skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So just wait until you get a stalker and that person is able to find that 'public information' with a google search.

There is a difference and it still should be secured.

My address might be public information but because i choose to not because someone else chose this for me.
All sorts of things push people over the edge to finally make an account :). While it's true that his comment doesn't add much to the discourse, there probably are lots of folks that never realized that it's referring to a hare.

Your comment though is approximately an attack on a person who finally took the time to create an account only to get downvoted. A downvote is discouragement enough; no need to reiterate.
> Nobody won, here

Although I still feel like people around me give me a difficult time accepting my behavior, at least now I know a huge chunk of the problem also lies in my behavior - and it is only there that I can fix that anguish, not externally. So yeah, hard small victories, I guess.
At this point, I'll take what I can get.
Cool. Like canary passwords but for identities.

Not enough use of canary passwords people!
Is there somewhere “laid back” which is not corrupt, which has a functioning police force, and which has its own financial system?
So, your logic is that it’s fine to tax tuition waivers as income, because the schools should be paying more? How does that work?

This is a dubious tactic adopted by a sleazy political party to ram a bill through congress by taxing literally everything they can in order to make their other tax cuts look revenue neutral.
Why USB connectors aren't flippable explained by co-inventor Ajay Bhatt
Those were basically just independent pieces of software, and had their own set of features and bugs (IE5.5 on mac was notoriously buggy)
Earlier this year researchers got the first artificial uterus for sheep working. That one is aiming more at keeping extremely premature babies alive and developing for a few weeks than at actually controlling the full range of embryonic development, but I think that's a matter of time.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128851-artificial-womb...
Well they are still making crazy, paying less tax than the average American and stashing truck loads of cash offshore.

Only way to truly vote is with your wallet. But Android is no less evil. Google will sell your data like a slave master to the highest bidder.
All of the most important technologies today are very complicated. Anything that has to do with computers, cars, airplanes, trains, almost every industrial process. Being complicated is basically one of the prerequisites for being "high" tech.
I couldn't find it in the docs (sorry if I missed something obvious), so a question to those who know the subject better: will there be a way to plug in an existing RocksDB database and run SQL queries, or they are going to be two different incompatible flavours?
The nine lines:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}

That spacing around the final + in the third line is horrendous.
Deciding just to cede applications and content to single-vendor platforms isn't that appealing for the open Web.
Geoff Greer's Site: Software Rot
It does seem counterintuitive, but the justification is that cutting a top employee's salary in half only frees up less than a percent increase in all the lower-level position salaries.

I know about 20 years ago, Ben & Jerry's tried to hire a CEO for a reasonable salary and decided they couldn't make it work.

So maybe it really does make sense.
I'd bet most of them. People don't adopt because it is extremely difficult for some reason. Adopting probably costs more than an artificial uterus.
The situation with Microsoft Edge is strange. Not only is Microsoft Edge not available for older versions of Windows, it is not supported on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 10 LTSB, or, most importantly, Windows Server editions. Virtual desktop hosting (VDI/terminal servers) has to be based on Windows Server (licensing requirement). This means that Edge can't actually be the only supported Microsoft browser for Windows: if you do corporate work, you still have deal with Internet Explorer 11.
And that person is either ignored or swamped in "the process". Or both.
You are misinformed and you make a terrible contribution to the crypto community by spreading your misunderstanding as truth.

A little less ego and a little bit more self-doubt would do you good since you can't even tell the difference between volume and frequency Preston.
I agree. When you pay the premium for a high end X, whatever X happens to be, you expect it to be right. Probably the main reason I get so stroppy with these kinds of issues is that I'm time poor and the time I do have I don't want to spend faffing around dealing with them.

Perhaps I have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement (genuinely: there is no irony or sarcasm intended here), 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 also not improbable that someone got involved in the earliest stage of what was Facebook by pure luck.

However, both those things together are starting to get just a little bit improbable from the pure luck standpoint, don't you think?
However many people Netscape employed is irrelevant, browsers now are very different in complexity and security than browsers in the Netscape era.
If you're supporting Firefox with money, it's still capitalism even if Mozilla is a non-profit. You're paying an entity to continue maintaining a product, and attempting to bias market share in favor of that product over its competitors.
As far as I know, the French national assembly doesn't make the law in Ireland, so I fail to see the point.
It's because there's so much competition for experienced people in Silicon Valley. If Mozilla wouldn't pay her that much, another company would.
This is brilliant.

But a question: why is one website I know of (and that resolves, and that has valid DNS entries) comes up blank?
Firefox on android kills my phone, gobbles tons of memory. Nexus 5x, no plugins.

I've given up on it now.
SmartOS provides Zones, and if you need it a KVM instance within a Zone.

Hypervisors have their own security issues. They're just programs. That's why there've been all the patching over the years for Xen and for KVM.

Last year, an independent researcher did find an issue related to Dtrace that Joyent patched. However, the security and engineering that backs Zones is way more than with other kernels.

https://www.joyent.com/blog/dtrace-conf-16-wrap-up

DTrace exploitation: http://slides.com/benmurphy/deck#/

http://benmmurphy.github.io/blog/2017/01/06/arbitrary-kernel...

https://vimeo.com/173300650
I was imagining there would be a minimum and maximum rate.
A good option for people living in the EU is to register a .eu domain. For private individuals (like private non-commercial websites), the whois data is by default restricted to show an e-mail address only. (see section 2.4. in https://eurid.eu/en/other-infomation/whois-policy/)
Kind of funny. He appears more qualified than people others vote for or against.
I tried to switch over. Switched from chrome to firefox completely for about two weeks after quantum.

I got random high cpu usage from firefox. Some random pages just spiked the cpu and everything slowed down. Same thing on both my workstation and laptop.

I also didnt find a way to make opensearch working. In chrome i can just type part of the url of a website, press tab and write a search query and get a search on the website.

That is so worked into my daily routine. It just became an annoyance and a dealbreaker. :(

I really really want to switch. But chrome works really well and my browser is such an important tool for me so i really want to use the absolute best.
Feels like FRP. But is it isomorphic to it? I once started with a 'back of the envelope' experiment with a frp gui system and ended up with the conclusion that I could not do without hierarchical state charts.

So, a statechart formulation could be an 'emergent' , most simple way to formalize a Xerox Alto-descendant GUI system.

The fact that they start from an existing deep GUI stack is a bit distracting to the disucssion, though...
No.

I'm constantly buffled how HN audience completely misses the fact that Bitcoin is nowadays used in most of street-level drug transactions that give it most of it's liquidity.
I used API Explorer to learn the API of a GApp I had to integrate in a customer's web app. It's OK but I wished for a couple of improvements:

1) I failed to notice some errors and messages because they appeared below the fold and nothing close to the submit button hinted me that something happened. Furthermore having to scroll up and down to type and to check the results is far from optimal.

2) It should at least nudge the API developers to write documentation and make it appear in the page. I was left too many times wondering what the attribute names picked by the developers were meant. They eventually sent me a Google Doc. Compare this to Swagger's in page hints and examples.
Seems exhausting for a parent, but beneficial for certain careers. Dunno if it would significantly improve their thinking a decade later.
I’d bet you’re useless and they were just looking for an easy excuse to fire you.
Can't wait for humans to trash the moon with their plastic Cocacola bottles.

Also a manned mission to moon is a terrible use of Indian resources. Just send a one way robot and stay on the moon for years.
Therefore the only available solution is to occupy the corporations until the laws change to society's benefits.
I left Mozilla nearly two years ago so you can lay off the baseless speculations about my salary, thanks.

Incidentally I explicitly defined "independent" in my blog post: "I mean a browser with its own implementation of HTML, CSS, JS, etc". Choosing an alternative definition and then ranting about it is irrelevant to what I wrote.
Swiping down only refreshes when you are already at the top of the page, and it even gives some visual feedback to see that you have indeed reached the top and you are now initiating a refresh gesture.

I'm a quite energetic swiper and, to be honest, I have never found a situation where I wanted to return to the top and ended up refreshing due to too much swiping. But YMMV, I guess.
What's the perception of HN community regarding MIT?, personally I think they have a different culture than other top 5 universities.

For example they don't give Honorary degrees and you only have to disclose your financial status and if you need financial help only after been accepted.
That sounds like the UK’s Data Protection Act, soon to be replaced with an EU successor that will apparently cause all sorts of interesting times if the UK tries to get rid of it post-Brexit.
I undrestand that there's a good amount of carve outs for wartime stuff.

However, if there's any doubt about whether they even belong in the "enemy combatant" category, it seems pretty basic to allow them their attorney. Otherwise the gov't could claim you're an enemy combatant every time they want to take your rights away, and then lock you up forever.

Sure, eventually it will be overturned, but if the gov't just wants you in there for a bit then that's enough.

There's perhaps a more ambitious argument to be made here about the AUMF, what is actually a war, the classification of ISIS as such, etc. But good luck making that argument in this environment
To a point. When the entire team is essentially stonewalled, not given agency or overloaded it will degrade.
Not too bad, you just go after the abusers. Why not?
> Python has changed incompatibly once in 26 years

That's not true. Every change breaks some behavior, even if it's not throwing an Exception where one used to be thrown. Things are still being deprecated and removed in new releases.

On top of that, by adding new syntax in 3.7+, libraries may become incompatible with the system-provided installation. That won't happen with 2.7 libraries.
On the flip-side though, the tools, expertise/skills and means for building browsers some 25+ years ago don't match what's available today.
New Piracy Scaremongering Video Depicts ‘Dangerous’ Raspberry Pi
You mean overestimate?
> Single-payer systems also have to constrain costs, so its not clear that they would actually cover a procedure like this,

I wouldn't think they would, but the existence of a single-payer system didn't prevent research on this.

> Single-payer systems are actually rarely actually single-payer.

What you mean in this case is purely single-payer. Paying for things that are outside of normal health care, like fancy private rooms or plastic surgery don't seem like they would have a negative effect. Getting quick access to a specialist seems problematic, though, but maybe the quick access to a specialist means ability to quickly consult with a foreign specialist; there's not a lot of detail there.
You can trust both of them to do that well. Other than that it's hard to make a comparison not reliant on anecdotes, I guess.
Google Maps crash Quantum for me on a regular basis. I am trying not to become a conspiracy theorist, but this is making it difficult.
Would you be discussing the occupation of the National assembly here in HN? Did you the last time?
Fair enough, but the courts don't simply say Yea or Nay, they explain why the First Amendment doesn't apply to malls, and the reasons are valid for Twitter too. By the way, IANAL either, but rayiner is :)
Comparing Uber engineers to Nuremberg trials is little bit too much.
The key question is how many lines of code would Kubernetes have if Go was an expressive language, but I don't have big hopes for a hypothetical Go 2.0.
> If miners empty block forever whats next?

Change the PoW algorithm. Do you follow bitcoin, or a dead algorithm?

It is always best to understand a subject before commenting on it.
The popularity of exchanges points to a fundamental mismatch between the values of bitcoin and those of the general population. Most people don’t really want trustless consensus, to be in charge of their own security, and pseudo anonymous payments.
How much was he trading with? $1,000 - $10,000 - $100,000?
Also you didn't answer my questions.

Please spell out exactly who you think is influencing Mozilla, and to do what (that Mozilla wouldn't normally do for the sake of their mission). And please support your claims with evidence.

("X pays $Y to Mozilla" is already adequately explained by the fact that Firefox-generated search traffic is valuable to X.)
I don’t think that’s what the parent post means.
Rather, they advocate slashing the tuition price, because universities are already paid - by the government! - and they get to benefit from a PhD student’s labor.

Actually - Not merely slashing. Money should actually flow, but in the opposite direction.
You can independently reinvent it, you just can't steal it.
It doesn't matter. It only matters which nodes are used to record transactions on the blockchain. You can have a million nodes, but unless those nodes are recording transactions on the blockchain, it matters not.
with what columns/serialization ?
It’s an American citizen, not an enemy combatant. But sure, not worth getting worked up over - the concept of rights under the American empire is laughable.
Understanding the Shadowban – Instagram Blocked Account from Hashtag Searches
Complying with the letter of the law. Not the spirit.
That is from 2014. They are back on the smack[0].

As long as search is the revenue center, there isn't much room[1] for diversification. If they need annual revenue of ~$400M to operate, it's either Google or Google.

edit: On that last point, I could be wrong. Most of the biggies could throw half a billion at them indefinitely if it served the right purpose.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-dea...

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.as...
Somebody has just notified all BTC core watchers with commit defacing the README
This can't be "The World's Largest Repository" when half my domains are "not a valid domain" according to the tool.
Can you expand? I thought I had a good grasp of Mozilla’s history but this is the first time I’ve heard of them.
"Firefox could be done with 400 people" is a "fact" you just made up.
Saying your physical address is private ignores the reality of the situation: it's on your driver's license that you hand over to people that you don't explicitly trust (getting carded at bars, airports, stores, etc), it's sold between companies that you don't give explicit permission, you give it out to receive goods, and there is no law to force people to remove your address (to your point, try to request removal from sites like 411.info). Given all of that, it's unfortunately a fantasy to think that this is somehow private.

Private information isn't private if you have to give it out.
Has anyone ever tried to hire someone requiring less than or up to max say 20k for such a job?
I wonder which qualifications that are that you find only in people asking for >50 or even 100k/month.

I am from Europe so i might miss something that’s different in US. But 20k USD would make for a very good living here. Ok you only can afford one house with that an no 1000sqm villa and no Ferrari... but i state you don’t need either.
Actually, opposite all other answers here, YES.

If you were withdrawing $100M in BTC you wouldn’t do it using an exchange, you would use an OTC dealer, and yes you could absolutely do it in far less than 6 months.

Here’s a good intro blog post, you can find more by searching for “bitcoin otc” or various phrases containing “whales” (term for someone with lots of digital currency).
https://vinnylingham.com/the-1-dont-use-bitcoin-exchanges-ff...

Also, noting: this article’s title is misleading or false. There are other and previous bitcoin billionaires who are not as public about it, though the actual article qualifies the claim a bit.
Finalky: seeing all of the replies that state emphatically “no” and explain why makes me doubt all answers on hacker news that I trust.
No idea how it's implemented, but why not come up with dummy names like "key" and "value"?
> Static pages and full refreshes really limit what a page can do though.

Yes. But for 90% of business UI cases, you have some sort of collection of pages (i.e. website = collection of pages not a single page with everything crammed into it) with navigation menu. You use the menu to navigate to different pages with HTML forms that submit POST data and do GET redirects.

Trying to cram an entire business logic into a single page is often detrimental, split it into multiple pages. Highly interactive apps that fit into a single page model is maybe 10% of use cases or less I have seen in my career last few years.

This is all just my opinion obviously but I just think SPAs are a fad that will hopefully go away.
No, not at all! The US doesn't give it's "detainees" official POW status because, POWs actually got rights, too! So they are held without legal basis or recourse. That's all fine and dandy, as far as foreigners are concerned. Except, of course, that USians are special and have special rights, so it's bad to treat them the same way.

Reminds me of when a USian was droned in 2011. Suddenly there's an outcry in the US! Never mind that guy was probably more guilty than hundred-thousands of other victims of the US "bringing peace and democracy".
Isn't the whole point of "enemy combatant" that it allows people to be held in a state not governed by national, or international law or treaty? "PoW" has actual meaning, rules, treaties etc.

Or they could be treated like a criminal, but that would give them a lawyer, due process and so on.

I think that the US, and most western European governments still shy away from torturing PoWs or criminals. "Enemy combatants" however, are the dixie cups of modern policy. Fill 'em up, suck 'em dry, and throw the crumpled remains in the trash. All with a clear conscience.
You can look at most first world countries outside the USA for inspiration, since the identity theft isn't a universal problem but one limited to USA and a few other places with similar policies. However, it's not a single change but requires a significantly different approach to things like credit.

Key components of such an approach are:

1) strong consumer protection legislation that removes consequences from consumers - mainly, that if a transaction is disputed the lender can't report such transactions to credit rating agencies and the credit agencies can't use such transactions in the credit rating. In essence the dispute resolution is that if you claim that it's not you, then they can either drop the claim (and marking that claim on your credit rating would be libel) or press criminal charges on you for fraud, with the usual due process and level of evidence required.

2) A secure nationwide, centralized physical photo/biometric ID issued to everyone (which is a no-no in USA for political reasons), so that organizations who actually want to verify your identity have a reasonable means to do so in a manner that doesn't rely solely on "something you know". My brother knows all my personal information and would be able to impersonate me in any knowledge-based access; however, but passing an ID check would require either theft or forgery; he can't claim lost/stolen documents and get ID in my name since the face/prints/etc wouldn't match the ones on file.

The immediate effect is that it makes it easier for fraudsters to operate in the current environment that relies solely on knowledge-based authentication (since one can simply take a loan and deny it, and get away with it since the lender now has no way of proving who was it if they followed processes currently popular in USA) so the next-to-immediate effect is that all the organizations "offering trust" either face huge costs or switch their policies to handle identity verification in a reasonable manner. It will mean a temporary slowdown in issuing credit - that's not an inherently bad thing, but it does mean that such a change has to be timed to occur during an economic boom/bubble (where a temporary slowdown in credit is useful) and not during a slump.
For the future, there is a "favorite" link under each submission, and a list of those in your profile.
Sure, but these people aren't seeing their wealth erased. If anything, there'll be a discount of say 10-30%, probably realised over a period of 20 years, and there's a good chance the only effect it will have is that prices stop rising faster than income, but will rather stay stable. i.e., making it more affordable, without them losing any money.

If that's the price that has to be paid, I think there's no moral argument to be made on this discussion, what remains is a legal-political challenge.

Finally, I do believe this is all part of investing into the housing market. If you want a risk-free investment, choose government bonds. If you want to play the housing game, this is part of the story. You can't expect to invest a few million into an overpriced industry with a scarcity-controversy, and expect to reap risk-free rewards. Everyone who buys a house in these areas knows that your money pouring in and your legal defences are inadvertently screwing with housing affordability. If you're okay with that and want to make a risky investment, so be it. But then don't treat it like some kind of safe retirement plan you worked your entire life towards, it's not.
2KB JavaScript animation library
5.0 and 5.1 were pretty bad. 5.2 was surprisingly standards compliant for the time (apart from `clear` inheriting, that was painful). 5.5 was a Windows only version of Trident, never available on the Mac (the Mac’s rendering engine was Tasman).
No, you stop using crypto. This is a terrible language abuse; I don't know how you can defend it.