skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR:
Link is to a rambling blog article about a perceived slight (moving money from a 'foreign aid' budget to a 'refugees' one) that will have an unsubstantiated outcome (Sweden will accept only male refugees in the country), apparently based on a well-known falsehood ("most refugees are single adult males" [1]). Blog has articles such as "Sweden should have guns like Texas because ISIS!".

Blog author is not Swedish but lives there. You gotta love how immigrants (who typically don't peep much and commit either the same level of or less crimes than natives [2]) are often accused of not integrating enough, while you can always find white immigrants like our blogger here ready to lecture their host country on how they should run themselves.

I suspect some of the off-topic comments in this thread are because this is about Sweden, a country that has become the target of all sorts of fantasies by much of the Western far right.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/refugee-invaders-meme/

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-015-0543-2
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Given that Greece is willing to extradite him and we haven't heard anything from the numerous countries where this guy has a business presence, I suppose most of the other countries involved are happy to have the USA deal with this guy.

Not every country has the resources to track down billions of dollars' worth of BTC transactions and use them to build a bulletproof case against a specific person. So if someone else offers to do it for free, why say no?
TL;DR: Did read it. Excellent and amazing article. Do read it.
That's an interesting use-case. I'm curious if Slack would find open-source work compelling enough to grant a free license for searching messages. I do know for non-profits they offer free standard plan for up to 250 people and 85% off their pricing for those above the 250 person limit.

Any chance you mind sharing that code on GitHub? I've been curious about Elixir/Phoenix lately :)
Ancient Art of Weaving on Mars
This Insane Garage Is What the LaFerrari Aperta Deserves
> I think Slack did a good job with a base product, and they simply solved a pain point in a better way.

I agree with this, but haven't found it to be preferable to hipchat. I definitely think it's a well designed product in many ways, I'm just surprised the valuation for such a thing is that high.

I look forward to seeing what new innovations and improvements are in the future.
Traditionally an extradition treaty would require the crimes to have occurred on US soil. We’re slowly figuring out how this applies to the digital age.
I very much doubt they would lie about it; but if the amount in question was so little that they wouldn't care about it, they would just pay the full price.
And experience with Broadcom's wireless drivers (and NFC chips) tells me that the only thing extraordinary about them is how awful and limited they are.
Britain commits to power cars with its overwhelmingly fossil fuel based electrical grid and/or its even more fossil fuel heavy electricity imports by 2040.

(kidding, they'll just keep using petroleum.)

edit: apparently I can't read graphs, it's mostly natural gas not mostly coal. The "renewables" slice seems to be a bit heavy on not-exactly-green "biofuel" though...
Doubtful. While you can't contribute to the success of Apple, you can certainly buy securities in a startup and meaningfully help them succeed (VCs) or buy 5% of Apple and assume some control of Apple (Hedge Funds).
How about the 73 years interest? :-)
Unless you consider quantum effects, which are probably relevant in this situation, then it's an exponentially larger problem space.
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> Nobody cares about which programming language you are using, nobody cares about which frameworks your team has chosen, nobody cares about how elegant your data structures are and nobody cares about how good is your code. The only thing that somebody cares about is how much does your software cost and how much revenue it generates

This completely elides one of the biggest issues (at least in my job)

-Who is going to maintain the code and how much is that support going to cost.

Maintenance can include troubleshooting and bug fixes/enhancements and sometimes it's just pure support (i.e who does the user contact if their app is crashing).

I don't know about the web which is what I usually associate Javascript with but for in house business applications delivering a well supported application is critical.

I've found (as someone who occasionally has to commission contract work) that unless I am upfront (and dare I say confrontational) about support and maintenance expectations during the design phase I will end up with a complete mess at the end and support costs will end up ballooning out.
one possible alternative would be to put the money into academic research so there is no pressure from investors to have a return on investment.
My paternal grandfather was a B-25 navigator/bombardier. His plane was shot down over the Battle of the Bulge, and he spent the rest of the war in a PoW camp. The quality of the treatment (and particularly the nutrition) he received during his imprisonment compromised his health, and he died during my father's childhood.

I have no idea if he received this benefit, or if he even knew about it. Dad's dead (motorcycle accident); I'll have to reach out to my aunt to see if she knows. It's more the curiosity than the money. If he hadn't received it, and survivors can claim it, I'd just donate it to some veteran's organization, anyway.
There are enough sociopaths in the world, that nobody needs to sign up for a procedure like that.. its easy enough to buy genetic material, millions of people the world over are desperate enough for a better life that they will sell themselves and each other.
My two specific problems: I have an unresolved bug report open with them regarding failing to clear notifications, and the Linux client is the only of the 3 desktop clients that doesn't allow you to switch off the notifications dot, which is a super basic feature.
I can't which one is the best. But we use MailGun and we are not happy with it. We will probably switch to Postmark.
Yes, the blockchain is a fantastic resource for Feds prosecuting financial crimes. In order to get away with these things you need to have flawless opsec, because the moment they can connect one thing to you everything quickly unravels.
Probably shouldn't have tried to search for that ("ww.o") at work.
Deploying Mayan EDMS Using Docker and MySQL
Hopefully we can have a public discussion about ethics and vendor responsibility once the dust settles. If the government was so negligent that we may get a new one, then perhaps the vendor should have been aware of it? Perhaps they shouldn't have suggested such a solution in the first place? Perhaps they should have outright refused? Perhaps they should have demanded that the government change the law before proceeding? In what country do you get a free pass from the law just because the customer says so?

These vendors are being paid big money, and unlike our elected government officials, they are expected to be knowledgeable - experts in their field.
No, it compared individual students' grades before and after they lost access to recreational marijuana. They mention the local students because it was a group where no event happened so it helps show that there wasn't some other factor that brought up everyone's grades over that time.
This smart cross-trainer works your ass off for the right to watch Netflix
Yep, windows has documented it fairly well with the possible configuration options: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...
again, just because there's speculators on a secondary market buying and selling doesn't mean it's a security. a commodity future option is by default NOT the commodity. In the case of a token – you own the commodity and you have the right to use or sell to someone else – like a carton of milk.

The only difference here it took no cost to create the commodity which is why there exists a market to resell at unbelievable margins.
If anyone wonders, this was patched in iOS 10.3.3 https://threatpost.com/apple-patches-broadpwn-bug-in-ios-10-...
As soon as you touch USD, you're fair game for US authorities. It's like a shrink wrap license.
For one of charges in the indictment, "Operation of an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business" (18 USC § 1960), they allege that BTC-e satisfied two conditions, either of which alone would have been sufficient to prove the charge. One of the conditions is knowingly transmitting funds derived from a criminal offense, but the other one is just "fail[ing] to comply with the money transmitting business registration requirements set forth in [31 USC § 5330]". So I'd say the BTC-e stuff is indeed part of "what he's charged with", albeit not the main focus.
You press fork on github. You write some catchy posts. In one way or another you distribute a few million coins while keeping a few million yourself. Now you sell. That's the shitty side of it and it's a little bit more involved but not much. On the more legitimate side of it it's a way to raise public cash for software projects.
If you want save flash, just install an virtual machine with WinXP and stay in the past. Too much website still use flash.. come on they have been warned so many times, flash must die.
E-cigarettes linked to helping people quit smoking – The Verge
Russia "can" do whatever it wants to you while you're in its territory, because it's a sovereign state.

Any "international law" that would stop this is toothless.
Azure Container Instances might be good for this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-cont...
forks on github.
article paywall
> How much of Ubuntu has undergone a security audit by people who are looking for actively maliciously obfuscated code?

You've just moved the goal posts from "we can look at what it's doing" to "we assume they tried to hide what it is doing" - which we know that e.g. Microsoft did bundling telemetry into Win7 security updates, but that Canonical never did. Nice.

I don't know how much has been gone through by people looking for underhanded code, but ... quite a few looking at the basic code. And if you expect underhanded code, I think you should just not trust the vendor.

> In a codebase the size of Ubuntu (and all its packages), "you can look at the source" is a mindgame, nothing more.

Actually, quite a few people diff ubuntu against debian to see the changes, and Ubuntu's original, independent code is not that huge - in fact, the community took over Unity, so there are a lot of people looking at it.

> Also, you can look at Windows' source code. In addition to the numerous programs Microsoft has for licensing the code to universities, researchers (including security auditors!), well-known community members, etc. the source code has been leaked multiple times.

Now, that's a complete joke.

Unlike ubuntu (which I have, in the very distant past 8.04 or 6.06 days rebuilt the base of, and which others regularly do), you have absolutely zero way to verify that the 400MB executable you installed does not include, in addition to the source you have, backdoors, telemetry etc.

When I was in Uni, I talked to one of the guys who get access to the source. It was view-only, can't rebuild, some critical parts missing. Maybe these days it is buildable, but I'd be surprised. And even if it is, you're not allowed to use it (except for auditing purposes), which goes back to the previous point - you have little idea what you're actually running.

> the source code has been leaked multiple times.

That's another joke. First, no professional would review _that_ because of legal ramifications.

I have a simple proof that you are completely, utterly, wrong in your assertions, and I would love for you to refute it.

If it's so easy to see what Microsoft is doing, how come there wasn't a single source for what Win10 actually sends home, for what the Win7/8.1 telemetry sends home, that was based on facts? In fact, the only semi-reliable (but not audited, or 3rd party confirmed!) source of what Win10 sends is from Microsoft, released over a year after Win10 was out. And it's frightening enough as it is.

I call bullshit on your claims. You're welcome to like Microsoft better than Ubuntu, but please stick to the facts.
So much hate for an app that has tried to replace (and done a damn good job) for really bad chat clients FOR BUSINESSES.

At least for Silicon valley, really we want to go back to AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Lynx, IRC (the latter is possible I guess).

For engineering sure we can do IRC...but really sales/marketing/HR? No.

Slack is not perfect...but they have done a pretty damn good job hitting 90% of most tech company needs.

(Omg there is even an API)...c'mon give em some "slack"
The charges in the indictment are for illicit transactions with TradeHill which was based in the US.
I would be happy to run two different OSes (and maybe 2 different CPUs), the mobile one getting access to the phone screen and the desktop one with access to the monitor, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (or the phone as touchpad). One or more shared directores for file sync (pictures, videos, downloads, etc)

The problem is that there is no phone with an i7, 32 GB RAM and 1TB SSD now. That's my laptop. My phone is a sub 5" Xperia X Compact. 3GB, 32 GB storage, a Snapdragon 600 something. Fast but not suited for the job I'm doing on the laptop.

Then the battery. It would drain as fast as the one of those old laptops that need to have theirs replaced.

We're still not there and I not sure there is a market for that. Maybe we'll get there by inertia once batteries and cycles per Watt will allow it. The direction we are headed now for this use case is the phone CPU driving a smart terminal to a powerful remote computer, with attached monitor and input peripheral.

An alternative to docking station: these AR screens and keyboards from the Dennou Coil scifi anime https://mengle.wordpress.com/tag/dennou-coil/
Kind of Google Glasses required.
>Two of Graham's Seven Primitive Operators are car and cdr. These names come from the IBM 704 implementation;

Since the 1960 paper is after the LISP I manual and Graham's article is based on that paper the actual wordings are clearly influenced by LISP1.

>What Graham's Paper is describing is a back formation abstracted from what they got running on that IBM 704.

We viewed it as the core of LISP.

>Since code-is-data is the core of Lisp

Yes an another important part of LISP.
I have kernel panics on 10.3 on a regular basis, varying from several times per day to a couple of times per week according to workload.

There's something inside wait6 and kevent that causes a thread to sleep whilst holding a non-sleepable lock. I hit it more than most I suspect because on my systems a lot of processes are blocked in kqread, whereas with the stock toolset one sees few processes using kevent.

I brought the subject up last year on freebsd-hackers, but nothing came of it.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622945
- identities of undercover operatives...

This is terrible. When will people learn to NOT use computers at all for some things. Use typewriters and spend a little bit more on administrative workers. You trade in processing efficiency for making these catastrophic breaches rarer.
Most likely because they are coming through Denmark and is not really fleeing from war anymore.
Thanks, this is the best HN 'rant for the common sense' in a long time :)
1/8 was reserved for a long time and various entities improperly used it as a private address. It was eventually given to APNIC for assignment use but a few ultra-commonly-used ranges and addresses like 1.1.1/24 and 1.2.3/something were never assigned because they get so much noise traffic and would break so many things.

It's improper for anything to use these unassigned in-theory-globally-routable addresses but there are no real hosts there and lots of local networks use them for random internal purposes. At least one commercial Wi-Fi hotspot uses 1.1.1.1 as a captive portal address.

Here's an incredibly detailed report on the situation on the 1-network: http://www.potaroo.net/studies/1slash8/1slash8.html
End users don't really matter to Broadcom. Chip makers don't sell product to end users, they sell to device manufacturers.
Scalling up means more people,new people, and people with different opinions about what is good. It is easier when framework itself encourages common patterns. Own solution tend to be tailored to first use case and work nor as well in general.
That's funny.

I use 1.0.0.0/24 for my home network. Perhaps they're doing something similar.
The main benefits I can see for node are performance, ability to use the same language on front and back end, and possibly easier server side rendering for SPA applications.

I don't think node comes out ahead in basic CRUD productivity as the rails ecosystem has many robust gems, established patterns, and documentation due to its maturity. They've recently added yarn and webpack integration as well so the core team seems well aware of the interest in SPA support.

It's a little tough to gauge though, since rails is a close to all inclusive framework while node's frameworks (ex: express) tend to favor smaller pieces you combine together yourself. There are pros and cons either way.
I don't understand why they rule out the increasing proportion of female runners. The fact that the trends are different for the genders doesn't negate this as a possibility. And they even state that this accounts for 46% of the effect. To me this reads more as an agenda-driven investigation than an actual study.
> The crime was committed outside the U.S., he didn't come to the U.S., the servers weren't in the U.S., Mt.Gox was based out of Japan, and Greek police arrested him.

No, but he either robbed, or laundered money for people who robbed US citizens (MTGOX customers.)
This is awesome! I'm relatively new to React - just a few months in - but have already hit these cryptic errors and struggled to diagnose. This will help not just general stability of apps, but probably troubleshooting these errors as well (via ability to reduce the impact area of crashes).
As an actual cryptographer who has looked into it, I wouldn't put too much faith in Monero's fungibiliry. The story is not as good as the PR would have you believe, and is really not all that different from Bitcoin with CoinJoin.
These statements are false:

> "Software does not exist to please us as programmers and let us write beautiful code. Neither it exists to create jobs for people in the tech industry. Actually, it exists to kill as many jobs as possible, including ours"

Software exists for whatever reason we want it to exist.

I started programming when I was 12 and that was 23 years ago. I sure as hell didn't start programming to solve business needs or to kill jobs.

In fact this mentality is what I find most upsetting about the industry. Tell a software developer to pick a problem and solve it and he'll almost always look at automating existing workflows.

There's this saying that most business software is about automating an Excel spreadsheet shared by email and it's true.

But it doesn't have to be that way. Software could also empower people to do things they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before. Just like with musical instruments, which are empowering people that don't have a voice to produce music. And we don't have to look far for such examples. Just the other day I was reading about a nice app by Microsoft helping the blind to see.

Software's purpose, if it has any, is to be an extension of our minds.

As for the fatigue, that happens because it's 2017 and we are forced to use tools that can be worse than those available in 1980.

Of course, such tools wouldn't be successful if many of us weren't guilty of anti-intellectualism. Just look at how many six figures professionals bitch and moan about having to understand what a Monoid is, even though it's part of standard high-school curriculum in some countries, like Romania.
I wrote about how I approach blockchains from a capability point on view a few months ago on LI, see here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-revolution-decentr...

I'd be happy to discuss further in private (chat/skype), but my "professional muscle memory" tells me that the only sane way of looking at a piece of technology is through its capabilities. When CIOs look for capabilities that can be met by blockchain then finding a business case becomes straightforward, otherwise it will be shoehorning as you say.
War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies (2013) [pdf]
But not PyPySTM
I'm also in Shanghai, on a China Telecom hardline, I get nothing from 1.1.1.1:

PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
80 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 79915ms

What mobile network are you using?
From elsewhere in Europe, but I hear your frustration.
Migrating to Kubernetes: Day 20 Problems
Elaborate. Your statement says nothing but "I'm a software engineer so believe me what I say Slack app sucks'
And of course there's no victims in money laundering. It's a victimless crime that has the sole purpose of helping prosecutors when they aren't able to find a real crime.

While the laundry operation is victimless it often directly assists crimes that have very real crimes:

Trafficking

Drug abusers [0]

Illegal weapons trade [1]

[0]: Esp. as since it is currently illegal they suffer a lot as getting their drugs means dealing with people you normally don't want to deal with and doing stuff you rather wouldn't do.

[1]: no, I'm still pro guns. I just don't want them sold illegally.
And undoing with two horrible policies:-

1. Creating a taxpayer funded Uber competitor, all to break up a monopoly. Looks like they don't know concept of a regulator. https://qz.com/1037837/indias-uber-ola-cab-wars-could-have-a...

2. Banning self driving cars, because India needs jobs.
A related economics question, a thought experiment really...

Suppose a private company manages to lower the cost of electric energy by 90%, using a device self produced fast with virtually no capex. From an economics point of view, they build free money printing presses, essentially.

How would they benefit from this the most possible? Selling the energy? At what price? Take over sectors of the economy where electric price generates most added value? Aluminium production? Data centers? ...
With the somewhat generous annual interest of 6%, it would be around $1000. Not exactly back breaking for the DoD (or the VA, for that matter, whatever department has this issue on their table).
Actually medical ethics struggles with this question. The right of deaf parents to have deaf children so that they can understand deaf culture is a major case study. Here's one article, the ethics community hasn't answered this one as far as I understand (there are many more recent articles). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/deaf-parents-could...
Marathons were cool in the 70s and 80s. Now athletic people are into different sports.
And nothing of consequence (at least of big significance) happened to HSBC.

They couldn't even implement FATCA in time, and government allowed the deadline to be pushed pushed forwards...
"JS Fatigue happens when people use tools they don't need to solve problems they don't have"

Why JS only? This statement applies to everything, not only development.
>Here, Swedes believe that Trump is such a catastrophe, and wonder why Americans could vote for him. We should instead look at our own pathetic "feminist" government, and ask ourselves how and why we got here.

Swede here. I don't even know how many times I've thought and said these exact words. Spot on.
Might still be a good alternative to companies that want Slack, but cannot afford to pay for it? (Assuming they're not finding what they need in the free version.)