skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing you might be guilty of is minimizing it.

I figured if I was doubtful, other people might be doubtful. Rather than have you be dismissed, it seemed to me that confirming your post was the prudent thing to do.

I was pretty shocked. That's fodder for a whole HN link and thread. I really figured you were blowing it out of proportion. Nope... Hell, the list of complaints goes on and on.

I'm reminded of when drones were gaining in popularity and people, notably on Slashdot, were saying all the things they were doing and how nobody could stop them. I told them that is how you end up with draconian regulations. I was moderated quite heavily in the downward direction. Fast forward a few years and they are complaining about draconian regulations.

Which is to say you're right. They are going to end up coming down on this, and coming down on this hard. I'm sure some rebels will say it can't be prevented, but laws don't work like that. They don't prevent anything. They'll just make cryptocurrency illegal, use and possession, and selectively prosecute the offenders.

That's worst case scenario, I guess. They may just regulate ICOs heavily and stop the regular person from investing. I doubt that will bother the wealthy and established players much. Even better, they'll be doing it 'for your own protection.' Those sound bites will appeal to the masses.

By the way, this is one of those times I wish an HN poster had been wrong.
strace is not a proof. It has it's own built-in table. So also strace could be wrong.

In practice strace is widely used and bugs should be discovered, reported, and fixed soon. So without doing any own analysis I'd bet that in doubt this table is wrong and strace right.

Note that syscall list and numbers are architecture specific. The differences are typically not huge, but they exist.
Interesting bullet points include:

'false information spread through electronic and social media'

'violations involving distributed ledger technology and initial coin offerings'
There was a change back in like 2006 or something that made it harder for college kids to get credit -- have to demonstrate income, which as we know most don't. Conversely, when I was in college creditors were mass calling dorms to get signups. One kinda tricked me into "allowing them to send me an application in the mail" and a pre-approved credit card showed up instead. I never used it till a few years after I got a paying gig, but it did kinda work as a means of building credit via account age.
The political and social culture of South America, at the time of their wars of independence, was undeniably based on European culture and values, at least among the educated classes that actively participated in all that. Their blood descent is not particularly relevant - what matters is the kind of books they grew up with, roughly speaking.
It only really makes sense with browser-level cpu scheduling. Otherwise there's no real way to throttle the amount of cpu these bitcoin miners take from you.

Without that, I think people are unlikely to be sympathetic and they'll be snagged by ad blockers rapidly: consent is the cornerstone of products people like.
Mining in Javascript will get you less than the infrastructure costs to provide the videos, let alone replacing ad revenue.
Which coin is worth mining on a CPU at all?
Facebook's Russia election hacking response was slow early
Possibly. On the other hand, you're talking about changing behavior that's been in place for 35 years. It's more than a little late to garner any benefit from changing it. And the risk that you'll actually break an existing program somewhere is certainly small but probably not zero.
Synergy 2.0 GUI goes closed source
After become a paid (but still open source) product, Synergy 2.0 (the mouse and keyboard sharing application) is now becoming closed source (for the GUI).

"Synergy 2 is partially closed source, so there will be no tarball that includes the new user interface. Our master branch on GitHub is where you'll find the Synergy 2 open source component (which we're calling Synergy Core)."

Nick Bolton
CEO of Symless
Synergy Team
Posted August 16

from https://symless.com/forums/topic/3723-source-code-for-linux/?do=findComment&comment=14957 (login required)
NSW and Israel announce R&amp;D innovation program
This looks very cool. Have you (jdoliner or anyone else) used this to publish a book?
> What I'm looking for is a user-facing, user-friendly structure that A) Does only what the user wants to do eg. load site B) Explicitly does NOTHING else eg run javascripts for cryptocurrency.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...
>And, of course, it's not E2E encrypted; just the opposite, you can assume that it's being wiretapped/monitored.

Whatsapp is not? Are you sure? I would assume NSA doing all it wants as well.

Whatsapp is out not because it can't let authorities audit it, but because of other economic reasons.
Wish there was open-source browser that did this, with SecureBrowser*tm concept in my above post to automate this.

This is a step in the right direction and does satisfy the 2 basic requirements I listed for more security, thanks for sharing!
Why are you comparing analog spiking hardware to digital non-spiking hardware?
I scanned several thousand of my parent's photos.

I'd say a few dozen are of the places they were living.

The ones that show recognizable places are pretty interesting to look at though.
Not necessarily. They are doing so on my behalf. I would be outraged if somebody punched me with what I perceive as poor reason, but I would not be outraged if I punched somebody with good reason.

There are times when the US has meddled in other countries' affairs that I don't agree with, but there are others, like covertly slowing nuclear proliferation, that I do agree with.
Monero? Existing botnets earn $50,000/day mining on people's computers at night while finding ways to spread to additional ones.

A single computer earns pennies, a couple hundred thousand earn way more.
>Then that was a stupid and pointless response to the comment about the need for consensus

Hah. Pot, meet kettle.
Every time I read this I have to wonder how many windows users are really interested in running mailx.
Peak Hacker News

"Sharing data using physically present word of mouth is a lot more expensive and slower than sharing it instantly via an open internet connection."
> It's like they didn't even want me as a customer if I was going to pay my bills every week.

I semi-suspect you know this, but if you pay in full every month, they don't get to bundle your debt up and sell it off as a security. Interchange fees are competitive enough that it's probably close to break even (and getting more so every year), but the securities are comparatively pretty sweet for the issuers.
I remember how ridiculously long the waitlist was for that class, even for a course in the CS division. Really hoping he teaches it again next spring.
This is the second time that I have posted a link to a multiplayer game server on HN. With my first server (which was also written in Golang with a Javascript front end) I "automatically" logged in the player. When you do that, some smarty pants on HN writes a script to do nothing but log in.

I've thought of some low-friction registration methods, but making them @sshat proof takes more effort than just having a registration and slapping a captcha on it.
Safari's autocompletion in the address bar is proxied through Apple, with no records stored, with the purpose of hiding your IP address from Bing.
All that stuff leads the rest of us to debate too. The system depends upon having informed voters. As silly as that may sound today, I do feel that puts us in a better position to make progress than the other forms of government that exist.
> EDIT: Sandstorm was looking to fix user permissions for individual programs on computers (they went defunct/bankrupt/no-longer-developing last I heard).

I'm still developing, just not full-time.
As long as China isn't breaking any WTO rules, they are free to block internet services and apps. If other countries aren't happy with this, they should change the WTO rules. If WTO rules are being broke, then clearly those rules have no teeth.

Why would China block things? Various excellent reasons are discussed in this thread, and they all boil down to political and commercial.

Are the Chinese people harmed? I would argue not. None of these "services" do anything really important nor irreplaceable. Most are just new spins on ancient tech like email and FTP, and the new versions that are blocked don't really have any differentiating features compared to what is available locally. The feature that is new is Digital Identity.

And so my final thought is that they are playing a long game with respect to digital identity - which is the long game of most of these blocked services. In Cyberspace, am I going to be Chinese or American? I aM not Chinese, but I expect that most Chinese will want to also be Chinese in Cyberspace, and so the Chinese government is fulfilling that desire.
We do? What kind of racist thing is that?
No, using public funds to subsidize a private entity should be illegal for local governments. Based on past history, the most likely way that governments will attempt to woo Amazon will include tax breaks, cheap bonds, and preferential spending of infrastructure dollars. These are all benefits that are almost certainly not going to be made available to other private companies resulting in a huge advantage being handed to one private entity at the expense of other private entities and the local government.
Just don't put a lens cap on it.
I have not used it at all. I posted it moments after learning about it. I've been looking for something like this though so I will likely being playing around with it in the near future.
I'm referring to the case when the external speakers are playing music. It gets irritating to listen to somebody's music if they are riding your back wheel.
This feels like a no-true-scotsman distinction. What is it about briandear's description that does sound like searching for a repeatable and scalable business model? What is it about that definition that demands a high level of innovation?

Frankly, it's very easy to wax poetic about how innovative and different the biggest startup success stories were. Tech pundits have spilled buckets of ink describing in great nuance what makes AmaGooFace so different and special. But it's much easier to do this in hindsight than it is before you have any feedback, and I doubt very much that any of these company's journeys matches their early vision.

My model of a startup is this: find a way from 10 => 100 => 1000 => 10000 => 100000 => 1000000 customers. Just worry about delighting that next tier of customers, and the things you learn will give you a better shot at propelling yourself to the next phase.
with the runaway growth of telecoms in the early years manual operators had to be automated to some extent quite early on as there would physically not be enough workers to staff all the manual boards
The Chinese people are harmed if any end-to-end encrypted communications services are blocked to ensure the government is able to spy on them.
That's so simplistic there's not really a good discussion to be had.

But the answer is: there are a lot of things governments shouldn't be able to do. _Especially_ to benefit corporations. Corporate subsidies almost never pay off for individuals, but saddle cities with unmanageable expenses later on. They tend to actually hurt the poor, as well.
Not sure why you think depression is not a severe mental illness. If your parents are depressed, this has very much the potential to affect you as a child. For one, since you got the same genes and the same risks involved and two, since you grow up in an environment where your two examples (mom and dad) are depressed with all the effects attached to that. Its difficult to give examples, but say you never see your parents smile or do anything with a smile. Don't you consider that actively malicious to their family members and broader society? Whereas a random heroin addict who sleeps under bridge and doesn't steal is just out of sight, out of mind. And what's to say the person isn't a heroin addict precisely because of mental illnesses?
Imagine that people who were not raised to value education don’t value education and pass that terrible attitude to the next generation.

We can accept it’s a crappy cycle that won’t change without external inputs or we can mock them to make ourselves feel better.
Hacker takes $50,000 a few cents at a time (2008)
Someone already posted our tool, chamber, that we use to manage secrets in parameter store at Segment. Here is a blog post we published with all the details about exactly how it works:

https://segment.com/blog/the-right-way-to-manage-secrets/

For your setup, terraform can easily be used for dev, staging, prod with different IAM Roles or AWS Accounts. We separate each in to completely separate AWS accounts.
Any city owned and run by Amazon wouldn't be Eureka, because that's not what in Amazon's interests. It would be a company town straight out of last century, and most of its citizens would be little more than slum-dwelling wage slaves.

But, it would have one hell of an airport.
On Windows, paths can be accessed with \\?\ prefix:

mkdir \\?\V:\con
notepad \\?\V:\con\aux.txt

This avoids reserved filenames as well as 260-character length restriction. But many programs that try to do any path processing fail after seeing an unexpected prefix, even File Open dialog (on Win7 at least).
No, it is not obvious at all. The article covers pros and cons with a necessary set of assumptions as well.

Commoditizing open, trustworthy solutions becomes mandatory for a free and open society. We are clearly far from that, so the Wild West dystopia continues, with the privileged few in control of their privacy. Most don’t care as culture is now open for the new generation, like a dystopian hi tech version of free love again.

In the short term, it’s incumbent on you to devise your own trusted solutions to work around the ever persistent series of vulns in the majority if not all the tech we hold dear.
Do the same thing you might do when browsing open source code on github. Go to websites of well known companies or by people that provide web design services, view source, look at a feature that doesn't make sense at first, and then search on Google or Mozilla Developer Network or Stackoverflow for more details, and then write a practice page in a basic text editor.

As far as design, you cannot go wrong with bootstrap. However, to really learn design, do not study web design. Study things like Bahaus, billboard design, marketing and messaging and PR, how to compose for simplicity, SEO optimization techniques and their influence on design, etc. Seriously, the people that learn how to make websites and want to tell you how to make websites absolutely and hilariously SUCK at design.
...all the time?

This line of questioning comes up a lot as the ultimate gotcha, but the people upset about Russian meddling today are also the ones most likely to be upset about American meddling in the past.
It is, but the difference here is that the contracted developer added it to mine coins for themselves.
> I wonder if its possible to hook into Spotlight real-time (with mdfind?) and just delete them right after its created.

Not Spotlight but the File System Events API, which was designed for precisely this kind of thing.
Justify your alpha: Response to “Redefine statistical significance"
India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018
This was Joel Spolsky suggestion.
In the past.

https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
> People over use Excel to no end and it causes problems. They need to use programming.

I'm sorry that the democratization of computing hurts you so, but Excel has done more for normal people who just need to push numbers around than perhaps any device since the pocket calculator. And it has exposed more people to functional programming than anything else has, ever.
Twice as fast as acorn - impressive.

Looked at the parser code - it's well crafted. Works with integers instead of strings wherever possible.

The API is dead simple. Produces standard ESTree AST. Should take 10 minutes to port projects from `acorn` and `esprima` to `cherow`.

I wonder why he had Typescript target ES2015 only to use Buble to convert to ES5. Perhaps Buble produces more performant ES5 code than Typescript?
It's a shame you got downvoted, because lens caps were really tricky on the Russia landers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera#Venera_camera_successes...

> The Venera 9 and 10 landers had two cameras each. Only one functioned because the lens covers failed to separate from the second camera on each lander. The design was changed for Venera 11 and 12, but this change made the problem worse and all cameras failed on those missions. Venera 13 and 14 were the only landers on which all cameras worked properly; although unfortunately, the titanium lens cap on Venera 14 landed precisely on the area which was targeted by the soil compression probe.
Why name it and lose any possible tax advantages the target city might offer? That's the thesis of the article.
The physical books from this list I own are actually great (Metaploit guide, Pentesting, Book of PF, Art of Exploitation, The IDA Pro Book, and Practical Packet Analysis). I am buying this bundle because I'd love to have PDFs of these, and I'm thinking the other books must be good if they're bundled with these others which I find useful.
The funny part is, that is not the purpose at all any more. It was probably only for a handful of years that this trick was needed to "trick" programs which thought they were saving a normal file and forcing the correct extension to actually use a printer or serial port. No one has used a printer or serial port by File -> Save As to "lpt.txt" in decades!

Now it's just because some code hidden away under 10s of layers a millions of lines in some obscure line-of-business applications is accidentally dependent on this quirk and "it works now" and no one will ever fix it.
Nobody suggested they originated the term. Paul Graham's definition for "startup" is exactly right for Silicon Valley, and the Merriam Webster definition is incorrect, for Silicon Valley.

It's true that lots of people use the word startup to mean fledgling business, and that's perfectly OK and cool, but if you use the term "startup", in Silicon Valley, to refer to a lifestyle business, people will view it as self-aggrandizement or delusion.

This is also true in any venture capital context anywhere in the world.
Never. Unfortunately.
Motion blur makes all the difference.
I've been waiting for someone to do this
They can't get people to relocate to Seattle, much less a town in the middle of nowhere.
I wonder if the Ycombinator folks may have recently watched School Inc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrDfCy5Q9wI)
Well done, China.
In fact, this is the government's conspiracy. Now WeChat a lot of data by the government control, always monitor people's remarks. Why to prohibit whatsup, because because of a broke the Chinese government to lead the corruption of the rich, Guo Wengui. The domestic intelligence provider used whatsup to provide him with information, so the government began to suppress whatsup。https://youtu.be/DWVxf2ARuOg
Michael Jackson – Never Write Another HoC
Arguably, that is exactly what governments are for.
This is a response to the recent recommendation to change the threshold for statistical significance to p < .005
This just goes to show you how horrible internet advertising is, with it's complete disregard for standards.
US Law (specifically the Federal Election Campaign Act) generally tries to prohibit foreign nationals from donating to political campaigns.

It seems like that act has some pretty broad restrictions: "The Act prohibits knowingly soliciting, accepting or receiving contributions or donations from foreign nationals. In this context, "knowingly" means that a person:
...
Is aware of facts that would lead a reasonable person to inquire whether the source of the funds solicited, accepted or received is a foreign national."

So a candidate could be taking a legal risk if he took a large donation from a foreigner and his excuse was that he didn't realize who the donation was from and wasn't interested enough to find out who was making the donation.

But I don't really think the US has decent enough disclosure laws for political donations or enforcement of current laws to adequately prevent or prosecute foreigners donating to political campaigns.

https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/
“HTML email, was that your fault?”
I was in Singapore for a while and the fact that cameras were everywhere in SG made me feel really uncomfortable and hard to breathe, at least. I guess you get used to what you think is normal.

There is no right answer to that. I'd prefer to go to a place that has no camera, and go to a party/event that no one is fucking around with their phone cameras, but I guess I'm just old.
In 1991 I was working at a place with a Novell Netware network. I decided to make a system that would execute remote commands by writing them to a shared directory and other machines would see the files and execute the commands. I named those files COMXXXXX.TXT where the X's were a random number (yeah, that was a bad idea). Every few days the system would hang and stop working. I finally narrowed it down to the random number being 1-9 that would correspond to the serial ports on the machine and it would then hang.
Is this a violation of the CFAA? Without explicit permission to do this, it seems an awful lot like unauthorized use
I believe there is opportunity in giving teachers better tools to teach as well as they are capable.

Teaching is difficult enough from a personal performance and logistical standpoint that there is low hanging fruit in simply helping teachers be their best professional self.

For example: I have approx. 200 high school level students. If I assign them to write one page I have just given myself 200 pages of assessment to complete. Assessing writing is more cognitively demanding than simply reading 200 pages, so if I can read and provide feedback on each page in 3 minutes - working non-stop - I have 10 hours of work. I have 5 hours of prep time per week which is primarily used for preparing the 7 hours a day I spend actively in class with students. Given that we don't complete just one assignment per week - you can see the logistical difficulty.

I teach english. There are commenting/notemaking tools in almost every online word processing toolset, but none of them are streamlined for assessing writing (i.e. providing rubric based feedback, rapidly annotating with custom or pre-created notes, allowing for layered annotations to identify different structural features of writing). There's opportunity in figuring out what teachers already do and slash the time required to do it.
Well cited, thank you! My information/recollection would be more correctly stated as 'the social security administration has handed out less than half of the one billion possible numbers'.

I'm not too surprised that all kinds of zany things happen with such a relatively important, relatively scarce resource.
It makes sense while the coins have value; I wonder what value they would retain if every website started doing this.

Also, I question whether it's a sensible use of electricity on the whole.
> just like vault

As a happy Vault user I'm curious about your thoughts here.