skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
700M People Just Got Encryption That Congress Can’t Touch
Do you have any data to support this?
Unfortunately, we don't have that information right now. We could try to find out. It just wasn't part of the compensation data that the people on Hacker News had posted.
They wouldn't, but it's an interesting thing to think about.

I mean Google is the #1 search engine basically in the world (excluding some Asian countries who have their own search engines) so if Google was to theoretically block all of Europe, it would be really hard to tell what would happen...
File encryption and Statictics bar ?!

Is encryption a way to prevent anyone from reading my text? Then how is it possible to calculate statistics?

I wouldn't use it as a password manager...
Possibly, but the modern age has considerably more vectors for exposure to these misfolded proteins, and the last statement of what logfromblammo said[0], these misfolding proteins don't always affect core processes of the body.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11534177
Falsified nutrition and health info. Dysfunctional schooling. Nuclear proliferation. Chronic institutional racism. Legalized lobbying and corporate fundraising. Disintegration of the middle class. Ubiquitous debt. Corporate financial corruption.

A widespread movement of empathy and egolessness (inspired or not by psychedelics) would help us share, help one another and redirect our values to and not waste so much time and resources.
You can limit the quantity on Jet, and you can put the price high enough that even with stacking it comes at to parity with Amazon. Or you could have similar stacking discounts by creating multipacks on Amazon.

See https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... near the end.
Your own fault.
No. You have to denature the protein to reduce the infectivity.

You need about 20 minutes, a pressurized autoclave, and some nasty chemicals to do this effectively. There is research into other methods but I really don't know anything about them.
U.S. spy court judge dismissed privacy advocate's concerns about data use
Wasn't there already a spreadsheet floating around HN with many thousands of entries? Why a new one?
The US really might stop producing pennies
You Could Almost Do Anything Part II
Your statement is light on meaning unless you can explain how X avoids breeding inequality. Alternatives to capitalism breed inequality as well. Compare any ruling Communist Party to a civilian in their regime.
Nice work. I like it. It's much better than the existing "php toolbox" - http://php-toolbox.com/, which seems discontinued. It's good that PHP hasn't been forgotten and still receives some love from time to time.
Sure, because Glassdoor is a place for people to go air their dirty laundry. With this, you're surveying a very niche group of users, that are probably being well paid.
I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that "Update README file" is a poor commit message. It's overly nondescript. A better commit message would be "Update README install instructions" or "Fix README links to dependencies" or anything else that better describes what about the README file was updated.
I'm thinking of the middle class of my own parents' generation. They did not have to worry too much about choosing between restaurant food and schooling.

There are always going to be luxuries that you can't afford to indulge in regularly. That's what a luxury is!

Colleges and restaurants didn't used to be luxuries. I didn't fully appreciate that they now are, so this article is eye-opening for me in that respect.

(I'm from the UK where the college setup is different from the US, but it's moving in the same direction, a decade or two behind the curve.)
What about fish and other seafood?
There's this thing called the stock market where bets like this are quite common. If you're certain, now is the time... :)
It is of global concern. It might not be of global public concern and indeed, it might be the case that most of the global public would be up for not calling it abuse, but there is definitely a global body of people who are concerned with it.
I think a lot of folks are missing a big point: The author understands that he spent more than his income:

> In retrospect, of course, my problem was simple: too little income, too many expenses. Credit enabled me to forestall this problem for a time—and also to make it progressively worse—but the root of the problem was deeper. I never figured that I wouldn’t earn enough. Few of us do. I thought I’d done most of the right things.

The article is really about grappling with having "done most of the right things", yet not being able to afford "the right things", as well as the ensuing penalty.

I think the real point the article is missing: The standard-of-living in the US relies on unsustainable spending, compared to the 1990s-2000s. A deeper article might explore why the standard-of-living was being artificially inflated (a credit bubble, with its roots in the 80s). As a bonus article, consider if society turns against debt-as-a-way-of-life (like the generation that lived through the depression) or if the securitization-of-debt market begins to falter. That would be a true horror story.

PS. I think this is one of the meatiest articles to come out on personal finances in a long time, and it's far too meaty for the full discussion it should have (it'll be gone in a day on HCN, way past the 10 minutes or so any of us will spend on it.)

EDIT: Changed the bit about standard-of-living, which distracts the point. Yes real earnings are down, yes the employment ratio is down, yes college is unaffordable. But Total sq ft per house is way up, cell phones are a tech advance, so how you measure standard-of-living turns into another big topic.
Google would be shrinking considerably, which is something I think they don't want, so I think antitrust suits are not disingenuous because Google has as much of an interest in operating in the EU as their European users. It's a mutual thing.
> It sounds a bit like throwing up our hands and saying that instead of trying to solve the problem we'll just shift responsibility for failure.

To me it sounds like recognizing a good solution to the problem and implementing it. Unless you have a good counter-reason to offer why a centralized authentication service is a bigger problem?

(Note there is a sliding scale on how often you need to hit the security service. You can have every single request going there, or you can have it give out tokens with varying permissions your services then can validate themselves. Cloudflare's blog recently described how they use internal CAs to authenticate services against each other, basically only requiring a service to once get a certificate, there are concepts like Google Macaroons, ...)
The free market seems to work pretty well for people with money. The idea of UBI is to give everyone money so it works well for everyone.

I'm totally stealing that line.
I don't agree. We don't really seem to notice the happiest times until later reflection, and most of my own I find there was stasis and mostly, a certain unconscious contentment. Once it becomes conscious it falls apart.
All the Google services would be replaced by (at first lower quality) European versions. This would create a huge investment and tech sector growth wave.

One of the best things to happen to the European tech scene since the beginning of the Internet.

You can see this happening in Russia, China and India although for different reasons.

Even if this case doesn't change anything I think we will see Google's involvement be reduces drastically in the next 5 years due to European Union laws and restrictions.
I mean, people were also at times infected with HIV and Hepatitis C from blood transfusions, but we realized the risk and took steps to mitigate it.
Spores formed by bacteria like C. botulinum or B. anthracis are also very difficult to neutralize. The key is knowing if there is an exposure risk and taking added precautions.

The good news is that some people are "immune" to developing an infectious prion disease. Turns out that certain mutations prevent normal proteins from interacting with a complementary prion in a way that would cause them to become misfolded.
There wasn't more moral when landowner or factory owner or slaveowner value was the only value that counts.
Yes it is, this is the exact same thing.

There are shop out there that sell knock off purses and watches (exactly the same as on Amazon) yet people still go to Louis Vuitton and buy their purses.

It's a free market, people are welcome to remake a product with a slight change and sell it.
The car has many sub systems. How many would have an idea of the whole system?
And potentially identifiable...
I can sort of understand that as a signal not to interview at the company or information for future potential coworkers to use during negotiations. A rising tide raises all ships so to speak.

IMO sharing salary data is the perfect first step for some sort of software engineers association/guild/professional body.
flavor also includes CSS rules that closely resemble the design of GitHub, so I can view the result in my local browser as it would look on the GitHub website. With pandoc, I only get plain HTML output.
Can spare sure, but this looks more like how a middle manager can quietly hand 50k to a friend.
Thanks, that explains a lot.

It's really a shame that you have to wrap the best practices aproach in a bad practice in order to make it convenient.

> Point being that even if you install "the right way" on linux using package managers it's still a multi-step complicated process that benefits from being automated in a bash script.

Right, because distributions want different things than software authors.

If you're a Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL maintainer, you want stable, tested versions of software that you can vouch for and support for several years.

If you're the maintainer of an application, in this case Docker, you want your users to run the latest and greatest version of your software. You can't just demand that each distro just ships the latest and greatest version of your software. So if you're Docker you end up having to do the following for each distro:

* package the software for that distro
* sign that package
* serve your your own repository containing that package
* ask your users to add the repository
* ask your users to trust the signature

And then finally your users can install the package.

That's one of the reasons I like running Arch Linux on my workstation. The desires of the software authors, distro maintainers and users align.

Docker Inc: "Hey wouldn't it be cool if your users could install the latest
stable version of Docker?"
Arch Linux maintainers: "Yeah, it would. We'll keep the latest version in the
repo and our users can just `sudo pacman -S docker`"
Docker Inc: "Cool."
Arch Linux users: "Cool."
> Why hasn't SMTP evolved in all those years?

Real answer: A duopoly in the email space give two-three companies too much power over SMTP and email in general (and they have no interest in changing it, IE 6 style).

These companies? Microsoft (Exchange, Hotmail/Outlook.com), Google (Gmail, Google Apps, Google Apps for Education), and Yahoo! (Yahoo! Mail).

If these "big three" don't want to support something then it doesn't exist. If they do want to support something then you're adding it to your SMTP/mail server stack regardless of how much you wish to.

Now, I know what you're going to say "what about Sendmail, Postfix, and other SMTP daemons?" But these open source email daemons are very beholden to what the "big three" do. If your SMTP daemon doesn't work with their servers then it is effectively broken and nobody will run it.

The reality is that the SOURCE of almost all non-automated email on the internet comes from these big three (Exchange shouldn't be under-estimated in this context).

So that's why, we're in an IE 6 situation all over again, but this time Google and Yahoo! are also playing gatekeeper in addition to Microsoft.
What does this have to do with Electron or desktop applications? It's a web site.
To me, the profiling parable seems more important than the sorting story.
There are a lot of things that are sensible to privatize, but this seems entirely political and ideological. I did think the Conservatives were more reasonable than this.
I'm curious how you'd be downgrading your phone's security by installing software from a different app store or repository (or even just directly downloading it from the developer and installing it).

The way I look at it, the base Android OS is free to port to whatever you want/can but to get some commercial Google products like the Play Store and some of their apps, you need to follow some other terms that allow them to make money from these commercial offerings.

Either way, I find it much easier to run a Google-less Android than an Apple-less iOS and somewhat easier than a MS-less Windows. The fact that I don't have to "jailbreak" or otherwise exploit security holes to install software from other sources than the OS maker is a big reason I tend to use Android on mobile devices.
I suppose if I were carrying your particular axe I would have to take this story as a grindstone but since I'm not, I didn't get any outrage out of this puff piece. I have to imagine I'm lucky in that regard. I'd hate if something so innocuous were able to stoke unrelated class anger so easily. It would mean I'm cheaply manipulable.
They didn't even need to, they just didn't feel like waiting in line, or locating a non-Founder's unit to purchase. They must have enough cash allocated for buying cars that they just don't care. And of course there's nothing wrong with that.
EU charges Google with abusing Android market dominance
Show HN: Google Music autoplaylists (iTunes “smart playlists”)
Well then, to be fair, they are not defining "homeless" as someone without an income. That's just my poor assumption. With that assumption, I have a hard time seeing how material standards do anything for someone without a home or income :)
someone handpicked 500K images ... come on now :) no way
Not everyone has the skills, nor the tools to do this. I love the idea, and wish someone would make the machines (or the entire kits to assemble at home). I would buy them!
Google Launches the Ultimate Pitch Deck Template for Startups
Some day, only governments and criminals will pay with cash ;)
In Japan, an artificial intelligence has been appointed creative director
Deal killers: fewer than 3 pedals; any touch screen controls; any loading screens. It is incredibly hard to find a fun, modern car that avoids all of those deal killers.
Hi from Argentina! The land of Maradona and Messi, but not Pele.

I find strange and slightly annoying that they say "soccer" instead of "football", but I consider that a part of the strange quirks of en-us, like calling "America" to "USA" or writing "January 1st" instead of "1st of January". But I'd nerved consider any of that like a type of offense or micro/macro aggression.

All that paragraph is very suspicious. For example, the reactions to the tequila sombreros and the Trump chalk signs were exaggerated by the press coverage: http://www.snopes.com/bowdoin-mini-sombrero-controversy/ http://www.snopes.com/emory-students-trump-graffiti/
Musk surely does...
Parents Are Bankrupting Themselves to Look Adequate
Quote: In large part, the interest stems from realization that one can hardly take a military commander or a corporation president away from his work to teach him to type.
Is VW paying the tax difference, or walking away with a government handout?
The drop out rates for males are (much) higher.

You can speculate on the reason why the discrimination exists, but calling it "a culture of progressively trying to redress historic gender imbalance" is again a collectivist attitude, as if the treatment of somebody's grandmother somehow confers a debt that must be repaid to their granddaughter but not to their grandson, because the granddaughter is in the same tribe as her grandmother. From an individual perspective it's just discrimination. According to the study an individual human has a 2:1 hiring advantage compared to another individual human, simply because of an attribute that should not significantly factor into the decision. It doesn't suddenly stop being discrimination because the advantaged gender happens to be the female one. By the way, I think this is particularly damaging for the talented women who were hired on merit, because it becomes rational to believe that they they might not have been hired on merit.
Tesla Suddenly Has a Huge New Competitor
Will, not would...

I used to think much as you do, until I saw behind the veil and came to realise that while I agree with privatisation in principle, the practice actually comprises a land grab by vested interests who do have their cake and eat it too, as they usually not only get to keep their profits from their monopolies but get government subsidies and grants to boot. If anything, it's "champagne socialism", where the state lines private pockets - which is also known as fascism.

I don't believe technocratic centralised socialistic management is the solution - rather, government by those who do not wish to govern and cannot abuse their position to foster their private interests (sortition holds appeal), and strong regulation of private industry with real teeth.
On the one hand, Google using it's app store advantage to strengthen search seems to me like it might be a monopoly abuse.

On the other hand, Google gave away an OS and built a whole ecosystem to protect their search (to the benefit of consumers). Consumers are actually winning from the arrangement (and aren't anti-trust laws supposed to protect consumers?). The losers are corporations that are less generous and less innovative than Google.

Since I'm a consumer, and not Yandex or Microsoft, I'm cheering for Google.
How comparable is this tool to AutoCAD?
Two words: Roth IRA
I did try things like that but at the end of the day I had a very expensive device that I used for very little so I sold it. For me the only thing I miss about it is the health tracking. Once they build in a lot more of that the costs will be worth the benefit for me because I just looked back on that data and during my time with the Apple Watch I lost quite a lot of weight just following the activity tracker.
> The most outspoken people against both aren't from the countryside, have never kept cattle or been on hunts, don't understand (or want to think too much) about the issues involved, but know that badgers and foxes are cute.

Where is your evidence that the the most outspoken people who oppose fox hunting and badger culls do so because they think badgers and foxes are "cute"?

Why would people who oppose fox hunting go on fox hunts?

Why is going on hunts or owning cattle or living outside of a city necessary to validate an opinion about killing animals?

> Once you start believing that issues are simple, it's easy to fit everything into that framework and to wander round being outraged or offended or insulted by things

It's also easy to write people off whose opinions you don't like/accept, by pretending they only hold them for ridiculously simplistic reasons.
Key quote from one of the comments:

"The secret shame of the American Middle Class is that they listen to people telling them 'it's not your fault' too much."
I would be more interested in data that shows how much money an engineer takes back home (net income) compared to the rest of the world.

eg
Software Engineer from Atlantis earns 100 000 USD but pays 55% of tax so takes home only 45000
Software Engineer from Middle-Earth earns 60 000 USD but pays 10% tax and takes home 54000

etc
> I agree with the principal of small Government and that more should be privatised

You should review this position if you think the Land Registry should not be privatised. Mostly there isn't much left to privatise that isn't an administrative function or health or education.
How to do inbound (saas) sales
There's two directions you can go:

- the normal heating/cooling periods take place over thousands of years, which leaves ample opportunity for species to adapt to the changing climate. The human-added heat works much faster, and could trigger a massive extinction event unless the same humans work to prevent it.

- irrespective of whether the heat was added by humans, the previous "hot" periods did not happen during human habitation of this planet. The change we're facing is unprecented in our history and we must work to prepare for it.

Either way, action is required.
I live in LA. The last time I noticed myself wanting a change in the weather was a rare day when it was overcast AND I was bored. I realized that it wasn't that I wanted more interesting weather, it was that I was bored, and interesting weather is interesting.

Most days I have at least one moment where I love the weather.
My thoughts exactly $400K? Could someone being paid this level of money please share your career path.
You also have to take into account things like quality of life in the city vs a long commute if living in the suburb.
It's really easy if you purchase lots of little things using a non-cash form of payment. It's even easier if what you're buying is non-physical, like streaming movies or video games for a tablet/phone. The key is to remove the physicality on one or both ends of the transaction and keep the single transaction cost in 2-digit range or the low 3-digits. And of course, never budget, ever, and try not to mentally track how many purchases you've made over the past few weeks. Do that as a pattern, give it some time, and money will evaporate Brewster's Millions style.
Mr Avion Tequila Commercial Very Dignified
It's not really about keeping myself from commenting here or anything like that. There's something about the account being out there, the karma associated with it and such that nags at me a little, probably only because it's my real name and the volume of content associated with it. If I could change the username it'd bug me a lot less. I'm sure I'll come to terms with it somehow and still feel like I've successfully jacked out. Still, it seems like it'd be easy to add functionality like reddits: delete the account, keep the content, replace the username with [deleted]. [deleted123] would keep the content grouped under a single name if that's important. Maybe I'll write a letter to HN suggesting it.
why oh why do we need another markdown editor?sigh I personally just use VS Code and it's been working fine.
Not Manhattan, but I work in a ritzy part of downtown Chicago and see homeless people literally eating garbage from dumpsters now and again. Yeah, I think the richest kings of Europe were doing a little better than that.

I don't think the author understands what homelessness really looks like in dense urban areas and seems to have a Hollywood version of homelessness as his reference.
There's no way any one person understands every aspect of a car that takes hundreds or thousands of people years to develop.
> For many months myself and a few others have been trying to make Slack work for us. We would be the bad cops and point out people’s bad behaviour and suggest alternatives.

> When someone would report an issue in Slack, we’d point out the appropriate JIRA or GitHub project where that should be reported.

This got me thinking: Part of the problem is that the attention of others is a commons -- a vast wealth that we each have an interest in extracting from, but which takes a toll collectively.

Perhaps there's a way to internalize for a "consumer of attention" their attention-cost externality. So if certain people are extracting too much from the commons in the form of "@person" and "@everyone/@channel" messages, perhaps a bot could randomly ping them with noise messages in proportion to their attention-grabbing actions, to make them feel some of that pain and adjust accordingly without policing :)