skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a perfect metaphor, obviously. But I still stand by the position that the simple, straightforward answer to the question as posed is "No". It is not the case that "building software is a bad route for entrepreneurs" in any universal sense. And we know this, because we've seen plenty of "existence proofs" where it has proven to be an incredibly good route.

But what is good for one person may not be good for another, for any number of possible reasons: skill, risk tolerance, desired outcome, geography, age, health, support from family and friends, blah, blah, etc. etc.

In the end, all I can say, is that if you consider building software to be a bad route for you, then don't do it. shrug
> (d) one's opinion on the morality of a certain alleged episode has no bearing on its legality

While this is true, the related question over whether the law in question is "just", is very much a relavent issue, and something worthy of comment.
Universality is not a defining characteristic of censorship. Most censors have very limited scope.
This is more of the site's fault rather than google's since whoever set up the ads chose that as the landing page. The whole point of the ad is to rope in new business so if you are clicking on the ad for the login page you're just going to a page that was made to sell (and eating into that company's ad spend)
I really liked their methodology. How can I learn more of it?
By "their CDN" I meant Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft. Can we set up our own CDN to serve our own content from our own servers and receive the AMP badge in search results?

Please disclose your affiliation to Google either in your bio or in comments, and don't post the same comment in multiple places.
Firefox has a few builtin keyword searches like "@g" (Google) and "@w" (Wikipedia):

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/cfd1cc461f1efe0d66...
Honestly speaking, as english is not my first language, I confused the two words. I thought envious means to want to deprive others of what they have. I guess then I may have confused some people, I am envious but I think it doesn't detract from my overall point. The word in my language would literally translate as desire but it's more than that, it would mean more like I would like to have that and it feels bad that I don't even have the opportunity to have it.

I would definitely say this lack of even the opportunity to do this makes me feel despair. I can try as hard as I want, but some things are just out of my control, some truths about my life were written even before I was born. I honestly cannot muster up the strength to derive inspiration or motivation from these, because those things are relevant for things which are possible.
I saw a mention of this tool when searching for how to disable the expansion of the Start menu's sidebar (where your user icon/power off/logout/etc. buttons are). It was a non-expanding piece of UI before a recent Windows 10 update, and I don't really need a written explanation of what each button does.

Edit: it was also a winaero article, https://winaero.com/blog/disable-start-menu-auto-expand-on-m...

Also seen in project issues with a completely different feature ID: https://github.com/riverar/mach2/issues/14

Didn't try to toggle any of them so far.
asking for more is not the same as telling the person what to target.
I have not bought into the meme and am not a huge Apple fan, but I think you can continue to if you wish. "Reuters could not determine why exactly Apple dropped the plan." It's possible that Apple didn't want the support costs of dealing with customers who lost/forgot whatever secret was to be used for encryption, and thus would have been unable to use their backups.
Incorrect. Please see the official Apple Support page [1] that debunks this. It specifically states:

"iCloud services and all the data you store with iCloud, including photos, videos, documents, and backups, will be subject to the new terms and conditions of iCloud operated by GCBD."

And since all Chinese companies are bound by local laws, you can be assured that your data is readily available for access by the government.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Like pasting the domain into googles searchbar, as a lot of my older relatives (50+) did/do?

I'm afraid a lot of people don't even know how to get from an "amp" page to the "original" webpage.
Thinking about long-term profits instead of short ones, and sacrificing profits for some greater moral purpose, are not at all the same thing.

It's entirely possible to do immoral things for the sake of profit while still being prudent about your company's future.

As for sacrificing profits to a moral end: private companies may do this occasionally. Not often, but sometimes. But the CEO of a publicly-traded company expressly does not have the option of sacrificing profits for any higher purpose, unless that directive comes from his shareholders. And in today's world, the shareholders of most major companies are of such a large number and have so many layers of detachment between themselves and the actual company (I don't even know what companies Betterment has me invested in; they can change every day) that the only common goal they can agree on is almost always profits.

An interesting exception to the norm is Facebook: despite being publicly-traded, Zuckerberg maintains both a majority holding and the position of CEO, and is therefore free to go on his crusade of "connecting the world", mostly ignoring what the other shareholders might want.
I thought I saw a headline earlier today that said that Boeing was permanently halting production of the 737 Max. It was probably fake news. I can't find any real news on that subject.

Maybe the market today is overreacting to that fake news/rumor?
I've always wondered if you could essentially hook a blower up to a bong to filter particulates out of the air using water. Would be much cheaper to replace the 'filter', but I suspect it wouldn't filter as well. Seems like it could be an interesting tradeoff though.
I think DDG is mostly just a front-end on Bing, at least that's how they've been doing things in the past.
I would love an invite!
Surely racketeering is legal in USA, the President described applying undue and immoral pressure through dominance as "perfect". Unclear how it could possibly be illegal, given USA's continued endorsement of such behaviour.
I've read such conflicting information on them. Some sources say they protect other people from you more than they do you, some say they protect you 60-80%, some say washing your hands properly (and frequently) is more effective etc.
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I've had Pro installations where I got the shortcuts, and others where I didn't. All on OEM machines that were licensed automatically, all in the same location, and using the ISO from MS's website (maybe not always the same exact ISO so that may be it). I couldn't come up with a solid explanation on where the difference comes from.
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What does "first language tailored specifically to bioinformatics" mean?

I ask because I'm pretty sure there have been earlier languages for bioinformatics. Just looking around I see:

- "Composable languages for bioinformatics: the NYoSh experiment", https://peerj.com/articles/241/

> In order to evaluate the potential of language workbenches in bioinformatics, we tested a prominent workbench by developing an alternative to shell scripting. To illustrate what LWBs and Language Composition can bring to bioinformatics, we report on our design and development of NYoSh (Not Your ordinary Shell). NYoSh was implemented as a collection of languages that can be composed to write programs as expressive and concise as shell scripts.

- "Large-scale data integration framework provides a comprehensive view on glioblastoma multiforme", https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gm...

> Workflows are constructed using a custom workflow language called AndurilScript that resembles traditional programming languages and is designed to enable rapid construction of complex workflows. ... These characteristics of Anduril facilitate scientists without bioinformatics training to interpret complex data sets, such as TCGA.

- "SARVAVID: A Domain Specific Language for DevelopingScalable Computational Genomics Applications", https://engineering.purdue.edu/dcsl/publications/papers/2016...

> In this paper, we have presented Sarvavid and showed implementations of five popular genomics applications, BLAST, MUMmer, E-MEM, SPAdes and SGA in it.

I see the last includes K-merization, like Seq does.
Whitelisting. I have used webconverger, routerlimits, and Screen Time (on Apple devices) at various times and places to achieve this. Anything else I tried, the darn kids found ways around.
As a former bioinformatician (if that’s a word), I’m not sure there’s much value in this. There’s high dispersion in the performance requirements of bioinformatics tools. The processes that need to be fast (alignment, BLAST, whatever, tree creation, etc) are already super fucking optimized (though, unfortunately, still slow). The things that don’t need to be fast can use whatever you want (I used Haskell and Racket for my own tools at the time). Python is.. not the greatest. The major value add is the multitude of scientific libraries. If you’re gonna throw that all away, why not just use something better? Things like Julia, OCaml, Haskell, etc. I personally think Julia is pretty dope and is what I would use today for bioinformatics research. Or maybe if I was feeling a little subversive, K/Q or J. Q’s time-series database KDB+ could probably be used for sequences. And maybe even for great effect. And the performance would be off the charts!

It seems like the purpose of this is Python without the performance penalty, which doesn’t make much sense to me. I’ve found Haskell absolutely perfect for bioinformatics as most operations you are doing are functional data transformations. Moreover, it’s pretty damn fast if you need it to be.

I’ve been out of the field a long time though (Roche-454 was still the main workhorse at the time). But let me tell you, bioinformatics is/was a fucking shit-show. The tools and ecosystem are/were like Linux in the mid 90s: fucking terrible. And another language is just gonna make it worse.
Font Awesome raised money on Kickstarter (I was happy to participate)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-...

I think part of the issue is that most software projects tend to be a service or have managed components, making it tricky to provide ownership to a finished product, which is ambiguously stated as a requirement:

> At some point, the creator should be able to say: “It’s finished. Here’s what we created. Enjoy!”

https://www.kickstarter.com/rules
When will a startup enter into this space with a privacy focused smartphone? Does this already exist, and is it good? If not, why all the complaints and why hasn't someone entered the market? Obviously startup costs will be high, but there will certainly be funding available for this market, right?
>every issue should change the code or documentation.

This is a really good place to start as my ultimate goal is to get as much traction as I can with users.

Misunderstandings by the user base often present as issues and at bare minimum misunderstandings are a sign that users are having trouble consuming my solution.
The positive void coefficient problem[1] was intractable (without putting the whole reactor vessel inside a pressurized tank), but it was the combination of that and the control rod design that caused the explosion. The control rods were modified trivially. The reactor is basically safe, though you wouldn't repeat the design choices.

[1] An IMHO stupidly obfuscated way of saying that the cooling water around the reactor was an unpressurized pool that would boil if it got hot. Low-density bubbles of steam absorb fewer neutrons than liquid water, so when it boils the core gets hotter, not cooler.
Aldi, Lidl, Netto, etc aren't supermarkets. They are discounters.

Go to a real supermarket like Kaufland or Globus.
I always recommend setting custom user-agents for a problematic page instead of setting them globally.

For the Google issue, qutebrowser v1.9.0 does that already, see https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5182
Do you know what is the deal with DXVK being separate from upstream WINE?
People who find this interesting will likely find the work of
Mikey Peterson (https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-write-a-book-i...)
and that of Frank Jonen (https://github.com/frankjonen/emacs-for-writers) valuable.

I continue to resist the assumption that writers of screenplays need radically different tools than writers of other forms. The main issue is disconnecting the task of writing from the task of layout design which we foolishly used WYSIWYG tools to conflate decades ago. In general, a tool that allows good research tracking and cross-reference (research for non-fiction, character arcs/plotlines for fiction, blocking and scenes for scriptwriting) with something that lets the writer write without getting in the way is a much better fit, and emacs excels at this. With the bonus of I can make it do what I want it to do, at any scale of complexity. Output formatting is a job for computers, not writers.
Aren't there configuration options/levels that can be set within CloudFlare to mitigate these issues?

EDIT: Another user posted this below, answering my question:

sgtfrankieboy 1 hour ago | undown [-]

In CloudFlare go to "Firewall" and then click Settings on the right.
Here you can set the Security Level and if you want to use Browser Integrity Checks among other thing
> even with exciting user feedback and crazy conversion rates, it probably will never scale

How so? With crazy conversion rates, all you need is capital. Capital is readily available nowadays, if you need that marketing budget you can get it. Unless you do something inherently stupid like selling 1$ for 50 cents...
JGC is fairly popular on here and is CTO at Cloudflare. You can simply write into support@cloudflare.com, those tickets are forwarded to engineering teams.
No.

> Projects can't offer equity.

> Investment is not permitted on Kickstarter. Projects can't offer incentives like equity, revenue sharing, or investment opportunities.

https://www.kickstarter.com/rules
On mobile this is even worse. Often the first page and a half of results are just ads. It's so bad that sometimes I've almost stopped scrolling wondering if there are even any real results on the page.
Apple has never marketed the idea that iCloud backups are encrypted.
Nope, it's Google trying to ban "embedded browser frameworks" - see https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5182 for details.
Sonos Alternative (Preferably HIFI and FOSS Friendly)
SONOS is phasing out speakers by no longer offering software updates after May 2020. Even worse, all SONOS networks containing even one such phased-out speaker will no longer be updated.

I would appreciate recommendations for alternative systems, preferably high quality, connected speakers with open APIs and FOSS friendly. Any ideas?
AutoTune Pro (ELM327 OBD-2 ScanTool)
Need something to dominate networking at big conferences.

QR code?
Animals living in nature are typically well adjusted to the stresses they experience. Their stress levels return back to normal quickly after a dangerous situation.
If I were a competitor, and it’s that cheap and effective for Expedia, then I’d never allow Expedia to have that real estate.
Do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations for an email service? I've cut pretty much everything Google out of my life, minus Gmail, mostly due to not wanting to go through all the trouble of transferring everything over to a service that I end up not liking. I've heard ProtonMail is good, but other than that, I'm not sure.
I probably don't understand PrivacyPass well enough, but I don't really see how it's a good solution to the problem.
Some use cases & examples: 1) Allowing mobile App code to access directly remote data without programming intermediary Web services. 2) Python data scientists can crunch any SQL databases in their organization using standard PEP 249 API calls, even if the SQL engine is far away. 3) Data publishers can expose more easily and quickly their data, without having to export tables in tar.gz / zip files for download and create dedicated and documentated web pages for that.
I'd say it's something more like fortune telling. Based on scant clues, string together a story which seems meaningful. There's a skill in taking advantage of human intuition to grab attention, with a spectrum of how aware you are if what you're actually doing.
That still doesn’t make the original statement that “encryption keys are given to China” correct.

The data that is available in China is not encrypted and would also be available to US authorities.

Can you quote the part of the article that states that Apple must give China private keys? Can you find a citation where a third party has found proof that Apple changed the iMessage architecture?
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I’m a fan of Recaptcha v3. There are many actions where you can ask for some additional input in a non-puzzle way. Simple example is sending a confirmation email before signup when the score is below a certain threshold.

Because I freaking hate those captcha puzzles...
Never put a blog on Medium. They want to charge me to read it.
Did that myself a while back. Annoyed it was on by default in the first place! Why would they do that?
> How can it be that these companies can afford to buy companies at a premium, throw away massive parts of the value of the company

It's almost like the lack of robust anti-trust prosecution by world governments have so enriched large, rent-seeking companies that they can literally afford to burn money and still come out ahead...
To be a bit contrarian, it puts the url at the top, that makes it a lot easier to tell if the result is a spam site, or an official site. Ads are easily discernible because they have an icon that says 'Ad'. I like it.
> This isn't a side feature, it's a direct feature that is 100% intentional.

So Cloudflare is intentionally breaking the web? Good to know.
I'm not sure I got your point. They were under severe stress for sure. So what? Even if that was very damaging somehow, our ancestors anyway died very young and in not very sophisticated ways.
I swear to never implement AMP pages for any of my employers.
Are there examples? The New York and Tokyo subways have earned a reputation for reliably showing up very frequently, but I can't name any busses like that.
Support options would be good info to put on that CAPTCHA page instead of having to find that somewhere deep down in an HN thread.

Wasn't HN also behind CloudFlare? Looks like that changed, but maybe it will be again in the future.
I wonder why everybody (including me previously) thinks you have to prepend.
Do you have any evidence that Apple rearchitected their system to have access to private keys that it doesn’t have access to anywhere, to have access to give it to China?
Either one of those cases is good, especially in cases where you're contagious before you have symptoms (not sure if this is such a case).
(warning, mandatory HN contrarian comment)

"This is the opposite of a trend of nonsense called DevOps, where system administrators start writing unit tests and other things to help the developers warm up to them - Taco Bell Programming is about developers knowing enough about Ops (and Unix in general) so that they don't overthink things, and arrive at simple, scalable solutions"

It's not possible for developers to know enough about Ops, just as it's not possible for Ops to know enough about development, because they are different jobs. Moreover, devs are doomed to create terrible solutions because of their job, and Ops are doomed to create kludgy hacks for those terrible solutions because of their job. DevOps is just an attempt to get them to talk to each other frequently so that horrible shit doesn't happen as frequently.

Also, the real Taco Bell programming is actually to use only wget, no xargs. It takes a whole lot of basically every option Wget has, and a very reliable machine with a lot of RAM, but you can crawl millions of pages with just that tool. xargs and find make it worse because you don't get the implicit caching features of the one giant threaded process, so you waste tons of time and disk space re-getting the same pages, re-looking up the same hostnames, etc. (And that's Ops knowledge...)

The Zen of Unix is to try to move towards not using the computer at all. One-liners are part of that path, but so is minimizing the one-liner. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.ht...
I found this is a cheaper alternative to Disney Circle (and it uses ARP spoofing instead of DNS, so it's very effective)

https://routerlimits.com/
He exposed evidence of criminal behavior by a judge that was trying to conceal his activities which are subject to public scrutiny via using his personal phone.

What a judge does in the course of his work is not his own personal property.
You need to be extremely technical to understand the difference between "Encryption: Yes" and not end-to-end encrypted. To the lay user, Apple is explicitly telling you that they're encrypted. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303.
They don't do some repairs in store IIRC. Your particular model has a removable ssd drive that can be removed with a screw driver and you'll require a 12+16 pin ssd reader to read the data.

The only thing you need to know is admin password or have the recovery key for the drive if filevault was turned on.
I bought two play:5 v1s from the Sonos web site in late 2014, so 5.5 years ago. Today they announce the are EOL in May. This wouldn't be so bad except for this part of the announcement:

"Please note that because Sonos is a system, all products operate on the same software. If modern products remain connected to legacy products after May, they also will not receive software updates and new features."

So if I keep my 5 year old speakers the rest of my system will also not receive updates and may become non-functional.

This kind of anti-customer behavior is a great way to ensure your evangelists abandon your brand permanently.
Google could keep the search result and just hide the ad.
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Find their first published stories. Find their earlier stories, sometimes they get used to fill out a shorts collection for laughs. Then ask yourself if you belong in that company.

And then ask yourself if you care, maybe you'll never write enough to have a shot at a publishing deal, much less a bestseller, but maybe you just like telling stories to yourself and maybe a few friends.
Zef++ Ecosystem [Raku]
Qwant, Ecosia, and (to an extent) DDG share the same Bing backend for web results, so if you're particularly interested in trying out alternatives, here are some others. All of these have their own search indexes.

https://yippy.com - ugly, but probably the best independent search engine outside the "big ones" and DDG

https://private.sh/ - Run by PIA as a proxy for Gigablast, small index but rapidly getting better

https://mojeek.com - UK-based, worth trying but has a spam problem

https://beta.cliqz.com - German based, their technical blog has been posted frequently on HN. Will eventually require a browser extension or their own browser to search.

https://yandex.com - Ought to be mentioned, but certainly not privacy focused.
I saw similar issues in Shasta County and Butte County.
Reference for the curious: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/issues/674
Have any further reading I can do on this?
I for one, cannot stand writing for-loops when unnecessary.
Three.js Globe
Yup. A similar service:

https://cleanbrowsing.org/
Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
It's very easy to add new engines to, just take the query URL from any site, pop in %s in place of the query, choose a keyword (same on FF).

I have about 50 keywords.