skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is one of the things that worries me the most. The careless people that embrace confidently their lack of privacy, such group can quickly become the majority of a given population and follow a trend that can lead to social disaster in an Orwellian-Huxleyian way, without appearing as such in the surface.
How many PG essays have been published and/or discussed here in the last 12 months?
Traditionally bonds and stocks move inversely: stocks are higher risk and correspondingly higher returns. But of course they have to add up to the overall economy; fundamentally you should expect to make more money when the world is being more productive and less money when the world is being less productive, and any investment that doesn't have that behaviour is going to be artificial and disconnected from actual productivity, making it unlikely to be a good bet in the long run. (See Buffet's comments about a gold cube). If you're investing for more than 10 years, the best thing is not to worry about recessions: they're part of the cycle, and even out in the long run; just buy and hold and eventually you'll come out ahead. If you're investing with a particular deadline less than 10 years in the future (e.g. as you get towards retirement) then it's traditional to shift your portfolio towards lower-risk, lower-return investments (indeed government bonds as you suggest); some retirement accounts do this "automatically".

Traditional advice is to invest largely within your own country so that you're not taking on extra currency risk, to keep a certain amount of cash/gold/what-have-you just in case of a huge general crash, and to get appropriate exposure to property. There are two contradictory schools of thought on this: 1) treat it as an asset class, hold a similar proportion what you hold in stocks/bonds 2) you will need one home for the rest of your life, ensure you have exactly one home's worth of exposure to the property market, otherwise property makes no sense as an investment for the same reason as the gold cube.

There are only a couple of free lunches in investment: tax efficiency and low fees. So those are the main places to look to optimise: your local legal environment will probably offer various tax-advantaged forms of savings to encourage particular kinds of saving (e.g. retirement accounts), and while most funds will have average performance in the long run, a low-fee fund means you'll keep more of the benefits (if you're in the US, Vanguard is commonly recommended).
Gold was previously used as and in currencies. It also served as scarcity control for paper money (until abolished). To a lesser extent gold can act as money even today.

Nowadays it is also used in industrial purposes and as decoration.

Gold certainly isn't only a store of value.
What happens when the 120M runs out?

Are they putting the alumni permanently on the hook to pay for future incoming students who need financial assistance?

The article doesn't address this issue.
It's normal (in the West outside USA) to be redressed and awarded costs AFAICT. If you have to lawyer up to get your pay, then you should get paid in full and so should your lawyer. If not then the court should ensure it happens with punitive damages too.
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> Surfacing news about how refugees are not raping everything in sight won't do much for a user who has a very clear anti-refugee bias, such a user won't be very likely to click such news as such they won't be surfaced to the user. But if you surface news about how Germany is supposedly on the brink of collapse because refugees are roaming free as raping herds, to that very same user, then you will most likely just have generated ad-revenue.

It's strange how you - out of all possible kinds of stories that might go viral on social media - choose to evoke a charicature of the mass influx of "refugees" into Germany and its consequences on public order and on the safety of women in public places. This is strange because your view seems to be that a benevolent govenment can protect hapless citizens from fake news stories by censoring social media. However, in the aftermath of New Year's Eve 2015-2016 exactly the opposite happened.

When more than 1200 women got sexually assaulted during one night, on one city square in Cologne [1], not a single newpaper or TV channel dared to break the news in the following 4 days. It was only very reluctantly - when the outrage on social media became too big to ignore - that they started covering it.

Thanks to this coverage it became gradually clear that similar incidents had happened all over Germany that night, and also in other European countries.

It also became clear that the Cologne police was understaffed at that time as many officers were diverted to Bavaria [2] to help manage the influx of a million [3] largely undocumented foreigners into the country. This created a de facto lawlessness in the streets of Cologne that allowed groups of muslim males on New Year's Eve to subject Western women to the same Quran/Hadith-inspired misogyny and violence [4] [5] [6] as women in Muslim countries [7].

Without the unregulated social media (and in spite of its many well-known flaws) the German general public would never have been made aware of these events and of the initial cover-up by the government. On June 30 2017, slyly planned on the same day as the gay marriage bill (which got all the attention that day) [8], the German parliament approved a bill to censor "hate speech" and "fake news" on the internet. [9]

So today it is very well possible that news about another "Cologne-scale" event would never bubble up into public knowledge because now social media are censored just as thoroughly as regular media.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaul...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/tensions-rise-...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/04...

[4] https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/women-worth-l...

[5] https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/rape-adultery...

[6] https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/muhammad/rape.aspx

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_sexual_assault_in_Egypt

[8] http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/06/world/germany-sam...

[9] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/30/germany-approv...
Does Tenta handle automatic zone signing? can tenta handle ECC param files for hardening elliptic implementations? Why the JSON logging if this is only a recursive unless you planned to run this in a container and stream log data to ELK perhaps?
Last week a woman who sold oliebollen and later discovered it was an undercover customer stepped up to the guy and demanded her goods back because everybody knows these tests are stupid and bring down a lot of hard working people in the name of selling newspapers.
If your pulling in ~10,000$ per person in tuition, and the average person takes 5 classes with a class size of 30 that's. 60,000$ per professor per year if they teach 4 classes, 75,000$ per professor if they teach 5 and 90k & 6 classes before expenses per class. So, the only way for that to work out is some other subsidies.

However, lectures allow you to use TA's to more cheaply expand class sizes and might make it possible at the undergrad level.
Just because it's a smear doesn't mean it isn't true.
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What's the little book of his about a man and a woman trapped on an island where they geekily explain things to each other? I might be misremembering the setting...started it once but it was pretty cheesy.
If they can afford to pay me to spend all day writing workarounds for IE9, why couldn't they afford to upgrade their users to a secure browser?
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I agree. If a company prevents users from having control over their hardware, then it can be trivial for such company to control whatever software the user chooses to install on the computer.
Stand up is the one time in the day where many info workers have actual contact (via person or voice) with thier coworkers. How antisocial are we trying to be?
This reminds of Psycho-Pass[0] an anime where pretty much an entity determines if your mental state is stable enough for society, long story short, it doesn't work for everyone in the sense that if the system "decided" that you are "unstable" is over for you.

I really hope the people at facebook are aware of the repercussions of a system like this. But then again, greed and market share is something that facebook prefers over its users.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass
He specifically meant to use the term "alt-left", parroting Trump's and David Duke's own words, just the way right-wing Republicans love to use the incorrect term "Democrat Party" on purpose as an insult.

The alt-right pretending the alt-left exists is "thing", a talking point, a false equivalence, and a mendacious lie.

It's a dog-whistle attempting to normalize the alt-right and Nazis, and accuse the left of acting as extreme and irrational as alt-right Whit Supremacists are acting, which is total bullshit.

Being anti-Nazi and anti-racist and anti-misogynist isn't "alt-left", it's "patriotic" and "democratic" and "American" and "mainstream" and "sane" and "ethical".

It's not "hard left" to be anti-Nazi. Even hard right Republicans SHOULD be anti-Nazi too, but apparently now they're not any more. Don't blame it on the left that the right has gone off the deep end and now consider Nazis "very fine people". That doesn't make the left "hard".

The "alt-left" didn't invade Nazi Germany on D-Day, the Allied Forces did. And the Allied Forces never behaved anything like the way the alt-right is behaving.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-alt-left/

There is no 'Alt-Left,' no matter what Trump says.

Hours after a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, organized by white nationalists, turned deadly, President Donald Trump blamed "many sides" for the violence that transpired. Three days later, at an impromptu press conference at Trump Tower, the president doubled down on this message, condemning groups "on both sides" of the fighting. “What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, at the alt-right?” the president said.

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141108/no-thing-alt-left

There is no such thing as the "alt-left". But in a piece for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott pretends otherwise:

>Disillusionment with Obama’s presidency, loathing of Hillary Clinton, disgust with “identity politics,” and a craving for a climactic reckoning that will clear the stage for a bold tomorrow have created a kinship between the “alt-right” and an alt-left. They’re not kissin’ cousins, but they caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys.

Wolcott admits the left “can’t match” the alt-right “for strength, malignancy, or tentacled reach”—then proceeds to make just such an argument. This is bad writing in service of a bad argument: “People say things I don’t like” is not the same thing as “people advocate for a white ethnostate.” This is precisely the false equivalency Wolcott makes by using the phrase “alt-left.” It is a disingenuous characterization designed to undermine leftist claims.
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He lost me with the overuse of word "neo-Nazi" and taking simple hoops from libertarian to neo-Nazi using one persons/trolls comment.

Either put a cogent article without innuendo to make a point or nothing.

To quote a wise man, "this is not an argument, its a slur".
A couple of notes:

MongoDB is excellent for design-first rapid agile development when domains are still maturing. This is common in large system redesigns and start-ups.

Comparing MongoDB to SQL or relational is pointless. They are tools. Given the right circumstances, both serve a purpose.

Relational databases are still necessary for analytics and reporting. (Try using any reporting tool on a schemaless database or a schema that’s a moving target)

I would argue that MongoDB is best used for R&D, but once your domains have matured, quickly moving to a relational data store will provide more sustainability.

I’ve also started incorporating graph databases into my architecture thinking. You should too.
Ask HN: How does a displaced IT professional get started in the software world?
Short story: I'm losing my job of 8 years on June 30th. Every tech firm I've applied for says I don't have relevant experience.

I've worked as an IT professional in my state schools for over 8 years now. In my job capacity, I've covered the gamut of IT related disciplines from desktop/server/network service and management, to software development/deployment. In the last few years, I've transitioned to more of a web developer as service needs were identified and providers were few and far between. I like doing this work and I'd like to continue to grow... the problem is, I live in West Virginia with no immediate plans (family reasons) of leaving. Opportunity isn't exactly within reach here.

So, I started looking at remote opportunities... and I've hit a wall. My jack-of-all trades resume isn't fitting for this sort of work, so I need to start training towards a more refined skill set that is more sell-able. I don't know where to start.

I currently work in PHP/JS/MySQL, I'm comfortable in Java/C#, and have a passing knowledge of many other languages and frameworks. If you were going to start over, right now, what would you be learning?
What the fuck is this magic, and how did I not know about this? I've been looking so long for something like this... Does it exist for scala? Java? This is amazing!!!
On mobile at least (haven’t tested on desktop), they only show quarterly financials, which, for value investing, are the least useful numbers for decision making.
I can't blame you for that assumption. We hear this constant drumbeat of "The US doesn't make things anymore!" After you hear that enough, you might start thinking that it's true.

(The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world with about 17% of the global total, behind China with about 23%, for those wondering where it actually stands.)

It doesn't help that US manufacturing tends to build things that are less visible to the average person. You buy some fancy new laptop made overseas, but don't think about the fact that the highest value part of that laptop was probably made in the US, and if it was shipped by air it probably traveled in a US-made plane. (If Boeing's commercial airplane business were its own country, it would rank around #33 in the world's largest manufacturing economies.) We see "foreign" cars on the road and don't think about how many of them are actually built here.

And of course manufacturing employment isn't very high, because productivity is growing fast. So most of us don't know many people who work in that sector, which again makes it easier to forget how big it is.
Far more detail here:
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Because they paid Sony, most likely.

I'm assuming that's why Evernote came as a system app on my Samsung too. And a load of other crap.
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I used to be this way but eventually I got to the point where I'm willing to run macos just to have things like working suspend/resume and WiFi/Bluetooth that won't require periodic fiddling when some jerk decides to embrace systemd.
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Well yes they are narrow parameters - those are the parameters which define the product! I can't paint an apple red and call it a tomato... Same thing with Champagne. If it follows the definition of Champagne - made in Champagne following the Champagne method - it's Champagne. If not, it isn't.

Of course there are protection motives - but can you criticise the EU for ensuring that stalls aren't flooded with fakes? As a consumer I don't want to have to do extensive research on everything I buy - "Is this organic strawberry really organic?", "Are these Jersey Royals really from Jersey?", "Is this really Champagne?"
Tenta browser business model is the opposite of most browsers. We don't care about ads. It's simply based on protecting data. We have a built-in VPN that's always free to use in-browser only, but if you want to expand VPN coverage to other apps then we charge a monthly subscription
I also feel that there will come a day of reckoning between the US and other world governments and Bitcoin, will governments really tolerate an alternative to their currency?
Considering torrenting is the preferred method to view online content at least here in Bulgaria, and I assume in most of the rest of the non-western world, I would advise against underestimating the technical abilities of most internet users.
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You also shouldn't extrapolate from twitter trolls
Ask HN: A simple and safe way to collect CLA:s? (contributor agreements)
What about collecting Contributor License Agreements (CLA:s) like so:

- Add a file CLA-v1.txt to the repository, with the contributor license agreement text.

- Tell contributors to show their agreement, by appending "I agree to the contributor license agreement, CLA-v1.txt" to their commit messages.

Maybe write a commit hook, or post-push hook, or GitHub hook, that checks that all commit messages ends with that magic line.

Now the CLA:s are stored inside the repository itself. No need to rely on any SaaS. Can switch from GitHub to whatever else (maybe needs a new Git hosting provider hook though). Everyone who gets the source code, can verify him/herself that all is in order.

Also, if you want to amend the CLA: Create a file CLA-v2.txt, and require that people thereafter add the line "I agree to ... CLA-v2.txt". Now you'll see exactly which version of the CLA everyone has agreed to, per commit.

This is inspired by — maybe it's almost the same as — Linux' Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO), and their "Signed-off by (the author's name)" line. Is there any universal agreement about what "Signed-off by" means? I couldn't have guessed it means "I agree to the DCO", unless I had found some blog post about it. — Why don't they write "I agree to the DCO" instead?

(I wrote a longer text about this, maybe incorrectly arguing against other popular alternatives, see: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-56/simple-safe-way-to-collect-clas )

What do you think about this approach to CLAs? Do you see any dangers? Or is a good approach?
The US had nothing to do with creating the Taliban. If you are trying to argue that the US created the Afghan mujahideen rebels in the 1980s, you're still (mostly) wrong. Some Afghans were already rebelling against the Soviet aligned Democratic Republic of Afghanistan when the US decided to throw in with them. You could make the argument that the US had a hand in creating extremists in Afghanistan by aligning with them, but the USSR were the initial aggressors that created a rebel opposition group.

We're all aware that funding Osama bin Laden was part of that, that part isn't up for debate. What is up for debate is who built the Taliban and mujahideen.
I once tried blocking all Google domains from my hosts file. Every domain they own set to 0.0.0.0. It was fascinating to see how sites break because of this. The most annoying were logins and registrations failing because of recaptcha. And also embedded maps not being displayed, incorrect fonts, and sites just showing a blank white page when failing to render. That being said there was an noticeable boost in speed for most sites.
> That's trivial to us (hypothetically), not to the average consumer who is, quite frankly, well-advised not to risk getting 'fined' in an out-of-court settlement for infringing copyright.

Pirating content has gotten SO easy that my elderly parents do it regularly by simply searching for streams of movies they want to see on google. DRM has stopped none of this - and the risks of getting drive-by malware are an afterthought to most people.
Gold is not only a store of value. It has industrial use and also as decoration.

As you point out gold isn't a perfect store of value either as it has liquidity problems.
I think the purpose of the 120M is to create an endowment from which ~5% can be taken to provide financial aid every year. If their investments perform as hoped, it should last quite some time.
I can see your point for calling straw man, but you seem to be implying this was their only argument. My takeaway was that the primary arguments centered more around controlling competition to secure monopolistic positions, threatening legitimate security researchers from disclosing truths, and preventing fair use.

And just to play devil's advocate for a moment, while I tend to agree about your straw man point, is it completely a straw man argument if some of the CEO's at the large corps pushing DRM actually do believe they can make copying data impossible? I mean, just because we know this is a pipe dream, and many very smart people may argue convincingly against it with hard evidence, does not mean everyone will actually believe it.
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But expand on your argument too. I think some of what he says is correct. Not as anti-bitcoin as him but I do think it is due for a crash.
Presumably the thieves are stealing cars that are still valuable to them after they lose access to the owner key.

Sell for parts, program a new key, replace the key, replace the computer, etc. There's lots of room for profit on a $40,000 vehicle.
I'm sure the US wouldn't let me sell silver that is actually nickel either - it seems logical to insist that goods are labelled truthfully
They spent a year and a half on this fairly obvious thing only to conclude nothing new here and offer no useful advice beyond common best practices.

Are they going to waste the next year on how Twitter, Facebook, etc. can be used by criminals?
The administrative costs have been the most sizable portion of cost increases for universities over the last few decades. The costs for teaching faculty have decreased, probably due to the use of adjunct professors (who don't get tenure nor benefits).
thanks! also vs coreDNS, we support actually running as a recursive or authoritative resolver. CoreDNS is appropriate (excellent, in fact) for running for service discovery, but not suitable for running as a public resolver.
Is it? While you can easily eye-roll the nazi stuff out of the conversation there are several assertions embedded in the essay that are going to require more than a handwave to dismiss effectively.
Uh, you know what things like rims, catalytic converters, and airbags are worth?
There's nothing instantaneous about PayPal. It just has the appearance of being instant. If they can revoke funds you've sent or received at any time (and they do), you haven't actually sent or received them. If it then takes days to get the funds where PayPal can't indiscriminately take them, then it takes days to actually send or receive money.

Also--if you're going to hold your cash in fiat, be sure it's not in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, or India. And keep telling yourself issues like theirs can't happen with the fiat currency you're using.
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Its a system app because on the majority of androids sold the user doesn't have root access to their own device and can't remove system apps.

They could potentially be getting some useful saleable data from you, possibly even if you don't use facebook.
For me the authoritative support would be relevant. Can you please elaborate on what important thing is missing?

What's a recommended way of using your product in a redundant way? PowerDNS for example has multiple backends, what I am missing is a bind style backend that is based on JSON files and is able to reload on the fly, so that I don't have to deal with a SQL database. Is this something that could be achieved with Tenta?
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