skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state sent out a death threat! People are just letting the government know how they feel.

The design of this system is grossly negligent, which IS a management problem. It does look like a web page. How is the page served? An internal secure setup on a private network? Is the browser ever updated? Is there javascript? The number of failure modes on this type of setup is unconstrained. How are updates tested? It appears to me that somebody just put something together without any design or validation process at all. This is fine in many settings, but not for critical public safety infrastructure.
Adding some color and better labeling would be good. Also I would have a confirmation dialog box to confirm what will happen when the button is pressed.
Yea, I happen to be using JWT in the simplest way. Authentication only.

I don't even store role information in them, since authorization checks are performed on the server anyway.

If the client needs to know what a user is allowed to do with a resource (so it knows not to display certain buttons, etc.) I have the client do an OPTIONS call (with the token) to see what methods are allowed.

Lately, I've been thinking about replacing the whole JWT scheme with simple bearer tokens stored in the database, mostly because it would make revocation simple and I can't think of anything I would lose by giving up JWTs (a little storage space in the database?), and I don't think switching the type of bearer token I'm working with will actually be very painful implementation-wise. You know what, I'm adding a task to my backlog...
I haven't had to clean a bunch of squirrel feces out of my house yet.
That is great news. I've been slowly moving away all my sites from AWS to DO because of their super competivite pricing.

For example every domain on route 53 costs you while Do is free. Their spaces is also a great offering. See this example in which S3 costs $184 usd while do costs $10usd [1]

[1] https://www.knowledgelib.com/s/37
yipee...

OVH is about 8 bucks a month for me for 8GB of ram (a thanksgiving promo) when I first moved to them I was paying 3.50 for 2GB. They will soon have a datacenter in the US too.

For my needs DO is a ripoff.
> The fanciest tracking trick is

I feel like this changes all the time; I was recently surprised to discover 'TLS Client Channel ID' (my nomenclature is a bit fuzzy - an RFC for automatic client certs "for security") and would love to learn more about the extent of its current implementation in Chrome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15753648

>londons_explore: In Chrome, it also uses the TLS Client Channel ID, which is a persistent unique identifier established between a browser and a server which (on capable platforms) is derived from a key stored in a hardware security module, making it hard to steal. Ie. if you clone the hard drive of a computer, when you use the clone, Google will know you are a suspicious person, even though you have all the right cookies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security_Chann...

http://www.browserauth.net/channel-bound-cookies
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Wait so Google isn't surfacing you or your friend's shitty article on some band you guys like so that makes it broken? Sounds like Google is working better than it used to.
> I think figgis may be responding in a sarcastic way

Was not intended, just curious. But that would be why I couldn't find it.
Might hurt blockchain adoption in the US, but there is much more than BTC out there. There are specific chains that many Asian companies are adopting for use that will proliferate and generally stay out of American news. There's a lot happening in the crypto space beyond BTC/ETH/LTC.

Adoption may still not take off, but it won't be because of the IRS.
Good stuff! Congrats.
The CCC and WPA are very effective means of dealing with short-term mass dislocation of labor where the private economy employing it is likely to return in the near term I substantially similar form.
Seems like I'm going against the grain here, but I've always been happy with my $10/mo droplet for side project hosting, and I'm certainly not complaining I now get a bit more for the same price
That when you disobey an explicit traffic signal, you’re responsible for your own fate?

Everyone has a duty to try and prevent an accident if possible, but you do generally get to trust that a green signal means no pedestrians are going to dart out.

Giving a green light when pedestrians actually have right of way is incredibly dangerous. Why not a 4-way stop or uncontrolled to avoid a false sense of security?
One of my favorites was a friends project who named a feature Kamino that created CLONES of VMs.
Coins are just the last part of long trend of financialization with somewhat different technological implementation. You take an underlying asset and you create financial instrument that enables more efficient trading and valuation in the marketplace.

I understand blockchain and cryptoeconomic angle better than I understand the current system and I suspect that it's the same with you. When I talk to people who understand current finance systems, including clearing and settlement I think my own enthusiasm is party based on my own ignorance of what already exists.
The operator did not threaten to commit violence.
Underground tunnels have a mythos of danger surrounding them. Somehow a tunnel as long as the width of the road is supposed to be a hiding spot for a mugger.
No I am not tired of keeping my uniformed friends scared and their money safe.
You're conflating two different issues. My original suggestion was a mechanism to prevent the clerk from accidentally sending the wrong message. Typing out the entirety of the message hopefully would force them to realize what they're sending.

Allowing a separate option for a clerk, maybe with confirmation from a supervisor or other clerk, to send an arbitrary message (with a separate approval chain) would be useful as well. In the Hawaii situation not having that option likely delayed sending out the retraction as they didn't have a built in.
>the internet as a whole bemoaned the shut down of Gawker by Thiel

Really? It's my recollection that most of the communities I'm involved in applauded and relished in the shutdown of Gawker. I do believe there were some tangential worries that meandered around the forest of "freedom of speech"/"-of the press" but as the dust settled I think all parties realized those worries were, as a consensus, ill-informed.
I can almost guarantee it's a COBOL mainframe with a much more sensible UI which they put a screen scraper over to make it more "modern looking".
You’re missing the point.

This article is proposing an alternative to UBI, where you are just giving no strings $$$ handouts to all citizens.

Clearly basic jobs won’t be as efficient at producing e.g. agricultural products as the free market. But that’s not the goal with UBI or UBJ - it’s to deal with societal inequality in a world where increasingly most jobs are eliminated and those who control capital (the robots) have 100% of the wealth and everyone else is starving. That is the world many feel we are heading towards.

There is a good track record of government jobs programs during times of severe unemployment, e.g. the Great Depression:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

One advantage UBJ over UBI has is that it is something you can transition into; it doesn’t require a societal level disruption to put into practice.
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I prefer Linode in a lot of ways, but the current best price/value for me is SSD Nodes.

https://www.ssdnodes.com
Umm, sidewalks are a separate right of way with significant barriers (parked cars)? Most train crossings are at-grade and use simple traffic lights. In congested areas, they install gates that prevent cars from barreling into trains.
http://www.tiaonline.org/gov_affairs/events/Japan's_policies...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8068560.stm

http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/eng/presentat...

http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2012/06/internet-in-japan-bro...
Motion sickness comes from the conflict between your eyes and the part of your ear which tells you which way is up and lets you stay in balance. It is way less of a problem in big vehicles where you have a lot of things and people to look at, which experience the same forces as you and so move the way your brain expects. Being in control of these forces is another way of aligning what you perceive and what your brain expects. Motion sickness is very real, don't discount it as a non issue.
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In my opinion, this begs the question: what was the population of Hawaii expected to do in response to this warning? From my reading of the articles, for the most part people did not know what to do. In their position, without a clear plan, I might just hug my partner and children that one last time.

I wonder if there is a clear plan, and if there's a better way to communicate that to the population. That seems like maybe it should be more of a priority then this alert message, which seemed to only sow confusion.
Sorry, I made it sound like I think multiple tokens is an illegitimate choice. It's not; I just think, be aware of the tradeoffs and keep things as simple as they can possibly be.
I’ve frequently used the equivalent of HMAC_SHA512(long_secret,uid + ’|’ + timestamp) to generate a token on the server, which the client can retain and pass along requests, and can be verified on the server without persistence. I assume this is what you refer to as stateless authentication. While I agree that there are no real performance reasons to do so, it seems convenient to me every now and then. Is there a security reason to stop doing so?
Transaction fees back then weren’t as brutal so I will ignore that issue as I believe it is 100% solvable. What was truly brutal is that using standard FIFO accounting practices I owe an additional 30% tax on the “money” I spent. My cost basis for that particular coin amount was 10% of what the current price of BTC was when I made the transaction.

For tax purposes, Bitcoin is not considered a currency, it is considered an asset.[1] When you used it to buy some software, you were treated as exchanging that BTC for the software. Because that BTC had increased in value, you were tax on the gain in the value of the BTC actually used in the software-purchase transaction. This analysis generally applies in all of the Western world.

[1] Even if Bitcoin would be considered a currency for tax purposes, it would be considered a foreign currency (meaning, not the legal tender of your jurisdiction), so the same analysis applies. When transacting in foreign currency, you need to do gain/loss calculations for each transaction. Note that IRS advice for calculating digital currency gains/losses is essentially the advice they give for calculating foreign currency gains and losses, but simplified to layman's terms.
While I agree, car manufacturers are already monitoring and storing this data. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/01/1...) If the find they can sell it, they will.
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Oh hi, it's alternative-universe-you here with a rebuttal.

Optimal for whom? Why should I as a pedestrian have to wait or take an alternate route (e.g. a cross-walk) just to save you a bit of time and energy? Why is your time more important than mine, just because you're driving a car? Why is a pedestrian's safety less important than a bit of energy? These are people we're talking about! If there are limits or inefficiencies about stopping and starting, that sounds like a design flaw in the car to me, not in our laws.

We have certain roads where drivers get priority -- they're called freeways. Everywhere else, you're a person using the road just like anyone else. If you can't keep track of a few people walking around, then you're going too fast! Slow down. Then you'll have more time to react, and it'll even take less energy to stop.

If I were to run on foot through the streets, tackling anyone who got in my way (after all, I would have wasted time and energy moving around them!), then I'd get charged with assault. They certainly wouldn't get charged for impeding me by getting in my way, would they? Of course not, I hit them! Why does anything change just because you're sitting in a car? Why does that give you special status, to the point where it's okay to endanger other people who might want to use the road?
They mention RAM and SSD, but forgot to mention the CPU downgrade you get for free from Spectre et. al.
Throwaway and being intentionally vague for obvious reasons.

I knew Anthony some years ago. It was clear to me from day one that not all was right with his way of interacting with the world.

I suppose his nanny apparently had enough emotional intelligence to pick up on this and enough situational awareness to take notes.

I wish there were a safe way to share this, especially if it turned out to be useful in any way beyond schadenfreude.
I would prefer that families provide these services (and, therefore, the state focus on the formation of strong families).
So, under your plan, I should dread getting old.

I have no children. I have never wanted them, and it is a relief that I shouldn't have any (medical wise). Besides, it'd be risky at my age anyway. I have a spouse, but otherwise have no family on this side of the Atlantic. My father died, my mother is getting older, and my siblings both have families that include children. I'm supposed to burden my family with my care? I'm not sure immigration would let them come over here and if I go there, I have no health coverage. Sure, my spouse would take care of me. But at what cost? Quit his job and actually make less money, right when medical expenses go up? What if he's already died or disabled? Well... I'm screwed.

I'll add this: I did a lot of care for my ex. It was mental illness, but still. And I felt freaking trapped, and it took longer to leave. My grandmother married a man who had a stroke a year later. He became abusive, but she was scared to leave due to getting in trouble for abandonment (this was in the late 90's). She was stuck for a while. Your plan does nothing to help the folks that are in bad situations. Sure, you might want strong families, but the reality is that not every family is going to be that way.

The market is too brutal for most of this work and the state, in addition to general incompetence, lacks the moral authority to do so, especially when hard decisions must be made (e.g. when homelessness is driven by mental illness.)

Sorry you live in such a country, and glad I no longer do. The country I live in tries to do these things for folks, provides healthcare and elder care. It isn't perfect or anything, but they are doing more than the states did and they are trying to improve things slowly. The state doesn't have to be like that, and you can change it. Vote for different people. And if they don't do the stuff, vote them out of office.
People really turn into extremists around here whenever the topic is cars vs bikes vs pedestrians vs anything else. Of all communities you'd think that this one would be able to discuss this in a more generalized way without getting all emotional about how cars are the devil and bikes have no manners, etc, etc.

It would be a lot easier to have a productive discussion if there were some way to have it in terms of something people find more neutral. Maybe find+replace cars with aircraft and people with service vehicles. Fork trucks, pallet jacks and foot traffic could be another substitution.

It makes sense to segregate traffic and govern their interactions with defined rules and put lots of redundancy in those rules. That's why bike lanes and sidewalks, are a thing. In ports, rail yards, construction sites, mines an anywhere else there's a lot of different traffic there's similar rules about who goes where and how they interact with each other.

Interactions between classes of traffic need to be well defined and include lots of redundant rules for safety. Redundant rules allow the slack from a violation of expected behavior by one party to be picked up by another party that is following the rules that govern how it should behave.

With regard to this article in particular, I see jaywalking laws being more a result of society tolerating micro-managerial laws than I do on any special interest group.

Jaywalking laws would have happened sooner or later. The only reason people ascribe them to the automobile industry is because the automobile took over from the horse at about the same time period where society started tolerating putting the force of law behind what's just good manners.

If someone crosses the street in a dumb manner and expects other traffic to "just deal" they're in the wrong. Whether it's a car running red light or a pedestrian or a rider on horseback cutting off an ox cart does not matter.
We messed with human-driven cars to great amusement (to us) when we were teens.
Insurance companies mandating pedestrians carry a beacon? That's even less likely.
I wrestled with Passport for 3 weekends last October on my side project before reverting to a simple form for login. Passport has several dependencies that aren't well-documented, like a SQL ORM. It took a full weekend of researching to figure out what ORMs were and how they were used, since almost every blog assumes readers will recognize one in their code. This led to blogs pushing the opinion that ORMs were pointless and useless unless you already knew SQL.

Then, there are articles like the Hackernoon post explaining why most Passport blog posts are wrong in one way or another.[0] This article explains that there are no "copy/paste" authentication solutions for Javascript, as there are for other languages - and Passport is probably the best out there.

As there's no "copy/paste" auth solution for Javascript, it becomes essential to understand how auth works with your site. It has to be added to every Express render call, to work with the Session. And rolling your own is educational - you can learn some of the common pitfalls and why rolling your own is a bad idea.

I do plan to go back to Passport sometime this year. The number of Oauth providers is nearly overwhelming - too much to ignore. But also daunting for the first-time student.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/your-node-js-authentication-tutorial-...
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The OP was referring to the people threatening the operators for the mistake.
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But, weren't a significant number of people who went through those programs essentially given skills and experience that made them more relevant? Even if those programs didn't give them an education, several years of experience in building things definitely beats nothing. Notably, California still has this kind of program.

https://ccc.ca.gov
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Well, they're accurate but not precise.

What's useful is using the "DNA match" features of various websites to track down genetic relatives and use their research to flesh out your family tree beyond the point they intersect.

What's not useful is to use them to say "I'm 30% ____". It just doesn't work that way. Even the Ancestry results that show I'm like 30% "Ireland/Scotland/Wales" shows a whisker plot when you click in that gives a margin of error of +/- 35%.
"This is real. provided by the office of the governor in hawaii"

https://twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/953270472820457472
The sentiment expressed by the word is essentially "country with a lot of problems", yes. But the sentiment expressed by the statement as a whole is "We don't want people from those countries, we don't want to help them, we don't want them to access the American Dream. Despite our part in screwing up the world, we're not interesting in putting forth effort to help the people who have gotten screwed".

And the "we" in that statement is Trump, who speaks for the nation as its president.
Paying people to create value

You dont just make people create value. Creating value is the hard part - and the problem is, it becomes harder for humans than for machines.
And remember that when you need to click it, you will be 100% entirely terrified by the incoming missile. Parsing through the list will itself be challenging under those circumstances.
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We're considering using Amazon Connect for IVRs / cloud call center work. I'm wondering how it's fared in production, whether it's a good enough solution compared to competitors like Talkdesk, and whether there's enough support for it for pushing to production.
Why only your uniformed friends? Are only cops and members of the military worthy of having their money protected?

Also, I thought they were the ones who were supposed to do the scaring...
When I see things like this, I always wonder how the data is acquired. I have had many ideas in the past that I couldn't really go through with as they were data-bound. I am sure it would be preferred to be kept relatively under-wraps, but I'm still curious.

If anyone has any conjecture, or if itrinity would be willing to explain a bit, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Why are you being so reductionist? Drivers have to accept extremely tight restrictions on their behavior already. I feel like I'm talking to an alien that's never driven a car. I mean good lord you have to 6 month class to learn a subset of the rules of the road.

The fact that cars are given priority because its more efficient to do so doesn't imply that people think they're more important. In a world with only bikes we would make the same contract so that bikes could go faster.

Allowing cars to achieve and maintain speed increases efficiency without impacting pedestrian walk times. Compared to this, a system where roads are shared does waste energy, time, and economic value.
You're thinking of sidewalks in a city. I don't know about elsewhere, but more populous places in Metro Atlanta have long sidewalks running between subdivisions and retail with no more than a small bump between it and the road.
> And if people want to do drugs all day ?

They’ll need to find a job, since drugs tend to be expensive luxuries.
Great Idea! I haven't tried it yet, but This is really awesome in concept.

Also, you may want to alleviate some people's concerns about using plugins. The first thing that comes to my mind, would all my existing plugins still work. You'd probably have to try it out and do a test.
Automated speeding tickets will fix that quickly
> that's not Android keyboard. That's Google keyboard. Solution: use a different keyboard. I've used the AOSP keyboard since I started using Android.

How to I try the AOSP keyboard? I have a Google Pixel and it looks like my only built-in option is Gboard. I'm guessing they removed it.
There is no such thing as a generous corporation. It goes completely against maximizing shareholder value. Google gets something out of AMP, something they can quantify monetarily.
The difference is in the need for a shower and change of clothes afterwards.
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You fail CAPTCHAs and get flagged as a robot. Are you sure you're not a robot?

I have the same problem.

To pass Google CAPTCHA you have to perform like an average human. This is different from getting it right. Once I started being lazier, (e.g. back of a sign isn't a sign, picture that contains a storefront but in the distance doesn't contain a storefront), I have had greater success rates.

It's like Google is training me to be dumber.
Correct, if crushing the enemy was the goal, the only way to win was to take over cities, land and controlling as an occupying force. The military had oppressive and crippling rules of engagement put on them when fighting a guerrilla style war.

The alternative with political pressure would have been to work with China and Russia which at the time, communism was the biggest threat, so that wasn't an option.

https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-U-S-have-won-the-Vietnam...
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