skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You lose virtually nothing if you just block Disqus wholesale with an ad blocker. I'll admit it's quite nice for replying to comments on blogs, but there's no reason that a) needs to happen in a public comment and b) that you cannot provide an email for people to reach you at. In any case, almost all the good conversation is in a secondary place—reddit, hacker news, social media.

I'm far more likely to send you an email than I am to sign into an unaffiliated third party and trust their cookies.
It's interesting that for so long there was conventional wisdom suggesting a large reason the Soviet Union economy failed due to inefficiencies of communism and oppression.

We now know not only did that not stop China, it's not clear that the ceiling of economic success of their system has been determined.
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We might have been talking passed each other. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
Nothing the West does is principled, and the sooner people realise this the sooner they understand why the rest of the world reacts the way they do to the West.

From destabilising Libya and Syria, to taking in refugees, to grandstanding with Russia, nothing is done for any set of moral principles.

Libya and Syria were 2 nations that believed in Arab and African pan-nationalism, and tried to assert independence and secularism in the face of Western hegemony and Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism. Sure they were dictators and unsavoury, but they also weren't any worse than the many dictators the West has propped up and sponsored over the years.

For years many economists and business leaders decried the high salaries, strong unions and high cost of doing business in Germany, Scandinavia, France and elsewhere, so they imported a bunch of refugees under the guise of humanitarian principles, and as a result they've broken the power of unions, have unlimited cheap labour and are dismantling parts of the welfare state (look at what Macron just passed through in France).

And finally in Russia, NATO has them completely encircled, we overthrew several governments on their borders and replaced them with pro-Western ones (see "Colour Revolutions", or hell, just look at Mikheil Saakashvili's career path), and then we decry the fact that they finally took action for self-preservation (they had a perpetual lease of the naval base in Sevastopol which the pro-Western government wanted to end, despite the understanding with Ukraine at the dissolution of the USSR).

And of course there's the various covert CIA actions throughout the years which have been declassified, it'll be interesting to see in the next 40 years how current events are portrayed in the future.

Also, take a look at various developing countries, and actions by the World Bank and western NGOs. Contrast that with how China has courted those same countries. I've been to countries which were decimated and abandoned by the West, and where the only infrastructure projects even happening are funded by China. I know a few people from those countries which even went to study in Chinese universities, and whose futures are going to be linked with China. No one from that country has any illusion of the West being 'good', as they were a former colony abandoned by the West.
It's part of an overall trend. For example the gatekeeper security settings ux has slowly been removing options to run unsigned binaries bit by bit.

In 10.12 there is no obvious way on how to run unsigned binaries now. When you double click on an app multiple times, it refuses to run. If you go to security settings you cannot run the unsigned binary from there. You have to right click on the app and press open to get the old dialog that would allow you to run an unsigned binary like it's some sort of easter egg. In older versions you didn't have these restrictions.
White House Unveils Coding Education Initiative with Support from Tech Industry
Not the same, but I'll sometimes put one of these on in the background for a similar experience:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNKqAkKkCKUdnZTMty2B...
I really hope this isn't driven by a desire to capitalize on the coming wave of school privatization under DeVos. What she and her compatriots have done to Michigan's school system is not only a tragedy for the communities they serve, but also a demonstrable failure:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/betsy-devos-michigan-s...

Tech lipstick on underperforming, segregated, for-profit schools isn't going to make them any prettier.
How many people have Wikipedia or IMDB pages compared to how many people have a credit card?
Uhh, an airship? On a planet with winds at 350kmph?

That sounds like a horrible idea.
Sorry when I said scale, I mean.. scale to real world usage. Websockets run over TCP so if you're on a bad connection, packets have to be re-sent, meaning real time gaming becomes very very difficult to implement.

TCP/websockets are good for slower paced games like point and clicks but they don't normally work well for fasted paced games with physics.

WebRTC data channels don't have to re-send lost packets (unlike WebSockets), so if you do WebRTC between client and server it will unlock a new genre of games for the web!
You can play blockchain sleuth all you want, but you cannot guarantee that you are following the same owner's transactions.
EnvKey's main focus is on convenience and speed of integration.

- As a hosted service, it offers a ~5-10 minute integration workflow, and doesn't require setting up/maintaining your own secrets server.

- Pulling secrets/config into an app is extremely simple vs. existing open source solutions. You set a single environment variable, add 1-2 lines of code, and you're done. There are a lot fewer hoops to jump through.

- It has a UI that makes it convenient to manage different environments (development, staging, production) right next to each other, and provides a quick visual overview of developer and server access levels. It also offers some other useful capabilities like YAML-style inheritance between environments and quick/secure invitations for collaborators.

In my experience, there are a lot of companies out there who are managing secrets poorly (email, Slack, Google Docs, etc.), but don't necessarily have the capability or desire to make a major DevOps investment in improving the situation. EnvKey offers a much quicker option.
It seems strict but maybe it's sensible from a security standpoint. Why should a foreign country like China allow foreign owned mass-surveillance systems like Google and Facebook spy on their citizens?

I mean even countries in the EU are taking Facebook to court over unauthorised online tracking of citizens [1]. The only difference with China is they have the power to do something about it, which is skip the legislative overhead and get straight to the business of blocking access.

I disagree with censorship of this kind; However, I wonder how the US would like it if the shoe was on the other foot?

[1] https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/spain-...
There's an old school tutorial here:

https://secure.emergencevector.com/tutorial/

If you can't figure out how to make it into Hyperspace, you are officially a weakly interacting massive particle! :D

Everything is client-server, client wins, except for one thing. (Left as an exercise.) WebRTC is only there as a substitute for UDP.
Dont believe Em' bankers. They could give you loan to buy real estate or mars.
Totally agree, I personally feel this has been the case with 10.13, there hasn’t been any annoying / over the top ‘jazz’ that gets in the way of my workflow and it’s certainly a lot faster than previous macOS versions welcomed by Metal 2’s dramatic latency improvements.
Counting robots is really hard compared to counting humans, because they are so varied in what they do. Does a robot that does two people’s jobs count as a robot? What if it only assists with a job? Do we count them at controller boundaries? Planner boundaries? It could be argued that an entire Kiva installation counts as a single robot, because it has centralized control.
Nicely done! The basics are there, the next step could easily be something pretty compelling.
If there is one thing I could influence it would be never to be the subject of interesting new case law. Life is pretty short.
Unfortunately, The Atlantic doesn't work on the free web, where users control who gets to load content on _their_ computer, rather than having the website dictate who to sell out to before seeing the text requested. Is there a different source?
SHUT UP and listen to me
California Is Already Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack
> Women take on more work too, it is just not paid work

Well, yes. I did say "take care of their kids".

This is what you originally said:

Once people get married and have kids, men take on additional work to pay for their kids. Women take on less work to take care of their kids.

You did not say that women do less paid work. You said they take on less work. This framing implicitly suggests that women's work isn't really work. This seems to be a common societal default assumption and that deeply held belief helps drive the feminization of poverty because the mental model is that women's work isn't real work and doesn't really deserve compensation.

The rest of your comment is simply gratuitously ugly, so I am done here.
I'm kind of shocked they tried. Tucson's in the middle of Saguaro national park, give or take, so i'm assuming the cactus in question was a Saguaro, but the sheer amount of paperwork, not to mention botanical effort, involved in moving an adult Saguaro anywhere is enormous. Most of them are microchipped, their root networks are huge and shallow, they're really cranky about being transplanted in adulthood.. the list goes on and on.
> Even in HK and Taiwan, WeChat is not used outside of those reasons.

Before someone asks, the approximate equivalent of WeChat in Taiwan is Line. Don't know what it is in HK.
Great observation about the secondary place hosting of comments. Once I read about some of the privacy weaknesses surrounding Disqus I have dropped out of all such conversations even when strongly tempted to add my 2 cents.
That's not a good thing. If we want society to be more equal, funnelling money to capital holders at the expense of workers isn't the way to accomplish that goal.
There’s a quote: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”. It’s misattributed to Aristotle, but it’s a worthwhile thought. You’ve written a lot, but said nothing to address any of Mr. Damore’s statements head on, with an argument as to why he’s incorrect, just that his ideas are bad and create negative emotions in you.

I don't agree with some of his memo, but if I was to sit down and write something against it, I'd try to consider what he'd said rationally, without language like "repugnant" and "beyond stupid". I agree that we're not robots, but if we don't put reason before emotion, we're also not adults.

As to your last question, I really won't have a problem working with him.
Luckily, if you'd like to avoid these things, there are plenty of US cities to choose from!
> "Most of the smokers I've met are generally clever, creative folks."

- I grew up poor, and everyone in the community smoked, kids/teens included, and I'd bet you wouldn't describe us as "clever, creative folks."

> "It seems there are more software developer smokers than the general population. Does the work beget it? obvious filter bias"

- Definitely filter bias going on here.
This analysis is spot on and sounds more like from someone who has actually been in China. I'd add that China has no choice but to compete through design and innovation as it is ending it's phase as a low wage economy and has a growing middle class to support (the 'copy machine' idea is complete nonsense recycled by lazy journalists who don't have a clue).
All the clients (including the app) are fully open-source. Both the npm package and the ruby gem wrap a lower-level library that is written in Go - https://github.com/envkey/envkey-fetch. This implements core OpenPGP logic in a cross-platform way. I'll try to make this clearer in the Readme.

I could also look at splitting out platform-specific packages for those who only need a subset of them, but the reason for including every binary is to make it plug-and-play for multi-platform teams.
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There is one fundamental step you should always take when reading systems papers with benchmarks: Always look for what the authors are trying to hide.

It's (a) always there, and (b) always hilarious. From operating systems comparisons that need "we didn't actually slow down the processor physically" comparisons to look good to these "we look great, compared to that guy over there licking the floor."
If I understand the situation right, we are no less secure than before High Sierra, just not “more secure” as Apple intended. As such, the obscurity doesn’t buy anything imho.
I loved Subspace, Cosmic Rift, and Infantry. One day soon we'll have some remakes I'm sure!
If you haven't talked to your customers before you started building anything, that is also a signal. A massive one.
Male nurses still make more on average than female nurses:

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/03/124266/male-registered-nur...
Hmm maybe that'll be worth getting a static IP at home for my next trip, thanks.
Even without a moral obligation, there's a pragmatic reason to spend money wisely: if you blow the money on frivolous creature comforts, you end up in the same state you were in before the startup (which usually means poor), except that nobody will invest in you again. This seems like an objectively worse position to be in.

The real winners when startups blow all their runway on fancy perks are purveyors of luxury goods. That's where all the money goes, after all.
That is going to be tough. A whole generation of Chinese see the west as cool and to be emulated. I have a hard time seeing a whole generation of Europeans and Americans wanting to emulate the Chinese, Japan, maybe. China, not so much.
> In Britain people have been sent to jail for tweeting or posting facebook statuses.

In your link:

- the nameless chip shop employee doesn't even get named, let alone do we hear of any punishment given. Instead, we just get a couple of paragraphs about a tweet of his

- half a paragraph is spent on someone who got half a year in jail for using one word in a podcast; seems like more context would be valuable here

- two twitter users making threats fronted up to court, but we never hear what happened to them. Freedom of Speech doesn't extend to making threats.

- the Mandela-joke-maker supports the article's premise, yes

- more threats on twitter were responded to, one leading to an arrest

The only item that clearly supports the article's premise is the guy who made jokes about Mandela, but the whole article is written in a way that it's clear there's a lot of missing context. The one and only example that actually got jail time is only half a paragraph long and has feeble information available. Independently of whether or not you agree with the point it's making, this is a 'spun' article.
Perhaps, but KA is a supplement - not a replacement for - more traditional in-person educational experiences.
This really is a great point. Not everyone wants to dominate mankind.
How Electric Cars Can Create the Biggest Disruption Since the iPhone
Ha! In this case make no mistake, the product is also the customer. At some point they will switch from free to charge for their monitoring service.
There is a bsd/kern/syscalls.master file for every kernel at https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/
Good to clarify, it's actually 68% of the value, the amount transferred. They are only about 10% of the number of transactions.
Thank you!

First customers were through personal network, we then quickly transitioned into cold emails to universities in our region.

We are already making money, primarily through sales to institutions in higher-ed. The longer term plan is continuing down that path, with institution sales making the majority of revenue, but with individual teacher plans available as well. The freemium model is to get teachers hooked, and then have their school, department, or university purchase as they see increased use and a need for integration with their existing school system (LMS). This is a path we have seen for a bunch of our current customers. Especially integrations seems to drive institutions to buy.

K-12 vs Higher-ed is a complex beast, but an analogy can be drawn to Consumer vs B2B. K-12 is high-volume, low price, low touch deals and have some similar characteristics to the consumer market (virality + simple products). Higher-ed is lower-volume, larger deals sizes, but more hands-on sales. Currently our sales and marketing efforts are focused on higher-ed because it does seem to have the best ROI.
Ask HN: Why is there no internet micro transaction protocol yet for USD?
I understand crypto can work with micro transactions but it's unclear to me that usd would not work. I know it's expensive through the credit card model but surely some version of mobile could be adopted.
I notice you didn't answer my question.
They'll move you along, but as long as there's little turbulence or wind shear, it won't damage anything. And given that the wind moves in a consistent direction and speed varies mostly just with altitude, I doubt there's much of either.
Good point, I apologize if my post came across as an aggressive or disbelieving response. That wasn't the intent. It's objectively surreal, to the extent that particular adverb can ever legitimately be used next to that particular adjective, for the founder of Facebook to ask the Chinese premier for input on his child's name.

Also, typically, asking for an "easily searchable" citation results in a snarky LMGTFY link, rather than moderation normally associated with posting goatse links on Slashdot. It's interesting that this particular question seems to have hit a lot of peoples' nerves on here.
33 unique bits will narrow a search to any one living person.
> I think there's a tendency for people to overestimate the importance of foreign apps to Chinese consumers

Then why take the trouble of blocking something so small and unimportant? ;)

> eg., the Chinese tech/online market is so huge it can sustain multiple competitors of its own in each sector

Doesn't China have bigger aspirations than just the mainland?

People are missing the bigger point. I'm not talking about the current state of things. This is about the future. Most things are derivatives of other things. It's much harder to create these derivatives without easy access to free flowing data. People are saying, "It's fine, Chinese students just study and work in the West and bring it back to China after a few years." This is extremely inefficient. 1. there's the monetary cost involved compared to a open internet connection2. only a very small portion of the population will have this opportunity compared to potentially millions more with an open internet connection. 3. the amount of time it will take for this data to come back to China is huge compared to the instantaneous sharing you get with an open internet connection

Getting more control isn't free, the price is growth.
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My brother-in-law got his first card in his early 20s, and around 2009. He had to go the route of getting a secured credit card, too. In his case, the issue was probably that he was trying to go for his first credit during the recession. He married my sister in 2010; they got their first apartment based on his income, but on her credit rating.
It's not laundering, it's spoofing by some of the earliest Ethereum holders who are trading with themselves on the exchanges to create the appearance of volume and liquidity to drive up the value of their coins.
UhOh – an attempt or proof-of-concept to show that “privacy” is just a hoax
I think his point is that "veneer of rationality" almost serves solely as ad-hominem, because there is no way to establish which side is truly rational other than through debate itself.
to do what with jQuery? It's not a good practice to mix them.
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> He further discloses that he is affiliated with Microsoft/LinkedIn.

This is not correct. I assume you are referring to:

"There are degrees, of course; at one end of the spectrum you have the likes of Microsoft and Amazon using data breaches to better protect their customers' accounts."

However, that text only contains a link [1] to a blog post about how companies (like Microsoft and LinkedIn) go and look for this data by themselves. Nowhere is it stated that Troy helped them, or even that anyone discussed such help.

I agree that it is scary that someone has this data, but I see very little that is dangerous about how Troy uses it. The worst complaint I have is not at first marking the furries leak as sensitive.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/random-thoughts-on-the-use-of-breac...
> > The user is completely irritated for multiple reasons. Besides the tedious manual work to align the stupid heading characters with the heading title

> What is tedious on typing <esc>yyp <shift>-v r # to underline current line with #?

Also, there is the "easy" approach where you just fill the line instead (insert 72 #s or =s or whichever on under/over-lines). reStructuredText has a minimum fill size for a header, but not a maximum fill size.

I've drafted documents that way and then trimmed the lines down to fit the headers as a last step once they have stabilized.
Tell HN: EBay offer mechanism is insecure
eBay allows sellers to provide an offer mechanism for the buyers. Exchanges between them are also communicated over email.

I noticed today that accepting offer redirects to a insecure http://offer.ebay.de where I was able to accept the offer.
Ahh nice, sounds like a good setup. Did you use an open source library for the server side part of WebRTC? I'm super interested in having a play with a good implementation if you have any tips..
Clerky beats 83(b) into the heads of founders who use its service. It's included in the package, with pre-filled forms and detailed instructions for where to mail them, and it sends you nag mail every week until you've uploaded the completed IRS form. It works for employees, too, but they don't get the nag-mail.

The folks who I think really need to teach their employees about 83(b)s are fast-growing big companies. I didn't know about them when I joined Google, for example, and learned about it too late to take advantage of it. That mistake cost me literally hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Was blocked two years ago
Show HN: Relessjs: State management like Redux without actions or dispatcher
> How does this work with things like DRM? What if you have media on your phone from something like Spotify or Netflix that's presumably encrypted or protected in some way, that you cannot decrypt if your subscription expires...

Interesting point, but I think in this situation they'd be putting pressure on the media provider to decrypt it for them (since the media provider is the one in control of the encryption, not the consumer). That's assuming said media provider is in a jurisdiction that the relevant govt has some control over, and/or media provider is compliant.

Here's a thought experiment: suppose ISIS (or your preferred terrorist organisation of the day) set up a media service for users to share videos (or other media) that are protected by DRM. The media service can disable the viewing of said content on a whim. A person using this service has their phone/computer confiscated, but the authorities are powerless to gain access to the content due to the DRM. Is this person liable under these laws, even though the encryption is outside their control?
Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims
I wonder what kind of "things" cities have to offer?
Property tax breaks, maybe other city taxes?
Free land? Be interesting to see an offer package.