skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treat them the same way we treat the unlicensed farmers who have just as much ability to taint their products...?
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Only because I would like a few more benefits with my job (health insurance, free gym)
The more I know... the more I know what I don't know. That always drops my confidence. I'm NEVER going to catch up!

But... I show up and get it done to the best of my ability.
I think that was their thought process. My personal Github is a bit of a graveyard/dumping ground but I saw this as a wakeup call and got rid of a bunch of forked repos and combined some unfinished projects into other repos.
I guess you mean the API-Gates + Lambda. Not sure - I think thats something that should be handled by some separate tool (APIGatesgger? ;) - lets hope its not another dirty word)
This is actually quite useful if you're doing day-to-day forensic work and are trying to de-obfuscate code or are creating proof of concepts.

The interface is really slick and it lets you create an infinite number of recipes/permutations.

String processing is much of what we do in security.

Yay for GCHQ. You'll find me at the bottom of this page due to an omission of obligatory IC bashing and Snowden fanboyism.
To your point, Airbnb bucks the trend you identified by making travel more affordable and accessible. It's also far and away the most successful company listed.
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Alright, both of you folks are absolutely correct - 'think of the children', in the context of 'is X safe for children?' is an appropriate use of same. Snark retracted :-)
So that's why the IRS went after them, instead of the Koch brothers?

No, not even close. It was the first serious, spontaneous, "modern era?"; let's say, 21st Century grassroots reaction to the crimes of our ruling class, and was, as I noted, brutally suppressed (really, you think Koch brothers were paying all those people to rally, and to pick up their trash after they were finished???).

Now the reaction is Trump. If he fails, the ruling class will like what comes next even less, and things will start to edge to existential for them, "history history is the graveyard of aristocracies" and all that. One reason their freak-outs are intensifying.

And, yes, I'm now shifting a bit and focusing more on the wider ruling class than the political "establishment" per se, for that's really what we're fighting, much of what's wrong with today's America doesn't emit from the halls of the Congress, the decisions of the Supremes, etc. etc.

For example, suppose the press had treated this actual IRS suppression like they treated Nixon's asking the IRS to attack his enemies, which they of course refused to do.

(Note the wording of the articles of impeachment, that which he "endeavoured" to do, vs. actually did: http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment (this is something I followed in real time back then...), or e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon's_Enemies_List#Purpose Nixon was not popular or powerful enough to carry this off.)
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No its definitely impossible and a tax refund can only get I series paper bonds unless its changed yet again. Also the rigged CPI-U is lower than the real world inflation rate, so you're basically buying a piece of paper for $100 today that can be sold for $90 years later plus you get to pay federal income tax on the inflation protection part (So $100 stuck in a mattress would be worth $80 in a couple years so you get to pay $10 worth of income tax).
Hah. You are right :P I will fix.
My brothers and I alleviated that feeling by not giving each other stuff anymore.

Maybe a knickknack or a tchotchke, just not "things we would each go ahead and buy if we wanted them".
And then you have to have a clue about what you're going to do that won't blow through your nest egg before you're pushing daisies because if you try to re-enter the job market 15 years on it will only be to say Welcome to Walmart!
Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV’s Mount Chiliad
My background is in k12 education. I would love to hear from folks with higher education teaching experience on what level of training and/or expectation is involved in their curriculum and instructional design.

My anecdotal experience as a once-ago student and now teacher is that significantly more consideration goes into k12 instructional practices compared to higher education.

Perhaps it's merely a matter of student expectations aligning instructor incentives: in k12, I am being held accountable for the educational progress/lack of progress in my students regardless of ability and background, but in higher education this is not the focus of accountability. Other concerns take priority - so instructional practices tend to be traditional and, consequently, are shared less frequently?
Probably-not-hypothetical case:

Tensions rise with Russia over Ukraine/Syria/Baltics/Eastern Europe/etc. The Pentagon draws up contingency plans for responding to an armed conflict in any one of those areas.

When questioned by a reporter, the White House responds "We have no plans to go to war with Russia."

Should the White House Press Secretary go to jail?

I sympathize with the information-libertarian position that holds that all information should be free, truthful, & accessible to everyone. But there's a really big pragmatic problem in that when individual soundbites are pulled out and shared, they lose context. People don't understand the circumstances behind the facts, and they bring all of their own prejudices and emotions along. Oftentimes, reporting the truth brings about a worse outcome (in some cases, a disastrous outcome) than lying to the public.

It's not just the government either - corporations, institutions, and individuals lie all the time too, and often for good reasons. I was a Google employee when the Nexus line was under development, and I knew that the official press statement of "We are not and have no plans to develop a phone" was false. The reason for it was that if news of the Nexus line leaked, it would've jeopardized supplier relationships such that there wouldn't be a phone. In some cases you can actually get into logical paradoxes where a statement is true only if everyone believes that it is false and vice versa.
that's right swagger -> api gateway triggering lambda functions.

I was using Chalice but seems like Zappas is another one a HNer pointed out. I couldn't get Chalice to work and sort of gave up on the serverless-api-gatway-lambda idea.
"Yoshi brings the gas station to your gift recipient, refueling their car regularly wherever it's parked. Any commuters on your list will thank you for removing the hassle of the gas station from their lives forever."

I get it, filling up your car is a chore, if your time is super valuable... whatever. It's hard to fill the YC portfolio every year with only companies working on "big problems", I'm sure. But it really does feel like "Valley bullshit". I hope it was pitched as "disrupting the archaic gasoline distribution system - we're going to do to fossil fuels what Amazon did for books & movies".

(I will have a good laugh if this dismissive comment is pulled up years from now as an example of "another negative Hacker News post about a now-hugely successful company")
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The funny thing about the H1B program is that the majority of people who voted for Trump or vote for the Republicans rarely ever talk about it. It's always fear of some Mexican teenager trying to "steal" some low wage agriculture job. It never seems to enter the minds of the conservatives that the facts of immigration aren't what they make it out to be. Specifically, that illegal immigrants are the least significant factor in depressed wages. H1B is a larger factor in this regard. So, it's funny that Trump's the only candidate in a long time to raise this issue. Too bad he's utter crap on the rest of his politics.
Your first statement is pretty false, even in Rust (for example). Unless you mean something else by "buffer overflow" than I'm accustomed to.
I'm aware, but I think I was unclear - that's what prompted my comment on professionals knowing this already.

My complaint was more that this is another entry in the pattern of handing people black boxes labeled "this does cryptography!", without offering any plain-English explanation of what they're actually getting.

It felt particularly important to me here because it's a comparatively new initiative, and the caveat went on the Readme (seen by users who already know) but not the About (targeting users who might not).
If you go down to the right and click on the "Used & New (161) from $xx.yy" link, you can see the individual sellers including notes from them about origin and where it ships from.

The bigger problem for some of these is actually going to be with anything "Fulfilled by Amazon" because there's some chance that the products with identical numbers will be mingled in Amazon's warehouses. Never having sold through them, does supposedly-identical stock get mingled like that? I think that was one of the problems people were having with counterfeiting.
Apple’s New OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
At least in computer science their are strong forums for this. http://sigcse.org/sigcse/
I read through the archives of some Russian world traveller's extensive photo blog a couple years back, and I remember him commenting more than once that one of the most striking things about the US is how many posted regulations and notices there are compared to other countries. None but a couple other countries (I think Australia was one) were similar to the US in that regard.
> I do not feel like the FOSS community is a "burden," however I do wish they recognized that many of their desires are unique to a very small minority of Signal users. I wish that they'd take more responsibility for manifesting those desires themselves.
> This is the second time in two months that someone from the FOSS scene has written up a list of complaints, but as far as I know, in neither case have the authors ever contributed anything to Signal in an effort to meet their own needs.

I think that the interest in the FOSS community is relatively low given the centralized format in which Signal is offered. I know many people who are deeply into FOSS who would love an alternative to IRC but cannot be found even using Signal. But "their own needs" are completely out of bounds for you, and it seems pretty clear that this isn't something that's going to be fixed in patches and code, so expecting them to come and fix it because you have an open code base is rather disingenuous.

If you started by promoting Signal as a generic protocol or backend to other projects, it would get much more traction in the FOSS community, as they are attracted to components on which other things can be built.

You can claim that this is a reason to ignore the criticism. But, you will always be right in dismissing critiques like this as you've set up the environment in a way which limits the kind of constructive collaboration that is the hallmark of FOSS.

You will probably say this is not true and cite existing public contribution to the project. But what I am saying is that the interest and contribution would be orders of magnitude larger if you really ran the project in a traditionally open way. One hallmark of this would be federation. Whether or not this makes sense practically (the gmail metaphor applies obviously), it is something that people want an need to order to feel they have ownership of their work on a messaging platform. You're simply not going to talk your way out of this.

For human and community reasons, the upside to federation is probably a lot higher than you appreciate. I hope you consider it. You have built a nice platform, but for your work to make a lasting impact you need to share it with others.
Also, the standard Hollywood tropes weren't as bad as they could be, but still distracting. Does every film featuring the military need a painfully one-dimensional rude hawkish general who inexplicably wants to attack the enemy in every situation?

It's been a long time since I've read the short story, but to me the alien contact part of the story wasn't really the primary point, it was primarily a tool to tell the actual story.

However, in the movie adaptation, the alien contact story has been elevated in importance to be co-equal with the, umm, other part of the story. I think that's a reasonable thing for the movie adaptation to do.

The downside of the alien contact plot in the movie, is, as you say pretty trope-y, but if you think of it as a plot device to get to the real meat of the story, then maybe that's not such a big deal.
> People also need to realize, college instructors aren't paid to teach.

I understand that this is the prevailing attitude, but it is not true. If they were not paid to teach, there would be no consequences for them failing to provide lectures—i.e., they would not be fired—then instructors would simply not show up. It's not volunteer work.

As a former academic, I can tell you the sad truth is that most instructors simply do not care about that aspect of their jobs and phone it in. I think it's probably more accurate to say that there is no reward for being a good, caring instructor (and vice versa, no real punishment for being a lazy or ineffectual instructor).
Hackers suspected as 900,000 hit by internet outage
Some evidence to the contrary - Deutsche Telekom has already released a firmware update, and as they control the ecosystem they can likely deliver it down to their customers through a forced reboot. I'm not sure giving up control in this case is actually a benefit.
Couldn't you just give kids prepaid Visa/MC cards instead?

And I'm not from the US, but the idea of school-age kids not having their own cards sounds a little funny to me.
Open source has won. Microsoft surrendered
I think you shouldn’t open random UDP ports to outside world in the first place
Thanks for pointing out the threat. It was not immediately clear to me why anyone would ban magnets. I hope people who make toys out of those come up with clever ways to educate parents about their danger.
Fascinating. Is there a book that you recommend to read more about this?
The Magician of Manga
What a joke. There needs to be criminal liability for this. No authentication, authorization, identification? Data passed straight to exec() and fucking backticks are executed?
> People also need to realize, college instructors aren't paid to teach. They're paid to research and so of course they'll be lazy on sharing what they've learned from teaching.

Tenure-track professors are rewarded mostly based on research, but many classes are taught by lecturers, instructors, adjuncts, and other non-tenure-track teaching staff. These people should care about teaching efficacy, though they are often overworked (see below) so perhaps they just don't have time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/the-college-facult...

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/the-cos...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/24/exploi...
Do you have any data to back up the idea that touch input is not used commonly on hybrid devices running Windows? I'd love to see that data, because I don't believe it exists. There's a difference between running windows in "tablet mode" and just using touch casually as an input. I never put my Surface in tablet mode, but I have set my parents to always be in tablet mode because it's the only mode of operation they use. I dock my Surface and use it as my work station, but when I'm at home I use it strictly as a tablet. I have a strong feeling that others do similar.

I also don't buy your notion that this is a "toasterfridge" solution. That's an Apple talking point.
Even with the best VR set-up that would be feasible at home, I'd need somewhere to go where my 2 year old isn't screaming, and somewhere better than my bed to sit and work all day. And to go in to the office when any of the machines lose connectivity.

I'd still have to go somewhere besides my home every day (hoping for a remote VR work office in walking distance), and some days I'd need to commute anyhow.
I'm sure he means infscroll using keyset pagination.

The UX, as noted, is ugly - have to somehow support scrolling in both directions with some sort of lazy-loading - but pagination in this context doesn't === offset-based pagination.
Related: a lot of people I talk to on Slack/text/etc seem to think most sentences should end in ellipses
Brexit negotiators identify UK’s aces in the hole
...So, anybody up for a game of Druids and Dicotyledons?

Yes, everyone else already linked the strip, but I couldn't resist.
Never heard of Click and Grow before this. Seems really cool and will definitely consider for gifts
Emily Temple-Wood on writing a Wikipedia article for every harassing email
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I mean perhaps.

But I think those of us that lived through tech in the late 90's have a right to be a little suspicious, for example, of the long term business strategy of a company whose sole business model appears to be sending someone three glasses of wine a month surrounded by overbearing packaging.

I'm sure someone will come along and inform me that it's all a ruse to generate the worlds best wine AI and disrupt our palates with algorithms or something but I remain fairly certain said business is about as technologically advanced as Pets.com, with a similar prognosis.
https://youtu.be/J54dotTt7k0
"After Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in particular, many tweets recommended using hard disk encryption and the ostensibly secure messenger app Signal while discouraging the use of competitor apps Threema and Telegram."

Oh FFS. We've seen a continuation of invasive, Bush-era policies under Obama...but now Trump is terrifying?

Spoiler alert: it has been a problem for quite some time, and given the alternative to Trump it was going to still be a problem regardless of who won the election: freedom ponies and rainbows were never an option.

Get a damn grip, people. Can we end the partisan pity party?
"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life."

I think finding a job you love and doing that will put more happiness "under the curve" than toiling at a job until you can retire, even if you can retire early.

I love going to work and I've been doing longer than you've been alive - if I was going to burn out it would have happened by now. :-)
Thirsty Somalis Trek 60 KM for Water as Drought and Conflict Bite
I have been thinking about the "we provide liquidity and accurate pricing services and that's good" argument in the context of housing costs and gentrification.

The housing market is very illiquid—it's much harder to buy or sell a home than to rent a place to stay for the night. In the context of gentrification, though, this seems to benefit the preexisting landowners: the difficulty of moving provides downward pressure on supply, increasing prices, and also makes it less likely that longtime residents will sell before prices peak.

But, as a thought experiment, imagine if there was perfect liquidity: you could buy and sell a house at any time at the click of a button with ready financing and (somehow) free moving services, etc.

If that were true, many more residents would sell much earlier in the gentrification wave, to slightly richer people, who would sell to people slightly richer than that. This would result in the original landowners only getting a tiny fraction of the peak land value, and most of the returns going to the richest people.

This makes me wonder if this isn't generally true: that high liquidity primarily benefits the capital class at the expense of small asset holders.

There's probably also a corollary about late stage VCs here somewhere.
> That's categorically false.

No it's not. This submission is about one company resisting the regulatory action created when buckyballs continued to sell the product to 14 year olds, even though they knew teenagers were among the > 1000 children hospitalised by these magnets.
Super excited to see Watsi on the list of suggested donations. I became a monthly contributor a year and change ago, and every time I get a raise, I raise my contribution. I love the work they do, and the way they'll select the patient for me -- I find the process of combing through each one emotionally a bit too onerous!
Not many people are going to object to that type of regulatory intervention. Labels are fine. It was the outright ban that pissed people off.
I can least a zillion things on earth that can kill little children but parents might leave those things around. When I was a child I put a hairpin inside power socket and had caught a poisonous snake in the backyard.

I don't think it is sensible for government machinery to waste taxpayer money on inventing new ways of saving babies and instead let parents make those decisions. Parents care for their babies infinitely more than government and those parents who might be irresponsible might put children in harms way despite all regulations.

A good clear label indicating the harm is good enough.
I think we agree that gitlab is awesome and tossing money at something that can lead to exponential growth in productivity and therefore exponential financial return is a wise strategy. As long as the market is not saturated and there's a path to growth, etc. But at least they're on the right track.

However every dollar spent on "candle of the month club" and every hour spent working on it is a dollar and an hour that can't be applied to exponential returns from actual tech companies.

Perhaps there's something sneaky or non-intuitive about "candle of the month club" such that they're operating a redundant array of inexpensive candles, or they have a containerization or virtualization strategy for candle wick storage, or their database is prototyping quantum secured financial data, and the candles are just placeholders to test real technologies and workflows. Probably not, but I'd like to hope so.
They can't identify users from HN like me who are not highly intelligent, successful, influential or wealthy though.

Another problem is some people don't hit these paywalls because they do not frequent these sites, it's usually based on number of articles read per period, so it's frustrating for some and others have no idea there even is a pay wall.

The biggest problem is won't it limit the discussions that can be had?
Has anyone used these: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/

How does it compare ?
K&R: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0131103628/
Sure. And they were let down massively by their parents.
It's stupidly easy I wondered why it wasn't any more popular...
Fixed! Man, deploying while on HN is scary.
I believe you missed the GP's point. It's not that "you can't because the language stops you", it's that "you can't because it doesn't work".

That is, you're agreeing, not disagreeing.
Magnet companies do not benefit when a child dies. On the contrary it can put all their business at total risk.

Magnet companies are more likely to care about their customers than government caring about my child.

> We don't sell fireworks nor guns to children.

UK is not a good example because they dont even sell hardware tools to kids. That is simply wussyfication of the society.
Every time I see one of these headlines, I think "so what?". Are we just awed by how many "flops" it has or is there some actual practical advancement we should be looking forward to?
I'm surely not the first to think of this idea: but wouldn't it be nice if we could just select from an index directly? Postgresql already represents indices as relations. Then we don't need to make comments executable, we preserve the spirit of SQL semantics, and give the user control to insist on a particular index.
I would say that when you buy an inflatable pool ring, if more of the area of the pool ring is taken up by warning messages, than isn't, then we've gone too far.

So yes, I think we've gone too far.