skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your view is naive because you think Travis and his "strategy" have any bearing on Uber's long-term success in China.

The only strategy that matters is how to curry favor with, and kowtow to, the Chinese leadership and central to that strategy, unfortunately, is not being majority foreign owned/operated (especially by Americans).

> My statements aren't "laughable" or "totally naive." You just want to be right huh?

Now you're just projecting.

Your view is in the minority, even here on HN. If you were to take this view to more China-centric online communities, you'll find even fewer supporters.

"Laughable" is mean-spirited, but "naive" is a fitting description.
Assuming continuous inflation, the absolute price of housing will always increase. However, affordability decreases as the ratio of housing price : income increases. There is a limit above which a vast swath of the population can't afford houses, and somewhere just beneath that limit lies another at which the price of housing collapses. That's assuming that the effect of speculation never becomes large enough to outweigh a collapse of real demand.
I have one. Ring finger of the left hand. It's mostly useful for rapidly-changing magnetic fields and strong static fields, so I can feel things like:

- the transformer in my laptop charger

- the electric motors in laptop fans and my hair clippers

- the closure magnets on my laptop

- the magnet in Arc mice that holds the dongle on

- the cyclotron in microwave ovens
"For over a year, we asked people in prison to paint or draw people we felt should be in prison–the CEOs of companies destroying our environment, economy, and society."

Just to point out it's NOT the prisoners choosing what to draw.
>I'm a "reformed" credit card user. I haven't borrowed for anything apart from the house in around 15 years. It's not a problem, and the kids don't miss out on having too much stuff either!

I've never used a credit card, because people like you got to me before I was old enough to apply for one and warded me off, so thanks :)

However, what's your experience with taking out that home loan? I'm worried that I might one day ask the bank for a serious loan (with a suitable amount of pre-savings) and be informed I cannot be lent to because I have no credit history at all. I know I can get a credit card and always pay it off at the end of the month to get a credit history, but by golly does playing that game sit ill with me.
are these spikes in exit nodes ?
What, how is this a real thing?

Just because you're a CEO means you're a criminal? While I disagree with some of what these companies do, this seems ludicrous.
Investors are just like everyone else. They don't want competition.
What Is the German Equivalent of Hacker News?
I want to stay current on tech news in Germany and can read/speak German. Any tips are appreciated!
Redmonk Language Ranking (2016)
The demo and step by step blog is great but there is some really bad code in it... Is it idiomatic Wisp to keep the surface-level syntax of Clojure but none of the important bits like immutability and abstractions?
Ah, good catch -- misunderstood that on the first read.
The author suggests using deadbeef.1 instead of dead:beef::1. But his scheme cannot work. If you see deadbeef.ad there is no way to tell if it refers to his IPv6 notation, or to a domain under the .ad TLD (many other ccTLDs are valid hexadecimal numbers). And you can't replace the dot with a colon (because many of his other complaints were caused by colons). You can't use a character other than dot or colon (because so much network software is written assuming IPs/hostnames can only contains alphanumeric, dash, period, or colon chars that it would be too painful to introduce a new character).

So get over it. IPv6 is not meant to be usually exposed to endusers. Use hosnames. Use DNS, or mDNS or LLMNR on small networks without a resolver. Etc.
The world is already short-sighted (e.g. Climate Change)
For me, because once you get beyond the $5 nano/free tier, things get expensive really quick.

For example, I run about 10 different sites off one Linode, but only one of them gets any substantial traffic. Still, in order to run that site, which works just fine on a $20/mo 2GB/2core unit on Linode, I'll push out about 150GB in outbound bandwidth a month, and require around 15-20GB in storage. Pricing that out on AWS, ignoring the free tier, I'm looking at at least $40/mo, so double the price.

These are hobby sites or side projects, so they are not necessarily mission critical, but it would be sad if they went down.

There's a serious benefit to getting a VPS when you're on the low end like that, where power and bandwidth per dollar are greatly maximized.
haha, wouldn't this be so interesting?

wish wolfram was open source
A Vagrant-based docker registry cache for faster docker pulls
> You can ask the OS to allocate a new port when you start up a piece of software and then advertise that port via whatever coordination protocol you have.

As long as the coordination protocol is not output a wrongly formatted url to the terminal and have the user cut and paste it into their browser, the coordination protocol should be able to handle it.
Vultr is the best I've found. The UI and website isn't as pretty as DO or AWS but:

- It's consistently faster on most metrics than other providers I've tested.

- It's full KVM and allows you to run any OS you like. As long as it's KVM virtualisable and you can install it from an ISO it's an option.

- It's present in a ton of DCs.
The facts are dictated by the engineering. Is a lawyer a computer networks expert? Not by default. They will need to defer to the engineers.
Click on the picture.
In our case someone logged in to the Linode Manager first. Whomever logged in was confident they knew the password of the user and the MFA token.

That would indicate that Linode's password hashes may have been cracked offline.
Exactly!

Black box data is retrieved analyzed and scenarios are prepared for pilots to train against.

I used to work in flight simulation and have flown a few different types. I designed the UI for the malfunctions/preselect system and while we had the head pilot trainer in to test the system one day we decided to mess with him.

We gave him a 35kt cross wind. Failed 2 out of 3 of the engines, as well as various hydraulics systems. Aside from the hilarity of watching the simulator engineer following orders to hand-crank the imaginary landing gear, the pilot made a near perfect landing without breaking a sweat.

I've had enough times in sim cockpits to confidently say that I could land a commercial aircraft if necessary.
I can also confidently say that it would take me a dozen attempts to make that landing without crashing. Let alone a clean almost textbook touch down.
> #3 - undermining national unity, or going against ethnic customs and habits [going against ethnic habits? not illegal in Canada]

Undermining national unity is not illegal in Canada - even to the point where a political party was advocating the separation of Quebec (BQ) and a Bloc Quebecois MP tried to incite members of the Canadian Forces to desert and join a possible Quebec military if Quebec separated from Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Jacob

"Jacob faced accusations that he advised Quebec members of the Canadian Forces to join a Quebec army if there was a winning vote for Quebec sovereignty in the 1995 Quebec referendum. The prevailing Liberal government decided to investigate these remarks, while the Reform Party demanded Jacob be charged with sedition.[2]"

In the end he wasn't charged with anything
TL;DR: The government is intentionally trying to lose this case.

Right.
Appreciate the compliment! My favorite books are Candide, The Great Gatsby, and My Antonia. Dracula and Frankenstein are really good too.
Terrorist’s Apple ID Password Changed in Government Custody, Blocking Access
Ambition Requires Delusion
Not surprised they have such a toxic/brogrammer work environment. Some of the people on their IRC channel seemed really rude when I used to go on there (including the person who did that). Also I used to know a woman from one of the FOSS communities I'm involved with who worked there a few years ago and it definitely seemed like they treated her in a very tokenized way.
> My point was that if you have a system which can go straight from SHA2(password) to bcrypt(password) then the system must be storing the plaintext of the password, which would be very bad.

Yes, I understand that. It's just completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not it's competent practice to store vulnerable hashes indefinitely, awaiting customer log in.

Again, it is not a competent practice. Wrap vulnerable hashes in strong ones immediately; they're a huge liability to leave sitting in your storage even when you don't have evidence that there's a backdoor in your systems that you cannot seem to find.
Is this a joke? You think Uber China is truly "independent"?

Who do you think pulls the strings, dictates the strategy, provides the underlying technology?

Saying Uber China is "independent" is even more laughable than "Uber drivers are independent contractors".
Yes, with feedly. It was the closest thing to google reader I could find when it initially shut down. I like that it can figure out what the RSS feed address is even if you just give it a domain name, though the mobile app is kind of annoying.
We use AWS us-west-1, us-west-2 and Azure Fresno. Azure replaced Linode very quickly after the July incident.
I like that you said you were stealing from another thread and then quoted a book. A book that isn't evidence of your assertion.
Take it easy. Maybe he's never heard of Patreon - I hadn't. He never asked for a favor. Everything doesn't have to be a fight.
For tech news: Heise newsticker.

But it is nothing like HN.

And don't bother reading comments there, it's a cesspool.
Daily code optimization using benchmarks and profiling in Golang
Honestly I think most of the things you mentioned are completely do able and can improve quality of life enough to justify the expense.

Overpriced car straight out of undergrad? That's a different story entirely. Those things could anchor an air craft carrier.
I was going to try getting a Synology with btrfs but seeing the comments in the other thread has given me pause. Maybe they will take a run at this and make things work with zfs.

My ReadyNAS has been a ROCK over the last 11(!!!) years and up until recently was still getting updates. They are a market leader anymore but damn, color me impressed with the level of commitment to updates over the years.
> Then how can you get into the situation that the shipped binary packages can't be built with the shipped toolchain or shipped dependencies

The distribution isn't rebuilt every cycle. If no new source release has been uploaded, the existing binary will be used for the next release.
Awesome, I'll look into it. I definitely like being able to create my own custom ISO and install it. Thanks!
Email subject lines seem to be getting longer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134675
Mind blown, if this is true!
Hah, pretty close except the only person responsible is still there.
Here's what the 'i' in iPhone means
Ask HN: Preferred VPS Providers?
I think our community could benefit from a little collective intelligence sharing in regards to options for reliable, cost-effective virtual private server providers for those needing access to such servers. I would love to see everyone's current recommendations.

Obviously selection criteria varies on a case-by-case basis, but common considerations would include:

- Overall provider quality
- General cost considerations
- Adequate technical specs
- Responsive customer support
- Security consciousness

Feel free to compare and contrast a virtual server solution against an IaaS provider like AWS or Azure, highlighting the strengths and pitfalls of such a solution.

(This may or may not be in response to other current stories about a certain VPS provider...)
Optimizing website images using bandwidth
U.S. Justice Department files motion to compel Apple to cooperate with FBI
It no longer matters if some people want to learn IPv6 or not. The world at large has adopted IPv6, by necessity. Those who refuse to follow with the times will, sooner or later, be replaced by those who are happy to learn new things. It’s not like the world will suddenly one day decide to give up and go back to IPv4. Adapt or die.
I completely agree with you, but this isn't mutually exclusive with facing retaliation (in terms of internal politics, for instance.)
This is because DO is desperate to retain customers. I don't know if it's still the case, but a year or so ago the CEO was personally handling customer service, responding via email and adding credits to people's accounts. If the CEO has that much time on his hands, to personally handle every customer dissatisfaction, then the customer base must be quite small.

I think for me the largest red flag was DO not even having bandwidth monitoring in place. The only reason there were no bandwidth limitations was because they were not even physically tracking bandwidth usage. How do you launch a hosting platform without something as basic as being able to monitor bandwidth?
I know that Facebook's Android app uses bandwidth as the primary indicator for what resources to load, but I haven't seen this approach mentioned much for optimizing website assets.
He's selling items on his site that the Archery company contends they hold the patent for. This doesn't seem to be a spurious claim.
Is end-to-end encrypted messaging really that hard? Assuming you simply forgo all the features that require a server and just send messages peer-to-peer using TLS, isn't this pretty straightforward to do?
I respectfully disagree. In normal typing, I don't consider a capital "I" to be significantly more taxing than a lowercase "i". Relatedly, I think there's a reason that I've never heard an argument about why we should prefer square brackets over parentheses (square brackets require no shift while parentheses do).

Right off the bat, I notice that when I'm quoting something using double quotes or placing something in parentheses or curly braces, I don't even have to think about pressing shift. I type them just as quickly as any other punctuation. So I don't think there's much validity to this argument based solely on keystrokes.
>> IPv6 is still in the early stages of adoption
> It really, really isn’t. It might look that way to you, in the US, at your home endpoint, but move to the backbone or outside the US and you get a very different picture. ARIN in the US just happened to be the last of the RIRs (except AFRINIC in Africa) to run out of IPv4 addresses, so the US was able to put off switching for longer than most, and the whole of the US is now consequently behind the curve.

The US may have been slow to start, but is probably ahead of the curve now. AT&T (6rd, but still) and Comcast have a large amount of residential users that are IPv6 enabled; T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint all support it on wireless too (subject to apns and access technology).
yeah I thought about rebuking his point, but someone who quotes fiction texts not from 'another thread', but from a book written in 1957 that was talking more about socialism and fascism in Hitler's Germany and Russia, and proceeds to copy and paste an entire paragraph in order to support his point about US in 2016 Well, that's some sort of superpower right there.
Bankruptcy is an accountant assisted suicide attempt.

Executing a corporation would be more akin to seizing all the assets, throwing the board and execs in jail, shredding any and all contracts, some high profile perp walks.

Now that I'm describing it... It'd look like a RICO case.
Thank you! Finally, someone else is saying what I've been thinking.
People are learning and using it just fine. Yes, it looks a bit different but that's about it.
Everything works just the same except building properly routed networks is a lot easier with IPv6.
To make things worse are vanity ipv6 addresses

2001:4b10:bbc::1

2a03:2880:2110:df07:face:b00c:0:1
> breaking locks, drilling into safes

But that's only "reasonable" to ask of a Bank because bank's are in the business of giving time-limited vaults and thus evicting customers. The customer knows the bank is hard and crunchy on the outside, but sees that once inside the vault their safe-deposit box is only behind sheet-metal walls.

It's not only physically fairly easy, but the bank has the equipment on-site and does the lock-drilling routinely.

Apple is not in the business of cracking hardware security modules. And imagine if they make a mistake under intense media scrutiny and the data is lost forever - they'd take the heat and their reputation would be tarnished forever. It's absolutely unreasonable to ask Apple to take such risk, at great cost, in an area they aren't skilled in or practiced at.

> This is privacy advocates trying to shift the Overton window: where a search pursuant to a valid court order somehow becomes a privacy violation.

If one were to characterize a side's entire message as being a rhetorical trick, I think it would be as easy to say almost exactly the same thing in reverse. You're suggesting that the government can compel pretty much anyone to do anything already so we might as well just codify it and move along.

Privacy advocates are thinking of privacy, not the law. By that I mean, there's a certain amount of liberty people are willing to entrust to the government in trade for protection but many people see the cost to their liberties going up without any protection on the table. Monitoring someone used to take a 24/7 staff and now it's the default setting. There's simply, factually, less privacy.

You keep talking of the delicate and time-tested balance, etc. But consider this - (valid) government rules at the will of the people. The people don't think in terms of law, they think in terms of their needs and want. Privacy is a dial - Safety is a dial - government-surveillance is a consequence.

All precedent bows to the people, and to deny the will of the people because the constitution, statute, and precedent (may) not yet be up to date with that will misses entirely, the point of law and government. It doesn't matter if government has been doing something for 1500 years - if it's not providing a value to the people it's not a power the people need to grant.

There's absolutely no reason not to walk the government's powers back if it can't justify needing them.
it's just a redirect to fbi.gov
BTW, this is what I see: http://imgur.com/k7ax9t6

The product is an adapter.

The reviews are for a solar pump!
As someone who's used IPv6 at home as a consumer for probably at least two years, I can tell you I have and to type an IPv6 address into my browser exactly zero times. I think I've maybe had to type one out once when configuring my router (but probably didn't as I use DHCP for address assignment internally to my home network and to get an external address). I couldn't even tell you what the numeric address format is, because I literally never have to know it.
But puts you in the top 1.5% nationwide. So, 10x worse off percentage wise, I'd believe that doesn't feel wealthy or even rich. Bad-stats-wise, between 1 in 6 and 1 in 7 people you meet would earn more, compared to 1 in 65 or so elsewhere.
Try your local church. They usually take confessions :)
> it allows people who would otherwise pay for content to get it for free

But the sole existence of this trick and the person that would use it is exactly someone who would not pay, therefore your argument does not hold. And stealing it is not, it is more like listening to the outdoor rock concert beside the fence because you don't want to pay, inconvenient- sure, so plenty of people would still pay.

Cloaking is against Googles rules so it is WSJ that's dishonest.
No, you're better off.
> That is analogous to writing a new piece of software intended to be similar to an existing piece of software rather than a port of software under license.

I take ZFS from Solaris. I rewrite it to work with Linux. In which sense is this not equivalent to my analogy? The examples you're giving are not equivalent, because in each case the work was written without deriving from the other copyrighted work.

> However, this argument does not apply to ZoL because the code originated in OpenSolaris and is under license and exists as a discrete module, rather than a whole program.

That's an entirely arbitrary distinction.

> So far, the only thing that you have concretely stated is that you met some attorneys who were unwilling to make a decision on legality.

No, I said that lawyers had told me that ZoL was an infringing work but that we wouldn't know for sure unless a court decided on it: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-...

> If you want to prohibit people from using software you write with things that you consider to be derivatives when the law does not recognize them as such

Nobody wants that.
The "FS" part of IPFS can be misleading: you can store arbitrary data in IPFS.

The tooling merely provides a means of viewing Merkle DAGs (the base data structure) as a file hierarchy because it's a pretty clean 1:1 mapping that's familiar to many people.
MAC addresses are actually worse, some software displays uses colons to separate, and some uses dashes. IPv6 addresses are ungainly, and have two forms (canonical short, and canonical full), but you can usually put either form wherever you need an address, and there's good library support. I guess that's a benefit of a multiple decades adoption; by the time I get to use it, everything works already. :)
Name one corporation that is now no more because of trust busting, either partially or wholly.
The shame of it is that misc posts asking for help are frequently ignored while any troll can pop up asking about LibertyBSD or the GPL and fresh replies roll in for a week or more.

Misc needs more self-restraint.
As a former satirist, I am 99% sure that is satire. Certainly a majority like that wouldn't be silent for long! This looks exactly like the kind of stuff I was putting up around my college for George W. Bush.

Also, this sign has a great rhyme scheme; I almost feel like it needs "Burma Shave" at the bottom.
I had a similar experience writing a terrain engine using the quake gl mini-drivers. That was a fun summer! I never managed to make an actual game out of it though...

It seems like these days at least a noise function like perlin or simplex are far better. I doubt I would have understood those at the time though.
One reason is that you generally perform scrubbing, thus you are potentially rewriting data which would otherwise be at rest. If your memory is bad, this could replace good data with bad. FS that doesn't scrub doesn't have this issue.
You have to strip the binding to get the scan right. I've seen lost of DnD scans in my day and the older ones are generally terrible towards the book edges due to not being able to press the page all the way down to the scanner.
Wow, the two adventure modules I have are on the list. They were hella fun to play and would love to share so others can enjoy. They are stapled bindings though, and I really don't want to cut the pages to put them through my Doxie. Any tips on scanning them without having to cut them?
DO box should give you roughly that.
Ask HN: Best way to receive payment? No bank account or PayPal
Hi,

I'm from Brazil, I don't have a bank account with SWIFT access nor PayPal, I've been trying to explore different options for getting paid by international clients and I haven't found any.

Every time I mention Bitcoin to clients they just laugh and don't take me seriously, Bitwage looks interesting but I haven't tried it yet, it also sounds a bit risky.

Any suggestions please?
People complain too much about anything...
Are you all still using linode?

/edit never mind they are not as per another reply in this thread