skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this happened because it seems he accidentally presented himself to the outside world as alt-right. You'd only know he was a right libertarian (my impression at least) if you regularly listened to him.

For example, Look at his Wikipedia article vs his /r/politics AMA. His Wikipedia article paints him as alt-right, because all of his major accomplishments that reach outside the audience are hyper-focused on culture wars and academia influence on politics. His support of Israel was mentioned, but he did flip to an alt-right acceptable view. The only thing suggesting on the wiki page he's not alt right is not supporting Trump, but it doesn't help that its implied they mostly attacked him for being Jewish.

From that alone I would think it was a Milo situation, where they are alt-right that are unaccepted by the "alt-reich" because of a specific character trait.

The AMA however gave me the idea he's right libertarian. A lot of his answers seem to circle back to the free market. His pro-life opinion is even a slight extension of that, where he believes life needs to be guaranteed to at least participate in the market. This, however, required direct drilling of the guy to actually get.

So TLDR, He talks libertarian, but his noticeable acts are alt-right. I think this is a bit his fault, considering he didn't think to advertise his libertarian ideas at all in books or speeches even though he started his career before he even graduated college.
I think for handling truly/non-affine arbitrary transformations we will have to resort to ML. Then we could have matching very similar to how humans do it (where we really don't care if the transformation is affine/non-affine we just care if it's a huge transformation the makes the image unrecognisable). But I really don't know much about ML.

Okcupid talked about this in an article about image hashing [0] and they have a nice quote:

"The end-to-end approach of training a Convolutional Net to embed images such that the positive / negative case distances separate nicely is probably the cool new hypebeast way forward. This would have the added advantage of being able to handle whatever transformations you can think of at training time."

[0]https://tech.okcupid.com/evaluating-perceptual-image-hashes-...
I still use Google at work (software engineer) but I use DDG at home and for everything else.
Also broke.
I have played quite a lot with it - you typically don't get much fallout with an airburst (you do get more dead people), but in the case of nuclear terroism, which would probably be delivered by truck and therefore be a ground-burst, you do.
I agree. I have been using PIA for years and though it is not always blazing fast, it does the job and is very easy to use on both OSX and iOS. I found it really strange that PIA was the only one that hit all 9 of the highly desirable but was "very transactional". I felt the same way about the "fun to use" thing.
Problem is most of this subject has been in public debate for decades, centuries even. The people trying to maintain the status quo are never going to give it up willingly. They're always going to cry when change comes and they aren't ready for it (IE when they're dead). At some point the debate has to be reasonably over and action expected.

And some subjects don't have middle ground. Women being treated less than equal isn't a middle ground sort of issue.

There are already sides, there have been sides forever. People being pushed or pulled one way or another isn't a new phenomena. And there's no amount of public debate and middle ground treading you can do to prevent people who are going to be polarized as of the result of any backlash of their already fringe beliefs. That's inevitable. And the gymnastics required to keep them in the middle just aren't worth it. The actual goal is the thing of value for the people pushing for it. Not appeasing ignorance and bigotry just enough to keep them pacified.
No.

Assuming someone is posting in bad faith for this reason is an act of bad faith.

Your statement reveals hypocrisy.
I have tried DuckDuckGo but for me Google is still much better. Unfortunately.
I think Google legally had a mechanism to do this, but ethically is messed up big time. The saying was "don't be evil", not "don't be criminal". I don't know if Google leadership was evil but the underlying principle is that "don't be illegal" is a low bar. I expect everyone to strive to do much better than that.

I don't see a lot of calls in these comment threads for an employee bill of rights or something, so I don't know why this keeps coming up.
My usual setup relies on first using DuckDuckGo and when I need answers to a more esoteric problem or error that I am seeing and DDG isn't providing me with what I need, then I modify my search query by appending "!g" and try my luck with Google.

At the moment I'd venture it's about a 60/40 split with DuckDuckGo staying on top across all types of searches.
I was going to bring up Etoile; I assume it's dead, since there doesn't seem to been any activity for a few years?
Keepass' security measures, described here:

http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html

A question: does anyone have any idea why is it so much slower to crack Rar5 and Office 2016 than these password databases? What sort of magic sauce are they using to reduce the amount of guesses/second?
Yeah this is a skyscraper; there are multiple bike racks with dozens of spaces, but still not enough room for everyone.
I switched to DuckDuckGo years ago. I use it in my work as a software engineer and find it satisfactory the vast majority of the time.

On the occasions that it isn't I either append !g, !s, or !sho to redirect the query to Google, Startpage, or SymbolHound, respectively. There are thousands more and they're huge productivity boosters (!w for wikipedia gets used a lot).
> Instead of having a lawyer, a smart contract could automatically split ether from an account into two addresses.

Which would replace a prenup only with an oracle for the conditions (which can be more complicated than just divorce, but even divorce is an off-chain event requiring an oracle) and, even then, only if ETH were the only assets owned by the couple.
Any word on Étoilé? That seemed to be interesting project built using GNUstep. Doesn't seem to be any activity in the repo since Dec 2016.

http://etoileos.com/etoile/
http://etoileos.com/
Yes, but you can't have a political discussion that is productive if there is a fundamental disagreement about the facts
This article is nothing but marketing fluff promoting the author’s software. It’s an offline brute-force attack against encrypted database files that of course works if you have a weak master password, but is otherwise useless.

Nothing to see here, move along.
There can be no discussion when you start with a bad premise. What can you argue with someone that says the other sex is inferior?
My plex server is an rpi. What are you doing in plex that requires such horsepower?
> Qt's layout management was made expecting programmers to do layouts via code

what ? no.

For widgets: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/designer-layouts.html

For QML: http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/quick-screens.html
First time I hear of RFC7710, all I see is HTTP hijacking. Does anybody support it, in particular OS vendors? I suppose some new UI or a new API for browsers would be required.
In an attempt to be as independent of third-party services as possible I switched from Plex to Emby and I see no reason to go back. You can even stream media outside your home network for free.

edit: https://emby.media/
"Difference is a driven teenager focusing on basketball doesn't have other teenagers stitching new basketballs and trainers for them on the cheap for 18 hours a day."

You sure about that? I have never been in a factory that makes basketballs but I have seen the workers who make basketball shoes.
Shame about npm5 being significantly broken, taking the wind of the node 8 sails.

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16991
> Else you might as well build a web application.

The reasons to use something like Qt instead are many:

- While the widgets aren't platform-native, they emulate the native look and feel, so look a lot more native than your web application. Yes, yes, you likely won't have the accessibility features, so if that's a concern (which it probably should be), sure, Qt and other such libraries won't help. (Note that even MS don't use their own "native" widgets in, eg, Office and Visual Studio, so even within first-party windows applications, you lose consistent look and feel)
- Battery life. A C++ Qt application typically uses much less battery than a similar web application. This may or may not be a concern.
- Smooth animation. QML's OpenGL-based widget rendering has incredibly smooth animation support (and its super easy to add to your applications). Anecdotally, much nicer animations than I've ever seen in web applications.
- Platform access or native libraries. Even though your widgets aren't native widgets, you might still want to manually access platform features or C/native libraries. While some web-applications-in-a-webview tools do allow you to do this, Qt makes it trivial since you can drop down to C++ with ease. With conditional compilation, you can even make this work cross platform.
- Performance. Sometimes you have requirements that simply require C++ performance. Many industrial users of Qt, for example.
- Qt is also used for embedded UI's where a web application may not be feasible.

My point is that there are many reasons why you might choose to use a toolkit like Qt for desktop applications even if you don't need native widgets.
This is actually the first reasonable defense of the guy that I've heard. If Google truly embraces diversity, they need to figure out a way to make room for the awkwardness and lack of empathy from those on the spectrum.

But I don't see a witch hunt. People are debating whether or not he should have been fired. He's not going to jail, and he is highly employable. And he did violate Google's code of conduct, which is a reasonable cause for getting fired.
For the record, this is not a GNU web page. The logo is the real GNUstep logo, and yeah plenty of GNU logos aren't great, but bashing the work of volunteers is really mean.
It's pretty clear from the totality of this person's comments that they are here to obfuscate and troll. Not sure why this is allowed on HN.
It seems that if you plugged into an ethernet port at many companies you'd be able to grab a lot of valuable information due to the lack of HTTPS. The move to SaaS products by departments inadvertently protects the company data in this case while IT teams still rail cloud usage.
"you could argue it infringes on the rights of the officers"

Libertarians typically refer to the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP), where your right to swing your fist stops at my face.

It would be hard to argue that filming the officer violates the NAP, particularly since the officer is allowed to film another individual citizen, creating a parity of individual rights.

I see what you're trying to say about coming at the problem from different perspectives, but the individual liberty arguments are almost always going to be the simpler ones to reason about when starting from first principles. The common good arguments become subjective and ambiguous very quickly. Worse, the people making the collective arguments are almost always the ones with the power. Guess which arguments will win out most of the time.
I'm not sure any mutiny will have a chance of survival, for one simple reason - too many people want to work for those companies, even if only to have that company on their resume.

If a mutiny did occur, all the company would need to do is fire the loudest voices in the name of diversity, let the rest quit quietly, and replace them with the millions still banging at the doors to get in. You'd need someone at a C level solidly on your side for a mutiny to succeed, and you don't usually get to a career C level by having strong ideological stances (aside from, perhaps, a strong love of capitalism and how it lines your pockets).
You can do a lot of things graphically : http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/24/qt-quick-designer-qt-creat...
Google literally checks for Chrome >_<

On GitHub, U2F works with the Firefox addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...
Chinese satellite sends 'hack-proof' message
I strongly recommend using That One Privacy Site's detailed VPN comparison charts. There is a lot more information in there.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

Edit: Link to his charts as a Google Document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N... for a much better usability than the widget on the website itself.
Wmaker is not actually affiliated with GNUstep, and in fact has its own Foundation-style widget set written in straight C called WINGs. WMakerPrefs uses this to do its work.
I was responding to the other poster's assertion that electric drivetrains will be easier to obtain. I don't see how there can be anything that is really meaningfully easier than ordering something out of a catalog.
In my initial post I distinguish between two steps. The first is data. If you collected some data and can describe the methods well enough for others to replicate it then go ahead and publish it. There is no need to start theorizing about things like "the drug caused the difference" vs "there was a confounder that caused the difference".

Explaining the observations is a separate step from coming up with a reliable way to generate a pattern in the data.
>Chevy Volt

Oh man I was so disappointed when I saw the production Chevy Volt. It looked nothing like the concept. The concept was a cool Camaro-inspired design and had the Volt looking like a small hybrid muscle car. It was such a good looking car... and then they released a knock-off of the Prius design.
Pretty misleading!

They test an old version of Keepass with an old KDF (they recently switched to Argon2 which is much more resistant to GPU/ASIC attacks. Additionally KeepassDroid is intended to use vaults synched to the device via Google Drive, Dropbox or whatever, so having the vault in private storage makes no sense!
As far as I can tell, it doesn't look like this - one of my favorite plugins - will survive v57.
There were too few intelligent people to make a difference and standing out would only mean personal sacrifice without much overall impact. Smart people usually know when it's better to stay silent.. Dangerous parallels can be drawn to today's situation in many leading countries.
Which is so strange because in in the technical category they're one of the best. Shopping for a VPN provider 2 years ago I almost passed them right by due to how the site looks. So glad I dug a little deeper and eventually chose them because the service 'just works' and 2 years later I don't have a single complaint.
I have DDG as the search provider in Firefox and it works great. If you already know what you're looking for it's quick and fast to use the bang syntax.

"Shoot, I need the docs for the user Ansible module"

> !ansible user

And it goes straight to the page.

I typically give DDG the first try on a search then I turn to Google/Startpage if I don't get good results. It's been getting way better over time.
“Diversity” Is Not Enough
From a pragmatic standpoint, what do you gain by switching to DDG?
There's a campaign on to kill this story. You got downvoted because you cared enough to write a lot. Don't take it personal, there are powerful agendas at stake here.
Jordan Peterson is alt-right?
This is true. For a sister search engine that doesn't use Google or Yahoo see https://ixquick.eu/

Source: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...
Only one of us insists our experience is canonical, and an appropriated basis for advocating bigotry & prejudice based on diction.
Because Google's cached pages still try to load images, scripts, and CSS from the original domain, meaning they are almost always completely useless unless you wait long enough for the header to switch to text-only view to appear.
Except you can only execute your plan until you have contact with your opponent, and then it's improvisation. The rest of the game is only 'easy' if you've executed your opening far better than your opponent, or you have a rock-paper-scissors situation where your build dominates theirs. Both situations are not very common at the pro level.
Apparently GTK2 doesn't fare better with JAWS: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4136662/1495627
The google text cache works.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
WindowMaker predates GNUStep and is just a window manager that has a NextStep theme. I used it on Linux in the late 1990s.
I'll be interested to see where Netflix, HBO, and Amazon end up because right now it seems like a race to the bottom. Netflix is spending billions (I believe $8 billion this year) to create original content. Both Amazon and Netflix want to add more and more premium content while lowering prices. Channels or streaming services are now identified by the shows they have more than the service itself (I'm going to pay for Netflix because I like House of Cards and Stranger Things, HBO because I like Game of Thrones, etc.) Each is only as good as their latest shows and content is increasingly becoming a commodity. Whereas 20 years ago if NBC had a few flops and fell in the ratings it hurt their ad revenue a bit but they still were piped into the same houses, now if Netflix fails to put out hit shows, people will pay a competing service instead.
I found two aspects of DDG very convenient: that I can search in Stackoverflow directly, and that if I still don't like the results I can always add "!g" and repeat the search in Google (useful for finding a very specific error message).

I only got a very small decrease in productivity at first, but I went back to normal pretty quick. So I'd say it went better than expected.
> "Their answers will be compared with those of current Goldman employees, who have already been identified as exhibiting traits that mark high performance such as teamwork, analytical thinking and judgment, Jahansouz said."

Awful idea.
So they're brute forcing the master password for these databases. Why should I be worried if I'm using a non-dictionary multi-word passphrase as my master password?

"Different password managers employ different approaches to security. As an example, LastPass generates the encryption key by hashing the username and master password with 5,000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA256, while 1Password employs even more rounds of hashing. This is designed to slow down brute-force attacks, and it almost works. Granted, these are still nearly an order of magnitude less secure than, say, Microsoft Office 2016 documents, but even this level of security is much better than nothing." I'm guessing they meant more secure then Office 2016.
> He said future job candidates would be given the test before their second round of interviews at the bank. Their answers will be compared with those of current Goldman employees, who have already been identified as exhibiting traits that mark high performance such as teamwork, analytical thinking and judgment, Jahansouz said.

In practice, this is nothing more than an IQ test. If you can't figure out what answers are beneficial to your application, you're not smart enough to work there. It likely says little about the actual traits of these job seekers.
It isn't, but legal threats have chilling effects.
It's not a good trade off for the end user. As it's not native you end up with a much slower running application with more memory overhead and bloat. Lazarus is compiled to small native applications that are easily installable for the user, fast, with both small memory and disk space usage.

I say this next piece as both a developer and an end user; developers of desktop applications are getting out of hand with how they treat these things. We are now to the point where a large segment of the developer population has so little regard for the end user that they believe bloatware Electron solutions are a good choice for "native" text based chat application.
I'm wondering: have you kept track of which site results you commonly find that answer your questions? For example, you query DDG a few times for different questions, and for each answer you find yourself on Stack Exchange. If you'd like to skip the "middle-man", it seems like directly querying SE may be the way to go for ~X% (X > 50%) of your questions (at least for those topics).

I think this is could be a good way to help pay more attention to what you're searching for and results because now that I think about Google searching can be really assumptive and get-the-answer-and-leave at times. Maybe digging deeper than top Y results can be a better learning experience.
This isn't true either. As instance, whether or not you believe O-care was a good thing, the Democrats were ready to sacrifice their majority for it. On the reverse, the Republicans promised repeals for six years before cowardly running away from it to save their hides.
I wonder if the opinions expressed relate more to US practice than European.
Speaking of the bloated slack client, there's a new native desktop app for Slack, Skype, and many others:

https://eul.im

It's only 4 MB and uses ~100 MB RAM.
Similar here. Dropped Google several years ago. when I do go back to google, I'm surprised how much it's changed. So little of its results don't have a little "Ad" next to them.
Big Encryption LIES
At least in the blog/news areas sure. I wouldn't doubt if there's been development on the IRC channels and the mailing lists, though.

I does seem like they were having a bit of an identity crisis around the time steptalk was put together, though.
DDG is a bit US centric but despite that I use it for nearly everything. On the rare occassion it's not returning good enough results (images or certain UK specific stuff) I just use the aforementioned suffix g!.

Give it a go, takes a little time before you feel comfortable being away from Google's excellent search engine but I got fedup seeing adverts for things I'd previously browsed on other sites, so adios Google.
Really? Another popular example is https://store.steampowered.com/.
Bad News: Your Favorite Database Isn't the Best
Elephant Games are incredible and their creator is also imcredible. I highly recommend checking out his other games if you haven't already. http://www.jmtb02.com/
I've used DDG for the last couple of years on all my devices. I switched for privacy reasons. It does everything I need it to do, and I get a lot of use out of the search shortcuts (especially !w).

Commit to switching for a couple weeks and you'll find that you rely on Google less and less.
Introducing kube-spawn: local, multi-node Kubernetes clusters on Linux
This is absolutely my experience, bangs are a game changer though, I would probably be willing to use DDG without it's native search just to keep using bangs.
looks fun! Some sample output would be great.
So, I've done some work in finance, and I just, don't see it. At the major banks you've got literal hours of training about the things you can and cannot say with association with the firm and with its image. Fuck whatever you think about diversity and playing nice with the feelings of everyone, the brand damage alone would (and did in Google's case) have gotten James fired if he was working in the "real world".

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence. You want to cost your company thousands, if not millions, in bad PR maybe don't expect to have a job when you come in monday morning. There's nothing to be gained in appeasing bad science and faulty logic just because you're scared of populists.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a screenshot taking app?
I'm building a screenshot taking application for developers, that would store all it's data to your S3. This way I offload storage and can keep it affordable and charge $2/mo for the support and server hosting.

What do you think about this and would you pay for a screenshot taking application?