skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quite a few people believed them, including Saul of Tarsus, who took the message on the road, changing his name to Paul as a token of his conversion.

This is common folklore, but the claim does not appear in the Bible, and everything in the Bible or in any other source implies that "Saul" was his Hebrew name and "Paul"/"Paulus" was his Greek/Latin name, each used when around people who spoke that language. It just so happens that before his conversion, he basically was only ever around Israel, and afterwards, he preached to the other parts of the Roman Empire.

Taking two names in two languages was a common practice at the time, and remains a common practice; nobody claims that Piyush Jindal took the name Bobby when he converted to Christianity.
Just google 'Soviet jokes', there are tons of similar jokes around.
If you've formed your own company you can generally structure it in such a way that you're able to claim the FEIE. Self-employed people can also claim the FEIE even though they're not necessarily receiving a (W-2) salary.
A search here has some interesting articles.

https://mises.org/search/site/%22public%20goods%22/library/m...

There are also many papers on the site, but many of them are pretty dense and don't make for a good introduction.
As someone who grew up in Kiev and lived there most of his life before moving across the ocean I find this article surprisingly precise in details and having rather deep insight into the city's spirit. Of course, there is a bit of idealization which is normal for any foreigner moving to a new place, but many things are very true. Kiev is a very old city that has lived through many epochs. It's seen the Mongol-Tatar invasion, dealt with Osman rulers, fought the Russians with the Polish, the Polish with the Turks, and the Turks with the Russians (historians, don't be nitpicky here). It survived the Russian empire, both the world wars and the USSR. Having that rich history Kiev is very eclectic, artsy and vibrant. And yes, it's a city of extremities. You can see poor and rich, old and new, run down and prospering, past and future all mixed up. But that's the spirit of the city. If you have never been to this part of the world I highly recommend visiting it -- even if it's currently may not be in its best shape as Ukraine is going through hard times. Staying there for longer might require some survival skills most of which are required to deal with extremely inefficient post-Soviet government system. The main skill to get is networking, because it's the only way to deal with the corrupt and bureaucratic government machine.

From a practical perspective, Ukraine is a good source of decent software developers and designers. My project probably won't happen if I didn't have our R&D team in Ukraine which allowed me to reduce development costs at least twice. Sending payments to Ukraine would require going through a bit of hassle with paperwork, but it's doable and Ukrainian developers usually know how to deal with it. Feel free to drop me a line at <hn name> (a) easymorph.com if you need some advice on it.
> Issues with C++ safety aren't just a matter of a dangling pointer that should've been a unique_ptr or shared_ptr. It's massively naive to think that this would in any way be comparable to Rust.

While I agree, I would point out that in the same way that "safe" Rust is a usable (if difficult to get used to) subset of "unsafe" Rust, there also exist usable safe subsets of C++ [1]. Tooling to enforce that Rust code strictly conform to the safe subset, of course, already exists (and is built into the compiler). Such enforcement tools do not yet exist for C++ code, but I think they're coming. And I think they'll probably support safe subsets that are more convenient/intuitive/easier-to-use than (the current version of) safe Rust.

I wonder if adopting Rust to avoid the pervasive unsafe code in C++ isn't a little bit akin to adopting Esperanto to avoid the pervasive cursing in English. I mean, there does exist a non-vulgar subset of the English language, even if it's difficult to persuade people to stick to it :) But then, if all the cool kids are talking Esperanto...

> (If it did, I presume Mozilla would've rewritten Firefox in C++11/14/17 instead of Rust. Oh wait, they already use C++11...)

I think this may be a missed opportunity by the Firefox developers. If you look at the code, they're still using new/delete and raw pointers targeting dynamic objects. I presume that a lot the code has survived from the pre-C++11 era. I think converting their code to a safe subset of C++ (like SaferCPlusPlus) would be quicker and require less effort than a rewrite in Rust.

[1] for example (shameless plug): https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
Not really - we talked about it and expected more consumer concerns from other outlets. This work was not being done in secret, when ACR was the hot item it was well known in the industry how it worked. We figured the the vendors would deal with the issues as they were raised - and they did despite some of the potential of the technology for some cool interactive apps the most part it died.

The difference between what we worked on and what Cognitive/Inscape eventually did and got dinged for was that we were using this technology to build sync to broadcast apps not for tracking viewing and usage habits. The work we did never got to large scale deployments and we honestly forgot a bit about it. I knew what Inscape was doing - nothing secret just kind of in the industry weeds - post Vizio sale but honestly didn't think that much about it until now.
Anti-gravity and permanent batteries.
Up to you? Heh, good one.

No, it's up to the person who likes give up as much information as possible that you hang around. "Hey, I ate lunch with ikeyany today", now held in Facebook and Instagram forever. "Tagged: ikeyany" in the wedding photos of your friend.

Even if you're a digital hermit, you'll still be found and categorized, since everyone else seems to love giving up all their personal information.
That's true. I didn't look into how exactly Swedish rates are computed. A 25% effective rate sounded about right to me for a single-filer US salary in that range in most states which have income taxes on top of the federal+FICA. A Nordic country having 10+% higher effective rates likewise seemed reasonable but I certainly don't know for sure.
Except he also mentions banks and health data apps as being vulnerable.
One interesting fact. Constantine was being held as a prisoner at the court of Galerius in Nicomedia. He asked Galerius if he could leave to join his Father in York. Apparently Galerius was inebriated and allowed him to go. And the rest is history.
I agree that this is horrible. I also agree that I think it is a completely wrong course of action for those trying to protect their privacy from corporate and Commercial intrusion. But I don't know what to do about it.

What recourse do I have as an individual?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13586256

There aren't that many comments to read (<20) before posting.
I lived in Poland for a while. I've heard at least one of these from people who lived there before solidarity.
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Well of course that is going to leak, but you could instead do
std::vector<Person> v;
Person p(10);
v.emplace_back(p);
and be safe
Ironic that the government should be so concerned about spying.
There's something to be said for the language designer's trick of picking a well populated language platform and either bootstrapping from that, or having easy callouts to another more popular language.
H.R.861 – To Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency
Louisville announces civic data partnership with IFTTT
To me, this truth is why the market really isn't a good enough mechanism for protecting consumers - it is downright fatiguing trying to keep track of all of the bad actors/actions and there's no way to be specific in your feedback - market share and revenues are a really imprecise signal.
I don't get people describing C++ as their favorite. My favorite language is one that is the most productive for the problem at hand. What language/framework/environment gives you the best set of tradeoffs if you want to:

- Code new work or updates in as little time as possible

- Let a large group of devs of varying skills produce a high quality code base with the least amount of overhead/rules/babysitting

- Achieve the the best defect rate/quality given finite time

- Require the lowest cognitive load to reason about things

- Performance is high enough to meet a point of diminishing returns given the problem at hand
For purposes of the FEIE, whether you are being paid by a US company or a foreign company is irrelevant. As long as you qualify for the FEIE under the physical presence test (more common) or the bona-fide residence test (less common), you can claim the FEIE, even if you are working for a US company and the money is being deposited into your US bank account.

Source: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

If you receive a W-2 you'll continue to pay your half of the Medicare and Social Security taxes. Federal gives you an exclusion of ~$100k, you may or may not owe state tax depending on the non-residency rules for that state, or if your state does not have income tax.
You could diff it with previous versions of the bill using govtrack.us: *

* last year: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr387/text#compar...

* year prior: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr387/text/ih#com...
Yeah, this was tough because it seemed like it might not be good to call out apps which can have sensitive data intercepted, yet listing the "low risk" ones only would make folks think this is not a concern.

I will do a follow up in the near future with the more sensitive ones and vendor responses.
Times 12 is $16,032 - sad face - need to triple the $4k.
Emplacing an object that already exists misses the point of emplacement.
their operational side looks/walks/quacks like a startup, so i think something important gets lost in translation if you look at the balance sheets and call OpenDoor a REIT
I know we can't expect the "average" consumer to do this, but thanks for caring and running tcpdump on your network! It amazes me that with a lot of these stories there's no one popping up with a pcap showing exactly what's going on.

I'm hoping projects like Turris Omnia [1] will allow people to be more in control of what goes in and out of the LAN - my network, my rules.

1: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/
Ask HN: Can you recommend a savvy patent attorney?
I'm on the hunt for a patent attorney who a) doesn't charge $850/hr, b) is tech savvy, c) is at home in google docs or even(!) git for pre-formatting changes. (I've just gone through a pretty painful experience which mostly consisted of lots of .docs being emailed back and forth, which was more than frustrating, and which seemed overall to have a deleterious effect on the quality of the end document.)
RE 2): The article proposes "success". Each company and perhaps founder group will have it's own definition of success, but that's what you should aim for. Do you want to be profitable? To change the world? To be a unicorn? Whatever milestones correlate with that goal - that's what you go for.
Surprised that a blog post is published this year that is about moving from AngularJS (v1) to React. That's not really that big of a shock, lots of devs are doing that. A better comparison is Angular (v2+) vs. React, and it is really a good fight that boils down to whether you want a framework, or you want the freedom to build your own from specific parts.
I have spent time in both Kyiv and Lviv and have to say your account of the situation seems to be complete different than what I experienced. Do you think what you're saying is still accurate for someone who left what seems as a long time ago and has never been back. The power didn't go out on us and I saw no skin heads. I didn't experience this Neofacism you speak of. Are you sure your not talking about Moscow?

How come you don't spell Kyiv properly?
I cynically disagree: when a founder sells 3-15m worth of his equity in an upround, his goal inevitable shifts from achieving the sustainability and profit to "prepping" the stats for a new round...
Nevermind. I found it. Let's hope it does what it says it does.

http://i.imgur.com/aXThhIg.jpg
This is ridiculous, I wish someone with money would create an absolute shitstorm by buying this kind of data, buying data from Facebook, google, twitter, internet cable companies, state departments, combining them, deanonymizing millions of users and dumping them. Until something crazy like this happens nothing will happen, it needs to be brought to the light. Until then, no regulation will ever happen on data collection on users and we will all be sheep and the product. Crazy thing, it won't cost that much money. Folks need to wake up and be scared shit less. Everything spies on you, your pace maker, your fitbit, your car, your TV, your fridge, watch. 1984 ain't got shit on this! :-(
The linked article makes it sound like it was hidden under an obscurely named preference, so you should be able to.
I would love a self-hosted Google docs clone, that I can access from an Android App and the web. That would also replace Evernote.
Yeah, I like how the article shows tomatoes and peppers. You'd spent fifty bucks to grow, like, $1.50 worth of vegetables. I don't think you'd ever break even just on the power. Not to mention the veggies will probably taste better if you grow them in sunlight.

And you'll still get caught if you grow your weed in buckets unless you have a separate source of power.
Easier - when I upgrade from my 6+ year old Sony, my TV will either be disconnected (ironically I trust the Xiaomi Mi Box more) or only allowed to access *.youtube.com. I realise this isn't tenable for most consumers.
That's not even a joke. Take a look at this huge list of dogs that Soviet Union sent to the outer space :) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA...
gt565k gave a great, succinct answer that I think is correct.

There's a lot of ways to do it, and I think it just depends on the type of product you have and your overall strategy.

Some brands have different accounts divided by region: one account for USA, one for Europe, one for Asia.

Some might do it per country or language. One for Germany, one for France, one for UK. Or one for English, one for Spanish, etc.

Some might do it per product.

Some might divide accounts based on the type of content: one account for news, one for pics, one for links.

Some might do it all under one umbrella.

Some might have one main account, but have some smaller additional accounts for different purposes.

There's too many factors that go into it to give just one answer.
Disable UPnP, run a configuration where you can monitor all traffic in and out of your network.
I hate almost all software (2011)
That was a very clumsily executed attempt at shocking the reader by showing how messed up the Malfoy family is, by indirectly informing the reader that Draco believes he is above the law and has no compassion. I don't think there's much more you can read into it
With #7 I envisioned (half-baked idea, I haven't thought through the implications, just an annoyance that I can fortunately ignore for the moment) an effort to produce a national building code affording us a one-time opportunity to restructure the code's presentation from specifying "how" to "why" as the lead-in, and the "how" as an example reference. I envisioned the building code instantiated as live data feeds of various metrics like earthquake data from the USGS, historical weather, flooding data from FEMA+US Army Corps of Engineers+USGS, soil surveys from USDA, etc., and for a building type and precise location you specify (commercial or residential, single-story/multi-story/highrise, etc.), only relevant code is extracted and received either electronically or in hardcopy, with a data package representing all relevant code.

Building plans are drawn up including metadata references to relevant code section(s) from the beginning. This part still requires human judgement and negotiation of which section(s) are applicable, but perhaps an online marketplace of pre-configured plan modules with pre-certified section(s) tagged to the module's components can help mitigate that complexity.

Merchants would certify products they sell are compliant with the "why" of specific section(s) through a number of insured certification authorities, who become (perhaps limited) jointly liable for their issued certifications against gross negligence (to avoid rubber-stamping behavior). Products are shipped with a cryptographically-signed RFID stamp ensuring authenticity and enabling remote building inspection. Can't avoid all "how's", like for example spot-checking to see that bare copper isn't laid exposed to house insulation because someone stripped off too much wire insulation and couldn't be bothered to re-run or fix the mistake. But with all the data we collect today, there has to be a better way to permit, construct and inspect buildings.

Then we open up the housing market to vendors with better mousetraps to solve the "why's" expressed in the building code, adding enormous dynamism to the economy.
In the early 2000s my dad left his cushy job as an electrical engineer at a nuclear power plant in eastern europe to come to the US with an H1B to fix AC systems for a company owned by an eastern european that only hired immigrants.

They would count the price of plane ticket, technical training classes, english classes, etc to a "debt" that you had to pay off. You would get paid a salary, but depending on how much money you made the company each month, this debt would either go up or down, and the company claimed you wouldn't be able to leave the company until you paid off this debt (eventually my dad figure out that this was not true or at least not legal, but this policy still goes on as we speak).

You can imagine most people who worked there struggled for years to pay off said debt.
There is a market opportunity for a router with some smarts that can do automatic VLANs and access control. e.g. lightbulbs can talk to *.lifx.com and local Android devices but nothing else, TV can talk to YouTube but not to the fridge, etc etc.
> How come you don't spell Kyiv properly?

Both spellings are proper.

Edit - should revise somewhat. Has to do with slight differences between Russian, modern Ukrainian and older Ukrainian, as well as changes to how Ukrainian is transliterated.
Very well written article.
On a social note, it does feel as though (and I could be wrong) the seeming uptick in discussion about Christianity is because it is associated with the Trump/Republican/"How on earth did so many people vote for him?" question regarding US politics. As the article alludes:

> How Christianity went on to become not just a state religion, but the central fact of political life, and how Christian institutions of the Middle Ages both maintained and distorted the legacy of the ancient world, is another, different story.

That Christianity and its adherents are manipulated for political ends is a sad fact of life. This doesn't change whether or not Christianity is true, it simply confirms the biblical assertion that people are potentially naive

As a reflective person who reads Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and has become a follower of Jesus (Christian) I find the political association of Christianity and certain spheres of politics disheartening for the cause of logical discourse about the matter. In considering whether or not Christianity is true it is hard to ignore the actions of those who claim to be its adherents.

Yes, it seems an unusual number of people who support Trump identify as Christian - isn't that more likely to do with recent demographics than hypotheses about the lack of reliability of the biblical narrative about Jesus of Nazareth?

Where I am from (New Zealand) a lot of Christians I have spoken with are appalled by Trump and don't buy into the whole "Gawd Bless Americuh" narrative that Trump seems to use to persuade a certain demographic into voting for him.

No political agenda can encapsulate who Jesus of Nazareth was and what he came to do. If it could, that would render the notion of Christianity absurd in the first place.

EDIT: Clarity
You can usually unplug the Wifi module, if you don't mind opening it up (and checking beforehand if it is removable).

Good luck
Mithril is the best.
That's a strange comment. You don't understand why someone would enjoy or have as a favorite C++? Just because it doesn't work for you, it shouldn't be awesome for someone else?
I believe what you're talking about is called a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP). Netlinx is one example of it (http://netlinx.net/)

I've read a bit about WISPs, because they seem like a happy solution to the whole monopoly problem but they haven't caught hold in the way that I've hoped. Latency seems to be a pretty significant issue. Consistency in signal strength is also a problem.

I also sort of think that this is kind of the way we get out of problems without ever getting at the root cause. We look to technology that may exist at a later point to fix problems caused by underlying political, organizational and infrastructure issues. Always looking for the next band aid for the bullet hole I suppose.
The terms of art are Automatic Content Recognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition and Video Fingerprinting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_fingerprinting

You can dive in from there but it's basically either watermarking or fingerprinting of video and or audio frames. Video was preferred because there were fewer false positives from music beds. In a nutshell its video Shazam
Neither did I. I just switched search providers. Which I already said.

I'm not sure how you can get more obtrusive than "entire default screen of main product replaced with ads."

I'm sure you have apologetics on the matter, carefully constructed while you were surveying "most people" on how they'd react to the Page Down key.
Totally, but they could just spin it to the consumer like TV cable packages. "Get our Internet 'Social Media Plus' plan for $100 / month, featuring blazing fast speed to our premium partners Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit! Use a corporate VPN from home? For an extra $10/month add on our VPN Pro PLUS package to get ultra fast connection back to your office!

terms and conditions apply, all other internet traffic is at speeds of up to 1mb/s"

It is far fetched sure, but I honestly wouldn't put it past some ISPs to attempt something super lame like this.
Thanks for calling me a liar. Nice talking to you.
Exactly what kind of tea do you drink? Is it iced tea, a brand?
Glad to know someone is giving them hell. I purchased a Vizio TV on black friday and suspected that all manufacturers would be doing something like this. For that reason I never configured it to access my wireless network. Scary to realize that it was actually happening and at this scale.
If Rajesh from Chennai is sending all his money back to Chennai, Americans won't have the funds to benefit from the lower prices. You can see a just released Hollywood movie in the theatre for $3 in Indonesia, that doesn't mean it's better to live there.
FreeBSD had "containers" aka Jails, more than a decade before Linux. Linux is merely more popular than FreeBSD, and that popularity has zero influence on its quality, I'd argue it might even have a negative impact on its quality in a statistical sense, when you take into consideration all the badly maintained SoC implementations of Linux.
Russian definitely had conplex flow, similar to German I think. Most songs therefore have to be unusually heavy on vocabulary and plot, Dostoevsky-style. If you try to make lyrics simple it sounds awful.
I think these questions are a mute point here, because Crimea wasn't annexed to appease the people of Crimea; it was annexed to deliberately f* up Ukraine and boost Putin's popular support in Russia.