skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also assuming you live close enough to your parents that you can go over and physically revive a bricked computer.
The Chinese government actually has very little incentive to allow foreign internet companies inside China. By restricting outside companies they do the following

1. Reduce the ability of outsiders to influence their people

2. Avoid Arab Spring like events where because the companies are foreign, the coordinating network is opaque to the government

3. Allow the domestic internet companies a chance to grow and develop without competition from established foreign companies

4. Retain and develop talent and technology (ie big data, machine learning) domestically

Because China has such a large population, they can easily develop and sustain their own internal internet industry without needing Western/American companies.

I think the Snowden leaks showed that the Internet has been weaponized by the United States and having American companies controlling large services like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter gives the US government a massive trove of intelligence. It also enables them to influence citizens of other countries. I think a lot of countries in the near future will see the Internet as essential to their national security and thus try to limit foreign influence as much as they can with varying degrees of success
Only some can be blocked. Unfortunately Android still groups permissions together, and all related permissions must be enabled or disabled as a block. (For instance, storage read and write permissions are technically separate, but they are placed together in a single "storage" group.)

Most (all?) permissions in the catch-all "other" group cannot be disabled at all.
What, exactly, do you think Hong Kong could possibly do to preserve their freedoms? China has been moving its citizens over to Hong Kong for a decade now, citizens who answer to the Communist Party and vote Communist in all matters. How many more years do you think they'll have to do that before the people who grew up in the old system are completely outvoted in every matter?

I'll all for standing up to the man, but let's get real, this battle is unwinnable. Even if all of Hong Kong decided to really start fighting to preserve their way of life, China would just declare martial law and that will be that.
This makes no sense. AWS can give you IPv4 elastic IPs, which provide end-to-end addressing on IPv4. IPv6 will be no different in this regard.

"End-to-end addressing" is typically an end user issue, where end users use NAT. In the early days of the internet, nobody used NAT.
I find it funny that people complain about paying for their news, when large newspapers for the longest time weren't (and still are not) free...
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Very true. There is a lot of information we re missing to just say all german auto makers are making the wrong decision. They could as well time their entry into EV market in order to make the most of it. Wait for battery price to go cheaper, infrastructure to get better and so on.
Just waith and see.
You can't steal what is freely given away!

I hate when people claim using BSD licensed code is stealing. It's not just a lie, it's a total perversion of freedom itself.
Not the PP, but though I have never come across anything substantive, there have been persistent rumors that Google M&A (and other) folks trawl through GMail to gain competitive advantages and negotiating leverage, particularly vs. startups.

OTOH, the rumors are most often of the "my 2nd cousin's mother-in-law's half-brother's secretary's boyfriend's ex-husband" variety, ie. not even anonymous 1st hand claims.

Anecdotally, these rumors seem to most often be spread by Enterprise SaaS salespeople.
This is good advice in principle but my parents are from a different world they grew up in a world without fridges, TVs or electronics.

I am all for them learning and making their own mistakes but I know them well enough to know that this wouldn't really work in their case - I know them well enough that ultimately they want something that just works with minimal effort, the stakes are also high in that I don't want them bricking a PC (100s of $) or getting hit by identity fraud.

I'd go mac if my dad didn't hate it so much.
I grew up in a tier-2 city in India, and the amount of black money rich people hoard around here is of ginormous proportions. Easily > 50% of the income for most rich folks.

Can't wait to see how this unfolds.
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Ha ha ha, did you interview with them, too?
Ah I was not aware of that, thank you!
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My Windows 10 Telemetry settings really look "open by default"...
I am currently working on experimental Linux distribution for my parents that would be a bit ChromeOS-like.

Ideally for my mom ChromeOS device would be ideal. For my dad it would be not enough as it seems in your case. Maintaining my parents computer is something that always gets back to me. Now I am also living few hours worth of travel from them so it is even less convenient.

Older computer couldn't handle Ubuntu of the time. So always something was not working correctly. Updates on every system are constant source of headaches. My dad got used, but much more powerful machine. I installed Windows 10 for them thinking that Windows is now better and that with perpetual updates it will be out of trouble for me. I installed also Chrome Remote Desktop for service. My dad preferred Linux experience. I hoped that he just needs to get used to it. He was happy with Windows Store for a while, until few of the games he enjoyed playing failed in strange ways. It would not be that bad, but updates on Windows 10 are huge and with 20-30GB free space left after installation it does not update anymore. It only downloads the update, tries to update and fails - on every reboot. My dad bought an external HDD so probably it could be resolved. However he still would like to have Linux in there - old computer was very slow, but it did not fail in such magical ways. For now I plan to install Ubuntu for him and see how it will behave.

For my own learning experience and a bit of enjoyment I started working on my own Linux distribution. The most important thing for me is to have hassle-free updates like on Chromebook. I prepared squashfs image with Firefox and intend to have two partition scheme for rootfs. Updates would be then just download and restart away - completely automatic and in case of failure you would still have previous working image. I could test the image locally and optimize it for fun and profit. For now I base it on Gentoo to build lean system in a similar fashion to ChromeOS build.

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500 rupees = $7.52, 1000 rupees = $15.05

These are not large denomination bills.
This reminded me, I grew up with not only ozone but also acid rain as the environmental disasters of the day (born in '82; grew up in Ohio). I don't hear about either anymore.

Am I not paying attention? Are they not getting attention? Or as you said "did we do something, so a disaster did not happen"?
I'm currently using Nightmare for a little automation. It's fantastic. A few small gotchas, but so easy to set up.
The expectation I set when going on HN is that my fellow commenters will have better sense, both socially and semiotically, than to use /r9k/ memes like "normie". I doubt I am alone in this.
I agree with you, that is not a tiny clown car. For the first time seeing it on photos I thought the same, but when you put it next to other cars, it looks surprisingly big (however, I have never tried it if its interior is also so roomy as it looks like):

i3 vs BMW 1 coupe: http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/i3-active-e....

i3 vs Mercedes B class: http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/201...

i3 vs Chevy Volt: http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_20140817...

i3 vs Tesla Model S: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-po2qhio3MHg/U-PtBsekEMI/AAAAAAAAFx...
Why are xkcd mentions on HN always prefixed with Obligatory?
As far as circuits go, this is about the closest high school Physics gets to truth (and it's decently close, compared to how wrong it gets e.g. capacitors):

> In high school they told me, no no, they don't move at the speed of light, just when one electron enters the conductor, another one on the other side will leave the conductor, like with peas in a straw. And this enter/leaf is at the speed of light.

although "entering" and "exiting" the conductor isn't really a good description.

A better way to think about it is that "conductor" is really just slang for "material that has a bunch of free electrons and very little room for more". This is the "sea of electrons" that Beaty talks about. It makes sense that, if all this sea flows steadily (i.e. at the same rate throughout the conductor), forcing a change in the rate of flow in one part of the conductor will be felt almost immediately in another part of the conductor, no matter how distant, even if the flow itself is extremely slow.

(If you're thinking that this is only true if the "pipe" through which the "sea" flows is full, you're right, this is how free electrons behave in conductors; that's why Beaty insists that a good analogy for a conductor is "like a pipe which is already full of water".

> At university they told me, no no, you got it all wrong, it's about the electro static and electro dynamic fields which stand orthogonal on each other and produce electro magnetic waves... what?!

If they taught you that, they are most definitely wrong, it sounds loosely like induction, but with two strange names instead of "electric" and "magnetic" :-).

This is a better description of the physical reality, and it does help you understand circuits better if you think about it, but not in a very practical manner.
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Enjoying doing something as an hobby is completely different than enjoying it as a career.

What people like is the 'creative part' associated with a skill. When you do something as a career, most of your time will be used dealing with the 'boring part'.
I think we are doing a disservice if we restrict this question to only refer to the standard malware/technological attacks. The real space for risk to our parents goes beyond damage to the computer or identity theft. There's some seriously weird content on the internet -- and some seriously strange ways it can interact with our parents aging brains.

I had an "oh shit" moment when my mom described a website that added automated popups over a text editor field -- as she typed it would periodically throw up a pop up with encouraging commentary and editing advice "good idea, can you elaborate" etc -- and it took her a long time to realize that the intellectual/emotional support she was feeling wasn't actually coming from anywhere ... she also got severely addicted to the political campaigns and facebook -- and ended up with a news feed that absolutely barraged her with a constant stream of fake political news stories ... got her down from her 4-6 hours per day of internet usage but it was so fast -- really scary stuff.
mineral rights are a helluva drug.
I wish someone would invent a device that would allow me to roll my eyes even harder at these X is the next Silicon Valley stories.

"The Midwest and Ohio in particular has always had three things going for it in terms of business climate: a cheap, close supply of energy, access to transportation, and a highly trained work force."

And yet the technologically inclined flee for the coasts, where life is expensive. The next Silicon Valley isn't going to be in Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, Kansas; it's probably not going to be in Illinois. It's going to be somewhere with high amenity value to highly productive technical people; i.e., a big international city.
Adding cars affects throughput, not latency. For goods that doesn't matter much (hyperloop seems like a bad idea for goods anyway) but for passengers it could make a world of a difference.
Here are your options:

Revoke local admin privileges. It will stop a lot of the click-click to install bullshit, but it also means you will get a lot of calls about "access denied" whenever they want to update an app that needs admin rights. Give them an admin account to install/update software separate from their normal account.

Simplify the device by going tablet/chromebook. Probably means you will get a lot of questions regarding how to use/setup the new OS.

Shorten the loop on backup/rebuild and let them hit the iceberg. Good backups and fast imaging with drivers pre-loaded can make cleanup a lot easier/faster.
Looks delicious, like a low-rent cheesesteak.

The sandwich I wish would grow some legs is the ham hoagie. Apparently this is a sandwich that only exists in north-western Maine (I've never been able to find it anywhere else), but it is simple, cheap and delicious. Take a sub roll, and load it up with provolone cheese, sliced ham, and bacon, optionally some mustard and mayo, and toast it until the cheese melts.
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.2.4 released
My wife and I often joke that my exit plan is to become a goat farmer. I'm not sure she realizes I'm at least half-serious.

Good to hear that someone successfully did that!
No can do. You're officially not allowed to remove rupees from India as far as I know: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/N...
“There was no story at Microsoft for other platforms back in the day. But the world is full of heterogeneous connections now and I think Scott Guthrie [now Microsoft’s lead on Azure cloud platform] helped drive a lot of the openness. Microsoft is now open by default and you actually have to make a case on a team/peer review level if you feel something needs to be closed,” said de Icaza."

So it seems "new" projects not older ones are "open by default" with a caveat. That's still a lot better than they used to be.
It could be like email, except with libsignal as its base. Federation definitely drove email to be as big as it is today, and it has made server reliability a non-issue (your server holds the message until the other server is online).

XMPP itself is huge, GCM is essentially just a frontend for it. Conversations is smaller than Signal in part due to Signal being around since 2011, and Conversations being created in 2014, and also Signal gaining many high profile endorsements, from Snowden to Hillary. Still, Signal is microscopic compared to Whatsapp.
Agree, it wasn't islamophobia but mostly conservative Islam. Time changes, Islam has to adapt and get rid of his aggressiveness, and only after that people would be able to get rid of the phobia.
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And ML can be a bit of a black box like that. Google knows what kind of ads to likely work, but that doesn't mean they have an explicit binary judgement or cluster figured out on any one of the dimensions.
If you want to learn more about Julia, here are Julia Conf videos / slides from past years:

* http://juliacon.org/2014/

* http://juliacon.org/2015/

* Julia Con 2015 India - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL279M8GbNseuhXmZk9rWM...
It could also be people who had a /wonderful/ easy voting experience, and heard from some guy who reads HN that 'voter intimidation' was a trending search term, so decided to search and see what the fuss was about...
In a conversation like this I read it as a short-hand for "average non-techical user" that's less directly insulting than "lusers". I'd probably just say "normal user" or "average user" myself, but I don't find it name-calling in context.
This is relevant to practically using Signal but not actually to it's security.
People gotta stop fighting their tools.

The problems encountered in these two articles are similar to problems that used to plague me. I would want to get something in C++ that was like the way I thought it was done right in Modula-3. The C++ feature was almost but not quite enough like M3 to make it work. I would get frustrated and say that everyone was a moron and programming is doomed. Sometimes I'd even drop the project entirely. This sort of thinking made it impossible for me to use MFC.

At some point I just realized I needed to get along. Working in Java (1.1), I started doing things with heavy boilerplate if it was required. You simply can't use a tool against how it was designed. I guess Elm doesn't have the word "opinionated" in its documentation enough, because that's what saved Rails. People would be like "DB2 doesn't do those big column names" and Rails people would be like, "Yup. We're opinionated about databases too." Nevertheless, if you don't fight the basics of the system, you get stuff done quickly.
They are, however, the largest denomination bills.
28 of the latter make up an average Indian's monthly income. It's more significant than $100 is for Americans.
Yes, but mobile phones even more so (e.g., the push to IPv6 in iOS 9: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=05042016a)
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Microsoft embraces open source because they found out that there are other methods to monetize and lock in customers. As a bonus people seem to like you when you give them stuff for free, even with the catch of privacy invasion.

In other words, they stopped copying Apple and switched their sights on Google.

The stuff that matters stays closed source. Infrastructure, tooling are published because they bring massive amounts of goodwill and developer mindshare while hindering potential competitors that now have to battle with a free offering.

Frankly I preferred the old Microsoft which wanted your money, not the new one that (also!) wants your data.
>Once people realize you're "different", you get the "poor boy treatment" and that hurts.

Or worse, once you're pegged as a hopeless geek then people tend to walk all over you and you're not seen as the kind of person who advances, becomes management, etc. You're a freakshow human resource to perform labor that, unfortunately needs to be done, until everything can be a one-click cloud solution.

I make a very special effort to hide whatever geeky qualities I have. I think ultimately a lot of geek culture is manboy-ish and the kinds of people who let all of that loose at work are seen as childish or immature, right or wrong. Sadly, those of us into things like hard sci-fi or DIY maker stuff get lumped in with the guy who still buys Superman comics at age 40 or thinks over-sexualized fan-service anime is humanity's highest artistic calling.
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It is out of place on HN.
In India they are. How is conversion to $ relevant?

PS: Denomination is face value and 500 and 1000 are the largest in Indian currency, so you are also wrong from use of the word.
What a nice trick! This news shall get dominated at several countries over the US election news.
Very similar here. Got a Chromebase for my Mum (77) who has previously had an original iMac (she loved) and a Windows 7 PC (which she tolerated). Both iMac and PC had issues, and I'd often have to fix stuff. There was a bit of a learning curve for her (cloud print is a mystery to her, not helped by it breaking about 2 weeks in and needing a powerwash to sort that), and she couldn't have Skype on it which was the one initial sticking point, but since her getting going with it I've not had any issues.

Indeed, a couple of weeks ago when she thought she'd killed it because she'd fallen for clickbait that then said she had viruses on the computer, she was pleasantly surprised that powering it up again showed it was fine. For the £220 it cost, it was money well spent - she can do what she needs/wants to online without issues, and TBH I think that a LOT of "normal computer use" people would be better off with one rather than the PC they think they need (usually when asked it turns out that internet and email with the odd bit of word processing and printing is what people do).
Haven't you ever been surprised to find out that someone didn't like you?
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“We find that we have nothing left behind, no ‘mind-stuff’ out of which the emotion can be constituted.”

This is Holmes at work. "Emotion" is a social construct and a rationalization after the fact. What we have is a sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system that react to instinctual stimulus and its derivatives, and streams of consciousness that instantly try to rationalize those reactions. Theory-theory has no physical basis.
I wish this were normalized by electoral college size, it would go part-way to normalizing by population but also be normalized with respect to impact on outcome.
They may not be hurting me directly, but there are certainly people who are being hurt by lack of access to GMOs because of anti-GMOers. Golden rice could help a great many people, but activists against it have helped make sure it doesn't.

Their fear has not been without a human cost.
Because it's one of the Laws of the Internet that there is a relevant XKCD for every topic. The prefix "obligatory" means "it obviously should be here already, but for some reason it isn't".

XKCDs are also sometimes prefixed with "relevant", for obvious reasons.
I've read similar sentiments here for almost nine years - Hey, I like it here! And now that I'm here, I don't want it to change! But I don't think that's how healthy communities work.
The point is that the options are not binary as proposed by the post I was responding to.

I'd argue the third option, which I proposed, is adequate, and the best if only because it includes hope over the long-term.
Julia is a very interesting language but big data processing is not a matter of the programming language itself, but how your platform and your architecture is put together.

And nearly always your bottleneck is not the language itself..
If only we could depend on version numbering schemes to actually have meaning.
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By allowing their bureaucrats free rein to terrorize local businesses and extract mob-style protection payments, among other things. Excessive regulation. Basic, garden-variety corruption. Same stuff that goes on in every other autocratic country the world over.

Right now, Hong Kong is way too valuable as an economic engine, but the political dangers are more pressing to the CCCP. So the government will clamp down on freedoms as best they can until the citizens can't take it anymore, then keep beating the horse until it's dead.

You should read the book The Dictator's Handbook if you want to understand it better.

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
Anyone used Julia for something approaching HPC, e.g. in a distributed environment instead of MPI?

I've heard plenty of buzz about it in the HPC community but haven't had a moment to play with it yet.
You are missing the point. He was elevated to the status of a grand visionary from just an billionaire entrepreneur, with these big, grand "ideas"...
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I made myself admin and my dad a regular user so he'd stop installing malware. So he threw out his computer and bought another one...
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The duplication is a minor concern the major concern is lost income tax revenue due to an underground cash economy. By restricting numbet of 500 and 2000 notes and forcing owner declare assets it put massive pressure on the black money.
Who did you contact first about the issue? A regular doctor, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist?
1. Uber: ~$250-300 a month

2. Rent the Runway: $150 a month

3. Laundry: ~$40 a month + Dry cleaning (can be the in 100s)

4. Water is payed for by the building, electricity averages $100 a month.

5. Food: This one is tougher. If I order pad thai, I can eat it for two days and its $6 a day. If I order lobster pasta, its $40 and I eat it all right then! According to mint I spend $500 a month on average. But some of what I pay for is in cash so it could be more.

It's definitely not cheaper to live like this but it's much less friction! :)