skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The University of Toronto is probably a lot better funded than Waterloo, too, has a massive student base, and has connections to other local universities that are also much larger than Waterloo like York and Ryerson.

This selection will certainly put a dent in Waterloo's reputation, though with any luck they'll be able to capitalize on it in some capacity due to their proximity.
I believe most if not all of thier staff is English-speaking (and not Chinese/Russian-speaking). They'd have to find different staff to work in yhose other languages, or to even inderstand the documents' importance.
Libraries are alive and well. The problem as exhibited by threads like this is that America has been infected by selfishness and cynicism.

Since having my son I really have had my eyes open to the value of libraries. As a resource for learning, community, and programming, they are immensely valuable. You look around in my urban branch library and you see people of all ages, backgrounds. They are reading, playing, socializing, working. That's what America is supposed to be about.
The fact that you're able to spend time leisurely on sites like HN implicitly groups you into a higher income bracket

That's somewhat prejudiced. You can browse HN just fine with a cheap Android and any open wifi, which isn't hard to find in a city. Even the homeless have smartphones nowadays, for the most part.
Nothing new here. Just old, tired OStatus.
Wow, for an april fools joke they really went all in. None of their content is reachable - all that's left is the seizure notice. Now that's what I call dedication!
I can see the major point of making a microkernel is to allow kernel or other service (like driver) upgrade to be de-coupled; it would also allow much easier integration of non-open source driver and service, which could be a pain with Linux as it doesn't provide a clean way to do without rebasing (which could explain why Android upgrade is much lag behind for existing phone). But don't get me wrong, I totally support Linux philosophy.
Anywhere there is tremendous wealth, there is going to be a bigger disparity in income inequality. The Bay Area has a housing supply problem right now (and no, starting a company that is cramming five+ millennials into an empty luxury apartment is not a viable solution) that needs addressed, and I don't think we should conflate it with the homeless problem.

The homeless across the nation all congregate in California because of the weather, and its a much harder problem to tackle that requires more than just the involvement of a private tech company to solve. The solution needs to be the government creating more of a safety net for mentally ill, not private companies somehow equalizing them in wealth (read: redistributing) with some of the smartest, hardest working people in the world. I got the impression that this article is pointing the blame finger at Facebook, and I don't see how Facebook has any more responsibility than anybody else for helping the homeless. Facebook shouldn't feel compelled to offer software engineering jobs to skid row, that's not the solution. There are many actors here, it's hard to point the blame at just one.
Indeed. But I'll be dead, wicked old, or immortal by then, right?
Yes, they receive payment for routing their order flow to specific market makers. KCG (Knight Capital) and Citadel are the two players that typically get the vast majority of the retail order flow. Two Sigma is starting to get in the business as well. The exact amount Robinhood receives is going to vary considerably, but it primarily depends on if the order takes liquidity(market orders + marketable limit orders) or adds liquidity (normal limit orders).

Retail brokers typically end up making ~$0.001 per share + commission + fees + interest on cash balances + financing spread from margin lending and stock loan

Robinhood makes $0.001 per share + fees + interest on cash balances + financing spread from margin lending

I'm skeptical Robinhood will ever be able to become profitable. They're great for the consumer (except for their heavy marketing of margin lending), but I don't see them attracting the power users they need to make the business model work.

If you do use Robinhood:

1) Build a well diversified portfolio (30+ companies)
2) Don't use leverage
3) Don't trade on a daily/weekly basis
VPNs only give you indirection. And you have to trust your VPN provider. You're just moving your trust. Now if you diversify well enough you are probably less likely to be effectively snooped on, but then you're just reinventing TOR[0].

Adopting HTTPS across the board is so much more important.

[0] Which too only gives you indirection, remember that!
While I'm not sure how keeping the bug secret compares to revealing the bug immediately in terms of ethicality, I think we can all agree that keeping it secret for a reasonable amount of time while the company fixes it (unless there is active evidence of exploitation, or you have significant reason to believe there is) is strictly more ethical than either of those options.
Sure. I understand completely why people believe in theories like this. The paper linked from the article has a good explanation.

I don't know a useful way to talk about though. Evidence doesn't seem the best approach because there is always some theory why their evidence is better.
@pg's guide is good, but misses a few points.

There's the role of the defense industry and Silicon Valley. See Steve Blank's "Secret History of Silicon Valley":

https://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-va...

That said, there's a bunch of strength to @pg's points and conclusions. Portland and Boulder as potential tech hubs sounds about right. It might be possible to build out elsewhere -- Rochester and Buffalo in New York were technology centers, once, and though it's small, Burlington, VT, has much of the right vibe (though possibly too harsh winters) for tech.

I don't see the sweat-and-mildew belt -- the midwest -- really doing much. There's too much about getting outside and actually clearing your head, which the vast expanses of overhumidified prarie (or frozen tundra) don't offer. Though the land is cheap, and a few college towns (University of Illinois, University of Iowa, Notre Dame) might manage to create some centres around.

I'm also not entirely sure Chicago ought be written off, though I suspect it would take a tremendous amount to turn it around. On the one hand, it's lower-cost land, nearer East Coast centres, with good natural transport (air, rail, ship, truck) for various industry. On the other hand, the weather's little different from Ithaca or Pittsburgh, and the politics are interminable.

The flexability of pretty much doing what you wanted in California in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s is hard to beat, and that's continued to pay off. Though I'd argue those benefits are now largely gone.

The role of a cheap housing stock and/or the ability to pick up and create a long-term plan with a large set of land, say, in Chicago or Detroit, seems interesting though.
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It would be possible for "authors decrying trolling" to do so in a way that isn't "inflammatory, bad faith, needlessly aggressive, insulting, false, or otherwise unproductive". So it's not a tautology unless you insert an empirical assertion that every single one of the "authors decrying trolling" is exhibiting one or more of the abovementioned qualities. And that assertion sounds like a substantial point, not logically empty at all.
I'm going to define "long timespan" as being ~40 years (roughly how long the boomers expected to work for)

I don't think it's "hard" per se, but it does require intentional effort. I can also see how, with a difficult work schedule, or family commitments, it may become hard or even impossible to carve out the time.

I'm about 23 years into this journey, and although I still remember plenty of esoteric trivia that was useful programming in the 90's, and is useless now, there still appears to be room to learn new things every day
On a positive, though, hipsters have low tarrifs and pack flat.
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I highly recommend KeepassX instead. https://www.keepassx.org/

It's a local db only, you're in full control of where it is, where it goes. It's one of my favourite pieces of software actually: Simple enough that my aunt is using it, secure enough that I'm using it for my company's accounts.
I wonder if they'll accept pull requests?
Okay well on page 164 (https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_164.shtml) MacKay writes: "If fast reactors are 60 times more efficient, the same extraction of ocean uranium could deliver 420 kWh per day per person."
Granted, this depends on fast breeder reactors and ocean extraction of uranium, but those are both experimentally proven technologies.

Why wouldn't we adopt the only energy source that has been shown to scale to provide the entire world with Western levels of energy for 1,000 years?
If you use Turbotax etc. everything just works perfectly.

My only problem doing taxes has been using a robo-advisor called Hedgeable which sometimes decides to buy and sell GLD and bitcoin for you. Turbotax will not help you with non covered securities!

(Hedgeable's pretty good, by the way. By far the more moral out of the two companies I just advertised.)
Your young friend was uninformed but that doesn't mean that most people in China don't know about the incident. You have to get something much further than that.
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I hear it's getting fashionable to use TCP/IP to coordinate consumption of electricity with power availability from wind/solar
lool oops, thanks. Fixed it up :)
Well, the controversy in this case is that Tavis announced the existence of a bug (no details). Not sure why that would upset anybody. You thought it was perfectly bugfree?
What did they want?
Yes? I haven't played games in a while, but when I did, crashes were frequent enough to be annoying, and ~100% of the time it was video drivers.
I used to use nylas and I loved it, but the neverending upgrade to premium emails were bonkers. I still get the emails long after I've stopped using it and asked for them to stop on. ON EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT I USED WITH NYLAS! The same email for every account. Accounts I'm fairly sure I never gave permission to be emailed at. I loved your product but tell your marketing/sales people to calm down, it drove this customer away.
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NRTW's definition of "right to work" appears to be the common definition. It's also the common definition of "open shop".

Minority unions can bargain only for their members -- but as far as I can tell, members can't commit to be bound by the outcome, which undermines the union's bargaining power. Even then, the prevailing legal opinion seems to be that they can't negotiate terms that structurally favor members over non-members.

Majority unions have to represent all workers in a bargaining unit, members or not.
I don't doubt that Russia is swimming in corruption and that it makes a lot of things more difficult. But to say that they're incapable of a major engineering project, even if Putin takes a personal interest? I think you'll need to justify that.
I think he meant North Korea. But they did build a Nuclear Bomb (or rather got the tech successfully loaned from China)
> Whoever seems to be singing the praises of ZFS on Linux hasn't put it through its paces in modern, multi-tenant container workloads.

I ran a Hadoop Cluster with it? Does that count? Your problem is probably the ARC and memory problems due to slow shrinking or stuff like that? There is some work or at least the intention to use the pagecache infrastructure for the ARC to make things more smooth. However at the moment it's still vmalloc afaik.

You can reduce the ARC size and you'll be probably fine with your containers if they need a lot of memory.

The SPL isn't so bad it's more or less wrappers.

have fun with btrfs! It's a horrid mess! Looks like you never had the pleasure! btrfs is also a non starter on basically everything that goes beyond a single disk - even their RAID-1 implementation is strange, RAID5,6 are considered experimental and I could go on.

ZFS for Ubuntu was and is a great idea!
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No kidding.

China, which happens to have >1 billion more people than the US, will be spending less than half of what the US is already spending (before the $50 billion increase) as soon as they double their defense spending.
Actually, Chisel is one of our main target codegen. We aim to be more high-level than Chisel.

See here for a quick and very incomplete tour: http://spatial-lang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html
The parent example was saying about official ppa only, official as in the original software company providing that ppa. In this case, nginx ppa is provided by nginx developers. Other example is postgres.

But I get it, there are not many ppa like that.
Where in the article/blog post is this sentiment stated? I can only find praise and thanks for taviso and white hat researchers from lastpass; the fact someone on Twitter disagrees shouldn't be used to suggest an entirely company takes this approach.
After losing millions to hacks, SWIFT banks enforce mandatory security controls
Yes, but in my case I am a Verizon customer so it does not matter. I've read that they will unlock it after a year of service.
This is the perfect use case for F# REPL and type providers. Take a little time to learn it, and it's like code starts writing itself.
Well, if you ask rest of the world, they are quite happy to know what's really going on. It would be great that we can see the bottom of things in China or Russia, but that's not up to them. How do you know that WL got something real but didn't release deliberately?
The only reason to be opposed to this level of whaling is due to animal rights concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale The IUCN Red List labels the common minke whale as Least Concern. COSEWIC puts both species in the Not At Risk category. NatureServe lists them as G5 which means the species is secure on global range.
Edit: part of my comment is corrected by comment below - Thanks openasocket!

Another comment about the content of this article:

Three quarters down the wiki page there is code for "adding foreign language" to the code. The options are are to add code comments in Arabic/Chinese/Russian/Korean/Farsi. My gut reaction is the purpose of this added language is to obfuscate the true source of the code - i.e. the code has Chinese comments in it so it must be from China. Ahh. I guess this makes sense to do. Only problem now is that the Chinese/Russian/Farsi/etc characters that they included in their code is now public. (Obviously now the CIA will change the foreign language words they insert)

I'd posit if someone had an X-year-old (i.e. x=7) copy of some malware, and the malware had these specific foreign language comments as shown by the article, there's a good possibility the source of the malware would be from the us government.
- Stop trying to emulate Apple UI. I use Ubuntu in part because I don't like Apple's UI.

- Better HiDPI support. Ubuntu takes a LOT of tweaking to look good on a HiDPI screen.

- Better support for common VPN configurations. In particular, L2TP/IPSec-PSK should be an option out of the box because it's an exceedingly common configuration.

- Make input methods enabled and working by default. If I install Ubuntu in Chinese, I should have a working IME on the FIRST boot-up. As of now, I have to go googling and apt-getting and doing lots of weird things before I can type in Chinese on a new system.

- Get with the beat on machine learning tools. The latest releases of OpenCV, Tensorflow, and so on should be in the Ubuntu repositories, and updated on a regular basis. Ubuntu was originally "Debian with a better release schedule", but it no longer is.

- Things like gnome-tweak-tool should be included by default if they are the only way to change the GTK2 theme.

- Better documentation about how to do things from the command line. Like how to start/stop Wi-Fi, select sound devices, and so on. Googling results in a mess of advice about pactl, pacmd, alsa, and I never know what is the "correct" way to do things from the command line for the current release of Ubuntu. Can you have a "before vs. after" table of commands? For example, include this:

# 14.04
amixer set Master 0%

# 16.04:
pactl set-sink-volume 0

# 17.04:
# somectrl --set VOLUME=0

- Stop arbitrarily moving stuff around on the UI -- moving the min/max/buttons from the right to left, and so on. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

- Most Ubuntu users are developers. Build for developers. Unity is basically unusable. Put some serious thought into Cinnamon or MATE as a default UI. Listen to your customers.

- Bring back and revive compiz. It was Linux's only hope of looking good. Also, being able to just press a key and draw on the screen, or arbitrarily zoom parts of the screen, was simply awesome for meetings and presentations.
Good info, thanks.
Traditionally (or when I started looking), a single stock trade was $6 so you'd have to be moving 4 digits at a time to avoid losing everything to fees.

But Robinhood's free. You can do $6 of trades in a year, still learn about stocks and not necessarily lose anything. Very hard to complain about that.

I think a little literacy is needed, since if you're lucky enough to have savings buying CMF+VXF is a much better deal than keeping it in a bank account.
I like Go, but it's not dramatically faster than Java. Any contest between the two of them will probably just be a back and forth of optimizations. They share pretty much the same upper bound.
I tried opening an account on Robinhood. But they wouldn't approve my application because I am a citizen of Myanmar (Burma) and the country was under economic sanctions. But those sanctions were cleared a bit over a year ago and when I reached out to Robinhood support again (with the proof detailing there is no more sanctions), they ignored my contact. So I decided to stick to Vanguard and TD for index fund buying and stock trading respectively (both of which accept Myanmar citizens as account holders). I think Robinhood's support team is fairly small and they don't have the capability to support a bit more unusual cases like mine.
So far I haven't seen a single "expert opinion" that explains why the wings of the plane disappeared leaving no trace.

https://truthandshadows.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/pentagon...
Get at least 16 GB, people will complain a lot when 8 isn't enough.
And what about the wings of the plane?

Obviously those didn't go through the building.

https://truthandshadows.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/pentagon...
> strawmanning his position as nepotism

So, you obviously feel strongly about this, but let me explain why your comments are less persuasive for those of us outside this subculture:

The non-profit they donated to is (by any reading of their mission statement) an organization designed to create new technology that "will be the most significant technology ever created by humans" according to their own statements. It doesn't disburse cash or benefits to _anyone_, and actually pledges to keep some of the research secret, and "we expect to create formal processes for keeping technologies private when there are safety concerns" -- a situation the organization claims will happen, presumably regularly!

Creating influential technology is typically done for-profit, and research is typically funded in ways much less open to individual favoritism (review boards are a great anti-corruption tool), and the results of that research are typically available to (among others) the people that fund it. There is a lot about this situation that a reasonable person would describe as unusual.

In addition, all of these changes -- introducing more direct funding with less oversight, lack of access to results, lack of expectation of benefit to the targets of the charity -- all lend themselves to obscuring a fraud. That doesn't mean a fraud is present, but I'd be extremely aggressive about oversight.

What kind of oversight are we getting? Well, right now they list one of their major goals as the "tricky" goal of figuring out of they're making any progress at all.

I would not give this organization money. Dismissing these critiques as "character assassination" ignores the fact that I've only described aspects of the organization, not of the people involved, whom I have little information about.
Why would I or anyone care if it's business friendly. The people who just want to sell hardware should have no qualms about open source.
> 1) Build a well diversified portfolio (30+ companies)

This is sensible but Robinhood doesn't have fractional shares (it would cost something if it did), so you're really raising the bar on minimum investments here. If you just bought one Vanguard ETF and did nothing else, that'd be a great plan.
I don't know. Picket lines are a really specific situation. I don't think companies are motivated in normal times to pay more to non-union workers. What exactly would they be paying for? You are right about the general tension between group and individual rewards for choices. It goes beyond unions as you mention. I do think some unions do OK in this regard- actors and musicians are not held back on individual income but still benefit from industry standards negotiated by unions.
I think it's more straightforward than margin because u actually see what the margin costs you.
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Reply to my own post because I rethought this after HN edit times are allowed. My major point here is not advocating for either side of the political discussion, it is this: When you use extreme rhetoric and attempt to exclude people from discussion because their views do not align with your own - you lose elections. I am very aware that the far Right's rhetoric is very similar to your own. _However_, you don't have the same base that they do. You're trying to cobble an electoral college majority together from a different place and falling into the trap of polarizing rhetoric is, imho, a bad idea for the progressive left.

Obama was able to do it in 2008 and 2012 because he was an _amazing_ statesman. It's my personal belief that we may not see another person as skilled in public speaking/appeasing the public again in our lifetime. I supported him both times despite my personal belief that he did not move the Overton Window very far in either direction.

What I do recommend is to take your more extreme rhetoric and see if it can be applied to your own positions (in many cases it can, in some it cannot) and try to determine for yourself if you are falling trap to 'regurgitated rhetoric' or legitimately offering critical thinking.

tldr; You persuade no one by taking a theistic approach to reason and perhaps alienate more than you convert.
It sounded like the parent was arguing for it not being wrong to do immediate full disclosure. I was responding to that. Perhaps the parent was merely talking about stating there is a vulnerability?

That is much more ethical. However, I am not sure that I believe it is something that would pass my threshold for clearly ethical (not your words, mine). You would need to weigh the damage to the company and consumer knee-jerk against the ability for consumers to make an informed decision about what they're willing to risk. In this case, maybe LastPass deserves for consumers to know immediately. They seem to have an extremely buggy program with a number of disclosed vulnerabilities. It's hard to know whether other programs are necessarily better though. Another factor that you should account for against disclosing is that stating the nature of the vuilnerability could potentially make it easier for someone to exploit. Do you think Tavis could find a vuln easier if I told him it was an RCE vs a CSRF bug? I do.
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+1 to this. That was the main reason I still have to use Windows and macOS.