skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The section on manually controlled false accounts starting on p. 15 is interesting in regards to tradecraft:

An employee of The Firm then starts by creating an email address via a large provider (such as Gmail). ... [T]hey create accounts on multiple platforms and portals. A suitable profile photo is found via an image search and modified in Photoshop so that it will not appear in a Google image search, and the employee begins posting on various platforms and building a comment history. ... They use a modified VPN to spoof IP addresses so that their accounts will have a series of associated addresses, allowing them to post from multiple locations in a predictable way.

as well as strategy:

the firm’s strategy is to target “opinion leaders”, including journalists, politicians, bloggers, and key activists. By infiltrating influential Facebook groups, mining comment sections, and directly striking up conversations with these opinion leaders, the goal is to try to convince the target
that their followers sincerely believe a certain argument and to provide long-term nudges towards certain strategically devised positions. ... An entire thread on such a platform can feature dozens of fake accounts all posing as users, down-voting unsympathetic points of view, and generally steering a
conversation
Those are two widely different roles in terms of day to day responsibilities and skill sets, which points to a very bad organizational structure.
Reuters and AP in US. Al-jazeera for International.
Some other design elements that stand out to me:

- The transition between dropdowns in the top nav. Really smooth, and something you won't see anywhere else.

- Semi-consistent and sufficiently different color schemes for the different products. See the difference between https://stripe.com/atlas and https://stripe.com/us/sigma.

- Subtle box shadows. They've done this by cranking the blur way up around 30px. For comparison, the Google search bar uses a blur around 1px or 2px.
Ask HN: Secure DNS resolution in a system
I am working on a system with a typical client-server architecture. In this scenario the server has to validate a client's certificate, including checking if it has been revoked. To do this the server has to send an HTTP request to download CRLs or make an OCSP query. Naturally, it has to resolve the domain via DNS.

I want to secure the DNS resolution process. Intuitively I think I should not be relying on the ISP's DNS server and roll my own that maybe implements DNS-over-TLS. What should I do to secure DNS resolution in this simple scenario?

Recall all I want to do is securely resolve some occasional DNS queries. Which existing solutions can I use for this purpose?
I've been running OpenBSD on an APU2 as a router for over a year (and on the ALIX it replaced many more years).

OpenBSD makes it so dead simple to setup the basics that (unlike with my NAS) I've never been tempted to try a GUI distribution such as pfSense, yet it also gives you the flexibility to do more esoteric things like forwarding DNS using DNSCrypt, or allowing UPnP, but only to the PlayStation on a VLAN that can't talk to your main network. And the PC Engines gear works perfectly with OpenBSD.
What do they contribute that no one else could for this „low“ amount?
Neural synchronization is obvious?
Given how easy it is to convince people to try to run Javascript in the browser console, just click this link in your email to find out if you won the lottery you didn't enter, or do other dumb things that none of us can believe actually work, the fact that there is no off switch is a major win for the security of the vast majority of Apple users. If you want to help people then create the open-source replacement for these apps and teach them to compile it and sideload it themselves.
Agreed, but one can provide a "decent 'default' design" by leveraging CSS Grid and avoiding those pitfalls that come along with techniques used in Bootstrap.
AlphaSmart 3000 owner here. Thanks so much to you and the AlphaSmart team for truly great product. To this day, I hold the AlphaSmart 3000 as the gold standard on what battery life (500 hours on a couple of AAs) in a truly mobile device should be.

FWIW, I'd buy a modern version in a heartbeat, where modern for me would be (echoing other comments on this):

* Better sync (mobile device (iOS, Android), computer, cloud)
* E-Ink Display (80 col min width, length maybe 10 lines max or so, think iA Writer with its focus on the current line)
* Same battery life as 3000
* Quieter keyboard
* Thinner, but just as rugged
* Markdown support with org-mode style table editing

Added developer friendly mods nice to have would be:
* Emacs or VIM motion support
* Swap caps/control keys
no, they'll just decay to the point of being unusable.

just like our copper wire infrastructure has done.

yet the telcos/etc will collect billions from us and the government and will build nothing. :/
You don't even need to melt them. Just reaching the Curie point should be enough.
I would recommend checking out the Stanford marshmallow experiment and the connection to the prefrontal cortex.

In the context of the article, it is rather unclear if punishment will work when a kid understand a rule but is unable to moderate their own behavior.
Studying CS? I live in Irvine and my father is from Mexico. :) I'm always happy to meet new tech folk around here and/or chat if you're interested. Contact info in profile.
Plus China saved a ton on not having to innovate or research anything.
Here's a puzzle that I've struggled with: I love critical rationalism, but I'm a terrible debater and negotiator. Put in the context of raising kids, if they ask "why" and end up winning the debate despite being wrong, do they get their way?

Should my own actions be dictated by anybody who happens to be a better debater than me? I hope the hell not.

What if the options at hand aren't as crystal clear as the textbook cases that tend to be cited in discussions and books, and the illusion of rationality is just that? What if debate skill is not strictly rational, or even informational, but includes an emotional component plus time pressure?

I suspect that what we consider to be "irrational" approaches, such as asserting our own authority, are in fact survival skills that reflect the limitations of rational debate.
Sounds like a classic case of overfitting training data. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as an asset class is so nascent that I wouldn't be making any significant bets on what the algorithm outputs even if the cross validation is good.

As with all investing claims, the pertinent question to ask is "if this works so well, why are you spending time marketing your method instead of making boatloads of money using this system you developed?"
Reminds me of the quote "There is no way to do CVS correctly..."
>Don't they make a decent percentage of their revenue off of brands which are currently price protected via these tariffs?

Yes. If consumers and/or pharmacies in the US could easily and reliably source cheaper brand-name drugs from international markets where price ceilings are in effect, it would ruin many drug companies, especially smaller ones.
Blizzard gave a great GDC talk titled “The Data Building Pipeline of 'Overwatch'”. It covered their in-house, http-based asset distribution system.

Take-aways: http://seanmiddleditch.com/my-gdc-17-talk-retrospective/

https://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2017/Presentations/...
You don't think Amazon has been on the exact same lowest price no matter what path as Walmart?

If anything, Amazon is worse than Walmart brick and mortar stores since their third party sellers are not vetted.

Imagine the kerfuffle that would arise if Walmart was selling counterfeit products in their store.
AI could improve the economy, but we need to make sure everyone benefits
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia includes "strangers".

In common parlance in the United States, NIMBYism includes opposition to housing. That is also what we're talking about in this thread.
I apparently missed the memo where BuzzFeed started doing real reporting. When did that start happening?
but one reason I pay for a premium object, device or experience is to avoid hassle and friction, so it's pretty frustrating when that's exactly what I get.

It’s the whole fucking reason I started paying extra for Apple products to begin with. If I were willing to put up with this kind of sloppiness, I have a variety of options for less money.
Sometimes what you experience firsthand is ten times more valuable then what you read on the internet. And maybe the struggling parents I saw are a local problem. But judging by the upvotes, there are more people who have similar experiences.
It would "significantly harm" them in that they would make half as many billions in profits per year while millions of people receive an increase in quality of life.
> such that loss of a single bit means the original key is unrecoverable

That can't be right (I don't know anything about this though). If you control the data (with a non-interactive non-destructive decryption process), a loss of a single bit just means you have to test two possible keys. In terms of brute forcing, the security is the same per number of bits lost. The benefit of using a large key would be that if you lose a certain fraction of your key (say 10%), then that would correspond to more bits (as long as you erase 128 or more bits you'd be fine).

Also beware of key stretching, use it only when absolutely necessary. Key stretching doesn't modify the ratio of work necessary for your encryption/decryption vs the work necessary for brute forcing -- i.e. it doesn't improve the security factor. You're essentially doing an economic defense vs a mathematical one, and hoping that computers won't improve and your attacker isn't willing to spend much relative to what you spent.
Or you build a super quite desktop server, that will both have more CPU and use less power. The trick is to use large heat sinks with large silent fans. When the CPU's crank up to 100% all you'll hear is a subtle wind breeze.
>No, the total supply remains the same. Distribution and production is the issue. The linear curve should align to match the energy and work input, assuming that is representative of additional users joining the network.
Fixed store of wealth is even more difficult to achieve, as users must trust the design to be desirable.

I understand what you are saying (even if I disagree with the concept), but I think you are missing that this was created as a run away from the GFC, heavy inflation would run a counter to what libertarians and anti-global economics people would believe in.

I didn't say anything about your particular opinion on wealth distribution on crypto, I'm just saying your opinion that satoshi was attempting to exploit people is baseless.
As whb07 said, "Its the same thing as a bond, which its feared they will default on."

I don't know how Venezuela expects anyone to take this seriously after they defaulted on their bond payments in November.
> treated for rashes or flus by nurses

I sometimes think that's one of the things that's kept health care so expensive. Nursing salaries aren't cheap. A lot of the home health and basic clinic stuff could be handled by an LPN/LVN or even a Paramedic in many cases. Not everything needs an RN. There are plenty of available telemedicine options to put a provider in touch with a higher level of care if necessary.
Why are you assuming reasonableness increases with age? Isn't it possible children start out reasonable and get unreason baked into them through their experiences?
Depends how you look at it. On one hand absolutely. On the other hand, these practices make the US market subsidize other parts of the world. Seeing the same drugs cost the same in every country would help the US customer, hurt some abroad. Prices would surely meet somewhere in the middle
Facebook: https://research.fb.com/facebook-research-at-nips-2017/

Deepmind: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-papers-nips-2017/
Of course it's a way to make more money. They wouldn't move forward with this deal if it wasn't. But this doesn't preclude the possibility that end result will be a more efficient, vertically integrated healthcare provider.
It seems logical that if space is not continuous [1] and relativity works roughly as we think it does, time couldn't be continuous either. If that's the case the shortest unit of time would intuitively be the planck length divided by C.

It would be interesting if the 'wavelength' of time gave rise to higher-order harmonics that we could actually observe.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
TIL that you can run an SSH agent using an OpenPGP smartcard on a non-rooted Chromebook now.

EDIT: Tried following the linked instructions but nassh just hung while trying to connect, with no prompt from Smart Card Connector :( Oh well, at least it's possible in principle.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/nass...
Yes, but maintaining a bigger emergency fund implies spending less in other categories. :-)
If Bitcoin continued its 2017 growth rate for 5 more years, the market cap of Bitcoin would be about 140 quadrillion dollars, which is about 300x the value of all public and privately owned assets in the entire world.
I look forward to it when Ubuntu LTS includes a more recent NetworkManager :)

“I learned that NetworkManager 1.4.1+ can do MAC address randomization right out the box. If you’re using Ubuntu 17.04 upwards, you can get most of the way with this config file.”
Meh. The LA Weekly was over about 20 years ago when they purged all their real journalists.
Anyone find a link to their paper on “proof of barrels”?

Ah, we have their assurance. Alright then.
Who's going?
Story points should never be equate to any unit of time. No wonder people argued. And fire the scrum master because they weren't running an effective agile process. Switch the team to a Kanban board, and prioritize, don't estimate, work.

Time estimates are a fools errand, even with historical data. Historical data won't tell you if this task is really similar to that old task, or if fast dev will work on it or whether the slow dev will, or how many meetings devs will be pulled into, or who will need PTO, etc, etc.
Greater vendor choice leads to a race to the bottom to see which area of the world can produce an item cheapest generally. These cost savings come largely from lower labor prices, meaning the workers get paid less. _That_ is how they compare to Walmart.

Think about how much a factory worker made in the US in the 60's and 70's. They could afford a middle class life with a house, a new car every few years, and a pension. Now look at what a factory worker in China makes. They can't afford the quality of life that workers in the US had. Now these same forces are pushing those jobs to India, where their workers will make even less and have a worse quality of life. It's the negative side of globalization.
My setup was pretty cheap: an EdgeRouter X for £50 and an AP AC Lite for about £70 (I think). The X is surprisingly good for such a small/low price router. Took me a couple of months to get it configured how I wanted (split ISP/VPN networks across both cabling and wifi) but it has been very solid ever since.

When I move to a bigger place I'll probably put the router behind a big PoE switch and buy some of the 48v PoE compatible APs. We use them in work and they've been very good so far.
Show HN: A classy way to ask for donations on projects
The tip jar line. Added to here:

https://github.com/fulldecent/FDWaveformView
https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
https://github.com/fulldecent/FDTake
https://github.com/fulldecent/FDChessboardView
https://github.com/fulldecent/FDSoundActivatedRecorder

And more emoji: https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908
The VA offers mail delivery for prescription medications. I imagine it has something to do with it being a single payer system, & they have to look for any chance to optimize in the whole medical food chain instead of just the pharmacy portion.
How different is this from putting a police officer on the street corner?
When would it hit the value of all public and private assets at current growth rate?
The Xeon D's are nice (8 physical / 16 logical cores for less than 45W for the D-1541) but I wouldn't recommend buying Supermicro's pre-assembled machines for home lab use; they are noisy. It would be better to buy their bare motherboards instead (e.g. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X10SDV...) and self-install it into a low-noise mini-ITX case instead.
Having a bit of trouble on mobile, can someone tell me what an "episode of exercise" is? Does running a mile count? What about a walk/bike ride to work?
The more work that is put into a planning process, the later the product will ship.
I run a NUC as my router, with only one NIC. I use tagged vlans to separate the networks, and have a cheapo switch that understands tagged vlans. Unless you have a really nice external network connection, you don't really need multiple NICs for your router.
I'm not the person you asked, but I'll give it a shot.

In the short term I think I would be much better off. I don't believe enough people who can compete with me economically would be all that interested in coming here, and/or them coming here doesn't improve their ability to compete with me. However, I'd be able to hire poor people for slave-like wages to perform all sorts of odd jobs for me around the house. I'd have a maid, etc.

In the long term I would be much worse off. The influx of poor people from other nations would completely overrun our public infrastructure: public schools, welfare programs, etc. The reason why illegal immigration "works" for the upper-middle and upper class is because it's illegal. My taxes would have to go through the roof to pay for all of this.
Clarify? I can’t say the market capitalization of Bitcoin off the top of my head, but neither can I tell whether you think I’m making it out to be higher or lower than it is.
Discussions a plenty here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528599
> but includes an emotional component plus time pressure?

You don't even need those things. Intelligence and practice will suffice, even for "purely rational arguments".

Defending Truth makes debates easier to win, but isn't a necessary or sufficient condition.
Why on earth would you waste a single minute doing any planning for a 1 week project?
Can that APU2 do filtering at full wire speed on those 1Gb NICs? In my experience, many of the smaller SBPC routers can't keep up. I'm running a Netgate 4860 at home and it keeps up with my gigabit fiber connection but several of my previous attempts would not (Soekris, etc.).
This is way funnier than it should be, it is great to share simple schematics fast.
Nope, the article claims sci-hub is "falling to lawsuits", which seems a bogus statement -- to be determined.

Article fails to justify its title. Seems they got an interview with one of the Google Scholar founders, tacked on some random stuff related to scholarly publishing and search, and slapped an unsupported headline on it.

(I'm all for breaking science journal paywalls!)
> “Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency,” backed by oil, gas, gold and diamond reserves, Maduro said

I am not sure if that’s even possible, it doesn’t make much sense. How do you link the currency to those reserves in a way that is any different to the current currency?

That being said, a crypto which is relatively stable could be very useful for countries with runaway inflation or other issues with the state. Both for local use and liquidity across global markets.
Based on the numbers I chose (~500 trillion global assets, 1500% compounded annually) I think it'd take a little under 3 years.
I'm tempted to print it out and post it on my wall.

That's kind of you! Now I wish I'd cleaned it up a bit.

they usually don't serve to bolster the social proof of most of the individuals involved.

Yes, that's true. Online interactions have this extra layer of karma collection (whether explicit or implicit).
It's funny to see how pretty much everybody has been copying Stripe's style over the last few years/months — that top navigation in particular.
> Yet nobody has ever made it to the top by pulling the most overtime at McDonalds

McDonald's isn't a great example because many franchise owners started out as employees. In fact McDonald's requires franchisees to work in their stores, you are an owner-operator not an owner-investor.
Some of China's greatest advances depend heavily on local conditions
That's why I was calling it out, not stating it. All we know about him is that he was a 60 year old employed electrician.

To go from that to the parent poster saying he "probably realised he'll never achieve anything in life" is selling a pretty miserable story.
The situation you describe is more of a middle-point -- moving layout from being based on tables to being based on styles was and still is a good idea, but there are still cases in which CSS has failed to fully separate layout from the HTML.

The article discusses how bootstrap uses patterns like `<div class="row"><div class="col-xs-12">` -- specifically why they fail and how using the CSS Grid specification manages to better achieve this full separation.
To each his own ...I guess. Some cannot afford quality. Some others know higher prices doesn't necessarily mean higher quality.
Well if you live in northeast GA (as do I) you know that a software developer with 5-10 years of experience can easily make $110-140K and that easily affords you to live in some of the nicest part of Atlanta.

True. We aren't around "900 of the world's top 1000" companies, but in the 20 years I've lived here, I've never found there to be a lack of development jobs.

As a single person, you could easily live comfortably in parts of metro Atlanta making 70K.
There's a huge difference between parenting and an adversarial courtroom.

I think it's possible to agree with the article and also disagree with this judge.
There's a big difference between 'Python 3 was a mistake' and 'we won't make Python 4 like Python 3'. This article is saying the latter (and implicitly argues against the former).
Pulling your SSH keys from Github to your authorized_keys file is a terrible idea, even with 2FA enabled on the GitHub side. You're trusting Github to manage access to your home network and all of its SSH-able machines!
Is a design copyrighted? What's stopping someone from duplicating Stripe's design? The CSS and HTML are both right there in the browser for everyone's viewing. Given how nice Stripe's website is, it's a wonder why it's not copied more often -- and other "nice" websites, for that matter.
> In a calm voice I would ask her questions about what she is doing, and those around her.

Would you mind to elaborate and give concrete examples?

In day care we have a 2y old child (younger brother to a 3.5y old) that bites (hard), scratches and hits other kids when it does not get its way. This goes on for over a year now. The parents dont seem to know how to cope and just shrug it off as "he is just wild, thats what kids do in this age".

The other day i could witness myself how he was hitting an older kid with a sound wood full force on the head (because the other kid did not want to give away his toy). The other kid started crying and he had this evil grin, knowing full well he hurt the other kid.

What to do with such a child?
Apple, please bring back the HDMI port.
Well yeah, we cap total production so low that builders aren’t even allowed to saturate the .01%-er market.

If Toyota was only allowed to make 10 cars a year, you can bet they would be top-of-the-line Lexus models.
The point is that nothing did change. Children don't go from animals to sentient beings overnight - they develop gradually.

So how do you deal with that? You take them seriously, and you accept that it isn't going to work at first, and then will work imperfectly, but will work fully when they're ready for it.
There was a lot more available space then.
Good write up. Some of the jokes are a little silly, but so far this has been my favorite new show of the year.