skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating Ethereum smart contract transactions in JavaScript
If the writer of the blog post is here, the link to the Elm language looks like it is missing an http://
Sam, if you were an important (but non founder) employee at a startup and you were to be acquired, how would you approach the process of integrating and insuring success between the companies? and how would you evaluate the acquiring company and decide if its worth staying at for the long-haul, just until some stay-period is over, or even staying at all?
Byron said that nobody in Venice fought duels over women, at least not with their husbands. I am interested to learn that he was a vegetarian.

As for Ruskin, he had been a medical student, so shock over pubic hair seems unlikely.
> Troy cited tracking as one of the reasons for removing ads

Ads should be loaded into <iframe sandbox referrerpolicy="no-referrer">

It would still give them some information (affiliate ID and user IP) but no cookies or tracking of user interaction with the page itself.
And a shameless plug for my YT channel accessible at boothjunkie.com which is all about home studio setup for voice work
As a kid growing up through the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, I can tell you BBC played a crucial role. We use to gather an listen to Farsi BBC broadcast in short-wave radio. That experience has made me to be distrustful of any major media outlet.
Great example.

In perfect world ISP should drop you in addition to charging $penalty$ for breaking its ToS. This would result in someone from IT being fired (maybe you) and company starting to actually care about security from now on.
Because they're not liberals - they are sociopaths. Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman and Julian Assange and the Real News Network are real liberals and they are outraged by the DNC and calling out this new McCarthyism for what it is.
Do you doubt that North Korea was behind sony hacks ? [1]

1. https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-s... - the FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions.
Whether the email issue mattered or not, she also lied repeatedly about that: about the number of emails, the number of devices, etc.

I can take this further afield and show you lie after recorded lie of hers, but it's not much use. I suspect they and many politicians are pathological liars, some just have more tact.

EDIT: due to downvotes I'll respond to you here

Uh, Trump's a liar, obviously. You can start with his false memories about of 9/11 and continue onward. He's an obvious pathological liar to me, but to so is Clinton. The only way people see otherwise is due to bias.

The fact that criticism of an obviously horrible candidate leads people to assume you support another horrible politician is to me a sign of how bad politics are these days (I guess they have always been this way, we're just aware of the happenings as they happen).

I don't think you can measure levels of dishonesty. When it is known, there is true and false and nothing in between. Making excuses for the lies of politicians is a sure race to the bottom.
Why do any non-profits pop up?

Obviously LE employs a handful of people, and they are in some ways an "advertisement" for Mozilla (not that it's a bad thing). Those alone are some reasons why something might want to be attempted.

But I'm not necessarily thinking of a standalone "free certificate company" but maybe more of a "bonus" to some other product or service.

Think something like a domain host providing certificates themselves (which IMO makes a hell of a lot of sense).
Not the OP but I just was in a similar conversation: "Oh it's behind a firewall, so let's just disable the extra security (passwords, HTTPS, etc)." The idea of defense in depth is very important, but many people seem to think one security layer is enough sadly.
I'd become a full-time startup advisor. I already do this part time with a couple of startups here in the valley, and I really enjoy those deep brainstorming sessions about the present and future of technology. Helping shape possible futures is really exciting for me.
Why haven't you done it in ECMASCRIPT 6?
It's not a one or the other...
You feel confident sailing the world after sailing for under a year? That's fantastic, I figured it required a lot more experience.
Mercedes will give Tesla's Autopilot its first real competition this year
I switched to tmux a few years ago and never looked back. What is your problem with mouse? I have quite basic tmux config, very basic terminal emulator (st) and enjoy mouse scrolling even in nested tmux scenarios. Selection is done with vim keybindings which is much faster than mouse especially if you scroll and look for something visually.

I can relate to your feelings. In the beginning I was _very_ skeptical about running tmux locally. But very quickly I reconfigured tmux as I felt and stopped noticing at all if I work locally or remotely. Everything is very smooth and pleasant since then.

The only bad thing I remember: default tmux keybindings suck. I just redefined almost everything.
Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia  Announce Partnership for AI Car Technology
More like xi-editor to Atom
because only one party had their inner communications released
Wow, any particular places already in mind?
Here is an insider point of view of the reason Tim Cook missed his sales goals as an Apple engineer describes it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuVAi2bHdA
Not here to advertise or linkspam so, using rot13, here is the website:

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being able to install it doesn't make it part of android.
Ironically, the U.S. will now fund a "counter-propaganda" agency to do more of this, too (I imagine with a more domestic focus).

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/29/obamas-christmas-gift...

http://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-release...
>They absolutely can. Its well know that cryptography algorithms "decay" over time as computer power increases

This is bullshit.

No reasonably modern crypto algorithms has ever been broken. If you use any crypto algorithm in your less-than-10-year-old product that gets broken it's because you shipped a product with sub-standard crypto.

There was a time when people thought DES is secure, but that time was in the 80s and early 90s. Nobody will blame you for bad crypto if you released software in that time.
RT or BBC publishing videos is one thing, but saturating youtube comments and state sponsored "viral" twitter content is quite another. To me the difference is in gaming the secondary signals of legitimacy.
Surprise Monster Burst of Radio Waves Arose in Tiny Galaxy
Is it wrong of me to feel a little good about this?

I realize extortion is bad and I hope nobody pays it. That said, are all 10k of these databases full of nothing but non-sensitive data that was already publicly available via the web browser anyway? There are some cases where the bad guys appear to be _indirectly_ performing a community service.
I quit and will be starting my first of a two year pre-law program in two weeks. I'm quitting for a reason I haven't seen represented in the thread: "It's not even what I wanted to do as a career when I finished college" I only ended up in IT when my first job at a law firm as a file clerk nearly ended due to workforce reductions at a mid-sized law firm-an attorney I had helped in a big way solve a rather mundane word processor problem vouched that the company should keep me on and assign me to the help desk.

I found that I was very good at the work, thirteen years later I woke up one day really wanting to actually use my humanities degree (PoliSci and Public Policy) and that my joy of doing computers for other people was gone, and I didn't have the patience to keep up with where tech was going to stay competitive.

That, and the current state of affairs for people in my social group (African-Americans) compelled me to go back and do what I wanted to in college: fight for better laws and fair access to public resources.

nb4 "The legal profession isn't what it used to be, you [probably] wont become some rich attorney" to which I say "Good. Because that's not what I want to be. I don't want to be rich, I want to be good at what I do and give my kids something to be proud of come career day that isn't "he fixes computers at the local call center".

tl;dr - I have a humanities degree and I got tired of not using it for almost fifteen years.
StartCom (the name behind StartSSL launched StartAPI/StartPKI in May. I would call it a direct competitor to LetsEncrypt.
CSS was the one thing I dreaded before doing web stuff. I'm a PC/Console dev for many years, and never was able to get stuff to look 'decent' when trying my hand at HTML/CSS/WebApps. The 'default' look of most web widgets is dreadful in a browser ... and I'm not one to kit pick at visual design!

Bootstrap abstracts that whole bit (CSS mostly) and allows me to concentrate un functionality knowing that : A) It's at least going to look as good as Bootstraps default template (which is quite good for me!) B) It's also going to be responsive ... brilliant!

Kudos to the Bootstrap team!
it's cleverbot somehow
Semicolons are not optional in JavaScript: ASI (http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-automati...) is an error correction scheme for novice programmers. The spec's parsing rules calls out the statements following where a semicolon should be "offending tokens". There is no leeway here for style or preference.
Who offers true wireless charging ? I have the so-called Samsung Galaxy wireless charging, which is no different than just plugging in. I don't even bother
Gleen Greenwald from the Intercept has published some decent pieces on the lofty "evidence" for Russian hacking, his latest being:

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/washpost-is-richly-rewar...
Well of course. Nobody likes asymmetrical warfare.
This seems not just wrong, but dangerously wrong. There is a huge difference between a propaganda outlet and an imperfectly comprehensive or objective news source.
this sounds like a horror story from r/sysadmin.
He put the policy in place when he was hired (before then it was a more loose "come to the office if/when you want to", which worked for a 20 person company, but doesn't work so well with a 50 or 100 person company), along with more regular working hours (flex hours are fine but everyone is generally expected to be in the office between 10am - 3pm to allow meetings to be scheduled)
A lot of this report is about RT - Russia Today.

No, it's not; if you read the Key Judgements section, the part about the "state-run propaganda machine" is the last and least of the four major areas of influence it cites.
any feed reader is a curated set...

the ability to interact with others in the content from a feed reader (a feed 'client', not just reader, may be what I'm talking about) is what's missing.
Hi Sam, How did you initially get your first batch of customers at Loopt and what did you do to increase retention?
> Nitrogen oxides cause tens of thousands of early deaths in Europe

Complete bullshit. There isn't a single death certificate in the world that lists "NOx poisoning" as cause of death, unless it was an industrial accident.

These numbers come from assuming that some high dose of NOx will kill you, therefore 1% of that dose kills one in a hundred. So, at least for regulatory purposes to scare people, we can take a tiny dose, multiply it by a huge number of people, and get the number of deaths.

Apparently, this is true for any chemical, such as Paracetamol. 10g of Paracetamol are reasonably likely (about 50%?) to kill you. So if 100 people take 200mg each, one of them is going to die, right? Apparently, "30 million packs" are sold each year in the UK, each containing about 10g, and somebody swallows most of it. So every year, Paracetamol kills about 15 million people in the UK. Or maybe just 5 million, if some Paracetamol is flushed down the toilet. So it takes no more than 13 years, and there nobody left in the UK to be killed by NOx.

But the UK isn't devoid of people. That's because this whole logic is bullshit, and when applied to medicine, everybody knows it. When NOx concentrations of less than a ppm are involved, it suddenly makes sense.

Dear ICCT: If you feel the need to make up bullshit like this, you are tackling a non-problem.
Wrong link, it was https://github.com/jacopofar/markov-avro-tools
Haskell or GTFO
This pretty much mirrors my feelings. I've only been developing professionally for 3 years now, after more than a decade of hobby projects just for fun and learning. And I can't remember the last time I felt the motivation to work on a pet project on my own time, and I don't get the same enjoyment out of my work. It's pretty important and fulfilling work, but it ultimately just isn't mine, and I miss being self-directed with my hobby. Now I get when people who love cooking say they would never want to become a chef.

As far as getting out, I've put in my hat for an Air Traffic Controller position, and I'm crossing my fingers and waiting on that. I figure if I can make it there, it will pay well enough, use some of my critical thinking and tech skills, but hopefully free up the creative load to allow me to regain my drive for programming as a hobby. Plus, can't beat an early pension.
I agree with the eggs/basket argument, though I suppose there's an argument to be made about a number of CAs being essentially too big to fail already, so what's one more?

Regarding client certificates: There aren't really many good reasons to use publicly-trusted certificates for client authentication, but if you insist, you can use Let's Encrypt for that. The certificates do have the id-kp-ClientAuth EKU.
You've got it backwards.

This report is from US Government agencies.

So by definition "full supporting information, including specific intelligence on key elements of the influence campaign" doesn't support the conclusions.[1]

1. Weapons of Mass Destruction
> Their net worth is none of your business.

But net worth has everything to do with risk. A person worth $1 million putting up all $1 million is risking everything he has. A person worth $1 billion probably won't even notice if he loses $1 million. There's almost no risk to him if he loses that money.
If Americans can agree on anything, let it be that foreign parties must stay out of our elections. Of course Russia said untrue things. They ran active disinformation campaigns in addition to the email leaks (read the "Key Judgements" section...). Didn't help that voters were ready to eat it up during a domestic battle between warring media corporations. The chaos and confusion stirred by this election will take years if not decades to settle.
iTerm2, micro (github.com/zyedidia/micro), fish, lldb, fzf, make, etc. for C, C++, Go and Rust. Xcode for Swift.
"Partisan" is a more generic term. It's one set of groups going after another.
Evidence: JRuby, Clojure, Groovy are dynamic languages that have been successful on the JVM and that simply can't have the same performance on the CLR for obvious reasons. Microsoft tried investing in IronPython and IronRuby but failed. Furthermore a language like Scala can have a type-system that diverges from that of Java (e.g. higher kinded types) without taking a hit in performance.

It's not dark magic, it's just good engineering. And the evidence is there in plain sight.
That's fair, though you could also say that a politician's product is their persona and ability to lead. Making up stuff about your past to appeal to people is defrauding them with something that doesn't work/exist as advertised.

It also makes one wonder if someone is willing to lie about something so small and easily debunked, what else have they lied about?
and where is the downside?
I agree that it is normal for mom and pop shops. It is also normal for pre-modern dynamics: tribal (hunter-gatherer), family farms, etc, though the case can be made that there is some physical separation.

I've also seen co-living/co-working spaces where couples live and work with other family groups within the same building.

However, I also think that the Millennial generation did not generally grow up with this. Remote work also adds a different dimension too, if each partner of the couple are working with different teams remotely, rather than working together, and each partner does not have visibility into what the other partner is doing all day.
At its most basic level, CQRS is frankly too simple to take on a dependency as a cornerstone of a project. You can write a single base class that handles all of the responsibilities needed. Its NOT an architecture—its an architectural tool.
Ask HN: How much of a concern are bots for a smallish community app?
I'm building a small app with community and social features. Most of the features require an email/password signin, and I'm wondering how much of an issue bots are? It'd be easy for someone to generate a lot of dummy accounts using temporary email addresses. I could add captchas to the signup page, but that feels like a bad UX choice, especially if I'm just being paranoid.

Anyone else use a different method? Admin tools, etc?

I should also note that the app involves small amounts of money getting exchanged among users, so there might be more of a motivation for spammers than a basic social site.
Look up Clinton and Correct The Record or CTR. There's a lot of noise out there but you can find references where several million dollars was paid for an internet misinformation campaign.

> http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/fec-m...

"Correct the Record: The Clinton-supporting super PAC, Correct the Record, asserts it can coordinate directly with the Clinton campaign as long as it doesn’t run paid advertising. Clinton’s attorneys are relying on a narrow 2006 FEC regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as blogs written by unpaid volunteers, is off limits from regulation. But Correct the Record is not a volunteer blogging operation. It is a $6 million professional opposition research, surrogate training and messaging operation staffed with paid professional employees and operating out of a high-rise Washington, D.C. office building."
Report: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections
I think this is unlikely, it seems like a silly accident to me.
JavaScript is turing complete
Where I sit with the entire thing is that this is a stark lesson in why security is important, and how effective phishing scams are.

However, once that information is out there, and verifiable through means like DKIM, we should absolutely scrutinize its content, and every voter should follow reports closely.
My experience - having gone through times where a week before the end of the month, I had to calculate very carefully what food I could buy so I could welcome the next month without an empty stomach - is that money itself does not make me happy, but having to worry about money is an exquisite torment.

Whoever said that money was an obedient servant but a cruel master pretty much nailed it.

There are, of course, plenty of things to worry about that money cannot solve. But having known the kind of worries brought on by too little money, I very much appreciate that none of my current worries are about money. Anything beyond that is nice to have, but I doubt anything could beat that feeling of not having to worry about money any longer.
Assuming this is true, I hope he has a good lawyer. There are a couple different avenues this company could use to go after him, and even if they don't win in court he could end up far in debt.
Absolutely; UK Govt still funds the BBC directly. I do believe it's substantially independent and certainly not direct Govt propaganda, but there's no denying that it pushes a very UK-centric view.
Not quite; I would describe it as moving the complexity into the algorithm. For example, even though the bitpacking from the post achieves fast good compression, it is unable to compress floats in general; merely 1.0 and 0.0. The knowledge of that correspondence has been moved into the algorithm.
Insteon is still an insecure and unencrypted protocol, just the new homekit hub is 'more secure' now, controlling insecure items.

You can also install a general homekit proxy with a general nodejs server called homebridge. That homekit proxy can control anything with any kind of security.

So at this point it's just another proprietary standard unfortunately :( Might as well call it another MFi program.
For the Macbook keyboard complaints - that was for a new product and didn't affect a lot of existing customers on the higher selling Macbook Air or Macbook Pro users.

The removal of ports with the first iMac happened when Apple had a much smaller customer base in a different era. Nobody was looking at Apple under a microscope the way they are today.

I may not like the direction Apple has taken (which caused me to switch a couple of years ago) but I don't have a problem with it. They are following the money. Who can blame them for that?

But anecdotally speaking -- since the 2016 Macbook Pro announcement, there have been more-than-usual negative Apple headlines (many of them being from Mac using bloggers) trickle into the HN front page, and I have never ever seen so many comments by Mac using HN'ers looking for non-Mac alternatives. I get that HN'ers are probably a small percentage of Mac users, but I also tend to think HN'ers are probably technology influencers in their social circles as well.
Just want to say, I'm not affiliated with LE, but I think it makes a lot of sense to donate to them if you use their services regularly.

From my own use case, integrating TLS for my site via LE and the autocert package in Go has been seamless. It's completely free (if you want it to be), and it looks like I won't have to worry about renewing certs anymore. The service LE is providing is amazing. Just thinking of the millions of dollars they're collectively saving everyone, yearly, is pretty crazy.

If anyone at LE reads this, thank you for your work!
What are your skillz? Please tell us you are already have some programming chops :-)
Yes, that's the common criticism - that "only one party was hit by leaks".

But to that I say - so what? Would Democrats have been just as outraged if it was the Republicans having their info leaked, like say Trump's tax returns?

I remember the Democrats were pretty damn gleeful about Romney's "47 percent" comment, which was recorded without his permission and then leaked to the press. Why didn't Democrats cry that "HEY! We should see Obama's secret recordings, too! It's not fair that only Romney's recordings are being leaked."

Nobody did that, and nobody would've done that if it had happened to Trump, because in reality the reaction is extremely partisan, and has nothing or very little to do with the principle of "influencing the election".

Also, the Democrats have been pissed off about Trump not releasing his tax returns because they thought that by hiding that he was essentially manipulating the public.

I completely agree with that, but now let's turn back to Clinton and admit that Clinton hiding the fact that her team, the DNC, and the media colluded to help her win, was also a manipulation of the public. Something the public should have learned about.

Which party gets the most leaks has little to do with anything, and I also see very few people blame the DNC for having such poor security in the first place.

And I don't follow much right-wing media, perhaps they did cover this a lot, but as far as "mainstream media" goes, I remember they were trying very hard not to cover what was in the emails, and instead kept trying to make the conversation about "Russians hacking the DNC and helping Trump".

So I'm not even sure if the emails influenced the election that much. And most of Sanders' supporters who were engaged in the primary were already aware of the collusion between the DNC and Clinton long before any of the leaks, because it was obvious. Why do you think there were so many protests at the DNC (which were also not covered that well in the media) that embarrassed Democrats?