skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the risk of seizure from law enforcement, I feel you should fully encrypt any remotely hosted servers. There are plenty of examples of datacenter techs being socially engineered to install backdoors, affecting both colo and dedicated. Had it happen to myself with an old server - they called up with some excuse and were able to completely bypass the 2FA in the control panel I thought I was secure with and have the techs disable pubkey authentication and reset the root password.
The share links look like this

https:// send.firefox.com/download/<$file_identifier>/#<$encryption_key>

Data after the # in the url should not be sent to the http server by the client. Encryption/decryption is presumably handled in the users browser by JavaScript.

The statement about not having the ability to access the contents of the files is perhaps somewhat misleading as they do control the JavaScript that either creates the key or will be given access to the key when someone retrieves the file (by reading it off the end of the url).
This is thoughtful and well researched. It is really worth reading properly; it deserves more than a tiresome, reflexive quotation of Betteridge's law and the assumption that smartphones are a universal good.

There's actual data: increase in reported feelings of loneliness; increase in suicide rate; decrease in time spent socializing; increase in symptoms of depression; decrease in sleep and sleep quality. There's a significant inflection point around 2007. It is a compelling presentation which demands an attempt at an alternative explanation, yet I haven't seen one here.
This is where I disagree with most people who are bullish on Tesla. I think there's a huge risk for Tesla that most people don't factor in- that it's very possible that most car buyers simply don't want one. The interesting thing about that is that most people seem to assume that making them at enormous scale and meeting the overwhelming demand is the only risk. What a century of observing the auto industry has taught us is that car buyers in huge percentages have fierce brand-loyalty and that anytime a new model is brought to market there's a huge uphill battle to create demand.

That's not to say that lots of people won't want a Tesla, clearly there's evidence that there's a market. But it remains to be seen whether that's a niche market or the better part of the auto market. To justify the current valuation, you'd have to believe its the latter.

Comparisons to the iPhone seem oversimplified. The iPhone on pretty much every metric was demonstrably better than every other phone on the market, and by a huge margin.

Tesla is better on some metrics- doesn't rely on fossil fuels, has some cool technology, and is a novelty because there aren't that many of them on the road.

But on most other metrics, there are lots and lots of better options. Some have more power, some are much cheaper, some have more storage space, and some simply have better brand awareness and loyalty.

Again, not suggesting that they aren't developing a great product. But there are huge risks to the survival of this company beyond cash burn that I don't think people are taking into account.
And most people wouldn't even know that is happening in the background.
Of course, but transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain are public - it's easy to keep tabs on where the coins are moved to.
Appreciate the thoughts.
It is kind of surreal that it is 2017 and we're still trying to solve such a basic computing problem.
"The key to passionate sex is actually caring about the person you're having sex with."

That sounds nice, but it's a load of baloney. I would wager that most people over the age of 20 (25?, 30?) have experienced a significant relationship(s) where the sex tends to be passionate (and frequent) at the very beginning, and tapers off and becomes less frequent, less passionate, more boring as time goes on (and years drag by). In fact, that is the typical progression of sex in a committed, caring relationship. So, no, I would not say that the key is "actually caring about the person".

I haven't read the linked article yet, but the subject reminds me of some work done by a psychologist named David Schnarch, who has built a career and written several books on the subject. These include a book called _Passionate Marriage_, intended as self-help for a lay audience, and _Constructing the Sexual Crucible_, which is more of a technical handbook for therapists and counselors.

See http://passionatemarriage.com/

http://passionatemarriage.com/catalog/15

Alain de Botton also examines the issue in a similar way on the impressive "Book of Life" website. E.g., he says:

"In a wiser world, we would collectively admit that the very rare cases where love and sex did run together were astonishing exceptions with no relevance whatsoever to most of our lives. We would instead learn to pay admiring attention to those who had accepted with a reasonable show of dignity and grace that the natural price of long-term togetherness is a decline in the quality and frequency of sexual contact – and that this is, in a great many cases, a price very much worth paying."

http://www.thebookoflife.org/love-and-sex/

http://www.thebookoflife.org/category/relationships/
There are more pics on twitter: https://twitter.com/archeodunum
This is like a short ad for NoFap.

Short on details. Should have explained factors that contribute to obsessive or harmonious sexuality. Not really much one can do with this article.
Yes, people have a tendency to think like that, but this in itself provides no evidence about what'll actually happen with future generations.

I am not arguing that I think there's a problem with this generation. Given my current state of knowledge in this topic, I'm agnostic about it.
Mercury News did a good visualization of how close the AC flight came to contact:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/18/watch-exclusive-animat...
Disparaging certain demographics, namely white people and men, is trendy these days and there's no shortage of self-loathing people in Canada with an apparent eagerness to provide a platform to enable and facilitate that/those trend(s).
But unnecessary syntactic sugar seems to be a common trait.

I give up on this thread. :) I can code in both languages, by the way, and I could swear that Rust is just a systems-level version of JavaScript, or JS before the hipsters got their hands on it and made it insufferable.
Most people in this thread seem to be downplaying the seriousness of these problems, but as a parent I can tell you that the problems are very real. Paul Graham wrote about them several years ago in his essay "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" [0]:

"I've avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it. Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We're all trying to figure out our own customs for getting free of it. That's why I don't have an iPhone, for example; the last thing I want is for the Internet to follow me out into the world."

[0] http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html
They can go cram it, for all I care.
This. Take a look at the listings for them on ebay; they're worth at least a grand. A buddy of mine bought one a few months ago and he's super happy with it. I wish I hadn't been a cheap college student and canceled mine a few years back.
It is so disappointing to see a YC startup directed only to a particular religion. Where I come from (India) there are things like if you belong to religion X then you cannot go to temple of religion Y during prayers, etc. But we regard those policies as regressive and are trying to remove them.

And regarding the idea that Muslims are looking for marriage and not for casual encounters, it is possible to achieve it without focusing on religion aspect. For example, in India websites like shaadi.com (shaadi literally means marriage) are used as dating websites where participants know that they plan to marry in near future.

Also, I would expect VCs with supposedly liberal beliefs to stand for inter-religion marriages as they are much more dangerous (seriously, you can get killed for it) and not for an app "where single muslims meet".
That's a very different thing, though - a native compiler targeting a 68k (decadent luxury!), rather than a JVM on a 6502.
This article feels like it has been written by my wife, telling me I'm a primitive horny male. I was hoping on a bit more science and less talk about harmony, wellness, wholesomeness, totality of being and other intangible concepts. While not bad advice for many, as a straight-forward male, I'm not sure what to do with advice such as accept your sexuality and be more open.

The most important factor is that both people care for sex to be good, though I don't agree that both people might be looking for the exact same thing; being able to give each other what each wants without giving up your own needs and desires is probably the hard part.
I like Chalmers because he's not a dualist in the traditional sense. I tend to disagree with the ideas, but take that with a grain of sand because I'm not a philosopher. For instance, I find the zombie argument kind of contrived. That's me though.

Personally, I'm a strict physicalist. I don't even think my own consciousness is magic, much less other matter in the universe.
The fact that the majority of refugees arriving to Europe these days seem to be pushing to get to Germany, Britain or Scandanavia despite being able to "survive" in Turkey, Greece or Italy seems to refute your point a little.
That assumes the original question asker is still even active, which is not a reasonable assumption on a crowd-sourced platform.
That was my impression as well, especially since the class-ish syntactic sugar doesn’t improve performance either.
> I have worked with my share of academics and non-academics.

Unless you have a different definition of "academics", this doesn't seem to me like you're arguing for anything. By "non-academics", are you talking about "not-gone-to-college"?

And I'm not going to continue this discussion either way, since we seem to be operating on anecdotes. Perhaps your experience has been different than mine. I would add though that I'm not asserting that a University automatically imbibes critical thinking, just that it exposes students to it, whether it be their professors or peers. A college education expands your worldview, but certainly it can be achieved in other ways (travel, reading etc.)
So basically this article is like an article that celebrates that tigers are "BOUNCING BACK" even though all the tigers in the wild are dead in many places, and only the ones in zoos live on?

WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO.
It might also be an indication that the police doesn't risk wasting the judge's time and get shitted on if they don't have rock solid reasons for suspecting someone.

Is a bit over 20k drug related warrants over 10 years really that much for the country the size of USA with such a drug problem and such an axe to grind with drugs users (war on drugs, private prisons, blacks with crack and teens with weed being juicy targets to boost statistics, etc.)?

Or 1300 warrants and 600 extensions in one fiscal year for a 'black bag job search' across all circuits?
>They created a product that is way differentiated from every other car out there and people want to buy it.

What? The Bolt has slightly better range, and probably much better build quality. The difference in price is $2k on a base price of $30k.

And if Chevy could do it, I'm positive most others can too.
Lessons Learned – Firebase Cloud Functions
Express js API and REST API Organization: tips, examples and techniques
Will this be available in Pidgin?
Jailbreak Amazon Echo
So this flight had no ILS, or ILS was turned off?
For a luxury car, that's not really good. As you move down-market, margins only get lower, so you have to rely on volume to make significant amounts of money. If people don't buy Model 3's by the hundreds of thousands every quarter, they are going to have problems squeezing profits from this car.
I get it, despite having a small issue with "forever" being defined as "just 2 more loc", but I just:

(1) feel more drawn to "Flat is better than nested." from "Zen of Python" to dislike the extra scoping level despite the conceptual clarity it provides (because I'm sure some "idiot" will abuse it and I'll end up reading a 10 nested let-s monstrosity pretty soon)

(2) like to write small functions, so forever will always be "~10 loc max" for me

...so imho if you're used to "thinking in classic Lisps" you'll miss let, otherwise you won't. What I'd miss for example would be some Haskell-like where (https://wiki.haskell.org/Let_vs._Where#Advantages_of_where) but I'd wake quickly out of it since it would make no sense to someone not already "stuck in Haskell-like thinking mode".
> correlation does not imply causation

The articles adresses this issue and talks about research into correlation.
Pricing between us-east-1 and us-west-2 has been largely the same in my experience. us-west-1 had a price premium, presumably due to higher costs in California.
> Most people in this thread seem to be downplaying the seriousness of these problems, but as a parent I can tell you that the problems are very real.

In my generation, parents said the same thing about TV.

The urge to believe in the moral decay of the young is extremely powerful. This article exploits it, and commensurate skepticism is warranted.
An LTS Ubuntu release should be fine, though I'd hold off on using it in production until a year or so after release (to give Canonical time to shake out bugs).

A non-LTS Ubuntu release should be avoided, since they tend to be less stable.

If you're using something in the Debian family, Debian itself is probably the much better choice unless you're looking to use Canonical's enterprise products.
lol, I probably wouldn't use lewd.se for business ;)
It has hardware switches for the camera and microphone, and it comes with an unfused CPU, allowing to disable Intel ME.

https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/

https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/
Shaadi.com owns a number of related websites targeted at particular Indian communities. I live in Kolkata and ads for bengalimatrimony.com are everywhere (in a manner of speaking).
That's not true in every case. If you're just throwing it into a DB, then yes. But if you're encrypting it and storing it on an isolated server with the decryption keys on a separate server, it's not a huge deal.

Look, people on HN make a massive deal about passwords. One of my most shocking discoveries starting as a pentester was that "storing passwords in plaintext" would be a low-severity finding at best. Medium through critical vulns are reserved for findings that can own an app. That's how little password storage matters.

If you're relying on UPS preserving the secrecy of your 21-character master password that you're using across all your websites, you're doing it wrong. Yet the vast majority of users will do exactly that. The way to protect them is for critical services to use 2FA, which they do -- email, phone, insurance, etc all use 2FA or separate 4-digit passcodes now (USAA).

There have been so many password database leaks, yet the world moves forward. What is unacceptable is for Blue Cross to leak all your PII, yet the world moved on from that. CloudFlare leaked a huge amount of sensitive info. All of those matter way more than some password leaks.

If someone is going to target you, here's the most likely method: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919845
And yet here it is, upvoted, clicked, and commented on by enough people to make it to the front page of a highly competitive news aggregator. It's easy to forget what it's like to not know something I guess, but clearly there are enough beginners still out there who find this type of post useful.
Motors aren't a secret technology. And Panasonic makes the batteries and sells to Tesla. The only thing Tesla can sell as technology is Autopilot, which is just hyped up driver assistance.

Have you even heard of electric cars like Renault Zoe, Chevy Bolt, BYD ev300? All with range from 180-230 miles, selling since 2016.
Your point about companies with large cash hoards is true but breaks down at the sheer scale of Apple & it’s cash reserve.

Apple is routinely making several billion dollar bets. They invest Amazon & Tesla debts regularly but it just doesn’t make a dent.

At some point a cash pile is so large it’s basically impossible to spend responsibly. Even with big bets.

They have so much cash they could buy Disney outright if they wanted to. Think about that for a second...
The Most Important Skill for Any Entrepreneur (And How to Develop It)
I've had a hard time finding a news source like yahoo news digest once it had shut down, so I've been working on a side project: http://bluebookcasedesign.com/Pages/AktaDigest.html

For tech it's all the usual; Hacker News, reddit, Also I enjoy going through GitHub trending to see what is currently popular/new.
I don't see that it does, really. If Turkey gave citizenship to these refugees, and just allowed them to start their lives, they would perhaps have continued to stay there. Maybe I should have used a better word. They left their homeland to escape terrible conditions, but their conditions in camps in Turkey or Greece aren't very good either. They are trying to get back a semblance of normal life, which Germany seems to promise them.
Man I miss ICQ! Is it weird I still have my number memorized?
I doubt that the vast majority of customers in us-east-1 are using bleeding edge services. By the time you figure out how to integrate some new AWS offering into your infrastructure it has probably been rolled out to the other regions and the kinks worked out. Unless you need latest and greatest GPU offerings for DL, in which case maybe.
Location: Pittsburgh, PA or remote
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes, to PGH
Technologies: DevOps/SRE/SysAdmin: git, ansible/puppet/chef, python, bash, centOS, RHEL; Networking: Cisco, TCP/IP, Traffic analysis, F5 load balancing; Virtualization/Cloud: VMWare, AWS, learning Docker & Kubernetes; Soft skills: Documentation, Team Leading, Requirement distillation, some Project Management; Software Dev: Python (prefer 3), Flask, BeautifulSoup; Some: JS, PHP, HTML/CSS
Résumé/CV: https://jake.achee.com/hn.html
Email: see resume.
GitHub: https://github.com/jachee

As a well-rounded and successful professional with over 18 years of progressive industry experience, I believe that my skillset makes me an excellent candidate for a development-driven engineering/infrastructure position. I'm a highly-motivated, experienced, intuitive Linux Systems Admin with a strong Networking background, solid scripting chops and DevOps/Cloud-facing sensibilities. I'm currently looking to relocate to Pittsburgh, but I will also consider remote positions, as well.
Doesn't it come down to us trusting Mozilla though?
ActiveState code recipes now on GitHub – 5000+ recipes in various languages
That's pretty good, but for the people I'm thinking of, including Theresa May, that's about 10X too long. I like the last 5 points. It reminded me of Cory Doctorow's 'and now you've got two problems'.

Sadly we need something that is not much more than a paragraph. Maybe something that would fit in a tweet. Something that competes with 'people want to blow you up, surrender your privacy so we can catch them'.
OpenRefine:  tool for working with messy data
> One of the major Rust design goals is simple C ABI compatibility, and it delivers there.

I was just telling one has to write a wrapper either way. Idiomatic Rust is not idiomatic C, so you would need to have a "C ABI" interface in addition to the clean Rust interface.

> That it's LLVM only appears to me irrelevant […]

Not if it targets less platforms than GCC. Though that will likely matter less and less in the future.

> So long as you get rustc up and running, what does it matter it's architecture?

You have to get it up and running. You have another build step. You have to use a binary library (can't just include the source code). It's not much, but I want to maximise ease of deployment.
Ask HN: As a developer, how can I revive engineering culture in my team?
Long story short: due to a period of turmoil in my company, many great engineers have resigned and those who are left - are still frustrated and somehow depressed.

The company is getting back to a stable state but the "engineering culture" is gone: nobody talks about interesting problems and solutions, nobody shares knowledge nor tries to improve things around, etc.
It's just a pick-up-and-finish-the-ticket state now and I would really like to change it from inside as a developer.

Have you ever experienced something like that in your career? What did work for your team/company to get the culture back?
Skype somehow gets worse with every update. I have given up on it all together, now I just use appear.in instead. It doesn't require signing in and supports screen-sharing
Perhaps you are a very cautious person, that's your prerogative. What about that statement makes you think it applies equally to everyone else?
Completely agree. But imagine a YC funded startup where single people of Brahmin caste meet. I can understand local people developing apps like that but not a well-respected, liberal, California-based VC firm.
Er... you cannot use future tense to claim that.

It can be your fantasy, your dream, your oprinion, that's all very fine. But you cannot say that is what is going to happen, that's just one bet, one possibility (and not the most likely IMO) amongst several possibilities.
> I don't want to take a major hit to my quality of life just to escape Trumpland

Major hit to your quality of life? I'm sorry, you may potentially have a little less money in your pocket, but you're trading direct cash for better social services (read healthcare and education).

You make it sound like we're living in a 3rd world country.
What's the value of comments like this?
Location: San Jose, CA
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: yes, anywhere in the world!
Technologies:
• Programming languages: C, C++, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL
• Scripting languages: Perl, Tcl
• Design tools: Xilinx Vivado Design suite, Cadence Virtuoso Layout suite, LTSpice, PSpice
• Simulation packages: MATLAB Simulink, ModelSim, Silvaco, Altera QuartusII, SimpleScalar, OrCAD
• Tools/Software: MS Office, Visual Studio, LabVIEW, Wireshark, NS2, Keil, Gimp

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/maanasa-ms
Email: msmaanasa@gmail.com
And Renault Zoe, and BYD ev300. There are electric cars available all round the world, but somehow Tesla got the hype up that they are the only one.
Django is a weird case too because the official docs are so good and also offer very good tutorials. And the Two Scoops book is such an invaluable reference too. Reading both would put you in the position where you won't really need SO for Django questions.
>>> In order to hire more people, we need to make more money.

Feels like that's the crux of it right there. A lot of the problems in this thread could have been fixed, with time, focus and money. But if there's no path to profitability...
Can we access it from China?
In what way is this article "clickbait"?
To be absolutely honest I gave up on the idea of really good sex after 45. Enjoy your twenties and thirties. If you are in good shape in your 40's and aren't terribly experienced, ok..you may have some good sex.

My definition of good sex is uninhibited and athletic
with a committed emotional component.

There is a 'spiritual' aspect to sex that I have not experienced much but that is because it seemed laborious
and counter-intuitive.
I believe this is part of their strategy, it requires somebody else who already uses the app to teach you. This keeps the platform exclusive to tech-savvy youth instead of being infested by old people and falling out of favor with those groups like Facebook did.
Is there an API developers can use to leverage this?