skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of right now, my Xcode got access to 5 to 10 team and their project. How is he supposed to know that I want my target z go to team y ? And that this target is a store account, not the usual enterprise one for other project by the same team ?
And I think cmake can add the proper account to the project too, but it's probably not well documented...
It doesn't really imply harming the DNS, but rather the actual core infrastructure - network connections.

If they disable/crack/overwhelm the major routers connecting different ISPs (e.g. zero-days or backdoors for router OSes, BGP attacks with cooperation or cracked credentials from some major ISP insiders), then the internet is not going to work for you because your ISP will be simply unable to route your data to where you want.

Are there any good reasons to believe that all major router models don't have backdoors inserted by state actors, either by bribing an insider engineer ten years ago, or even having a manufacturer of some secondary on-board chip (that has direct memory access) insert a hardware backdoor ? We've detected such attempts before, there's all reason to expect that there are some of them active and undetected right now.
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>>I love Airbnb. It's one of my favourite startups, from both a user's and entrepreneur's point of view.

Until that one time when you encounter a problem with an Airbnber, Airbnb customer service try to help, give you hope, then completely pull the rug out from under you. Terrible experience overall.

If there are any Airbnb employees on here who care about customer service and could help, please drop me a line?

Thanks
I'm also hoping for an Apple Watch that doesn't require a phone. That would be great, especially if it could do VOIP with AirPods.
For static sites, surely just load all of the content into memory and serve it based on key/index? eg. load into a C++ map of <const string,const string>, where first is URL and second is content. Even lookups would be fast (and would negate the need to hit the disk too).

For dynamic stuff, adjust accordingly.
Oh I'm sure they wouldn't. But there is no risk to national security, as whistleblowing protections only apply to uncovering illegal activities, abuse and similar misconduct.

But who'd want one's security apparatus to be incentivised to follow the rules, right?
...I'm not sure if it does. Bain's Law still stands.

But if it does, then it's a pretty big chunk of data, and a very fast network.
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"Accordingly, we take concerns about customer privacy and our data practices seriously."

This is typical of the meaningless boilerplate that companies use to acknowledge there's a problem but that they won't take any concrete steps to solve it.

Usually when I see something like "your privacy is important to us" but with nothing back it up, I interpret that as acknowledgement that they're going to sell all your data at some point in the future, maybe through acquisition such as when Google bought Nest.
Having grown up in the UK I've always felt guilty about not doing anything in my free time. Partly because everyone else seems to be living such a busy and rewarding existence (or so they would have me believe).

Now, living in Spain, I feel it's OK not to do anything. Just sitting in the shade for 6 hours watching the world go by doesn't make me a weirdo, like it does back home.
I always have seen it as a legalized corruption. You can't buy a politician but if you give money to fund a campaign instead of giving it directly, it's not corruption. That's prostitution of a democracy.
They should be condoning it. For that, a lot of things would have to change first though, like, for example, the community has to come to the realization that the (supposed) ends do not justify the means and that it's therefore the right thing to do to whistle-blow about them. They also need to realize that the internal mechanisms to whistle-blow are "not effective", to say the least.
No, it's not from actual measurement. I tried to think through my days in the past few weeks. But even if I'm off an hour here or there, I'd never come down to just 10 hours of free time a week.
> Snowden committed treason

The only people that behaved in a treacherous fashion are the one that are spying on you because for them you're just a criminal by default.

Furthermore he didn't commit treason, he didn't spy for a 3rd party country. He revealed to the world the scope of NSA spying and did everybody a big favor. There is nothing democratic with secret laws and spying. Today you cannot say you don't know and deny reality. But you can choose to ignore it... until the system turns against you. Today if you accept PRISM you become a willing participent and a slave to that system.

What you don't understand is one day, an irresponsible administration will come to power and use all this system for its own personal gain. There is nothing stopping that right now. It's funny how people get all worked up by Facebook censoring some insignificant content when they directly collude with the government to hand over data. So does Google, Yahoo and all big tech companies in US.
AFAIK Swift is going to be source compatible going forward(don't quote me on that), but ABI stability is not going to be there until 4.0.

EDIT: See steveklabnik's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12495200
In theory it was espionage or sabotage, in practice it was mostly ethnicity, i.e. person with wrong background at a wrong time in the wrong place. The bad luck of being in sight when someone had to meet his efficiency target in the process of purging any political opposition.

In this particular case, ethnic Ingrian near Leningrad. (Ingrians were the Finnish-speaking population in Leningrad oblast, i.e. people who had stayed there since Sweden ceded the area to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad ending the Great Northern War in 1721, and Peter the Great started to build St. Petersburg.)

Speaks a language other than Russian, confesses a minority religion, could quite easily be a spy and get information and then slip across the border. No real evidence was needed to put people in camps, kill them, or declare them enemies of the people. Stalin's repression killed hundreds of thousands in extermination camps where, by the way, Nazi officials visited to learn the trade of killing by hunger.

Today, the ethnic cleansing of Ingrians is all but complete; it was finalized by Finland allowing the Finnish-speaking population to immigrate in 1990s, leaving only some old people who are all soon dead.

To clarify, of course also ordinary Russians were thrown into this machinery of destruction. Another ethnicity just increased the likelihood quite a lot. Stalin himself was Georgian, not Russian.

The joking advice given to people eaten up by this machinery of killing was:

1. Do not confess anything.
2. If you confess, do not sign anything.
3. If you confess and sign, do not be surprised.

Of course, in reality, upon entering the system you were most likely dead already.
That's the "part-time labor" section of my post is about. And, at its current level of detail, your criticism could be applied any time someone finds a more economically value use for something and "forces out" (i.e., out bids) the previous buyer.
Ugh. I am always annoyed by people who hate on JS.

As for syntactic "sacrifices", they're necessary for the most complex macros, not so much for the simple ones: rust has macros, too!
This isn't about signatures or authentication, the site says outright that those people are supporters.
I was surprised, since I didn't think it would be realistic enough for this purpose, but Grand Theft Auto V is being used in this manner to train self-driving cars.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602317/self-driving-cars-...
Because we have to do all the stuff now that our parents used to do for us?
yeah, its what it does for the next Snowden that's most important here-- but that's why I suggested actual legal reform is necessary.

How can a pardon set a precedent? Its an act of an executive, not a court? It would be up to whoever is the president when the next Snowden occurs to grant clemence or no at their total executive discretion, no? So how's that a precedent? And how comforting it would be to the next Snowden that his life is at the whim of the current president to grant or take should he go through with a leak.

Or am I misunderstanding how the US legal system works?

I have to grant you're completely right about the political climate though. No legislative change will happen w/o a wide perception that the party at fault is the NSA here, and Snowden's action heroic and justified and hence worthy of legal protection. And a pardon would help in establishing that.

I'm really amazed how negatively he's percieved in the US apparently.
The only one I find surprising among those three is Soros. He's a pretty Janus-faced individual though in general, so... maybe shouldn't even find that surprising anymore.
They've made this promise before, and it's already supposed to be working (iOS Team Certificates, etc.). So whether they got it right this time and it actually works... we'll see
Well, the macros and read macros mean that you can "get back" those constructs.
Being rich and never having to work except on something you really want to do is worth achieving mostly because of this. I don't really care about material things, and I love my job, but being free to do anything I want is liberating.
Stripping whistleblowers from their constitutional rights and condemning them to a lifetime in prison is arguably a worse national security risk.

A society needs layers of checks and balances, and whistleblowing is one such layer. When whistleblowing is penalized so harshly you create an environment of unchecked power. Citizens can't do anything because even when they know they're being lied to, they need to know the specifics of what's going on in order to protest effectively. Because as we've now learned even the elected representatives get sidelined, so they're pretty much useless.

Realistically speaking, how much damage can one whistleblower really do when they have no malicious intent? Not much. What are the negative consequences of unchecked power? Effectively unlimited.
Thank you for respecting my opinions, then.
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You can't just compare the after-net salary income tax when you compare countries. How would you then compare a country with high income tax but low VAT? You need to take the whole cycle.

As a software programmer, I receive money from people I sell the software to, pay VAT, pay social charges, pay income tax and I'm left with 37% of the money given by the clients, even though I have a very lean company (no office, no advertising costs in this calculation, no cloud costs, etc). That makes 63% of my revenue taken by the government.

What did you mean with "pure and utter nonsense", apart from not wanting to acknowledge the tax pressure in France because you've never created a company and, therefore, don't know what you are talking about?

How is creating a company "disinginuous because your tax situation is complicated"? What about we make it simple so we can focus on delivering a product for the customers (like, doing our job)?

As said, I don't even mind the 63%, even though it's impoverishing everyone. I mind the paperwork.
Well, it's 8% if you believe in "independed measurement" :)
It's all using Apple endorsed formats. It's just using an awful lot of them. But it's all exactly how it's supposed to be. But because it's using a daemon, a Finder extension, command line interface apps, etc, they all have their own provisioning profiles and they all have to be codesigned in their own ways. Which is what makes it tricky.
Politics is the art of mendacity.
Could a reason also be that there's rarely a lot of competition between firms supplying the drugs? They basically get a state-sponsored monopoly through patents - not much of a market-dynamic.
Because it's a largely unregulated market.
Also don't forget about Manning who actually went to prison and is not getting any publicity now.
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Yes, good question. I think this is because nowadays, work is mostly a way to skew wealth distribution in your favor. Therefore people that can work more, do work more. That contributes to make them wealthier. The others, are unemployed.
Maybe a naive question, but what would the risk be for me to sign this? I wonder if I (a US citizen) might get trouble the next time at the border? Or get a higher score in some database, that combined with other things might get me into trouble? Increased scrutiny from the IRS (which should have nothing to do with this, but "they" might say hell why not?)? Inability to get security clearances in future? Being targeted for more intense data collection by the NSA?

God, I hate how quickly you can get paranoid these days. A mode of thought I would expect in socialist countries, not the US...
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Donald Trump wants Edward Snowden executed, extrajudicially if necessary.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130624/17270323599/donal...
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Of course, but does that really matter?

If you do your moment stuff, and forget to buy groceries, is that really a problem of not having food for diner? Just skip it, you won't die.

Why doing today what can be done tomorrow?

Then you only need to do planning on the really important stuff.
This makes sense in that it is less invasive and skin cells are more plentiful but the current invasive methods at least ensure that there is consent.

If you could surreptitiously get enough of someone's skin cells you could create an embryo with no consent. It's a given that this won't be within the ability of Mr and Mrs J Public but it's still something that creates concern.
oh no doubt, what was done to him is atrocious and repugnant. I was only trying out an argument that politically his fate is no longer important, and it is of greater value to focus on what will protect the next Snowden better.

It's still clearly a moral imperative to help Snowden.
as a russian, I'll try to clarify.

i believe there were two different concepts. the first one — an enemy of the state, or enemy of the people (враг народа) — is not about ethnicity. it's about "criminals" who deed horrible things to Soviet state and Soviet people.

some of these people were indeed criminals (although someone could argue that their crimes are usually not so horrible, i.e. banal theft), some of them — a lot, I think — were innocent.

enemy of the state/people was a working concept in 1930-1950s.

the second concept is about ethnicity. i don't know is there a name for it though. all of the ethnicities in Soviet Russia were declared equal, USSR was extremely anti-racist and anti-nationalist.

at the same time there were some nuances. for example, it was very hard to go to the top university if you are a jew (or jewish? I don't want to cause offence here). no one will tell you that you are not qualified because you are jewish, but you won't be there anyway.

there were two reasons behind that. the first one: it was too dangerous to give a good education to someone who could leave USSR for Israel later. the second one is quite obvious, i think.

I don't know when it began but it was relatively difficult for jewish kids to get to the top faculties of top universities even in 1980s. the same could be said about top-secret research and some other areas.
> I like Swift but it really was released too early.

Yet it would not be what it is today without the public feedback process that contributed to the changes that were made since that release.
> To use Vim effectively, you need plugins.

Really? Haven't noticed. What for and how would it be any better than me using
shell, which I need anyway?

> The biggest drawback of Vim is Vimscript.

It is, especially if you limit yourself to this language only. If you don't,
you have Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl at your disposal.

> Compared with an IDE, Vim has less language support.

On the other hand, it has pretty much the same level of support for any
language. Once you get accustomed, you switch between dozen languages, even
the ones that are exotic for most IDEs (Haskell, Lisp, Erlang, shell, make),
with virtually no friction.

Plus, Vim doesn't hide tooling internals, like IDEs do. With IDEs it's really
easy not to understand what the heck is going on after clicking "deploy"
button.
> In other words, we start to believe that we are not by default worthy of living a good, joyful, care-free, abundant life.. unless it is "deserved".

It's not about being "deserved". There is no merit, morality or legitimacy concern here. Just plain pragmatism : good things will not come to you if you just sit on your couch all day.

Take for instance item 4 in OP's list: cleaning. Well, I can assure you that if I don't clean my apartment, nobody is going to show up magically and do it for me.

> Of course, as any child knows...

Well yeah, because children have their parents do stuff for them. That's precisely OP's point.
The previous post has more technical details: http://smalltalk-bob.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/lessons-learned...
My point is "big non-government companies in Russia doesn't pay any bribes". But you're right, it's definitely possible do hide some amount of bribe money if you really want to.
> Consumer marketing for drugs is forbidden in many parts of the world, the US is more an outlier

Exactly right. Because consumer marketing of prescription drugs is an utterly crazy idea, both in general theory, and in its present unethical incarnation.

Last time I checked there were exactly two developed nations which allow so-called DTC (direct-to-consumer) advertising of prescription medications at all. Namely: USA and New Zealand. Apparently every other country got the memo. Not us!

Every few years they talk about getting rid of it here in NZ. As you'd expect, public heath officials tend to support that idea, and industry shills tend not to.

I mean it took Big Pharma until 2008 to even adopt some basic ethical guidelines in producing these ads. I'm talking things like not using actors to play doctors anymore, and making sure that endorsers who said they had used a particular drug had actually used it. Yep, those kindly old men in white coats telling you to "Ask your doctor if this drug is right for you" weren't even real doctors.

Moreover, surveys carried out in NZ and in the USA show that when a patient asks for a specific drug by name they receive it more often than not. "The truth is direct-to-consumer advertising is used to drive choice rather than inform it," says Dr Dee Mangin, associate professor at the Christchurch School of Medicine. "In an era of shared decision-making, it’s much more likely that general practitioners will just do what the patient asks."

Professor Les Toop from Otago University says: "Internationally there have been many reviews of DTCA from health professional groups, academic institutions, governments and importantly many independent (non industry funded) consumer and patient groups. Without exception they have come to the same conclusion: the partial and potentially misleading information and the accompanying medicalisation caused by DTCA is of net public harm."

The AMA says: "Direct-to-consumer advertising inflates demand for new and more expensive drugs, even when these drugs may not be appropriate."

End the madness, I say.
"I'm busy" is really just an excuse for not taking productive action. You know all those people you look up to that seem to be 10 times more productive than you? Whether it's Elon Musk running multiple blue ocean companies while being a technological innovator or Richard Branson leading over 400 companies, or whoever it might be, they all have the same 24 hours that you do. In the end it's up to you whether you find ways to make the most out of your time or just repeat the same tasks every day.

It took me a long time to realize this, but it finally clicked for me fairly recently. Record everything you do for a day, figure out which are of low or no value, and figure out how to get rid of them, create systems to reduce the time you spend on them, or delegate them. The most time-consuming things often can't be totally cut out, but they can be systemized or delegated. In the end, only you control your time (and if you don't, you have a bigger problem).

Edit: If anyone is interested in the resources I've found helpful in this realization and the implementation of taking actions to take back control of my own time, feel free to send me an email (in profile).
It's great to see the HN community responding positively to news about .NET/Mono and related tech. I've been working with C#/.NET since 2008 and always felt it's a vastly superior platform to Java in every way. It's a shame it is taking so long for the wider tech community to realise this.
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There's an excellent comment by the author on the predecessor post to the linked one (which is, in itself, quite excellent), elaborating on why regulation is actually a worthwhile target, and not just a convenient scapegoat -- worth quoting in full:

> I understand why you think it’s bad to lump all regulations together in the category “regulation”, but in this case, I think it sort of makes sense.

I think there’s a general principle that once you pass dumb regulations, it’s going to make bad things happen, and then if you try to solve those bad things by passing further regulations, you’re just going to get caught in an endless trap.

So first they regulate Mylan into a monopoly on EpiPens. Then they realize that made them too expensive, so they regulate that the government gets to set the price of drugs. Then drug companies stop making EpiPens to switch to more profitable unregulated drugs, so the government has to mandate that you’re not allowed to be a drug company unless you make a certain amount of EpiPens below cost. So drug companies leave the US and headquarter overseas to avoid that law, and then the government regulates that only drug companies headquartered in America can sell drugs in America. Then cheaper foreign drugs start coming in as contraband, so the government regulates that all packages must be inspected at the border. Then drug mules ingest contraband medications into their bodies, so now everyone entering the country needs to have an X-ray…

I realize some of these steps are probably stupid and would never happen, but I think there’s a risk of this general sort of thing, where you play Whack-A-Mole against the economy, and each mole you whack decreases efficiency and just makes another mole come up somewhere else.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...
I suppose it depends how you define cooking. If I'm at home, I'll generally make something 3 times a day but breakfast is usually something really quick and lunch will tend to be a sandwich or heated leftovers. I like cooking but I can't really imagine cooking multiple full-blown meals a day. I don't eat that much even if someone else is doing the cooking.
It's a concise article, and yet tl;dr ...

> The simple answer is because they can.

> Rather than lower prices, rules for Medicare help raise them. ... And it is illegal for Medicare to negotiate with drug companies.

> But [negotiating] would be effective only if the government could also refuse to pay for some medicines, ...
The spectre of so-called government “death panels” looms large.
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Strictly speaking, epipen is a device, not a drug... The drug inside sells for pennies.
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I believe when you wrote "socialist" you meant "authoritarianist"? Please don't mix-up those two concepts
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This also leads to breakthroughs like tools, agriculture, figuring out the planet is round, math, philosophy, physics etc. Most people would just party though.
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