skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest you drop the "or unethical" part if you're actually going to actually use this. The law is a fair amount more objective (still lots of subjectivity but it's not perceived to be as subjective) whereas personal ethical standards are extremely subjective (and perceived that way). Many companies see the former as 'I don't want to break the law and go to jail' and the latter as 'I get to impose my personal standard of ethics on all my bosses and the entire company and if they don't like it I'll throw a fit and quit in the middle of a critical project while accusing them of being monsters.' If you can add the word repeatedly, it might help. It suggests you wouldn't do something illegal but wouldn't quit if someone asked you once (possibly by mistake not knowing it was illegal) but if you get asked again after you clarified it was illegal and you wouldn't do it and they wanted you to do it anyway that leads to you quitting.
What "2MB was supposed to be" was absolutely obvious to everyone who actually signed the document.

It was supposed to be twice as much as segwitz done via a base blocksize hardfork (thus, the name segwit2X).

The only people who were "confused" about what it was were the smaller block trolls who didn't even sign or support the document in the first place, therefore their opinion doesn't matter. The only opinions that mattered were of those who actually supported the NYA and segwit2X.

Some other details, such as replay protection, we're obvious sabotage efforts that were also proposed by the small blocker trolls. None of the NYA people were arguing for that, and once again, they were the only opinions that mattered.

The other details, such as deployment date, signaling method, ect were not specified, though, and I agree that this came back to bite everyone in the ass, as proven by the fact that it failed.
Looks nice but only has a Chrome extension at the moment. Also the browser extension requires the desktop app be installed.
The real winners of classic inflation are debt holders. The high inflation in the 70's contributed enormously to a generation that purchased a home and paid a lot less in real terms.
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It looks like a very large number of the emails from podesta's inbox weren't signed. I have seen no evidence that all or even most of the emails that were part of the public discourse were actually signed.
What web dev languages/frameworks aren’t deeply flawed and teach you more portable skills?
If Firefox had a larger market share, it would be easy to make the argument for cross-browser compatibility. But when Firefox is not even 12% of Chrome's usage globally http://gs.statcounter.com/ and likely much less for your customers it's difficult to appeal to ideals
Because it's ethically wrong and would backfire horribly. Think about the consequences for a minute.

(a) cripple the servers -- that's bad, then real people can't submit their real opinions and comments.

(b) overwhelm anything useful and all comments are ignored -- why would you want that?? The vast majority of real comments favor net neutrality, why would you want them to be ignored?

Of course, your arguments do make sense for the anti-NN companies who don't want real people's comments heard, which is probably why they did it.
> That said I switched to firefox and this (and lack of U2F 2nd factor auth) is the only pain point so far

You should be able to flip "security.webauth.u2f" depending on your release channel. If not available yet, I think it will be soon in any case.
I've never managed to have fun with Coq even though I really tried. I did tons of exercises and labs. On the other hand, I do love (functional) programming, logic and maths in general.

It's almost like you get the bad side of programming (time-consuming, tedious) without the reward (seeing your program doing cool things). And you don't get the satisfaction of doing maths either. At least I don't. Maybe I didn't try hard enough.

What is very interesting though is to learn about type theory and the Curry Howard isomorphism.
Evidence of what? Your crime?
Or that someone told you to commit a crime, and you did?
Ohh, people at Mozilla have always been pretty much openly fascists.

Just look at the Eich story.
The problem is that this question often goes unasked so you don't get to answer it you just get evaluated on the perception of this concern.
I like Vagrant Story, and most of the games in its setting (Ivalice) are my favorite in the Final Fantasy series.

For a more emblematic example of the script quirks these games employ, The Final Fantasy Tactics remake (War of the Lions) goes much more Shakespearean, for good and ill (you lose some of the most classic lines in the original, like Don't blame us. Blame yourself or God., but the entire thing is more cohesive and vivid)

Here's a good side-by-side: https://dekaja.dreamwidth.org/1675.html
One alternative is that paying taxes is just contributing what you already owe in exchange for living in a society that has contributed to your wealth, and social programs provide some minimal compensation to people who are systematically screwed by the society they live in.

The view I outlined is probably extreme by mainstream standards, but I think yours is, too.
To add a bit of insight to the conversation, beyond "it's a matter of more dimensions than one", which people have already commented on. This whole situation could also be seen from an economics perspective. Demand for a product, let's say a can of soda, is called "elastic" when customers will switch from one vendor to another purely based on price. If one vendor has a lower price than another, all customers, in this idealized model, will head directly to that place to buy their soda, leaving the more expensive one in the dust. In this situation, however, demand for the thing, keyboard layouts, is "inelastic". That means that the factor that we'd think would be the only property of keyboards to matter for customers, is not in fact all that matters. Another thing that affects whether they will switch is how long it will take to learn the new layout.

TLDR; demand for quality in keyboard layouts is inelastic. There are other variables in play. One of them is the fact that there is a lot of friction (in terms of setup, having to learn a new layout, etc) for customers to switch from one layout to another.
Why is HN pushing this post down? Considering the votes and comments the post has got ,it should be in the top of the list?
Attribution in science works in mysterious ways, and I don't claim to know how it works.

In any case, I didn't say “trivial”. If you can only derive trivial things, then you shouldn't be a computer scientist.
If any of the Remembear developers read this, I'd love to put in a request for a Linux client!
It varies with whatever you're trying to produce, but the biggest problem is that family farmers are being displaced by larger farms mostly because of economies of scale. The only thing left (at least, where I'm from) that family farms can do alright by is beef, and the reason is that you can't just stick a calf in a feedlot for its entire life like you can with chickens or hogs, so there's not as much room for economies of scale.

Farming has been a race to the bottom for a long time, and this is welcomed by people who want to see cheaper food at any cost. I'm sympathetic to that view, but when I watch the continued erosion of rural communities based around the erosion of farming as a living, I have to think we should do something. What will happen to those people? And what will we do when (or if) we take into account the enormous environmental costs of large-scale farming? You're not going to just get those family farms back, because unless you're raised on a farm you probably won't have an interest in farming.
Ask HN: What business idea have you tried, whether it worked or not?
Interested to hear what the idea was, and why it worked or not (according to you).
Seems to be yet another proprietary walled garden. No thanks.
Except for video playback.

Makes my mac catch fire and still stutters.

edit: downvotes? you guys using some build I'm not? Because I'm on nightly.
I agree it fell short. I thought the party about using more imagery in English than Japanese was interesting. I didn't know that was uncommon in that language.
Dropbox/boxcryptor + MS Office. It’s of course necessary to use google drive for collaborative editing from time to time because it is so ubiquitous, but excel is still miles ahead of google sheets in terms of usability. Pages and Numbers are also pretty good for light use on the Mac and have free web versions for collaboration. The Dropbox desktop client is so much better than Drive in terms of CPU usage and straightforward sharing.
This is a story about randomness, the style follows.
People in countries other than the US might have something to say about that!
Anyone else here do recreational mathematics ? I mainly try to answer questions on CSTheory.stackexchange.com
I agree. Here's my setup for standalone/isolated profiles if it's any help:

"firefox.exe" -no-remote -fullscreen -P "spotify-profile" -url "https://open.spotify.com"

and user_pref("taskbar.grouping.useprofile", true) so that I get separate icons in my taskbar for each profile

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...
Maybe because it won't amount to anything (these petitions never do) and it's wasting space on the front page?
Why? It happened with American apartheid.
So, to fix this analogy we say all vehicles on the road travel at the exact speed because a single frame on fiber should move point to point at the same speed. To make this easier we will assume that corrupt/dropped cars ("frames") cancel out and we will just not mention them again. Because the speed is now constant, this becomes a pipeline and we can completely not worry about latency.

So, now we have an autobahn whose "bandwidth" is 40000 cars per second.

The way haulage works is by the car with no real guarantee about a steady rate of delivery. I don't care, just get 10000 cars from point a to point b. This is no-deadline data transfer like downloading a file.

The way streaming works is that it needs exactly 10 cars per second with no mention of total cars. I don't care, I just need a steady 10 cars per second.

For reference, I can service 10,368,000 of those haulage requests in a 30 day month (ideally) but I can only have 4,000 simultaneous streaming users, ever.

The internet, before streaming, was almost all haulage. Most of the infrastructure was built on the idea of haulage being the dominant use case. People needed to get information from point A to point B as fast as possible. Even torrenting, was haulage. "Congestion" at peak times was not as important because delivery deadlines were looser. As long as you were averaging more cars delivered over a time period (24hrs) than requested the congestion would eventually clear.

Then streaming hit. Now most of the traffic on the internet is on a tight deadline. That infrastructure built for haulage was completely incapable of handling it. We have 40000 cars per second but this is now "Rush Hour" and we have 20k users wanting to get 200k cars in THIS EXACT SECOND otherwise their experience suffers. It doesn't matter if we unused bandwidth at 3am, it doesn't matter if we have unused bandwidth ever. What matters is that we can cover the peak cars per second requested on our network. If we cannot, we have oversold the autobahn and are now "guilty of fraud".

The Internet was like an autobahn but these days consumers only care about what happens during rush hour. Imagine how different an autobahn would be if you had to guarantee a lane for every driver that wanted it on-demand. It is an autobahn that is huge and mostly empty most of the time (your lane is your lane and if you are not driving its empty), it was also far far more expensive to build.
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FWIW, it a 'nuclear armageddon' because it concerns 100-200 nuclear warheads hitting the UK. North Korea doesn't have that capability, either proportionally speaking or in raw numbers.

As for targets, is your estimate of "worth" based on fatalities? Taking out the aqueduct system might have fewer direct fatalities but be more costly in terms of its effect on the agriculture and municipal water supplies.
Well the biggest snag in the plan was that the hardcore big blockers had already moved over to Bitcoin Cash, so we lost our biggest support group early on.

Now, after segwit2X has failed and proved that it isn't likely to succeed any time in the next X years, well us segwit2Xer moderates have joined the bitcoin cash people (as well as some have moved to ethereum).

That community is much stronger and we are able to survive because it was a hardfork.
Just add a PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox

sudo apt install firefox-locale-[your language]
I personally don't think partisan propaganda is the big problem. The problem is the content farms that will write completely fabricated news articles designed to outrage/reinforce certain political views for eyeballs. The former is a problem to but it would be more difficult to pass off as factual in an environment without the latter. Also, there is plenty of the latter targeting left wing voters. I see it all the time on some of my less discerning friends' facebook feeds.
The most obvious method of attack is to steal the email server's private key. Something a state level attacker is probably capable of.

There were a few other methods of attack proposed when this first came out. The most likely was the vulnerability of 1024 bit RSA that was used here. There are concerns that 1024 bit RSA may be vulnerable to well financed attackers.
Mostly, they laundered their money in the United States!
I find something is off with Firefox Quantum, possibly the font rendering and it hurts my eyes.

Running Chrome 62 on OSX 10.11.6 and it is fine.

I had similar problems with Chrome on Windows after they implemented DirectWrite with anti aliasing.
>is a watered down version of actual democracy.

And a true form of democracy is mob justice. Reddit is not a good way to govern.
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I feel like figuring out where a method is coming from to be a routine source of tedium and a massive gumption trap when working on Ruby projects. This, along with bugs rooted in hidden state mutations, far overshadows the time saving conveniences in Ruby and Rails for me.
I'm really tempted to use this, but I'm a little nervous about relying on a company for this, especially because it doesn't look like they should be profitable on their current offerings.
"This is an example of a headline that can't lose"

News to sad to fail? Because no one can ignore bad news forever...
Generally, when you want something to remain free from coercion or interference, nationalization isn't the way to go.
Maybe I can shine some light on the adjustment, as I have quite some experience with moving and living in small towns.

I did lose a great many friends whenever I moved from one place to another. Usually meeting up once-twice a month keeps the thread alive, but closest people will stay in touch online probably forever.

That being said, if you put some work into it, you will find new friends. This requires a mindset of getting involved in any open event that you're even slightly interested in. The bigger the town, the easier it seems to come across those.

In the other hand, talking to neighbors is easier when there's no one else around. I have an impression this creates a tighter knit community, where you can find new long-term friends.

This would probably happen in my case if I didn't relocate again :)
>Running a federal govt like the US is no joke

Ha. Donald & friends' behavior disgrees with that statement.
Crypto can't function without a functioning society, and as best as we can tell, without a government you don't have one of those.
True there’s no right to a market. At the end of the day they can impose any rules they like and it’s up to companies to accept them or not.

But don’t make China look like a sad puppy who needs help. It’s a ferocious tiger (good for them) whose economic and military prominence would scare me and everyone who likes free speech and non authoritarian rule.
The psychological effect is "tendency towards the mean", and in this case, the mid-point isn't the mean.

Forcing individuals to choose a score above or below the mean yields a better sampling of the true distribution in this case.
definite [citation needed] on that one
Or are they being lobbyed by the government?
You’re conflating “fake news” and “political fiction.” The first is an attempt to mislead people about events that have happened, the latter is a story about the way events could happen.

I’m not interested in arguing about whether objectivity is possible in news, just saying this distinction is important.
That depends highly on the local employment laws. In Germany being fired for refusing illegal or unethical tasks screams for unlawful termination. That means a court case, which means the unethical request will become public knowledge. That's a huge thread even if the employer wins in court.

Here your job would be safe, though you could be put in some dead-end position where you eventually leave on your own. Or you are offered a good deal for leaving quietly.
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”formal proof methods do not guarantee that the code you've written is bug free. They only guarantee that the code follows the requirements you defined given the conditions you also set on your inputs.”

I think you are mixing “bug” with “out of spec”. If you ask me to write a perfect chess program, you can’t say it’s a bug if it can’t play go.

Bad or incomplete requirements are a problem, but that’s a different problem from “bugs”.
I'm surprised at the success of Mozilla's PR push for this. It seems the time is right for this. Probably helps that tech sites seem to compete to have an article on every "current" topic.
But that would increase the likelihood of losing your job by refusing and decrease the ease of finding a different job?
It is from tunnelbear. If you are releasing it for free, why isn't the code public?
/g/ seems to talk about these guys a lot.

Durgasoft - Nagoor Babu Weapon of Durgasoft

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjozK_PYCTLEluFlrJ8UZg
Ooh, what a great example of a brand extension.

When I saw "new password manager" in the headline, my first thought was "those guys are fucked". What people want with a password manager is trust and stability, two things not associated with startups. But these folks have millions of users, strong app store ratings, and solid reviews. Going from "trust us with your data and privacy" to "trust us with your passwords" is not a big step.

I'd give my current password manager, LastPass, a C- on usability, so I'll be keeping an eye on this. I'd love to have something better to recommend to novices, and might even switch myself.
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What differentiates RememBear from other password managers? After looking through the blog and website it's not immediately clear to me. What makes (or will make) RememBear better than, say, 1password, which appears to have the same features, is also easy to use, and has a long history with which to work out issues?
I use 1Password, and the only incentive which make me switch is completely open source good quality UX solution.
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Unfortunately I would say Javascript. Unlike Ruby, you will learn about compilers, static analysis, linting (eslint is more useful than rubocop), type systems, function composition, and have a good alternative to OO based programing built into the language (as opposed to your `UnboundMethod` lambda block proc whateverthehell design flaw Ruby has now). Javascript also gives you decent jumping off points into languages you will learn more from (Elm, Purescript).
It has a Safari extension too. The blog article says it doesn't, but it's available via the install process.

The Apple Keychain import needs some work though - it didn't pick up the vast majority of the logins I have stored in there.
Where are the open source Chromecast receivers?
So it's not possible on ChromeOS?
I'm not trying to imply complete equivalence between the two. I'm trying to point out that just because you think Trump "is an idiot" or whatever, that doesn't mean his administration is performing objectively worse than its predecessors.

The top commenter here says "I don’t think this administration has much interest in what “we the people” really want, though."

And if he believes that previous administrations like Clinton/Bush/Obama did, that's demonstrably not true.

> ..., because it ignores the positive things that did happen that we want to encourage and further.

That's not what it's about, it's about highlighting the flaws of the previous administrations, because all I see is unequivocal love for both Clinton and Obama.

Not because that's somehow immediately helpful to the political climate, but because it might be helpful to someone personally to understand at least some of the reasons why their country has gone to shit, and it might stop them rallying to false idols.

And it also might humble them towards the other half of their country when they realise their church is just as filthy.
anecdote: I just gave up trying to find 2 items on Amazon: Waterproof LED Lanterns that take AA batteries, and Teeth-grinding night guards.

Re Lanterns, everything sold on there is basically the same chinese design with variations on features. They are all collapsable and all feature a battery compartment that gets flooded. Hard to call a product waterproof if your batteries are literally submerged. I decided to buy Ozark lanterns from Walmart instead.

Re night guards: All the "two size" products are literally the same product that's been white-labeled. At least 10 different brandings. Not good because the product pictures are extremely misleading. Unfortunately since amazon doesn't allow returning oral products I'm stuck with 2 of these.
From the Cure53 report: the version tested had a terrible vulnerability (unfortunately somewhat common to password managers): it tries to match passwords to subdomains, and in doing so misparses domains, allowing it to be tricked into giving passwords to bogus almost-look-alike domains. Yikes.

Meanwhile: they've got a crypto protocol tunneled over TLS "to avoid heartbleed" and some other convoluted stuff the auditors complain about. You really want to see a password manager get the basics right.

Notice also that the end of the Cure53 report complains about the project scope and the amount of time given. This is pretty unusual for Cure53, who have a reputation for being a bit effusive about the products they're paid to review. I'm not sure I've ever seen them throw shade before.
It’s the parent company’s CMS, not Wired’s. I’d bet that the people at Wired are more annoyed by it than anyone.
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