skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a treat for you, please try out Carroll Quigley's works regarding civilization (and if you want major political insight, try his other works too, many of my conspiratorial leaning rants on hn come from his very academic and dry but largely unknown analysis of the world power structure).

Luckily, some have been made readily available on the internet. Here is The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by him, which I think would be one of the best starting points for your type of historical curiosity.

http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Carroll-Quigley-TheEvoluti...
Geothermal extraction. Very viable here in SoCal where a huge chunk of our lithium mines are located, since we've got plenty of geothermal around. See, spodumene and lepidolite make up more than 50% of the world's supply of lithium because those sources produce large amounts rapidly, despite the costs. Having these sources next to geothermal energy sources makes it much more viable to do the 'roasting' at practically zero energy cost.
The user can be also tricked into enabling the dev mode and installing a malicious addon. Granted, that would make it more suspicious but there will be people who would do that or have done that already.
Bill Bryson's, A Short History Of Nearly Everything.

It is literally what it says in the title. He's a travel writer so has a very narrative and readable style. Wow just thinking about it now makes me amazed at what he achieved in that book.
It depends. To some people beer is what the macro breweries put out and that is it. They haven't experienced all the varieties and options the micro breweries put out. Even if they do try it initially they generally don't like it. It takes a while to develop not only a taste for the stuff but also to be able to distinguish all the different flavors and varieties.

Wine is very similar. Price does not equate quality. That said, a very good $10 bottle of wine will be less quality than a very good $30 bottle. It's confused by the fact that there are some pretty outstanding $10 bottles and some pretty horrible $30 bottles.

I used to have a $10 favorite that is really solid but started venturing into $15-20 territory and there is a definite quality difference you might not notice if you are new to wine.

But wine is far more pretentious than beer and it's best not to get wrapped up in that world. Just drink what you feel tastes good. You'll notice that as you drink more, your tastes change and it's good to try new things.

It's pointless to drink a bunch of expensive wine if you haven't experienced much. It takes time to develop an understanding of the varieties and flavors to look for in order to really appreciate what a more expensive wine may offer (or an outstanding cheaper wine!)
So what you're saying is I can cash in my 401k for a boat.
I'm not surprised.

Medium is just a glorified blog site. Online newspapers have a near impossible time breaking even, and medium is no different.

Not to mention the fact that most of its clientele probably uses ad-blockers.

It would be better to turn Medium into a sales funnel for their own premium products and ditch the ads. They have massive amounts of traffic, there are plenty of creative ways to utilize this and turn it into an actual business.

But, it might already be too late to save it.

Why does this article keep getting flagged?
>> real embedded work (more than say half a million units)

Altough most of the units shipped will be above this, won't a decent share of projects(in general ,not just the IOT) be below that threshold ?
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Yeah, setting aside whether his claim is actually true or not, why would this even be newsworthy or matter, if it were not for this context?
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When you get your project into GNU, you practically transfer the ownership and become a maintainer only. Maintainers come and maintainers go, GNU tries to ensure that projects live on when staff changes. GNU projects thus belong to the community and their fate should not be left to the whims of the individuals.

In this case though it's nice that the project is detached given it's not all that important and does not worth the burden.
What if another element is drawn in front of it, and though? I feel like there are a huge number of possible tricks to hide elements on page and trick the browser into thinking they're visible.
Another point WRT Silicon Valley episode that has lessons for the real world. Developer will do a much better job on a project they picked rather than one that was assigned to them. This might be a lot of the advantage tiny, new startups have over the giants.
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Hadn't heard of AdNauseam before. Immediately installed it for my primary browser Firefox.
Social Security insolvency is a myth.
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/fyOps.html
https://www.nasi.org/research/2016/social-security-finances-...

The risk to a stable society (the purpose of Social Security, which is part of its name) is essentially zero by raising the cap.

The risk is substantial by either reducing benefits or privatizing. And I know this because the instant the conversation goes down this road the contra agent devolves to this:

I will pick a pocket first, and shoot grandma in the head second, before this nonsense of reducing benefits or privatization. Benefit reduction, a risk of which is endemic to privatization (grandma might become rich, or she might get kicked out of her apartment, who is to say except the glory of the free market), is objectively more unethical than either picking pockets or shooting old people.
Just confirmed 1Password’s AutoFill for identity is also vulnerable to this on Chrome.
Saw the title of this, didn't even open the link, just thought "oh... Crap."
Or even if they could, how can you say something tastes objectively better?
>Good luck with that. You want to bleed out in the street, go for it. Plenty of other first world countries for me to move my family to.

Very few others with low taxes, no universal health-care, no universal pension, and a general fetish for empowering the rural bourgeoisie at everyone else's expense.

Personally, I've got three countries on my short list to apply to, maybe four. But I'm still going to start taking self-defense lessons, because with a neo-fascist government, you people have gone too damn far. You are enabling the most violent, evil elements in society, and that warrants a response.
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I liked the old Opera approach to this. By default it did not fill the fields, unless you clicked on a Wand button, or used Ctrl+Enter shortcut.

This also worked really well with encrypted password storage (if you configured that key was forgotten after e.g. 10 minutes), it did not nag you to enter the password if you visited site where you stored password but did not intended to log in at given time.

There's an add-on for Firefox[1], but doesn't work as well as it did in Opera, and also it doesn't solve the password nagging issue, but I suppose it could help address the vulnerability mentioned here.

I really don't understand why all browsers insist to handle password this way.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/secure-login/
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> recently vim has added python support

Sorry if this makes you feel old, but that's a literal decade ago.
> Not only that, but I found myself censoring my own private thought processes, in the silent comfort of my own home, because of the public opinion of people I follow on Twitter.

I deleted my Twitter account because of this. I realized it was an empty echo chamber of inaction. If anything you say can be interpreted in a way that the hivemind can destroy you over, they will do it, even with incomplete information and little to no proof.

I've determined that the key for me is to limit the inputs. My inputs now are a few cultivated social sites (this one, one or two tech sites), books, and podcasts.

In my opinion, feeding my mind properly has lessened my feelings of burnout. If you have the choice to feed your brain digital junk food, don't be too alarmed when it starts taking of too much space, like fat.
The trust fund is an accounting fiction.

Social Security is paid out entirely by proceeds from people paying into the system. If ever the number of new people paying in is not enough to cover the outflows, then the system collapses. That is how a Ponzi scheme works.
I believe it has been discussed here previously, but open source on a propietary firmware (Java VM) wouldn't be considered open source by many.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691655

It is interesting how it allowed revealing the details of a bug in the implementation, though.

https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-openpgp/SecurityAdvisory...
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The credentials you mention fall into three kinds:

1. Credentials Legally Required: Lawyers, Doctors, etc.

Credentials and accredited schooling are required in these disciplines because they involve specialized knowledge AND because misuse or malpractice can seriously hurt people. Even then, there's plenty of cartel-like behavior going on. For example, the U.S. system of accrediting lawyers (three years of graduate school plus bar exam) is almost certainly overkill.

2. Specialized Technical Skills: Welders, Trades

Welding, fabricating, etc. require specialized skills and knowledge. These skills are taught in trade schools and through apprenticeships, not four-year colleges. The credentials are usually not LEGALLY required to work in the area - you can hire a welder who doesn't have one - but in practice, you want to hire people with the credentials because they probably know what they're doing.

3. Non-Technical Skills: Teachers, Social Workers

Teachers, child services workers, etc. Here I think the argument for credentials is the weakest. Why do we NEED accredited teachers? For centuries we've had teachers who never had one, and even now, many private schools don't require credentials. In fact, some of the best teachers I had in school never had teaching degrees - they had degrees and experience in the relevant field (say, chemistry) and came to teach. In fact, in some of these fields, the credentials are attempts to form bars to entry, thus protecting the existing members of the profession - just why do we need school + certificates for hair dressers?

So where does software engineering fall? I think the second category is where it belongs, and bootcamps are attempts to create the kind of technical training / apprenticeship that exists in the trades. That doesn't mean official CS degrees are worthless - far from it - but it also means that we don't need any bars to entry for people who decided to learn coding in another way.
I feel ya. But remember your users probably don't care. You are trying to convey information, and your diagram does so effectively. Everything else is sugar. But if you are dissatisfied then you could also take a look at code2flow.com which is very quick and easy to use. I'd be quite curious if it solves your issue. I suspect it will.
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"Standard" shipping in the U.S. is considered 5-7 days, especially for small items. 10 days is generous.

20 days is certainly pushing the limits of what customers will tolerate without advanced notice. Many people would probably be calling for refunds after 2 weeks if they weren't told "This will take 2-4 weeks to ship" (which his site does NOT do).

30 days would be absolutely unacceptable to most people.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised at a 5 million vote majority losing the Electoral College again. It's a structural problem, not one of the individual candidates. The system was designed to over-enfranchise rural landowners, particularly slave-holders. The more the population urbanizes, the greater the skew of the College vote away from the popular vote.
Spodumene and Lepidolite are the most readily-available source of high-quality lithium, making up over 50% of the world's lithium supply. Rarely is it made into jewelry, usually only as an inclusion into another mineral such as quartz or feldspar.
Those emails look sent drunk or angry.

The first one does not look like it was proof read. I don't always proof read everything, but important ones I don't leave with an obvious typo.

Anyhow free software will carry on.
There are many US movies that involve military themes that are made with the assistance of the US military. It's not surprising that the US military chooses which films it works with. So, if you want a US aircraft carrier in your film you're going to either use CGI (relatively recently available for most films) or you're going to use a script that doesn't show the US in a bad light.

This isn't overt propaganda in the traditional sense, but the effect is the same.
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I don't understand what you're asking for.
neat. I've been using irssi for half a decade. Never realized it was <1.0
>I believe this is actually the only thing that a real honest click on the ad indicates. What else would it do?
Most of my clicks on ads are mistakes. Ads that finish rendering after I've started reading the page, causing the window to jump around, resulting in a misplaced click. Or ads that have such a tiny "Close" button that it's impossible to click on a phone. Those are all honest, non fraudulent clicks that do not indicate interest on my part. I don't feel bad at all if this gives the advertiser the wrong idea.
I've been using it for a while now and no one contributes to it. I've worked on multiple open source projects, some with a lot of visibility, write a good amount of free content, and the most you'll ever get is 'thanks'. Unless you fall into specific groups your chances of making money from systems like Flattr are basically 0.
I haven't seen "steps to make bicycle commuting more friendly" in my city.

Maybe people don't want to bike on ice in -5F weather :P
You'd be wrong. Many people, even Americans, don't really understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean you can do and say anything you want regardless of the context or consequences.
Yes a price increase is a first order effect of demand increasing. In capitalist economies demand is great because of the second and third order effects.
I remember a documentary about some american fine wine forger where even though he's been arrested for the crime there were "fine wine people" that bought the wine that were fooling themselves that just this batch, which they've bought for too much money, was legitimate and obviously delicious.
Ask HN: What's the best way to get into Cyber Security as a career?
I'm looking for an entry level position for a job in cyber security and would appreciate advice on where to start and how to move into it.

I've been working 1st-3rd line tech support for 5 years, have a Microsoft MCSA, and VMware Data centre Virtualization certifications, and a degree in computer science, which i'd hope would be relevant to a cyber security position. While I enjoy technical challenges and learning new skills and technologies, I don't enjoy coding so would rather avoid it if possible.

My question being; What are the must-have skills that are most sought after for the cyber security industry, and where would be a good place to start or look for entry positions?

Of course, any other guidance and/or advice would be appreciated.
Found it: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/ssr.html
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Dell's Canvas display is like a Surface Studio without the PC
>That would eliminate even the thin handkerchief of SS being a sort of mandatory government-run savings program, and not a bald faced tax-and-redistribute system.

So bloody what? I've got no problem taking from the rich to fund a basic income to keep the elderly off cat-food. I've got parents and a grandmother left who need Social Security.

>When it becomes a straightforward tax, then it'll be attacked like every other tax during the periodic political pendulum-swings in favor of lower taxes and fewer government programs in general.

It already is attacked during regular political pendulum swings. Both Clinton and Bush 2 tried to privatize Social Security.
It sounds like the leap-second thing isn't that big of an issue though...
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Has a US government agency tried to stop anyone clicking ads?
Hell, I used to ride 20km a bit under 40min when 29, and I wasn't coasting ... that puts me just above that old man.
Those size charts carry a lot of assumptions. I have a 65" and can tell the difference just fine at 8 feet away.

The real benefit from 4k is actually HDR and the MUCH higher bitrate for video. The majority of streaming 4k is really low quality when compared to a normal bluray. Just because the resolution is big doesn't mean the picture quality is any better. Also a lot of 4k content is actually upscaled from 2k sources. http://realorfake4k.com/
Great point but there are some legitimate reasons that the city may want ride data especially if Uber wants to replace multiple forms of transportation (taxis, personal vehicles, frieght delivery, ride services for the elderly/disabled etc).

There are also other municipal needs like collecting utility information from radio systems or pavement management surveys that cities often drive around to collect - Uber could potentially be utilized for data gathering if it was determined that they had sufficient coverage etc.

Every GIS nerd would love a data set like the Uber tracks for analysis and to see what else they could be used for (Uber for mass license plate collection is like something from Black Mirror).
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I think the older generation should give way to the younger generation. After all, it is the younger generation that is required to run the world while the older retires. However, as it is currently, the older generation is robbing the younger generation. The younger generation is paying for entitlements that it knows it will never receive. That is not sustainable, fair, or in my opinion: necessary.

It should not be the governments job to manage retirement funds. That's why I said it's a power play, because if you made social security an open market with competition, you would probably see more positive support and results.
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I'd recommend, you consider FEInternational to help you broker a buyout.
For those wondering why Michigan? Shrem's partner is a member of a family that is prominent in the waste management business in Michigan.

https://www.grangernet.com/
to clarify, I don't think people should be shitting in the street, but i instinctually bristle against a "right" that requires someone else to do something in service of the person who has that right.

(This is the difference between a negative and positive right)

If someone has a right to clean, available toilets at all times, then someone must pay to provide those services. I'm happy to donate to the cause, but I don't think the force of law should compel me to part with my money to buy someone a toilet.

Especially because PAY toilets solve this problem so elegantly.

For example, imagine a pay toilet that, when you pay, you have the option to buy access to the same toilet to someone who is unable to pay themselves. I'd do it. This is basically the same idea as the "leave a little, take a little" coin jar many shop vendors have.

If you need 20 cents for some reason, take it. I usually just dump my extra change into that jar. I would do the same in a pay toilet, and often have.
Doesn't this mean that Yubi has the potential to know what your private key is (since they have to bake it into firmware before selling you the device)?
My Vaio weighs 2.9 pounds, this weighs 2.4. My wife's iPad Pro weighs 1.6, and I think that's probably close to the upper limit of what I would want a tablet to weigh.

I don't know if weight distribution is also an important factor since I can tell my vaio is definitely not evenly weighted.

I don't think this chromebook is for me, I just wanted to say that I don't think convertibles as a category are doomed, they are just harder to get right than other categories.
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If we take that definition, what is misleading? Users are presented with something asking them to click and then they just automate the clicking. They aren't attempting deceit through their actions.

Now, if the advertiser knows that people are clicking things through a script, and has some clause with their agreement with the company that says 'We won't charge you when this happens' but charges them anyway, that would be deceit. But it'd be on the part of the advertiser to the company buying the advertisements.
The fact that they screwed it up in the past means they demonstrated a lack of ability to get it right. Unless we have strong evidence that they've fixed that deficiency, it seems unwise to repeat the same mistake.

Better safe than sorry seems like the right heuristic here given that once private data is released in the wild, it will remain public forever [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/28ialf/173_millio...
The worst part for me was going from being a "rockstar developer" on the team to having to explain why I suddenly can't meet the overly ambitious deadlines handed down from above due to anxiety, depression, panic attacks and extreme insomnia.
Just for clarification, George W. Bush is 5'11".
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The U.S. should move to a political system where coastal city-dwelling individuals have 4x the voting power of people who live inland and in rural areas.
It could be argued that 100 people living in 3 counties have a greater diversity of concerns and opinions than 100 people sharing an apartment complex.
This has already started with fees. Fees are just a synonym for taxes, or money that does not go in your pocket.