skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global commerce is ugly, nasty business. It's basically lawless frontier. Only fools and the unscrupulous dare tread there. You can bet that in any given deal, human trafficking is going to be involved at some point, everybody involved does their best to look the other way or justify it. Systems of justice are easily perverted to suit personal schemes. Slavery may not exist anymore in the sense of humans being bought and sold on the open market, but instruments of sovereignty are regularly bought and sold on semi-open markets.

Trade deals like TPP are attempts by the governments of the world to regularize this world and bring it to heel, like a sheriff to a frontier town. They can be politically controversial, because you can't build a system of international law without infringing on the ability of people to pass their own laws. But it's either trade deals or the Wild West. Goods and capital are going to move around the world no matter what, all we can do is try to regulate it the best we can.
I have used Electron previously, but now Ionic is my favorite http://ionicframework.com/
Lots of open-source initiatives going on in the (small) satellite world at the moment. We're hopefully going to be releasing an online platform for preliminary design and trade-off analysis in the next few months. I know of a few other companies that are working on open-sourcing different parts of the technology stack. Predicting New Space to look quite different in another 5 years, with hopefully next to no barriers to entry.
> You get most of the same benefit for a lower cost with a Powerwall (if the expectation is temporary outage tolerance).

Ehh? A Powerwall costs $3500 alone, WITHOUT the inverter or transfer switch. A Powerwall supplies 3.3 kW, which isn't enough to run a 3-ton air conditioning unit (30 amps x 240 Volts == 7.2 kW).

If you run 15kW (air conditioner plus a few other stuff), you'll need FIVE Power walls for a minimum price of $17500. (Plus the inverter, plus... etc. etc.)

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Or, you can get a 16kW generator AND switch for $3300.

http://www.electricgeneratorsdirect.com/Generac-Guardian-646...

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Powerwall is actually a lot more expensive than standard generators. Something like 5x more expensive.
Same thing. I don't understand what exactly is the difference?
Ubiquity.
Old versions of qt. Anything after 5.5 should be fine.
I've been going the other direction recently. We have a photoshop plugin that exports layers with metadata (where an image is located, fonts, font sizes, text, etc). For any platform that has a basic scene graph and some sort of label functionality (Unity, iOS, android, theoretically even web) we write a runtime that converts the metadata into runtime UIs.

So it ends up being custom logic for interaction on each platform, but the design/assets can be shared cross-platform.
I'm a former 1Password user and switched to KeePass ports.

On the desktop I use KeeWeb [1], which works great on both Linux and OS X, and I assume on Windows as well, on Android I use Keepass2Android [2], which is actually better than 1Password on Android btw, and on iOS I use MiniKeePass [3]. This last one is a little weak, but it works. All 3 are open source btw.

And seriously, it works better than I expected for $0.

What made me switch is their move to a subscription model. They pretend that the old licensing model will still be around, but if you pay attention, that's not true. The first thing they did for example is to get rid of the Mac-only license, in order to make subscriptions seem more competitive. And they also stopped developing standalone features. I'm a Linux user as well, I would have liked a Linux port. And the only sync option is Dropbox, but Google Drive or other options would have been nice.

On cloud syncing, I do syncing by means of Dropbox, but my Dropbox directory isn't a big target for hackers and at the very least I know how KeePass and GPG work, what ends up in my Dropbox being just an encrypted file. I don't know how LastPass and 1Password work, even though they claim the encryption is only client side, and frankly I don't care anymore.

[1] https://keeweb.info/

[2] http://keepass2android.codeplex.com/

[3] https://minikeepass.github.io/
So are there are any cool applications?

Maybe I'm having a lack of imagination... but I have no idea what I'd do with one even if I wasn't constrained by size. Even on the ISS they seem to have run out of interesting things to do (last I heard they were growing lettuce in space...). Just wondering if anyone has got any cool ideas
My main criterion was good access to public transportation. I lived in various areas in Berlin already (each one has its individual flair), eventually I ended up in West Berlin close to Kurfürstendamm, which is a nice, quiet and central area.

The housing situation in Berlin is not nearly as bad as in other large cities BTW (contrary to what most people say), and although it got more difficult to find something nice for a reasonable price it's still possible.
> I wonder why you need to supply a dictionary to the object instead of keyword pairs.

My understanding is that the main reason is to make constructors more flexible, with arguments like _raw_data_, _trusted_data_ etc. But it is trivial to write a simple helper function that would accept keyword pairs and build a model instance.
The question is why Udacity - it is not named anywhere! You didn't actually READ the article either, but you downvote people who did? Great job.
I use and recommend hosting with OVH if you are worried about DDOS and serving a Western market. No affiliation, just a happy customer.

OVH include DDOS protection by default[0] and they have a very robust backbone network[1] in Europe and North America that they own and operate themselves (this is how & why anti-DDOS is standard with them).

For quick side-projects I still fire up a DigitalOcean instance or two because their UX is so slick and easy. If I needed huge scale and price didn't matter I would probably go with AWS (their 'anti-DDOS' is their vast bandwidth + your ability to pay for it during an attack). For everything else, I put it on OVH.

[0]https://www.ovh.com/us/anti-ddos/

[1]http://weathermap.ovh.net/
That is exactly my question -- what differentiates the two?
First thing I did was search for IFTTT references in this thread. :) I did the same thing in the Bay Area, and it worked pretty well. I should have made the filtering a little more restrictive though because I ended up with something like 5k emails/listings in 4 weeks.
Shouldn't you always have a layer between your business logic and display logic? Seems like this shouldn't be an issue with proper MVVM.
It's not so much that "democracies are not as democratic as people think" — but that they're more democratic than non-democracies.

Classic example might be Ancient Greece, were the percentage of the population that actually participated in the government was 10%. Given most political topics of major concern are usually closely divided, this means that it would not have been uncommon for 6% of the population to actually decide the fate of a given issue. Of that 6%, it's like a singular person (or small group of people) actually was the key to the outcome of the vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

Look at the "Advanced security" section.

I also used Siege to flood a site behind Cloudflare's free plan and brought it down.
This was also my decision to go with Dashlane. I spent some time testing different managers but Dashlane was the easiest to use and pricing was straightforward. I am working on different laptops/servers at customers I wanted one price with unlimited devices.
Cloudflare. It's been a real life saver for us.
Might be a simple confusion by the author; the sites have similar names and server similar functions.

Edit: Sorry, who downvoted whom? :-o
That's true for now, but it'll be interesting to see what happens as battery prices come down. There's also an interesting synergy between used car batteries and home storage: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/09/3775606/used-sec... or http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/bmw-energy-storage/.
hm... it could also lead to something like Idiocracy.
I mean the more technology you have the less you care about old things, like "how to build a building". Just look at how much worse the whole building industry gotten.
The try to be cheaper which also comes with the cost of less trained people.
STOP spamming your stupid suggestion.

Not only is GenPass a piss-poor design, it's DEPRECATED in favor of SuperGenPass and has been for a good long time now.
interestingly, this is because of mobile apps. I used the share function in the youtube app, coupled with the "copy link" intent on android that pops up. This is the link that was given to me and i pasted it here.

On a mobile device using a native app, it is quite hard/impossible to get a different url. Could you whitelist the youtu.be url ? because I'm guessing this will start to happen more frequently.
Why pay for a password manager when keepass is free, more secure, and offers better features than all of the alternatives?

http://keepass.info
Fecebook kicked me off for being too old. I could probably find my MySpace profile riddled with mis-information and my only true friend, Tom, floating around somewhere(on a dark market site[0]). I hope this would help default my identity from 'guilty until proven otherwise' to 'not-a-terrorist' status.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/hack-brief-old-myspace-account...
Which is what I pointed out! So what's the point of your response to my question? Again: Udacity is not involved at all!
You're right sure we will share results. I try to get subscribers just for future communication, coz I have a lot of questions, but not sure if there is a right place
I agree. I'd also add inspirational to the list of adjectives about this documentary.
> last I heard they were growing lettuce in space...

And that is not interesting ... why? Growing food in space is an incredibly fascinating area of research and vital for human spaceflight beyond cis-lunar space. Additionally, micro-gravity offers a unique opportunity to study the core mechanisms for growth, with the necessary spin-off of helping develop more robust crops back on Earth.
This article is alarmist and seems to be very poor analysis on the part of Bloomberg.

I don't see car repair shops going away. The only group that may die is Jiffy Lube and good riddance to them. Last time I checked... electric cars need their tires rotated (and all tire maintenance associated with that: Tire Repair, Tire balancing, etc. etc.).

Brakes still need to be replaced: which means the brake fluid industry needs to remain, along with brakes and rotors need to be continuously produced.

Electric cars still need coolant flush every few years. Both for coolant reasons and anti-corrosion reasons. Windshield wipers will crack. Windshields will continue to be replaced. Bodywork needs to repair damage from accidents.

So hell, even the lowest tier, crap repair shop (Jiffy Lube) will still be around 30 years from now. Jiffy Lube's current work is:

https://www.jiffylube.com/

* Oil Changes -- the only thing that Electric Cars don't need

* Brakes

* Fluids (coolant / brake fluid. I guess transmission fluid might go away)

* Tires
I've never used WhatsApp and have never had anyone ask if I use it. It seems it's largely country or age based. Here in the US it's certainly not a requirement.
ESA to conduct world's first active debris removal mission in 2023
With the specific sentence mentioned Troy is not referring to the Udemy content but rather a more general piracy case. So while Udemy is clearly about money the general piracy case referred to probably isn't.
Tangential, but how do you find OVH? Their hardware, bandwidth, uptime, customer service? I ask because of the conflicting reviews of OVH that a quick google search reveals.
Are+We+Best+Off+Climbing+To+The+Top+Food+Technology?
one of the interesting things in this video is that Facebook pretty much invented an equivalent of Flatpak/Zeroinstall/Click-packages to deploy their python apps.
Full disclosure, I work for AgileBits, the folks that make 1Password.

I hear and appreciate your collective concerns that we are getting rid of the standalone license option. However, I'd like to assure you that not only are there no plans to get rid of it, we are continuing to develop the standalone version. We know that we have a critical mass of customers who appreciate the ability to store their password data outside of the cloud. And given that we are entirely customer funded, those are customers that we cannot and are not ignoring.

Our subscriptions options remain new and we are still figuring a lot of things out. One of the ongoing issues has been customer confusion between licenses and account. That is why we have made it a bit harder to locate information about licenses on our site. Nothing insidious, just an attempt to make it easier for the majority of our customers to locate what they are looking for without confusing them.

If anyone has any additional questions or concerns, I would encourage you to contact us directly at support+social@agilebits.com.

Best,
Eva
There's a "Posted Today" filter on Craigslist that I used. That helps with old ads, but not continuously reposted ads though, which was still a problem.
Agriculture?
Could you elaborate? Which plan are you on? What was the size of the DDoS attack?
I think most of the time the metaphor of the drunkard under the streetlight searching for his keys applies to us.

You can see this most clearly in other individuals, but it is also writ large in our institutions various efforts in welfare, justice.

In my view, what is required to get to the Next Level is vastly improved metacognition of the sort gwern and other inhabitants of Less Wrong + SSC, notably CFAR are attempting to do. However I am not confident we can do this 'manually' on a consistent basis or introduce good habits without discovering new ways to be stupid (much of Scott and Gwern's efforts are directed towards observing dead ends being trod by other relatively bright individuals or reasonably sophisticated meme complexes). The main enemy at present is not just 'knowing how to think' but also in being consistent. The best of us are at best temporarily rational, which is too haphazard to build any serious foundation on.

This is where I am convinced computation comes in. Humans are creative and slow, computers are consistent but stupid. A truly augmented human would receive 'assists' from a computer AI.

This would require full surveillance on your outputs (text typed, speech etc) and inputs (websites, books read) and some manner of at least rudimentary brain monitoring.

From these sources it should be possible to construct an apparatus that acts as personal assistant, pointing out your forgetfulness, the contradictions in your thought patterns or behavior, like a Compiler for the Mind. We could personify such a thing as a living entity in its own right, like Lyra's daemon.

Who wouldn't want a daemon?
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What's so uninteresting about growing lettuce in space? Isn't it at least a little bit awesome that they're able to achieve some small aspect of self-sufficiency in orbit?
That's a different argument, and a different article.

The topic at hand is that the opt out doesn't stop Facebook accessing the whatsapp data, only prevents them from using it for advertising purposes.
In my experience with it, wxwidgets has a very antiquated feeling to the API (I know, subjective) and it didn't ship high DPI support when I used it. Its Python bindings at the time felt rather unpythonic. Generally I wouldn't want to use this again.
Would be interesting for a home security system, or for enhancing Nest so the users don't have to walk past it for it to know you are in the home.

Also the paper notes this approach has fewer privacy concerns than other tracking systems, which is true to the degree your goal is tracking locations in a house. However if all the sudden we all ended up with tracking systems in our house that would be a privacy concern.
That is excellent advice, in combination with other tactics.

If you do piss anyone off, keep records of everything. Make sure you know who they are, and where they live, before you start doing business with them. This lets you send the police after they hire someone to DDoS you. Bad people need to be removed from the pool to reduce these sorts of attacks. Record 100% of your phone calls. Android has free apps to do this for you automatically. If you're in a state that requires 2-party authorization, move to a state that offers 1-party authorization. Sanity in laws = freedom of citizens.
Fitter, dumber, more productive
That page argues against your point, even the basic plan does quite a bit to fend of DDOS. In particular, the most common and effective type of DDOS, which is volumetric and based on reflected UDP traffic, is defended against, even on their free tier.

Using a tool like Siege to bring a site behind Cloudflare down doesn't mean it's not protected. A layer 7 attack against a site which can't handle incoming HTTP requests is still possible. Cloudflare, or any other service, can't magically make a site scale.
I'm barely a geek, let alone a hacker, but have been trying to learn NativeScript for the past month or so. You might want to check it out.

Not sure how it compares as a "library" or "framework" etc. I'm still figuring out where the lines are drawn.

http://docs.nativescript.org
Emulator Here:
https://docs.genymotion.com
> The mathematical terminology that you dislike

I'm actually indifferent to the terminology, having used my fair share of Haskell/ML/Lisp, but I can see how you came to that assumption.

> in many formal publications

I'm aware of this, but the thing with this is not everyone in software has a computer science background, let alone an academic background. I'm a freelancer at the moment, but if I used most of this terminology in my workplace people would be giving me wtf looks.

> In no way is "Enterprise Java Beans" analogous

How so? All I said formal names in mathematic/computer science, give next to intuition into their actual meaning & when you look up their meaning, most of the results are riddled with more terminology. Same kind of goes for a lot of the Jagon in Java enterprise stuff, like beans/services/factories/etc. I wasn't saying their exactly the same, but more I had a similar experience when trying to familiarise myself with that stuff.
Stop describing a planet as 'Earth-like' unless it really is
What's up with pmarca's website? It gives me a 404 on archive.org all the way back to 2007. I think that's the first time I've ever one do that using Wayback. Nothing but 404's.
They do not seem unaware of modern technology, from the info on these links. They seem like they reject it.
GalaXynth
Yes, thanks for the correction.

As it's been said before, it's very geographically dependent.
In here, there isn't a local shop or service that doesn't advertise its WhatsApp number. Even the city hall's ombudsman answers via WhatsApp. Not email, not phone.

I'd love to be able to communicate through open protocols such as IRC and email alone. But that's not the world I, and I would wager, most, live in.
A) have enough servers so when one gets null routed, it's not a huge deal

B) make sure your servers don't fall over while getting full line rate of garbage incoming (this is not hard for reflection or synfloods, but is difficult if they're hitting real webpages, and very difficult if it includes a tls handshake)

C) bored ddos kiddies tend to ddos www only, so put your important things on other sub domains

D) hope you don't attract a dedicated attacker
Useful for detecting if aged or ailing family members haven't moved in a while, and check on them.
No Terminators, but Autonomous Systems Vital to DoD Future
There's the option for free plans: Basic DDOS protection with the following blurb:

Built-in security measures automatically protect your website against DDoS attacks. CloudFlare's service allows your legitimate traffic to reach your website, while stopping illegitimate traffic at the edge, before it hits your server.

So Cloudflare promises least a minimal protection for free plans.

As for Siege, I assume Cloudflare is optimized to protect from botnets. A single machine running Siege is not a realistic test case. Perhaps it also depends whether your website is mostly static, then Cloudflare can do a lot of caching.
I wonder if they would have met this resistance if they had started as SaaS from day one. I mean, I get the benefit to them of recurring revenue, but from a customer standpoint this is right up there with Adobe trying to force everyone to creative cloud (albeit handled much better imho). People viewed it as something you pay once for, and not something that warrants paying in perpetuity. Customers fully realize that increasing LTV for AgileBits means a massive price hike for them over multiple years if you do the May on percentage increase.
> He points out that the function names and type names that stem from category theory are not very good at communicating their intent in programming

This was my point exactly, also thanks for the link I'll have to checkout that talk :-)
> What are the best password managers out there that do not force you to use their "cloud" for syncing between devices and are available on all major platforms?

The definition of "best" is subjective, and eventually up to your desires.

With that said, at least Password Gorilla (https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki) is open source and has some built in 'sync' ability that does not _require_ any cloud service (it is manually driven, but it highlights most 'merge conflicts' for you to resolve) . It is also available on Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and while not itself available on Android there are several Android apps. (and maybe an iOS app or two) that inter-operate with the encrypted file format it uses.
They don't have any cdn in China, so it doesn't work for this market.
It is supposed to inform you of the achievement of the Chinese people, and not to conflate them with the Chinese government.
You're right, he didn't say it in the article. He may have said as much in reddit comments, though. I'm not sure. However, his first mention did link to Pottery Barn Rule @ Wkikpedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule) which says why the term shouldn't be taken literally true in the 2nd paragraph.
Or, perhaps hn could just auto-dereference the links to a whitelist of the most popular shorteners & then everyone can be happy?
I've been waiting for a way to access my 1Password data on the web, e.g. from a Linux machine (no 1Password Linux client exists) so I'll gladly pay the subscription fee now that this exists.

Also the quality of the software (in terms of user experience)---both on the desktop and on iOS---is fantastic. Also the ability to contact a human for support is excellent. In general I like to support high quality software using $.

I am however nervous about the idea of storing all my passwords on someone else's server. If there ever were a security breach, imagine the consequence.

Instead of "change your password, we've been hacked" it would be "change ALL 100 of your passwords, we've been hacked". Ugh.
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Whenever I tried to respond to a "can't read the paper, it's behind a paywall" comment on reddit's /r/science with a link to Sci-Hub it was removed by the mods. Actually, it was not even ever published (but all my other comments were), so I guess they may even have a bot do this.

Can anyone confirm, and/or say something about their reasoning? I don't see that forum's admins' role in defending the commercial publishing model.