skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand some of your critiques of democracy and its current Western implementation.

What makes me wonder is the assumption that the Chinese government acts for well-being of Chinese people in general, and not the prosperity of the relatively narrow upper ruling layer. It's not based on any evidence; if anything, Chinese history is full of examples of the contrary.

To play an honest neo-reactionary, you should at least assume that an autocratic ruler, collective or personal, cares about its own well-being, but it somehow trickles down to non-ruling layes, and does so more effectively that what a democracy would provide.
1. Leadership is male.

2. Women are better leaders when they look and act like men.

3. A successful public life interferes in a woman’s private life.

4. When women get emotionally involved, they lose rational thought, and their leadership capacity fails them.

I couldn't agree more.
Facebook Stalking Much Riskier Now Thanks to New Hello Feature
DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Scans by Not Traveling
What is the best defence against ransomware?
Can you elaborate? If I am communicating with a server over tls, how is that not e2e encryption?

The communication between both clients (my computer and the server) are encrypted locally such that mitm are not able to read our secure communication. The "end" of the connection is either the server or my laptop.
This needs correction then? http://www.lonelyplanet.com/iran/women-travellers
You can take the woman out of Queens...
> Study (hard) for the next 5 years

I don't think colleges in US can be as hard as universities in some european counties. Especially where universities are free.

I would be curious to hear if there are some exceptions.
Enpass is what you are looking for!
"With Pocahontas (1995), for example, Disney showed that not even cartoon women can “have it all”. The Indian princess must choose between success in the public sphere and a happy romantic life."

If you make a movie about life in a society which does not value women equally, how can you be surprised that the movie does not present them as such.

"Mulan is a bold Chinese warrior, respected and followed by her people…all of whom think she is a man, because she has deceived them by cutting her hair. The point here appears to be that to become a good leader, a woman should look and act like a man."

I mean....what? Is that the lesson you got out of that movie??? It's an extremely shallow interpretation of the message here, one that almost seems bent just to fit a certain narrative.

"But, the protagonist Elsa has dubious leadership skills. As the elder sister, she is responsible for governing, but when she gets nervous she lets her emotions get the better of her. Despite her good intentions, she cannot effectively wield power.

As a result, she freezes her realm and withdraws into a solitary world. In other words, she lacks emotional intelligence."

Once again, you are trying to make the interpretation fit the narration. Maybe she is just portrayed as a normal human being who has flaws, not a perfect-in-every-way robot? Wouldn't a film where the main character never makes any mistakes and has perfect control of their emotions be just.....boring? If anything, I'm really bothered by the fact that in those movies men are shown as having zero emotions whatsoever, as if men should have everything planned out beforehand - what a stupid idea.
"What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between [workmen and masters], whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour.

"It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work; but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, a merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment. In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate."

-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chapter 8.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...
Iranian-American here ... I think the days where Americans hold anti-Iran sentiments are long past. At least, amongst educated types. There's a lot of curiosity about Iranians and the culture. For example, I just went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and was surprised to see an exhibit of contemporary Iranian art (i.e., modern art made by young artists recently living in Tehran, NYC, London, etc). The Iranian restaurants, even in Texas, are packed, and half the guests are non-Iranian, American born people.

Probably going through the experience of becoming jaded about our own government helped. We (USA) are now one of those countries where people have to say "don't look at the government, the people are decent." So people here with an ounce of curiosity about the world understand the same as to Iran. And then you have more people who even understand the role the US played in destabilizing Iran which put it on trajectory to its current regime.
I've been on both ends of the spectrum, from being PIP'd out the door to never hear from them again -- after burning bridges to be there and dedicating years to the mission -- to getting multiple base salary increases in a year and "keep doing what you're doing, you're definitely getting noticed".

Getting fired is definitely not the end of the world. In fact, I'd say it's more a measure of the employer/employee compatibility. The hardest part of the interview is determining "do I want to count on this guy/gal/team/company every day?" and sometimes it takes getting shown the door to realize that the answer was "no" all along. From my perspective, if you've never been fired, you've never tested the boundaries of your employability.
They affect Israel. For better or for worse, Israel has a special relationship with the US. Obama had tried to moderate it over the past eight years, but...
You assume it's obvious when something is encrypted. Steganography is generally easier with encrypted messages as it looks random.
Enpass all the way. Free and works with dropbox
Given the inherent imbalance of power, another alternative is to remedy that imbalance by giving the favour of flexibility to the worker rather than the employer.
Well, it's a small thing but being able to leave on a moment's notice and not having it considered a breach of contract is helpful.

I was a bit surprised to find that instead of being a matter of courtesy, I'm contractually obligated to give 6 weeks' notice before leaving. I don't mind, really, but it's still kind of ridiculous.
Its nice but an index would be cool. I mean its so long and an index would help navigation greatly.
A cursory analysis of nitayart's Broadpwn bug (CVE-2017-9417)
Completely agree. I once worked for a large company that was purchased by another large company. The new large company wanted everyone to sign non-competes. I responded that I would only sign if they added that I would be paid throughout the non-compete timeframe. Oddly enough, I never heard anything else about it.
https://keeweb.info/

You can self host the webapp, or run the desktop app. You can store your file on Dropbox
While unlikely a factor in this case, I wouldn't be so quick to trust National Geographic as it is a for-profit company owned by 21st Century Fox (of Fox News fame). Its credibility shouldn't be categorized on equal footing as Nature.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/9/9296815/national-geographi...
Most Americans know roughly how long 326 miles is. Most people don't have any idea how much 2.7E20kg weighs, and changing that to pounds or tons won't help at all.

If you try to make the figure more accessible by comparing it to the weight of some very large object on Earth, most people will still think of it in terms of length rather than weight. For example, 2.7E20kg turns out to be in the same ballpark as the weight of Alaska assuming a continental thickness of 50km and a mean density of 2.7 (granite). But now we're imagining the length of Alaska, which is very misleading because the state is nowhere near spherical.
NemucodAES ransomware and Kovter trojan bundled in the same campaigns
Yes, but local friends and family is biggest preventer of moving.
I can think of a bunch of reasons why one might end up in such a situation, all of which point to systemic failures to protect the free movement of people:

1) Unfamiliarity with the law. People moving from states which protect the marketplace for employment from non-compete abuse (e.g. California) may not realize that such "agreements" even exist. I didn't, and was pretty surprised by them when I left CA after 7 years in SV.

2) Being required to sign a non-compete _after_ you've already begun the job, which is (AFAIK) legal many places, though I don't know about Idaho.

3) Asymmetric power in the "agreement", especially when larger employers (with legal departments) are involved. The scare quotes are there because the parties agreeing to the contract are not negotiating from comparable positions of strength, so I think the word "agreement" is a post-truth-type word.

IMO, a free market won't remain free without public policy support. I guess Idaho prefers a different sort of arrangement. That's their choice. Welcome to my personal blacklist, Idaho.
Part 2: http://boosterok.com/blog/broadpwn2/
Sort of tangentially relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/573/
I can't stress how good the above comment is at dealing with this. As a long time manager, people that behave this way are a total joy to manage.

Also, if you have a smartphone and your company uses slack, there is no reason to be unreachable, unless you are in a deadzone of cell reception or driving. But, if you practice the above, it shouldn't be an issue. For example, a post to #OOO: hey, running an errand for the next hour, offline.
I tried it and was mostly happy with it. But has it gone through anywhere near the third-party scrunity that 1p has?
> Did we ever stop being the laughing stock?

We managed to slip off the front pages for a bit.
KeePass and KeeWeb are both great interfaces that can read KDBX format.
I sync with Dropbox and encrypt with a private key that I carry with me or keep on my main machines.
Thanks. I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed that as well. The entire point of Mulan was to show that regardless of your gender you could be a powerful leader and warrior. Her pretending to be a man is there to show you that the gender roles are bunk.
https://github.com/ejcx/passgo
1Password & gopass (https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/, it's "pass" compatible if you are using that already). I don't really mind the subscription service as it works fine across all platforms I use.
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I agreed with the premise of the article: I don't want my daughters to feel they are hapless beings designed for a man's pleasure.

But I departed about halfway through the article, at "gender free toys."

It's no secret that on average, women tend to be more empathetic than men, and men tend to be more assertive/combative than women. There are of course exceptions to this rule, and of course, reasons why each sex should develop both skills.

However, after reading "Now, Discover Your Strengths" it's also _vitally_ important that you play to your natural strengths more than anything. For a large percentage of women, this may mean developing the very valuable skill of empathy, and for men, this may mean learning to control and focus their natural aggression. Gender oriented toys can help children develop these skills at a young age.

There's a wide spectrum of overlap between men and women but denying the very obvious truth that they are inherently different is not only ridiculous but can disable people from using their natural abilities to suceed.
`pass` is a nice command line tool that stores gpg2 encrypted password files. It's simple, super handy and doesn't require you to trust any third party with what you're storing.
website: https://www.passwordstore.org/
man page: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/
I wrote https://github.com/mozilla/sops to manage secrets in our deployments, and also use it as my personal password store, to encrypt a file stored in a private git repo.
Yup! Hopefully, in the next couple weeks. I've copied and pasted links from a bunch of different sites & lists, I'd like to clean up the formatting a bit and make sure it fits the structure for this one.
Thankyou, I think I will.
>While its economy is known for agriculture — potatoes are among the state’s biggest exports — Idaho has a long history as a technology hub.

Nitpick, but: Idaho's largest component of the economy, as well as its largest exports, is technology and not agriculture. It is more of a tech state than an agricultural one.

(Sorry to all Idahoans who don't want this publicized!)
> So, we have numerous secure and high-uptime systems deployed whose methods were published even if source wasn't. He or others can always build on these if they want to replicate the results.

I know that's technically true, but not helpful, and that's why this line of thinking is becoming unfashionable.

As a researcher in Programming Languages, who publishes and has reviewed code:
By that argument, there's no need to publish CompCert or Coq, which seems ridiculous. Publishing code can help adoption even if the code gets rewritten.

Publications without code often fail replication for many reasons (not necessarily involving foul play or even errors). I can't document all tricks needed to get the performance results in 20 pages. And replication in another scenario might show the results don't generalize easily (and nobody knew). So having sources provides the extra confidence you need before bothering.

And compared to other publications without code, the needed expertise seems much less common.

OTOH, papers do get used by the research community, possibly steering it in some direction (including then wrong one). And a few papers matter enough that people will attempt replication anyway (and learn if they work).

When the results of a paper are "here's what we tried and got, new ideas are needed" (honestly, many papers on hard problems) then maybe sources don't matter.
Opening a plane door mid-flight
Facebook has more impact on privacy and security than a payment company.
Hey! I created this repo, please respect the license?
I only attended one university but it was quite a lot more rigorous than anything I'd done up to that point in my life.
KeePass inside of a Qubes OS qube.
If your management is buying "advise" from the Gartner Group, that is a "bad management smell" IMHO. My advise is to work on your escape plan.

Every time I read or hear Gartner Group "information" piece on a subject that I am competent to judge the value and accuracy of the information, it is at best useless fluff, typically is mostly wrong, and commonly totally wrong.

"An average of 10 reports" goes against the commonly accepted magical number[1] of 7 +/-2. I suppose if the "pure" managers are only pushing paper (unable to judge technical merit), they can support more direct reports. That structure sounds like a recipe for perpetual technical problems.

What you quote sounds like classic matrix management[2] which results in two bosses, one controlling your HR side and one controlling your technical side. That does not work well in my experience because the two managers have very conflicting goals and neither of the goals are in in alignment with your goals. In the ensuing fight, the HR manager always wins because he controls your pay and assignments... and usually is the manager whose goals are least aligned with your goals.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management

[3] 24 years 9 months in a large corporation with matrix management. It was OK until the Ginormous Enterprise bought the division and sucked all the fun (technical work) out of it.
We Queenies have to stick together, I suppose. Can't let the yanks have all the fun.
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Iran supports terrorist organizations: both Hamas (considered by US, EU, and Israel as a terrorist organization) and Hezbollah (considered by US, Arab League, France, Canada, Israel, and the Gulf Cooperative Council as a terrorist organization. The military arm of Hezbollah is a terrorist org according to the entire EU).

Iran is developing nuclear weapons that threaten not only Israel (where the govt. has said it will destroy Israel) but also Saudi Arabia, Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey which are Suni Muslim states -- Iran is Shia Muslim).
From the comments in the article: " It certainly works much better as a broadcast medium and for giving occasional shout-outs, high fives, and anything you know isn't going to go beyond a short, positive interaction "

Looking at the Twitter design, this seems to be the intended use. At least in my stream almost all tweets are accompanied by a large picture. Quite often something that is not even very relevant, since they are auto picking the pictures for linked web sites. This makes very poor use of screen real estate. If conversations were a thing for them, I would expect a different design.
This only works if your management remembers your status updates.
https://www.lastpass.com

Free to use, auto password generation, has an iOS app with thumb print unlock (saves you from typing in a long master password).

I personally really enjoy it.
I love this, but the occasional stutter makes my GC detector tingle :)
> I had been taking advantage of the freedom to prioritize family needs

And olds wonder why they face employment discrimination.
I've been to many reataraunts that are like this. It's not uncommon.
Regulating Uber and Airbnb is BS protectionism. Regulating companies to stop pollution is essential and I support it wholeheartedly.

Tax is a different subject and I agree the way the system works now is suboptimal however paying tax is an important part of maintaining a healthy and functioning society.

Banning private conversation however is not beneficial to individuals or society. There is no reason anyone would suggest this approach unless they were planning to exploit it in a nefarious fashion. I would much prefer to live in a world with some terrorism that can be dealt with through education, improved foreign policies and opportunities for all than a dystopian world with no private conversations.
Slightly off-topic anecdote:

I've been having conversations with a really smart friend of mine (PhD in one of the sciences, and fairly good with programming) who decided to repurpose himself as a software guy, got a job a couple years ago at one of the tech giants (not the big four though).

Everytime I talk to him, he expresses annoyance that his team and lead are dogmatic about CS principles and want him to modify his programming practices. To give a few examples, he thinks being against using goto in C/C++ is dogmatic, and that there is no need to develop a testing framework until the software is developed, among a bunch of other things. All this while he piled on at the rate of about 1000 lines a month into the codebase (he started this project from scratch, surprise surprise).

I have been trying to convince him of the need to develop software engineering skills and that it's more about lessons learned from history than being dogmatic about anything.

Recently he started expressing interest in climbing the corporate ladder and becoming a manager or something. Good for him, I didn't point out anything, but to me, he felt
like one of those types who are more interested in their career bottomline than in developing good principles and practices of the work they do (something that disappointed me coming from him based on the person I knew for many years).

Just recently I heard he got awarded for the software he developed. (For context, the company is a tech giant but not mainly-software. I was very surprised to find out that they don't have an internal document or guide on coding conventions, hence a developer gets to do whatever he/she likes).

Point of the story? not much except that it's another data point supporting my cynicism towards short-termist and superficial attitude of majority of people, especially those involved in the corporate culture.

Because I can see where this is going. This guy would want to become some kind of manager as soon as he can, and hand over the development to someone else. If that someone else has good software engineering skills, he/she would be able to poke many holes in this codebase, and/or would be put in charge of fixing the bugs (likely due to bad quality and hasty implementation of the code). This will delay and slow down the progress of the project, because fixing those bugs would involve fixing the quality of the code through heavy refactoring, etc. And
then this same manager would get to claim "When I was developing, the project's pace was great, and now you guys have started slacking off and creating lots of bugs".
Even a gender studies degree would have a lot of value. A lot of people who get university degrees, myself included, end up working in a completely unrelated field, but that doesn't mean the education was worthless.
This is a good and interesting article, with which I largely agree (I impose more extreme limitations on princess products than this author is calling for, in fact).

But this statement, which the author implies is problematic:

"A successful public life interferes in a woman’s private life."

Just seems true, regardless of whether you replace woman with person.

Pretending all adults have limitless capacity to be SuperFamily while simultaneously being SuperWorkerBee just seems silly.

As it happens, I tend to think The Kids Are Alright is a pretty good way of thinking about family/work compromises; it's mostly about adult's preference to be all things to all people, not about kids' needs.

In a way, I think this idea we're super accessible to kids even when working hard actually can lead to worse parent child engagement. Really high quality interactions often take planning, and if you're too busy beating yourself up over missing bedtime, you don't take the time to plan that special activity.
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There is a really easy solution to the "no explicit management" problem: Just go to 1 boss and ask "When I want to take a vacation day, who do I talk to/what is the process for that?"

Works best if that is early on after joining the company. Or just ask the same question to HR, they would guaranteed know what the process is.
Oh well, c'est la vie :) Thanks for trying.

You make a good point about famous figures remarks. It's important to keep in mind the kind of absurdity we've seen from prominent people in the past when we hear something shocking from the public figures of our own time. The people of the past are flawed, and the people of the present are flawed.
It's not completely useless ... Yet, but with the shift the world is taking (globalisation, *robotisation and move to renewables) it will be. Some engineering degree too will put not have a place in the future.