skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glamor-prepping, glepping: the ultimate fuck-you-I-got-mine to any young people still struggling to come up in the society that these wealthy people wield an undue influence over.

What happens when everybody at the top has their private island sanctuary but still holds power in the society we all have to live in?
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Not to mention a Civil War, World War II and the Cold War. I think we'll all be alright.
"Turns out it kindof doesn't.

After some quick reading, [1] a "kill box" is still subject to the standard rules of engagement."

If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. The US military does not in any meaningful sense follow its own rules of engagement, the rule of law, international law, common moral decency. The examples are legion and extremely well documented.
Ultimately, how is this plan by Google going to affect sites that are hosted on a virtual server hosting plan?

For instance, I have a website hosted at Hurricane Electric on a virtual server plan. I've had hosting there for well over a decade. I like their service, the virtual host works well for most of my needs. There are two areas where it doesn't work, though (AFAIK):

1. I can't run a pure NodeJS website.

2. I can't set up HTTPS.

Number one isn't relevant to this discussion; but as far as I know, the second one is a big deal. There isn't any way (AFAIK) to host multiple virtual servers each with their own certificate.

So right now (well, with the release of v56 of Chrome) - if you have a Wordpress site or something on a virtual host that has a login - it's going to show something that says "unsecure" for the login/password form. Honestly, I am fine with that. My own site isn't a Wordpress site, but I do have a login/password box on the site, and having it show that it is insecure is not a big deal to me. While there isn't much or anything I can do about it, I do understand and support the reasoning.

But...

...in the future, they want to mark -all- non-HTTPS sites as "insecure" - regardless of what the site does, presumably. It could just be a collection of static html pages (no javascript, no forms, nothing special), and it will still be marked as "insecure"? Does this sound reasonable? Suddenly, all of these pages will be deemed pariahs and non-trusted because they choose to use non-encrypted means of presentation?

Is there any solution to this, as it stands? Or are all of us with virtual hosting solutions going to have to migrate to some cloud-based server solution, with it's own IP, then obtain our own certificate (easier today, I know - and cheap to free, too) - just to get around this? Is this the end of virtual private server hosting (or is it going to be relegated to third-tier)?

I don't currently know what if anything Hurricane Electric plans to do regarding these changes. I don't want to move to another hosting provider if I can avoid it (while HE isn't the cheapest for what you get, they are nice in that they assume you know wtf you are doing - your hosting is basically access to the server via ssh and sftp - so you better know how to admin and set things up via a shell, because they aren't going to hold your hand).

I'm thinking I should send an email to them to ask them what they're planning to do - if anything.
Haha I wasn't seriously advocating such a bizarre aition. Rather I was encouraging a reconsideration of parent's proposal, which as you say is "as weird". Perhaps my encouragement was too obliquely ironical, as is often the case.
Do you know the legal requirements to work in the certificate-granting department of a CA?

There is no legal bar whatsoever. No bond, nothing.

> I think it is probably safe to say that a single digit percentage of attorneys in NY state can even articulate what an SSL cert is, much less be trusted to issue them.

Sure, and I don't even expect them to really know the details of a driver's license either. I only expect them to actually spend two minutes checking ID, photocopying the request, etc.

With a physical appliance all they'd need to do would be lock it in a safe.

> This idea is wholly, entirely preposterous.

No, that's the certificate system in the first place. That a CA in China can sign a cert for a company in another country, etc.
Agree. The argument was semi-relevant but on the way out when I learned to program 6 years ago.

If in half a decade things haven't been ported there are more serious issues.
I've been discussing basic cash solvency with my small circle of influence for years. My credibility went up with the folks when I had to wire thousands of dollars to them when they were vacationing in Europe.

And, if I were in this man's situation, my second stop would have been the local FBI office to report bank theft. ACTUAL bank theft.
I noticed that when I was watching asset marketplaces and examples for both engines.

Unreal Engine seems more professional with advanced graphic and serious tools by default and Unity seems like an engine for indie studios who work on creating more creative games with unique styles. Of course, it's at first glance.

Thanks for the answer, I'll consider this in my decision.
Technically a submariner is a sports watch, so if anything, it's more appropriate to wear with shorts and a t-shirt.
I'm really not sure why you're being downvoted here. This is absolutely spot-on and part of the reason why the whole 'teleconferencing will wipe out business travel' movement never really took off the way it was intended. There is absolutely value in meeting together in person, if nothing else other than to deepen a relationship. This is especially true in non-US cultures where a deep emphasis is placed on building trust in person before ever getting to business related matters.

As a side note, I've used pretty much all of the major video conference vendors and find it extremely annoying that, even in 2017, some rather large percentage of calls will have some kind of issue during a call, if it can connect at all.
I was pretty happy with the onboarding at flowkey.
You can. It's incredibly easy, too: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6079398?hl=en
I had a GV as the primary in my resume for years. Last year, many recruiters emailed me that calls weren't going through with a recording stating "The person you are trying to reach is not accepting calls at this time". I asked in GV forums to not avail.

I don't know how many nice job opportunities I missed when hiring managers saw my application but could not call me back until I detected the issue.

Ended up switching everything to a new VoIP number I can control in my asterisk server. Only feature I miss is the speech-to-text on voicemails.
No one is exempt from trials & tribulations.Yet joy comes to those that maintain. Be blessed knowing this to shall pass.
I'd recommend Cracking the Coding Interview for studying for interviews.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/243071.php

That's the tl;dr version. For each of those bullet points there is obviously some nuance, e.g. knowing how much exercise counts as being physically active.
> I mean, I feel like everyone hating on this article either:

You're ignoring the third possibility: S-W and CB types are more likely to say negative things about this article, and upvote criticizing comments (like one by basseq).

Personally, I largely agree with the article (I relate to the W-S type). However I didn't really understand the difference between S-W and CB (highly distilled version? author didn't expand on that). To me, all S-W types look like bullshitters.
This is mostly about phone scammers, pretending to be from either law enforcement, the IRS or, in the right country, to have kidnapped a family member. They don't rely on the victim having a computer, but just a cell phone. They just use high pressure tactics that don't give people time to think.
> need constant whipping to stay on track

> The threat of your manager sticking their head round the corner is a stick that keeps on-site employees grinding along.

I would appreciate it if you'd share your current company/team, I'd imagine some other hner's would appreciate the heads up too, so they can avoid it.
How many paid people does it take to maintain these huge compounds?? These people don't seem to understand that all of their wealth and possessions only belong to them because there is a big organized power system that says so, with lawyers and cops with guns and people that are required to obtain cash money every month. 5 seconds after things go south, that helicopter belongs to the pilot, not to you. That land you're buying belongs to the person standing on it. If you're really afraid of the apocalypse, then stock up on the only things that will matter afterwards: friends and family, real relationships not based on money. That and some hand tools and guns.
Their Super Mario Run example is great for the "what not to do" department.

http://www.useronboard.com/how-supermariorun-onboards-new-us...
And Apple, since you can't replace mobile Safari, just reskin it.
No, the header cannot be protected. File formats cannot themselves be protected at all. What you can do is patent algorithms that are used to produce the data for the format. But there's nothing in the 16-byte iNES header that would qualify for patent protection (and of course the format author didn't seek protection in the first place).

As for ROM ripping tools, you're assuming that Nintendo took someone else's non-commercial ROM ripping tool and used it, instead of dumping the ROM themselves. Besides, where do you even get the info that "every ROM ripping tool" is for Non-commercial purposes? I just searched for a NSES rom dumper and found something called the Kazzo cartridge "INL Retro" NES Dumper-Programmer and there's no sign anywhere on the page or the readme.txt of it being restricted to non-commercial purposes.

> Source: I own patents

Then you should know that you actually have to file for patents in order to have them, which the author of the iNES format didn't do (and couldn't even do, because there's nothing in there that qualifies for patent protection).
I got hit by credit card fraud related to this story.

I either got skimmed at a gas pump or at a restaurant.

What I saw were 4 Western Union transactions on my card, each for $255 USD. Two per day with this string - "WU*XXXYYYZZZZ" - where XXXYYYZZZZ is a phone number.

My issuer shut down the card and issued me another one. I was not responsible for the charges.

Also, the issuer said the reason they did not send me a fraud message was because the charges were occurring around the holidays where large charges are commonplace.
No. I learned Rails a year ago upon joining my first Rails-using company. My 20 years in software engineering says that Rails is the wrong pattern. Recent chats with a recruiter in the Boston area who has gotten me jobs in the past say they're having trouble finding people to fill Rails jobs. People don't want to work in Rails.

OTOH; I could be wrong. Lots of successful products have been written in Rails (including at my current employer). There's still a 3 month intensive here teaching Rails as their first platform; but the curriculum has been split to now also do node.js
I think the "digital folder" part is the loser here. It sounds like the difference between grabbing a collection based on the client and project (or date, or...) with the RedBooks, vs. reading a book via its index (digital folder). That is, the UI for a RedBook vs the UI for accessing a digital folder are fundamentally different, and the digital folder hierarchy is/was demonstrably worse. Sounds like a banal conclusion I'm sure, but the organization of these kinds of assets can actually be done wrong.
Having created a rather large project for VR that's currently doing quite well ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760 - horror/RPG for the Vive) - Unity all the way.

Unreal's a lot heavier-weight and has processes which are probably very applicable for a larger team, but slow things down quite a lot for an individual dev.

Unity's fast and reasonably intuitive to work with, and the Asset Store ecosystem adds a lot too.

Caveat: I've not done extensive work in Unreal. I used it enough to determine it felt too heavyweight for my needs. I wrote some of my conclusions up over here, although at the time I was looking at film production rather than VR: http://www.strangecompany.org/development-notes-unreal-engin...
do you consider yourself successful using this system?
I think the parent really meant publishable where he said finished. Some kind of minimum viable product. That's what shows you can cut through the BS and wishlist and fun-to-code stuff in favor of the details and grind of getting something out the door and functioning to serve an audience.
In Silicon Valley I can imagine it means "over 30"
> And yet, by fixing any one of those, you'll probably break something else.

That's an empirical claim and I doubt it's true. Sure, sometimes you'll break something else, but 50% of the time plus? I'm gonna need to see some evidence.
Really? All my ZFS pools sitting encrypted and on a private network not attached to the internet in general in my home/office? They can mine that? Wow I am impressed!
Agreed. Many very, very talented people don't love what they're talented at. As a result they do as little as they can to get paid well and support their families/interests.

Working from home removes a lot of the accountability of their time management and also removes a lot of the 'you don't look busy, got time for something else?' that can happen with working at the office.
Thanks. It's a 1987 Land Rover 110. It is ex-British Army and I bought it from a government liquidation firm in the UK and imported it myself. I did my own frame and engine swap on it so the body and interior are pretty much the only original bits. It has a Land Rover 300Tdi diesel engine.

I don't blog much but I have done a few stories for Expedition Portal:

http://expeditionportal.com/expedition-journal-the-owhyee-de...

Here's the story of importing the truck:

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/103685-Rocinan...

And a story about a Utah trip:

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/111216-Utah-Ro...
We tried a number of voice options last year. The best voice quality we've found that works internationally is TeamSpeak.
Dip a page in a 50% alcohol solution and set fire to it. Dry. Now you have a clean page again!
In a sense. The size of the group matters - inside the group you have trusted allies. Two foragers are safer than one; three are safer than two. And so one.
> Also, a $586m fine for a company that makes $14b a quarter? Is that standard?

It could be quite fair depending on the scope of the fraud. Fines at all levels in the U.S. are roughly based on the scope of wrongful activity, not income. Two people both speeding 10 mph over the limit don't get fined different amounts based on their income.
Not sure if you're still reading, but there's definitely a life pattern to this.

I'd say SF is great for

0-5: Fine to be in SF, doesn't make much of a difference. Parents take you everywhere, but it's all pretty compact and there are lots of fun programs. The academy of sciences, the various discovery museums, and playgrounds You're often driving regardless of whether you're in a city.

6-11: Better to be in the 'Burbs. I grew up in SF, west of twin peaks, in the 70s, and back then, it was an ocean of kids playing outside, unsupervised. There's much less of that now. At this stage of life, the kids in safe suburbs may actually develop more independence than the city kids, because it's safer for them to be outside, riding off on bikes, and so forth (really, even in the 70s, parents in many SF neighborhoods would say "you're being too loud, get out of the house and don't come back until dinner" - you were expected to be in earshot when dinner was called, but eh, everyone was called in at that hour). I do see plenty of kids playing outside in SF, once you get to the medium density neighborhoods, but overall, my guess (don't really know, I grew up in SF and am raising my kids here) is that this is better in the burbs.

12-15: Better to be in SF. You learn to get around on the bus, muni, and bart, you can go visit friends at distance, you can grab your skateboard and explore the city, usually nearby where you live. Your independent mobility is vastly better than a car dependent suburban kid.

16-18: Better to be in SF. You start getting more interested in more cultural and adult activities. The drinking age in SF (the US) will limit your access to some cultural activities for some time, but you can go to coffee shops, art galleries, museums, musical events (some good jazz takes place in coffee shops rather than bars).

EDIT - eh, figuring it's pretty clear this is all opinion, and a bit from the hip. But a lot of this is actually the difference between SF and exurbs, not really so much suburbs. There are suburbs that are more accessible on bikes/buses, with enough going on to be interesting to older kids.
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It's not allowed or condoned, but they can.

In 2010, there had been two cases, https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-fired-secu...
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> Remember Google infamously rejecting Max Howell, the original Homebrew author

If Donald Knuth interviewed with Google, he would fail too because he would need 24 hours to solve a hard level leetcode question[1]. Unfortunately, Google loves throwing those kind of questions at interviewees and expect them to come up with solutions within 1 hour interview, lol.

[1] - http://keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=find-duplicate
"Symantec caught once again improperly issuing illegitimate HTTPS certificates"

So I wonder what the correct way to issue illegitimate HTTPS certificates is?
The man says to his peers on the global communications network.
Don't go live without one or more of these APM tools
As an engineer on cloud, at Google, that is very extremely patently false.

First, all your data at rest, on disk, is encrypted. You can even supply your own keys if you wish: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplie...

If you are using Google Managed keys, the keys are stored in a special key storage service. To access your files, a staffer would have to read the keys, then go and read the data and decrypt it. Both of these steps are extremely logged, and require Googlers to take particular, and specific steps that are audited and easy to spot (and we audit this all the time, proactively). And not every Engineer (and no non-engineers) has the access to even get to that.

Accessing user data, in any form, is a very fire-able offense, and people have been terminated over it.

Our internal controls are very robust. We spent a lot of resources on encryption and ensuring it's available at many different levels. This is one area where I feel Google Cloud is better than bare hardware, the on-disk encryption is default and cannot be turned off.
> the battery production capacity is apparently nowhere near enough to supply companies like Tesla

All conjecture, but it could have just been a risk thing, not a capacity thing.

Tesla isn't a problem, it is Tesla's ambitions that are a problem. There is sufficient supply for the Model S/X but not the Model 3 and they were likely having difficulty finding a partner willing to spin up enough production capacity for the later.

If I were to hazard a guess everyone wasn't willing to take on the risk at the usual price so there was enough price difference (to cover the risk of problems) that it made sense for Tesla to spend the capital to build there own.

Heck you might even be able base Tesla's expanding ideas of what to do with batteries on this. "What do we do if we can't sell the cars at the expected price point so we move fewer of them?" "Just make other products that can shore up demand".

Again all baseless conjecture but depending on the quantities involved could make sense. If Tesla said "I guarantee I will by X but you need to be able to produce 5X in case I don't run into any issues" would you bite without compensation for that risk?
Using Portier with Python's asyncio
Here's the US Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) complaints:

https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/wufsi-a...

https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/western...

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And the related official DOJ announcement covering the agreement:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/western-union-admits-anti-mon...
"You" also don't control your servers if you have them maintained by a local IT outsourcing firm (as thousands of businesses with onsite domain controllers, file, and Exchange servers did in my small Rust Belt city). Said IT firm probably has a big KeePass vault on a shared folder whose password is known to 30+ technician, and it also probably sold the boss on setting up remote access to save on technicians driving around.

I've worked for these companies, and I have no doubt that the cloud is much more secure.
Do you mean base pairs? Bases?
Please do not generalize your remarks to 'Nigerians', if anything specify 'Nigerian scammers'. As it is, you are earmarking a whole country with a negative connotation.
A lot of those just use ETA parts. Not that it's a bad thing, but overpriced IMO. Seikos are quality and good value, I have one, but of course there is a certain prestige in having a 'Swiss' watch.
What percentage of launch-capable civilizations have their own cautionary fable equivalent to the Slylandro civilization in Star Control 2, or the grey goo of Engines of Creation?

The probes reached their replication limit, then went into hibernation when they phoned home, and subsequently failed to receive a reset signal. Or perhaps they simply propagate too slowly. Imagine if the Morris worm spread only half as fast as the growth of the Internet itself.
As part of this they're touting much-improved transcription. Does anyone know if the the transcription system used for this is available for developers?
What does it take to be a good programmer?
Why not use Zinc–bromine batteries for cars?
The charged medium is liquid, so recharging equates a liquid exchange in 5 Minutes? Are these so heavy?
> We’re starting to roll out these updates today, and they’ll be available to everyone in the coming weeks.
I worked as a teller in a partner bank.

As far as the paying procedures go, the only thing I needed to check it's the recipients name. I couldn't pay a "John Doe" wire to a "Joseph Doe".

I also had a customer that sent a wire to a Cuban citizen / South American resident. The payment was rejected because of some US embargo against Cuba.
Same, don't want any of the other functionality but sure hope they don't mess this up.
Hmm... Seems like it involves not being on Hacker News..
The number of nuclear weapons peaked ~30 years ago and has declined precipitously since then:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_...

(that other countries now have warheads doesn't make up much of the difference: http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/nuclear-arsenals/ )
Just sayin'... I'd prefer a manager like you over the alternative.
Who knows, maybe the Voice improvements over the coming months includes Fi compatibiltiy?
Life comes with its ups & downs..It's the decision we make that assures us of a positive outcome.
You can find here a few good examples. https://www.useronboard.com
Even if open source, we don't have a way of validating if the version running on their servers is the same or modified somehow.
have you looked at nativescript ? similar to react native, but it doesn't require building handmade boilderplate code to bridge into native. they have automated that stuff.