skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The continued employment of the leaders of large corporations is dependent on the sentiments of Wall Street's workers to a greater degree than than it is upon the sentiments of the corporation's customers. If there's no where for customers [or in the case of companies like Google, users] to complain, then happy metrics can be provided in the annual report and other communications consumed by financial analysts.
From some of my past experience, I am skeptical. I think they make assumptions about what people will and wont see that just arent correct.
It's mostly a male, working class dominated genre in terms of audience, so it's ignored and ridiculed for not being glamorous enough to fit mainstream media's mindset.

That's a good thing because they would slowly change it if they got their hands on it. Sony buying Century was disappointing but there's alternative labels. Metal should stay underground to protect itself from the people who see it as 'weird'.
Ask HN: Any new projects aiming to launch with passwordless authentication?
Problems with passwords are well known: difficult to remember; users often duplicate them; often weak; stolen files of password hashes can be brute forced; etc.

Recent HN discussions suggest that the days of the password are numbered, and that we may see a shift towards passwordless authentication.

Is anyone developing an application or service that requires user authentication but will not use passwords from launch? What methods of authentication are you exploring?

Most options I've seen appear to rely on an app installed on the user's smartphone, or codes delivered via SMS or email. [0], [1]

This seems like a subject that's begging for an open framework or design. Does such a thing exist? I notice that at least one person here seems to have suggested an approach [2]

[0] https://auth0.com/blog/2015/09/30/auth0-passwordless-email-authentication-and-sms-login-without-passwords/

[1] https://launchkey.com/how-it-works

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717304
Am i seeing that right that it only supports Telegram? :/
The site says last modified in 2008... Might want to add (2008) to the title.

It looks like a cool concept! It seems like a slightly more "code focused" Scratch.
Netpure is the child safe internet
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I could take his stance on this one a bit more seriously if he was making it available how much revenue of MS comes from federal government.
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Hmm, I think that makes that person polarizing if they are viewed in such a light. Being depolarizing would by definition mean that person is able to have polarized people see them in a non-polarizing light, would it not?
My methodology for avoiding this confusing “functional” programming:

1. Write:

function add (a, b) { return a + b; }

2. Refactor to object:

class AccumulatingIntegerWidget {
constructor (...numbers) {
this.accumulation = 0;
this.accumulate(...numbers);
}
accumulate (...numbers) {
for (const n of numbers) {
this.accumulation = this.accumulation + n;
}
}
getAccumulation () {
return this.accumulation;
}
}

Presto! It’s stateful and object-oriented and handles future cases like adding three numbers, even though WeArentGonnaNeedIt!

If this does not satisfy, I progress to making my classes observe each other and update themselves automatically. “We’re doing two-way binding!” I exclaim proudly, while leaving debugging as an exercise for my colleagues.
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How the FBI could use acid and lasers to access data stored on seized iPhone
Monitor them for wrongthink about migrants no doubt.
Yes very interesting. A more Logo-like approach.
Cool my karma droped from 21 to 19 with this Comment :)
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How about the Cat B100? http://www.catphones.com/en-gb/phones/b100

I've been considering getting myself one, not because of a dirty work but I'd like to have a phone that's usable with gloves on. And a battery life that is measured in weeks, not hours.
It's literally like they are fulfilling the Portlandia "Weirdo's" sketch: http://www.hulu.com/watch/758287
This appears to be more of a blog post because there does not appear to be anything at the other end of the link to try out. Things that the community can try out are in the spirit of "Show HN" guidelines.

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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It seems likely but I'm still not entirely convinced.

I can't entirely figure out how much the former Apple engineer quoted there was involved. He clearly knows how the SE firmware is loaded, but I'm not clear about the level of his knowledge from the SE side. The described mechanism of running a signed blob from RAM doesn't exclude some sort of wipe-on-update mechanism, but it would have to be very low level, part of the hardwired secure boot stuff.

The blog post that's quoted afterwards is total speculation and contains no information about this, even though it claims to.

So, probably, but still lacking a properly definitive statement.
Japan has weird taste in punk too. The Fat Wreck band Hi-Standard plays one show a year, in Japan, where they sell out a baseball stadium. It's so popular that from what I understand, there's a lottery for the tickets.
Facebook launches project to open source hardware, designs for cell networks
"Gaining new speakers" is a less strong claim than "speaker population is increasing".
Wtf... What year are we in?
Did you post this as a joke?
Georgism is deeply rooted in the Law of Rent and David Ricardo's work on the matter. So to say Henry George was a crank is sorta like saying Ricardo and the law of rent is bunk. The reality is that all land (be it physical land, IP, or some other natural or non-natural monopoly) always leads to its owners extracting surplus value in the form of rent. Be that rent coming in it's literal form or as something masquerading as fees.

I think the worse problem is that some Georgists are bad at explaining that integral point which leads to confusion as to what their contention is all about.
Gates isn't calling for a debate, said that the FBI is right, Apple is wrong, and there's no way the FBI would use this as a backdoor for all phones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158210
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A $400,000 salary to work in Tokoroa might not be enough to attract young medics
Yeah, I think it would be a good book to have. It's just not one that I'm going to write. Hopefully someone else does!
Might be a small data problem. This battle is showing up in downtown Toronto

http://dbpedia.org/page/Battle_of_Hiep_Hoa

I was surprised to see one there in the after 1946 category. Nice job overall though. It's always incredible to see visualizations like this.
WOW now this explains why Windows is so easy exploit and fatal security flaws were built in so that Bill could help his county. Seriously, this is a terrible justification it is a shame that he actually feels this is an appropriate response. Too bad he is that out of touch now.
Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the iPhone (techcrunch.com) 5 hours ago (92 comments) got down-voted (285.):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11157328
We do - Sudbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Basin
i agree that lots of music is ridiculous and backwards, extremely rigid and codified, hardly evolving at all. have you heard any blues lately? :)

but seriously, the impression you describe is of your own making. metal is much wider musically and lyrically than the narrow subsection you used to listen to as a kid.

try UneXpect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwl3kZwRX0
is someone really doing this on daily basis?
As the linked Wiki page says about mentions in Popular Culture:

Julian May's 1980s science fiction books The Many Colored Land and The Golden Torc are set in Europe just before and during the rupture at Gibraltar. The rupture and the rapid filling of the Mediterranean form a Wagnerian climax to The Golden Torc, in which aliens and time-traveling humans are caught up in the cataclysm.

Highly recommended read.
but is it worth encouraging that kind of behavior by visiting the site? I personally don't think so. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but I personally don't like websites functioning like this so I won't encourage it.
> A printer generates all the colours we see just by blending three coloured inks in varying quantities

I thought printers typically use CMYK (4 inks) or CMYKOG (6 inks).
I feel like we might be in a better situation if we had a strong social safety net for the unemployed instead of annoying me and scamming old people to support the otherwise-unemployed. (Don't forget to vote, folks.)
MS (that is Gates) has a long history of feeding the Feds anything they want; nothing surprising here to me.
Great. They all look great. The ones like higher kinded types are the ones that I am highly suspicious of. The typical C programmer who pokes around hardware data sheets and writes drivers and stuff will likely not pay much attention to Rust if such complex features are added.

Also features like that makes me wonder if you folks are really targeting C/System programmers. Sorry if I sound negative, that isn't my intention.
I agree, there is far more high paying work for the skills he claims to have than there are people to do the work.

In a career that long, he has dozens and dozens of former colleagues who are now far along in their careers and are decision makers. He should be getting offers to do work, nonstop, on his terms. He should be able to accept or reject work based on considerations other than 'getting money to eat', such as whether it is interesting work, whether he enjoys interacting with the other people on the project, whether it lets him work remotely, etc.

There is a huge hole in this story. Why don't his past colleagues want to work with him again? What has gotten him blacklisted? The subtext here says more than the actual story.
Oh yeah, I was conflating depolarizing with not polarized. Good point. Yes, by definition, if you are depolarizing, none of the polarized people will see you as polarized, at least in time. On the other hand, I still believe there are lots of people that cannot listen to anything that isn't what they believe (pick any hot button topic) - like it's really impossible to depolarize them.
The yellow banner was fine until it started stalking me down the page -- I need to at least be able to focus on the article's words.
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It's a long article with lot of information and at some parts it got boring. But continue (skip :)) to the last part that is really interesting!!!
Or more likely they inherited it.
It's that Chinese spring holiday I think?

Though mine seems to have come from Singapore.

Once you get a tracking number you can enter it into this box and see the progress until it gets on a cargo ship:

http://113.105.65.70:8032/xflquery.aspx (use chrome translate)

The number they give you will also work in DHL tracking system.

Mine took 48 hours to ship and then 17-18 days to get here.

The tracking stops once it hits the ocean though, blind from there.
New evidence for that: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14827624
Investing Lessons from Behavioral Psychology
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11098592/bill-gates-fbi-ap... - Bill Gates says he was 'disappointed' by reports he backs FBI in Apple fight

But he doesn't fully support Apple, either
Wonder if there's any pattern when you cross-reference it with this map of the world's religions? http://williame.github.io/map_of_worlds_religions/
Online fear feeds political smear campaigns, market rumors, and ISIS propaganda
> It's stayed the same for centuries...

that's _seriously_ wrong.
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A fun science fiction read is "Singularity" by Bill DeSmedt; the premise is the Tunguska event being a mini-black hole - and it's caught inside the earth, eating it from the inside out.
OTOH if you've reached a point where you are ready to accept both 'A' and 'not A', you need to go back and re-examine your premises/assumptions (sort of a real life example of reductio ad absurdum). Related example: accepting 'the left is delusional and corrupt' and 'the right is delusional and corrupt' leads one to re-examine the validity and usefulness of this whole left-right spectrum of political thought.
And not entirely unexpected, a google search for

https://www.google.com/search?q=121348616

finds people asking about all sorts of errors like

[Zookeeper-User] Packet len 1213486160 is out of range

ERROR USER_LOGGER (MasterClient.java:getUserId) - Frame size (1213486160) larger than max length (16384000)!
I'm living with my parents for now and got them to cut out their cable television package after introducing them to the Wonderful World of Netflix. But I've found it much, much harder to get them off the home telephone (which here in Canada costs them $40/month!!) and it's 90% telemarketers, usually calling right around dinnertime. I'm planning to note everytime they call and the frequency with which it's a legitimate call on a spreadsheet planned over 30 days but I still haven't gotten around to it. Despite being fairly 'with-it' people (they both have their own smartphones, have a Sonos speaker system and ipads for crying out loud) they refuse to get rid of the home phone. Guess old habits...
Velocity matters too. E ~ mv^2 after all.

I'm reminded of Killing Star by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. Even without aggressive aliens, stuff falling toward the galaxy's central black hole may get ejected at relativistic velocity. Very unlikely. But we wouldn't see it until it was almost here.
On a practical level, I feel like configuring my systems as just-try<n>.come-get-me.de

If it's like any other IT project, they probably have just finished the Windows XP version of their 'trojan'.
Of course they won't. It doesn't even make sense to ask them for this. Microsoft serves the government. The contracts they get from this are a large part of their revenue.

Mr Gates reiterated his view that the issue came down to a debate about whether governments can get at data they use to protect citizens.
"Should governments be able to access information at all or should they be blind, that's essentially what we are talking about," he told the BBC.

Actually, the debate is whether the government should be allowed to force you to create something that does not exist.
Relevant:

> According to a 2008 decision by the German Constitutional Court, remote access to a citizen's computer is permissible only if there is life-threatening danger or suspicion of criminal activity against the state.
What are you thinking of that has both the scope and depth of content of the NYT, and the innovation in design? Or did you just mean one of those two criteria?
Merkel has already told facebook and twitter to delete comments and ban accounts negative of her 'policies'.
>Was there a time when popular music wasn't mostly bad?

The 1960s? The Beatles for example were extremely popular.
Thanks, that's some interesting discussion
I'm just going to be a little cynic here:

Bill Gates is still too attached to MS, of course, he build it. If Apple did what the feds asked it, this would back-fire Apple consumers.

1. People would just no longer trust Apple, which translates into less devices bought.

2. This won't prevent terrorist or whatever their excuse is. If terrorist know Apple does this, they will just use other devices.

At end, only us, the normal consumer loose with this.

This would just help MS and other companies to gain more market by screwing up Apple. Until the feds come after these other companies that is...
Go read the actual timeline of the allegations against him. The entire thing is so one-sided in favor of Assange that it's effectively government propaganda to even pretend he's anything other than a political prisoner. The prosecutor originally in charge of the case actually stated that "the conduct alleged ... disclosed no crime at all and that file would be closed." The woman he's accused of raping said, quote, she was "railroaded by police and others around her" and that "it was the police who made up the charges." Among loads of other evidence in his favor.

It's disingenuous to pretend like we're all just in the dark about what really happened, that he might have actually committed rape and that's what any of this is about.
This thread seems somehow off topic, but it's a topic by itself…

I would recommend against images. They feel helpful at first but they tend to mislead by infusing the idea that they have something to do into the meditation.

Moreover, as an aside, I didn't see anyone mentioning that you don't force yourself out of thoughts: just let thoughts come and pass without considering them intentionally. (I guess that's what westoncb meant by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11135378)

But what can I say? I felt the way you describe for some time. I can't even say if it resulted of meditation. And it vanished as it came, unexpectedly. I may have considered that I acquired satori and experienced the hard way that satori is not something you possess. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that my advice is bullshit according to OP.

(To anyone feeling like reading about zen meditation, I would recommend Shunryu Suzuki's book Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen.)
I believe many of the problems of polarization are caused by cognitive dissonance [1] in particular "confirmation bias" (the article is sort of light on references to academic social psychology and cognitive behavior).

Confirmation bias is often exarcebated with greater choices (as the number of choices brings greater discomfort). An example would be the GOP primaries (ie sheer number of candidates).

I also think certain personality types (ie myers briggs/jung) have a tendency to behave in a polarized manner. I don't think being polarized = stupid as another commenter posted albeit probably being ignorant does have an affect.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
At the point where you've picked a party, you've picked a side all by yourself.

For example, knowing that someone is a self-described "American republican" in 2016 doesn't let me know if they are a good person or a bad person, but it does let me know that abortion rights for women isn't one of their main priorities.

The goal is not to do away with categorization/heuristics entirely. It's to continually revise and improve them. Political party affiliation is on a whole different ballpark than race.
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> The interior ministry spokesman defended the government's decision, saying "basically we now have the skills in an area where we did not have this kind of skill." The program was already endorsed by members of the government in autumn 2015, the ministry said.

By this do they mean they've only now just found and hired someone that can build this program? Is that what they mean by "skill"?
I don't know if I can take Apple's stance seriously either since I don't know how much revenue they (Apple) make off the federal government /s.
Unless you're dealing with interfaces towards squishy components, in which case leniency reigns supreme. Last thing I want is my email program to discard what I wrote because there is a typo in it.
There are two comments, yours and another one, that suggest that I might not ever been a "true listener" of heavy metal. That's the "no true scotsman" fallacy. Why can't someone who sincerely enjoyed a genre of music in his teens outgrow it? No, better, outgrow the whole idea of genres.

Heavy metal is (you have to admit that) a pretty rigidly codified type of music. It requires a certain set of instruments, with few variations (I still remember debates in the eighties on whether keyboards were kosher). It mostly deals with a fixed set of themes. It sounds in a very recognizable way, so it's rather easy to classify songs that fall into it. Performers dress in a codified way, also easily recognizable. (To all these points there are obviously a few exceptions here and there, as always.)

As for the richness of subgenres: it seems to me that these subgenres are just the partitioning of a fixed space of immutable size. The urge to classify them is another proof of the fact that the rules of the genre are so rigidly codified that the slightest deviation or emphasis on an element requires (or allows) a new classification bucket.
Do you have an example article or resource for such a use? I'd like to carry over notifications to the IM instead of cluttering my e-mail needlessly.
I take the original "Hold in mind" to mean "consider, in detail", and it works better. Perhaps in line with "seek first to understand".
Same with the below, which is showing up in Western Australia for some reason:

http://dbpedia.org/page/Shell_House_massacre
Looks like temporarily, but they have a list of other chat services they intend to support soon at the bottom of the page.
Do we know who wrote this version? The last one was from FinFisher IIRC.
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Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.

The professor is lecturing, and says, "The Sun will grow to be a red giant, destroying all life on Earth in about a billion years...."

A distracted student suddenly sits up and cries out, "Oh my god!"

The professor says, "What's wrong? A billion years is a long time, you know. Nothing to worry about."

The student is visibly relief. "Oh, great! I thought you said a million years!"

Personally, I'd say a few hundred years is probably the reasonable max, maybe a thousand years. Beyond that, technology will be so incomprehensibly different that the risks and challenges will be completely different as well. What would be a civilization-killing asteroid today might just be "ooh, tasty resources already on a convenient trajectory" tomorrow. Or "aw shucks, it's going to make a big splash in the gray goo."
There's a difference between considering A and not A, and accepting A and not A. In formal logic, one or the other statement must be true. The point being made is that we should refrain from choosing the true statement until we've taken the time to consider both on their own merits.
I don't know how they'll get their message past the machine elves from dimension 9 that also communicate with people on LSD.
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They are specifically there so that you can write zero-cost abstractions. Yes, people who are hardcore C programmers may not have experience with more advanced type system features, but it's all in service to the goal of writing expressive code that goes as fast and as safely as possible.

As a practical example of higher kinded types, you can't say "this function takes an Rc<T> or an Arc<T>. I just want something refcounted, but I don't care about how." HKT would get you there.

Another common problem it would solve is "I don't want to write both a &T and &mut T version of my function."
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In EE there is a nightly LDAP sync worker that will auto-block any LDAP users that are no longer in the directory. This should address the active user count issue for licensing.
Adblock for the phone - and for the same reason, to make it usable against spam.
Do you have any reference about that?
These are just the battles within recorded history, too.

In school, I remember being confused why the neanderthals died out. The teachers kept saying it was because they were bad at using tools. Oh?

It wasn't till later that I realized they were probably brutally murdered.
I'm inclined to agree with this interpretation.
Are we headed for civil war in cyber space? This is the kind of bs that starts to wake people up.