skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly - and yet most criminals were happy to use that insecure and broken SMS. I'd love to see a study on the proportion of criminals that even know what encryption is. I expect it to be extremely low.
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Why is this illegal?
> are the forcing function behind using Electron instead of building a real desktop app.

I have to work hard to not fall into this way of thinking most of the time. I am as frustrated as you with the proliferation of Electron apps. But a lot of the time it boils down to:

Application X would not exist if Electron did not exist. Cross platform dev is hard. More programmers, no matter what language they use, is a positive thing. Lowering the barrier to entry via things like Chrome Dev Tools, Electron and related technologies is a good thing.

After all, how many people are still using the first programming language they started with?
German culture is older than ww1/2. The german respect for labour predates the 20th century. So too in japan. Some like to think of modern japan and germany as only a product of post-ww2 development programs, but that denies the long history of these great nations. That they were able to participate in ww1/2 demonstrates thier success prior to that conflict. (Imho ww1 and ww2 should be read as one historical narrative.)
Yes. They are insulated by EU trade tariffs on goods external to the EU. Combine that with the most efficient factories in the EU. They get to provide things that can still beat China after considering the tariffs.

In other words, trade barriers strengthened the middle class.
> They're position seems to be that anything outside of your brain (5th amendment and all) should be available with a court order in a reasonable time and at reasonable cost.

I'm looking forward to the first court cases that deal with somebody who implanted a memory chip into their body and are storing information in it (only accessible through a wirelessly sent password) that the court wants to access. Could the court order surgery to remove it.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14259900.
And so only the rich inherit... as over time banks and other businesses figure out how to take away all the income from the middle class. then the higher business class which has huge amounts of capital moves it overseas to generate greater returns. the country hollows out. Something very similar happens in third world countries. To do any sort of real business you need capital. If you don't have it you are in no position to actually do any sort of real business or even try.
So the problem that I (and I think others) see is a time where solar is providing more than 50% of our power. Or 100% of our power if that makes it more clear.

Then where do you pick up the slack?

Maybe your point is that we get it long distance from places that are not covered in clouds?
GTA has more than enough housing supply:

https://betterdwelling.com/city/toronto/toronto-has-over-990...

The above, and the fact that the YOY is, 30% now? It makes people 'trade' it for profit and not live in it. Hence the last month legal measures to tackle speculation.

Every time people talk about 'tapping the green belt', they are either misinformed or paid to write that.
This report explicitly blacklisting and injecting news people weren't interested in. No mention of college students, so that is probably some bullshit I picked up somewhere, I wasn't following the story too closely.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/05/former-facebook-workers-w...
That's correct, two Xeon 2600's do 40 lanes each and that's the maximum you can get right now. Which is why boards that are dual CPU usually require both CPUs to be installed to have all PCIe slots available because the PCIe interface is now embedded in the CPU rather than in the chipset.
The relevant laws in PR are Laws 20 and 22. https://www.the2022actsociety.org
I don't know. Turn it around: when has it been interpreted to grant rights to patents implemented? Is there case law that establishes estoppel for such a thing? Has it been tested? Are your lawyers good enough?

These are questions that you should be asking because the name of the game is minimizing risk.
Comey is a bureaucrat looking for more power to do his job. He's the runny nose.

The flu is Feinstein. From the ridiculous controls that treat cold medicine like contraband, the Patriot act, and bullshit like this, the Senator is a wellspring of bad law and disrespect for the American people.

Why do Californians keep electing this person?
2008, Savings & Loans...
Finance really can do anything
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I have taken Zing for a spin on 24 c3.8xl ec2 instances running Elasticsearch with 32G heaps and just under 2 billion indexed documents with millions of updates/day. The results are considerably better. If I just went up to 30 or even 50 ec2 instances on HotSpot/Openjdk, I would see no performance benefit with regard to GC. And I have performed this test. I'm not saying dont use Java because of GC, but I am saying don't overestimate the value of more efficient garbage collection in any case.

Shoutout to the Azul guys, Simon, Elaine and Paul for coming on-site and watch me compile all their extensions on Amazon Linux and help me perform all the testing.
I'd love to see more journalistic photos taken by the phone.
Anyway, the article mentioned something interesting though:

"The trick now is a low-profile, fast, connected tool that still allows the user to control image quality. What’s the best photo gear for this new age of real-time, run-and-gun, snap-and-post journalism?"

A smartphone can easily handle those. Image quality wise, probably it won't outclass your new shiny Fuji X or Leica M, but then again the major concern of photojournalism is capturing the "decisive moment" decently, and not about ISO performance or bokeh, for example.
On the other hand German cars have one of the worst reliability scores year after year.
Swords and shields.

People can't really see it yet, partially due to a unwillingness to see the darker side of humanity, but a real cyber security expert is worth more than a cruise missile.

Planes, self-driving cars, swarms of aerial and underwater drones, fraud, propaganda, auto-targeting laser systems, surveillance, power generation and distribution, command and control interruption, machine learning + cyber warfare.

Who needs nuclear weapons when you have a zero day on a hundred million self-driving cars and you can get them to the nearest gas station or chemical plant going 300km/h?
If I remember correctly, PR and Guam are the two places in the world where your income is exempt from federal income tax, if you pay local taxes. There are some exceptions to that.

It's supposed to give some local autonomy to the taxation process and fiscal management.
p293 == p21 of this 28 page pdf
What is the exception you're taking? It sounds like it's the "regard it as a bad thing" part, which you present without support.

As long as we're talking about pushing lines.
ffmpeg has had a lot of hours of fuzzing and improvements thrown at it. I believe it's come out of the avconv fork looking better - after all, it survived.
Arguing deaths due to <x> happened more frequently than terrorism in some time period is useless, if the underlying process that generates those numbers are widely different.

Rather than thinking in terms of mortality rate over a period, its more accurate to think in terms of events. A single lightning bolt strike can at most affect 0 ~ 10 people with a gaussian distribution. A terrorist attack on the other hand has a long tail distribution and can cause 10^0 ~ 10^4 deaths.

There is no organized cult going around making lightening bolts with explicit intention of causing large scale harm. On the other hand there are several organized terrorist groups which are intentionally trying to do that. As far as being overweight or bad driving habits, billions of dollars are poured into health care system, automated driving and regulations with goal of reducing deaths due to them.
I think that just in time compilers are better at doing thier things. Sure it is nice project that can interpret and print preprocessed js, but I think it might in fact not bring speed in most cases.

And the current state doesn't even know how to constant fold this loop.

function foo() {
const bar = 42;
for (let i = 0; i <= bar; i++) {
if (i === bar) {
return bar;
}
}
};
I like how they say "during the 2016 election", when they mean "during 2016 (which happened to be an election year)". Nothing they mention had anything to do with the election.
Merely looking at numbers without understanding the underlying statistical process that generates those numbers is not how you do risk estimation.
If enough of the core developers quit that puts a pretty huge dent in the company.
Hacker news hasn't cornered the market on jackasses, my opinion is that this place has one of the least amounts of jackasses. But yeah, I get your point.

I'm pretty retired but I'll check out your links. I kinda feel like a useless dinosaur but if there are places where I can help move things forward I'm 100% up for that. I just don't feel like I have that much value to add at this point.

Edit: one thing I really wish would happen, and if I could help with this I'm in, is /etc and any other config file is under version control. 3-way merge/3-way diff and merge is way way better than 2 way.

For that matter, I wish drop box was versioned. Same reason. It's always blown my mind that nobody has done a file system that was versioned so you could merge stuff.
Maybe that's because BitKeeper merges so much better that the others. It's possible to automerge a lot more if you have the history.
I purchased a... sheet? Block? of 1024 bits of core memory that came from a Soviet computer, and it was hand-woven. I have a hard time picturing people hand-weaving this core memory, and I'm guessing his core memory is smaller than the stuff I've got. Absolutely amazing.
Asking because I don't understand:

What's the difference between the seller owing me money back and me having a property right in that money? They seem similar to my not-at-all-a-lawyer intuition, what am I missing?
> Another example from the book: Madagascar. The French invaded, and took out their Queen. Then imposed taxes on the population as to get back the money they invested in the invasion/war. wtf

That's a leveraged buyout. Borrow money to take control of another entity. Use revenue from the target entity to pay that debt. Profit.
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A Veblen good, by definition, doesn't have additional value due to real craftsmanship or any other tangible characteristic. It gains value because of it's high price.

Compare this Louis Vuitton leather briefcase: http://us.louisvuitton.com/eng-us/products/porte-documents-v...

To this Saddleback: http://www.saddlebackleather.com/thin-leather-briefcase

8x the price but the Saddleback likely has quality on par with, if not exceeding, the Louis. Sure, the Louis is probably very well made, but that has nothing to do with the price.
Maybe many minorities and members of disadvantaged groups don't like being told that the pressing issues which affect their communities are just "identity politics," which seems to me to happen a lot lately.
But we haven't tried it.
Safe to assume that google could track such activity for affected accounts and notify if that was widespread?

(or is that somehow against the 'only our anonymized ad display program can scan your email' privacy policy?)
So the real problem isn't global corporations using lobbying power to suppress competition, it's journalists who write boring articles.
Please illuminate me then. What is wrong with looking at pure causes of death?
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Here is a job bot idea that I have been playing around with. www.lovejobsintech.com What do you think? Should I invest more time on this project and if so what should I work on first?
Indeed. In 1825, France demanded a sum of 150 million francs to be paid by Haiti for the loss of French property during the war two decades ago and threatened miliatry invasion in the event of non-payment. The sum was later reduced to 90 million francs and paid in installments until 1947, some 120 years later. Many believed this debt to be the thing that crushed any prospect of development in Haiti's early history as an independent country.
Also posted seven days ago, see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14203594

It appears the Echo Look is available by invitation only. Has anyone been able to get their hands on one?
Why didn't they just send the email to the recipient? What does the BCC add in this context?
Nah... they can just say "Free unsubscribe service" or "Free <whatever>". And people will click like crazy. And you can make actually make VC fundable business using that technique.
Exactly what? My point is that encryption is fairly common right now, even for average consumers. If political activists use Tor and Signal quite regularly, why wouldn't criminals do the same? I still don't quite understand why you're comparing what criminals did back then to what they could do right now.
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I'm really skeptical of this claim. Source?
> I can tell you that the cost of a Rolex is well worth it

It sounds like the cost of a fake Rolex is worth it, while a real Rolex is laughably overpriced.
Not that we need to any time soon, but really, this would just be the most fantastic thing imaginable.

Imagine -- a push to colonize space -- like a cowboy/cowgirl.

First the required ships and moonbases. Then out to other planets, requirements ever pushing technology advances forward.

In a struggle to survive, especially in challenging environments like space, we seem to do our best.

And all the tech of course benefits us all. Things that are so unique and life-changing we can't really foresee it.
All through history, the feeble voice of economically rational people has been no match for vociferous demagoguery. What I mean is, people will actually identify the source of the problem 50 years too late, and usually when all the primary actors are long gone. During the problem, everyone will vaguely sense that something is going wrong, rarely listen to the voices of restraint while the problems are being created, and ultimately the demagogues will blame everything on someone on the outside and take the insiders to war. The amazing thing here is, you don't even have to talk specifics. This movie script plays out over and over and over.

So the answer to your question is that it is never going to happen.
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I don't see a TXT record for _dmarc.mailinator.com. If you created a DMARC reject policy all the major webmail providers would block messages "from" mailinator.com
Amen. Not until Executives are criminally liable will there be any change to this disgusting behavior.
Git submodules sucks, use subrepo
They became big because of the non-stop PR they keep getting. These companies came up in a fair level playing field in the 90s and early 2000s. The article correctly outlines that. However, it is now a self-fulfilling cycle. They get users, they get more PR, they get more users, they get more PR, they get more users. Repeat. They then use that power to also, in parallel, lobby to crush startups.

The editorial coverage is part of the problem. This very journalist and others like him, share the blame.
Not the main point of the article, but pretty interesting to see that Google's ad revenue is now apparently about equal to advertising revenue from all print media in the world combined.
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Not sure if anyone at Yelp reads HN but looks like a bunch of the sample queries are broken. I'm not familar enough with GraphQL on how to fix them.

https://www.yelp.com/developers/graphql/query/reviews
Bad driving and cardiac/obesity DO cause more than 10^6 deaths per annum and get no where near the proportionate political/media attention that terrorism does. There are 10x the deaths in auto accidents than the worst terrorist attack in US history every single year. The DHS budget alone dwarfs any proportional safety return that could be made by simply raising the legal driving age by a year.
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"I'm sorry Dave, that belt doesn't go with your shirt"
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There aren't any limits. I've run my port at 100% for a full month and they've never batted an eye. The only time I've heard of anyone getting the banhammer is for repeatedly getting abuse notifications due to illegal torrenting.
> If I have the idea, but no money, I deserve to have my idea stolen because I wasn't able to execute on having more money well enough?

Nope you totally missed my point if that's your takeaway.
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> won't it change the equilibrium for future generations of lenders and borrowers such that an inefficiently low amount of lending goes on

Yes, at one extreme, nobody ever pays anything back and no lending ever happens.

But at the other extreme, everybody always pays their debts and the bankers asymptotically approach ownership of 100% of the money.

I think we are closer to the second extreme than we should be.
I should have named the post "is it harder getting a remote tech job now..." because that's all I'm after. I remember a few years ago, about 1 in 3 applications would result in a phone call - now it seems like its super competitive, maybe?
> I mean, do you know any civil engineers who would say, "Oh hey this foundation is cracked, let's build something that tries to patch those cracks, and when that's broken, we'll build another level on top of that, and let's just obfuscate what's really going on underneath everything so that nobody who uses the building realizes it's unstable, and just hope it doesn't get too windy, or that there is an earthquake."

No, but civil engineers say stuff like "What's the likelihood that a 9.5 earthquake will his this area? What about a 5?" and model their designs on that. That's the point behind threat modelling - if a nation state actor decides they want to 'hack your Gibson' that's one thing, but if you're a bank than it may be that your most likely threat is employees or contractors stealing customer data. So you put your effort into protecting against those threats as well.
paid coding project? These guys know what's up!
Strategically, you charge them $149, then give them a discount on a new fridge that's $149 minus the actual cost of the service call.
IDK, unless you were using the card in your home location a few minutes prior, that wouldn't look too suspicious to me. 800 miles is flyable in only a couple of hours.
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It's fascinating to me to see articles about art aficionados using advanced means (carbon-dating, etc.) to pick out visually indistinguishable fakes. If one truly loves art, I should think that looking as good as a Rembrandt would be more important than who actually held the brush.
It's a lot easier when you are allowed to make your own money.
Post WW2 UK elected a socialist government which created the welfare state, comprehensive schools, state pensions and the National Health Service and nationalisation of some industries.
I was a nobody and am again. Don't sell yourself short, if you are hanging here and you know the licensing stuff you are paying attention. With that much energy my feeling is you can do stuff. Go do it. If I can help let me know.
It looks like you forgot to pay your Squarespace bill: "This account has expired. ( http://empiric.al )"

Joking aside, I guess you're saying that leading with credentials in an article is unnecessary if that article is relatively short and you've got a bio blurb at the bottom of the page?
I wish the present was a little less obsessed with having everything Internet-connected. I don't want an Internet connection on my self-driving car, or at least have an air gap between the user functions and the car's driving computer. But that won't happen because the company will be more worried about being able to push updates than about security.

To be fair I guess even with a non-connected car that I have to update via USB, I could still download a malicious update. But at least we won't all get the malicious update pushed at once.
You don't have to hedge, that comment about inheritance tax is literally ridiculous and completely unsupported. The idea that the US has a problem with too little accumulation of intergenerational wealth is patent nonsense.
The bad thing about centralized internet is it makes some mail servers much juicer targets than the decentralized mail servers of old.

I decided gmail wasn't for me when I read they harvested your emails for ads. 1GB in 2004 sounded so enticing too!

If you are technically savvy and have access to a static IP, I highly recommend setting up postfix/dovecot and registering a domain. It's fairly straight forward for technical people. You can have it setup, soup to nuts in an hour or two. There's online docs everywhere.

It's probably not going to be as secure as a gmail, but it's a much smaller target. Most internet providers will give you a static for an extra $5 or so.
I know of at least two things that I think are pretty reasonable and (probably) patentable: Apollo Diamond's vapor deposition process, and those north/south printable magnets.

That said, I think I broadly agree with you about software patents; one reason why is that they're the glitter of intellectual property.

If you buy an Apollo diamond or one of those magnets, the use, possession, modification, etc of those items are not covered by the patents on the diamond (AFAIK, IANAL). With software patents, it seems to be the case that the "final product" IS covered by the patents.

This seems like it makes the presence of two separate categories pretty damn clear.
> One of the central security protocols protecting the web—OpenSSL

OpenSSL is not a protocol. It is an implementation of TLS. Other implementations were immune to Heartbleed.
BCC recipients can't see (or contact) each other to mitigate the spread. If you look at the source code, it BCCs 99 contacts from the infected account per message.
Nope just catching up to the valuations in Vancouver, New York, London, Tokyo and other desirable international cities.
You don't think that them becoming big had something to do with, y'know, their products?
Here is an article on the Dallas pension problem. http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21711335...

The gist as I understand is that pensioners were promised a 8.5% return (which didnt happen) and (some?) retirees are able to withdraw their current value in their pension in full. There is talk of reducing benefits, which is causing a situation much like a run on banks to occur.

I've seen a few proposed solutions such as having the state of Texas help pay, to pillaging funds from DART (public transit), to tax increases.

It is a complete mess, and PR must be in such a bad position. In Dallas' case, it is obviously corruption that caused the problem, with no penalty, and the only recourse is to penalize those that did not cause the problem. Seems like PR is in a similar yet more dire situation.
"users expect more performance by going more native and deeper integration with the OSes"
"the memory consumption it eats up"
Most users are not programmers. I doubt they can tell whether slack/spotify are native apps or not.
> There's no reason these days something like an efi partition couldn't be put in flash next to the firmware, cheap. SSDs on the other hand are still expensive, after many years I was just able to afford a 512GB.

Unless you want to switch your HDD to another computer and have it boot properly?
How much Spanish should I try and pick up? Will it help?
Does anyone have insight on how or why this product appeals to its target audience? Seems like a selfie app on the phone could achieve just the same?