skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothetically, some businesses should not exist. For instance, although a children's-heroin-selling business might be in great demand and turn a huge profit, such a business is not in the best interests of society. Simply optimizing the delivery of things people want is not sufficient to make a good business. "Heavy equipment rental for people under the influence of narcotics" is similar. Without getting into a discussion of social good, or what's moral or not, we can all agree that at times people are willing to make trades for which they themselves would find stupid at other times.

Once data is captured it never goes away. As time passes and as it aggregates with other similar data, it actually becomes much more valuable.

So, continuing along, hypothetically, what are you going to do if capturing personal data in exchange for "free" services is not a business that should exist?

I understand that right now you're engaged in a long and drawn-out split-the-baby campaign, where you try to assure privacy advocates of your intentions and that's there some magic sauce involving algorithms that will solve everything, but what if that is not the case? What if your business model is built on harming people by encouraging them to make trades for personal information where, once we all figure out what we're doing, none of us would agree to fifty years from now? How will you know? Will you tell us? Do you already know? What are your plans?

If you truly want to respect privacy and are on the side of people living their lives without being constantly examined like lab rats and having every piece of their existence recorded for any hacker to see forevermore, what are your plans for knowing that it's not working out? What's your tripwire, your exit plan?

Because frankly, if you don't have one of those, then this is all just a PR exercise, right? You've already decided that you win, you just haven't figured the details out yet.

You can restate the question several different ways, but it all boils down to "How do we know you're serious about this?" Because so far it just looks like a bunch of the usual public relations BS.
Freedom of speech should only apply to humans. Corporations are not humans they are made up of humans who have that right. There is no reason non living entities rights should exceed those of living humans the rights were intended to protect.
I consider a downvote as a disagreement with no further comment. But I understand what you're saying.
6) fucked up mobile 7) bought Nokia and fucked up mobile again, although the handsets were (*edit: and are still) great.

Although you are correct, these were the worst strategy moves, I don't think we are not talking about that. This is about fiendish corporate behaviour towards friends and partners.
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I'd imagine they'd just say "no" to that because almost certainly somewhere in their ToS/PP they got "explicit" consent from you to sell your soul and everything that goes with it.

Remember, all you need to know from them is what they do and when they do it. You don't need or want them to make a judgment call on the legalities or morality or anything else when responding; you can do that yourself later.

To that end, I'd word it like this:

"What are all the situations in which your apps read clipboard contents, and why is it necessary in each case?" (Obviously pasting would be one scenario, to which you'll just nod and move on...)

(And I would ask the same about microphone data, location data, etc. too, not just clipboard contents.)
That's exactly what FreedomBox is trying to do. https://freedombox.org/

They have a lot of work to do on user friendliness and design though.

I'd rather see something like YUNOHOST partner with a hardware provider.
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This is a very useful distinction. Thanks!
It depends on your goals. If you just want to do the 5K as fast as possible, you'll be close to your max heart rate (180). If you're just "leisure" running (aka. you can talk while running) I suppose 140 is reasonable.
This is already known, yes, and they're called shadow profiles.
True. It certainly doesn't help that a lot of the elected representatives who are making these laws evidently lack even a basic understanding of the technical issues involved, so they are often guided by expert advice from those who entirely coincidentally are the main beneficiaries of the stronger powers being created.
Yeah, I'm not really serious about that one.
I realised I had a paid account, so I've cancelled that too. And I've also reported them to Apple, after seeing that the ZoomOpener app reinstalls the client - which is completely and utterly unacceptable.
Just read this HN thread. The people don't want less crime, they want more "justice". Especially the people that run those prisons.
Hasn't Zuckerberg answered the parent's question already in his interview with Kara Swisher? (Speaking of which, listen to that podcast before going if you haven't done so already.)
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Can you elaborate?

I would argue that a business domain is defined by it's data and how that data is transformed and displayed based on user input.

So simply put:
1. Data goes into system
2. Data is displayed to user
3. User interacts with data (button, CLI etc.)
4. Data is transformed based on interaction

That is ALL a program ever is. So you can model a program by just specifying the transformations that happen on each user interaction.

This can be optimized heavily if each interaction requires a large set of data to be transformed, e.g. through data oriented design you can work on big sets of data based on previous interactions and transformations and only work on data you need to work on.

It's not a design pattern. It's just a way of thinking about programs as what they are. A design pattern is something you put on top of data because you want a human understanding of business logic.
You should go. But be aware that they're likely using you to look like they legitimately care about their user's privacy. So just don't let yourself be used in that way unless you want to be.

The question I've always wanted to ask Facebook is how much is their data worth? No discussion of privacy at Facebook is interesting unless the discussion concerns money and their bottom line. They undoubtably have people inside Facebook calculating how much spcecific bits of PII are worth to them, and what it would to their bottom line if they stopped collecting them. IMO any discussion of privacy that doesn't quantify it in terms of money is basically a waste of time. They're a company and money is all they care about.

As a corollary to value ask them about risk. How much do they calculate the risk of holding all that PII to be? How much would their bottom line be hurt if they lost it in a breach?
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Part of the issue with federation is the very nebulous concept of servers themselves.

What should my domain name be? This question alone is enough to stop someone in their tracks. There's only so many non-stupid sounding names. And should the name focus on a location, a hobby, myself?

If I allow people to sign up, should it only be for people I know IRL? What if I mix online friends and IRL friends on the same server, is that weird?

I'm looking forward to trying full decentralization tbh. Federation feels like a strange halfway house.
Does harvesting materials add more court-side seats to the lakers game? More materials just shifts the currency to location and proximity to things that cant be duplicated.
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Now go explain that to the folks in Marketing.
Tavis Ormandy joked about buying those dips because of this and I really don't think either of you are wrong and I might start doing it myself.
IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat
They need to leave them with their key so they can issue an update.
Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions
Interestingly the three responses to my comment are quite similar, which makes me wonder that I misunderstood what the grandparent was writing.

> That logic assumes humans want to share equitably the ownership of robots and their benefits.

I read that as the robot ownders not wanting to share, but now I see that perhaps the grandparent was talking about society as a whole.

I suspect the difference here is one of context. I live in a country that has a fairly strong social safety net when compared to the popular conception of the safety net in the United States of America.
Why? The company blog post is pretty clear that they don't see any of the security issues to be a problem.
You don't have to agree with her politics, but I think Peggy Noonan had the right answer on this one: it's a show and there's no good to be found in taking part.

Just say no and hit send.

> In February 2018 Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein of Wired wrote a deeply reported piece that mentioned the 2016 meeting. It was called so that the company could “make a show of apologizing for its sins.” A Facebook employee who helped plan it said part of its goal—they are clever at Facebook and knew their mark!—was to get the conservatives fighting with each other. “They made sure to have libertarians who wouldn’t want to regulate the platform and partisans who would.” Another goal was to leave attendees “bored to death” by a technical presentation after Mr. Zuckerberg spoke.

(http://peggynoonan.com/overthrow-the-prince-of-facebook/)
> Okay why hasn't this revolutionized the entire UK prison system

But it is quietly revolutionising the UK prison system. We've had Conservative politicians saying that prisons don't work and that we need a different approach.

As with everything that got shelved because Brexit.
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I hadn't heard of this, so I looked it up, and you are right:
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43354

At least that was patched. These sorts of issues are frustrating, because as a Linux user I really want to like Zoom -- I appreciate that the treat all platforms pretty equal (Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS) with native apps. That is a rarity.
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IBM Closes Red Hat Acquisition for $34B
you can reader using Calibre, it's far from being a good reader

https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/calibre-ebook-re...
> This tool binary-patches your local system rather than shipping via AMO. That’s not healthy.

Modifying/creating/updating a few text files in your profile directory is not "binary-patching".

And it's done this way because it's impossible to do it with only a WebExtension published on AMO.
> So simply put: 1. Data goes into system 2. Data is displayed to user 3. User interacts with data (button, CLI etc.) 4. Data is transformed based on interaction

> That is ALL a program ever is.

Well, no, that's a fairly typical pattern for an interactive program, sure, but plenty of programs involve transformations that are not in response to user interaction, and may not even include user interaction or display to user at all.
For what it's worth, I haven't seen any of that in interviews in Europe, for senior positions. At most, there may be some fizzbuzz level question to make sure you're not a fraud. The interviews are mostly a chat about past experiences, opinions about technologies or something like "propose an architecture/tech stack for a problem we had". Also, often there are queries about specifics of technology they're using. All seems to be huge improvement over whiteboarding people.
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That is unfortunately a mistake on the writer’s side: posits do not claim that anywhere in their specification or elsewhere.

Sloppy journalism.
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Ok, let me up the game. I had one simple short-lived cron command that failed on even minutes before h:20 where 5AM < h < 8AM on Sat, Sun, Mon.

Cause was another job that hammered IO because reasons, so mine was being killed by some unreported IO timeout after 1min, and retried the next minute (so every other minute). The other one was scheduled to run on off business time (weekends and Monday before people get to work) and had some burstiness that made the IO go down enough every other minute which allowed my short-execution one to proceed.

top was silent because IO, took us a long time to even thing about iotop because the failure was non obviously tied to IO.
No Mac here but thanks for trying :)
MacBook Air and MacBook Pro updated for back-to-school season
These things should be surprising, but they are not.

And this is true around the globe, independent of evidence politician demand ever crazier methods (while at the same time usually reducing both the paychecks and numbers of police officers). I wonder how we, the people, can protect our democratic systems from these dangers?
We work with a lot of hospitals and find that video conferencing tools are often blocked by their IT departments for security reasons. I’m expecting Zoom to find itself on that list in short order.
I ran into the bad teacher with Autonomy.

Singled me out because I liked math and she was an English and Spanish teacher.

I had never gotten a C before, but that teacher in a panic admitted that "I wasn't good at her class like I am at math". In reality she was targeting me for some reason and giving me minimal participation credit despite participation.

By the end of the class, enough students complained she stopped teaching Spanish 1. And she still teaches to this day 11years later.
I'm using it with my eldest also after seeing it mentioned here. I can't recommend it enough, it has helped him enormously.
I had no idea that it was standardized. Thanks for sharing this!
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There are some books focused on OTP:

* Erlang and OTP in Action;

* Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems;

* Designing Elixir Systems with OTP (in beta).
Didn't this happen a while ago?
"He volunteers 13-hour days, three and a half days a week, in return for a free bunk bed. “I guess it’s a fair trade,” he said."

So he's working 195 hours a month to pay his $1200 rent? I guess that makes this the Uber of flophouses.
Numberphile has a nice video on 5040 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JM2oImb9Qg
Copenhagen Cracks Down on Drunk Scooter Driving
The project would be for a large company with a focus on security. Also, the CMS would have to have bespoke functionality, so an out the box solution wouldn't work for us
The reason they are fighting it is because cash transactions are mostly transactions which will not be reported for taxes. When Greece implemented capital controls in 2015 the country's tax income skyrocketed because everyone started using debit cards.
Fake voices 'help cyber-crooks steal cash'
I think the opioid crisis is more the problem than "inefficient healthcare"[1]

Inefficient healthcare sounds like it's just that ambulance transit times are too long or that there's too much paperwork. It doesn't bring to mind "pharma companies getting consumers addicted to opioids later triggering a massive addiction crisis that nobody is equipped or prepared to tackle"

[1] http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/49/1/1....
(prior reply deleted once I read about the fucking local webserver & phantom reinstallation bullshit. Fuck zoom.)
I've found that very much depends on the teacher and - to a lesser extent - the school policies as well. Each teacher will have their own teaching style. Some do favour "sit down and copy from a worksheet" style of teaching but I'd argue those are the lazier teachers. Others, however, do find more creative and interactive ways for kids to learn the same curriculum.

Source: my wife is a primary school teacher and really enjoys creating fun lessons.
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They finalized the acquisition today. It was pending approval from regulators around the globe
The deal was announced a while ago. This means all the papers have been signed and money, etc. has changed hands.
Now, notwithstanding what I posted above, THIS is fucked up and inexcusable.
The challenge for the Green New Deal isn't politics, its transmission lines
A large issue with federated social networks is that they are complicated to set up. It believe would be a lot easier to gain adoption if devs stuck to php5 instead of using 5 to 10 different hot and new languages.
The mentioned difficulties do not appear to actually be due to translation, but instead due to lacking the background to appreciate a given work as worth reading.

> Zoku meian [Light and Darkness continued], is a tour de force in which she creates a very plausible, stylistically pitch-perfect ending to Meian [Light and Darkness], the last, unfinished masterpiece by Natsume Sōseki, Japan’s most important modern novelist.

...

> As a fragmentary, dependent work, standing in relation to a classic text that is largely unknown outside Japan except to a handful of experts, it is, in effect, impossible to render into comprehensible English or, for that matter, any other language

If "Light and Darkness continued" had been written as a continuation of an English translation of Meian, it is likely that it would have failed to gather any significant readership except translated into Japanese as Zoku meian. That's simply due to targeting an audience that is already familiar with Meian and might pay attention to a well-written continuation.

A similar problem arises for Star Wars novelizations, without any translation involved. Being invested into the universe that serves as backdrop for the story is essentially a prerequisite for becoming a reader. If you tried to "translate" an English Star Wars novel for the English mass market, you'd fail the same as when translating a novel full of Japanese cultural references for the same market.

The "homogenizing danger" then isn't so much about writing to be translated, but about writing to be read by the largest possible number of readers, be it in translation or not. Other literature can exist, but you shouldn't expect it to get popular outside a small niche. Sometimes the niches are separated by language boundaries, other times they're not. I'd assume translated Star Wars novels to also appeal to Japanese Star Wars fans, for example.
try https://www.openhab.org
very extensible, and even has some open source mobile apps
I'm guessing it's some kind of A/B testing done by Amazon. Do people trust in the Amazon brand, or do they rather buy from unknown brands that offer cheap but decent quality (compared to the cheap and poor quality counterparts that flood the site)? Each brand is probably there to answer a specific question (or set of).
Completely agreed, however the parent comment suggests that they aren't aware that their vps provider's underlying network infrastructure is 'snooping' on them by default:

> I seriously doubt my hosting provider would jeopardize their business by snooping on ... a vpn given the breach of trust would cause large customers to ditch them.

Any half decent network provider logs sampled flow data by default. This is all that is needed to de-anonymise any vpn session. Even on a host that is shared by hundreds of VPN sessions.
Agreed. I wouldn't say there is a right and wrong way to teach (for starters, every child learns differently) but it can be extremely hard to retain objectivity when it is your own offspring.
The definition of "principle" includes "law" - at least, according to the dictionary. I'm not sure I can identify a useful distinction in common use.
I liked FBReader until I realized it wasn't displaying the blank lines used by the book series I was reading to separate sections in a chapter. Undoubtably the ebooks' CSS was bad, but other readers, like my Sony e-ink device, displayed them OK.
That's so stupid, though. A whole service gets blocked for 1 person?

I assume this person could have gotten radicalized by talking to other radicals on the phone, so you ban phones?
Because using a 1992 calendar in 2020 would be pretty cool.
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It's funny because I felt Vista was perfectly fine as an OS, whereas ME was almost unusable (with the stability issues you mentioned). Vista was just boring, not great, but it worked. So it surprises me that so many people were frustrated by it.

Maybe I just hot lucky with my hardware choices at the time.
Any recommendations on a particular syntax highlighter plugin?

Also note that you may not be able to run this setup on WordPress.com but there are plenty of hosts at the $10/month level who will be happy to host your wp install. The auto update process is pretty good too.

As far as jupyter, this looks useful:

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/2018/05/05/make-jupyter-noteb...
When the call to action in an image macro showing a huge queue of brown people ostensibly coming to your country invites you to google a specific term if you want 'proof' of its assertions and yet actually googling that term furnishes you with multiple, thorough debunkings of the entire point it was making, and yet still it's being shared far and wide by friends and family, I don't need, your snark notwithstanding, to assert any level of intellectual superiority over anyone.

It literally invited them to prove it to themselves and yet seemingly none of them did.

But no, you're right. We should try not to be more right than other people, lest we're the bigots.
> I've never experienced those supposed horrors across multiple operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows 7/8/10)

You've completely missed the point. The horrors are in compatibility. NVIDIA chooses to make it difficult for their customers to use their hardware with new applications, and they hold back the whole ecosystem. In addition to the topic at hand (Wayland), their release model holds back Linux kernel releases when their driver becomes incompatible with the upstream kernel because it is not maintained there.

If you just want to run whatever boring applications NVIDIA chooses to allow you to run, congratulations! Go enjoy your "experience", and play it "the way it's meant to be played"! :- )

> among other things I remember are really bad Linux drivers (proprietary or otherwise)

You're living about seven years in the past.
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That didn't happen until people started using Windows XP. I only saw a few businesses using NT or Windows 2000, but I don't recall many people running those versions in their home computers.
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I think the opioid crisis and the structural inefficiencies of the healthcare system are 2 separate (but related) problems that both need solving.
The folks in Marketing have folks in IT to do this for them.
At some point "millennials" became slang for "Kids These Days" and just sort of stuck. It's weird.