skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly speaking, if we're going to be tracked (and we are, lots and lots), I want the government as involved as possible, whether through strict regulations or through being the central repository for that information.

Maybe do it state-by-state, so long as each state follows some federal guidelines and each state provides a way to interoperate with the rest, and with private businesses that need access to that information, if the feds freak you out.

Why?

Because I can, in theory, have my say in how the government operates. I can vote, I can submit comments, I can go talk to elected officials, whatever. I have zero recourse when private companies schlep my data around and wreck my life. Voting with your vote is best, but I can't even vote with my dollar with Equifax.
Ever wondered why brands create long emotional videos when consumers are not even interested to watch a 20 second ad? Ever wondered how celebrity interviews are out just before the release of their movies? How much did Heineken pay to make James Bond drink its beer instead of a Martini?
> Why I think so: the planets have formed out of space debris, they didn't all fall into the star.

Nearly all of them did, there is way more mass on the Sun than orbiting it.
Not only is it just the premise but it's basically treated as this event that just happened for an unknowable reason. The rest of the article discusses events that take a few more pages to get to but still aren't really spoilers. A few pages in a Stephenson book don't amount to much :-)
I think that is a spoiler, can you remove it?
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I wonder if you could use the interest in bitcoin wallets as a canary for device compromise - load up servers, phones, desktops, etc with unprotected wallets, add a small amount of bitcoin and set up an alert system if the funds are moved.
My response to this is: But they DON'T make the best damn phone out there. They DO sell it at a very high price. Samsung phones are light years ahead on features and being the best damn phone out there.
Nope, just part of the premise - you're good to go!
They're also very expensive products. I'd look at numbers sold over 5 years.

And yes, I guess tiny is not a good word, still very small.
It could work. Just write the law to account for edge cases like that.
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The reference docs honestly aren't the best place to start when learning Hoon, as backwards as that may sound. I've found the tutorial docs[0] to be much more helpful when first exploring Urbit, and there's a fair amount of good community documentation listed on the docs page[1] as well.

[0]: https://urbit.org/docs/arvo/

[1]: https://urbit.org/docs/
> Not to dismiss concerns about terminal performance, but if you need a terminal to keep up at ten gigabytes per second of data, I question your goals* .

I don't want OOM killer to murder everything just because I accidentally catted a 1 GB file to stdout rather than another file. Or accidentally catted the .iso rather than the .iso.asc. Nor do I want to wait 5 minutes for the terminal to render it all.

Sure, accidents don't happen every day, but it's a massive inconvenience if it does. It was enough to make me abandon all feature-rich VTE based terminals in favour of rvxt.
If the author happens to read this, thanks for Realm of the Mad God. Fantastic game :)
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Not completely definitive:

http://wiki.c2.com/?WhyIsPayrollHard

And that's just scratching the surface of the types of problems encountered.

Statutory compliance makes payroll software complex. There can be many hundreds of rules defined by government and law (and combinations of these rules) that can affect how much money ends up in your pay packet. In addition to this the payroll software and the data held within needs to be continually kept up to date and compliant with any new rule, change of rule or removal of rules. That alone can mean many monthly updates just to keep in step with legislative changes.
While there may be fewer companies, are there also fewer stock transactions, etc? This system tracks a lot of different types of transactions involving public companies.
Do we all agree that society is excluding him even though neither of you can find a single quote worth this judgement? Because even if you aren't excluding him, that's what is effectively happening. He's being blacklisted and you both are one step removed from whatever precipitated it. It's hard not to read this as bandwagoning.

Yes, it takes effort to discredit someone. But that's a good thing. Imagine being in his shoes, and no one will listen to reason because they heard some internet comment from a third-hand source that vaguely insinuated he's a racist.

I'm not too familiar with his writings either, but the point is that it's up to you to prove his beliefs are crazy. It's not okay to handwave and say zero dollars should support his project just because he voiced a vague opinion.
In Graphiql, you can use the docs panel on the right to expand the available resources and properties they contain.

Here is more in-depth API documentation of Microsoft Graph (the underlying API): https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/ov...

If you're looking for documentation on the tooling itself, the repo has an overview of how this works and I can provide further context.
Do you have a link or other info on the hack night?
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> Golden rule of UI development: do not block the UI thread with I/O.

This doesn't have to mean avoiding ORMs; it means separating frontend from backend with an explicit, narrow interface between the two, but that's no reason not to use an ORM in the backend piece.

> I've been on several successful app teams, and everyone that started with ORMs had to throw them away to solve stutter, and since the data and threading models of the apps were written around ORMs, they had to be mostly rewritten.

Even in that kind of case (which doesn't match my experience) that doesn't mean the ORM was a mistake; 90% of apps fail, so if you can save time on getting to the point where you can verify product/market fit one way or another, that's well worth doing even if it leads to more work in the cases where you do want to develop the app further.

> Going through this, I also noticed that the before and after ORM code was about the same in line numbers, and it didn't save time to use the ORM (because ORMs have lots of negatives that required time to work around, e.g., distancing you from control over the use of indices).

Not my experience. Or rather, that matches my experience on teams that tried to maintain manual control over the database while using an ORM, but teams that were willing to embrace the ORM and use the database in an ORM-first way (i.e. the ORM is the source of truth about what the schema looks like, and the DDL is generated from that) have been able to save a significant amount of code and have a lower defect rate.
It's only a few lines of terraform to spin up a mysql or pg RDS instance. It can't get any easier, so why would I jump through extra hoops to use sqlite?
> why be poor and jobless in a city centre

Condensed space with a lot of working class people... Best place to beg.
Will this make ZEC obsolete once it's established on Eth's network?
Sure, I agree that blocking pixel images and similar stuff like transparent images is an easy win, but the workaround for that would be for trackers to start supplying more substantive parts of the email appearance, such as company logos and so on.
Thank you, it would be better if you couldn't, I think.

Bests!
If he had made an analogy with a luxury resort, the argument isn't nearly as compelling.
As Lord Varys convinced himself- "I am not the one doing it."
I wouldn't say that everyone thought that. I frequently said things about the foolishness of that bet only to be shouted down on internet forums.
I'd love to see the source code for this.
Thanks for the detail. For either of those incidents, did they seem to have a low number of reviews? I can't think of what else might telegraph that kind of problem, which surely is a hassle, especially if it's precious vacation time.

When I've traveled with my family, I'll sometimes call or email the hotel directly to confirm. As a group we are not as resilient as I am solo. We've not had a reservation go missing, but we have had rooms with no extra bed, which is almost as bad.

Where we have had those kinds of problems more often is using airline miles for rooms. The only solution there is to book a suite or something else special, then they are more likely to make sure it happens.
I'm supposed to provide examples that I am unfamiliar with?

Forgive me for misunderstanding your comment, but `"base image" != "baseimage"` did not have a great deal of substance to it, nor did it provide me with any insight about the topic.

I provided an example, to facilitate the discussion. So back to my last question, what did you contribute?

Edit: https://en.1jux.net/scale_images/357695_b.jpg

Have a laugh and a beer!
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See if your power company offers a home-energy audit. Usually they'll have a FLIR camera and look for air leaks, uninsulated portions of the house, single-pane windows, etc. Then look at appliances like the refrigerator, which often use around 11% of your electricity each month.
>it's mostly a political decision, not a technical one.

Is there a good reason to trust the NSA's motivations?

The NSA's stated motivation from the article:

>encryption tools [...] without requiring a lot of computer processing power.

But it was noted that:

>“There are probably some legitimate questions around whether these ciphers are actually needed,” said Curtis Dukes, who retired earlier this year. Similar encryption techniques already exist, and the need for new ones is theoretical, he said.

The NSA's purpose is as a spy agency. No matter how effective that clear coat they're selling you might actually be, they're probably selling you on something you really don't need because it has a benefit to their purpose.
This seems to assume Rotten Tomatoes reviews accurately reflect general opinion, but perhaps those motivated to post reviews on RT do not represent the general movie going public. Personally I'm sick of having political correctness shoved down my throat every time I watch a film or TV (must have a sassy, kick ass female lead, bonus points for black characters, bonus points for homosexual themes, and on and on). Call me a reactionary dinosaur or whatever, I don't care, I love Sigourney Weaver in Alien etc, happy to watch completely gay themed films - but films/TV didn't used to try to enforce an agenda as they do now. Certainly this is a big reason I won't pay for the cinema any more and am raiding the huge stock of great films from 60s-00s, before Hollywood decided to go full retard SJW. Foreign films/TV also seem less uninfected with PC as yet. Just discovered Inspector Montalbano for the first time - recommended for anyone interested in well crafted, humorous and un-PC drama.
I believe IPO applications are also handled there.
Sanitizers are run-time tools; I'd be surprised if any of them worked out of the box with the kernel.

Address sanitizer was "ported" to the kernel a while ago; not sure if UBSAN is or will be in the future.
Sure. Although you should be aware that not only public companies are required to make filings with the SEC.

Index - Q1 1994 - 3mb - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/full-index/1994/QTR1/form...

Index - Q1 2017 - 45mb - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/full-index/2017/QTR1/form...
> Have you tried Kotlin's javascript backend?

Generates large js binaries, poor js interop; it's well behind the curve compared to Scala.js and Clojurescript on the JVM.

Think they're putting all their developer eggs into the Native basket, which makes sense, iOS + Android would be huge for the language's adoption.
Those two properties seem to go hand in hand.

How do you imagine an ICO taking place without a blockchain? It seems like a contradiction in terms: the "C" means a blockchain token.
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And to keep with the theme of self-documenting, the self-documenting version of that would be:

NAP_LENGTH_MINUTES = 15;
...
sleep(NAP_LENGTH_MINUTES*60);
It might be a spoiler, but it's also a fascinating thing about this book. If it were broken in half, into two books, at the point GP refers to, they would barely even be in the same Dewey Decimal section. The two parts of this novel are incredibly different--moreso than almost any other fiction books I've read. A lot of people are unhappy about that; they get into the ambience/groove of one part and have to deal with a massive stylistic/thematic/character shift. Personally, I love it.
I used to love Webstorm. It works great for a simple layout and the code inspections and suggestions really speed things up. But a modern setup with ES6, Vue and Webpack almost completely render the IDE unusable for me -- everything slows down to an unbearable speed and most of the inspections either don't work at all or trip over themselves. With that, I've switched to Sublime Text almost exclusively. Any pointers on how to adjust Webstorm, apart from using TypeScript?
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... which itself contains a flap for mice.
> It seems to me that the design of a good cipher should be done totally in the open, so any vulnerabilities are inadvertent. This includes explaining the design and the decisions and trade-offs that brought you there.

Implausible, considering that the mathematical attacks NSA is aware of but designing ciphers to be resistant to are still classified and currently being used by the NSA against older generation ciphers.

See history of differential cryptanalysis and DES design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis
I wonder how it would go in 3D. In 3D the relatively tiny Moon pieces have much smaller rate of hitting each other and fragment into smaller pieces.
You're right about the accretion of ad-hoc fixes over time. Some of these might be unnecessary when analysed with hindsight and need not be faithfully reproduced in a new component or system.
That's alluded to by the synopsis on the back of the book. I don't think I'd consider it a spoiler.
I doubt it.

There are signs all over California telling you that the appliance you are going to buy might kill you and nobody cares. You think they are going to care that some unrelated company will find out what you are reading on Medium?
There are two ways to freeze your credit. The first is good for 90 days and you have to authorize any requests. The second is permanent, until you revoke it. To revoke it, you need a PIN that they give you when you freeze it.

There are three companies to do it at. The cost is low and it is mandated to be free in some jurisdictions.
Should be read together with the follow-up https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-breach-setting-t...
> no one has found a better way to measure loan risk.

Or rather, that the system which measures loan risk is feasible only because the parasitical entities which run it push the massive negative externalities onto the general population. If the loan risk system actually had to pay for all the harm it does, it would be a loser.
That depends on what you mean by "richest". Measured in GDP, Germany is the richest country in Europe, by a big margin [1].

I think that the point of the article is to demonstrate that a country's power and wealth doesn't translate into good lives or more wealth for its citizens. The statistics you brought up demonstrate that very nicely too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
Only 25% of the mass ends up on earth.

And a point mass at the center of a sphere produces the same gravitational pull.
I know the point you're trying to make, and I'd say more to that point: we already recognize that you can't sign a contract that strips you of some basic human rights. You can't sign a contract that enslaves you, etc.

With the amount of power these organizations and this information has over each of us, individually, I'd go so far as to say there is a human rights issue at stake. People's lives get fucked up through credit bureau mistakes, and what consequence is there for those bureaux?

Pointing to a subclause in a contract to say "well, here's where you let them potentially fuck up your life with no recourse, and everything is legal" suggests to me that our thinking around the power these agencies, and around ownership of information about our lives, have needs revisiting.
Good catch. Spikes in option activity before the release of non-public information is the clearest indicator of insider trading. If it helps, its also trivially easy for the SEC to identify the traders involved so at the very least they are already looking for these guys to trace where they got the information.
Actually, I regularly see $49 Southwest flights in california that are 2-400 miles. There are $49 flights from Cincinati to Baltimore and Chicago right now.

I don't love any of the airlines, but the euro-budget are the worst and subsidized Asia/Arabian are the most comfortable. Southwest is in the middle, but typical coach comfort for the US.
This article is full of choice quotes. The TL;DR is that the NSA through its own actions has violated peoples trust:

“I don’t trust the designers,” Israeli delegate Orr Dunkelman, a computer science professor at the University of Haifa, told Reuters, citing Snowden’s papers. “There are quite a lot of people in NSA who think their job is to subvert standards. My job is to secure standards.”

Chris Mitchell, a member of the British delegation, said he supported Simon and Speck, noting that “no one has succeeded in breaking the algorithms.” He acknowledged, though, that after the Dual EC revelations, “trust, particularly for U.S. government participants in standardization, is now non-existent.”

“How can we expect companies and citizens to use security algorithms from ISO standards if those algorithms come from a source that has compromised security-related ISO standards just a few years ago?” - Christian Wenzel-Benner.

These are coming from Israel, Britain, and Germany - all close US allies.

I'm not a crypto guy, but I looked at Speck. The code is really clean and efficient. If it's secure that's really awesome. But how is anyone supposed to trust it given the past actions of its creator?
I immediately understood it.

The CAPTCHA users are being used as an unpaid labor force to train robots well enough to replace humans. Said robots will then take on jobs formerly held by humans, and any wage or wage savings they thereby accrue will be transferred to the robots' owners.

If the robots can be trained to make mistakes, they cannot replace humans as effectively.

I'd do it myself, but when it is cars and traffic signs, I realize that I will one day ride in an automated vehicle--whether I like it or not--and I don't want to die in a bizarre instant-karma accident because I trained my driver to make mistakes.

I can't ascertain from context whether the motivation is human-first economics or opposition to robot slavery.
First, I expressly did not post here to have debates or convince people. Rather, it was a comment-vote in favor of “this guy has shitty beliefs and we should not support him”. In some threads, this line of thinking wins out; in others (like this one), it loses. Over time, these individual battles help shape the zeitgeist of the site. I am not good at debate, but I hope to do my part in any small way I can.

Second, as with many nefarious types, Yarvin knows full well that outright saying “I fully embrace monarchical white supremacy” will bomb his reputation, so he carefully scatters bits and pieces of his beliefs throughout his missives and couches it all in a thin veneer of plausible deniability.

I mean, you can read as well as me. Just delve into these quotes[1] and tell me they don’t reek of white supremacy. Does “breeding colonies of foreigners” and “debased, para-human dregs” not tip you off? FFS. Consider also the audience of every paragraph on that page — the implicit “us”. It’s the same exact white-fright garbage that the alt-right is spewing and that racists and xenophobes have peddled for centuries, just with an odd philosopher thrown in here and there.

[1]: https://peppermintfrosted.wordpress.com/moldbug-quotes/
You are correct, ticket is ham nomenclature for license.
He should have made at least 2 or 3 books out of Seveneves. The last quarter of the book feels so rushed and it left me quite disappointed.
This is somewhat subjective and misses the point that hardware isn't the only determining factor. If I was on the fence about which platform I wanted, the one with better privacy and a more secure app store is appealing.
This is why I posted this - for problem solvers like our community to consider detergents for this kind of shoot first mentality.

I think taking further, right to the entity giving the officer his authority, is something to think about. We could make it mandatory for them to prove they were validated in shooting someone. If the officer did not, punish him. If the organization failed to properly train him, punish leadership and force them to pay restitution.

I think the military industrial complex and political factors encourage the militant, shoot first mentality. To change that, like you said, we need to give them something tangible to lose.
For millennia, we never saw anything like film cuts. How do we process them?
I really liked the book, probably my favourite from Neal Stephenson. Great hard scifi, fantastic solutions to problems without any deus ex machina (of course the agent that splits the moon can be thought as one) - will definitely make you think and satisfy your hunger for this kind of thing.

The book can be thought of two big parts (the first is about 3/4 of the book), I don't really want to spoil, but the second part is much inferior to the first one and you won't miss much if you skip it. I know you won't but in any case...
I'm glad you found a good unit.
My company probably wasn't that bad, but bad enough. Part of the problem I think is that careerists naturally have a certain conflict of interest that affects how they treat their troops.
What aspect of an ORM encourages blocking the UI thread anymore than direct DB access? Most Android ORMs explicitly make it easier not to block the UI thread by offering callbacks and reactive streams.

>For a great example of successful UI code, see Chromium, which explicitly outlaws blocking I/O on the UI thread.

Android explicitly outlaws network I/O on the UI thread by default, and can be configured to block disk I/O too via StrictMode
"so it will eat twice the battery" may be nearly true on headless boxes running CPU heavy workloads. Mobile apps are about as far from that as you can possibly get. Sure it's probably a measurable impact, but I would expect it's less of an impact than things like how bright the backlighting is, whether you keep GPS usage to a minimum, how well you minimize and batch network communication, etc, etc. CPU is a small part of a phone's power budget and mobile apps spend a lot of time with the cpu largely idle.
I keep getting down-voted. Is there some kind of topic brigading going on?
If you don't see CNN as a pusher of propaganda to the American Left, you're severely myopic.