skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not saying the protesters are wrong. He's saying that listening to them for business decisions doesn't always make sense. If they wouldn't pay you anyhow, then there's not much point in listening to them.

In this case, the people protesting aren't people who would have paid for the show anyhow. If you make the show worse to please them, you haven't actually gained anything financially.

Ethics and morals are a different discussion, but IMO you shouldn't need protesters to know your own ethical/moral stance.
From the article, "Only 78.6 percent of people age 25-54 are employed" yet we say unemployment is at 4.4. It very much smells like unemployment, as we count it, is a bad metric and that explains what looks like a paradox in economic principles.
I'm pretty sure revocation checks like CRL and OCSP all fail-open (they still allow the connection if contacting the revocation server fails).
The simple config syntax and sane defaults is nice in Caddy. For example, 3 lines of config nets a https server with http/2 support and an A rating with Qualsys for ssl setup.
Please step out of your bubble and try reading some analysis from people who call themselves economists before they call themselves libertarians or austrians(aka not mises.org). The other commenter is right, Rothbard is not taken seriously and anyhow citing economics thats over 50 years old isn't exactly good practice. Austrian economics is the climate science denialism of economics, there's a reason "we are all Keynesians now."
Same with traefik:
https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/791
OK, there's a 0-day patch for OpenSSL, without it my users are vulnerable to RCE. Why can't I restart if LE's ACME is down?
Because its not real employment its 95% temp jobs meaning not healthcare. Since 2009 this has been the case.

On top of that since bush they have widened the definition of what constitutes a job.
I'm a Scala developer but I don't understand what is Scastie. How does it benefit from the perspective of developers like me?
Direct injected engines still have throttle butterfly valves, or something complex like VANOS to simulate one with valvetrains. Air and fuel must mix at a correct ratio, if you're requiring little power, you need little air and little fuel. Lots of air and low fuel gets you detonation.
> You also argue with hypotheticals (may...depend, likely be the case etc.). Why is that so?

Partly because my experience with Smalltalk has always been that my experience is less positive than what others claim to encounter (this is not just about refactoring, where at least once I wanted to rename a method, but this method name was also used in a different context where it shouldn't be renamed, typing would have made this irrelevant; but also about things like Monticello where I got far more conflicts and things that didn't work out of the box than I consider reasonable or knew how to handle). This may have been the way I got introduced to the platform, but it colors my skepticism about the generality of the observations.
This is exactly the problem with OCSP. There's no way to tell if the remote server is down, or if a malicious actor sitting in your path is blocking it. So your browser can either a) make it super easy for all your OCSP-using sites to appear down, which will encourage users to use other, non-OCSP, sites, or b) silently fail, which makes the entire exercise pointless.

Stapling only partially mitigates this, as it doesn't currently work with intermediate certs, and at this point most sites have at least one intermediate cert.
Review of Apple's pizza box
Same here on my iPhone.
Exactly. Sweden was clearly trying to say the in-embassy interview was out of the question, against Swedish law. Then completely backtracked and went ahead with it anyway. Doesn't inspire much confidence. Perhaps the UN ruling against Sweden was the what pushed them to do it.
I'm working on an application that will allow organizations to better keep up with the homeless. From what I've heard a lot of folks who are chronically homeless difficult for a single individual to keep up with so it often takes a team to keep tabs on them. Sometimes information isn't adequately disbursed through the whole team and it leads to knowledge that goes nowhere. My idea was to create an app that works as a single source of truth allowing all workers to update on an individual and raise issues. Probably just going to make it donation oriented unless it really takes off and I need to acquire an operating budget.
What would the numbers look like if the authors hadn't excluded ICOs? Given that this is where the majority of the small-dollar equity crowdfunding is going, it seems weird not to include them.
Yes, lofentanil is slightly stronger.
> What kind of Chinese? Mandarin?

The official Chinese language yes.

Your story is really not representative of China, Mandarin is nothing like Esperanto. It's a real dialect and it became the official language of China a long time ago. People speak Mandarin everywhere now (except maybe HK).
1. That's a false equivalence, and you know it.

2. The swedish courts have found that it was in fact the swedish authorities job.
Show HN: Open source, self-hosted rich push notifications platform
Yeah disabling networking was an idea. I prefer to leave it open so you can try http client/libraries that access the web. To limit spam, if it becomes an issue we could throttle the connection.
I think that example is also interesting: other than Google, they did that when they had lucrative monopolies but it was also when executive compensation rates were much, much lower and the stock market wasn't as heavily focused on share price growth.

I think there's a potentially valid argument that those factors combined to encourage more long-term planning than we've seen since the 1980s.
> you need to have a reason to WFH

Personally, I have reasons... I prefer it, I get more done, it cuts out the commute time (which includes a lot more than actual time in the car), it lets me work on things at night when I want to...

Sure, there are negatives too, but there's a heck of a lot of positives, too.

> you should attend to all the meetings you need to and be reachable

Working from home has no real impact on either of those.
But it doesn't seem better enough to force old Java dogs to care for new tricks.

Don't count on that.

I'm an old dog when it comes to Java. But I decided to give Kotlin a try on a little pet project of mine.

JetBrains are mad geniuses. In Intellij, with a hotkey you can convert Java to Kotlin. A couple of Alt-Enters and you have something almost idiomatic.

I converted the entire (small) project in an hour and then spent a bunch of time reworking parts to take advantage of Kotlin's functional features.

And I could convert incrementally and test each migration because the Java interop is absolutely seamless. They've completely eliminated the risk and friction of trying the language out.

I even found a bug along the way due to Kotlin's null checker.

It's brilliant!

JetBrains gets it. They produced a language that's new yet familiar (sorry Clojure), powerful yet still easy to understand (sorry Scala), and has essentially zero barrier to entry due to interop and tooling support.
adding please would be useful. It would force us all to be a little more courteous.
> some people (like me) probably just got tired of waiting for the SEC to do their part

Yeah, same. Last I checked, the rules they did come out with were pretty restrictive. This article almost makes it sound easy, but if you read the full text, it basically comes down to "If you can raise money from any other source, like VC, private equity, institutional investors, or angels--do that instead because it's easier."

You can read them here: https://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/rccomplianceguide-051...

The SEC pretty much said to congress, "Nope, we know better" and they've effectively killed the bill by dragging their feet for 5 years and then coming out with guidance that kills the intent.

Maybe there can be a new bill that takes "crowdfunding" out of the hands of the SEC? Not sure how you would word that exactly, but some kind of exception that removes their jurisdiction? Maybe even not classifying them as public companies? (SEC has no jurisdiction over private companies).
I'm not seeing AngelList syndicates listed here, which is probably the most obvious way for a small investor to invest in a startup; you still need someone to do the diligence and find the companies to invest in, but I could put my money into an "Index Fund" led by dozens of smaller investors, which seems to be the most logical way to do something like this.

As for direct crowdfunding, I would be comfortable angel investing if I knew someone was doing the due diligence, but no way am I putting my money into a startup blind, or spending the time to do that due diligence myself.

After that, the signaling risk and additional regulatory complexity behind this type of crowdfunding is likely a bad thing for a company, and likely mostly filled with companies that can't raise by traditional means, so you have an adverse selection problem and you're making it worse.

I think Naval and AngelList could change that, but there's quite a long ways to go.
I've been following the equity crowdfunding sites, and here are a few observations on why it seems disenchanting.

1. A lot of companies seem to be lifestyle and not startups; they don't plan to grow 7% a week.

2. Many companies aren't raising for the first time and are looking for a bridge or 2nd or 3rd seed round.

3. The cap on the notes is way too high.

4. Many sites incentivize by offering T-shirts and other crap. The purpose is investment so the sites should optimize around investment education and not what reward you can get for just a few hundred dollars more.

In the end it is going to be hard to even 2x overall investment. I suspect most people will just lose their money.
This technology will revolutionize private health exchanges
Isn't that essentially a hedge fund specializing in startups?
Fake caterpillar study reveals global pattern in predation
Not saying you are lying but if that's true there is a serious flaw in this algorithm: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/facebook-brings-suicide-pr...
"having to work with these privileged employees"

That is a big problem with remote work--that it is viewed as being a privileged employee. If companies have remote workers, they should allow anyone to work remotely and design interactions around remote work. Otherwise, you end up with resentment and poor communication. By design interactions I mean figuring out a method/system of communication that works just as well as in the office. Some companies do this with video boards/google hangouts.
I do think it's a fad. We have a few here we use at Reamaze just to destress and an occasional distraction and it works.
can you share the organization name?
Ah, I assumed the most pessimistic reading possible. Thanks for adding that!
> I find the recommendation to just use Whatsapp weird.

For most WhatsApp users, the alternative to WhatsApp for most people is unencrypted SMS, which gives metadata and the contents of the communication to anyone with modest skill and a $50 budget. I like to think WhatsApp's use of the Signal protocol makes it preferable to SMS.
OK, I think see your point. Your scheme could be compatible with net neutrality with a few tweaks. The ISP could offer a separate channel for its special YouTube access the same way it offers separate channels for TV right now. Net neutrality is saved as long as the actual internet connection doesn't discriminate —being universally slow is perfectly allowed.

But here's the thing: it's not transparent. The customer has to explicitly subscribe to those high speed channels, just like they do TV right now.

Back to your scheme, the customer would not pay less. Costs have to be recouped somehow. If YouTube pays for the privilege of using the ISP's fast channels, they're likely to multiply ads, or even ask users to pay to use YouTube at all. Either way, the customer will pay eventually.

Generalise this, and you get nearly free internet access that's now useless, and various paid subscriptions to a number of walled gardens (think porn networks). The walled gardens will then pay the various ISPs back for the privilege of accessing their users.

One won't simply set up a web site. It will need to be part of a network, which may charge for the privilege, or police the content to protect their reputation (just like YouTube). One won't simply host a server of any kind at home: it will get crappy communication, if at all (with everything moved to the walled gardens, there is little point in supporting anything else).

I don't like that one bit.
Text:

A FRAMEWORK FOR DATA AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Some people say that it is not for government to regulate when it comes to technology and the internet. We disagree. While we cannot create this framework alone, it is for government, not private companies, to protect the security of people and ensure the fairness of the rules by which people and businesses abide. Nor do we agree that the risks of such an approach outweigh the potential benefits. It is in the interests of stable markets that consumers are protected from abusive behaviour, that money is able to flow freely and securely, and that competition between businesses takes place on a level playing field. It is in no-one’s interest for the foundations of strong societies and stable democracies – the rule of law, privacy and security – to be undermined.

So we will establish a regulatory framework in law to underpin our digital charter and to ensure that digital companies, social media platforms and content providers abide by these principles. We will introduce a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law. We will also create a power in law for government to introduce an industry-wide levy from social media companies and communication service providers to support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms, just as is already the case with the gambling industry.

Just as we led the world in regulating embryology thirty years ago, we know that if we create the right system of governance for the digital economy and use of data, we will attract the right businesses who want to become the global centre for data use and research.
We used Genki I back in high school, and recently I picked it up again. Now I'm through Genki II and can definitely recommend them. They were both updated a few years ago with more contemporary examples and really useful culture notes for each section. Working through the listening comprehension exercises was particularly fulfilling.

The one downside is that they are still meant to be used in a classroom, so there are a lot of exercises that expect you to work in groups or pairs. Of course there are plenty of ways to find a study group online these days.
>"making the world a better place by selling $service" is usually hypocrisy rather than a matter of methodology.

You can't be binary about this.

In many situations, selling a service has made the world (or at least a city/country) a better place.

Private cell phone service in many developing countries, for example. I know countries where, before they came in, people would have to wait years to get a landline (some in excess of 10 years). Private companies swooped in and gave people access (at least those who could afford it). Imagine how limited your life would be if you didn't have any phone (and that includes no Internet).

Sometimes giving to charity is better. At other times, it's non-sustaining and you need some kind of profit model. Both can benefit society.
I'd imagine Dart will make an appearance at the talk 'Single Codebase, Two Apps with Flutter and Firebase'.
This type of thing is why I (and I'm sure others) have literally zero intention of using tools like this.

Separation of concerns means you are in control, and using separate layers means you can swap one out when a vulnerability/show-stopper bug is discovered.

What exactly do you do when your look-ma-no-hands server won't even start?

Edit: maybe "all-things-to-all-people" was the wrong term to use here.
Eight possible explanations and not a single mention of the word "deflation."

The Japanese have a long history of low unemployment and deflation working together:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/unemployment-rate

Maybe the idea that lower unemployment always leads to inflation is just wrong.

For now, wage decreases have been masked by cuts to employer-funded health insurance programs. Eventually, there will be nothing left to cut there leaving the possibility that we'll see across-the-board wage cuts.
You wouldn't write an Ada contract describing the full system, you would write one describing the local behavior you just described in your TLA+ model. The model ensures that the emergent behavior of the system is correct, and the local contract ensures that the local behavior of the various actors is correct -- and therefore results in that emergent behavior. Combined, that's a fairly solid argument that your system does what you intended.

If you had to implement the full proof in Ada, there would be no point to doing the TLA+ work.
> You need very good workers and leaders in a remote company.

I think that's a point that some people miss. To have remote workers, you need people who can effectively work remotely. It's a learned skill, like any other, and not everyone will be good at it.

Saying "we're only local" or "we're only remote" is a bad idea, you can have both and call it a win on both ends.
I've never understood what real problems Web Components solve with all their complexity. In theory shadow DOM and Custom Elements are useful - but the implementation in Web Components leaves a lot to be desired for people trying to actually build applications in the real world.

They punted on important things, like inter-component communication, state management, and even code organization (templates, styles, and scripts are all in the component together? Seems great until it falls over in apps of any consequence)

At the end of the day, frameworks like React, Vue, and even Angular are solving the problem for application developers more comprehensively.

I just don't see a future for web components, other than for folks who want the latest and greatest thing and care more about mastering complexity than delivering apps quickly.

Edit: One other thing that I think will prove, in time, to be a bad idea, is this notion that everything must be its own component. Apps are interconnected, and most "components" are not going to be re-used in practice. Why enforce this segregation when 90% of the time it's a hindrance? By all means de-couple when there are re-usable bits, but that's just not true most of the time.
No he wasn't, he was interviewed by Ecuadorians. Swedish officers were just "present".

> The Swedish assistant prosecutor, Chief Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, and a Swedish police investigator have been allowed to be present at the interview. They will report the findings to Sweden.

Edit: For people wondering what the problem is, Ecuador asked the questions and "[the Swedish prosecutor] is allowed to ask Assange to clarify his answers, but not to put additional questions, and will receive a written transcript of the exchanges from Ecuador after the interview has concluded." - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/14/julian-assange...
I think I get where you're coming from, but the two situations are really unlike each other. It's not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
>bank managers were incentivized by their shareholders to take excessive risks.

Which is no different than supplying money to a market below cost. Any market failure that leads excessive lending will lead to asset inflation and reinvestment of that money in speculation.
Title is hype. IMO the hero Android needs is root access to be accessible easily out of the box. Buying closed phones is a fool's game.

Sincerely, a developer.
>Right now we are at risk of losing Telegram if he will not provide server location info to FSB in few weeks, and it seems Durov is ready to lose russian market completely to protect it from these guys

Do you have a source for this?
All good advice. After about the same amount of time, I am seeing things from the other side -- that of the manager / employer. I have had quite a few employees who came to me and sheepishly told me they were accepting another offer. In every case, my response has been "Congratulations!" and it's sincere because these people are also my friends. I want them to win! As their manager, part of my job is to provide an environment where they can grow their skills. If they grow faster than the business grows, economics tells me what to expect.

If you tell your employer you're leaving for more money and they get angry (assuming you didn't just consume a bunch of money in training), that's a sign that you made the right move.
ISPs could offer a web connection with a "watershed" or serve restricted services per device, which would have a similar effect. I use OpenDNS, loss of people use their ISPs blocking service, having that work on a watershed for a home router send reasonable.

Don't see why it's such a ridiculous idea to you?
How we taught dozens of refugees to code and helped them get jobs
It's not tightly coupled any more than it would be with certbot. The issue I filed is an issue because it's unexpected behaviour (despite early closure, it has actually now been fixed).
It makes me sad that people are so upset by the recent hype Kotlin is getting. Everyone has something that they get excited about. Kotlin is new and shiny and has been around awhile but only on the fringe. Google brings it to the spotlight and people are going to be interested. Maybe Kotlin gets big, maybe not but there is no need to get angry about the news. It is big news. Android is the most used smartphone OS in the world[1]. This is going to have an impact somewhere.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
I suspect that what you're seeing is basically than the large firms are successful enough and funded enough so they don't need more money that they "negotiate" themselves 100% of the value. What can you bring one of the top-10 investors that they don't already have, such that they'd be willing to share the benefits with you?
That's awesome, I didn't even know that was a potentially viable route! Thanks for sharing :)
The three stages of verification for beneficial ownership data
You could make this argument about any benefit, and it would be equally silly. "Blog posts about company provided snacks arent going to move the needle, we need a company that is massively successful because of free snacks before people take notice!"
Henry Hazlitt, one of the economists quoted in the article, wrote a book called Economics in One Lesson [1]. It is a brilliant, and very approachable, piece of writing that should be read by everyone interested in the basics of economic theory.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Underst...
ReactOS 0.4.5 Released with MS Office 2010 support and tons of fixes
Here's the exception to prove the rule.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_...
> Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list

God, I wish this terrible term didn't remind me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protest themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation. For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. [0]

[0]: https://www.iceboxman.com/carlin/pael.php#track15