skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point about security is that a C++ program compiled to use a virtual memory array in javascript could be subverted (to do something the programmer and user did not intend) with a buffer overflow etc. the same way a C++ program compiled and running natively could be subverted. With this translation-to-js-objects kind of transpiling, the result is more like java - less arbitrary code execution, more "unhandled exception".
As someone who does not want to live there either, I can see why people move there.

It's simply where the most opportunities are. The idea is to move there and live uncomfortably until you network your way to an awesome, high paying job.

Alternatively, the tech companies there usually do more interesting stuff than in other area. Here in NYC most are related to advertising or media—stuff not easy to get exited about. San Francisco has its large share of silly ideas for companies, but it also has many that do interesting stuff.
I'd say that if it's regular contract, you pay the tax in the country where the company resides (+ social / health tax). Freelancing is different and the pay is taxed in the country where you reside.
And to expand on this, it's not even just display failings, it's also semantic failings. There's no way I know of to do footnotes in HTML/CSS/SVG in a reasonable way. I'd want something like:

<p>Some text.<footnote>Footnote text</footnote> Some more text.</p>

...to be rendered as something like:

Some text.[1] Some more text.

And at the bottom of the page:

[1] Footnote text.

But as far as I know there's no reasonable way to do this. There are similar problems for tables of contents, bibliographies, numbered figures, etc.

The idea that HTML is semantic in practice is pretty laughable.

All that said, I'd have a lot of objections to someone writing a "Using LaTeX as an HTML replacement" article. LaTeX is better designed overall, but they're also designed for fundamentally different use-cases.
It's getting a bit ridiculous. ISPs have pocketed multiple rounds of order of magnitude jumps in network technology while customer speeds have stalled and "usage caps" are on and off.

And that's just the "assume they are not acting in bad faith" stance; we know they are willingly not upgrading the interconnects to (eventually) Netflix and others, who their customers are requesting more and more data from.
Laws are lobbied by industries. In the end it will be the combined interest of several industries, not technologists, who settle this.

"It only strangles big industry..."

No, big industry will say how they would prefer this to roll. Currently the publishing houses seem to hold the upper hand. Industry players percieve this as a way to funnel Google and Facebook profits to dying industries in europe. Instead of innovating the publishing houses fight death through supportive legislation.
The problem is who you're living next to, at that price point, in another city.

Basically, if you live where all of the minimum-wage people live, you're going to get spill-over from all the typical problems in such a neighbourhood.
I have no idea why this got downvoted. Maybe you didn't get the joke?
Comcast is trying to get that cable money from somewhere else...
It's probably a result of the early days of the internet. Nobody knows we have this network, and we have passwords after all so we're good. On top of that base, the contracts that built these systems probably didn't specify much in the way of security.

Even with the recent OPM breaches, probably nobody thinks it's their problem, and weak contracts are probably still being bid.
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They are building one of those betatrons in Petawatt in Czech Republic - ELI Beamlines project.
I have to admit that you might have some kind of point regarding FF, but they are one of the more tolerable mainstream bands. funny that you use two bands that Grohl was/is a part of as a counterpoint. It would almost be like me saying Starship is everything wrong with 80s hair bands and then saying that Jefferson Airplane is what music should be like. In reality, they are the same band and are a metaphor for the demise of the baby boomer 'locust' generation.
I've never met that good accountant. On the contrary, my experience has been that every accountant I've dealt with in connection with my small business interests also struggled to get their heads around VAT MOSS for a while, and even they had no idea how it was going to hit small businesses on 1 January this year.

And as others have also pointed out, there are plenty of very small busineses who could never afford that level of ongoing accountancy support, nor to hire people to develop the relevant record-keeping systems and automate the corresponding reporting processes.
They always fly at night, or it takes 7 hours but only at night?
I've been using GPG since a while now, to sign my outgoing mail. I don't encrypt it as I don't know anyone who uses GPG. I'm still happy to use it, to get used to it, and to see alternative uses. Signing is in my view a big improvement, to make sure nobody has messed with the messages. I always use HTML, so the receiver gets an attachment with the signing hash in it, and no strange text in the mail. I use a signature with a link to my public key and a link to the PGP page on Wikipedia. Everybody can read my mail, and if they want they can validate it.
You have been writing quite a lot and I did read all. Your problem is that you assume "the EU ... proper have had some pretty dumb moments". But those laws are not dumb. They are in the interest of some mighty lobbies. That means they will not improve over time because the laws makers and the people paying those are ok with them.
All governments protect incumbent players with large enough vested interests - if they yell loud enough. I think you view US through rose tinted glasses - go ask Elon Musk what he thinks of the laws protecting car dealerships there.
And another strike by the same EU Digital Economy commissioner (!) that "had no sympathy for Jennifer Lawrence when she happens to post her private pictures online".

I'm pretty hopeless, especially because there's no way on gods green earth to get rid of this guy. EU is so high above country level politics (yet defines >80% of laws in the end), it's hard to even get people to the voting booth. And even if they do, it's completely parliamentary, no chance to influence anything.

It doesn't help that completely incompetent politicians in the country parties get dilbertized one level up so they "can't hurt anymore". This pirate politician is about the only one there decently transparent and accountable.
Skype is not blocked in China. That alone should tell you a lot.
> it's also I think, that Americans find it acceptable to live in suburbs

Guess what, tons of land leads to different expectations
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He should not complain about users with asinine demands. Let them make those demands. Either ignore them, or explain the situation and ask for a reasonable fee.
No spaces around em-dashes is what most commonly recommended in American style guides though done recommend thin spaces and some have, or at least accept, seeing them open (i.e., with normal spaces). This is a flexible issue of style, though, more than of linguistic "correctness" (and even the choice between an em-dag and an en-dash set open, for the same user, is a style issue on which different American manuals will disagree.)
Recipe for dealing with cultural conflicts at Yale:
1. Express indignation
2. Convene a committee
3. Produce a report recommending hiring new administrator for diversity/cultural-somethingness
4. Hire administrator

It will happen...just wait for it...
In the SVG Text version of ∫𝝨∇×𝐅∙𝑑𝝨 = ∮∂𝝨 𝐅∙𝑑𝐫, the r is invisible in firefox (at least on my machine). It is visible on chrome.

http://i.imgur.com/GhrHkbG.png
"a good accountant will take care of the rest."

Are we living on the same planet?
> you devour one of them and redistribute to the other 9, thats OK simply because the 9 recipients benefit?

Because obviously anyone proposing progressive taxation wants the terms to be "once you make a million dollars, all assets are seized and you are left to die in the woods, filthy elitist". Definitely not anything, even in the most extreme case, like "oh hey, you made a million dollars this year, that is demonstrably enough to not only fund all your needs and probably 99% of conceivable wants but also those of at least a dozen family members or more", so we are going to take every cent you make beyond that and redistribute it to those who don't have enough to even fulfill their own needs".

That is not eating the rich. It is obviously way too redistributive and would catastrophically disincentivize wealth creation and probably wreck the economy, but even in the most extreme case it is not locally "devouring". You still have a million dollars a year, enough to afford almost anything.

And thats just the unreasonable super-communist perspective. A real world progressive tax rate that optimizes for societal wellbeing would probably be a NIT that guarantees at least 30k and caps your income in the hundreds of millions with the bisection at the peak income happiness threshold thats around 90k per person.

I'm sure "devouring" all the income beyond 500 million dollars of someone who made that much this year will certainly destroy them, at least as much as deep poverty and systemic inequality is definitely not destroying the minds of the children and the health of the parents living in it today.
That is stupid. If your salary won't cover decent living then why bother? It is people like yourself who drive rates low and then post how difficult is to live on them...
You need 2 pieces of evidence from every transaction

You need 2 pieces of evidence that agree from every transaction, which is a significantly harder standard to meet.

For now, IP address is being accepted as one of them. However, most estimates seem to put geolocation as accurate only for about 90% of checks, and even if it's accurate, the information you'll get back typically won't be enough to determine which rules to apply in member states that have regional variations in their VAT rules.

It's basically impossible to comply properly with the current rules using a fully automated system, and therefore basically everyone trading on-line is risking compliance issues because you can't avoid them. The whole thing is kind of a joke, except for the not-so-funny part where your number comes up and you get business-destroying levels of overhead dealing with the audit.
One thing that's likely to attract downvotes are comments to the tune of "+1", "I agree", or in this case, "good one!". The sentiment can be expressed with the little up-arrow next to the comment you like, and then it doesn't clutter up the thread. HN tries to keep a high signal to noise ratio, and part of that is greying out comments that really don't add anything. FWIW, I didn't downvote you, but that's probably the reason that people did.
See "Why King George III Can Encrypt" (2014) for an alternative metaphor to 'private key' and 'public key':

http://randomwalker.info/teaching/spring-2014-privacy-techno...

>We present the user with four items, a key, lock, seal and imprint. The key
and lock serve the purposes of encryption: Alice distributes her locks as
widely as possible so that others can send her messages that only she
can open with her key. Similarly, the seal and imprint handle signing:
Alice passes out copies of her imprint so others can verify her as the sender
of messages she has stamped with her seal. Collected together, we refer to
these four items as a toolkit this abstraction handles the contingency where
a user loses her key but not her seal: we insist that the toolkit represents
an indivisible unit that must be replaced whenever any element is lost.
Other things being equal, I'd rather have the smelly stuff burned in a big dedicated building with several tons of filters and 24×7 dedicated monitoring than outside my bedroom window by small engines whose only virtue is portability.
While I agree with your point, the history buff in me has to point out that the WWI metaphor was inaccurate. World War One was a war of scale that was exponentially larger then previous conflicts. Tactics advanced rapidly and beyond 1914/1915 generals had adapted themselves in a myriad of ways.

The largest example of this however was away from the battlefield. As Napoleon Bonaparte said "An army runs on its stomach", and the explosion of modern military logistics that took place in WWI was nothing short of miraculous. Millions of men, food, supplies, armaments, had to be shuffled back and forth from France, to Russia, and back to France again, in ways that had never been conceived before.

One reason I believe this rapid advancement was possible was because leaders were CONSTANTLY replaced if their performance suffered. This forced new, and occasionally younger (but mostly old), officers to adapt or quickly lose their rank.

I think this yields some hope in modern times, we don't necessarily need better representatives, just new ones, constantly, until they get it right.
Of course it doesn't.

Cable companies know that they can sell you data twice unless you convert your internet data to be your TV.

They don't want to give their customers the means to free themselves from half of their monthly bill.

They have every incentive to make their internet service not work for video.

Someone who ran a local ISP said that bandwidth is becoming basically free. People can only consume so much. Even with a fast connection no one is going to be using it all the time.
> In practice, I heard someone say that the biggest improvement in people’s privacy has been use of Gmail.

In practice, until Snowden happened, NSA was able to access all the Google's internal data as Google replicated in plaintext its whole datacenters through the links snooped by the NSA or the GCHQ.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/nsa_smile...
So where's the mobile friendly usenet clients that are accessed by appreciable numbers of users?

Let me save you the time: They don't exist, and there's a reason for that.

Stop being intentionally obtuse.
1. Skype itself is a closed-source, proprietary computer program, and you have no way to know what it is actually doing at any point in time.

2. All communications, including audio, video, text, and file sharing, are passed through Skype's (Microsoft's?) servers, and is readable by them.

3. If it is readable by Skype (Microsoft?), then it is readable by any government agency with access to their servers, whether by court order or voluntary participation.

It's your call.
I've never heard of a school (in the US) that didn't claim to teach "critical thinking skills" and "how to learn".

Of course most don't, even though they know these platitudes are what they need to publicly espouse. It's a pretty big topic really...
Everyone keeps asking this question. The answer: they are hiring remote workers. But my question: where is the evidence that tech companies are not able to be profitable with their high payroll costs?
Not quite true - gasoline engine efficiency is roughly 25% while a power plant could go to 50-sh. The efficiency of transporting the power back to the electric car wheels is probably in the high 80-s low/90s. So you are ahead. Just not by that much.
How I get my employees to work 80 hours a week
Reminds me of an email I once wrote that started out talking about Georgia as an imaginary place. Countries, states, counties, cities -- these all have to be dreamed up first in a way that, say, a continent or river does not need to be dreamed up. A continent exists whether we define it and name it or not. Not so with a politically defined "place."
Getting a strange attachment is better then getting a few strange lines of text at the end of the email?
One click encryption is one click too many
So people who want more bandwidth are just SOL?
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For those equality puzzled about what akiselev meant by Type II / III civilizations, it comes from the Kardashev scale:

"The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilize.[1] The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. A Type I civilization uses only resources available on its home planet, Type II harnesses all needed energy from its local star, and Type III of its galaxy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Running a Tesla on pure coal power is still more efficient than running a normal car on gas. And how many places in the world have nothing but coal power?
Google acquires Fly Labs, maker of video editing iOS apps
Learning an ALGOL-like notation doesn't magically make you competent to speak of cryptography. In fact, it almost by definition does not teach you the fundamentals.

There's no reason to believe programming classes will be at all useful for anything, other than to impart false knowledge.
In fact every integer k is the sum of nine cubes, and every multiple of 6 is the sum of four cubes. Your equation is just the equation x^3 + y^3 + (-z)^3 + w^3 = 6k where k = 0.

The more general problem is known as Waring's problem. For example, every integer is the sum of 19 fourth powers. Of course special families of integers require fewer fourth powers.
As an aside, this is the first time I've been to that website, and it's really good. We need more of this.
Why There Aren't More Googles
Paul Graham wrote an essay : "Why There Aren't More Googles" --- http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html.

In it, he referenced an essay by Umar Haque who wrote on the same issue. The link is in the first line of the essay.

I clicked it, but it gave an error message : https://hbr.org/error/page-not-found

Anyone knows where I can find a working link to this essay ?
On a sidenote, it looks like the HN policy of preserving original headlines is completely out the window.
Um, it's not democracy that's at fault. Legislative structures first goal is to protect capital. In practice this leads to lobbyists influencing legal decisions.

In the fantasy technocracy - unless it was totalitarian communism - there would be instruments to sound the markets for need for legislation and big capital would have as much say so there as here now.
> while a power plant could go to 50-sh

Only on very new generation plants (for coal national average is cited as 32% - it may be slightly higher now)[1]. A 2016 Toyota Prius is advertised as being at 40%[2]. I remember reading a 70% ballpark for Tesla's but it might have gotten better (I can't seem to find the article now).

[1] https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43343.pdf

[2] http://gas2.org/2015/05/27/2016-toyota-prius-engine-achieves...
Cool concept. Why do you need to define the color and blur distance twice?
Who's your payment processor? At least stripe seems to not offer much help here except source the credit card to a country of origin
Meet one of the world’s most groundbreaking scientists. He’s 34.
There's a movie with Jeremy Irons in the role of Hardy:

http://jeremyirons.net/tag/g-h-hardy/

If you want more romance and mathematics, read about Galois.
I have a keybase account that I used it the other day to have a few secrets sent to me from various sources. I have to say, even as a complete geek, I wasn't that thrilled with the experience.

I have a new machine so I had to go through the setup process. First I had to install node/npm, and then their stuff, and then some other PGP apps. The whole thing felt really clumsy.

I'm a bit of encryption novice, but for what I get, it feels like the openssl tools on my mac should be able to do everything without having to jump through all the hoops.

Then there's the user experience on the other side. I had to send people to the keybase page to get them to generate the message and then email / send that to me. That's annoying and probably verges on terrifying for non-geeks.

Afterwards I thought to myself, why can't I sent up an html / js page with my public key in? It would have a single box called "Send something to me" and it could do the encryption client side and then fire me an email, or stick it in firebase, or whatever.

I know this doesn't solve all of the issues (trust etc) but when I'm just trying to give customers a way of getting me a password or something without them sending it via email it goes a long way and removes a lot of the friction.
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Perhaps someday Tiffany will consider synthetic gemstones, too.

The nuclei of both natural and synthetic stones were born in the same supernovae, and the environmental and human costs are far smaller.
No, it can't. The receiver could be using a non secure SMTP server.
Do you have a source for the claim of lower efficiency? My understanding was that the Karnot efficiency of internal combustion engines was so low (like 15%) that it was not difficult for electric cars to beat them.
Honestly I think you have to take it into the current context. Off the top of my head if I had to give the best method for raising you socioeconomic class in the United States it would start with either "Start your own business", or "learn to program".

That said I'm still on the tutoring mailing list for my university's C.S. department, and so many people jump into it and then fall off a cliff. We are forcing an entire generation into field that many will not be successful in.

IMO we're pushing a mass of people in a direction with peaks, valleys, and cliffs, without taking responsibility for the numerous negative outcomes that will ensue.

"But we need more people in STEM!"

"But not everyone wants, or will excel in, STEM!"

"..."
Last time I checked, it was way less powerful than SuperCollider, and development was kinda stalled. Happy to see there is a new version though.
You misunderstood what I said about Google. I still don't care about the ads shown by Google (I run my ad blocker just the same). What I meant is that at least you have a point that Google can be more effective, for the reasons you mentioned. And if that is "as good as it gets", why should let other business take for granted that all they need is to get eyeballs and the ad money will come? It makes no sense.

Also... please, Buzzfeed partnering with the White House is a sign of "quality news"? The quote "If you want something in the paper, that’s advertising; you want something kept out, that’s news" comes to mind.

> It's FAR better to have democratic and free access to content rather than tying it to direct payments and vastly limiting access and amount. That is going backwards to the entire intent of the internet and the spread of information.

That is a false dichotomy. You can get free access to content without relying on ads as your revenue stream. Wikipedia is not a business and does it. Stackoverflow is a business and uses the careers site as the main revenue source. We don't need an "Ads industry" to have quality content.
Eighty hours a week == "Burn 'em and turn 'em"
Crawfurd v the Royal Bank yet again
Weight loss apps no better at helping shed pounds than pamphlets
Is there any hope of discovering historical observations of this star ?