skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and agree with your point ("a good answer", as I said). My point is that your position is weakened (for the individual you responded to and all other readers) by not naming the books and authors in question.

Anyone not previously familiar with suppression as it is practiced would be more readily swayed with something they can sink their teeth into and investigate. What you've given them instead are vague and unverifiable claims that, without elaboration, carry the hint of paranoid fancy rather than serious conspiracy(which risks unjust dismissal by someone could have otherwise been informed).

Let's use my first guess of Tragedy and Hope as an example. Consider the following:

-pedigree of Quigley: History professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service who taught Bill Clinton and an entire generation of diplomats

-contents of the book: macrohistorical view of Anglo-American governmental, financial and intellectual organizations and how they shaped history

-manner of its suppression: first editition pulled, subsequent editions published without the passages detailing the establishment of the BIS backed by private bankers and the existence of what Quigley called the "Round Table Groups"

These combine to paint a clear (and researchable) picture of what you alluded to: books not being banned, but having their impact diminished, because they challenge or critique the power structure.
ALL web developers. All. That word means something.

Just because something is popular doesn't mean everyone needs to cater to it.
It's different for Go.
Reasons why I chose not to fly through Istanbul next week :/ Price was cheaper, but gave the 'ol cheapest flight policy a kick to the curb.

Now I get to make a stopover in Tunisia instead... mmhmm.
To validate a license key requires an active internet connection. This is for online/web-based apps, with an emphasis on JavaScript apps built on Node, Electron, etc. Licenses are validated by making an authenticated GET request to something like https://evilcorp.keygen.sh/v1/licenses/3qMEarbK/actions/vali.... Keygen isn't meant to be used for offline apps, as license validation requires an authenticated API request.
Yeah.

Sure, tape-out may be cheaper with one chip line, but we aren't talking about chips where the feature is there in silicon but intentionally disabled (say, for the other more expensive variant). We're talking about a feature that the chips and systems are advertised as having, which doesn't work as it is intended to because the driver stack is broken. Where the vendor specifically says '....supports OpenGL ES x.x', but then you find it sort of does but not really and it's broken and won't ever be fixed.

It's even more frustrating because there's a whole open-source community that would be willing to do the work of writing the drivers even, but then of course the vendors won't give them the data they need because of IP concerns. It just really sucks.
Needing to halt trading is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you see trading halts that precede large upside moves, and sometimes the stock doesn't move at all when it reopens.

Not all trading halts involve limit-down circuit breakers or short-sale restrictions.
the consumption cycle is sustained because it benefits the powers that be. humans are insatiable, and as long as you are convinced that contentment requires "just one more thing," you will never be happy, you will always be hungry, and you will always want more. happiness isn't pleasure, because of hedonic adaption, pleasure eventually becomes boring and empty. happiness is contentment with what you have. it is escape from the pain-pleasure cycle. when you're content, you even avoid strong pleasure, because it disrupts your tranquility.

it's insane that young people of today believe that a good life requires living a big city, gourmet foods, craft beers, urban scavenger hunts etc. these are forms of leisure that were all but inaccessible to 95% of the world up until 200 years ago. so happiness didn't exist until today? staying in the cycle ensures that you'll be devoured by labor, until you get that "fuck you money." it's as if some guys "crushing it" really do believe that work will set them free, some day. it's just as said in "my dinner with andre":

> I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing that they’ve built—they’ve built their own prison—and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result they no longer have—having been lobotomized—the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or even to see it as a prison.

many techies are enormously proud of the addictive, attention-as-a-commodity prison they have built, that's kept people anxious and distracted and most assuredly unhappy. they're convinced that giving more of their labor is the answer; it is not.
Very useful app that made me easy to transfer and share
I think you're being excessively patronizing, which is insulting because I usually like your comments. I'm well-aware of "business fundamentals."

I'm not saying high-growth startups are better than other kinds of businesses. Heck, I'd very willingly advocate the view that other kinds of small businesses have better business fundamentals than tech startups.

Just because one pizzeria managed to scale doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of small businesses are not built to scale. Most small business owners think about how to grow 10-20% in the next year, not 100-200%. Heck, in my experience a lot of them are terrified of the concept of rapid growth.

Like I said in my comment, I don't really care if we use the term "startup" to refer to high-growth businesses or not. We should just all agree on a consistent set of terms and stick to that.

Otherwise you get unhelpful comments. Like I could talk about how my "startup" has reached profitability and 6 figures of revenue with only a single employee. Except this startup is my consulting business and has no business being lumped in with high-growth VC-funded companies.
I love the glitch aesthetic and hope to see it become a trend.
With a patent on a formulation and delivery method. Most patented drugs sell at huge multiples of production cost.
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04902
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Good and really useful app on the go for storage of data.
I have been thinking about it lately.

I am not including my judgement, as I do not have any, well, at least not a well reasoned one.

Disclaimer: I am man.

I try to list some of the possible fears related to this kind of drugs. Then it would be possible to discuss these.

1) Loosing control of emotions.

2) Permanent infertility.

3) Impotence (temporal or permanent).

4) Unknown risks.

Now these are simple straightforward issues that possibly could be resolved with additional research.

What will remain are more subtle issues. Nonetheless these could considerably affect the fabric of our society.

For example consider the situation where most women are fertile, most of the men have disabled themselves, some of men have kept themselves fertile.
Am I alone in the boat that feels that the way that async/await is implemented in JS is a little wonky? I kind of prefer that you can do `await asyncFunc(...)` without having to denote the function itself as `async`, but I don't like that you can just call the `asyncFunc` without `await` and it would still potentially do something. In Python, when you `await` something, it actually runs the code, whereas running the function by itself just returns a Future that hasn't been started.

I feel like it's less difficult to shoot yourself in the foot with Python's implementation, because you know that if you're calling an asynchronous function, you have to `await` it or it won't work and won't have side effects. In JS, you could call the async function without awaiting it and it could have side effects which could produce subtle bugs that aren't easy to find.
To validate a license key requires an active internet connection. There is no compilation or obfuscation because your app never contains any license keys directly. All of the logic is handled via the API. Validating a license would require performing a GET request to a users license validation endpoint.
Birth control responsibility always falls on the partner who really cares about its effectiveness. Trusting your partner is a non-starter, statistically, overall.
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This is in progress! We have it prototyped out in bootkube. This is the plan. :)
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This is par for the course around here.

If you ever forget that Russia is persecuted by the evil western media, just come to the HN comment section to be reminded.
Years is a strange unit of responsibility. What were the methods, how do they compare?

Some methods are ongoing maintenance with side effects, some are permanent with varying short-term side effects.
Its pretty backwards if you think about it, if the places you go or people you know or mistakes you make, can easily make you lose your security clearance and therefore your career could be ruined, it makes you much easier to blackmail than under a system that was more laissez-faire
It's hard to see Gulen as worse than Erdogan, who has invaded Iraq, oppressing his population, reignited war with and is killing Kurdish people, and building relations with Russia. He's outlawed criticism of himself and arrested people for it, shut down newspapers ...

> he has thoroughly cleaned ...

The upside to every dictator, with just different endings to the sentence. Too bad for the innocent people imprisoned, whose lives have been ruined. No problem for you and me, so it's a good thing.

Freedom and rights mean for everyone else; everyone believes in freedom for themselves.
Did you reply to the right person? Your reply does not seem to address anything that was said.
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OK. Just to clarify, there's no protection against a malicious user with the ability to remove these API calls from their copy of the app?
We expected better based on nostalgia for the generation of pre-hipster-run NPR
Isn't that what the Mac App Store has had for half a decade now?

It's the best of both worlds: A unified repository for OS updates and sandboxed third-party software that is guaranteed not to fuck up your system, while still being able to install from other sources with their own update mechanisms.

Now if only Apple worked on its UI and improved discoverability etc.
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'Grinding It Out' by Ray Kroc is without a doubt the best business founder autobiography I have ever read.
That is an application, not an issued patent. Whether a patent is granted remains to be seen.
Do any services exist that fill the niche of "I have built an API, and I now want to charge for it"? API tokens, billing, metrics, etc
If they can't patent it, and it's known to be cheap, it's a race to the bottom in terms of profits. A pill would be far more profitable. I don't think pharmaceuticals would be eager for anyone to find out about it if they can't control the money.
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Jennifer Widom's database course was part of the first three MOOCs offered in 2011, and I thought it was excellent also.
It's too small to have statistical confidence, and we shy away from experimenting directly on the suicide rate.
Any particular reason you didn't consider Drift?

Because, as I've outlined elsewhere in this thread, I'm an idiot who thought the name brand was a safe bet and didn't do enough research.

That said, most of the time it's mounted to the front crash bar or a saddlebag. Not a big fan of protrusions on my helmet.
It's 2016, being addicted to something that kills you (regardless of flavor), isn't cool anymore.
Would it integrate with my REST API? I'm already using JWT's in authentication headers... what, if any, changes to my existing login would be required?
The run up and aftermath of the iraq war was my breaking point. we need something different.
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Location Data company with some serious tech chops.
In case any code.gov website people are looking: there's an unfortunate bug: when the site is first loading on a slow network, you can see all the agency names and click them, but they all show text like "No repositories found." This made me think that this was a brand-new project that hadn't done anything yet.

Also, the little department logo images shouldn't have alt-text. That alt text of the department name overlays the actual text of the department name and just makes it even less accessible when the image isn't there.

(I suppose the lesson for web development in general is to test on a slow connection.)
You took the time to go search through those repos, and then took the time to come here and point out your findings.

You could have easily just copy pasted what you wrote here into an Issue on those repos.

It would have helped out your government, made these projects a tad bit better, and taught a few developers something they'll remember in the future when they write more software for the government.

It's part of the "spirit" if you will. Let's support these efforts - they're long overdue and difficult enough to get done for those few trying.
If you're a US citizen, vote for someone that will keep it going. Some have promised to undo a lot that the current administration has done, and this might be part of that.

I'm not aware of any free code from Trump so far, btw.

Also, when his campaign has tried to code, they fail:

http://qz.com/762424/trumps-campaign-donation-website-used-o...

"A programmer named Shu Uesugi, an engineer at a California company called EdSurge, discovered a major flaw with the way Trump’s website was using jQuery. Instead of downloading the open-source code from GitHub and running it off a server they controlled, the developers who built Trump’s website simply ran the code off GitHub directly, Uesugi found.

While the code’s location might seem like a minor detail, running it off GitHub meant that the person who controlled the code on GitHub could change the code at his whim, and those changes would take hold on Trump’s website. Since GitHub is for open-source projects, it also meant that any user could submit a request to modify the code and impact Trump’s website, if the change was approved by the plug-in’s author, a developer in Lisbon named Igor Escobar."

Then Igor tweeted about how he could have modified it: https://twitter.com/igorescobar/status/766367306662440960?re...
Mobile websites are fine for reading text. I find that with any website I visit repeatedly-- say IMDB-- I download the app.

People who talk down app always site that most people regularly use 3-4 apps. But then most people (not the ones on this site) probably regularly only visit 3-4 web pages.
> Thanks! So were you able to get a usable result on Nexus 5? Sounds like it's the best candidate for this task. Do you plan to continue that effort, or there are some blockers that you couldn't resolve?

Not really there are not much important blocker to get DRM working, however main thing is I don't really have free time to continue that effort.
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Four years of infertility is probably one of the easier things you should be able to do in life.
You can fit your work into a fraction of a typical workweek and still maintain a 1950s-esque lifestyle. But the job market frowns on people working less than 40 hours per week, so if you want to go this route, the thing to do is work full time, save, live frugally and retire early. It's not the easiest thing to do, but it is possible. I know because I did it, retiring at 34.
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Great review. For the first time I want to upgrade my GoPro. If it now has good low light video capture, it would be the perfect camera.
>If you have a good app or a good site, people will pay via ads or subs.
Claiming to change computing forever. It's put up or shut up time for magic leap.

And forbes, preventing me from visiting a site with adblock means I'll never use the site.
Oh this is absolutely brilliant! So with the kubelet + systemd, you more or less have self managed everything. Shutup and take my money :)
Honestly everyone is pulling back a tad from the beach itself in Venice/Santa Monica so it's probably better to call it Silicon del Rey.
I was thinking more in terms of realizing signals are actual electrical nodes, not location in memory, separating the design in combinations and sequential parts and choosing the right size of buffer going from one clock domain to another and stuff like that. When I see examples of verilog online, it seems like most people have no concept of these core things
Actually, I think he meant it literally:

http://www.earthkind.com/blog/fact-or-fiction-do-mice-really...
I'm not a practicing clojure dev, javascript by day, clojure by night.
>Speaking as somebody who really liked his Monotrons until the novelty wore off [...] and I sold them at a terrible loss

"Terrible loss"? They were some of the cheapest synths out there, less than what people pay for coffee in a week.
Yes. What prevents cracking is the fact that license keys can only be created if you are either an authenticated user of the account or authenticated with a product API token. In order to create a license crack, you would have to obtain a valid API key for that specific account. Everything with the API is done over the wire, meaning there are no public/private keys within your app to crack.
Ow
One of the developers explain why it's faster than atom, basically the are using different threads for different things and many optimization on viewbox

https://vimeo.com/174657014
Take a look at what the purpose of government should be. We are mostly continuing policies of old kingdoms. Instead of organizing in a way to optimize for good development and peaceful lives for citizens, most democratic governments are trying to destabilize even other democratic governments. By definition a democracy is government by the people and those in power are doing stuff on behalf of their citizens. So citizens need to keep an eye on what their government does. Otherwise they are equally responsible for the atrocities carried by their government. Now for citizens to know what their government is doing, there should be transparency. The information should not be lies and opinion noise instead of facts and truths. There shouldn't be media disinformation. Those resorting to that shouldn't go scott free. Basically every human wants to live well. Have systems in place that optimize for well being of all. Thats the world I dream.
Their new product looks great. Time to buy (stocks:-).
How many of us do you think could work 32 hours a week on a single income to support a family, a home loan, a car, etc?
Is this validation actually performant or secure? It seems like if you implement this on the client side, you end up using JavaScript and the client can just run code that patches the call to the server to have it always pass. Then if you implement this on the server side, then you pay a latency penalty for every request, as you have to verify the token sent to your server against the keygen.sh server.

It seems like this is either insecure or you pay an RTT latency penalty on every authenticated request. Is this correct? Is there something I'm missing here?
And even worse, you have to download the font every time you load a different page using it, whereas you only have to download the browser once
I am old. I remember PS/2 ports, printer ports, 5 1/4" drives, etc. I remember people complaining when the iMac didn't have a floppy. Trust me, this is different. I use HDMI and the common form factor USB every day. It's hard to know what is bad about them. Yes some guy on hacker news can tell you something bad about them, but to the average consumer they are great.

It is true that Apple has forced users to accept some upgrades that were good in the long run. But this is Apple forcing users to give up on many connector types that are extremely common and useful without a compelling benefit.
Correct. There's really no way around that being a possibility, especially if you're using web technologies.
> This is the absolute best way of presenting web content. No one will complain.

Not sure if this is a joke or not, most people would complain.
It might be permanent infertility.
I have never been fed up with holidays. Do you get bored without work?
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Very good app and very friendly. We can access our easily every where and can share also from anywhere in device
From the visual studio code developer: https://vimeo.com/174657014
Yes, you can integrate Keygen using your own user authentication system. You would do so by associating user-less licenses with your app's user models. Instead of using Keygen to manage your users, you would only use it to manage licenses.
Thanks for the good response. I've been quite aware of these things for sometime, but how to communicate and build awareness to an already hopelessly anxious and distracted populous?

That seems to be the trouble.
The game is rigged)) this is à textbook catch-22 situation
Meh, I am buying some shares of FitBit and GoPro tomorrow as either could get acquired or bust, but at > 25% discounts i'll take that risk as the potential upside is too good to miss. Purely speculation on my part
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I agree. It just fail at low light. But now I travel just with the GoPro and my phone. Nothing heavy anymore.
They can't patent it very easily if someone else invented it. Otherwise you'd see people trying to patent 'formulations' of their competitors' drugs all the time.

Even if they could patent a formulation, someone else can always jump in with a slightly different formulation at half the price.
Under the Department of Commerce - unsurprisingly - there is nothing from IRS.

A bit more surprising and entirely missing from the list (no source code):

* Department of Education
* Department of Health and Human Services
* Department of Housing
* Department of Interior
* State Department
* Department of Transportation

And not really expecting anything from:
* Department of Defense
* Department of Homeland Security
Suppose you have a fairly interesting business but your tech needs are 'boring' -- you might have a few unique problems but nothing really interesting enough for a talented engineer that's mostly driven by problem solving. What can you do to attract that kind of engineering talent?

You could offer them money, or equity, or perks, but the kinds of people you really want would happily take a QoL and pay cut for more stimulating work -- the kind of work that puts them at the forefront of their field -- the kind of work they could write blog posts and give conference lectures about. So you offer them creative freedom, let them pick their own stack, let them use the new trendy framework, let them set up a fancy build and deployment pipeline even though you're a small shop, let them use their favorite language that they never get to use outside of personal projects. Let them solve your boring problems in fancy, clever, maybe a little over-engineered, but fun ways that also make you, the business, look like you're up to date, modern, and ahead of your competition.
in the morning to find that it rebooted and is now idling at the login screen

You know what really turns my hair gray about this, I mean aside from losing the state of all my open apps, is that when I actually do want to shutdown a Windows computer it almost always seems to not shutdown because some open program is blocking shutdown with a dialogue box asking if I want to save my work or if I really want to quit.
> the existing company culture of Taylorism and sales where managers are worshipped for decision making.

Is there an actual word for this type of management stupidity?