skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying they're not, but the author specifically mentions "existential threat", "paralyzed economies", and worlds where people without technical skills are instantly hacked upon connecting to the internet. He uses the example of water supply so completely poisoned that no one can drink from it.

The author seems to be making an assumption that we could enter a world where insecure technology could be taken offline all at once by some random hacker(s) and remain in such a state long enough to completely destroy economies and institutions. Frankly the system just isn't that brittle, if it was it would have failed long ago.

It's like looking at Hurricane Katrina, which while catastrophic was never an existential threat to the US, and saying, "now imagine if Hurricane Katrina happened everywhere, every day!" without considering if such a thing were possible or likely in the first place.

As for heterogeneous systems, what do you think the cloud is? Sure it may be homogenous for users, but that's all abstraction for what is a VERY heterogeneous system under the hood. Sure having independent/redundant subsystems is ideal for reliability, but at the end of the day I don't see the need for all the frightful abstractions. The farm isn't going to burn down without anyone noticing, there are simply too many powerful interested parties and too much built-in resiliency.

I'm all for building in more resiliency/redundancy to prevent catastrophes as you mention, but the author takes a couple of major security incidents and spins them into apocalyptic techno-panic.
You make a good point regarding what they might be trying to do. But do you think many people are actually buying it? Anyone could think of malicious uses for all sorts of things, the only noteworthy revelations would be actual proof of misuse.
Maybe I'm wrong (or lacking context), but FWIW I read baby's comment to mean that the public editor's claim that he had difficulty finding non-signers is silly.
Looking at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey would be a good place to start.
For my parsing pet project(s), the following structure seems to serve me best:

- Recursive descent parser for statements

- "Canned" configurable expression parser for expressions: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/expressionparser

- Both use a simple regex based generic tokenizer

- In more complex cases, parse the expressions to an unresolved syntax tree first (constructed from the bottom), then resolve the tree in a secondary top-down step (potentially to a linear representation).
Falling on Your Sword: The Last Gasps of Privacy
A user only needs to create a transaction if they upload something. The 175k Facebook requests per second that they compare to is mostly just people looking at stuff, which wouldn't require a transaction.
That's plenty.
Huffington post Story
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tom-kott/freedom-of-speech-cana...

None of these would be Constitutional in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada

Duke Paper on comparing Free Speech in the US vs Canada

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

i can find more examples later if you want.
You are mixing together business owners and rentiers (property owners). Very different things. Property owners don't need to work 60-hour weeks unless they are the sole handyman for 100+ houses.
Jacob Collier will surely go down as this generation's Miles Davis. What a phenomenal talent.
It does support that

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762043
I know several law firms which have happy hours in the office.
> Really if I'm going to be honest, I think the UW study reaffirms your pre-existing views so you're unlikely to admit that it's a bad study but come on.

I could say the obverse about about you, but it doesn't really move the discussion forward.

You said you thought it was a bad study because of the multi-site issue. I responded why I didn't believe that to be the case. You responded that it was a bad study because of the $19 cut-off. Do you still think the multi-site issue is a problem, given my response?
Why is the status quo a problem?

I'm not saying it isn't; I don't know. I just don't see why should we assume that it is.
If you're using hangouts for google voice there's an option to have it use email instead which is incredibly nice.

There was also for a while a CLI hangouts client that I used in tmux, I heard google was shutting down the API though and moved everything away from hangouts since I personally wouldn't be able to stand having a browser open all the time just for chat.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Slack have single sign in?
It really annoys me that I have to maintain an account per each Slack community. Honestly it has actually put me off from using Slack. It's too much work. And the increased internet footprint bothers me, I'd like to be able to instantly vanish from all Slack communities in one click.

Single sign in seems like a no brainer to me. Why do they insist on new accounts?
No news is bad news. If you stop hearing about new developments, the reality is almost certainly bad.

Looking back to a few layoffs, that was a common sign. I think I can spot it next time.
>They are all deeply flawed as currencies because they are scientific in nature rather than economic.

I don't think I disagree with what you mean, I think I disagree with the notions that these are mutually exclusive.

To echo Margaret Thatcher's (I know) final words in office, there is no such thing as apolitical money. I don't believe there can be a world in which economics is divorced from politics in any way, I think society must occasionally make political decisions about economics.

I agree with your points pragmatically though, which perhaps is where you're grounding everything?

Do you mean that having a forced deflation with cryptographic mathematics is a flaw? I don't really understand why a finite amount of currency would be an issue if the number of units scales beyond what the entire world's traditional currencies contain combined.

It's just a cryptographically enforced trust network to not print money when you decide you want to print money.
That's reassuring.
> regressive

As opposed to allowing blatant hate speech and other garbage that is allowed in the US.

Freedumb.
Nah no worries, we're delighted that HN has users from many nations. And it wasn't my rewrite, I stole it :)
Opera isn't open source though.
Agreed. And that's the reason Seattle was able to raise their minimum wage without major disruption -- not because their economy doesn't rely on cheaper labor, but because they've outsourced it.

I'm not assigning a moral value to outsourcing, though I agree with intel founder Andy Grove that outsourcing high tech like chip fabs can backfire after a generation. Just making the point that raising wages is easy if cost of living / labor deltas has already offshored part of your economy.
I remembered playing this in 2013 and it really helped me learning vim. Then I discovered roguelike games, which depend heavily on vim key bindings, especially hjkl for movements, played a bunch of them ever since and got really fluent in vim keybindings. Now besides using vim as text editor and play roguelikes, I have vimfx extension for browsing web under Firefox and vimium for Chrome. Now I just hope I can have vim editing functionalities in any text boxes, and I have been searching for a solution for years.
Regarding homosexuality & choice: How about people going into prison straight (their declaration) and coming out gay (also their declaration)?
Five Reasons For Database Outsourcing
Because it shows willful deception. In a court of law, this would likely be a significant point in the case.
This is very much on our radar; I use Windows as my primary OS now, even.
It is supposed to reject requests from the addresses it does not listen on. I just found it strange that it binds on all interfaces regardless.
It's not going to be the last time either. Sovereign countries are waking up to the dangers of letting the internet be run by 5 huge American companies, and they're not going to continue to take "the internet is global, your sovereignty isn't" as answer for why their laws and court orders can't be enforced. This is the beginning of widespread internet Balkanization, for better or worse.
Raising the artificial lower limit just shifts and compresses the lower tail and those just above it (see: wage compression), until the rest of the economy adjusts and pushes the rest of the wage distribution back to its original relative position. In the meantime, while that adjustment is happening, you've temporarily helped wages but hurt employment opportunities for people who need it most (the low wage people who can't sell themselves).

Interesting point about wage compression is how demoralizing it is. I've talked to employees who have first hand been subject to it. The general sentiment is "Why do I suddenly make the same amount as people who are less skilled and less experienced than me? I worked hard to get ahead. How is this fair?" And this sentiment was from very left progressive individuals.
I understand what you are trying to say, but you might want to check out the full list. It contains people who have various strong opinions on different nuanced security related topics, yet all agree regarding this. I think that is why it is strange to brush aside the signatories.
> There is a reason that civil liberties and human rights organizations like the ACLU are concerned about this precedent.

Yes, this sounds bad for the internet in many ways. One recent particular case comes to mind of this guy who is suing Encyclopedia Dramatica (a 4-chan style wiki with a satirical and intentionally humorous backstory for most internet memes). The banner on top of their site asking for donations for a legal battle now says:

>> "JONATHAN MONSARRAT FILED A SLAPP SUIT AGAINST US. "

SLAPP = https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public...

This is a guy who had a profile on the wiki because he was internet famous setting up a fake dating site while a student at MIT in order to get preference to message all girls who signed up. He was investigated for harassing girls. http://hlrecord.org/2003/04/dating-service-creator-accused-o...

He's also a known lawsuit troll who is trying to repair his name in search engines via DMCA claims and lawsuits. He has also sued online commenters who spoke ill about him: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130608/08444123372/jonat...

More about the latest lawsuit here: http://theralphretort.com/encyclopedia-dramatica-in-danger-o...

This just offers people like him another outlet to waste peoples time in court.

But in practice the Streisand Effect has the opposite effect of actually helping him protect his name so I really wonder what practical benefits this really provides anyone.

It seems like there are far more illegitimate reasons for this to be used than good ones. And considering there is no automated way to filter these I'm much more inclined to say there should NOT be a centrally controlled way to remove things from being listed on Google in this way.

Even with this particular court case if a business moves away or shuts down then Google's algorithms will eventually downgrade the ranking of the companies presence online in relation to that location. If they want a global presence then it's up to them to outrank other sites by getting press or for Google to properly flesh out the better sites.

This is a problem that is obviously better solved by Google's engineers than the courts.
Funny story, when IBM acquired Blekko one of the things we had to do was show them we weren't keeping any alcohol on premise[1], even in the machine room. Apparently they didn't have a problem with copies of 'Modern Drunkard' on the coffee table in the lounge area though :-).

[1] There was an excellent scotch collection that had to go, and some Corona's that had been providing thermal mass in the drinks refrigerator for years.
> Increased diversity could lead to new project-wide perspectives and overall community enrichment, if solely due to life-experience-based heterogeneity.

One might wonder what benefits alternate uses for scarce resources spent chasing that "could" could provide instead.
Just to let you know, after reading your comment I switched off wlan and reloaded this page. The dinosaur appeared and after trying some keys the game started and I may already be addicted. Look what you have done!
Show HN used to be one of the awesome things about HN - a real community showcase. It's not like that any more.

As HackerHunt says, /shownew is just a place that awesome new stuff is hidden.
Spotify is an extreme example, people need to write macros for applications, even understanding the formula syntax of Excell needs an understanding of programing.
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LastPass has an extension for each browser (including mobile), which allows you to fill in CC details.
Pornography (and prostitution) have existed for the entire history of human civilization. You wouldn't claim that Ancient Egypt or Greece were robbing their citizens of their freedom through those things.

I agree that there is a huge ignorance of ethics in today's world of software development, and I wish we stopped putting so much of ourselves online, I don't see why sex is the one thing you think is more important than the thousands of other violations of privacy and humanity that happens online.

Also, the porn industry has brought about a lot of different interesting new technologies that eventually bled into the rest of the tech industry (credit card verification is one trivial example, there's plenty of others).
if that (the ROI of their presence > the negative ROI of complying with orders) were true, would not Google keep their business going in China?

In reality, it is not easy to measure such RoIs positive or negative.
FYI: I am a woman. I am homeless. I get a lot of flak from people because I am not pro UBI when people seem to think I should be simply because I am homeless. Instead, I believe we need to view our current situation as The Second Industrial Revolution and do whatever the next evolutionary step is to make paid work a lighter burden while raising quality of living for the masses. I am pro gig work done right.

Also, your comment is basically a personal attack.
Canadian law professor Michael Geist has a pretty good summary/analysis of this case:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/06/global-internet-takedown-...
Only if the contract says so. And just because the contract says so doesn't mean it's morally correct, only that they managed to get you to sign it.
Have your pick:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=duplicate...
You wrote:

> if everything costs more

Then you wrote:

> many businesses simply respond by upping the price

Which should be "some" businesses for "some" products. The price/wage spiral is mythical because it does not occur in reality - not "everything costs more," only certain products and services will increase in price. Inflation of the kind you are talking about is caused by monetary policy. Your second argument is a common logical fallacy that is trotted out by many opponents to minimum wage increases.
Anything with an emotional component of drive that exceeds rationality with respect to holding out for money will of course be exploited.

That's a really high minded way of saying "For every Artist, Musician, Scientist, or Teacher trying to make $1, there's a Shitty C-Student there making $5 before letting go of the rest downstream."

It might sound harsh but it's a fundamental human truth in the US business model of Art-as-Commercial.
There are two and a half competing forces in companies.

The first is the pursuit of profit. The second is the maintenance of hierarchy and status.

(In more humane companies the half force is an explicit dedication to benign personal and social improvement of all participants. But let's ignore that for now.)

Many companies are willing to sacrifice profits in order to maintain hierarchy.

Aside from the bugs, which are questionable, the only "crime" in any of these stories is lèse-majesté - the narcissistic wounding of someone who considers themselves a superior in the implied hierarchy.

People with authoritarian tendencies tend to consider this a far more serious crime than petty theft.

Being more competent, better informed, and more efficient should be a positive attribute, not a social challenge. But it's incredibly hard to set up a corporate culture which is a genuine performant meritocracy where status depends entirely on competence and ability.

Most companies are a very long way from this ideal. Many have an explicitly feudal mindset, where innovation and competence in underlings is not only threatening, it's terrifying.
"We have a team of Rust community leaders to pair you with. This group isn’t particularly diverse; this is where the Rust community is right now. "

That's where it's been since the beginning. All the politics, Coraline's Code of Conduct, moderation, talk of "inclusiveness," and so on with "social justice" advocates in or leading some teams. You'd think the teams themselves would be diverse as heck with the community following. Yet, those in control from the beginning up to now are mostly young, white males on almost every team in the pictures.

https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/team.html

Reminds me a bit of the Huffington Post pic on Twitter showing a bunch of mostly white women running a company whose writers talk lots about how companies should be inclusive and/or diverse without actually practicing it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/4kn6ms/huffington...

Both showed structural racism, sexism, and age discrimination exist at the management (esp hiring) level. No surprise that the resulting community wasn't diverse enough in practice when those leading it weren't. One tends to follow the other. There's a bootstrapping requirement of sorts where having internal diversity helps ensure it in the areas they act on (eg communities). It's not there... probably intentionally as some other organizations actively sought out different kinds of people in hiring with either quotas or blind auditions. I could see specific positions in language or compiler teams getting white males or something narrow due to prevalence among top teams in CompSci. However, many jobs on this list don't take a genius so much as someone willing to learn and work. More typical kind of work that both majority and minority talent exists and can handle.

Like in the tweeted reply to Huffington, I suggest the Rust team can begin improving diversity by looking to see if there's a handful of black people in their geographical area or working remotely if allowed that are capable of writing code, writing docs, talking to people online about the language, doing CI, moderating away mean posts, and other things I see in team descriptions. I swear I've seen and met such people doing such jobs in the past in person and online. If they're in Mountain View with Mozilla, Wikipedia tells me that area is over 50% non-white with lots of Latinos and Asians. A lot of women live out there, too. If I'm wrong about the structural discrimination, then none of them can code, write, admin, or assist people and/or they're not in the pipeline somehow with hiring having no way to look for them. Outside the small amount on the Rust team already that are minority members. Call me skeptical that the talent for average work didn't exist or was too hard to find.
Oh hey! So it does. I'm not sure how I would discover it, but it works exactly the same. Very cool - thanks.
we get it, you're better and smarter than everyone else
This ‘Bikini Airline’ Is Going to Create Vietnam’s First Female Billionaire
Outside of unicorn "SF / Silicon Valley Land" you don't see these perks at other companies. So this advice only applies to a very small subset of people.
Which is a pretty good deal for the owner class.
Well, the question was whether it was unethical, and the ethics to me seem pretty clear. He is lying to the company about what he's doing and when he's doing it. He also had an agreement with the company to work 40 hours for wages, which he has clearly broken. Neither of those things are ethical in any way shape or form.

However resolving this in a just way is now extremely difficult (this is mostly his own fault but still). The way I see it he (morally) still retains the rights to the code, since the company didn't pay him to write it. However the company has also been wronged because he has lied to them and broken his contract. The question now is if the value of his code is enough to compensate the wrong he did to the company, and if so by how much. That's not an easy question to answer, hence the discussion.
It can if there are substitutes for labor.
I'd renew for a month to refresh the less usual commands in a heartbeat if it was $2-3 bucks! $25 is hard to swallow.
I do feel like I got my $25 worth at the time though. It was a great way to learn and I use a lot of it daily.
If vimium on firefox didn't totally suck I would.
Stop spread this no sense. What África needs is US and EU out there! After that they will be able to develop themselves as most societies do.
Seriously, was there this much politiking for infighting when people proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model.
People (mostly) don't complain about books because we fail to recognize the trade off, or else we accept it, but there are certainly useful places for memorization of large amounts of information. Not only is it more easily summoned when you need it, but it's more fully internalized. By comparison, I know almost nothing about the books on my bookshelf, despite having spent significant amounts of time reading each of them.
The NZ system is more about self learning than other countries, standards in NZ have declined from their peak in the 80s and 90s but the country is still ranked 12th in the world.
Drag and drop a tab to another position on the tab bar while holding ctrl. (Might be command or whatever on Mac?). No idea why this functionality isn't exposed via a menu item.

I just tried it with this tab and not only did I get full back history but it also had my partially entered comment in this form.

Edit: holding ctrl while using back and refresh also duplicate a tab with predictable behaviour.