skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's slight difference in that in Firefox's case tech journals will be writing about it, everyone else will be talking about it and it will be on front page of HN. In the case of random extension going rogue it will likely get unnoticed for years and when it is finally noticed there's a small chance it will be picked by HN if planets align.
I think our government likes all citizens conducting communications via electronic devices.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/pr...
Responsible denial of service with web cache poisoning
This is a massive UX improvement for large screens. I wondered how long it would take UX folks to make this change (along with moving app navigation to the bottom generally).

Minor aside, they don't seem to support the <meta name="theme-color" content="#000000"> to colour the address bar.
I think they do backup if you do an offline (e.g. iTunes) full backup and restore on the same device, which of course is never what people do.
What does 11 carrier strike groups have to do with the 5th amendment? The former is to project power beyond the borders of the United States. The latter is to protect you from an abusive government domestically.

Also to take it further, technically, the US Constitution does not apply beyond our borders (like any other US law, absent a bilateral treaty).

I fail to see the connection you are trying to make.
You don't have a set of documents. You just have the one document...

It's almost like you guys are deliberately ignoring all the lawyers with actual transactional experience to create hypothetical problems that don't exist in the real world so you can suggest version control as a solution.
Sorry, I meant native to the browser. Flash had to be installed on your machine, but WASM is built into browsers and exists as a web standard.
I visited Iceland in the summer of 2008 [0], loved the place, and loved the espresso there! Being Italian, that's something I don't easily concede to a country :)

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/simone_brunozzi/albums/7215760...
From my experience, the glory in Iceland is absolutely not found in the golden circle. The rest of the country is mind-boggingly empty and gorgeous. The interior looks like a complete different planet, the western fjords are stunning, and then when you do eventually come across another human; they are incredibly nice and welcoming.
5) Accept responsibility and lock your device
I'll just post a summary here: Increase carbon capture in soil by restoring lands subjected to desertification due to human (mis)use.

What I didn't get a clear picture of from this article is how... The only clear technical point mentioned was misuse of fertilizer. Ohterwise it's just a general and hand-wavy "poor land management". Hopefully the actual report is much more concrete in approach.
???

I think Apple and the FBI disagree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
Yeah, we need a "it's now infeasible to track me" as opposed to a "please don't track me."
>at this time

Which was recently added after receiving a metric ton of backlash. You have to question their initial thought process here.
Definitely true, but there’s spin everywhere to varying degrees.

I agree podcasts on the bad end of the spectrum can be more extreme than TV news, but good podcasts have the time and freedom to discuss a subject in depth with their interviewees.

Good ones that try to be honest also have less spin, but it depends a lot on the podcast.
I don't really see the issue. If you're already storing all your code on a third party service, why is it suddenly horrible that they're doing event tracking on the use of the service?

If you REALLY cared, wouldn't you be self hosting anyways?
What i'm getting at is that they need creative thinking, vision, imagination. I'm not sure an english major is the only way to do that and i'm not sure Chaucer is necessary in that. This is not a spit at all of humanities nor english majoring, i'm just saying the article doesn't read much to me because the crux is not that they suck at storytelling but that they lack any sort of creativity and the urge to connect; Such is prereq to actually enjoy creative writing in general regardless of the skill you start out at.
The actual problem was a timing gap in biking infrastructure. You don't solve that by putting unregulated transportation vehicles on streets, especially when the needed infrastructure is being constructed.
The recent Github repository exodus has now been in vain since GitLab is taking action similar to how MS is famous in developer circles for telemetry and not respecting your privacy. Whenever VCs are involved, the community always finishes last.

For individuals sourcehut[0] may seem to be an alternative. Open source orgs might be better of self-hosting. In either scenario I would rather go with the community than to be in the mercy of a VC-backed corporation for hosting my work in this case.

[0] https://sr.ht
Fargo citizens passed Approval Voting by a 64% landslide majority in 2018.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2018/11/15/1...

St. Louis will likely adopt Approval Voting in 2020.
https://www.electionscience.org/st-louis-polling-results

STAR Voting will be on the ballot in Eugene, OR in 2020 and will almost certainly pass, given a previous county-wide initiative passed among Eugene voters.
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190828/star-voting-retu...
Have you tried https://open-store.io/app/slack-base-webapp-chat?
Sometimes a new usage is jarring or inharmonious, and that discord causes us to derisively argue the usage is ignorant and contemptible. I would suggest that we should resist this impulse.

It's that same impulse that suggests the 'aks' pronunciation of 'ask' is indicative of ignorance, despite it having an unbroken lineage back to Old English.

In this case, the first OED cited usage of 'revert' in the 'reply' sense is nearly half a century old and from the Times of India.

There's also a good deal of documentation of 'revert' in the 'return' sense:

1828 A. A. Opie Detraction Displayed xv. 231 None can shoot these arrows, but they must expect they will revert with a rebounded force.

Cites like this go back to the medieval period. It's completely reasonable for revert to take on the meaning of reply. In the 14th century, reply' itself was used to indicate repeating or echoing.
If you have a legal agreement with many thousands of changes at any point, someone is getting fired for royally fucking up...

Legal agreements are basically a war over each party's choice of standardized language followed by battles over customized terms.
That makes sense. However in today's ever expanding electronics-wonderland, I wonder if it matters anymore.
> WASD

Please don't, not everyone is american, not everyone uses a qwerty keyboard.
Paper Phone
There is always opportunity in any crisis. If one is passionate enough about their cause / business model, I’m pretty sure another ethical path can be found.
> Albuquerque, NM

This is not the only other option. Imagine telling an engineer, hey I'll pay you $500k a year in Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, or Boston? Rent is immediately cut in half and some states have no income taxes. Their disposable income essentially triples.
Thank you for the feedback. In Australia and some other countries, your experience will be enough. In Australia, specifically [0], for most tech occupations, 8+ years of experience can replace a formal degree.

[0] https://www.acs.org.au/msa/skills-faqs.html
> ....external sources that also happen to be for-profit businesses.

Pretty sure a not for profit organization would have even less interest in pleasing their users.
InfoQ Panel: Java Is Still Free?
I just use either gdb's tui, or the new gdb integration in vim 8, along with a few custom pretty printers for types, but you'd have to write those no matter what debugger you used. One difference is that I do not debug in the same editor instance I write code in - it's possible, but I don't like having my editor switching state. It is possibly slightly suboptimal as far as debugger interfaces go, and perhaps using Emacs with its gdb integration would be better, but I haven't felt the need to do so yet. The backtrace, variable values, local variables, thread list, etc. etc. are all there, just not in floating windows, but behind commands you run to call them when you need them. Since it's all text, you can just copy and paste to a temp buffer if you want to take notes. I have never felt limited in my capabilities to debug per se, but a modern reinvention of DDD would be appreciated. Also since everything is text, entering and recording any information is dead simple.

An aside, as another poster noted - Vim's editing keys are the first thing I'd give up for a better Vim. I've tried Vim mode in VS and it's not Vim. Yes, you move with hjkl, but the editing keys and the entire rest of the IDE are two entirely separate worlds. E.g. I can't record a macro that jumps to a symbol definition as part of its execution. In Vim the entire experience is integrated and there is no separation between "editing keys" and "navigation keys", etc. At its core, Vim is a parser for a sequence of keystrokes where each runs a command. Any command can be bound to any keystroke or sequence of keystrokes. The entire system is based on a few basic principles that apply equally across all keystrokes.

Just embedding a Vim editing mode in your IDE is not at all the same as the real thing. It is still better, especially if you need to limit your finger movements due to RSI or other issues, but it doesn't recreate the reason for which I use Vim. To replace Vim, you'll need to do the inverse - rather than have the IDE as a shell and a Vim mode embedded in it, have a Vim interface as the shell and IDE functionality embedded in it.
EE excempt was just added, initial version of blog post implied that only CE would stay without tracking.
Even non-exit nodes can put you in a bad spot (my ISP didn't like it), you'll get blacklisted by quite a few places (because not everyone got the memo that middle nodes != exit nodes)
Yep... and everyone was bashing Github last month and praising Gitlab. My my... how quickly the tides have changed.
Do you mean to imply that VC-driven enterprises cannot be criticised on Hacker News because it's a YCombinator-operated forum? That's ridiculous, the mods go to great lengths to keep their bias away from their work here. That you can criticise Venture Capitalism on Hacker News is part of why I come here in the first place.
I think the idea is that it's easily guessed/cracked in ways other than watching him in video.
Wouldn't this allow another tax dodge, where hiring employees to do nothing in the lowest-cost area you can find winds up saving more money in SF gross receipts taxes than they cost in salary?

For example, if you have $10M/yr in tax incidence and 100 employees all in SF, you could have an on-paper workforce of 1000 Nigerians at the national median wage of roughly $1k/yr, saving $9M/yr in taxes.
Firefox Preview does it by default.
Cynical me could imagine the conversation might go something along these lines:

Alice> We want to do a thing, and we want everyone to do it without being able to realistically avoid it while still saying "we gave them an option"

Bob> Let's use DNT, it's used by almost no-one and is largely obsolete.

Alice> Perfect!

It's a bit like web sites that allow you to opt out of tracking and targetted advertising by directing you at the cookie config settings in your web browser. A token gesture.
Many employers are hiring for no-skill jobs paying $15-20 an hour in this country, you just have to show up on time and pass a drug test.
America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains
I can't believe any organisation can be this tone deaf considering the awareness of privacy abuses that are practically in the news on a daily basis.

Respect your users and respect yourself, roll back the change, make an apology PR piece and move on.
I wonder what was the cost difference between SaaS solution and implementing telemetry themselves, which wouldn't upset most users.
> He then published his edition of Shakespeare, which he finished only because his publishers had received payments from subscribers, so it had to be done.

Thank god for deadlines and obligations, they’ve generated so much creative work for the world.

You see a lot of successful people generate a lot less, especially older people with a wide open timeline.

For ex Stanley Kubrick spent 10yrs working on a Napoleon film he never released and only published when he perfected his films. Which is good and bad.

I also read Schoolboy Q recently made 3 albums and deleted them all because he wasn’t happy. The luxury of being successful without deadlines.
Something I have noticed several times and I can’t understand from an EU perspective is this: in the US a company you have a contract with (ie a company you are paying for a service for a certain amount of time) can change their tos / contract with you without prior notice and without having to at least honor the previous agreement until your current billing period expires?

For example if I paid for 1 year, I would expect the contract available at the time of payment should apply for the entire year or offer a refund if you don’t want to accept the changes. And always with at least two weeks of notice
fwiw, Tor Browser comes with HTTPS Everywhere, though you need to click the add-on's icon and enable "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" to block non-HTTPS.
dude... stop over thinking it.
The LMAX Architecture
It was a funny conversation with a senior developer when I noticed he had his business card and his key card to work on the same extensible thingy that you clip on to your pants.

I remarked there's a reason why the key cards are unmarked, right?

It isn't just individuals who can't into OPSEC though. Soon after this conversation, the company created a policy saying you have to pay $10 to get a new key card if you lose your key card.

I thought that was stupid. Now, suddenly you have incentivized people to NOT report they don't have possession of their key card any more. We want people to report the instant they lose access to their key card, not three days later when they have exhausted all options. My understanding is that you can easily reactivate a key card if it is found again and the risk of unreported lost cards outweighs the cost of a new key card.
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage
Didn't work for me. I unchecked all boxes for Contacts, Phone and Messages, rebooted my phone, it's still there.
... Peel back the duct tape in 1-inch increments with each stalk of asparagus consumed. Shackles may be loosened one quarter turn for each sporkful of broiled halibut verifiably swallowed. The iPad must not be returned until the plate is cleared.
wow what a mess
Please link to a better video.
The Tor Network Urgently Needs More Relay Diversity
Daily stand-up injection of guilt
Senators want FTC probe into AMZN server security [pdf]
Maybe. Take a look at my exchange with u/LoSboccacc a parallel branch of this thread. If what he claims is correct (I don't know, but he seems pretty confident) then there is already a huge gaping security hole in FF that no one is talking about (AFAICT).
But I had to zoom right in to see which flag it was. So it fails as a flag.
We recently converted an internal dashboard for the Helium blockchain to a public tool and the reception/usefulness has been awesome. (For anyone interested -> http://dashboard.helium.com)

Congrats to the team. Well-deserved.
> We are not adding telemetry services to EE at this time.

That sounds like something to rely on, especially given how they've handled this so far. Also, this wasn't originally there.
Let's chat: riley@zocuments.com

I'm a technical founder with a functional product.
Yep. Your eyes lose there ability to resolve color in low light. Which is why you see the northern lights looking more like grey smoke rather than the colorful display your camera captures.
The freezes most likely were due to various advanced language plugins.

But I think this is also a matter of perspective. Other developers don't understand why Jetbrains IDEs feel sluggish to me and think it might be my machine etc. (I have a very beefy one)

It's just that with (neo)vim, a fast terminal and no blocking plugins everything feels instant and extremely responsive.
I'll be uncool one who asks:

What does "telemetry" mean in this context?

What is GL actually demanding of its users, and why?
Everything can easily be done in a tiny controlled environment! Also Singapore is fairly uniform. There's Malaysian Singaporean part, Indian part and Chinese part. They do not overlap. Everyone stays in their lane!
Reminds me of... Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M
No it is not "very easy". IRV is not summable, so a two-way communication is needed between every round. The San Francisco city elections page once explained this as follows: “Due to the requirement that all ballots must be centrally tallied in City Hall and not at the polling places, the Department of Elections has not set a date for releasing any preliminary results using the ranked-choice voting method.”

So you either have the communication between every round (which is essentially re-counting) or you physically take all the ballots to a central counting location, which introduces delays and chain of custody issue.

Also, IRV leads to more spoiled ballots.
http://scorevoting.net/SPRates.html

So while there are more important reasons to prefer Score Voting and Approval Voting (better outcomes, better resistance to strategy, etc.), complexity is certainly not a non-issue.
Except its going to be 84 and sunny today. Summers are brutal but the rest of the year is pretty nice.
From that link, it doesn't exactly sound like they've ruled out the possibility of adding this tracking to EE too however - and reading between the lines, it sounds like they'd prefer telemetry to be enabled by default if & when that does happen?

We are not adding Pendo or Snowplow JS snippets to self-hosted versions at this time. We are carefully considering the appropriate opt-out functionality for telemetry that will work best for our customers, and we will clearly
communicate to those customers when any change is made.
and they say millennials are on their phones too much!
Language servers are supposed to mitigate that - they're supposed to be build aware and know all about include paths etc. For the C family this is usually done by having CMake write out a compile_commands.json file as part of its configure step, which is then picked up by the language server. Other languages should have their own methods. I still use build-unaware indexing, i.e. ctags, because it's simpler, faster and lets me look up things that aren't part of the current build configuration without having to switch builds.
Longtime Grafana + InfluxDB user here. Recently I've been using Prometheus as an additional Grafana data source and I was surprised to lose the graphical query editor that I had with InfluxDB. Is graphical query builder support for Prometheus data sources something that's possible or on the roadmap? I searched the docs and Github issues but couldn't find any mention of it.

Congrats on the round!
If you obtained this phone without seeing the video, a singular oil smudge on the number 1 surely gives it away.
State of the art results in vision and language with capsules
Facebook AR Ad Boosts Purchases 28%
I’m primarily interested in AI that can help increase our intelligence by delivering verified data and information that helps us in making correct decisions on stuff that impact our daily lives.

This may take decades.
Yeah, lots of sites are GDPR compliant, it's just more noticable when the hard to understand cookie pop up is used.
A good test would be to have them drive in Austin.
>> it's a market-maker that provides a venue for other vendors to sell stuff

>That's not what a market maker is. A market maker is a market participant that guarantees to buy or sell something if no other buyer or seller can be found.

Right, but the similarity between a market maker in finance, and a marketplace maker in ecommerce, is that both of them have a lot more information than an ordinary buyer or seller. It doesn't matter if Amazon doesn't really act as a counterparty: the point is about how much knowledge it has, compared to the average participant.

>Running a marketplace, if it does not mean being a monopolist (which you are insisting it does not), is being a vendor, a vendor of particular services.

I was pointing out that there are two levels we're looking at:

1. Amazon as a provider of a marketplace

2. Amazon as that marketplace and what it entails about how much knowledge it possesses.

Recall that this is in the context of Hayek's arguments in The Use of Knowledge in Society, because the article's author referenced that explicitly.

Now, when I said Amazon isn't a monopolist, this is in terms of 1. Amazon is definitely not the only provider of an ecommerce marketplace with a global reach. In that sense, it's not a monopoly.

But Amazon is a "monopoly" in the sense that Hayek alluded to in his essay, i.e. in terms of 2. Hayek wrote in that essay:

The halfway house between the two, about which many people talk but which few like when they see it, is the delegation of planning to organized industries, or, in other words, monopoly.

Technically, it is still an oligopolist, since it is not the sole provider of ecommerce in America, but "organized industries" sounds like an apt way to describe what Amazon is doing. And it's in this particular sense of Hayek's that I referred to Amazon as a "monopoly".
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-23-srht-puts-users-first/
This is a double-edged sword. I can admit up front that don't have a very flattering view of the most popular British commercial news outlets. But they're popular.

So, in a way, if BBC wishes to remain accessible among people who are used to... certain popular British news outlets, it shouldn't isolate itself in an ivory tower. If BBC's domestic target demographics have a poor reading level, that's likely more of a Britain problem than a BBC problem.

There's probably also an aspect of serving populations inside Britain who don't speak English as their first language. The BBC's mission statement[1] also mentions mirroring Britain to the world, which likely increases the need for accessible language.

This is a basic soft power strategy anyone seeking global relevance should pay attention to.

1 - https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/mission
Score Voting is objectively the best of the commonly proposed voting methods, with any mixture of strategic or honest voters.
http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

It is objectively one of the simplest voting methods based on summability, rates of spoiled ballots, speed it takes the average voter to complete a ballot, etc.

http://scorevoting.net/Lorenzo
Should Everyone Instagram the World's Most Beautiful Canyon?
Quite a lot of emoji are allowed on HN. I once saw someone make a post enumerating them all.
Or Bangalore, India
Please make this telemetry opt-in and optional, even on GitLab.com.
Marty the Robot v2 – The walking, dancing, coding companion
Although I haven't personally set this up, my plan has been to at some point:

* Put important documents and passwords in an encrypted archive or true/veracrypt container.

* Distribute the archive to relevant parties via physical media (e.g. USB stick), possibly put a public version online on somewhat reliable free hosting.

* Store the password to the archive (without any indication as to the purpose of the password) on a service such as the one in the article or an alternative, e.g. Dead Man's Switch

Because of the physical distribution of the archive, it makes it hard to change the secrets in the archive - but other than that it seems solid enough...

[1] https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
Dueling Brain Waves Anchor or Erase Learning During Sleep
Looks like it's time to find a new service. This is very disappointing