. If that does not work lawyer up.
> The BIOS API does not depend on named functions but rather on specific values appearing in CPU registers, so I'm not sure how copyright applies to that

Do you have any reasoning for treating magic numbers different from English-like names for the purpose of determining copyright eligibility?
It’s true that they need to get residencies and then fellowships but my understanding is that these processes are closer to “get admitted to medical school” then they are to “become partner at a law firm”. Could be wrong, but that’s my impression.
Well, from what I understand, Google insists on any project that uses that solution license it. If Firefox were to trickle this down, they could get their license revoked. The onus is on Google to stop being asshats.
I think there are a number of people waking up to the level of concern that you need to put on unbounded risks. See the popular book, The Black Swan. To throw out these large but improbable risks is taking a large part out of these distributions. Maybe it's not a good idea.
And if Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung, or ZTE had offer a modern modem, it would be the same.
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" He thinks that assumption stems from bias by early researchers, who were predominantly male."

I stopped reading here. We have no idea why they never actually witnessed sexual cannibalism in snakes. Why speculate that it was some form of sexism?
If people can't understand the simple word 'must' how will they understand the more complicated words that RFC 7322 uses to define it?
Many companies are becoming increasingly data-driven so in some cases it's actually not the "rich people" making these decisions. We are increasingly seeing contracts that commit a company to whichever solution produces better KPIs after a trial period.

Companies generally act very logically and seek to maximize their future cash flows. If economic incentives change, such as labor becoming more expensive, automation becomes cheaper relatively, and we should expect a well-run company to invest more in automation.

It makes little sense to blame the managers. We live in a market economy and policy-makers should look to economic incentives as the main way to drive behavior.
Police have said that Wilson flew to Taipei before they were able to interview him about the allegations. He never took his scheduled flight back to the United States.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/21/3d-printed-gun-desig...
Thanks! I always like to know the meaning behind things and this was very insightful!
> With certain narrow exceptions, though, no data about me personally should be collected without my explicit permission regardless.

Well, I don't agree with that. I don't see any reason people should have a right to "own" information observed about them.

I make observations all the time about other people. You can't force me to forget what I've observed. Computers make it easier to "remember" and process observations, true, but at the root there is no difference between me observing stuff and writing it down and a computer observing stuff and writing it down.
Vaccines are a wonder of the modern world.

Vaccines containing large amounts of questionably safe adjuvants, produced at profit by companies protected from all legal remedy for harm, and mandated by governments upon their citizens -- not so wonderful.

Removing all choice in quality and quantity of the Vaccines injected into our children is not cool.

Any and all questioning of this status quo means that one is labelled a "Denier", strongly implying group-membership with other "Deniers", such as Holocaust Deniers.

Disappointingly, this problematic line of reasoning is widely practiced here on HN.
OpenJDK wasn't out yet, so they weren't avoiding the GPL, they were avoiding the proprietary license that the Sun JRE was distributed with at that time.
Oracle now has a market cap of about $170 billion, give or take a few billion, I'm pretty sure that if a company like Google put its mind to it it could purchase Oracle outright.

It would also allow Google a very good entry on the enterprise market where it could push GCP down its clients' throats, imho there's no other way for them to catch up with AWS and Azure.
In order to believe what you're claiming here, we have to believe that

1. There is magic css/js that can not only tell different browsers and devices apart, but can tell two phones from the same manufacturing run with the same software apart.

2. Despite the fact that this magic code would have to run in the client browser where its content, execution, and the data it sends back are all plainly visible to anyone who can hit ctrl-shift-j, no "public researcher or browser vendor" knows anything about it.

3. This technology is not used to combat ad fraud because of some weird conspiracy at Google.

It could be true, I suppose, but I don't see why anyone would believe this based on the evidence so far.
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The research cited in the article directly refutes what you are positing and shows that ASD symptoms are transferable via fecal transplant.
I meant for the same use as a garden hose (flexible, removeable), though that was not obvious from the context.
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They did, it is just whether it was fair or not was up to debate.
GraphQL is a technology only a frontend webdev could love. You really want the burden of understanding the database schema and building the JS framework app? You really want ad-hoc data models written in some weird 'query language' littered throughout your frontend code? Building an API is actually easy, if you bother. 'No! GraphQL is lit!' OK kid, have fun snicker.
Yes, because letting them funnel their debt-servicing money back into useful parts of the economy (houses, cars, businesses, whatever!) would be a much better thing for the country as a whole than what they're doing now.

This debt is a huge bottleneck on the economy; it's slowing things up for a huge part of the population, and for what? We're not better off as a people. We're not building a better country or future this way.

The arguments I've seen in favor are all "they made a bad decision, they should live with it" or "I paid mine off, why should they get a free ride" or any number of variations on that sort of thing. I haven't seen a single argument that the student debt status quo is good or healthy for the country, or is getting us where we want to be as a people.

Personally, I don't give a shit what stupid degree people got or how much student debt there or how hurt those who paid theirs off will feel; hurt feelings or resentment are no good basis for policy. This is a bad scene for the country and forgiving the student debt would improve things in so, so, so many ways; the trade-offs are absolutely 100% worth it.
> If they can log in to your financial sites, a breach would mean the attacker would be able to as well.

As an added bonus, banks may disclaim liability because you shared your credentials with a third party.
Volatility Is Back, Is It Staying?
Yes. Page loading is faster in Brave

It's even more faster in case if site is full of ads and internet connection is slow.
Do you have the ability to allow the link to stand but suppress the discuss link?

I’m still interested in following this issue, but agree further discussions here serve no productive purpose.
#0 is correct. I'll recommend this piece on S&W [1] and specifically on point #5 [2].

These style guides, especially points #1 through #6, came about from bureaucrats who were essentially filibustering or otherwise obfuscating in their writing.

The root problem there was not the long-winded writing, it was their intent to hide bad things.

If you can make sure you're not carrying water for corrupt officials, you best strategy is to try to write natural prose. Yes, do look for wordy phrases or cliches, but don't obsess over adverbs or the passive voice.

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15509
[2] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003366.h...
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> to get themselves on the golden wall of donors

In their defense, that's how it was financed in the first place.
It's often disabled by people who use screen readers, or by users who care about their privacy.

If your regular website (not a webapp) doesn't work without JS, then you're failing as a dev.
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> Disappointingly, this problematic line of reasoning is widely practiced here on HN.

That's just saying that HN is disappointingly large. There are enough people here that nearly any view has some representation.
I love the Twin Cities, it's my favorite place I've ever lived. I'm not surprised something like this would happen there.
"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
I'm curious about your experience. How do you think your writing translated into value in the eyes of the VC world? Or was it that you'd built a platform online first through your writing and then they solicited you?

In my experience my ability here has always been valued after the fact; I have the strong impression that few companies value writing, even as a secondary skill, or see it as a differentiator.
On the other hand, we cannot afford to be paralyzed by concerns about black swans. If we did, nothing would get done.
No the research is getting pretty definitive in this area, don't count it out and the article also specifically talks about another study not the mouse one where they had real world success (over 50%) treating autism in people via bacteria transplant.
An update on last night's experiment, if anyone cares. The next largest identifier was system fonts (approx 1/1300 browsers). I set `browser.display.use_document_fonts=0` which hid the system fonts (now the same as approx 1/10 browsers) and my overall entropy dropped to just below 11 bits. At this point, none of the metrics were less common than 1/10 browsers, so I figured I wouldn't be able to do better than that.

As a side note, I ended up re-enabling system fonts because disabling them broke a large percentage of web sites' CSS.
Apache was seeking the ability to access the tests, as passing those tests were the requirement to call it Java. Sun was using trademark (not copyright over API sequence structure and organization) to enforce this, sort of how Firefox does.

I'd imagine that Oracle sees GCJ/classpath as infringing, but there's not enough money in enforcing that to be worth it. That's all gut feeling though, and I don't know of any information that'd let us confirm one way or another.
Fraud or no, I'm guessing that FB isn't going to simply let free posts be able to reach near the same number of impressions as a "Sponsored Post". This is why we don't see chronological or unfiltered submissions in timelines/news-feeds -- free users reaching intended consumer audiences more effectively is a threat to the business models of the advertising companies that host their social networks. In other words, why would I pay for a sponsored post if it were cheaper and more effective to reach out to my own network or work with another user?
1% engagement is a good metric to hit on social for real followers. Obviously not a 100% always accurate rule but apply and you’ll see instantly who bought fake followers.
If you are happy, you can probably consider yourself successful. If you are 'successful', it is by no means a given that you are happy.
I didn't say they used carrier aggregation. All of their macro cells are going to be converted to tri-band - 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz.
> "But I was getting such good feedback that people loved it & were gonna buy it"

Welcome to creating your own business/project 101. Never trust feedback from friends, or basically anyone not handing you money or committing their own time to it.

This is the first hard lesson you learn and probably the most important one.

Also the fact she "flew out" a photographer and makeup artist was a questionable business choice for something that could have been tested for free, considering her apparent reach. Either way even bad press like this is good for business.
> What about a taco? That’s one culture’s form of a sandwich. How does that apply?

Technically, the torta[0] is the sandwich of Mexican culture, not the taco[0], so it doesn't really apply, I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torta#Sandwiches

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco
Hasura is such a promising application platform. I tried it a few months ago and was really pleased. In a way it kind of felt like RethinkDB, except GraphQL and Postgres. Was very easy to turn on with Docker Compose and play around. Looking forward to 1.0!