skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation of cryptography can help investigations but regulation is still a bad idea. A good explanation is something that my ethics professor said. It was something along the lines of "If a pen was used to write orders for the army to start WW2, should pens be banned?". The war would probably happened anyway even if pens were banned/regulated and it is certainly not the cause of the war. Cryptography is very similar: even if it would have been regulated, criminality will not just vanish.
> Make eco damaging behaviours "uncool"

As 2016 had shown, we're well past the point where it was possible for a centralized (or even moderately stratified) entity to declare certain behaviors "uncool". Changing human culture without changing human nature introduces huge arbitrage opportunities for malicious actors and demagogues and increases overall existential risk.
Where do you usually buy them? Any recommendation?
It ebbs and flows. Currently about an 8. Some places and projects have been hardly bearable, others have been great. Right now I'm leading a project to modernize an old Internet explorer 6 app. This thing has all the MS specific stuff; activex controls, dhtml behaviors, .htc files, I couldn't be happier. I never worked with that stuff so it's all new to me. No one in the org thinks it can be done, bring it on, I say!
To play devils advocate for a minute: with or without climate change research the results are the same: non-action.
Yes, there is a distinction in US law between acquiring physical and "mental" evidence.

The former can be forced (e.g. I must provide my safe key) and the latter cannot (e.g. I don't have to reveal my password).

The line gets blurry: keyed lock vs combination lock, password vs SSH key.
could some mod fix the link as the trailing slash works
It reminded me TiddlyWiki with exception that external data file being used.
But if you're only doing it to safeguard against extinction level events why not just set up multiple contingency populations underground here on this planet? They won't have to travel as far after the event.
I setup my own mail server last year and shortly gave up on the idea. Setting the server up isn't the problem. The problem is keeping your IP off of all the major blacklists.

I wasn't even sending out mass emails and 30%+ of my email would never be delivered. I had to constantly check to see if my IP addresses were on the various spam lists (and fight to get my IPs off) and I just got tired of it.

Companies like Google have entrenched themselves in many things like email and are slowly becoming the only option out there. A large amount of email addresses are @gmail.com or run through one of their servers and they ultimately control whether the recipient receives/sees your email.

The 'promotions' tab in gmail also made things worse for many small businesses. Google doesn't want you competing for their advertising space and pushes any emails it deems a 'promotion' off to the side, so users don't actually see it. I'm not even talking about actual spam emails here, but emails users knowingly signup for and are expecting.

Many people don't realize just how much a handful of companies controls the Internet and your ability to make a living online.
I think you're actually right. I looked up some stats.
Found this and will try it: https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/commit/755dd9e87eac...
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Part of it is golden handcuffs, okay income, okay workload. Everything is fine.

Fine isn't interesting though.
> I imagine it gets murky around things like SSH keys, which are technically a kind of password, but too big for a human to remember - and therefore must be "instantiated" in a physical device somewhere.

A likely interpretation might be: an SSH key without a keyphrase is like a physical key, and you must hand it over, while a key with a keyphrase is like a combination lock, where you must hand it over but you are not required to state the keyphrase.
It's not Linux, but QNX's demo floppy packed a ton on a single disk. Network drivers, web browser, VESA 2.0 video drivers, a few apps...

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
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Senior level, parttime independent. I'd give a 10 because when not working for a couple of weeks I really start to miss programming, but -2 because working with other developers and working with users is not always sunshine&happiness and because I mostly like to do lower level detailed stuff, debugging nasty stuff, ... but I cannot do that all of the time.
> what kind of cataclysmic event could destroy it.

A government with depth charges.
For a lot of folks, citizens, mind you, the status quo is screwed up, is broken. That those citizens live out their lives with effectively no way to seek redress, due to a design decision made centuries ago, seems unjust to me.

After all, it's a legal document, not a religious text.

There's also dodgy and ambiguous language that keeps causing arguments and problems, in part because it wasn't written super clearly to begin with, and in part because centuries have passed since the people wrote it.

(Some of my big ones: clarifying the 2nd amendment one way or the other, addressing abortion rights directly, and adding something to strengthen every citizen's access to voting, e.g. national voting holiday, felon enfranchisement, whatever.)

I'd make it easier to amend, and trust in my fellow citizens to do the right thing.
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It's odd, but while I don't disagree with those stats, as someone who grew up in philly->baltimore then moved around the country for work, I had a FAR more integrated friend group in either of those two cities than anywhere else, where it's almost purely indian+asian+white. (in that order, actually).

Likely due to net-population-availability of minority groups, and I won't disagree that many neighborhoods are almost entirely black (stayed with a friend living off diamond st one time), but I will say that one shouldn't then draw that to mean everyone in those cities also lives along the lines of such segregation. (To try and explain why the parent, and myself, had an experience that didn't always align intuitively with those articles)

What I'd also call out though that I wouldn't have noticed outside of having grown up there, is that I'd draw the lines there FAR more aggressively along socioeconomic boundaries, which just so happen to correlate with race. Not even starting to turn this into a discussion about which direction the correlation moves in, but I'm always hesitant to paint it soley it as a racial problem.
Oh, I don't care about having the conversation or understanding why it is happening, I'm just curious what activity is the problem.
Yeah, nothing makes a body feel more welcome than being called a gentrifier. Ask me how I know. The several nearby homicides that occurred within the week after we closed on the place really helped make us feel at home, too. And I really miss sitting out on the back stoop for a late-night smoke to the sound of sporadic pistol fire in the middle distance. There are places in Baltimore you can go if you want to live around nothing but white people. I didn't leave East Baltimore for any of them. But I sure did leave East Baltimore.

It's very easy and very comforting to say that maps like the ones you linked are just a result of white people not wanting to live around black people, because white people are racist. I get that. Who wouldn't rather believe a just-so story than acknowledge that not everything is simple and not every problem has an easy solution? Just don't make the mistake of confusing a just-so story with reality, or imagining that by doing so you're very likely to be of benefit to anyone.
I get it though. Because while I dislike many things about AMP (mentioned elsewhere in the comments here), my non technical friends and family don't seem to rely on the functionality that's getting hosed. They don't actually ever look at the URL bar for example (incidentally may explain their propensity to fall for phishing attacks).
tech 8 - working on cool things

office 4 - open office is the worst thing ever invented

people 7 - mostly good people, few bad

general happiness 6 - i need to stop working for others and choose my own path
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A startup of 3 can certainly need to send 500 emails a day but there are other services that should be used for that like mail gun or mail chimp or the plethora of other bulk sending providers. Usually 10k-20k per month is the free limit.
But now you're making a subjective statement about the pay. Without context (supply, demand, how much revenue you generate for your employer), how to determine what is highly paid?

I fully reject the idea that more hours should be a requirement for good pay.

Further, as a startup founder myself, I don't want my employees working much more than a 40 hour week. I have found* I prefer the work produced by someone with work-life balance, than someone who works all the time.

* subjective sampling of colleagues/coworkers/direct reports/hires.
The "fringe identity politics" of academia and "global Trumpism" are just to aspects of the same phenomena: individuals only being able to react to their conditions in reference to simulacra.

What comprises the modern left spends its time (fruitlessly) trying to escape the conditions of Late Capitalist oppression by trying to reform language and symbols, as if the amoral profusion of signs inherent to our era can somehow be cowed into a uniform, virtuous narrative. These supra-simulations of identity immediately collapse beneath their demands of consistency of performance, both from their actors and their audience. The instability of economic and social conditions, as well as the myriad seductions of manufactured identity found in consumerism and technology, erode them as soon as they are constructed.

Meanwhile, the modern right (more properly understood as the postmodern right)understands and embraces the semiotic chaos of our contemporary condition, gleefully pirouetting from whatever simulation of politics, truth, and identity serves their immediate purposes. White supremacy, Leninism, religious conservatism, Objectivism, FDR New Dealism, Libertarianism. These are all just just roles which the postmodern right can occupy or discard at will, mirroring the social and psychological conditions of their constituency. The promise is stability, but not in the form of consistent identity. It's a stability of occult freedom, where whatever is can be transmuted into whatever is necessary.
Plans to cut the sales elsewhere would be interesting. Maybe a ban on ads and a health campaign? I'm sure the likes of Coca Cola would lobby hard against though.
It seems like the value of the platform is in the well-classified data made by the community in the same way that emacs "killer feature" is the bazillions of community .el extensions. Is there a Github or some defacto standardized way people publish their Anki notes?
Once the enemy is weak enough, the reaction dies down. What indicates a strong enemy? According to the article, among other things, its media presence. In the past, if academia and mainstream media didn't give a platform to a view, it was effectively silenced. Today, such views can reach the wider public via the Internet.

(This isn't really my opinion, I don't have good enough evidence for or against; it's just my understanding of the claims of the article.)
They're basically appealing to the illusion that government services are free.

If I'm being even more cynical, I'd say it's probably because CNN is owned by pro-socialism special interests. They are monetarily invested in convincing the public that government services cost nothing and solve everything.
How do you handle cases where someone lies about a crime they've committed?

Solving offenses without 100% certain evidence is by no means a new problem.
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I do a lot of junk outside of actual coding, so coding skills have suffered because I write very little code (I do help desk, server maintenance, troubleshooting software outside of our code bases, project planning, tech. documentation, unnecessary meetings). Uncertainly about the technical direction of projects we may be doing and the company itself, so it's difficult to figure out what new skills would be needed and to invest in or whether I should stick around.
I've always been curious about the type of embedded OS that ATMs and ticket kiosks use. Most of the time, it seems to be an unpatched version of Windows.

Does anyone know what the SFMTA runs on their kiosks?
9 - I tend to love the first 95% of each project, where you are flying through code, learning new things, seeing nothing become a polished product. The last 5%, the obscure bug fixes, the silly "features" that the client wants added that don't add anything tends to get boring.
1 - I hate my life. Plan is to get the money together to start a non tech business. Tech is boring these days.
We got metal wire shelves and kept each shelf fairly close together (about 6-8 inches). We had 10 selves per rack and 18 modems per 3ft x 6ft shelf. 10 racks and related additional hardware (switches, terminals, routers, CSU/DSUs, etc) fit in about 600sq ft of office space with space to spare for technician workbenches. Could do much higher density these days of course, but it was the mid-90s and we thought we were doing good at the time.
That statement is supported by people I talked to who've been there. It's not like Cuba is North Korea; it's not that hard to see what life there is really like.

Also, I do consider their levels of education to be a grandiose achievement, and "to what end?" — well, their levels of healthcare for one. I don't claim their system is perfect or even good, but one can't judge the value of education only on the salaries they bring.
Note that if you're not using UTF-8 to encode your characters, you can beat Base64, Base85, and Base122 with https://github.com/ferno/base65536
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What is the backup and redundancy strategy? It has some mention of backups and maintaining copies of deleted emails for you, but what happens if the specific server your account is on suffers catastrophic failure?
This is awesome! Definitely looking forward to its final release.

Are you planning to use some C++17 features, or strictly stick with C++14?
Sorry, I'm not exactly sure how this relates to my comment?
They may be located somewhere in the forest of continental post-structuralism somewhere between Derrida and Deleuze, even though this is a very structuralist assertion in a way, a contradiction that we shall embrace anyways. I wanted to deconstruct the data post-structures from Clojure and Scala following. The outcome is that I wrote code that I can barely understand, something that while burying my engineering career and speeking poorly of my intellectual abilities, might open me doors of the philosophical heavens.
https://www.reddit.com/user/akkartik/m/programming
Care to share your implementation of your favorite feature? I'm finding it hard to picture what the workflow/result will be like.
I love programming and thinking about architecture.

I hate bad requirements, trade offs that lead to even more unmaintainable code written by me, outdated... everything and design choice that make me throw up.

Thus I will rate with 6/10 and part of that mediocre score comes from the relatively high income and benefits.
Well, they don't matter wrt. the law. Either the prosecution is convinced you gave up all the keys (you win), or they believe you gave them a key that was just a distraction and they throw you in jail unless you give them the other key (you lose).
8 - I have a huge amount of latitude in solving complex problems, I work with people who are way smarter than me so I'm learning all the time. Workload and office noise are higher than I'd prefer.
I'm looking for an efficient encoding that is guaranteed to not contain certain substrings, such as improper language.
* Barnacl.es
* aesi.news (defunct)
* DnE
7 or an 8.

Isn't my dream job, but it pays the bills, has interesting enough work, and I don't feel like shit going in to work each day.
10 more hours on 1 hour would be amazing.
10 more hours on 5 hours would be great.
10 more hours on 10 hours would be a fine thing, but most people's working day isn't that long.
10 more hours on 20 hours wouldn't be very useful.

This is the concept of diminishing marginal returns. You cannot look at "10 hours" in isolation; its value is lower when the baseline is higher.
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Greenfield project, techs of my choosing(Elm + Elixir), work from home (in different country), lots of say in direction of product, so yeah, pretty darn good.
10 - I'm so blessed to have a job with interesting work, co-workers I enjoy, working from home so I get to hang with my wife and kids, and a nice paycheck to boot! What's not to love!
Is there any use of AMP which isn't driven by Google? I've never seen it referenced except in Google search results.
Only one case which I've seen mention of: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25745989

He got an additional four months for the failure to disclose the passphrase, on top of five years three months for Terrorism Act offences.
Simple password that you can remember encrypting your SSH key, know they can't compel you to give the password unlocking the key.
Sound like my diet.

You don't really miss it.

Only annoyance is how many foods sneak in sugar. But I guess that is the whole point of this, to limit what we eat.

Current ban in my diet is sugar and fried stuff, dairy is in the emergency only line..
Added bonus is the damage being done to Google's credibility. A number of the fake news sites now appear as being "google.com", due to the funky hosting approach of AMP.
< As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions—sights, sounds, textures, tastes—are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Sure, when we stop and think about it—or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion—we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like, a kind of internal simulation of an external reality. Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now? The true reality might be forever beyond our reach, but surely our senses give us at least an inkling of what it’s really like. Not so, says Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. >

This fallacy has been refuted a million times going all the way back to the Greeks. Any attack on the validity of the senses has to use knowledge acquired via the senses to "prove" the senses are invalid. It is self-contradiction and thinking in a circle. How did we learn that perceptual illusions are "fake" apart from further analysis and a wider context of sensory data? The classic example is the bent-pencil-in-the-water trick. We learn this is an illusion (and eventually much more about the properties of light, water, etc.) by pulling the pencil out of the water and examining it directly with our senses (our eyes, and if you are a serious doubter you can actually touch the pencil to see it is straight not bent).

Hoffman is just regurgitating what he learned in college which is primarily the Kantian attack on consciousness. Kant's view is that we can never know "true reality" because our perception of reality is mediate by our senses. But this is a denial of consciousness (it is unavoidably based on sense data) and implicitly a call for "consciousness" to be in contact with reality by no means whatsoever, i.e. non-causally.
It would hardly be Alpine, and it would be much bigger, its very hard to make a small glibc.
Have two jobs, CAD and 3D R&D by Day, Open Source (maintainer) by Night. Love both. Happiness level: Day = 9, Night = 10. The work environment in R&D is pretty much cool, co-workers are awesome, pay is not way too great by works for me for now. And the Open Source work is what brings me peace. So yeah I f*ing love my jobs! Thanks for asking BTW.
Sorry replied to the wrong comment.
Do you really think that adopting a sustainable way of life is unfeasible, while establishing a self-sustaining colony on another planet is? Many of the changes I am talking about are already taking place. For example,
renewables have recently become a viable alternative (http://www.sciencealert.com/india-says-the-cost-of-solar-pow...) and population growth is projected to taper off after 2050 (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98371).
The only thing that can hold these solutions back is strong opposition from the beneficiaries of the current system. They will fight back, but I think that the odds are stacked against them.
Why would you want to move to USB-C other than not having to flip the cable when you inevitably put it in the wrong way.

If your answer is power delivery, remember that not all cables and not all devices support power delivery on USB-C so it's nothing that couldn't have been done with "USB4" utilising the same plug we've always had.
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Backdoors and weakened encryption means that there is no encryption going on at all. If any government official can get any information that means anyone can get that information as many of the people who break this stuff don't work for governments and governments are least technically capable actors. So it means there is effectively no encryption all if encryption is weakened or backdoored.
No, I'm making an objective statement.

If you are being paid more than the median American, and have options which would still pay more than the median while working less, then complaining about being overworked is ridiculous. There are simple solutions of just getting a different job.

If you don't want people working more, by all means manage your company that way. The market will decide if its an effective strategy.
They sell some whole 30 compliant BBQ sauce with no sugar. Has more zing than sweet but tastes amazing.

Ketchup is just sugar. You learn to not miss it when you dump the rest of sugar.
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Early 30s, spending days staring at computer screens is a nice way to waste your life, the whole RoR to Node.js to Go and React hype cycle made me realize I'm too old for this shit.

Finding a job where I'm above of all that madness would be great but middle management is even worse and it's not in me. Maybe self-sufficiency farming would be a better route.

Also, when you have a mostly physical demanding job, you can easily socialize with your friends afterwards, with dev work you're brain dead by the end of the day.
It seems like everyone's trying to move upmarket and killing everything that was fun, unique or interesting about themselves in the process. It's not just businesses it's people too. Everyone wants to get the same soulless desk job, parrot the same inoffensive opinions, Instagram the same stupid travel and gym photos to show how worldly and fit they are, and sit in their same stupid Ubers so that they can interact with as little of the world as possible while moving through it.

I live in a red light district and I get shit about it on a daily basis, but man, not once have I had a dull night and the stories people tell around here blow my goddamn mind. For sure you wouldn't want to live in this type of environment your whole life, but it's absolutely tragic to watch it all gentrifying and being replaced by lifeless condo developments and Au Bon Pain. I'll take the pregnant prostitutes and the alcoholic backpackers over Au Bon Pain any day because they have CHARACTER.
> And also foster homes were essentially prisons, some in really poor conditions

This is still true of most orphanages in countries like Brazil. It still beats dying of hunger and cold under a bridge any day, which is unfortunately still a common occurrence in those countries.
No. That's why I develop software.