skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strawman argument.

It's blatantly obvious that a historically significant event such as a dictator needs to be kept as part of the history books because of the impact it had on many different people.

At the end - the argument that anything that is published and is true as a reason why we should not allow people to delete things about themselves is deeply disturbing and sets a dangerous precedent. Just because something is true does not mean it should be broadcast for everyone to hear and see. If you go to the toilet and leave a big dump - not everyone needs to know this, when you did it, its mass.

Lossless public record is something that people do not understand the full implications. I am predicting a collision course with the precedence from this case with anonymous gossip sharing applications like Secret. No good comes from allowing people to publish things about others with the intention to harm and no recourse for victims.

What the forgetting laws is for is to help a young person delete embarrassing content from the modern day equivalent of Geocities or Bebo. People are screened for employment online - why should a child whose transgressions in a previous generation would have been transient be stored for eternity? What utility does that provide?

EDIT: If you disagree - use the reply button.
I used to have a Firefox shortcut in my Steam games list so I could watch online video with the Steam overlay. It wasn't flawless, but it worked great most of the time, as long as I didn't try to open the overlay until I was in full screen.
Clear public interest, request denied. The EU ruling works.
So would that be better than something like weebly. I'm really just want to get a sense if there's interest in the product at all before I build it. So I'm not sure if I'd need much optimization.
So are we talking Microkernel here or something else? Sorry to constrain by categorizing, but it's what I do sometimes :) and I am thinking of some OSes (mostly research/academic) that went this way (of no layers between userland and the hardware) that weren't Microkernels, but I can't remember any names right now. I have to admit, part of what keeps my interest in this is that I used to dabble in OSes and I haven't gotten to for quite some time :(

EDIT: Exokernel was what I was remembering (I think; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel). I can see some of the advantages, but as a current maintenance programmer and previous RTLinux hacker, I have to say I have my doubts about giving most programmers direct access to hardware :) That being said, giving programmers (and admins!) easier access to containerization, virtualization, or just intra-process protection in general would be a good idea. As I've said, there are plenty of options right now, but none seem to be well documented or advertised. There was a CACM article a while back that predicted a future in which you had one smartphone, but it had split domains for work and personal apps and data. Interesting stuff, and as you say, finally becoming possible.
HN took us down for a second. Back up and running. Thanks for reporting.
Baseless scaremongering by the New Yorker. That's really a new low in American anti-privacy propaganda.

The first paragraph alone reads like the kind of paranoia I would expect from the Tea Party.

"Google has to scrub any material that a user wants taken down, as long as removing it doesn’t hurt the public interest."

It's a lot, a lot more nuanced than that.

Also, the EJC is nowhere near the equivalent of the US Supreme Court. The EU is not a federal state.

The rest of the article basically goes into a Godwinesque directions, only for this occasion we're using Franco's fascists instead of Hitler's Nazi's.
> Excuse my naivety but isn't data store just a managed nosql database?

Yes, so what? Its still something you need to cost out for an alternative.

> You could switch over to Google Cloud (AWS but from Google)

App Engine is part of Google Cloud (the AWS-equivalent umbrella of offerings). You probably mean "Google Compute Engine" instead of "Google Cloud" and "EC2" instead of "AWS".

> and still use Data Store

You could (Google Cloud Datastore seems to be very much the App Engine datastore outside of App Engine) but its then a separate cost you have to include in the comparison.

> or you could switch to any PaaS and use something like mongohq

You could, but its then a separate cost you have to include in the comparison.
Their "global headquarters" probably is a post box.
The problem is that the GP conflates software with services. Everything he mentioned is software/software companies, Silent Circle is a services company.

Besides, as you mention, the apps are open-source anyway.
The former founder and CEO of Life Proof on how to make your company acquirable.
Louis C.K. thinks phones communicate with satellites in space.

http://gizmodo.com/5658560/louis-ck-the-shittiest-cell-phone...

"Give it a second, could ya? It's going to space! Could you give it a second to get back from space?"
> I really don't want to write code that corresponds line-by-line to Java. If I wanted to do that, I'd just write Java.

The code I write now is nothing like Java, but it's a question of how you get from there to here. When I started Scala I wrote what I'd write in Java. In the first week I removed the semicolons. In the second week I started to use function literals. Then I started using match/case. Later I found out about for/yield with futures. And so on. I learnt the language at my job, and I was delivering real, user-facing features in it from day 1. I don't think I could've done the same with Clojure.

(Reasonable people can disagree on syntax; I find that Scala's lets you get very close to the language of the domain (e.g. see the Spray "routing DSL") and that's worth the cost it imposes on the macro system)
That reminds me of how when they show Fawlty Towers in Spain they dub Manuel into Italian.
Much fewer steps/harder to screw up the process and expose yourself. The ideal would be a "one-click" fully anonymous sharing of sensitive information.
The NSA doesn't want to know everything you do because they suspect you of anything, but because they can't be sure the will never suspect you.
"With good hardware and a fast home network, you’ll forget the game is running remotely."
But with bad or moderate hardware you'll experience wonderful 5000 ms latency and have a horrible time.

It seems like you would need an HTPC anyway to load up steam and send the video from that 2nd computer to your TV. The whole process seems pointlessly convoluted.

I'd rather have wireless hdmi or even a really long hdmi cable from my good computer to wherever the tv is.
It looks similar. MIT's Exokernel seems to use kernel-level hooks to control access to things like disk blocks and network packets. Arrakis takes a similar approach, but restricts those hooks to a subset that can be implemented in hardware instead of in the kernel.
Just wait until the first Facebook-generation presidential candidate — the right to be forgotten will be considered a 'human right'.
Curry all over the C++11
Common Lisp: The Language Guy L. Steele, ISBN 093237641X
Publisher: Digital Press, 1984

However, I am in no way implying that the creation of the .com TLD is the resolution of the phrase "commercial internet" in ordinary language & args.
Onionshare – Securely share a file of any size using Tor
I've used Om and it works but the cljs ecosystem only really started up in December when Om came out and everybody discovered React. I don't use/recommend Clojurescript outside a Clojure shop because frontend skillset+clojure is extremely rare and you do have to do everything yourself.

If you have a Backbone app, replacing your Backbone views with React is a pretty substantial win. The Backbone app structure works best if you can just listen for a change event and run your model through template code and slap it into the DOM but that gets complicated if you want to nest views, the DOM you're replacing has state, or you have something like jQuery UI widgets. All these issues simply go away if your view code is React and everything just works. I don't find the Backbone abstractions too useful so I've only done this personally when consulting and wanting to make the minimal set of changes to the codebase.

I was using Angular for two years before I switched over to React. React basically replaces directives and for that use it's simpler, composes just as well, and scales better for both data size and dom node count. Replace the Angular DI stuff with browserify/webpack and Jest and there's not that much left. The main reason to use Angular would be if you want to take advantage of the Angular ecosystem or if you plan on focusing mainly on directives to support a bunch of designers since non-directive Angular is super simple.

For other stuff, the main benefit in a two way databinding framework (or virtual DOM diffing) is that you can isolate your business logic from the DOM. That's the major win and everything else is pretty much taste. The React approach results in the least amount of state in my code by a fairly significant margin so I consider it the best but having different preferences is completely reasonable.
Inventables to donate machines to U.S. libraries
This is not how inequality has developed, however. If you look at the changes of real in come between the top percentile income brackets vs. the median percentile income bracket, top incomes have grown dramatically while median to lower incomes have stagnated.

It's also challenging to just look at consumption and assume everyone is the same. Consumption levels might be stable, but the lower income brackets may be taking on more debt to finance that consumption.

Additionally, as Pikketty points out, a lot of the spending/benefit gap between higher and lower incomes has emerged in categories like education and healthcare, which is not as easy to track by looking at people's houses or a consumption based standard of living.
It is bewildering that Europeans think this is a good idea or even remotely workable. Maybe some EU company would like to take a stab at operating under these kind of capricious rulings.
Nolone
This is a blatant lie. If you look at any actual survey data, the Tea Party is strictly a wing of the Republican party and it has been nothing but good for the political fortunes of the Republican party, which is extremely concerned with what the Tea Party wants. Without the Tea Party, the Republicans would not have had the House all these years.
I said "most" intentionally; my point was that street addresses and street address matching are significantly fuzzier than domain names.
What about internet archive, then?
> Don't most states have VAT?

No, but many have sales taxes (which are not the same thing as a VAT, though they serve a similar purpose; VAT's are collected at each step in the supply chain, sales taxes only on sale to consumers.)
Taxing a Professor's Privilege
Maybe I should be more specific: It's hard to cut "real" jobs. Academics and research are "out of touch" with "regular folks".

At least that's how populist politicians put it.

sigh I really look forward to a science/research-based economy.
I dunno - while there maybe French subscribers who would kill for US TV shows in english only, maybe there's the issue of either subtitling all their content for German and French at least, dubbing some or all of it, and likely adding French-specific content.

Just wondering whether I'll be able to get the French Netflix content without using VPN and a local CC.
I have wireless HDMI at work. It's not even close to low enough latency to play games on.
I'm always surprised at how many people naively suppose that bloodshed will automatically generate political reform.
That's why you use a static site generator. If the next guy wants to just edit the output of the static site generator, he can, and you're no worse off than if you'd just written it by hand in the first place.
I find it hard to take this seriously... Talking about the Tor Hidden Service;

They provide the recipient with the URL and password for
that site, preferably via a message encrypted with a tool
like PGP or Off-The-Record encrypted instant messaging.

The hidden service URL (basically, the public key) is not secret. Sharing the URL with PGP would just serve to link your identity to the service, if "they" were ever able to decrypt that, which defeats the entire point of using Tor.

Put the cipher text on a Pirate Bay torrent for all it matters, the problem reduces down to sharing the key.

Stock Tor is only 1024-bit RSA as I recall, so if you're relying on that alone to encrypt the documents over the network you've already left the door open for well funded attackers.
"Micah Lee, the staff technologist and resident crypto expert at Greenwald’s investigative news site The Intercept. ... After reading about Greenwald’s file transfer problem in Greenwald’s new book, "

Am I missing something, or is this part just an advert for the book? I doubt the office's staff technologist/security_guy first heard about Greenwald's tech security problem from his book.

With regard to the technology itself, it looks like this just uses Tor for the file store without ever solving the hard problem: negotiating with the other party. The tough problem here isn't hosting a file; we don't need Tor for that. I could just as easily encrypt a file and serve it up with https://github.com/mikegrb/App-otfile. The tough part is getting a key securely to my friend around the world, without being MITMed or having our communication recorded and decrypted.
That's awesome! Thanks for the link.
Many of the lower-end Steam Machines should be capable of doing this, as well as some HTPC implementations (assuming they can run Steam, so not a Roku or AppleTV or such). I'm betting the SteamOS system requirements[1] would be a decent proxy until more information is released, although I doubt that you would require a hard drive that big and a graphics card that powerful.

[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
I've wanted to run this app for a while, but you rely on several proprietary Google services. I hope you can move away from them in the future. An increasing amount of Android devices do not have Google Play or other Google apps on board.
ZeniMax v Oculus Complaint
Your belief is wrong. All research on the subject tells us that spending has at most a small impact on test scores. I'd link you to PDFs but I know how you feel about that.
The software is free. They can just run their own. It takes about 5 minutes of one-time setup. I wasn't taking away anything they couldn't already get for free and with minimal effort.
Its been a long time since I've built a basic HTML/CSS site. Is it easy to make it look good across devices? This is one of the original reasons to use a framework.
The only connection with "such a mess" and the EU court ruling are the word "forgotten" and a Spaniard.

The rest of the article is just manipulative association that would make Godwin blush.

The EU court does not disagree with you, no matter how hard the anti-privacy lobby tries to make it look that way.
I noticed the list didn't include any static site generators written in PHP, so I googled and found a couple:

* https://sculpin.io/

* http://phrozn.info/
> Their largest banks can't even keep their customers' accounts safe from foreign tax investigators.

Your knowledge is outdated. The US and (to a lesser extent) the EU forced the Swiss banks to hand over all relevant data. All. Moreover, they have to pay a stiff fine ( http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/credit-suisse-set-to-... ). Remember Switzerland is a small country and not member of the EU. They have no choice but to conform.
READ_GSERVICES being so "wide" was one of my major complaints about Android ... and while I'm sure you guys are ethical, there are a lot of applications I'd like to have that insist on having this permission.

Once you've granted the permission, any future version of even an app you've verified can expand its use of that permission into data I'm not willing to share. I know it's not your fault but you still end up being the victim (of my effort not to be a victim).
Neat, looks nice - thanks for the pointer! Wish they had a 15" one without the touchscreen and gimmicky yoga thing.
Couchbase reimagines mobile app development
Even more common are people who think GPS involves satellites tracking the location of their phone.
Animating images with css keyframes
NASA scientists scramble to find an object in the Kuiper belt in time for visit
These are not two equal factors. Policy == human promise. Solid tech works regardless of promises.
This is largely incorrect. NLHE can be more about "bluffing" because there's greater variability between ones chance of winning a hand and the potential bet size. But it still comes down to a mathematical decision, just that it's more difficult to accurately calculate the best play given the wide range of variables: your opponent's likely holdings, the bet size, the pot size, your hand.

In Fixed Limit, the bet size and pot size are all controlled and can be pre-determined, leaving fewer permutations to solve. It's easy to calculate that if a bet is a constant, then you can profitably call with holdings from XY and "higher" in a given situation, but it obviously gets harder when the bet size can vary greatly.

To answer OP, Fixed Limit is considered solved (or close to it? Haven't been following the news on this) from a mathematical and game theory perspective, and so AIs have been built to play game theory optimally. NLHE is still far, far from being solved, but there are bots that have been created to churn out small, albeit automatic, wages short-stacking (to mitigate bet-size variability) smaller stakes games where its tendencies aren't as openly exploited.

Poker is very much a mathematical game. And physical tells, reaction-time tells online are pretty insignificant in the longrun.
The subs or dubs (France prefers dubs, right?) typically already exist.

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780650

As for needing local credit cards, hopefully some day bitcoins or something like it can truly enable international commerce.
I have seen a world champion of backgammon giving demonstration games with childs. He has won each time, but if the child had made a double at its last move, he would win. There is no random.
iRobot Roombas also have an API that allows you to communicate with them over a wire.
Resorting to Hitler right away? How about a person who cannot a job because of a certain stupid act from 30 years ago that keeps showing up on Google search?

Even credit reports are barred from reporting older than x years acts.
> We used to do it for much larger sites!

Why is there this group of people fighting against innovation, against experimentation?

For your client you can do whatever you want, but you should strive to make your code manageable at least.

> Remember when the web was damn simple? It still can be. It’s up to us to make it that way.

Over a decade ago, I used java servlets, with XML and XLST. It was not simple.
So I can add Visual Studio to my steam library, and potentially develop in it from my mac? This is huge, I can now run my PC at home headless since I only used it for games/visual studio.
Phratch: A port of Scratch on Pharo
Should startups be considered illegal gambling too?
Inside Harry's $100M Razor Blade Factory in Germany [video]
Good question.

While the right to forget is socially beneficial for society, there are technical problems that make it inconvenient. There is the problem of whether it is censorship to force a neutral party whose mandate is merely to store historical copies of data to remove it. Or is it Google's responsibility to just 'forget' that the copy exists in the web archive?

Do defaced websites get indexed by the internet archive?
Does illegal information get removed from the internet archive?
Since one of the steps is "Encrypt the URL/key with GPG and somehow get those to the other person", I'd say it's just as many steps.
Started on app engine. I've been using and happy with it for 4 years.

Yes, I could set up a simple psql stack. But I would lose automatic multi data center replication and infinite scaling, so that's not a win. My database hit 500GB in a few months. I don't want to deal with scaling up psql instances when it doubles in size over the next year again. See my first post linked below about when newsblur hit the HN frontpage and was effectively down for 3 days due to load. It's because psql doesn't scale in that direction.

http://mattjibson.com/blog/2013/06/26/go-read-open-source-go...
If you have a trusted third party that can hold content for you, why not just have them store the actual data? Unless of course it's very large, but that seems unlikely to be the case in this scenario.
I read it as two things: 1) Critical Engineers are skeptical that "rich user experiences" are the most effective way of interacting with systems, 2) "rich user experiences" tend to oversimplify and misrepresent systems for the sake of usability or aesthetics.
I feel like this could be abused to remove competitors' content from Google results. Couldn't this be a problem?
Well the explanation of an imbalance of charge accumulation causing static electricity is still simple and correct.

The hard part I think is giving a simple explanation for why rubbing some materials together causes the charge carriers to preferentially end up on one of the materials being rubbed.
You raise some valid points for sure, obviously, we make choices: whether we go to college or not, put in that extra hour at work or not, go out with friends, hang out with a spouse/child, watch a sunset, etc. and ultimately, we have to accept our actions, consider the consequences/risks and respond as necessary.

" Hate the idea of a 9-to-5 job? Well, suck it: the regular hours and clockwork and guaranteed paycheck will go a long way toward making your family more stable and stress free. "

See, it's not that simple. What if hating that 9-5 job means he is angry and depressed and takes it out on his family or decides to give in to some sort of escape (alcoholism, extra-marital affairs, etc.)? Is it worth it then?

Don't convince yourself that a 9-5 is stable, it isn't. They are typically more stable than startups but far from rock solid. You can be laid off tomorrow due to a sudden market change, or nasty office politics. Then what? Was it worth it not to give yourself (and by extension, those that depend on you) leverage? Maybe, maybe not.

It is a complicated matter; for some, the risk of sacrificing some time now in hopes of a better future is worth it, for others, it isn't. Some would much rather have a dead-end job, barely make ends meet but spend 8 hours a day with their kids/family/friends. Others would sacrifice some relationships in order to achieve a greater goal - be it in pursuit of self-actualization or better living conditions, etc.

Author clearly thinks about his daughter and from the responses, am convinced he wants her to know that he cares for her. There's no clear cut answer and there will always be a sacrifice involved when we want something.

For some, the return of investing in relationships far outweighs the financial return of working above-average hours (I am learning this more and more). I personally think it is often worth sacrificing work/money for relationships; but at the same time, let's not forget the people who sacrificed their lives for their work. It is claimed that Nikola Tesla - at the latter end of his life - expressed regret at not getting married and sacrificing so much for his work. But without that sacrifice, where would we be as a society today? Of course, not everyone's result is as noble or far-reaching, but the truth about life is that there will always be a sacrifice to achieve something greater, the ultimate question is: Is it worth it? For that, there is no universal answer.