skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is for privacy purposes. Obviously, there are other services that communicate with Google without an account, like AGPS and (on Google phones) OS update checks, but unlike on iOS, those can be disabled — no recompile necessary.
Google AMP project is a pretty big step by Google towards trying to control the entire web.
Almost 3 years gone and no updates? Is it a dead product?
Realpolitik is not HN’s strong suit.
I don't believe developers have no right to complain.

I only hope these types of threads don't become a habit. It promotes a mentality of negativity, in my opinion. It's not constructive for the industry, I don't think.
This seems like absolutely horrible advice. Building something quickly doesn't mean disregarding every development common sense since we invented these things to help us.

What's next? Forget numbers, just String everything because you'll save time serializing?
There are at least two ways to install apps outside of the App Store: https://www.iotransfer.net/tips/how-to-download-apps-without...
In addition you could use TestFlight or HockeyApp to distribute to limited beta testers. HN is a technical forum, proselytizing based on your software freedom beliefs by selectively using facts is very disingenuous. Android works for you, that is great - other people actually have “freedom” to ignore your definition of freedom and do what they want.
Lyft is trying to shut down bikeshare in Transit App
Do you consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be political?

If so: you are equipped with the necessary building blocks to define hate speech in a non-political way.

If not: your definition of “political” is so broad as to be meaningless.
This sentiment is absurd. I’m not going to let HK protests affect my spending. What, exactly, do you want me to do?
Is Google helping the Hong Kong protests? Honest question.
Sounds like pretty much every credit union out there.
We need free hardware before we can build free software.

No one produces an LTE modem with open source firmware.
I think this is basically the best feature of Clojure: its defrecord form creates a new class but that class implements all the interfaces necessary to treat it like a dictionary.
If Apple says no then there’s no iPhone 12. iPhone 13 is ideally manufactured in the us.
Please be the kind of man who doesn't do this here.
Swiss Archaeologists Discover 5,500 Year Old Submerged Monument
If I may, I get the strong sense that your hesitation isn't really about the unvested $$.

Can you tell us more about the nonprofit you'd like to start?
Emacs users are ready.
I don’t use my checking account as an investment account. Yes Simple has a higher interest rate but my checking account only ever has whatever it needs to fulfill rent and bills. Everything else gets allocated elsewhere.

I’m also married so this is a joint account. Last time I checked Simple doesn’t provide joint accounts. That might have changed.
http://www.clickhereyouidiot.com/
My first exposure to this term and concept was back in the early-mid 90s when building and racing RC-10s. Ackermann was something we could adjust, and it, combined with caster, made a big difference in how the vehicles steered especially in the dirt.
I recall someone once designed an image format which stored (image width - 1), and added 1 to the image dimensions while decoding. That eliminates an edge case, but no clue what would happen with MAX_INT image size...
A Court Says Repealing Net Neutrality Was (Mostly) OK
Can anyone recommend a secure host in the EU?
Having trouble finding a suitable host in the EU - preferably Amsterdam.
Small but growing global BtoB company with several hard constraints.

We have had a great response from one US company but they only have one site in the EU. Other hosts ignore us, or are dragging their heels even to quote.

Can anyone recommend an EU hosting company? The constraints are being driven by several of our clients so there should be other companies with similar requirements.

6+ quad core dedicated servers across two sites - 3 in each, 2 running VMs. Must be within the EU - preference for primary site in Amsterdam.
Cannot use or mention the cloud.
TPM chip for full disk encryption on all servers (this appears to be a sticking point).
Windows Server and SQL Server- will probably add some linux boxes later.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, it’ll get worse! Just wait until pattern #3 that I post.
A family friend was a lawyer and economics professor specializing in competition law and was fully booked at $800/hr. He owned a dozen luxury condos all over the world but had No wife, no kids, and didn’t tell his clients when he had cancer, he worked right up to the end.
This sounds like a solution for software rather than hardware. Everyone has a smartphone. I would rather not have others handling my devices.

>I would absolutely buy something like that for doing in person usability testing with prototypes in settings outside a usability lab.

This sounds like an extremely niche use case.
not entirely, more a function of it's multi user mode as default and repos. Those two things would have gone a long ways for early windows as well.

It's also worth noting that there are a lot of linux servers in the wild that are hacked serving shitty wordpress malware and spam email servers. Sure the desktop is fine, it's a very small piece of the pie, but the overall linux install ends up running bad software and poor configurations just like any OS.
Many people who have criticized Greta Thunberg have been banned.
> Except that American oil companies didn't get any benefit so how does that make any sense? If we are willing to accept the evidence that oil companies in the US didn't meaningfully benefit, doesn't that whole argument kind of seem silly?

Let me start by saying that I don't know much about the history of this period. That being said, I imagine these questions can be answered in two ways:

1. If you don't succeed at doing X, it does not mean that you never intended to do X. Something as chaotic as war will be full of unintended consequences. Maybe American oil companies did not benefit as a result of the war, even though America wanted them to; similar to how ISIS was formed as a result of the war, even though America certainly didn't want it to.

2. I don't think the narrative has ever been that US wanted to directly benefit American oil companies, à la United Fruit Company. The theory is, rather, that the US wanted to ensure that the flow of oil to international markets would not be stopped due to Iraq's actions. Think of it this way: the work US navy does to secure international trading routes is not about directly benefiting US shipping and insurance companies. It is about keeping the wheels of global trade and economy moving. The US companies may benefit from this non-directly, but other nations and companies will benefit from this equally as well. The narrative is not about the US going to war as a colonizer to steal Iraqi oil or get sweetheart deals for US companies. It is that it went to war to ensure continued flow of Iraqi oil to the market and ensure Iraqi government would not throw a wrench in the oil shipments through the region. Ultimately, the reasons for the war, according to this theory, were economical rather than humanitarian or defence-related.

Now I don't know if the above statements are true. I just wanted to bring up the arguments and assertions people make, lest the debate delve into attacking a straw man.
Exactly.

Everyone keeps bringing up this legendary "app store featuring safe curated content" keeping the "ordinary user" safe but the reality is both Google & Apple's stores are riddled with deceptive apps, scam subscriptions and spyware!

The real story with iOS (and to a lesser extent Android) security has been the switch to restricting the damage any particular app can do through process and resource isolation.
I have them for my business account because I couldn’t find anything better for a small business. The experience sucked from day one going to the branch but at this point I don’t want to waste time setting up an account elsewhere. I also receive wire transfers for most of my consulting work so going back and bothering all my customers to change routing numbers is a burden I don’t want to put on them unnecessarily.
Did you miss all the Stallman threads we just had?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583
Reading this site on iPad and chrome activates an ad/dialog that sends me to luckyguys-dot-top, which locks my iPad in a never-ending series of “Congrats lucky iPad user!” dialog boxes.
> "But I will not be shocked when we discover 20 years from now that some patients have chronic lung disease because they’ve been vaping."

Well, she'll only have to wait a few more years. Vaping got started in 2003, and by 2005 was already exploding--I personally knew several developers who vaped regularly at that point. (I'm not a smoker, so it's notable that even I was familiar with vaping at that point.)

It's a pity what this hysteria and moral panic is doing. Both of my parents successfully switched from smoking cigarettes to vaping. My dad had been chain smoking unfiltered Camels since he was about 15. But now they're getting calls from friends and family "concerned" about their vaping. I just hoping it doesn't result in them relapsing. Anybody who thinks vaping, using reputable products, is even remotely comparable to cigarettes is a dangerous nut.

Tainted vape juice and coils which are too hot have been a known concern since the very beginning. The solution isn't the hysteria over vaping, it's to stop these kids and young adults from buying black market products.

That's the first thing I told my parents--only buy vape juice and devices from reputable suppliers and manufacturers with a well-known presence, preferably manufacturers in the U.S. If the medical community is truly concerned, they'd either push the FDA to release some sensible standards; or create their own standard, tap an existing pharmacologic auditor (or whatever you call them) to verify manufacturing methods, and initiate a publicity campaigned to advertise their trademarked label.

It's ridiculous the way that not only the media but medical professionals gloss over the hard facts of these cases--e.g. black market products, mostly verified THC products with every reason to believe the vast majority of THC notwithstanding claims--to pass judgment on vaping generally. Or how the "epidemic" in vaping (including both nicotine and THC), at least until the end of 2018, hadn't even exceeded regular marijuana usage by high schoolers. Their patently illogical reasoning and irrational conclusions are the type of thing we've come to expect from Trump, not doctors.
Ten Months Down the Line
Oops. Left this thought out:

When you do marketing or public relations stuff, you have to speak to your entire audience, not just a majority of it. Yes, that's like extra work. You need to do it anyway.

While it's true that HN is mostly male, it's not entirely. So this phrasing is a problem:

If your mother, aunt, or family friend lives nearby, we'd love to meet her!

You should have started with reaching out to the female cohort here first, perhaps even giving them something special ("Are you a woman over 50 on HN living in this area? Use this code to get your first month free!") and then added the part asking people to reach out to people that fit your demographic if they don't happen to fit it.

(I'm not in the SFBA. I am a woman over 50 and I write website copy for pay, among other things.)
I've gotten messages on LinkedIn a few times for things like this. One of the biggest companies in this space is GLG (https://glg.it/)

Usually the client is like a hedge fund or private equity fund, and they are trying to get info on an industry/sector to make an investment decision.
I am finding myself reminded of a lawsuit in Hong Kong over a divorcing couple who were paying their dance instructor millions and millions of dollars. We're talking above ten. Why? because this power couple wanted to rock the world of their elite friends with their chassée turn and tango style.

There are seriously people out there who want what is in somebody's head, legally, and even though you or I might do "wait..what?" the price can go north, if they want it bad enough.
Android has multiple stores though and even if none of them carry the app you can still side load it.
but the type of user who uses Linux was not the same type of user who were most vulnerable to getting viruses back before walled gardens. linux users would be less prone to malware regardless of whether there's a walled garden because they are more likely to have the tech literacy.
Same for Safari on iPhone.
The people who came wouldn't suddenly have become more talented if I offered more.
I've thought about consulting before, and my wife actually thinks it's the "right" thing for me (given my recent anger/frustration over the "online assessments" aka algorithm study).

The problem is I'm just not onboard with all the struggles that come with having to find clients, maintain clients, etc. I appreciate (and value) the security and consistency that comes from more-or-less knowing you will have a paycheck next week.

My skillset also lends well (I think?) to a technical manager, or even CTO position at a SMALL company. I certainly know of some great tools, how to glue them all together, and how to do so really quickly. Yet how one makes the jump from "Senior Software Engineer" to fucking CTO is beyond me. I'm not even sure where one would search for CTO jobs. And I'm 32 so, not exactly young but, not quite what you think of when you think of upper management...

The point is - I get your point. Maybe I shouldn't be killing myself with these algorithms. Maybe I should lean into things I'm better at and market myself, gain clients, etc.
Ok, we switched to Reuters from https://www.anandtech.com/show/14930/samsung-stops-productio....
Look up the story of Aline Lerner. Consider that, whatever you think about your situation, she was probably thinking similar things, and despite that, she’s always been one of the most interesting people in her class at MIT, even when she was in your job, especially then. And look at you, first post in the most popular thread right now. You have physical hardships, no doubt, but there is an existential interest that you’ve piqued here. Well-paid software engineers may struggle with the banality of irrelevance, boredom and disconnection with their fellow man. I once met a girl on a plane that told me that the most important thing you can know about life is that nobody has it better than you. Nobody. Interestingly, whether it’s true or not, you have nothing to gain by believing otherwise.
If the company is US based, the US government has full authority to demand how they behave elsewhere.
I counted 5 seconds from flipping keyboard until all screens rearrange and complete rendering
> The idea that the relevant PRC officials don't have at least a daily check in with Apple to sync on issues the CCP thinks "need more attention" is endearingly naive.

Your comment would be far more useful to the discussion if you would provide some evidence to back this or at least evidence to support the claim that the CCP does this generally to tech companies or foreign companies.
That normally is actually a better strategy. I love that Schwab lets you overdraft your checking account with no fees (if you choose), and they first try to pull cash out of your brokerage account before borrowing on margin.
Who decides what's hate speech? Aren't white nationalists necessarily guilty of too much white people love?
> once iCloud launches file sharing

As an iPhone and MacBook user I'd have happily done that iff it was useful or accessible to my friends and family who are not in the fruit company ecosystem (and that's the majority in my case).

Because I really don't think Apple is going cross platform anytime soon https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204174 https://support.apple.com/kb/ph2609
this ^

Using git locally is a tool just like your code editor. There's no need to ask your boss about that.

Since you're the only developer it's mainly to make it easy to revert any mistakes and to have confidence in deleting useless stuff (that you can recover later).
Overstock.com Adopts Pets
1 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6599341/Leak-claims...
Free speech is completely unrelated to deplatforming, regardless whether you believe that’s happening or not. Only the government is required to permit free speech, Twitter isn’t, YouTube isn’t, and neither is Fox or Breitbart. Private companies do not have any responsibility to permit speech they disagree with.

No “left winger” (America doesn’t have a left, it has a center right and a far right) has proposed amending the constitution to eliminate free speech. At best they're hoping to move the Overton window.
Oh, Smedley: Was there really a fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. government?
I can't name any deplatformed views that aren't hate speech. If you can, I'd like to hear about them to broaden my views.

James Damore. And if you believe what he said really was hate speech, that just illustrates the problem.
Samsung already makes most of their phones in Vietnam. Not a huge difference, other than the lack of tariffs.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/04/12/why-samsung-of-sou...
Can someone tell me why microplastics are actually bad? I feel like scientists have recently been discovering they're everywhere, but is there any negative effect? They really are everywhere, and theres nothing we can do now.

I bought a Patagonia fleece the other day, and realized the thing is practically made out of microplastics, or 'recycled polyester'. And Patagonia claims to be an eco-friendly company, even though they acknowledge the microplastics problem.
That was a response to the OP where:

>Companies are going to have to decide how important the Chinese market is or risk eroding the trust and good will for all of their other customers. You can’t stand on the boat of democracy and the boat of a dictatorship at the same time.

Emphasis on customers. Clearly, the customers have spoken on this, as well as any other atrocity that has happened in the past.
If this is possible using only a pair of WiFi transmitters and decibel information, what will be possible with U1/Ultra-wideband spectrum use coming to iPhones?
Indeed, which is why Youtube is totally within their right to demonetize LGBTQ+ content (any content really, regardless of subject) if it's not acceptable to their advertisers. If you're comfortable with platforms deplatforming what you don't agree with, be prepared to become comfortable with them deplatforming whatever they want, whenever they want.
Picnic’s Pizza Making Robot Uses Assembly Line System
You absolutely do not need free hardware to build free software.

It was decades before the PC's we used to build FreeBSD, GNU, Linux etc. had even a free software BIOS available.

Historically, free hardware availability has followed in the wake of free software.
> Anything that pays well is easy compared to a job that pays shit.

There are always exceptions to this rule:

https://time.com/4487297/high-paying-jobs-personality/

Edit- consider newly graduated investment bankers, medical residents, junior lawyers. There are some very well paying professions that operate under extremely stressful situations.
>By the third call I was in beast mode, nailing every question

Was beast mode from doom 2 or quake ? Love it when people
Let these little things slip that tell you a bit more about them.
That's simply not true. Find a credit union, for starters, that has unlimited no-fee and fee-reimbursed withdrawals from any ATM worldwide. This is better than any bank I've found in other countries I've been to or lived in.

Then find one that also has no-fee overdrafting on margin, etc.
> Contrasting point - I dislike the thought that folks who've "got it good" should just stay quiet and never complain because they are much better off than others. To me, this is immoral and ineffective.

I like to say "Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean my problems aren't problems." I think the argument of "other people have it worse" is very dehumanizing. To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in that suffering (to provide a cliche). Can we just accept that problems are problems and they should be solved, even if trivial? I'm all for finding logistically which ones should be tackled first, but I don't think that commonly applies here.
If only we had an entity that could direct cultural change....
If Americans are really signing seven-year loans for cars, something is very, very wrong. It seems to me that we need to do more to help people get their credit score high enough where they won't have to sign such financially disastrous loans. Help is available via free credit counselling.
You're both right.

Freedom of speech is important.

And Freedom of Association is important.

Everyone has a right to say what they please. And everyone has a right to associate with whoever they please.

If you don't like what someone says, well, sorry. I don't know what to tell you? Go listen to someone else, I guess? But you can't make the guy you don't like stop talking. That's attacking his freedom.

If people don't want to associate with you, well, sorry. I don't know what to tell you? Go find different friends, or don't be a douchebag, I guess? But you can't force people who don't like you to associate with you. That's attacking their freedom.

Hate speech may be a thing, but it's entirely legitimate free expression.

Other people don't lose their rights simply because you feel they should to accommodate your belief system.

"Deplatforming", whatever that is, may be a thing, but it's entirely legitimate free expression.

Other people don't lose their rights simply because you feel they should to accommodate your belief system.
Most of us are adults, I don't see how staking out moral tentposts adds anything to this discussion. I was enjoying the stories from the community.

Nobody should feel guilty for being unhappy in their job and wanting to talk about. Trying to make someone feel guilty about it is the same kind of thing an abusive employer does to abused workers.
I like the website. It's simple and loads fast.
Yup. NC recently got rid of the automatic pay bump for having a masters degree while simultaneously increasing base teacher pay and there was a huge uproar over it. Nobody wants to lose their boondoggle.
So I recently switched up my approach on leetcode.com to optimize for this naturally.

What I was doing initially was:

I sorted their entire problems database for the most frequently asked questions. Started at the top, and worked my way down.

The problem with this method is that each question can be quite different from the last. Your first question might be an arrays / sliding-window question. The next is a dynamic programming problem. The next stacks. After that, union-find / connected components.

The point is each problem would end up sufficiently different from the previous one that in a given day, or over the course of a few days, you weren't practicing the same (or roughly the same) type of problem.

So as of literally TODAY I've changed my approach to sort the list by TYPE of problem. I will then focus on a specific type (per their categorization) for ~X number of problems (to be determined).

The hope is that by sticking to a specific category of problems, I'll be able to actually learn the commonalities within those problem sets.
I am. I don’t go to breitbart because I don’t agree with them. If YouTube started doing things I didn’t agree with I’d mosey on too. That’s not entirely true because I still watch an awful lot of Fox but the spirit remains. They don’t tell me what to say and I don’t tell them what to say.