skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Sweden where parental leave (at 80% of pay) is 14 weeks for the mother, 2 weeks for her partner, and then an additional 65 weeks that can be distributed between the partners as they wish. 4 months seems short - I wouldn't want to have to leave my 4 month old baby with child care.
Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook
If you were going to buy a macbook pro today, would you get the 13 or 15 inch version and why?
It might be related to French Law :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_France

Google, like any other global company, has to take into account local laws.
The public infrastructure which you've described didn't 'fail' because of lack of funding, it 'failed' because of lack of aligned incentives.
Please specifically outline how Uber and similar services are good for only the 'short term' and will be 'dystopian' in the long, I'm very curious.
If you can identify people out in the real world that are your target market, go talk to them. Do a customer development interview.
All due respect but I believe you are leaving out a key piece of information: that the Durbin Amendment regulated down the cost of debit cards to next to nothing (not unlike Australia's interchange regulations), yet Stripe still charges the same as credit cards.

I think it's fair to call Stripe out on this because you position the 2.9% as a "it's not our fault, it's the payment instrument, we're happy to pass on savings if you use alternatives like Bitcoin etc." But you are not passing on the very significant savings of debit cards.

How significant? Whereas credit card cards are in the ballpark of 1.5-2% plus 10 cents, major debit cards are just 0.05% + 21 cents.[1]

That's right.. 0.05%.

So why is Stripe charging 2.9%?

[1] Visa interchange rates: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/Visa-USA-Interchange-...
I think Aurora doesn't compare to any other host-it-yourself solution, being managed and 'replicated' across multiple datacenters.

Plus, Hetzner, really?
while i can this form an emotional point of view I would call this highly unprofessional.

nevertheless hollywood does everything to abolish itself producing only comic/computer game adaptions or se-/prequels.
is it only in italy right now? when in spain?
Wink wink, nudge nudge?
I agree. I also thought they could have done with more clearly explaining 'social impact'. Not really sure what that means.
I think you mis-posted the website URL. You should be fine to go ahead and repost.
right. So now we need a new Stripe in order to continue disrupting the market.
But will that actually stop them from doing it anyway?

It seems the NSA doesn't care about any laws it breaks domestic or international since there are no repercussions.
hi mark, yes right now we are only in italy. we want to open in other countries asap :)
The external IP is leaked, too! Clearly this peer to peer encrypted video protocol needs to be restricted, for the good of privacy and security, of course.

Sarcasm aside, what good can 192.168.1.4 possibly be to anyone?
It makes it somewhat easier to XSS into your router.

(P2P encrypted video? Great. P2P systems in the browser driven by Javascript from any web page or ad network? Less great idea there.)
> Mankind's natural resting state is peace, not violence. The extreme majority of all humans throughout history have been peaceful, not violent 'savages.' Violence by any given individual person against another is the extreme outlier, not the common.

I wish I believed this but I'm convinced that most people are peaceful or at least non-violent because they have no other option. They do not ever find themselves in a position where they have the power to inflict violence and death on others for personal gain without risk of punishment.

I'm convinced that most people, given the right set of circumstances are capable of the most heinous acts of violence and the only thing stopping them is the power and resources to do so.

I feel like truly 'good' people are the exception, not the general rule.
You are making the rather large assumption here that doing this review was actually a good use of his time. I don't see where that has been demonstrated. The article does mention that the USFS has limited resources to direct towards these reviews, so it's pretty possible that ignoring a review he didn't think was a big deal was reasonable.
Because the author was incapable of linking to Stephen Hawking's AMA, here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3eret9/science_ama...
So you could say that you have the best justice system money can buy?
their goal should be how to circumvent it or protect against it because no government is truly going to give it up. As the technology progresses there will more and more decisions removed from people to the point where what we think the line is today is just ho hum by then.
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I think part of the reason they're not pushing the stock price manipulation is that it would be very difficult to overcome a prosecutor's absolute immunity.
Knowing the local area IP lets advertising companies and other "less liked" parties distinguish the devices behind your public IP, without having to use e.g. cookies. At the very least, it's another data source for helping with browser fingerprinting.
Why can't they just disable WebRTC by default and ask the user for permission like they do with location and so on, without revealing the IP before the user accepts the connection? Also, maybe the user could easily whitelist some connections/WebRTC IDs?
It's a great idea - if IP is property, it should be taxed like property - but then you realise how few places have a property tax because property-owning money dominates the political process.
> Guess what? I complied with the officer and didn't act like a complete asshole and the officer let me go.

"Guess what? I was white, so he let me go".
>"Another step toward making our Chrome invisible."

Dammit, I think they have gone too far in making Chrome invisible!

I was scrolling up and down, comparing the picture of the old version of Chrome with the picture of the new version of Chrome.

But I didn't actually have to scroll up and down to compare the old with the new, because there was the new version of the Chrome interface running in the window frame around the web page about Chrome that I was scrolling up and down!

But Chrome is so invisible, it took me a while to actually break the frame and see it there...
In particular, there's a ton of interesting non-fiction (eg, niche history books containing original research) that's out of print but not out of copyright.

Nobody benefits from this. If we had a reasonable "orphaned works" law, the internet could contain much much more useful information.
It's known as "picture messaging".
Project Spartan Forensics
Real VPN addresses are also leaked.
Life of the author unless the author dies within 20 years of start of initial copyright in which case immediate family can extend by 20 more years, giving offspring, spouse etc, a chance to gain income from a deceased's work. (i chose 20 years because that would be baby to adult in the case of offspring).

Companies: 20 years then stfu. Remember, they can still sell their product, and they could come up with a scheme to mark it original or authentic, like wines and foods now do.
Fingerprinting and more evil deeds.
Google did not update Hangouts or Messenger though. How hard was for them to release a hotfix that disables the automatic download?!
Exposing the LAN address is less of a concern than exposing the real IP address of people using a VPN or proxy for anonymity.
I don't understand why a peer-to-peer network connection is different from Ajax. Browsers don't require user approval for 3rd-party XMLHttpRequest connections. WebSockets are even more permissive. Why is WebRTC being singled out here?

If I were a conspiracy-minded person (I'm not), I'd have to wonder if this was some kind of corporate-driven attempt to suppress peer-to-peer networks. In fact, I do think this is being done in good faith (even though I strongly disagree), but other users will not be so understanding.

Edit: s/advertiser-driven/corporate-driven I think there are a lot of big companies, particularly social media, that have a huge vested interest in suppressing web-based peer-to-peer networks. Not claiming that's what's happening here, but the threat posed by WebRTC to those companies is very real. At present, a peer-to-peer Twitter would not be impossible to pull off technically with WebRTC, a DHT, and a modest number of STUN servers. The hard part is convincing users it's in their best interest to switch, but if that could be accomplished...
This is something of a problem. The system which scans mobile phone metadata (among other things) and turns it into drone bombing targets is already enough like the latter. A human is involved in pulling the trigger, but really they're following orders rather than having made the target/not target decision. And they may not even have the security clearance for the information on which the decision is based.
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Can you expand on this, please? How does it make it easier to XSS?
Sounds good - let's give this a spin :)
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Don't be simple. This can reveal people that are using proxies like Tor and VPNs, and it's already being exploited by trackers:

https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/
I use a Pebble watch. Not sure if I find it to be that much less of a distraction, but it certainly allows you to be more responsive to the notifications with very little action, as you can quickly see the them in a near zero-touch way. I've found it better for me than my phone where I need a complete context switch to get my phone out to see the message (and unlock it, if neccessary). I also use Pushbullet when at my desktop, so phone notifications are displayed on my monitor and allows you to respond to things like SMS.

I'd probably be happier and less distracted if I was "polling" for messages, but I don't trust myself to do that regularly enough so having low friction notifications suits me better.
I think more important is that the figure should keep improving month-over-month, year-over-year. Ultimately, churn/retention is related to value a business is expected to create in future assuming your customer acquisition becomes zero.
WebRTC is being singled out as it leaks user information that wasn't leaking before.

AFAIK, the conspiracy-minded people are claiming that this is a move by 'advertisers' to collect more user-identifying data.
So we're willing to destroy the web's big shot at peer-to-peer networking out of concern that this adds one more data point for fingerprinting, out of dozens?

Let's keep the big picture in mind here, people. Peer-to-peer networking is the web's big chance to weaken these huge personal data-scarfing companies. Please let's not kill it while it's just starting to grow.
Yes. Thousand times yes. If i could just justify spending so much money on ipad to use it just for reading.And anyway i would want the latest device which has not been released yet (october?).

I would still be worried about battery life (as it requires much more effort to keep an eye on than on an e-ink reader).

And do not forget about the screen differences. It's still more pleasant to look at an e-ink than on the traditional display.
In other news, Mozilla is considering the restriction of IPv6, because it leaks the internal IP.

(VPN leakage is a valid concern though)
Do you guys believe the time has come (finally!) to disrupt the real estate market through technology and social networks?
Chrome users, look here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-block/nphkk... or https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-leak-preven...
It is probably covered by defamation of character law (it would be in the UK at least) or by malicious litigation law.
Machine-readable codes also have space-efficient error correction built in, something that plain text does not support. A text label can become unusable with the loss of a single character.
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It's obvious this is some kind of pet peeve, but a little googling would answer your own questions. It seems like the NIST is the regulatory body in the US presiding over official measurements, and they provide a brief overview here:
http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/cooking.cfm

Wikipedia has more information on exact conversions and the domestic and international agreements that set the sizes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

You're welcome to do more research to confirm Wikipedia's assertions. As for whether it's flat or a little pile, 1 tsp is flat (5ml). What you're thinking of is the commonly used cooking instruction "heaping tablespoon", because yes, when cooking you don't have to have everything down to the exact ml.

EDIT: And again, more research done for you: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59711/rounded-he...
do you have different premium services or just one? What do you get if you purchase it/them?
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Thankyou I didn't know you could revert back to the old behaviour
GMail 5 on android is ruining my life, why on earth truncate the subject to show message content in the inbox view?

If the font bothers you then you are doing it wrong. Form over function your interest, then go impress people you dont know with shiny new things.
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can they make it not so sluggish too... more like Firefox Android?
Optimized Go gzip/zip packages, 30-50% faster
15 if used on a desk with 4k monitor.
13 if i would not have a money and would want to carry it with me from time to time.
Well, websockets introduced a massive new opportunity for advertisers to exfiltrate user data that wasn't even subject to the normal cross-site restrictions until recently in most browsers. But nobody proposed eliminating Websockets, or requiring explicit user approval for connections. Instead, they fixed the problem.
> The first thing I do with the "Merge Tabs and Apps" is to disable it and use the in browser tab switcher.

That was also my reaction. However I started to wonder "Maybe it's just a experience-reinforced habit to mentally separate the content of the web and content of the other apps?" After all it's not the only possible paradigm. Computers used to be simple terminals and current web apps trend resembles that. Just think about Chrome OS. For me (a a person who has spent most of his life in local files, directories and applications realm) both Chrome OS and browser tabs mixed with other apps seem to be weird, unnatural and cumbersome. But for someone without the baggage of such experiences, this solution could actually appear more useful and logical.
If you ship them right before the nightly cut-off for delivery the next morning they've always been fine. I assume the cargo hold is cold, so that would help as well.
Essentially any user-configurable SDR transmitter is sold as "measurement equipment", "non-certified technology sample" or "Class A unintentional radiator". In all cases it means that it's user's responsibility to obtain relevant transmitter licenses and/or ensure that such device does not behave like transmitter and meets all relevant EMC requirements.
The Gmail invites case was similar:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Extended_beta... :

> During the early months of the initial beta phase, Gmail's well-publicized feature set and the exclusive nature of the accounts caused the aftermarket price of Gmail invitations to skyrocket. According to PC World magazine, Gmail invitations were selling on eBay for as much as US$150, with some specific accounts being sold for several thousand dollars. After a new round of invitations in early June, the price for invitations fell down to between US$2–$5. Websites such as Gmail Swap emerged to allow philanthropic Gmail users to donate invitations to people who wanted them. On 28 June 2004, Google amended its policy to forbid the selling of registered accounts.
Could somebody please explain whether it is a technical requirement to leak the internal IP address for this technology to succeed or, if not, what possible reasons could exist for this design decision?
How about not disabling it, but merely making use of it visible? (e.g. an icon or a notice in the addressbar)

It would discourage reputable sites from abusing it, because users would start asking questions why a news site wants a p2p/videoconference connection.
Previously you'd have to guess that the router was on 192.168.x.1. http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2015/01/owning_modems_and_route...
Well, I'm not sure about XSS, but imagine you know someone's home IP is:

192.168.1.10

Based on this, you can probably guess the router is 192.168.1.1 and maybe even have a clue about the vendor based on the IP assigning patterns.

Then you can direct them to a page with an submitting POST <form> that makes modifications to their router settings. This is more like CSRF than XSS though.
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Why with a 4k monitor? My use case would be mostly development when I am on the go like at a coffee shop.
GCHQ, meanwhile, is not restricted from storing or querying such a database should they obtain a copy. Further, the NSA is not barred from asking GCHQ to return queries against the content of databases they hold. Lastly, GCHQ would be wise to automate the servicing of such requests, as a cost saving measure.

So this restriction has the potential of slowing the NSA's phone record snooping by roughly one RTT across the Atlantic. A delay that could amount to as much as 0.15 seconds.
A public marketplace for hackers – what could possibly go wrong?
I and my girlfriend we have two mac book pro, her is a 13' and mine is 15. I always use her notebook when I'm the road and at home :)
I use the 15' from time to time, when I do some coding and I need maybe a second screen and I just want to stay on bed
Why is Stephen Hawking treated like a tech expert?
"Small meshtags have lifespans that depend on their complexity. A simple tag might only last for a week, while a more complex one might last for 6 months or a year. Very complex tags will never expire. This prevents the simple tags from being used up." So the mantra is, i guess, make it complex. Also leave it to the imagination of a street painter, i am sure they will make art out of it.
If you look at a graph of world GDP, you'll see that it grows steadily and exponentially. The full set of causes is this is not known, but it can be shown not to be merely due to the gradual accumulation of capital. A large part must be due to technological growth.

So if you want to measure social impact I would also include the positive externalities of various jobs including working in technology. Even though I will probably be ridiculed as a typical silicon valley cultist, I think that anything that advances technology, including software, has a big positive economic externality.
Anyone taking repackaging and selling as theirs. It's my research & work. This is what I do for a living.
Because 15 is still too heavy and mostly likely will be used as a desktop replacement which you can transfer in a car and train and put it on a desk at some other place.

The 13 model is the one you carry in your backpack and use "anywhere".
Those of you HNers working with or studying artificial neural networks (or armchair enthusiasts), is there any research you've seen recently that had you particularly excited?
The AGPL is fundamentally flawed. Imagine if Google were subject to it; the idea of free software is to have the option to modify that which you run yourself. Without a million spindles, Google's main products are useless to you.

Services are different than software.
The issue is that, for example, the New York Times actually used WebRTC to gather data for exactly that purpose. https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/
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The hungry are being fed without disruptive change. The world currently has the lowest poverty rates in all of human history.
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VPN leakage, like the NYT did, is definitely a concern that can’t be dismissed.
If there's security concerns then it should prompt the user to allow/deny as well as whitelist the site for the future with a setting that lets people disable WebRTC easily (not in some obscure area).
I'm not sure asking permission really helps. With things like location and video end users at least know what it means, and can make a somewhat educated choice. How do you properly ask an uneducated user the question "Should this site be allowed to open an arbitrary data connection?" - sites that want to will think of some vaguely plausible reason and users will click away.
If you haven't already, check out Synaptic [1] by Juan Cazala. I use it in many of my ML projects and it contains a lot of useful examples and documentation. I recommend you take a look at the source as well, which is easy enough to understand.

[1] https://github.com/cazala/synaptic
...but they will anyway.
I simply stated facts, I did not say WebRTC should be dropped or restricted because of IP address leaks.

With that said, now let me express an opinion (not a fact): for every technological innovation there are downsides and upsides, and it's up to people to decide if the greatness makes up for the (potential) problems. With cell phones for instance, most people accept potentially having their location disclosed to the accuracy cell towers and triangulation allow, because it's super damn convenient to be able to place and receive calls and text from just about anywhere. Of course, there's a minority that is not comfortable with this and refuses to use cell phones or takes extra precautions.

Similarly, people may be willing to accept the problems of WebRTC because its applications are enough to make up for the disadvantages. People who don't accept will find ways to not use it. If the majority of users ends up blocking it, we can conclude that people don't want a peer-to-peer web, but a more sensible conclusion will be that people were not OK with that particular implementation of peer-to-peer networking, and a different implementation is in order, or that at least patches to the current implementation are needed.

> Peer-to-peer networking is the web's big chance to weaken these huge personal data-scarfing companies.

I think that most likely, these data-scarfing companies (and other parties) will learn to use WebRTC (as it is now) for nefarious purposes, before it hurts a tiny bit of their bottom line. I bet it's much easier and there is much more immediate monetary support for developing the pieces necessary to track users with WebRTC, than to implement an actual peer-to-peer application with it.
My personal oppinion is that dx is lacking the newer Android devices. Geekbuying.com is often better in this regard. DX has for example not the latest Meizu or Ulefone phones.
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FUSE is more general, I think, insofar as it provides a filesystem abstraction for anything you like. Whereas this looks more like a layer that sits above an existing filesystem (like a FUSE overlay).

(Edit: Emphasis on the "I think"!)
Really? I'd love to hear about it, please drop me a line.

(Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud, although not on SQL specifically.)
weirdly, my 13" mbpr has probably spent 95% of it's 3 year life outdoors, under a roof but otherwise exposed to sunlight and natural conditions. Once a week I blow it down during blowing leaves off the deck with a petrol leaf blower and it pretty much looks brand new. Just my 2c.

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That is an amazing idea. Sometimes the original is as good as it's gonna get.

That said, aren't both usually owned by the same studio/company?