skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but at the end of the day you do convince them, which is why they pay for you. ;- )
This is the OPs claim - but it also allows very abusive behavior since FB doesn't sacrifice anything suing you or just appropriating your tech, as long as you're hooked on their openish source. If you trust big companies that's fine though.
> “There is a lot of evidence, but it needs to be proven,” she said.

This won't stop the pitchforks from coming out well before we have such evidence, especially given they were workers from a mining company and the already hostile political climate regarding the topic of tribes. But personally I'd rather wait until this is the case before forming an opinion...

> warned that given the small sizes of the uncontacted Amazon tribes, this latest episode could mean that a significant percentage of a remote ethnic group was wiped out.

If 10 people dying means a "significant percentage was wiped out" shows that they were already on the brink of extinction as it was. It's not clear from the article if that was an obvious consequence to the preptraitors involved or they knew it was a risk.

Either way hopefully it wasn't a case of disregard for human life, even if the tribe violently engaged them giving an exuse to use modern weaponry against them.
Agreed - love the fuck the establishment approach. Sounds similar to the WhatsApp story.
Innocent until proven guilty. Gotta love this paragraph: “There is a lot of evidence, but it needs to be proven,” she said.

What's the evidence?
The latest firmware for Dlink 850L revA (DIR850L_REVA_FW114WWb07_h2ab_beta1.bin) is not protected and a new firmware image can be trivially forged by an attacker.

That's a feature, not a bug. ( https://openwrt.org/ )

At least it makes it possible to patch the other (real) bugs yourself.
I scrolled year to year on that chart, and there are a lot of gaps, and all the years I looked at only had a few data points. I went back to 1988 and couldn't find the assault stats that showed up in the summary.

I suspect it would be difficult to find an actual breakdown of crime stats in China. It would be useful to compare it with a country that is more transparent with that sort of information.

Here's a blurb from the site:

The actual crime rate in China has so far been difficult to assess and confirm. Official statistics from the Chinese government says that crime in China is significantly lower than that of more advanced nations, including and especially the United States. Official estimates say that murder rate in China, for instance, is 5 times lower than that of the US.

#3 is Russia, which I would guess to be equally difficult to get statistics on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...

Also, looking at the US crime stats, they are spotty as well. The assault rate you noted is from 1999, near our peak. Even with that we aren't #1 on almost all of the compared countries.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/United-Sta...

But some of your conclusions are right. The US incarcerates a lot for drug use, and incarcerates a lot longer for any crime. Furthermore, it's difficult to lead a normal life in the US with a record of incarceration which leads to more incarceration.
>in a safer environment

Cities are safer than rural areas or suburbs.
What an immature analysis with click-bait title, I was expecting something big to read and it turns out he was just not happy about the site doesn't comply to NIST, and using scrypt is a flaw? Seriously?
There are all sorts of problems with this approach.

Contract software development --- relatively short projects with no up-front commitment to long-term work --- is, when sold and delivered competently, much more expensive than salaried software development. That's why people hire full-time.

The very best software developers know this. They're not as a rule especially good negotiators, but they're familiar with the market. For every firm offering them temp-to-perm work, there are 4 others competing over who can offer the most attractive immediate full-time offer.

That makes the "standard" recruiting pipeline for temp-to-perm companies an adverse selection problem. And, I believe, it's also often an exploitative one. People taking these temp-to-perm contracts aren't getting paid 2-3x their salaried rate to work on temp terms. But that's the lower side of what contractors demand to accept the kind of risk we're talking about with these projects.

Really, companies that do temp-to-perm are telling the market, "we're so bad at qualifying candidates that we're going to fob the entire problem off on our candidates, and hope there are enough competent people with such poor negotiating skill in the labor market that we can get away with that indefinitely". For now, they're probably right --- although taking this pathway is, I think, doing damage to the long-term integrity of their team and processes. But I wouldn't bet on it.
"The Art of Electronics" is listed there: http://www.doradolist.com/princeton-electronics.html
It would've been better to seek them out and bring them into the modern world

Why is that better? Is there some proof that a modern lifestyle is better than a tribal lifestyle that's been maintained for thousands of years? How would you even define "better"?

Obviously unexpected mixing of uncontacted tribes with modern humans can end badly, but that doesn't mean that the best answer is to assimilate the tribe.
> I'm safe from Facebook suing me specially

IANAL. You are safe only if you use any React related patents. They are free to sue for infringement of any other patents they hold.
It would be really cool to have this thing fully replicated in a software simulator fully based on the components and physics of the device and train it movement and balance through that system, then build some smaller versions that will replay the movements it has learned and see how well it does....
That is frightening. Very frightening. I mean, she did what she did. But later, disclaimed responsibility. Arguably because she was stoned. And the guy, who was also stoned, was arguably supposed to excuse himself from the situation, because she was too stoned to consent.

But of course, he was also too stoned to consent, so arguably she raped him just as much as he raped her.

That will never happen, of course. Women do get prosecuted for sex with underage men. But never, as far as I know, for having sex with someone incapable of consenting.

This is crazy shit. I mean, under these circumstances, what sane man at university would ever have sex with a woman? It's like playing Russian Roulette. Or speeding excessively on the interstate. Sure, most of the time, there's never an issue. But when there is, it's a dramaticly bad issue. Often life destroying.

Edit: It's been decades since I had any personal experience with university age people. There are children and grandchildren of friends, for sure, but I don't talk substantively with them. All I know is what I read in mass media. So it occurs to me that it's just that some rare events get hyped. And that dating for most university students remains uneventful. Anyone have some insight or references?
Also this: With land disputes on the rise in many remote areas of Brazil, indigenous groups, rural workers and land activists have all been targeted by violence.

Not justifying alleged murder -- but looks to be a generally violent region and environment.
> The most-touted alternatives to React are plain MIT license with no patent grant at all

IANAL, but as far as I understand, MIT license contains implicit patent grant.
https://pastebin.com/Fmb0ibZh
Your friend's been played for a tool, but I think you know this already. It happens all the time, especially with naive and insecure developers but not limited to them - our corporate overlords are always looking for some new way to encourage people to work more for the same amount of money. Hooking people on their ego is a very easy and common technique. Often people will just do it to themselves just fine with no help.

Personally, I either code for money or for a cause. The latter will almost always require some sort of GPL licence.
Wait, youtube red or youtube tv? Because one of those is a lot more expensive than the other.
Yep, their goals and expectations were overly ambitious. But that doesn't mean we don't need ABM technologies, as N Korea proves daily.
> What LOE (Level of Effort) would it take to replace our current SSN with a public/private key system? More than just a massive bureaucratic shift and public reeducation movement?

You are thinking about this from the wrong direction. The problem isn't that the government hasn't provided a PKI, the problem is that social security numbers are being used for identification.

This was a serious fear when social security was originally created. For many years social security cards had the words "not for identification" printed on them. They contain no biometric data, not even a picture. Their purpose is not identification.

So the solution is obvious. Actually prohibit social security numbers from being used for identification. Don't allow creditors to even ask for them.

Then people will figure something else out on their own. Instead of a credit reporting agency existing at all, new credit applications could ask for your account numbers at existing creditors and then the new creditor can get your credit history directly from them. It would be straight forward to automate this -- and even require you to prove that you're the account holder by presenting your card from the other bank (or signing into its website if online).

There is no need for a national identification system. Having a bad one was the original problem. Replacing it with some differently bad one is no better.
Since BTC is an efficient way to pump money out of China, this will happen sooner or later.
Sorry for my ignorance, but has Facebook written anywhere the patents its giving away with React ? Are they really worthy of patents ?
> it would no longer be a BSD license

and i'd argue that the license that facebook is using _is_ indeed a new license! It's BSD plus something added to it!

Unless the end user has the choice to not take the patent clause ("grant") as part of their license. IANAL, so i dont know if it is possible to cherry pick like this.
I have read a couple versions of Stone Soup. I hear it as a message that community is more powerful than individuals working on their own. I think it is better used for building teams than businesses.
It seemed a matter of time till they'd be wiped out. The modern world is hostile to them and their way of living, and Brazil is disinterested in protecting them.
"Complies with law" absolutely does seem like a requirement for a government service.
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No, it's not. Plain BSD has an implicit patent grant. BSD+Patents applies explicit clauses (condiions), and is less permissive than BSD.

Apache asked Facebook to license React under plain BSD, and they declined.
Awesome! Glad to see the change! I won't be a user but for those that do I am sure it is very helpful.
No paywall: http://archive.is/i0PFc
Of course, it is. If you didn't believe that, go back to tribal living. The problem is they're not us. They're at risk for a lot of our diseases, they will have great difficulty joining our society. The process will take generations. We only have to look at natives elsewhere in the Americas to see that they're still struggling. They're caught between trying to keep some of their own ways and culture and at the same time be a part of society and deal with our ways and culture. And they've already had multiple generations to assimilate.

All that said, the process must start sometime. It's not like there's an alternative.
The article prints Amazon's claims and vision - even their animated VR presentation about future robots - but doesn't tell us the warehouse workers' reality or their point of view. I think it has one short quote from one worker. So we know the former, which is interesting, but we have no idea how it really works out for the employees.

If someone asked your boss about your experience of your job, or someone a couple of levels above your boss (much of the article quoted "Dave Clark, the top executive in charge of operations at Amazon") and didn't ask you, how accurate a picture would they get? Can Amazon's (effective) COO really tell us what it's like to be a factory worker there?

In my experience of being in the position of the interviewer, as a consultant, the boss and even the immediate supervisor usually have little idea about their subordinates' actual work, challenges, frustrations, etc. Unless you ask the person doing the work, you really have no idea what's going on. A common experience: The boss says, 'the new system works great!'; the subordinate says, 'it's awful and I just have to work around it'. But I shouldn't have to talk about consulting fundamentals here; I thought that was a journalism fundamental too.
Scrypt isn't battle tested enough tbh.

When it's something as important as this, the proper choice is to use something that's been analyzed, and attacked for numerous years.
> A helicopter is the only way to do it in 35 minutes.

Or you know, a motorcycle.
> This was a serious fear when social security was originally created. For many years social security cards had the words "not for identification" printed on them. They contain no biometric data, not even a picture. Their purpose is not identification.

That's still printed on them.

> Then people will figure something else out on their own. Instead of a credit reporting agency existing at all, new credit applications could ask for your account numbers at existing creditors and then the new creditor can get your credit history directly from them. It would be straight forward to automate this -- and even require you to prove that you're the account holder by presenting your card from the other bank (or signing into its website if online).

> There is no need for a national identification system.

This seems like wishful thinking to me.
https://outline.com/zdKywA
End of Amazon’s Seattle monogamy should be lesson to civic leaders
I must be non-newtonian. The babe in the video had me changing from a soft to a solid state.
Oh well, there goes potentially thousands of years worth of medical knowledge, linguistic insight, etc.
Password vulns are a tiny, tiny fraction of modern security vulnerabilities. If it's important, get it pentested. I guarantee no pentest from a reputable firm would flag scrypt as a vulnerability.
We are not talking about a service here, we are talking about OSS codebase and in my experience it does work.
"The country’s central bank has led a draft of instructions that would ban Chinese platforms from providing virtual currency trading services, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes after months of scrutiny by Beijing, including a ban last week in China on initial coin offerings, a kind of fundraising via virtual currencies.

Regulators in China have been investigating the domestic market for bitcoin and other virtual currencies since the beginning of the year. For a while, officials considered enacting antimoney-laundering rules on exchanges, even circulating a draft of such rules for them to follow."

OkCoin prices are still going up. The only "important" person that has said this would happen was the VIABTC CEO on twitter. Nobody believes, but now, I think is true
Extremely stupid Bitcoin site going viral
IANAL.

If we take a look at Apache 2.0's patent grant:

> ... If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

It seems to be more fair to me. It doesn't give any special right to Facebook or any other entity. I.e. Apache 2.0 revokes the patent grant if anybody sues for patent infringement arising out of the work. Facebook's license the patent grant if anybody sues Facebook for anything, or other parties for patent infringement arising out of the work.
> This seems like wishful thinking to me.

The correct answer is correct regardless of who wants it to be.
There are about 3.5 billion dollars riding on scrypt through Litecoin[0], for what it's worth (which is about 3.5 billion dollars, doh!).

[0]: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/
Good luck banning or controlling Bitcoin - especially when there is a satellite streaming down blockchain. I understand their motive though. Large sums of money can be used for anything. Including regime change or coup.
Ask HN: Can we can stop climate breakdown by quitting meat and growing plants?
I just finished watching a documentary called Cowspiracy that takes a closer look into the effects of mass production livestock and fishing on the environment.

Link: www.cowspiracy.com

FAQ: http://www.cowspiracy.com/faq/

On Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80033772

Do you think we can help reverse or stop the devastation of our environment and its many undesirable effects by quitting meat and growing and eating only plant base foods?

Because I just read that the raising of agricultural animals accounts for more than half of greenhouse gas production: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6297

And the warming accelerated by these gases apparently helps to intensify storms: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php
Sell! Sell! Sell!
I've always been completely blown away that there were 'uncontacted' tribes on Earth at the same time that we had a rover zipping around Mars.

Gibson said it. The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
Paying for PR? really? Why would anyone do that rather than maintain their own copy if it is an OSS project?
I agree with you but I think it's yet to be shown they're less happy than modern people. Happiness seems to be relative, and bringing them in from masters of their environment (if they are) to lower status advanced humans could easily drop their happiness even if it improves things in an objective manner.

I've absolutely no love for the concept of "nobel savages" or "primitives living in harmony with nature" but it's possible they're just as happy, even given disease, murder, etc.
For anyone wondering how BTC is used as a way to evade Chinese currency controls, I just came to this realization today: people aren't buying bitcoin locally to send it out of the country: they're buying cheap coal electricity, using it to mine bitcoin, and then liquidating that in foreign exchanges.
My favourite was an interview (in Java), where the interviewer said I needed to process some data (something abstract like a "record") and that I could assume I get my data in a "var". I asked what sort of data structure the variable held. He said "It's a var. You know what a var is, right?"

So many problems...
Are outline.com links something that the WSJ provides? Something that users submit? Given that WSJ paywalls their content, I'd be surprised that they'd provide it to outline.com themselves, but stranger things have happened.
I think you're underestimating China's ability to "ban" something. They don't need to make it technically impossible, they just need to make it very dangerous and burdensome. And they've basically mastered the art of internet surveillance at this point.
Excremental Empire: “Scatalogic Rites of All Nations” and the American West
I doubt it will end well.
Much as Bitcoin addresses the double-spending problem to ensure that a single output isn't spent twice, a "credit interaction" would be added to the ledger as a continuation of an existing history (or a new one). The zero-knowledge proof would assert various attributes of that history.

At one point or another, the history could be associated with a specific human. Or not; depending on the goal of the design, a single credit history might pertain to one person, multiple people, or a business association. A single person might have multiple histories -- though longer-lived and more active ones would be more valuable, which reduces the viability of a Sybil attack.

Loss of private keys is a problem if users are their sole maintainers. A credit union would surely be willing to safely store a key for a 2-of-3 transaction that empowers it to manage a customer's history.

Distributed ledgers absolutely do not need miners, especially if level of trust is a variable aspect of the design.

By the way, your initial question could have been interpreted as a request to engage in a brainstorming discussion to produce a blockchain-based public record that preserves privacy. If so, you should know that your subsequent response is inconsistent with that sentiment, though I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt by continuing in the spirit of additive discussion. If you're not interested in brainstorming, then please state your intentions so we don't waste time talking past each other.
We have to keep it around for the admin control panels and management interfaces in some of our older (and not even that old) network hardware. Basically anything pre 2010 that uses frames and other crap like that.
It's anecdata, and I'm sure it's regional, but around me, there's vastly more "digital content marketing" jobs than development jobs (front or backend, much to my chagrin).
> domain ignorance.

I suppose I crave simplicity in code, with as little magic as possible, and with as few maddening descents into "not-invented-here" coding adventures when open source modules and frameworks exist that could do the job.

My use of the word "clean" refers to Uncle Bob's definition of clean code, not some scientology thing. He preaches the necessity of writing well-tested, high quality code via TDD. You mentioned SOLID earlier, which is another Uncle Bob-ism, and I figured you would get the clean reference. Not Uncle Bob's, but YAGNI's another acronym he likes to throw out there - YAGNI comes to mind whenever CQRS is mentioned. I bet YAGNI would be your worst nightmare if anyone around you had the courage to utter it. Are you a bully or do you just have no scope control on your projects from your business? Hey coworkers of bonesss, challenge everything this guy says with 'YAGNI', and see how he reacts!

Yeah, so anyways as I said in my other reply let's see your large scale code example that necessitates CQRS. Impress me with the high quality design and implementation, I'll do a code review.

> At scale, under load, while supporting multiple N-tiered applications and their accordant services, unified domain models break down. Aggregate boundaries map these epistemological distinctions.

I mean, I get it, you're talking about DDD. You've got context-bounded models. I've explored all this for over a decade. I apply the concepts daily (as mandated by our architecture, not my choice.) In the SOA days we had canonical models that are exposed on the service interfaces and domain-specific models that were representative of data coming from data sources or were internal application specifics and we always mediated between the models. It's nothing special. I sometimes think, if we all talked a little more we could make our terminology more consistent - but I get it, there's domains and different definitions and types will get mapped.

What you wrote is too pendantic, though. Epistemological! You're writing web apps, c'mon you are killing me!