skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an excerpt from a success story posted at https://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/34991937/

We've implemented 802.1x with dynamic vlan assignment already, meaning that when a user connects either wired or wirelessly they get shunted into the appropriate segment of the network (and potentially into overlapping subnets). This ensures strong segregation based on their identity/certificate. So we really want to plug openvpn into that and allow users a single certificate to always end up in their same segregated section of the network without having to create separate VPN subnets for them.

TLDR: These patches allow OpenVPN to be used in enterprise environments with RADIUS authentication and dynamic VLAN assignments.
I think a tangential issue is the assumption that science can decide one particular course of action to be the correct one, often expressed in a form such as that the science of climate change tells us that we must build solar farms and wind turbines. Science doesn't, in fact, tell us that, directly at least -- but it can tell us that if we want to combat the root cause of climate change, we need to decrease CO2 emissions, and major component of CO2 emissions is electricity generation, and solar and wind are reasonably practical, comparably low CO2 options, compared to most other option. But they are also expensive, and science can't tell us if it's 'worth it' (specifically if its more 'worth it' than other competing expenses), for an example.

Scientists understand this, headline writing journalists less so, and agenda-pushing activists and politicians definitely don't.
Wow, that is really hard to read.
"We're Groupon for viral infections."
I'm all in on this.
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As I said,I prefer commuting by rail on weekdays, not driving. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.
Any app that tries to make me talk to strangers is an instant no from me. I can do that quite easily without an app and I choose not to, daily.
If they do that just give them a negative review for doing so. If enough of us do that the problem would soon be solved.
Things are "worth" the price that the market will bear. If rides were worth more, at the current supply, then Lyft would charge more.

Why should a new car be valued by market principles but rides not?

To increase price, you must decrease supply.
There's not much to trust anyway. If you're using it for geoblocking, you probably don't care that some company knows you're watching some movie. HTTPS websites are still safe if the app isn't somehow hacking the browser. Non encrypted traffic was never hidden from much anyway. My ISP even injects ads into HTTP websites.
> Sure, and one day the JVM will get TCO just as it's getting value types

You're more optimistic than I am. And honestly proper TCO doesn't seem to be all that important to "regular" java programmers[1], it's just that it's crucial for $ALT_LANGUAGE implementers. (Where ALT_LANGUAGE has a functional flavor.)

[1] I'm guessing that this is the reason that it hasn't been prioritized... but who knows what complexity would rear its ugly head if one were to actually try to implement TCO on the JVM... I'd hazard a guess that it's 'highly non-trivial'.
Interesting. You clearly have more insight than me on this.

One thought on the premium to the final round... Late growth investors are still looking for 3X returns (Versus say 10X from early investors) and the earlier investments carry a liquidity discount. 2X is still very good, but it's not the return that will carry the losers in the fund.

And yes - they should all celebrate. As should the rest of us! Every unicorn that exits reduces the backlog, and provides more liquidity for the rest of us.
I think there are many people out there who use python because its practical and useful to them, but they don't love it, and that is completely fine. Anything good is a compromise between different groups and Python is no exception to that rule. I think Python does a decent job at appeasing both functional zealots as well as objection oriented fanatics.
>Those three things are not equal. Life is more important than liberty.

There are a lot of revolutionaries that would like to have a word with you.
Hehe, exactly. "We had yuge crowds! The biggest crowds! At least when compared to Bush..."
"Science is showing" is the new word of god...
This feels like what Meetup does. What makes this app different?
I don't think that rule can apply for anonymous Internet commenters listing objective claims. You probably don't have enough information to determine the partisanship of the commenter, and even if you did, their claims are either true or false, and debating that is almost certainly a better use of time.
It would all be so much more convincing if scientists fought for the facts from the start. Having been there, I have seen lots of scientists fight for publications, status, grant money, etc (and the 'winners' coming from that ilk - and not the honest type). It felt like facts at best were a second class citizen in the career of a scientist. I suppose that's just human, but then we shouldn't be making scientific results to such an apotheosis.
Consider Proudhons famous "property is theft" for a moment.

His point is that enforcing property rights explicitly deprives others. If something is scarce, then the moment I wall it off, others become poorer for it.

Sometimes that may be worth it: the deprivation of others may be small, and the benefits to the individual of being able to wall something off might be high.

Even the vast majority of anarchists and communists would draw a sharp line between private property + the "means of production" vs. personal property. To put it rather pointedly: Pretty much everyone agrees that granting every random stranger the right to use your toothbrush deprives us of more rights than it provides us.

Where exactly the line goes on what should be shared and what should not is one of the major differentiating factors of political ideologies, but that there is a line is recognised by every present-day government in the world.

The enforcement of exclusionary property rights might enhance everyones rights and freedoms when what is walled off is so common that there is no perceptable increase in freedom from protecting part of it or when the benefits of exclusionary access are large enough to overcome the downsides, and it might enhance some peoples rights all the time, but it may also cause a drastic, profound reduction in the rights of many once something is scarce enough that allowing some people exclusionary control of it has the potential to significantly deprive others.

To take an extreme example: If all the resources you could have used to obtain food belongs to someone else, you've just de facto lost the right to live and having a de jure right to life does not help you.

This also acts as its own counter-example: If you don't have right to control your own wealth, then the ability to eat depends on the willingness of socity to let you.

And therein lies the problem with looking at a right to controlling your own wealth: Depending on how the society you happen to live in today is structured in terms of your ability to obtain wealth, and who has ownership, you may have more de facto rights with a right to control your own wealth or more without it. And that structure can change, and suddenly reverse the effect.

In other words, a "right to control your own wealth" does not provide a universal good, but one that is conditional on circumstances. That is my biggest problem with considering it as suitable to be a human right.
>I'm just saying that there is a certain design ugliness that seems to be unique to turn of the century technology.

And I'm saying that this is highly subjective and/or controversial.

There are tons of beautiful 80s and 90s electronics devices.
With the risk of feeling the power of the ban hammer, here is the obligatory reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUKcXxbU4U
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If you're too numb or stubborn to learn the tools that your programming environment provides for writing higher quality code, I have little sympathy and would suggest that such a person fond another line of work.

If, for instance, someone were writing C# and insisted on hand-rolling for loops in all cases[1], because LINQ is "too hard", that's them being lazy and unwilling to invest a tiny amount of effort in learning more effective methods.

[1] There are some cases where it's more performant to use a plain foreach or bare for, but unless you're in tight loops or dealing with ginormous collections, it's a premature optimization.
> Why was this even posted here on HN?

That's why YC added the Hide button. With one click, you can simply hide posts that don't interest you.
Not all those things are actually getting worse!

Crime is falling in the long term, not rising, at least in the US. Much of the world now allows same-sex marriage, which I think is an important civil rights advancement.

I take your points on war, the crackdown on whistleblowers, income inequality. But on the upside, we have tremendous advances in medicine (is that "just" technology?)

It's a mixed picture, not a universally gloomy one.
that seems like a terrible idea?
I wonder if there is any potential danger to having a public Bitcoin wallet string. I don't know if you can "receive bad money" for example. I don't know.
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PlayOnLinux is a community application using WINE and with CrossOver you get full time employees working on the latest issues on Wine and first releasing their fixes into the application.

They then turn the code over to WINE downstream. So when you help CrossOver you financially help WINE and a person who will help you with your problem within 24 hours. Also CrossOver gives you their bottle system and a great website to get your stuff working.
The real tragedy was that people were implored to chop down blighted trees. A few of those may have had genetic resistance that could have kept the species going.
Nice feature. And at this point i have dilemma, i stopped os x updates after Apple decided to remove remaining battery time. I like f.lux idea, but sometimes have some problems with it, so i would like to test Night Shift. Hope remaining time will return with future update
HazeOver is an app for macOS that does similar, dimming windows except the active one.
Congrats on your launch, nice website and getting to the first page of HN!
Some feedback :

1. It took me a moment to figure out what the app actually does. As some other posters suggested, the name doesn't sound very straightforward.

2. I think it's an idea that could be explained very nicely in a video. Happy people, happy places. Everybody using the app.

3. Can somebody explain me (this is not the first time I see it) why so often the download buttons are "download on the app store" and then "get it on google play"? Why a different verb? Is there any implicit reasoning behind it?
What is the proposed alternative? (using a named function or method just seems to be semantically the same, just more characters)
These are really, really good ideas. My first one was:

"We're Tumblr for primary schools."

I guarantee nobody is doing that, and I guarantee you can make a $10 million business sharing primary school drawings with parents via a safe, tumblr-like interface parents can view on. This is a good idea.

my next one was:

"We're special sun glasses for Australians."

This is an instant win. It's a fanstaic idea. And with that kind of branding (Australian outback sunglasses) The whole world would buy one. I'm living in a temperate climate with 4 seasons - I'd wear them in the spring and summer for sure. Great idea.

the next one made me lose interest

"We're Groupon for WOW players."

since neither groupon nor WOW is buzzy enough right now. I won't look at any more.

They need to step up their game - it started off strong but then went legacy.
One could as well write it today. Assuming it's a free country and they do find them hideous or doing it for joking purposes (as the author does).
I should think the same is true of many psychoactive substances, and effectively all drugs of abuse. Experience and observation tend to bear out this surmise. A more useful question might be why this is such a controversial point when it comes to cannabis, and cannabis alone.
Science must be political when it comes to self-preservation. It must not bias or censor research due to politics, which is where we're currently headed.
> Sure, the Go compiler is really fast, but Turbo Pascal would beat it hands down - on 20Mhz machines with 1MB of RAM.

With more features (TP 7)!
What is Turkey’s problem with Darwin?
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I read the other day a bullshity response in their forums like that their objective was to understand human behaviour not just set timers or something like that.

Edit:

- "Our goal is to further the understanding of human biology, not just turn things orange on a timer. It's a longer term undertaking and a much more difficult one."

https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/237/custom-sunset-sunrus...
And DOS-Box. GOG.com Masters of Orion 2 and many older games work great on it.
> freezing EPA funds, censoring EPA twitter, replacing web pages on climate change with fossile fuel propaganda

That's not science, that's politics. You might very reasonably disagree with it, but there's no branch of scientific inquiry that says that the EPA should be funded to a specific amount or be communicating in a certain way.

Obama expanded the EPA to care about climate change, Trump is reining it back in. C'est la political vie, and it should be dealt with like any other politics one might disagree with, but it's nothing to do with science.
>The very ending is a little bit cheesy.

Compared to today's superhero movies?
The administration itself named their blatant lies "alternative facts", though I guess the media could be blamed for not reminding us strongly enough that we are discussing obvious lies.
Many years ago, probably around 2005 or so, I got tired of seeing threads on comp.os.linux.advocacy where someone would ask about the Linux equivalent to Windows program X, someone would mention that X works great under emulation with wine, and someone would jump in to say the Wine is not an emulator (and usually also manage to say "Windoze" or "Losedoze", refer to Microsoft as "M$" or "M$FT", and of course tell the first poster that it is "GNU/Linux", not "Linux").

I recalled that the people who actually wrote Wine had certainly called it an emulator, and so was curious why they had stopped. I researched it, wrote it up and probably posted it to to Usenet. Later, in 2009, I went to the "talk" page for the Wikipedia "Wine" article and added a note saying that there was some interesting history behind the interpretation of the project name that might be nice to try to work into the article, and gave the research and references so that if anyone wanted to have a go at it that could provide a starting point.

For the HN post, I just went to that talk page and grabbed my prior research.
Throwing someone in prison for refusing to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade is no less egregious a violation of human rights than invading their privacy or their right to free speech.

The right to control one's own wealth is arguably the most important human right, since its infringement is the cause of so much death and poverty around the world.
How much can you trust these lowend box providers?

I talked to one guy who was utterly incompetent and another one who was really shady...
Is Jython good though?

Last I used it is had issues keeping pace, i.e. demonstrable memory issue that took a long time to fix, lagged considerably behind python 2/3 versions.

It's also worth noting, that as an essentially transcompiled language, you need to have a good appreciation of Java machinery, in which case languages like Groovy provide good competition.
>The music is contrived and laughably bad

That never stopped chart-topping artists...
I think that's pretty unlikely to be honest - or at least easily avoided. There's enough reputable hosting providers out there (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OVH, Digital Ocean, etc etc) that there isn't really any excuse for signing up with a provider who does MITM your VMs traffic.

That all said, I'm not excluding the possibility of providers logging network connections passively. The way around that is to run more than one VPN; that way any particular provider only has visibility of either the destinations but not the source, or the source but not the destinations. I'm not recommending that people need or should run two VPNs though - just adding it as a workaround against passive snooping by hosting providers.
Already used for amp pages, would be confusing. The power cord is probably the right symbol, probably with an explanation if you hover over it.
+1 for "If it compiles, it works" .... been there done that ... multiple times !!! And yes in the beginning the feeling of "it works on the first run" was just strange and it get me some time getting used to it
It's not only that. I think the bigger issue is that because of it's Ruby-like syntax it encourages newcomers to think in Ruby rather than in Erlang. Rather than emphasising what's the core of Erlang it attracts people with it's syntax, which is the least important aspect of a language.
Overuse has killed the actual meaning of a lot of words. Don't even get me started on 'genius'.
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There are also plenty that would insist that insisting on a right to property is fundamentally incompatible with liberty, and can even be incompatible with a right to life (e.g. if enforcement of property rights de facto takes away peoples realistic ability to provide for themselves).

EDIT: We even have good historical examples of the latter, such as the Great Famine in Ireland, where food exports continued - people died because other peoples property rights were put before their right to life, and people had no realistic prospect of acquiring or growing food in time to compensate for the crop failures. Notably, in contrast, in at least one past famine, the government had banned food exports to force prices down.
Popular vote doesn't matter for who becomes president, but neither does the presence or lack of a "landslide." But both can certainly be relevant when analyzing an election.

Also, the "CA and NY would run the US" is an extremely weak argument. It's logically equivalent to saying that Texas and Oklahoma are currently running the US, since their electoral votes are sufficient to swap the winner from Trump to Clinton.
Do scientists understand this? I've tried to have this sort of conversation with scientists and most don't see things that way. I don't know if contemporary scientists see themselves as activists or if they are too hooked on grant money to give up the notion of scientific hyperauthority (reminded of Upton Sinclair's lament about getting people to understand things)
I think there's a difference between saying something was "a humbling experience" and "I am exceptionally humble".
Ganglion cells[0] are sensitive to blue light and produce melatonin, one of the few sleep regulating hormones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically_photosensitive_r...
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True, but I don't think that's what they mean here.

Talking about wealth to the poor is like talking about intelligence to the idiots... I think Coinbase are too full of themselves!
It is very simply a spelling that reflects my opinion of 0bama. I normally spell it as "0" but I wasn't sure if it would be clear in context.

The net effect of his presidency will surely be near zero. While I don't agree with everything on the Trump agenda, much of it is long overdue.

Of most relevance to HN, I expect the economy to boom!
How did you commit to planting the trees? Is that an organized program?
I still don't get it. Why would sparsely populated states' interests be underrepresented if every individual vote were equal? That only makes sense if you think land area or population density is a primary unit of relevance regarding political influence, which to me seems completely arbitrary.
Poisson distribution – chance of a number of events in time and/or space
Do you have any reasons other than having a somewhat decent idea of how much time you have left? Battery power doesn't work on a time basis as power expenditure isn't consistent.
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Most egregious example are the 'status' updates by young entrepreneurs on how humbled they are to appear within Forbes 30 under 30, etc. Always written as if they are congratulating their peers (the future world leaders).

It's the opposite of being humbled. It's amusing (and a little disturbing) that it can be dressed up the way it is.
> I still find it interesting how many people dismiss Cygnus's business model out of hand when entering the open source market. […] What is interesting to me is that I've never heard of anyone else even trying it.

Well, as I understand it, part of the reason is that contrary to their origin story, Cygnus didn't really follow the "Cygnus Business Model" either, and anyone trying similar tactics since then has had to deal with much greater visibility.
"Those “public-facing documents” include news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds and social media content, said Sharon Drumm, chief of staff of the Agricultural Research Service."
FWIW, the folks working on TruffleRuby have done some amazing things on this front - essentially making an interpreter for Ruby C extensions that JITs to code that's more-or-less identical in performance to the original native version.
Modesty is my best quality.
The use of fake personas is despicable, whoever is using them. In this case it's supporters of Front national.
Not true anymore...
Thanks. I forgot that HN doesn't like <>.
It's all of Germany, uber got basically banned by court order. In Berlin they coorporate with a local taxi company, but uber as in other countries cannot exist in Germany.
Hmm, when did this appear? That's got to be pretty irritating if you run a solitaire site to earn a living from the ad revenue. (I have a friend who does this - not the World of Solitaire guy, although fair play to him because he has almost every variant known to humankind on there.)
I ran No Man's Sky without problems. It's an OpenGL game so there are fewer incompatibility issues.
In a nutshell, an app that shows you which of your contacts happen to pass by close to you or viceversa, so you can socialize in person with them. Is that correct?
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Or working in game development with low latencies to achieve high frames per second.
>Only less than 1% of the negative re-
views relate to security and privacy concerns, including the
use of abusive or dubious permission requests and fraudulent
activity, for the 9 apps listed in Table 7.

Of course. People don't install these VPN apps because they want their traffic to be "secure" or "private". They install them because they want to bypass geographical restrictions for content.

Nobody cares about traffic being insecure, or ads being injected in pages--users just want to see that geolocked video and get on with it.
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So, the way Apple choose to solve the lack of extensions for their browser was to keep everything the same and charge 100$/year on top of that. Doesn't seem like a very smart business practice.

In any case you are forgetting that although you can install extensions made outside Apple Dev. program, you can't update them because they aren't signed. You have to keep checking the extension page (like uBlock Origin), see when there is a new version, download the new version, and re-install it... all manually.