skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to separate society's tastes, preferences, and incentives with market-based resource allocation.

At the very least, corporations and capitalism give us a productive place to put sociopaths (the alternative is religion, healthcare, government, exile/six feet under). And more communal economic systems seem to work well until the anti-social types take over - North Korea was actually better off than South Korea for awhile after the war and the anti-social types always do take over.

Capitalism does a really good job of making it easier to do more with less. My phone is a weather station, a flash light, a calculator, a camera, a camcorder, etc. and it's cheaper than most Cameras were just 30 years ago. On the flip side, a lot of the materials that make my phone come out of conflict zones and I'm sure that my phone funded some warlord's attack helicopters and that's not great and it's unfortunate that the 'past of least resistance' involves such unsavory things but the solution rests with more capitalism - the warlord needs to demand a higher price or operate the mines and figure out how to build a phone and go legit.
Comparing a system to MNIST isn't really an indicator that it provides an actual improvement. Comparing it to VGG would be a better indicator.
Not using Elastic Beanstack myself but you can definitely use Parameter Store across multiple dynamic instances, including ECS and Lambda.
Paths are now supported as well, so you could do something like prod/mykey and staging/mykey and set up IAM roles to limit to given environments.
I prefer to get all my software, and games, from the Mac App Store if possible. Every time I use a new Mac I'm always glad for the immense convenience; just go into my Purchased items list and click Install on each of the apps I want there, knowing they'll be fully updated and relatively secure compared to downloading from the app's website (see the Transmission ransomware fiasco.)

I just wish Apple brought it into feature-parity with the iOS App Store.
> Germany is becoming a low income country for a lot of jobs and the unions are doing nothing against it.

Yes, this is true. About 39% of the currently employed have so called atypical jobs [1] - some of which are actually subsidized by the state, because income is so low.

Germany is an austerity poster child - I wonder what will happen, if the export boom is over. Things might become much worse, once the debt-financed foreign purchases dry up for some reason.

[1] https://www.boeckler.de/108863_108907.htm (German only).
> of addressing the equal pay for equal work stuff.

The "problem" in tech is you have super keen beans who do side projects and have been coding since they were 12.

You also have people who happily take on more responsibility rapidly.

Etc etc.

It makes comparison very difficult.
I suspect the connection to Microsoft was drawn from this on the site’s about page:

“I'm Troy Hunt, an Australian Microsoft Regional Director and also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security. I don't work for Microsoft, but they're kind enough to recognise my community contributions by way of their award programs which I've been an awardee of since 2011.”
The Elon Musk battery plant went through a similar bid process, although I don't know if it was on the same scale. I think Nevada and Buffalo won that bid.
Wouldn't an interested party just assume A and B are both guilty and given the current taste for asset forfeiture laws, require proof of the origination of the funds? At one point does it not become possible to "capture" people this way? 10k wallets? 100k? I may be too simple to understand the math here, but in the end you've got people with guns to deal with.
Has southern Italy ever recovered from not being the north? Has the American Midwest recovered from not being one of the coasts? Economies naturally concentrate and countering that takes not only effort and dedication but also wise decisions and luck. West Germany used to be very good at this, but concentration to a few major cities has been accelerating recently. It's not only eastern Germany that is being left behind, the weaker regions of the former west are suffering from the same draw.
Looking forward to when there is more information than just a press release (the press release for Intel's 3D X-Point memory was over two years ago, and we still aren't seeing those in production). Regardless, very exciting work, and I look forward to getting my hands on the API/instruction set/manual.
There's always Echo Chamber: https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js
> every secret-sharing system [...] and the major ones are all FOSS

Can you recommend a specific one? I'd like to integrate a secret-sharing system into my personal set of computers and applications.

In case you are wary of giving recommendations, perhaps you could just list the top three instead. But ideally I'd like to have a specific recommendation. Also, if said secret-sharing system is written in rust an is available as a library I'd be extra super happy.

Having just said that, I decided to do a search on crates.io. https://crates.io/search?q=secret. It seems that at least a couple of those are about the thing that we are talking about here.
Where's the data dump? The hackers said they'd dump Sept 15 if not paid.

http://archive.is/648A5
> I can see them building WhatsApp alternatives

And maybe later they might even build alternatives to Google, Twitter, and eBay!

/sarcasm - please check out WeChat, Baidu, Sina Weibo, Alibaba
I don't see the benefit of the editor saving the file to disk without being told to. My editor has that feature too (although it's not active, by default), and I've never understood why that would be desirable.

A lot of what I do is under version control, but not everything is, and a 3-character "revert buffer" command makes more sense to me than a longer VCS command that will also discard changes that might already be present in the on-disk version of the file.

It just strikes me as a feature where I'd have to rebuild my basic assumptions of how an editor works, without the incentive of a worthwhile improvement to the workflow.
Well, it's all perspective. What's greatly disturbing is that people in US giving all their data to corporations to mine and monetize... Everyone using gmail and this ends up with _my_ data (as a non-gmail user) being mined. US startups have also turned pretty much every website into a wormhole for tracking users/visitors.

Atleast, in china, there is none of this advertising BS.
I don't know about that. Can you imagine the hissy fit trump would throw if Amazon put 5 billion into a city outside of the US? He already doesn't like Bezos because of WaPo. I'm surprised he hasn't already tweeted a threat about it.
Loved seeing the real world examples of cold calling. Wish more people would try this.
Since Equifax didn't bother, at least whitehats have registered http://premiertrustedid.com/ and https://premieridtrusted.com/
You've given me some food for thought. Thank you.
This is how we'll get to Mars
How about using trustedid.equifax.com?

If you had security people on staff at equifast, you'd already have realized how to stop your security bumbling, fumbling, and stumbling. Of course, you'd need to listen to their advice, first.
Ask HN: How do you gain understanding of new markets?
I often hear of inefficiencies in many industries, for example construction or say retail warehousing. As an outsider, I want to gain an understanding of various processes involved, with a view of identifying inefficiencies.

Is there a good website or book which analyzes these individual industries? How would you go about discovering such industries, other than working in them!
Only in times of peace.

(To nitpick on myself, it could be argued that war campaigns were also mostly agricultural work: they were just harvesting other people's fields)
Doesn't the term negotiate or renegotiate imply the consensus of more than one party?

As far as "can be done," meaning it is legally possible to renegotiate, which it is.
Ahhh Subspace. I break that out every once in a while as a game that was perfectly designed for it's constraints. 200-400 player real-time battles all over a 28.8 modem, truly a work of art.

I think the community took over it at some point and it's still kicking around somewhere.
“Ethereum transactions” and “quantity of ETH transacted” are two very different things. This title (and article) is deceiving.

Please see Vitalik Buterin response to this before reading.

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/i-think-this-article-real...
> While most Westerners see actions like this as serious violations of individual rights

Really? We do. Everyone here seemed okay with censorship on twitter, facebook, etc.

> It is an explanation of why the Chinese public may be more willing to accept strict government controls than the West.

Where in the "west" are you? We have censorship and controls in the US. And last I checked, europe is even worse with their controls.

> It's important for Westerners to realize that the Chinese never had a Locke, or a Rousseau, or a Hobbes.

Britain did and britain is at the forefront of censorship, control and monitoring of its population.

> The foundational political philosophy taken for granted in the West has no parallel in China.

It's empty words we used to pretend we are "superior".
Yes, basic API to get events list(name, description, start_date, url, etc..).

Now I aggregate tech events from Meetup, Eventbrite, Lanyrd, Facebook. This helps people to look events in one place instead of browsing all websites separately. And once the user clicked on the event I am forwarding him directly to original website/content. I would like to integrate to Eventil too once it will have more content. Of course, if you would like that?
Thanks for the reminder to install ublock origin. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#installation
I used some variation of node-electron. Here is the top of the node server file:

var wrtc = require('electron-webrtc')({ headless: true });
var SimplePeer = require('simple-peer');
var requestify = require('requestify');
var dgram = require('dgram');

The Go server uses UDP to talk to one of the 4 node server processes, which are running instances of Chromium under xvfb under tmux. There's a lot of code load overhead for the 4 processes, in terms of a lot of Chromium loaded but not running, but EC2 servers are RAM heavy, so not an issue.

I haven't looked into exploiting the new true headless mode in Chrome yet, which should simplify things a lot. I'm also thinking of doing a full port to Go for WebRTC. That's a lot of stuff, however.
I find that Ars has some of the best in depth reviews when it comes to both hardware as well as software, and their intersection. Many other places just seem to do reviews for the clicks, but these are much more informative.

I just wish their site wasn't down right now so I could give it a read before updating.
> We need them more than they need us. That is the problem.

Actually the problem is that the west has no higher moral ground than the east. Not a single US person here uses a chinese app or plans to use one. There is a reason for this.
White people don’t identify as white people. They associate as Italians or Irish or redneck.

Black people often don’t either, but are forced to based on skin color.
Its even worse. I heard of someone who was raided in London based on the fact their IP was busy with torrents. Two of his drives were encrypted. But guess what - it wasn't he who torrented but another person who shared housing/same IP. So he happily gave up the password. Unfortunately for him, one drive got open (with bunch of his emails) another one did not want to. Although he swears he used same pass for both, apparently the second drive got corrupted during transportation, which can happen very easily. He still sits in jail 8 months later. So when you ready to give out your password - pray your drives did not get corrupted.
If you're using Samsung in Windows, make sure you turn on RAPID mode. Also, don't run any SSD almost full, it kills your speed.

Killing PRO's in 100T is an aberration
Apple Might Have an iPhone 8 Sales Problem
> WebRTC is only there as a substitute for UDP.

I knew that this was possible in theory, but my experience with messing around with the available serverside WebRTC libraries gave off a similar first impression to the one you mention in your blog, namely immature libraries.

Looking forward to your blog post on your experiences with Datachannel.
Gini coefficient is the among the highest in Europe, about 0.76. About ten years ago, a neoliberal shift loosened labor laws and saved the overall economy by letting less skilled workers not get unemployed, just take a pay cut (what France is trying to push now against a lot of protests, since government realized, the global party is over).

Wages in Germany stagnated as well, domestic trade is dwarfed by export. Living has gotten much more expensive in the cities continuously moving the shrinking middle class further down.

Germany has a track record of being strong enough, so that revolutions seldom happen. But if they happen, the are almost guaranteed to be catastrophic.
Even more: Excel is purely functional programming for the vast majority of functions that people use in Excel.
And good thing too but not all of it is - in fact, it's a sign of how well developers are treated that they can afford to volunteer their time and expertise for everyone: developers don't need to spend every second of every day on the grind for basic living.
That's all true, but the point was that it's an open source project (in governance as well as license) that supports console platforms.
asciidoc is easily 10x easier than writing HTML. Org mode is pretty good too, but I haven't used it for very complex things, so can't make a full comparision.

Markdown and restructured text are both easier than HTML for common things, but markdown falls on its face for complicated things and rST ends up devolving into a bunch of directives that are just marginally better than HTML.
This is one thing that makes a Yubikey so attractive to me. You can't accidentally your private key.
App growth questions
We are trying to grow our app, but we are limited by advertising budget. Suggestions?
That's simply factually wrong. The US has much better press freedoms, freedom of speech and gun ownership rights than any other large country.

It has nothing to do with an echo chamber. The laws are objectively very different.

Comparing surveillance by the NSA to information accessibility in general is disingenuous at best.
It certainly raises red flags, don't you agree? After all, what were you planning to do with those alledged "random" digits? What do you have to hide?

You really shouldn't be able to access /dev/urandum until you have been cleared by a reputable Alphabet company. This is for our security and that "obviously" trumps individual rights (whatever that means).

Root cause of all this is, of course, "bad thoughts" and "bad information", which IMHO should also be made illegal and only permitted in designated "free and error prone thought" areas and participants monitored by physicians from the Ministry of Error Free Thought.
CloudFlare: DDoS to Be ‘Something You Only Read About in the History Books’
Both points you make are certainly valid. I'd say that Isso really targets low readership blogs that do just fine on a cheap unmanaged VPS instance though, so a high availability alternative isn't a requirement for that demographic.

Unfortunately this also rolls over to the spam filter portion. There were discussions in the bug tracker about this a while back, where the main Isso dev stated that it's a mostly obscure piece of software and spammers are not currently targeting it, so why bother worrying...
I don't think there is virtually any impact on innovations in China because of western social media censorships. China is on track to match US in AI research paper output, for example. Same goes for other fields in medicine and manufacturing. Also, you have to look at Chinese view point to understand why there is no revolt in China around blocking Google or Facebook. The argument that government has successfully made is that China is not ready for democracy, the democracy usually means incompetent politicians coming to power because of their ability to fool people and that lot of developing countries which adopted democracy have managed to make only a tiny fraction of progress that China has made (for example, compare India with China in metrics like GDP, research output or army).
Starting Something New
1. My question was rhetorical. It was in response to someone saying that apps outside of China are unimportant and small.

2. No single country has a monopoly on innovation. Consequently the sharing of ideas from different locations and cultures is really important for moving forward. You miss out on this benefit when you consciously work to block it. Historically, the last time China was this arrogant about isolation, it didn't turn out too well.

Last Update: I've wasted enough time on this and probably should have put this in my original post.

If you think of sharing data as a resource, China just made it artificially scarce, made it extremely slow, and made it really costly which makes total business sense in the Information Age /s Hopefully our governments won't follow
It's just to lower their liability, whether people accept the free offer or not.
Innovation is a lot harder if you've grown up with someone looking over your shoulder all the time. I think we're going to pay that price, and that China will be more affected. The times of real progress in human history are few, the stagnant centuries are plentiful. But we'll see. Snowden ain't coming home any time soon.
Congratulations to him! I can’t imagine how many people his ideas have reached.
Ahh interesting, thank you for that. That's an interesting point re headless mode in Chrome (and Firefox now I guess!). It's a shame there's not an easier way though yet..
> Merely having encrypted data in your possession is technically not within the scope of the law if the context is "as part of a counter-terrorism investigation"

Not quite; the bar is not as high as an existing 'terrorism' investigation. To quote RIPA (2000)[0], if anyone authorized has the belief (upon reasonable grounds), that

(3) A disclosure requirement in respect of any protected information is necessary on grounds falling within this subsection if it is necessary—
(a) in the interests of national security;
(b) for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime; or
(c) in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom.

It is very very easy to imagine how this could be abused. Saying that you'd like to slap POTUS or May on Twitter could conceivably meet grounds for (2), and (3) is so broad that it's possible to imagine it could be triggered by something like being Alexandra Elbakyan of SciHub, or Sundae of The Pirate Bay. Depending on the mood of the press and the 'authorized persons', why not any old person caught using BitTorrent, or cracking DRM?

[0]: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/pdfs/ukpga_20000...
I guess everyone is waiting for the X
Among the Republicans I know, all Obamacare-lite bills are more popular than Obamacare.

And there's probably a belief that people will like the bills after it passes. Just as a lot of 'conservatives' eventually came out in favor of Obamacare (like McCain), I'm sure a lot of people would admit that they like Obamacare-lite more than Obamacare. Self-interested politicians might think that the bills would be more popular once some people saw their health care burdens drop. And I don't think they're wrong, the healthy people who make Obamacare possible stand to gain the most under the Republican healthcare proposals - the young, the wealthy, the healthy.

Half the country votes and half the country votes GOP, a 25% approval rating can translate to near-universal approval in a political faction.
You are right that today DJI is exceptional and represents the cutting edge - but that in itself is indicative of what is normal in the future.
Equifax isn't a startup. They doubtless get far more revenue from pulling credit reports than from protecting credit reports.
Hear, hear! I'd love to see more tech jobs in Canada to put an upward pressure on salaries. That said...

> workforce that can't simply move to the US

Or won't. Maximizing income is not always the top priority for workers. There's a plethora of reasons why Canadian residents would want to live there beside inability to move to the US.
I know each release comes out with new features and improvements that probably cause further battery drain. But has anyone looked into the specifics of why this happens year over year?

Couldn't they spend time optimizing battery life? Is there no incentive to?

Especially with screens becoming relatively larger and batteries remaining the same, I think battery life is a valid selling point for many consumers. I'm sure Apple does a ton of market research in this area, so maybe I'm wrong.
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Let's hope not. The first two episodes have indeed portrayed Klingons in a pretty sympathetic light. That they're a race of warriors bound by honor and tradition is a well-established thing in Star Trek canon. But if you look beyond that, the show establishes a pretty clear reason for them to feel threatened by the Federation
Fast ECMAScript Parser – Alternative to Acorn / Esprima
While it's true that almost all the good conversation is in a secondary place, it's also true that a lot of it would not reach the author, especially if the discussion happens in a secondary place that the author would not expect it to.
I'm older now myself (closer to 40 than 50, but well past "young"), and I don't think I meant what you think I meant.

"I don't get the youth culture of today and don't like it: including PC oriented culture and other media specific ideas designed to focus perception."

"PC oriented culture" just seems like expecting people to treat everyone with respect, and I think that's an improvement. Our industry hasn't always been good at that, but it has nothing to do with productivity. The old-timer I talked about wasn't racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise an asshole...he just liked to be able to close his office door and think really hard about things. He worked well with others; treating the women and brown folks in the office just like anyone else. Why would that be a source of contention?

And, I have no idea what "other media specific ideas designed to focus perception" could possibly mean. I know all the words, but they don't add up to anything, as far as I can tell.
Doesn't this screw up people's taxes, making them liable for realised capital gains, and also making them completely screwed if the value of the currency goes back down again
As for sharing knowledge goes, China has sci-hub.io and westerners get to pay $35 a paper.
Seems like there's a place in the market for a crowd funded campaign that does the opposite - brings people together.
I'd say that the simplest default is to just block Disqus by default. You can always opt in for one of the like five sites in the world with tolerable comments sections.

Disqus usually still "shows" when blocked; it just doesn't load the comments, so it's not like it'll be hidden from you that way.
Yes, I'm expecting Europe to start waking up to this
At any rate, GP is right that it's not the "growing middle class" in China that sends kids to private school in the US. It's the upper class.

Make it about half a million Chinese students in the US currently, so we're talking about the top 1%.
> The US has much better press freedoms, freedom of speech and gun ownership rights than any other country.

Any country that requires and authorizes gun ownership is broken to start with. That you think this is somehow superior and better is.. I don't know what to say.

> Comparing surveillance by the NSA to access to information in general is disingenuous at best.

What's the difference?