skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great story. And so now you spend 60, 70, or more hours a week with your son, which gives your life meaning.

Nobody said you have to have the same values for your entire life, or that somehow you have to go punch a clock to make a difference in the world. This is about happiness and meaning, not work or family. The two don't have to have anything to do with one another.

You and you alone decide what your values are and what gives your life meaning -- and whatever that is can and probably should (?) change throughout your life.
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You describe a rock star. Rules don't apply to rock stars.

For the vast majority of everyone else, not participating is exactly as described - statistically speaking those tend to be the lowest performers in my experience even if they might be the hardest working. For the rest of us communication and teamwork is the primary name of the game and how most "normies" will be the most productive. I have zero clue how you'd expect to operate a remote devops team (for example) without a constant flow of communication over what's happening, and I've found those that try to silo information off (typically with the "productivity" excuse) are about the worst in the world to work with.

Have there been exceptions? Of course. One of the best developers I've ever worked with refused to participate in chat and required everything done over e-mail to the point of absurdity. This was worth doing because he was exceptional. It also severely limited his usefulness to the organization to a very specific type of work. Very few folks I've worked with have been so exceptional as to warrant that type of kid glove handling.
I have watched this video dozens of times. It is like an hour of meditative breathing exercises condensed into 5 minutes.
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Not during the opium wars period but I love a movie called To Live. It's about a family's struggles with adjusting for the insanity of the cultural revolution. Lots of dark humor and I was super impressed by the scope of it. The familys world comes crashing down multiple times as the civil war breaks out and the revolution really kicks off. The movie, director and lead actress got banned from making movies for a few years too so you know it's good.
Java EE is no less or more pure than Spring. It's just an alternative set of libraries and frameworks for roughly the same purposes. Everything else is just marketing by Oracle. The statement that Spring is obsolete is plainly wrong. Java EE neither provides the exact same feature set nor is it included in default Java environments.

Spring runs in any servlet container and on every cloud platform that supports Java. Spring Boot applications can even run as a stand-alone JAR. Java EE requires an application server such as Glassfish or JBoss to run. This incurs additional cost and complexity.

The Spring ecosystem is somewhat larger, too. You'll find a wide range of additional libraries by both Pivotal and third parties that draw upon Spring features like annotations and the Spring way of doing dependency injection.

If I were to decide whether to use Spring or Java EE for a new application regardless of the environment I'd clearly opt for Spring. If on the other hand for one reason or another you're running a Java EE environment anyway you might just as well use those capabilities. Depending on your scalability requirements and the number of applications a Java EE application can perform better than a Spring one in terms of memory usage because Java EE libraries typically are provided by the server whereas Spring libraries often come with each application individually.
Web search shouldn't be centralized or closed source, it should be made of the same stuff Linux is. Whatever Linux does to keep existing, there should be a community driven web search project that mimics it.
Which government are you referring to? India had several governments in the past. And yes the same lumpen elements in the past too had created the same "Us vs Them". There is a known religious right wing which follows this agenda. Which other government apart from that are you referring to how ?
Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution
Why should Google have "good intentions"? It's a company, a publicly traded one at that. Their intentions are profit maximization. Abiding the law and maintaining somewhat of a reputation tend to be non-optional for that, but it's not their primary goal.
This hits the nail on the head. Most of the value that you're creating is captured by someone else.
So why should you be expected to spend all your life to benefit someone else's interests?

It's quite strange that today slavery is a completely taboo subject (rightfully so) and yet
workplace slavery is not only tolerated but encouraged. It's essentailly the same; someone else uses their coercive power over you to essentially steal a big chunk of your life.
The worst part is that it's a first-in best-dressed, roll-of-the-dice kind of game.
Oh wow, I thought that was a quote from the Hater CEO not the WeWork CEO. Yikes!
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This isn't unique to Apple: Google has adopted the same policy.

It's not clear what the best solution is here, or if the best way to have the conversation about it follows hyperbole like "the most disturbing thing".

I think password managers are on the whole a good thing because people are using more (stronger) passwords.

I also think the password manager could (at least on trusted hardware like an iPhone) provide some protection from the attacks you're alluding to, such as a tarpit that slows access to the password database, but they certainly won't offer any protection on a desktop machine without specialised hardware and it might be difficult to get right -- difficult enough that new security vulnerabilities are introduced instead.

What exactly do you propose?
Here is a sample questionnaire to get you started in evaluating your board.Would you agree or disagree with this performance criteria as they pertain to your board experience?
One of the most surreal moments of my life involved traveling to Japan in the early 2000's and encountering a t-shirt from my high school at a clothing resale shop.
Notably, this is a more advanced view compared to the obligatory course taught during the Bachelor's degree called Systems Programming and Computer Architecture (http://www.vvz.ethz.ch/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/lerneinheit.vie...).
We're talking about deliberately hiding wealth to avoid taxation. This is hardly loophole territory.

I'm Australian. I've lived in the US long enough now that I am treated as a US tax resident -- worldwide income, foreign assets, the whole shebang. I have to report and pay capital gains tax on my compulsory retirement savings in Australia, which I cannot transfer here or withdraw, because of an oversight in the US-Australia tax treaty.

Yes, it's absurd. But even in the matter of a few hundred bucks it is not worth messing with the IRS. There is too much to lose.

You have to pick your battles. Trying to sneak past capital gains tax illegally is bitpenny wise and pound foolish. If you don't like the tax laws, do what everyone else has to do and get elbow-deep into the messy, uncomfortable and morally challenging world of representative democracy.
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"Ugh. It's SO tiresome how everyone who disagrees with me is arguing in bad faith."
DNS-over-HTTPS draft-03 is implemented in dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy

I'm currently working on an nginx module, which will make it trivial to deploy DoH as a vhost on an existing webserver.
Still better than no hashing. Still a tough nut to crack if it's hashed plus salted with unique salt.
That $1 billion also quickly turned into $500 million anyway if they held off selling last year to deal with these tax issues.
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If you have ever used Safari's password generation feature, you know that is pretty much impossible.
Yes, I’m serious. Why would I joke about someone getting mugged in the bathroom?
This was in Baltimore.

Visit the Hopkins medical campus sometime (but during the day). There are guards with long guns on every street corner.
Ancient texts are deciphered by experts. And its very far from trivial!

Strongly recommend this textbook https://www.amazon.com/Story-Decipherment-Egyptian-Hieroglyp...

Its all about deciphering ancient languages. It doesn't quite get as far as the very recent breakthroughs e.g. Inca knots.
The idea that the hardest working but least social person is one of the lowest performers is... extraordinarily unintuitive. Do you mind explaining why you feel like socializing at work makes a person more performant?

You gave an example of a management type (who operates a team remotely). Do you really think that holds true for the people actually doing the work?
Electron can launch many CubeSats at once with a dispenser. So saying it can't do CubeSat class is not correct. This is what the upcoming NASA ELaNa XIX is doing:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches

It also possible to have CubeSats in different orbits by timing the dispensing of the CubeSats and also the attitude of the launch vehicle at dispensing time.
Then the Rothschild's must be crazy for exchanging so much of their us assets into sterling.
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/rothschild-just-dumped-...
Americans would never deal with that shit. We’d have drained it and paved it long ago.
Working 70 hrs a week is a signal to me that one is not competent. Computers work for me, not the other way around. As for the people with "bullshit jobs" I assume they do it because of imposter syndrome. The only other category I can think of is doctors, doing it because there's literally no one else who can save a life. That's a management/credentialism issue.
I think Firefox's solution is a little better. You can set a master password which is used to encrypt the password database. To unlock you have to enter the password. You can browse without unlocking.
> Life with $500 million and $1 billion would not be very different.

Except for one important detail: membership in the Three Comma Club :-). Purchasing power has long ceased to matter for these people: money is just a way to keep score in a game. It can be traded for equally pointless status symbols like bigger yachts, tropical islands, or (recently) Mars rockets. That bitcoin billionaire would much rather turn $500 million into dollar bills and set them on fire than let them be used to fix some of America's worn-out roads and bridges.
That's a useful list, thanks. It's also saddening: almost all of those items are in the "it's hard to implement" category. I get that free software development is hard and self-directed, but it still bums me out that people are willing to toss the baby out with the bathwater.

A couple of those points seem plain wrong/misleading, though:

> Programs now have to deal with malicious applications capable of managing mountpoints giving fake results via the filesystem.

If malicious code has privileges to change the pseudo-device paths for /dev/zero and /dev/random on your system you can easily be compromised regardless. Such code could sniff your network traffic, put junk data into any file (or socket descriptor, since it could probably also install a tap) your program used, and likely also debug/inspect/halt/alter the runtime behavior of the victim process(es).

> You can't let the program go into a chroot jail if it needs to read the kernel's magic filesystem.

This is technically true, but I think it would be possible to develop a convention or standard for chrooted programs that resulted in certain "capabilities" (e.g. "can it use procfs? which parts? how about /dev/zero?") being present in standard locations inside the jail. It is more implementation/standardization work, though, so this isn't a criticism--more of a regret.
Thanks, think I'll probably head somewhere in southern Thailand until my visa expires.
Reminds me of the well-known type of question in introductory calculus:

Q: "A population of bacteria in a petri-dish doubles every hour, after 24 hours the petri-dish reaches 100% saturation. At what time did the petri-dish reach 50% saturation?"

A: 23 hours.
Color me skeptical until someone evaluates these claims who was not involved with coming up with the training program in question.
As an American expat my experience far more people are moving to the US for tax reasons than are moving away. Out of all the western democracies it’s still one of the lowest taxable rates.

Most people surrendering citizenship aren’t doing so to avoid taxes. They are doing so to avoid double taxation.

A Bitcoin billionaire is either paying the US 15-20% capital gains tax or France, for example, 45-50%. Either way, Caesar still gets his due.
If your users are getting pwned because they reuse their easy leaked passwords on your service, then that's the real world adversary.

Also, all passwords appear in plaintext at some point. Even when sitting in a type="password" field that was autofilled by your uber secure password manager.

The main problem is that this solution is just pointlessly bad UX for most sites. But worth it (or something like it) if your users are losing real money.
We just quit WeWork (WeWork Transbay in SOMA) because of the noise. I think most people don't realize that the hot desk area is supposed to be a quiet area. I repeatedly told the community managers to make sure people know that, but they didn't do anything about it.

At one point, there was even a family with 2 small kids eating lunch there.

Also for 1-2 months half of the tables didn't have a power outlet because they had to remove the extension cords (security reasons) and had to wait until they could install the cords below the floor.And they didn't even offer a discount or something in return. Neither did they inform the customers how long and why this is happening - I had to go up to them and ask. How can this happen?

For a business where operational excellence and customer support must be stellar, they are not doing a very good job. And don't get me started on their software. And we've tried out 3 locations in SF, with similar experiences.

Maybe it's different in other cities.
I don't know about physical holes in the media, but a number of Apple // games had a few bad sectors sprinkled throughout the disk that would cause the 5.25" drives to make sort of a "BBRRRRNK" noise when copy programs hit them, and then ultimately the copy program would stop and show an error.

Copy //+ defeated this by letting you choose what game you were copying, and it had a list of sectors to avoid for each game. The good ol' days. This was back when calling stolen programs "warez" was still cool.
I would like to point your attention to:

"From NAND to Tetris.
Building a Modern Computer From First Principles"

http://www.nand2tetris.org/
Funny enough, we actually did drain and pave most of the canals in Venice, California.
This is great! I'm probably a high c* so if apple are hiring I'm in!

* hello Dunning Kruger!
Why do most tech companies have C player hiring teams?
I think the guy in the article’s comments about it being like a 90’s Kia reinforces your comment, the Kias were known to be of cheap/bad build quality when they first came out but have gotten much better since.
Good luck protecting yourself against a state, even if you are a billionaire. You have to sleep somewhere and protect your assets somehow.
I would only get .io or .ai if the .com is taken but can be bought. Otherwise add a word to take the .com.
Ugh. It's supposed to be Best Practices, rather than better than nothing, and is ostensibly from Google. So should be limiting to the appropriate choices: bcrypt, scrypt, PBKDF2 or Argon2.
An updated analysis of the “Giving up on Julia” post
The water is protesting for too many tourists.
This would be the perfect time to clean up the city :)
Few password rules can’t be expressed in such a regular expression, but there are definitely some where doing is impractical or absurd. To take an example I’m familiar with, on FastMail and Topicbox we use Dropbox’s zxcvbn (a truly excellent library embodying a sound approach to password security), and flat-out deny passwords that are expected to take less than 10⁶ guesses, as too weak. I shudder to think how many megabytes long a regular expression to validate that would be, and how atrociously it would perform.

(Other rules may embed restrictions on use of names, dates, &c. associated with the account. Those may be painful to shoehorn into a regular expression, but doing so is probably generally not too impractical.)

Fortunately, the likes of zxcvbn are very password-generator-friendly, as they’re encouraging the sorts of strong passwords password generators like to make; so long as they also have similar accidentally-weak-generated-password protection, zxcvbn is unlikely to cause any trouble and can probably be ignored in defining a pattern for the generator to use. So long as the form uses setCustomValidity to do its complaining when pattern isn’t enough, and the browser’s password generator knows to look at that and try again, you’re good to go. (This is all hypothetical—I don’t believe any tools actually look at password field validation to see if they did the right thing.)
Similar to trains, but high speed, and you have your own cart, you do not need to wait for a scheduled train.
It does not need to be using tracks but an exclusive road with specific sensors and electronics so the carts would be able to avoid collisions at intersections.
Depends on the game. Some games (especially older ones) can launch in offline mode
Multi-pronged solutions are needed for this massive issue. We need to avoid emissions where we can, switch to clean energy where we can, and use clean-up technologies if they do become energetically feasible. And keep in mind that just planting more trees or preserving existing rainforests can also go a long way. In the end doing something is better than coming up with endless roundtable resolutions and pledges that are then universally ignored.
Maybe globally it's not. Some regions however would eliminate a great amount of suffering were they able to implement it. Because at the end of the day population control comes around anyway.
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OP here. Thanks for all your replies. They're really helpful! I'll go through them and reply if necessary.
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I feel like the pre-monetization Internet had a lot more of these sites. Or at least they weren't drowned out by the noise of a-b test optimized attention grabbing time sinks as much.
But here you're just pushing a bad definition of investment off onto a bad definition of 'financial scheme.' Now we have to figure out what entails a 'financial scheme.' It seems to me that taking my money and putting it on black could be called a financial scheme so we still haven't gotten anywhere in what is and isn't an investment, unless you don't believe in a distinction between gambling and investment.
This would be insanely more useful if it could display math correctly. For example, most of the math in https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology only shows the LaTeX code.
So much managed tech for something nature already solved for us passively. I think if we just changed where and how some of our basic input and outputs go we could solve this without any tech.

https://halfhillfarm.com/2017/04/21/how-hugelkultur-can-help...
Actually as part of tax reform, US is moving to territorial system instead of world. It's probably the single biggest improvement and fix to come out of that bill.
Does this support images? I tried to convert Ernest P. Chan's blog [0] into a pdf using this and the results were not well formatted.

[0] - http://epchan.blogspot.com/
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brain training as such has been widely debunked by working neuroscientists, those without a personal stake in brain training products

tldr: you improve on the tasks you train on, but generalization to other tasks is extremely limited at best
Zero setup, easy to use database as a service(python client included)
https://github.com/prototype-project/easydb-python-client

Hi, I'm looking for some feedback. All you need to do is to install client. Space == database, bucket == collection/table.
I found that confusing, too. I thought, they were actually running EasyList and EasyPrivacy in full and fulltime, which would have been completely orthogonal to Google's entire business model.

So, what it actually means is that if you follow the visual guidelines, which Google has been following for reputation reasons for a long time, then you get to track users all you want, which is where Google is market leader. If you don't follow the visual guidelines, then your ads and tracking gets blocked, fostering the monopoly of Google.

Sounds like a primary example of anti-competitive behaviour then.
Here’s a prediction - the future of independent Britain is as a vassal state of China.

I’ve heard many arguments on how brexit is not going to be a disaster and many which say it’s going to be great.

The fact is that any exit from the EU will add friction to transactions with its closest geographic partner which it did not have before.

So the best option is that either the brits become a stepping stone for some world power (America/China).

And since recently someone pointed out that “China currently won, America just doesn’t know it yet.” I suspect that the power who finds use in propping up a regime near the Atlantic will be China.

Or it pretends to it’s populace that it’s independent but instead conforms as closely to EU regs to facilitate trade.

Either way, the drop in GDP is guaranteed, it is a matter of how much.

Every drop in GDP Is many thousands upon thousands of jobs that cease to be, its the inability to fund the NHS or repair trains.

Eventually it’s the utter overtake of the country by people who promise the moon but then divide the dwindling spoils.

Now humans think this sounds bad. But it’s not. It’s not terrible/ you aren’t becoming a third world nation.

You just have a GDP reduction. That’s it.

You also get to keep people tout, and fight harder for whatever it is that drove people to vote against their interests.
Yes, I'm sure it's a super effective secret Alzheimer treatment... I'm selling bridges incidentally.
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Singapore is a western (like) country and has no capital gains tax. Though as some other commenters have noted, i don’t know if the IRS would consider it legal for a US citizen to bail and not pay the tax.

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Right. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. They BOTH generate misinformation while the masses claw and beg for basic service provided at reasonable value (i.e., the taxes to waste and corruption ratio is reasonable).

Meanwhile, while everyone is sucked in the (Mad Magazine) spy v spy ruse the money bubbles to the top - regardless of which side is promising the otherwise.

Actions speak louder than words. Why anyone listens to, let alone trusts, a politician is beyond me.
He presents a silly argument ("computers encourage generalists but Adam Smith said specialisation was the way forwards") and I'm pretty sure he's aware its silly, its more of a hook to build the rest of the musings around.
I heard there's a law preventing you from getting a visa to the US if you surrender your US citizenship for tax reasons. Does that still apply if you became a citizen and resident of a higher taxing nation, but didn't want to be double taxed?
We'll add images soon. As for the blog post, should work if you use the article URL: http://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/url.php?size=A4#http...
On talent to maintain quality with Macs & OS X, instead of only having all top notch human capital into iOS.
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