skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you also think "Bill Gates" whenever Obama droned and killed someone (he was one of his supporters/donors)?
(Mobile friendly)

From The New Yorker's profile of sama:

“My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end. After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero.

[...]

If the pandemic does come, Altman’s backup plan is to fly with his friend Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist, to Thiel’s house in New Zealand."

SOURCE: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-man...
If there's a law that allows for requirements to be waived in certain situations ("extraordinary ability"), I don't see how that is corrupt. Unfair? Maybe.

But most countries tend to give passports and/or residency rights to people investing a significant amount of money.
I'd rather hire someone who learned what not to do than someone who hasn't yet.
What this is, is another accidental slide down the slope towards centralisation of the web. Yes, it's easy for a techie to add a letsencrypt cert, but browsing with https-by-default I still hit a lot of sites that lack https - mostly the sort that run with practically zero maintenance for a non-technical business or community.

Browsers are going to show scary warnings for these (indistinguishable to the average user from any other warning), and then stop loading them altogether, and the sites will die only to be reborn (if at all) on facebook.
New Zealand is a beautiful place, but it's also rather boring and small, remote and inaccessible unless you own a car for local transit and can afford plenty of plane tickets for your larger travels.

I would disagree and say that the future of the worlds environment probably looks like the opposite of New Zealand, but I'll hand it to him, the New Zealand economy does look a lot like the future of the USA in my opinion if Trump continues down his path hurting innovating industries by favouring traditional factory work: irrelevant.

As a VC Thiel is used to people saying what it takes to get what they want. I am pretty sure he's just going through the motions, much like most people who come to him asking for money in exchange for an idea that will "change the world" are doing.
Am I missing something? Where in this report are any individuals actually named? My understanding was that they're using initials in place of names specifically because they want to _avoid_ naming anyone.
In the end, no matter the actual data, its human reception that matters. This seems to bear repeating.
That's why I do not use github/gitlab/whatever to host the part of my code that is too critical to me. I push it to my ssh/git server and use local UI to interact with it instead.

Sometimes source code is very valuable and you just can not make any mistakes with it.
Because I trust(ed) GitLab's backup procedures more than my own.
>Why can't Thiel like New Zealand and support Trump?

Because it's in bad taste to want to immigrate to / get citizenship at a country, when you're deep involved into politics that affect another country.
In the end, the answer is "it depends."
I have always heard this but never seen any real documented proof.

Its certainly not hard to fire/layoff people in the UK
> The story itself is liberal sensationalism.

No. I think this is the tip of the iceberg for giving publicly own lands to the private sector, at no gain to the people and a large gain to the new landowners for oil and mineral rights.

If you look on the web, you can find that some of these pushes to transfer public land are driven by campaign donations.

If the complaint is overgrazing, then make a push to stop leasing it for grazing.
unless we change our own nature as species

says who? libre software is only uncommon for consumers. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Red Hat, Oracle, et al, all depend on and contribute to libre software. a lot of other companies develop libre software and manage to turn a profit. personally, i have used libre software to build production systems at every step of my career.
Yeah, poor Peter Thiel. It's a real shame that people have opinions on his actions.
That's why browsers should color the backgrounds by the character codepoint. And do something crazier with multi-character icons.
They might not change their decision-making, but since they're quite influential — including having influence on governments — it's useful to know what they're up to and whether their public pronouncements match their private behavior.
Yes, but all the performance related praises should go to C.
But ar least I will be more informed.
Even ignoring health effects, it has a smell that can be sickening for non-smokers, and you can't control where the smoke goes. Ordinances against smoking are also nuisance ordinances, not unlike rules around excessively loud music or mufflers.

At this point some smokers like to bring up "b-b-but what if someone wears a ton of perfume??" but in practice basically nobody regularly takes a break to shoot perfume several times in a row into the air around them.
don't people feel silly putting "full stack developer" on their webpage and resume etc... full stack developer is just something someone is, but it's one of those things people say you are, not something you say you are..
It matters because all the heavy lifting is done by C and has little if anything to do with Python itself.

You could give the same treatment to virtually any other host scripting language (Ruby, Lua, PHP) and then make outlandish claims that that host language is now capable of ridiculous things when it had nothing to do with the alleged success other than that it exposes a FFI that lets you create something like this.
I feel like I have worked with people in corporate who sought these situations out. A no-work job was their goal, and boy did they work hard trying to achieve it.
In the bar & restaurant industry, it's pretty common for workers to drink and get high on the job.
Yes, there are differences.

The freedom of BLM land makes it great.

Once these spaces are privatized, there's no going back.
No, we Americans call them "multiple-choice tests" too. And they're bullshit.
Spying on Active Directory Users by Exploiting a TLD Misconfiguration
History can't be retconned this quickly.

The polls were done state by state and showed Hillary with a substantial electoral college advantage over Trump.

These poll results weren't about reporting on the feelings of the electorate, they were about trying to influence them.
So, serious question: if the property of a concatenative language is the ability to pass outputs to inputs of a function without specifying parameters, could Iolang or Smalltalk also be described as concatenative? Ie:

Transcript show: 'foo'; cr.

In this case the output of "Transcript show:" is the Transcript object, which is used as the sender for cr.
Creating Customer Quote Overlays
Very interesting, thanks. I never knew that key combinations on the terminal were actually just shortcuts to send specific control characters.

It's a bit confusing to me that the column header bits are added to the LEFT of the row identifiers. Might be helpful to report the row ids as "__00000" or similar.
Inside the 20-Year Quest to Build Computers That Play Poker
> I don't disagree that the media is biased but Trump is the President and still blatantly lying. That is not normal in a healthy government.

Simply invoking "liar" is not in itself important unless you point to an instance of a lie and a reliable non-partisan source that disproves it. That might be a high barrier for agreement but partisanship has reached toxic levels in the past few years.

> And you wonder why accusations of privilege are used? Reform may be needed but not everyone had the luxury of being buffered from the change process as they dismantle environmental regulations, welfare programs, and the institutions of government. This isn't some political game it's people's lives.

You realise it's largely the poor that voted him in? Poor white communities use the most welfare and they voted for Trump en masse. Perhaps it's because dignified people don't want to live on welfare, but want to have a job and contribute to society?

> Is there any objective evidence that the Trump administration isn't corrupt, doesn't have massive conflicts of interest, and isn't "business as usual" for special interests?

That's a burden of proof fallacy. The onus is on you to show that the administration is corrupt, has massive conflicts of interest and is business as usual for special interests. Simply going against your own political beliefs is not evidence of this either - for example, Trump wanting to improve relations with Russia is not evidence that Putin put him in the White House.

> I'm just as biased as you are but come on!! Do the tax returns and refusal to actually divest not bother you if you care about corruption etc?

Management of Trump's brand umbrella has been handed off to Ivanka for his time in the White House. You could argue that anyone who owns any company at all is potentially making corrupt dealings if they land in the White House - that doesn't justify making them detach permanently from their life's work. I'm not aware of any calls from his supporters to divest - only the opposition, who have been throwing so many accusations at him as to render their voice moot. Throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks does not lend itself towards being considered reasonably.
I switched to Dvorak about ~10 years ago. Took about 1 month to get comfortable. After 2-3 months I still wasn't as fast as qwerty, but it already felt more comfortable to type than qwerty for some reason.

Unfortunately I gave up after about 3 months, mostly because I kept changing computers at that point and it was a bit annoying to have to switch back and forth. In retrospect I regret that – maybe it's time to give it another shot
If I recall correctly all you have to do is deploy a cert on the client machine. The client connects to the machine doing the inspection and then it handles the final request under the real cert. They do this in corporate networks sometimes.
"We have to treat our country's citizenship like an asset"

Meanwhile:

"How dare the US have different immigration laws than us"
I switched to Dvorak for a summer and it got easier and much more nautral after a few weeks. Until Qwerty I did learn it the right way so it really did help with my typing speed and accuracy in the end.

But I ultimately went back to Qwerty when I ended up working for someone else as I was pair programming and dvorak was not working out so well with others. Haven't bothered picking it up again since.
Optimization by Hillclimbing – Dave Ackley [video]
Yes, Obama killed terrorist. He also got Osama. I will not cry for them. There was collateral damage, I feel bad for that. What was your point again?
Here's some I collected in a few minutes, until I couldn't take it any more. Most of the 600+ comments are like this.

"He didn't see the bulge in the First Yeti's crotch, so it all worked out!"

"- So much for the story of blind people's other senses improving. He couldn't smell her bile?"
"- Or jock sweat?"

"Those who have seen a Sasquatch up close and personal say the stench is the first thing you notice. I think the real reason Trump is staying in NYC for the time being is to give Stanley Steamer time to get all those Cleveland Steamers out of the drapes."

"They made the decision to throw the drapes away! Also paint the entire place with anti-Wookie stench paint for Purina's paint division."

"Does he know he's serenading to a man?"

"If he could see her...he'd likely puke and gouge his eyes out."

"Yup, anyone who thought he might be faking it can rest assured, he's as blind as a bat."

"He can't see the Wookie!"

""Isn't she ape-y" just doesn't have the right ring to it."

"A little Braille on Micheal might answer a few questions."

"Just give Mikey a quick cup check. Besides, Stevie ain't blind."

"Well, to be honest, they HAD to use Stevie. Anyone else would've been turned to stone."

"Serenading Chewbacca, how precious."

"Stevie wonder has no idea how lucky he is to be blind singing for that sow or correction boar..."

"You know how blind people feel a persons face to get an idea of what they look like? Stevie did that and asked "who let the wookie in!?"

"Wonder performed his hit songs “Isn’t She Wookie” and My Wookie Amour,” changing the lyrics to the latter song to include “My Michael Amour” while the First Wookie looked on."
Switched to programmer dvorak. Does it get better? For sure, it'll become second nature in a matter of months. Is it better? Maybe but I don't really know. All I know is I can't type QWERTY anymore and if I'm at someone else's desk I have to hunt and peck.
Sunrise Period for .ECO and more
Show HN: SECCOMP – A Secure Spreadsheet
Tunnelblick – Open source OpenVPN VPN client server software for Mac OS X
Seven years ago I switched to Colemak, smartest thing I ever did for my hands/wrists. It took two weeks of pain and very slow typing but considering the benefits it was very worth it.

I don't mean to start holy war here but consider Colemak instead of Dvorak. I did a lot of reading years ago before picking the right keyboard layout.
Facebook Account Recovery with GitHub (and Reverse)
No Apple Pay, Apple Wallet and iCloud get prompted with a confirmation prompt (so you have to decline twice each) on pretty much every iOS upgrade.

I do think that "harassed" is the appropriate term for this repetitive nagging.
Ask HN: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?
I use docker extensively with python backed ansible scripts to manage my product deployments (with a jenkins CI/CD pipeline). That has been a lot of fun, but I have also played with both Kubernetes and Openshift.

I love what Openshift Origin can do, but the learning curve is like a brick wall (See Dwarf Fortress Fun for an example) and the costs are far from minimal.

Kubernetes is easier to learn, but comes with its own gotchas.

What do you do to maintain stable deployments that allow for easy CI/CD? How do you minimize costs with your solution?
Elon Musk's Tunnel Under LA
I only meant trustworthiness in terms of predictability of performance.

The point was that Go's http stack and standard library and runtime being written all in Go gives me confidence that any Go code I write on top will enjoy the same performance characteristics and that there will be very few surprises. It's predictable due to its uniformity.
I was at the announcement. . . How fast is tunneling currently? How could he improve it by 5x to 10x?
I would like to take this moment to impart to all of you concerned about your business backups to make sure you are enabling your systems administrator with the budget, tools, personnel, and backing from management he/she needs to get the job done.

I have seen far too often one man miracle teams swimming in technical debt solving problems constantly but failing to have the time to play the political games needed to push for the kinds of changes they need. Obviously small operations setups are different, but for example, I've seen a ~250 person 6 branch business have 1 senior and 1 junior part time sysadmin, while his requests for a budget and personnel were constantly denied, and so he said his backup system worked but he knew it wasn't as good as he could make it. He eventually quit in frustration. He was a great sysadmin but didn't play enough politics and therefor he failed and his management failed him, all the while jeapordizing the business. Please don't do this to your sysadmin.

CTOs and CIOs, please take a moment to ask your sysadmin what things they need they haven't been able to convince you of yet, and see if you can compromise or otherwise try to lend their arguments importance.

In all but the leanest of SV web startup land, sysadmin are the backbone that keeps your company running. Don't neglect or forget them.

If you do, one day that backup may fail, or a cryptovariant will hit the server, and although you will scapegoat your sysadmin, it will have truly been your fault.
the only thing i routinely do is make caps another control.

i use probably 6 machines on a regular basis, and keeping them all keybound correctly is enough of a pain. i can't imagine the annoyance of a full remap. i never felt it was worth it.
the imagination of the jewish (recently mutilated baby) cocksucker who invented this preposterous, unbelievable nonsense
Even after reading the attached letter from Peter, it's not clear to me as to 'why New Zealand'.

Sure... friendly people, environment, business friendly gov, familiar culture, opportunity to contribute to startup community etc. Makes sense. But other Commonwealth countries could check those boxes too -- especially Canada -- that one would expect to be far more convenient and accessible.

Even the obvious not-spoken reason -- the isolation of New Zealand and its ability to act as a haven in case of global calamity -- could find analogues in Canada's vast wilderness for a man of his means. Actually, he might already have a landing strip and bunker somewhere next to a freshwater spring in the Canadian shield (Canada has 1/5th of the world's freshwater).

That said, Canada is locked in orbit with the US; so perhaps part of his rationale is ability to escape the US sphere of influence if needed too. Canada is also less ethnically homogenous than NZ, which some people may think will matter in a doomsday scenario. New Zealand also has much higher population density... one could imagine that mix of density and isolation being important when trying to rebuild civilization.
In fact in the dev blog of Youtube they showed it wasn't true. Can't find the post right now.
Thiel made the mistake of taking Trump seriously when he should have been taking him literally.
Also you may end up working at a place full of bad eggs. Prospective employees in Europe who have an interest in a productive life also have to vet the company to make sure they select employees carefully and put the effort to get rid of who shouldn't be there. And that's hard to do unless you know someone inside.
It gets better in terms of ease, especially if you practice and drill a bit. And it's really cool when you realise one day that you can type in both keyboards at about the same speed (because you will encounter qwerty more often than you think). The human brain is wacky.

But the fact is we live in a qwerty world. Even though I used dvorak for a while, I switched back. Partly because I'm a vim guy. The hjkl religion has a different god with a different keyboard and it all goes to shit. I mean there's dvorak-friendly vim mappings but at that point you're going down a rabbit-hole of ridiculousness.

That said, if the world was more dvorak-friendly (or you could convince your smaller world to be), that would be a good thing. And I would jump back in a heartbeat.

Also, I think I've read some keyboards like colmak are supposedly even better, so in terms of bang for buck it might be best investigating alternatives so you can optimize your degeneracy.
Oh, huh. Interesting.

In the first season of Silicon Valley, there's a part where (spoilers) a main character gets "unassigned" from a Google parody, and it's mentioned that it's inspired by some Japanese management technique.

I didn't know that was actually true.
I spent several months learning Dvorak a few years back. I got up to an almost decent speed (50-60wpm), but it was still less than what I could type with Qwerty (maybe around 70wpm).

I also found though that as my Dvorak speed increased, my Qwerty speed was decreasing.

Then it was very frustrating whenever I had to use anyone else's keyboard. Bam. Back to struggle town and confusion.

Then I realised that if I had put the effort I had spent on Dvorak in to training Qwerty, I would probably have been better off.

And so I gave it up. Now I've forgotten it entirely.
CSS shapes patterns
Mountains, glaciers, hot springs, huge forests, beaches, wineries, rugby, meat pies.

Yeah, it's a real snooze-fest.
> However this is incredibly far from reality because people actually like being employees.

Really? Why don't you offer your employees equal partnership with no strings attached and see if they'd just rather stay employees. I call bullshit on this.

> Injecting this type of politics into a company is a fantastic way of slowing it to a crawl.

Not true. Taking one day a year to nominate candidates and vote is hardly a burden. It's less of a burden than any normal employee turnover process in non-democratic companies. And I'm not even talking about large bureaucratic corporations with layers of management and their constant "re-orgs".

> Besides, who says elections give us the best candidate? ;)

Elections where most people are apathetic and don't even bother to vote because they think the entire system is corrupt are a bit different from elections in a 50-people organization, where everyone knows everybody else.

> Unlike the North Korea example, the employees really do have options here.

You missed my point. If all other organizations out there were democratically governed, then you'd probably have had to put a gun to someone's head to stay.

> There are serious business consequences to injecting such a high level of politics into a company.

Again, this is untrue. You might be projecting American election process onto this and may not be aware that everywhere else election cycles don't actually last 2 years. Most normal countries don't spend more than a month on an election cycle. A small business wouldn't spend more than a day.

> What keeps me from exploiting my workers primarily are competitors, with competing potential offers, and the flow of information on the internet, e.g. 'this type of engineer makes X a year'.

I think again you're projecting your own bubble here. Fast food industry is fiercely competitive, correct? Do you think a Burger King employee would get a vastly superior competing offer from McDonald's?
I am competent in both dvorak and workman alternative layouts. Both took approximately two weeks of use to not be completely awkward, annoying and slow. Then probably about another month to be up to scratch with my qwerty speed.

Switching between the three layouts is completely painless for me, so in that sense I'm fine with using other peoples' keyboards or swap layouts on the fly (if you're worried about being confused if you need to swap back and forward in the future).

Specifically connected to dvorak: I found that the uppe right region of the keyboard is required more frequently than it should be, so your right pinky finger ends up performing more tasks than all others. This I found quite annoying - and one of the reasons why workman is now my default layout.

What works for you though will of course be different, but I do think changing from qwerty is worthwhile. So keep at it! It definitely gets better.
I don't see what the problem is. For example, you could do this: create a string->"final string" hash function, where heißt and heibt both hash to the same final string (let's say it's HEIBT). You're only allowed to register final strings. If I create a company called heißt.com, then going to heibt.com (or HeIbT.com, hêìbŤ.com, or whatever) will also go to that same domain. A company can use heißt.com if it likes, or hêìbŤ.com, or whatever it prefers. But a spammer can't create a lookalike string. Why wouldn't this work?
Can't you just picture this guy getting pulled off his chopper by zombies as he tries to flee to New Zealand? :)
100:10:1 Creativity Technique