skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just don't buy him a parrot!

https://gizmodo.com/please-do-not-buy-richard-stallman-a-par...

>If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I can visit with, that will be nice too.

>DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms

>Richard Stallman's rider has been a cause of amusement, bemusement and
confusion for many conference and lecture organisers who have hosted him.
It has even drawn the attention of the press[0].

>But what is the story behind this complex beast? When were certain clauses
added, and why? We hope that with enough data regarding when modifications
were made, we may be able to shed some light on the why's.

https://stallman.org/articles/extreme.html

>A parrot once had sex with me. I did not recognize the act as sex until it was explained to me afterward, but being stroked on the hand by his soft belly feathers was so pleasurable that I yearn for another chance. I have a photo of that act; should I go to prison for it?

https://stallman.org/parrot-love.jpg [NSFW!!!]
Creator of CopperheadOS [0] and now GrapheneOS, Daniel Micay, was a prolific contributor to rustlang-core [1] but did rub off the rustlang community the wrong way? If I'm not mistaken he has a history of contributing to Arch Linux, as well.

What happened with CopperheadOS was unfortunate [2]. I hope Daniel [3] is able to work on GrapheneOS on his own terms [4]. The work that was done had garnered a lot of following and there's hope, given his exploits in the past, that he'd be able to steer this non-profit to heights where industry leaders building SilentCircle [5] and CyanogenMod failed.

Sure will be following the project from afar and routing for its success.

Good luck Daniel.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8qdnn3/goodby...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9551937#9552769

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17289536

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strcat

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19501643#19559969

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047219
> Stereo vision is the magic

Absolutely 100% true, I have experienced this first hand. Unfortunately, many of the videos they try to promote on VR systems were shot with a single lens and are just "2D in surround"-- these come across as flat and uninteresting to me, especially after I saw videos with actual depth. In those cases I would be happier with a monitor. But the depth & immersion is completely worth putting a headset on for me.

Also, on the surface it looks like initial Oculus Quest sales are going well. Sold out at my local Best Buy and showing 1-3 week lead times everywhere else (including direct order). Could be artificial, but time will tell. I was already satisfied with the GearVR on an older Samsung Galaxy, and initial reports are that the Quest is a significantly noticeable improvement.
Pie hole also has a nice browser interface to debug blocked requests that are breaking the site you don’t want To be broken. Which happens inevitably when you pull together 10 different sources of blocked lists.... or just one persons whose ideal blacklist doesn’t match yours.
As a developer who has worked with reCAPTCHA in the past and as a diehard Firefox user, what likely happened here is a form of shadow banning.

You're moving too fast; your mouse and mouse clicks are "too good" to be human. Try solving the reCAPTCHA slower and you'll see wildly different results, or, purposely fail one reCAPTCHA to get easier ones.

reCAPTCHA tech is crazy; reCAPTCHAs are not simple web forms and Javascript, they're a sandboxed and monitored 'window' to a Google server. If you solve too many reCAPTCHAs too quickly (ie. when you are testing a web page, or are rotating your passwords on many websites) then Google's servers will try to rate limit you with slow animations and harder reCAPTCHAs.
reCAPTCHA needs to be re-engineered to work even in the face of privacy measures in browsers. Otherwise it will be better at distinguishing expert humans from ordinary humans than at distinguishing bots from humans.
Musk tweeted about it 20 minutes ago, which is probably why it's here now.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1138136540096319488
Pay the website owner to remove reCaptcha from the sites you use?
”Also interesting that the basement in that department store went down 200 feet. Was this to get a good foundation?”

It’s not as much as “below Selfridge’s” as “effectively in the cabinet war rooms”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_citadels_under_London...: ”There was a telephone room down the corridor that provided a direct line to the White House in Washington, DC, via a special scrambler in an annexe basement of Selfridges department store.”
Thanks for this. Extensions like this one make Firefox for Android worth it despite all the quirks.
I believe we agree with you there. OP was just referencing the methodologies people user, often choosing tools like Google Analytics and ReCaptcha that are "free" by virtue of offloading compromises onto the site's users rather than the site itself.

I endorse a site's right to forbid me its content if I can't prove I'm human. I won't endorse a site that accomplishes it by asking me to pay the cost.
Well their long term goal is evidently moving to a microkernel based based OS rather than Linux. This seems like a lofty goal if they aren't for instance planning on switching to Fuschia (which may replace Android all together). Also its not like there are a lot of open mobile stacks that don't involve basically creating a ecosystem from scratch, aside from the Librem phone by Purism which is trying to integrate with the existing Debian/GNU Linux ecosystem.
Systemd has a cron system too.

I’m just guessing, but it might be easier to programmatically install a systemd cron job (and making sure it runs) than doing so for the old/conventional crond?
Not that I'm saying we shouldn't be careful with our personal data, but:

There's some serious mental gymnastics going from "young dog owners in Seattle" to selling somebody a dossier with their location, search & browsing history (all of which you can turn off).
I've emailed them about it as well. Totally sick of having to grind through Google to sign in to HB, I've not bought stuff because of the effort too. I also really don't think it's appropriate to include Google as a third-party in login processes anymore.
> Ergonomics research has shown a long time ago that dark text on light background is easier to read on computer screens for long periods of time.

There are studies that have shown that in the lab. Meaning that it's worked out that way under whatever conditions were present in the lab, which aren't necessarily the same as the conditions in one's workplace. Real life is probably messier.

For example:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/are-dark-themes-better-for-ey...
I loved CoMI as much as the first two games. It seemed to ignore the basic premise of the story which was a hard pill to swallow (still is), but apart from that I found the humor, graphics and everything else to be at least on par.
This article doesn't really make sense. Yeah, Google changed the algorithm and dropped traffic to CCN by about 50%. But... according to their own charts, that just puts them back to where they where about six months ago, in December!

What you need to realize is that we have added more people to the team, both full-timers and part-timers. We do not want to downsize the team, we do not want to break the morale of the team.

So you're shutting down CCN instead of laying people off? Just days after a brief downward blip in traffic? What?

Yeah, it's tough when all your revenue comes from a source is extremely volatile. Maybe you need to be more conservative in hiring, or maybe you just have to take some risks and hire aggressively and then let some people go.

Then later in the article:

We are shutting down CCN.com. Google has made that choice for us. We are moving the entire team over to HVY.com to at least try and save modern journalism the way we see it. HVY Journalists is a news platform made by and for journalists.

Ah, now it makes sense. They already had this plan to launch an anti-Google journalism site, HVY. Now maybe they can get some attention to their message, and promote HVY. Nobody is "shutting down", they are just rebranding to HVY.
The U.S. military is a naturally occuring process. Please direct your complaints to the sun, for triggering the evolution of life and consciousness on earth. This is all the sun's fault, really.
As a daily reminder, this piece of junk will be countermanded by Samsung, Lenovo and Huawei and whoever deploys AOSP as they use their own push platforms.
I've been donating to Thunderbird the past few years when it started accepting donations just for it (instead of being a donation to Mozilla though Thunderbird was spun off as a community driven project with some support from Mozilla).

If Mozilla comes with a paid email service focusing on privacy that's not just a white label rebranding of ProtonMail (which I won't use) or another existing provider, I'd surely be one of the first to try it out. Something that's preferably cheaper for multiple mailboxes with own domain support would be awesome.
I used to remap caps lock as another control key, actually, but sure, they could put the escape key somewhere else. My muscle memory is for where the escape key is now.

(...but I actually remap caps lock to escape in my iPad's terminal client, ironically, because the Brydge hardware keyboard has no escape key at all!)
> For Google users example, free-tier will allow each user account 5 searches per month that will not be tracked and recorded

You can already open an incognito / private browsing window if you want to search without it contributing to your profile. On the other hand, modern search works better because it can build that sort of profile.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, on ads. Commenting only as myself.)
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>This seems really high

Precisely what I thought. It looks like their annual revenue is ~ $1 billion, placing this price around 15x annual revenue.

However, Looker has about $131 million in revenue, so their purchase price was an even higher 20x annual revenue.

My conclusion is that these acquisitions are much less about sales revenue and much more about filling strategic holes in product offerings, and I can only assume it's a sellers market in that area.
Any military that has jets, nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, etc. will have the same pollution problems as the US military. The US military is just so much bigger than everybody else's for a variety of complex reasons.

Also, it's a bit unfair to say "US Military" as if it is a single unified organization. I would bet the US Navy specifically is the biggest offender.

I bet "US Military" is smaller than "China Factories" though.
Is all this antitrust talk directed at tech companies not just a way for media to direct that energy away from themselves?
I have yet to see someone give a definition of free will that is both logically consistent and not just a veneer over sufficiently complex behaviours where there ultimately is no agency.
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Wouldn't this also be the result you'd expect if the fact checking orgs in question are also biased towards the left? All this really shows is that IF fact checking orgs are unbiased, Google is unbiased.

And I'm sure there are a lot of people on the right who would claim that fact checkers are very much not unbiased. (Not in the "blatant falsehood" sense of things, but in the "this is iffy but we'll give benefit of the doubt to people on the left but not the right" sense) An example of this would be the recent "did Trump call Meghan Markle nasty" series - if you give Trump the benefit of the doubt then it's easy to argue that he called Markle's comments nasty, but you're not going to see that on politifact [0].

Everything is relative, nothing is absolute. (And I really wish that fact checking sites were more charitable towards everyone)

0: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jun/02...
I don’t think they do this anymore. Or at least not like they did around ~2015 with iframes
This is a very oddly positioned story. The Nissan Leaf "lift[ed] Norway's electric car sales to record market share" before Tesla's Model 3 surpassed the Leaf in sales.

The article seems to be making out that Tesla have been the cause of the record EV sales in Norway. In actuality, Tesla have recently become the most popular EV there, but EV sales were record-breaking before that.
>The Postal Service then petitioned the Patent Office to review the patent, and the Patent Board agreed with the Postal Service that Return Mail's patent was ineligible to be patented, and it canceled the claims underlying the patent. A divided panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit then affirmed the Patent Board's findings and invalidated Return Mail's patent claims.

>In the most recent June 10 ruling, however, the Supreme Court said that a federal agency is not a "person" who may petition for post-issuance review under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals' ruling and remanded the case for further proceedings.

This seems weird, so the postal service can't ask for a patent to be reviewed, but I can?

If the Postal Service can be at the mercy of some patent owner it should be able to ask for the patent to be reviewed.
Knowing that he had been through that specific training and he failed to follow S.O.P. then I would be much more harsh on him for acting in that manner.
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I did all sorts of desktop and window manager things over the years, but the last few years, I'm very happy with a tweaked tiling window manager with workspaces (currently based around XMonad).

All screen real estate is used for window content, except for a few pixels for borders. Currently no persistent panel or status display of any kind. I already known what workspace I'm on, based on the windows there, and I know what workspaces I've been using. When I need to see the clock, I've rigged a keypress to display it. I occasionally miss having system loadavg info displayed all the time, but I prefer using that screen real estate for an extra lines of code or text.

I've made a bunch of keybindings that start an application or switch focus to it if it's already running.
On the one hand, clean Argent energy.

On the other hand, Hell.
Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second HQ after Tableau acquisition
The whole panel scared the shit out of me.
Fuck cancer.
Ask HN: Do you use a swipe keyboard?
TLDR: Apple is releasing a swipe-style keyboard with iOS 13. Any tips for getting up on the learning curve?

I have tried the Swype keyboard several times over the years. At first, it had lots of bugs, possibly due to issues on the iOS side (I recall some of the bugs seemed to be an Apple problem not a Swype problem). So I never used it much.

Recently I decided to try again, and saw that there are a couple popular swipe keyboards — but both (google's and swiftkey) require full keyboard access, which I didn't want to grant.

I am able to use Swype's keyboard since I installed it prior to them shutting down, but it has odd bugs and isn't great. I want to keep using some sort of swipe-based keyboard in the lead up to iOS 13, and I'd be interested to hear tips from others who have worked their way up the learning curve.
Could be, I don't know. 50,000 is a village in these contexts! I'd really like to explore India, it is, also, vast.
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I had to join this to make sure my message was sent. Bless you all with love if anyone and everyone can reach out to Mark and Tristan . There has to be a way to stop this criminal 51% owner that Mark has to deal with. Everything was great brfire this happened. The station flourished. KHIL was global. Fans across the world. Now it is a huge mess and my family is suffering. It gets worse as the heat elevates. There must be something that can be done. No lawyers will touch this without money and there is none. I give half my salary to help them. Anyone? Can you help? Please share the articles. There are many more now . Mercedez Lucke-Benedict
Lol - as if Google maps was any good at navigating. There is a road next to me that's been closed for nearly 2 years and Google maps keep navigating through it. Keep reporting it over and over again and nothing. Not to mention not having a single clue which roads are one-way or where you can't make a right/left turn. And then paths which are not open to vehicle traffic but hey it's on the map so it must be open to cars, yeah? And then of course any complaint about Google maps is met with "but it's free, what are you expecting!".
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Yeah, this is a kind of misleading headline. I can't predict the future, but AFAIK there are no plans to launch a paid version of Firefox.

There are plans to launch paid subscription services & products in a Firefox brand family. Some of services may even be independent from the browser and be separate standalone apps & products. Some of the services may even - gasp - work in a non-Firefox browser.

Think of things like Firefox Send, Firefox Monitor, Firefox Lockbox, a system-wide VPN, an in-browser secure proxy. Specific plans are still in progress, but I don't think any of them are literally "you pay for browser now"
It's not a "fake news article." It's a real article in a major publication that is worthy of discussion.
Meanwhile, France just decided that electric cars must be producing an artificial soud out of security.
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First thought that comes to mind is how easy it is to jump or swim out of a ground-level pool. They better make anyone using this thing sign a waver.
That sounds self defeating from matters of auditing would expose it to the government and everyone involved in compliance layers. Not to mention PII can be composite. Knowing you are 26 and in say New York City doesn't tell much. Now add "once worked at a Quiznos in 2010" and "born July 19th" starts narrowing things further.
This. So much this. The NY Times is a shell of its former self reverse mortgaging hard-earned reputation one bad story at a time until it has burned through all of its equity.

A.M. Rosenthal would be spinning in his grave right now.
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I am having trouble validating this claim:

"U.S. military action there has resulted in the desertification of 90 percent of Iraqi territory, crippling the country's agricultural industry and forcing it to import more than 80 percent of its food"

I can't find any citations in the source - most of the places I am looking talk about the destruction of irrigation systems at the hand of the Iraqi state. So at best the military is only partly responsible.
Ask HN: Is the Linux From Scratch project still relevant?
For those that wish to learn to build their own distro, is the Linux From Scratch project still a great place to start?

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Don’t even those phones feature a cellular modem that shares memory with the CPU? In that case, they remain insecure.
Satellite imaging is the same way, too. It's pretty hard to be an independent commercial satellite imaging company—most have been scooped up by MDA (Digital Globe) or PLanet Labs (Skybox, Rapideye)

Wonder if Capella Space will break through.
> Did you really get any of these, or were you exaggerating?

All of these, in this single 3-months bug bounty program. I'm absolutely not exaggerating.

> If you really did and they're public anywhere (and the people weren't joking), I'd love to see them. Sounds absolutely amazing.

This is on our private security@ contact. We have one every month, telling us that.
It was supposed to be possible, via standard notification mechanism and scheduler, new in 7.x. If Google starts flagging apps pinging network off the scheduler, everyone will get even more angry, as there will be a glut of foreground notifications just because they broke a use case.
This strategy could be slightly improved by never tipping.
Agree that seemed odd. I'm more confused about that site in general, according to those stats (and alexa rankings seem similar), the site itself looks widely popular.

Could somebody contextualize their significance? Looking at the homepage just shows me a bunch of click-bait that I'd honestly not want to see in my search results, even when searching for something cryptocurrency related. Were they just good at SEO and focussed on the wrong niche? (edit: typo)
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He is the shit. I have several times independently discovered something nice to discover it was yet another contribution.
I used Karabiner for a while, but didn't find a lot of incredible use for it in practice. Some people love it, though.

I'd have liked to have seen more apps try and do something with the touch bar, though. Amusingly, Apple's native Terminal.app does more work with it than many other apps I've seen -- it adds a virtual key that toggles the Option key between Option and Meta, adds a "Man page" button that will bring up the man page for the last-typed command, and lets you quickly change the theme of an existing terminal window.
The USA military fills a space that would be filled by another power if there was no USA military.

I personally don't want that to be China. Not because I think they'd do a bunch of crazy things but because I think they'd slowly and methodically subvert other countries just like they're doing in the South China Sea.

While I agree 1000% we need to minimize the USA military, we also need a plan for other (UN) countries to contribute to a shared force or something similar that can police in place of the USA military. Even in turn policing the USA in cases of military overstepping.

EDIT: What I'm saying is this article points to a problem, but it's complex. I imagine with UN oversight a military force might actually be less of a polluter and we might slow down arms races as well.
I don't think it's that simple: there was a feedback loop involved in which game (and app) developers share some of the "blame" for what has happened. A few could have differentiated themselves by continuing to offer high-end gaming and app experiences at a premium, but chose short-term, easy money. I don't blame them entirely, but someone in a position of power with even reasonable patience and foresight back then could have kept enough competitive share of the market to profit well without going into the race to the bottom we've seen.
You might want to consider specifically excluding any ideas that have had VC-backing from consideration because there will probably be competition in that space.
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I never understood why some colleges set group work, it seems like such an obviously terrible way to evaluate people. Good students will end up doing all the work, and if you try to change that, the good students will lie about it to appease you.

You can just set individual projects, it's not that hard.
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