skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link in the very first paragraph of the article explains what's going on: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/oregon-changes-tax-r....

> The bill, signed yesterday by Gov. Kate Brown, "exempts 'gigabit' Internet service like Google's from a thorny property tax that dates to the 1970s and was originally intended for microwave towers," The Oregonian reported. Until the change, there was "an unusual Oregon tax methodology that values companies based—in part—on 'intangible' assets such as the value of their brands.

> Oregon's first attempt to change the rule backfired, when Google told lawmakers that proposed legislation would only provide relief temporarily and that "after a certain time period tax rates would return to approximately double what they are in other states." Lawmakers said they would change the bill to address Google's concerns, and they did.

> Portland has approved a Google Fiber franchise "that exempts the company from some of the fees and service requirements Comcast faces" and "reworked transportation regulations to allow Google Fiber to put 200 utility cabinets along big city streets," The Oregonian article said.

The intention wasn't to create a general incentive for laying fiber in Oregon. The purpose was to get rid of a weird property tax quirk that was standing in the way of getting Google Fiber to Portland.
Thanks Philip, rying to set up workers to roles, but kept on getting an error
Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government.

The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan.
I'm giving a separate reply to each of your questions. This is "Couldn't you just pair it once and then be done with it?"

To pair it once would mean that a long term secret would need to be stored. Now we consider ourselves experts at storing long term secrets, but this one would need to be available to 1Password Mini and/or the browser extension even when 1Password is locked. So it would need to be stored on the local machine in a way that is not protected by 1Password.

So an attacker with root privileges (as needed for the loopback sniffing) would be able to get that key. And as I've said in various places throughout this conversation, "encrypting" something with a key that is available to the attacker is merely obfuscation.
I was tech designer for the Letterman Digital arts center in Presidio...

Lucas' companies were all merging to one campus.

They later came to me to talk about setting up a design studio in Singapore... the quote from the CIO to me at the time was "Why pay these prima donna salaries for animators here in the states when I can get animators in singapore for $20K per year?"
"Plus, there are thorny issues like how to dispose of radioactive waste and how to decommission old plants."

The fact is, we're creating tremendous amounts of potentially dangerous waste and we have no long-term plan, much less the technology to pull it off. We don't know what the political situation will be in a country 500 years from now. If we put 1/100th of the money that we put into dangerous technologies and subsidizing fossil fuels and put them into renewables, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Germany is on track to be 100% renewable by 2020. Including solar. And they are not exactly known for their excess of sun.
I'm not familiar with Robert or his work, but I quite liked this post. The brevity and honesty was refreshing. I couldn't help but feel excited at the end!
Except that you can attack stored encryption secrets either off-line, or with the same privileges as the user.

If they are hard-coded in the binary, they can be extracted off-line by another use with the same binary. If they are generated at run-time, they have to be stored with permissions that grants the user access to their own resource.

There are programming techniques for sharing a file descriptor, but they aren't portable. That makes generating a keypair, then sharing an open file descriptor to the file containing the keypair impossible.
Click a link in one virtual reality room and instantly be teleported to another vr scene at a different url. Sounds fun.
1Password verifies the code signature of the apps connecting to the WebSockets server using SecCodeCheckValidity.

That would prevent connection from the apps that do not have their code signature whitelisted.
Kudos on implementing this idea :)

It's a bit awkward, to be frank, though. When I type "ls RE<tab>", it autocompletes to "README" even though there is another file called "REST-for-TYPO3-rest.cundd.net".

So then I type in the full filename and I get "undefined":

> cat REST-for-TYPO3-rest.cundd.net

undefined

Maybe "cat <filename>" could open the URL in a window or something. It seems like the only possible thing at the moment is "ls", "pwd" and "cat README".
> Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military

snark: The US military already know how to move fast and break things.

DARPA and the Pentagon have done a tremendous amount to move technology forward, over the decades. But, I personally would feel more comfortable if it were a non-military organization that were in the lead role. Technology should be a means to improve humanity and decrease human suffering. What the Pentagon wants out of technology, at least in a proximate sense, is something completely different.
I'm building something like this for in-browser Javascript, but in a larger context. We're not ready for public consumption yet, but: https://fabric.fm
Religious flamewars, which you predictably set off with this, are their own circle of off-topic hell on Hacker News. Please don't.
That's the first thing I disable every time I set up oh-my-zsh on a new box. I think it should not be a default behaviour and should only be enabled if needed.
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that was not the intent... those guys have probably some tough lives behind them and no future here, living often without permit on the fringe of society. it's just that meeting them in dark alleys after dark, being surrounded by suspicion etc. ain't activity I do for pleasure or some weird kick out of it; just a necessary evil.
I'm only one year out of uni and I figured this too. Lines of code are features and state that will increase the cost of other new features. So adding lines is a cost. The hard part is figuring out what lines of code (features) to add, do them well, and which ones you should not even make.
Submission statement: For a long time I thought it would be cool to read the email of tech industry leaders and celebrities. I thought it was a dumb idea, but then a friend encouraged me to go out and actually ask some folks if they'd use it. And surprisingly a lot of the folks we talked with told us that if we built it then they'd use tho product.

Different people we talked with had different use cases. Some people were sick of answering the same question from dozens of different people. For college professors, fifty years ago their correspondence would get donated to their university library, but now that it's in their inbox that will all get lost unless there is some way to archive it. And for entrepreneurs, their email is content they're already creating that could be used to promote their startups, it's just that they're getting cheated out of their followers.

So while for me it was all about getting a chance to peek inside the private lives of really interesting and accomplished individuals, for these folks they see it as a way to maintain a blog with 10x less effort. So we tried to build something that would fulfill both use cases.

In a couple months we'll also have public and private organizations. So with public organizations, you'll be able to, say, subscribe to all the public email from Steadfast VC partners. Or with private organizations, you'll be able to share email privately within your business and tag it with things like the project name, 'decision', 'deadline', etc. (Charging for private organizations will be our business model.)
Either can exert good and bad influences. Neither business nor government is your friend. Both can be large and unwieldy, and large entities often step on smaller ones even if inadvertently.

Unfortunately, we just have to be vigilant and exert our own influence to push things in a favorable direction. No one else will.
Blind users don't need to use a mouse, they can use (tabbing or double swiping). This is why web accessibility is so important, and while relatively easy to implement the basics, most developer seem to skip it or forget it.

Screen reader accessibility can be archived by coding pages in clean and standards based HTML. alt attributes are basic, but often are missing or have unclear text. Form elements need to be properly labelled, links need clear descriptions etc.

I agree that screen readers aren't the greatest technology, but the truth is developers of websites and applications aren't doing their part to make their products accessible.
I just got the same
A multipolar scenario is possible but unlikely. If the technology easily scales, then whoever arrives at it first will probably win.
Oh, so your suggestion is to just wait it out and good things will come?
The 1936 classic "Reefer Madness" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness ) would like a word with you about how all was hunky dory in the world of drugs between Prohibition and Nixon...
And now my reply to your first point. Thank you for letting people know that this interprocess communication is readable by something running as root on the user's machine. For those interested in this, please see an article we posted about this back in June: https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/06/17/1password-inter-proces...

We try to be very clear and open about the choices that we've made in our security design, why we made them, and what the implications for users are.
Yep, I should stop sharing opinions on things that I simply fail to understand on any level.
> Google Engineer Sarah shouldn't be paid triple Google Engineer Jessie just because she works on a product that's valuable to Competitor X.

If they want to keep the employee, they absolutely need to match what others are willing to pay. That you suggest otherwise is nonsense in the american job market.

Cheating to get a better price is as you acknowledged, illegal, and most of the time you will find the market begins to even out those weird bumps by creating incentives for others to learn/work on that skillset (because of the higher rewards.)

This is very equivalent to "Well why should we pay engineer X more when they are working the same number of hours as marketing person Y?"

Its a comparison that doesn't make sense unless you want to pretend that the employer does not benefit as a result of the value the employee produces.

If the engineer is 3x more valuable to the other company and not to your bottom line, its an obvious time for that engineer to move, not be made a slave by anti-competitive agreements between employers.

Hopefully you will be able to find someone to work on your product at a price point that your business can derive some value from, but if not, its probable that your business sucks.
> Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government.

Ma Bell was a monopoly long before the government tried to reign it in.
uBlock Origin (and uMatrix) are the only ad blockers that I trust and that I advise. The developer has strong ethics and, needless to say, they are open source.

ABP made a name for themselves as one of the first and best players, but they have turned too shady.
American government was intended to be limited. That would limit the number of people, and the power that they have in government.

Today, our government is huge, and has a lot of power. This means that often times the people that get into government aren't doing it as a servant to the people, but instead as a service to themselves.

We need more servants. Viewing this reality and calling it Apathy or not Apathy is a perspective. We are all free to our perspective, and I think the wider variety, the better.
Why? Has the FBI found a fast way
to factor any product of two large
prime numbers? Until they do,
what the FBI wants is not always
what the FBI can get, Congress or not.
Voters just don't care as much about wired internet as people on where would like to believe. My parents contemplated getting rid of their FiOS internet and going back to cable because the latter has a better selection of indian channels. Nobody in my building subscribes to FiOS because Verizon doesn't have a TV license here. If you had a rock-solid 50 mbps LTE-A service here in the U.S. that for licensing reasons couldn't access Facebook, nobody would subscribe to it.
Comcast residential Gigabit service is basically the same as their Enterprise Metro-E product rather than GPON with Google Fiber, hence the higher cost/install fees. Comcast gives a 10 Gbe fiber hand off at the home.

There's no reason Comcast shouldn't benefit from it.
Sounds like Minecraft!
I understand it can be tricky, however you can generate the export in the javascript running in the browser cfr. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3665115/create-a-file-in-...
Video and concept are really amazingly done. I still cringe everytime someone uses doge speak, but the video otherwise was brilliant.
Since no doubt governments never
were able to find a fast way to
factor a product of two large prime
numbers, they never did have
"control" of encryption.
NSW Medical Council finds out PDF redaction is hard
I'm a bit touchy about this subject as I'm a Christian myself, so sorry if my response was a bit heated.
Ok. "Undefined" is not good. :-S
For the URL stuff: you can "cd REST-for-TYPO3-rest.cundd.net". I thought of the links as if they where folders where you can step into.
> I have learn that during the interview process unless it is written down and signed then it is probably a lie.

This happened to me when I took a job at Microsoft and it sucked. The worst thing was that when I asked around I found that Microsoft does this kind of bait and switch all the time and that a lot of other people were in a similar situation and thought that it was normal.

It's not normal. People should not lie to you about what a job is going to be, and there are many companies that will try to give you good information about what the job will be like.
Forget your answer.

Stop and ask this question: Why do we as a society need more and more and MORE stimuli to cope with life?

Seriously.

Is society headed in the right direction if almost everyone needs some type of external influence just to get through the week?

I already have a answer.

Problem is, every time you fire up a computer or a phone or a TV, you're seeking a stimulus which is going to fire off chemical signals in your brain. Your mind CRAVES the stuff. You COULD just sit around creating things all the time and stimulating yourself, but that's not convenient, is it? Drugs just eliminate the bullshit by applying direct stimulus without the idiot boxes, or obviously unnecessary items like books or live performances.

Oh, and drop the coffee and tea. And sugar. And salt. And any food that tastes good. You don't need those either. External chemical influences, after all.
Does it handle prevailing wage considerations and mandatory downtime between shifts?
I think that's a straw man. Buying out a competitor's employees en masse is an anticompetitive tactic that, if used widely, arguably may negatively affect the health of the industry as a whole.

Not saying these executives' actions were right. Just that there were considerations other than saving a buck on salaries.
Yeah? And were you physically intimidated by that woman? Could she obviously have overpowered you and visited violence upon you, if she'd wanted to? That is a very real threat that almost every woman (okay, maybe not Rhonda Rousey) faces in almost every interaction with almost every man.

Is it likely? No. Absolutely not. In many — if not most — cases, it's vanishingly unlikely. But is it possible? What do you think? Frankly, it's delusional not to believe that it does — and should — legitimately play into a woman's thought process pretty much every time she has to turn a man down for a drink, or a date, or when she says no, or tells him to stop.

It seriously blows my mind how many people apparently can't even attempt to look at the world from someone else's perspective, and instead just assume — and not even consciously assume, but the more insidious, unconscious kind of assumption — "Welp, this is how things are for me, so they must be the same for everyone else, too." That is some of the most myopic, unexamined "thinking" I can imagine, and it literally causes me pain every time I have to confront it, or try to engage with it, in whatever form.

And you just offered a perfect example of it: "I didn't feel threatened when that woman at the vending machine yelled at me, so women must not feel that way in a confrontation with men!" I know you don't actually believe that — at least not completely — but that's precisely the perspective that offering your anecdote as a counter to my comment conveys.

And then, on top of all of that, there's your victim-blaming. "She agreed to meet this taint smear for dinner, so clearly she invited his attentions!"

I mean, really?
I don't really know much about Nuendo, but it looks like it's more of a traditional DAW and has specific features aimed at post production, which doesn't seem to be Ableton Live's goal. I might try to get you started on Ableton Live, why do you think Ableton has such "horrifying application development standards"?
It's not a secret evil plan. It's quite obvious, and such techiques are well known (and forbidden actually).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
Containerizing Monolith Apps Using Docker
Congrats on being rewarded and recognized for the very important work you do in bringing transparency to the financial markets. The whole story of how this went down is just epic!

My question is about the business side of Nanex. Are sales of your products such as NxCore enough to sustain the company? Do you also actively trade? And what opportunities do you see currently around data science and machine learning for entrepreneurs in the quantitative finance world?
Well put. The edge cases are endless, we need to take a holistic view sometimes.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” -- Bill Gates
As the user of elementary OS, I do have to disagree on the statement that it is as vulnerable as Linux Mint.

* It is based solely on LTS Ubuntu versions since the project started.

* It does not override application names like Linux Mint does.

* It does not try to support a whole bunch of other desktop environments (it is stated in article, but still...)

* Its website is open source.

* It does not rely on things such as phpBB. Its official communities are on Google+ and StackExchange and they use Tumblr for their blog, therefore focusing more on the actual OS and not having to worry about supporting these things.

* They don't delay upgrades in any single way.
Some sort of demo would be nice, Im not going to sign up for something when I have no idea what it is (beyond a text description).
Any reasons why this cant be done using push messages?

Another way could be to send an intent to the right app using some special email header (X-App-Scheme) by the mail app.

The current email login flows force the user to open the mail app and to click the link inside the mail (which then normally opens the app using a registered scheme).
Yup, I want a make art button too.

Globalization is coming for all of our jobs. If we can just make it so that AI gets our jobs first, then maybe the AI will take care of us, 'cause the market sure won't.
I can't reply directly to your apology, but there is no need to apologise.

Good Karma all around.
my friends and I always half joke about this too. It's likely the sad truth.
On a tangent, I'm curious whether events as the 8.2 earthquake that happened today, could affect these fibers?
For anyone smart enough to not click this, tl;dr: US passports are 98.4% as good under their metric, and 6 other European countries are 99+% as good.

(Germans get additional visa-free access to 1-3 additional countries)
I think I get the setup and that my characterization is rather accurate.
Of course it doesn't. But that's also detectable by watching traffic on both sides of the device (with another device entirely). It's also something that's less likely to happen en-mass in my opinion. Once found it'd completely tank whatever chip manufacturer that was, as nobody would be able to trust anything they made anymore. So I'd consider that to be in the realm of protecting against governmental sized entities instead of the more likely rogue developers/manufacturers that want to sell ads or botnet time.
I broke something when I made an update to that page. I just tested it and it should be fixed. Thanks for your patience. Please try now.
A practice we've implemented to manage this is tagging pull requests that have anything over 250 added (green) lines of code. Before anyone is willing to give you a code review, you have to justify why such a pull request requires so many lines, break it into multiple pull requests, or refactor your code. Often times, it makes review easier because the PR's are smaller and enforces a simple baseline that tells the programmer, your code is too big!
The cynical view is that DARE is pro-law-enforcement training and indoctrination, where the anti-drug focus is simply window-dressing to sell the program to parents and the public.
Spawkfish: Neural network chess
People dangerously modify their body for non-practical reasons already, so I think it's a given. Once technology catches up to science fiction, cyborgs will be a real (and probably common) occurrence. Hell, I would probably do it.
While WebVR won't push the envelope of what's possible in terms of high end rendering, frameworks like [A-Frame](https://aframe.io/) will lower the friction of developing and distributing simple, more utilitarian VR experiences and of hopping in and out of them from your web browser or phone.

I can see many interesting business use cases that can be solved in a lightweight VR context, without needing a full gaming engine.
Perhaps they might need one or two people in SV to be in contact with VC people or something. I've never worked in a startup and so I can't tell you about the dreaded f word that ends in ing (funding). But should everyone be in SV?

BTW, how does one go about finding a developer job (not a senior role, have work experience in .NET but I'm willing to do something new) in New York City? I feel like I don't have the connections I need to land a job here. I have a BS in Mathematics and a BS in Computer Science if that helps.
You can play against the bot online at http://spawk.fish/play/

I lost, but I'm bad at chess.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and timeless wisdom that seems to apply not just to music, but life as well ;)