skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically, OSS wins because that's what developers want? I don't think so.

Developers want to make a living, and for that, they need a user base. Developers were more than happy to build for MS when it had all the users.

Bill Gates missed the Internet. Steve Ballmer missed Mobile. They both let others build massive user bases on those two platforms. Developers followed the users.

It just happens than Microsoft, the best developer tool maker at the time, did not have anything to offer them. They found support in the OSS community.

Today, Microsoft is back in a position where it needs to court developers with familiar tools (OSS). But make no mistake, their real selling point is the unified and combined one billion users of Windows PCs (desktop, mobile, xbox, etc.).

Also - there are tons of completely false statements about MSFT's position in some key markets, profitability, and successes with consumers.

Finally, stop hating Bill Gates. Every entrepreneur's dream is to create a monopoly.
Brazil already arrested a Facebook executive and detained them for 24hrs this year over the fact they said there is nothing that can do regarding the information request.

I'm not sure what you're proposing Facebook to do here? Hand over useless encrypted data? Hold a cryptography seminar for Brazillian law enforcement to explain what end-to-end encryption means? Have more of their employees risk arrest?
Agreed, and it's unnerving that lobby groups seem to have a degree of access that neither the public nor many of our elected representitives seem to have.

My knowledge of history in this area clearly isn't strong enough; I have no idea how we got here.
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What raises metabolic rate? High intensity interval exercise? Long slow distance?

I'm wondering if 2-3 hours of exercise training would be necessary to readjust the metabolism. It's my gut as an athlete... Especially the very high intensity interval training.

This comes from sprinters having almost magically low fat in many cases, despite not doing nearly as much aerobic execise as, say, even a recreational marathoner.
Pool. One-off rides are fungible; shared ride infrastructure is only cost-effective with scale.
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Depends on how you define disastrous. As pointed out several other times in the comments, several commercial activities rely on WhatsApp on several levels.

Even blocking for a few hours causes several man-hours to be spent in setting up alternatives. And lots of telephone costs, as well, since many companies - including those with technicians on the field, sometimes in another state - use that to communicate instead.
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And with "CS major" superimposed:
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I don't know what I'm saying I'm just saying it with data.
People do occasionally try to blow up airplanes and such. The tactic of hijacking an airplane to crash it into something isn't the only possibility.

If your assertion is that security checks prevent no attacks, then you're implying that no attacker has been discouraged from making an attack due to the presence of security screening. This strikes me as absurd.

There are good arguments to be made that many aspects of security screening are useless, and even that the useful aspects aren't worth what they cost. I would tend to agree with many of those arguments. But to argue that the security screening process as a whole does not prevent any attacks is taking it way too far.

Just look at how incredibly frequent hijackings were in decades past, and how rare they became after basic screening was instituted. It does work to an extent. If you want to attack it, attack it on a cost/benefit basis or attack the more ridiculous bits of it, like banning liquids or screening shoes.
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The issue there is that if you aren't really being plausibly deniable (using the fake login), then the court will realise this. For instance, if they know you were using that laptop 1 day ago, but the timestamps on the instance you unlock are all from 2 months ago, they may deduce you are pulling this stunt.
Haha yea I know a lot of people who hate green bubbles.
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printf("There are unjust laws. The law can't be above the people. Laws are not a moral absolute.");
}
There will of course be a permission pompt.
Seems like a hint that we should design our means of communication to resist single points of failure.
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That is very unfortunate. A CTO for a well funded small tech company should have recruiting as a top priority if they are looking to grow. It is really the only metric from which to measure an effective technical executive at that stage. It doesn't reflect well if you can't hire because your messaging is off or you aren't well organized.
We are OK with it because almost always we don't know a better way. Every time we use statistics and have certain finite sample size, these confidence intervals will emerge.
This all could have been so simple. Publish a single signature to a very recent news story signed using a key Satoshi controlled.

Instead we get this mess.

The mess makes me believe Satoshi is still out there.
Must be hard to keep the action and tuning good on that, after re-assembly?
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Ah. I wondered why the ISP's seemed so happy to comply.
After perusing the perf man page, the only way I could figure out how to make it accurately count userspace function calls was using hardware breakpoints, e.g.: "perf stat -e mem:0xADDRESS:x"

Obviously that's not a very good approach, because you're limited to the number of breakpoints that your CPU can handle simultaneously (4 on my machine) and there's a lot of overhead. If you know of a better way to accomplish the same thing with perf, I'd be happy to hear it.
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I contend you should then force it to adapt to a completely different athletic / exercise reality.

Of course the problem is that people drop back into their same lifestyles, and American lifestyles are pathetically nonactive.

Hint: 20 minutes 3 times a week is not "active". It's just better than pathetic.
5'11" and 185. It's possible I'm miscounting calories (given how much of a crapshoot the task is), but not by so much that it would matter greatly.
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Tiz.com: Liquor distribution software
11440913
WedWell: A more efficient way to plan your wedding
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Krewe: Help people make friends in their neighborhood
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Pinboard: Social bookmarking for introverts
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Pikii: Anonymous social network
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Gresham Dollar: Currency for basic income
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Cadwolf: Web-based mathematics and engineering platform
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Brightwork: API development and management software
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Feynman Nano: Infection-resistant materials for preventing infections
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Brodlist: A new type of database
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Casepad: Better databases for public defenders and others
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Author Investments: Trade future royalty rights
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Siris Rooms: African Hotel Chain
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AutoMicroFarm: Aquaponics farm/garden for the back yard
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Eat My Dust: Home testing for dangerous materials
11455123
TruSert: Trusted skill certification
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Wanderlust: Travel recommendations based on budget and interests
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Hacksplaining: Online security training for web developers
11468580
Utiliz: Online electricity broker
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This looks pretty bad at first glance. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, what Bandwidth is saying is this: we don't care about receiving subpoenas for information: we'll happily give it to you anytime upon request for us or any of our customers.
I'd vote for "both" - since I'd love you to be hosting the archive on the original domain for the moment, but I have more faith in them not Failing to Deal with Stuff than you (and were I in your shoes I'd be thinking the exact same thing about myself) - and, also, I'm kinda hoping the internet archive will outlast us both unless we get immortality soon enough.

Also, [insert gushing praise here], I loved k5 back in the day.
Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware?
Uber is facing a nationwide class-action lawsuit
> You have a judge from a remote jurisdiction in Brazil

Irrelevant.

> judges these days feel that they have power to block even actions of the president of the Republic.

Thankfully so. Presidents are not above the law.
It's a lucrative business to be in. If you have niche technical competency there's a lot of funding to be had from companies that have problems to solve.

You're unlikely to hit millions like you would from a VC, but you can be solving very tangible problems rather than the stereotypical "Uber for X". And you would be amazed at how much companies are happy to spend on products that work.
Just not sound, philosophically. I don't understand why the author wants to make the claim.

See for example the irrefutable possibility of
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Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted unless you're in a "secret chat", and that chat exists only between two different devices and can't be used by multiple devices on one account.

It's a "feature" of the normal chats/channels/groups/supergroups of Telegram that you are able to download them to other devices, or to restore them on a freshly wiped device, because (and I'm over-simplifying here, but the end result is the same) they are encrypted with a key known to the server, and which other devices signed into your account can then be authorized to use.
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Is there anyone who isn't a politician or employed by the TSA who thinks the TSA is doing a job worthy of their funding?

Yes. By some counts that group would include the majority of Americans. Personally, I've heard the words, "it makes me feel safer" come out of the mouths of what appear to be otherwise competent adult humans.
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Why would Gavin risk his reputation on that without the confidence that he really is Satoshi?

People who are smart, even experts in their field, can be fooled by conmen. Remember that while the experts are experts in their field, the conman is also an expert in their field. Their field just happens to be exploiting human nature to fool people. Without more information, it's hard to know if that's what happened, but it's a reasonable answer to the question.
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I thought planets in dwarf star habitable zones would be tidally locked / not rotating?
Monopoly isn't even about market size it's about companies exploiting their market position using anti-competitive practices. There is no indication WhatsApp has done any of this except being the most popular product in a highly competitive and open market.
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that is what i am asking, where is the 48 hour part. ive never left my phone untouched for 48 hours, except in a powered off state.
F-117 commonality was due to the "Skunk Works" model. Lockheed didn't have the time to pursue a custom set of avionics. IIRC, Lockheed also used existing forgings for landing gear for a similar reason.
The same holds for Telegram and Signal.
The President clearly does not have that sort of power. The power of that office has been exaggerated to a crazy degree. Regardless of what he wants, President Trump can't shut down the TSA, or for that matter deport Muslims or build a wall on the Mexican border.

I can't see Congress abolishing the TSA. Just bringing up the idea will give a representative's opponents tons of ammunition to paint them as "soft on terror" and endangering Americans. People are fearful of this stuff. To the extent that people dislike the TSA, it's only because they're more annoying and slow than necessary, not because people think the whole concept is bad. If a member of Congress could come up with a way to improve the TSA then I imagine that would pass pretty easily, but of course that's a harder job.
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It's not without recourse. It's just a system that became a defacto standard. If WhatsApp goes away for good, surely everyone will move on to something else, maybe even considering the "centralizedness" of it, but the transition costs are there, especially on a case with such short notice.
It's probably because you're used to Rust and know how to write Rust in a way that just avoids all compiler errors. People new to the language try to write Rust code as if it were C++ or something (or, in general, are not yet used to the Rust way of doing things). I have had this issue with every language I've learned so far, most recently Go (which I tried writing as if it were Rust).

So often newcomers end up designing code in a way that at a higher level isn't too flexible when it comes to borrow check, leading to these issues.
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Same idea, different use? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=...
But this might be caused by all sorts of things. More people rejecting (or being more "moderate" in) religion, for instance. Or more people being able to get a more accurate view of the world. Or social acceptability changing.

Doesn't seem fair to look at overall statistics for peace and prosperity, then say "well that doesn't really count".
So if a judge demanded a telco hand over an audio recording of any specific conversation, they must comply -- even though calls are not recorded and stored?

If a judge demanded the postal service hand over an image of every envelope processed, it must comply -- even though no such images exist?

Where does it end?