skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This shouldn’t be shocking at all. (I also wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Satoshi Nakamoto is an NSA front.)

The US has been involved in ‘election meddling’ and regime change forever, and building tools to help activists destabilize governments is part of that.

That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.
When was the last time anyone _in the media_ said _Communist_ China?

Yes. China knows they're communist. Yes, China says they're communist. But at this point the West's propaganda masks that because...there's massive money to be made.
A Tale of Two Operating Systems
Don't call people "jerks".
Tariffs are stupid
This article [0] seems pretty comprehensive. I recall there being a thread here on this topic fairly recently but I can't seem to find it now.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/13/how-to-p...
There is nowadays some constructing criticism to Linus's outbursts on the mailing lists:

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 05:44:04PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [snip]

Don't shit on (new) contributors like this. Noralf has done good work (go
look), Kconfig is an impossible combinatorial maze, and I'd be rather
annoyed if you managed to drive away Noralf (and other contributors) with
your mail.

I know that you need to rage every once in a while, but at least only send
those mails to Dave (and me) in private. On dri-devel here, this isn't
accepted.
"Jerk" means "a contemptible naive, fatous, foolish, or inconsequential person". Are you sure that this is what you mean?
When was the last time any politician said, "well actually, we're a republic. This is how it works. It was designed that way. You proles need to sit down and get in line."

Yes. It's a republic.

No. There's no effort to communicate that to those most effected. At some point the friction from the disconnect will manifest itself in "weird" ways. Trump being a prime example.

Is that best for the republic?
Unfortunately, at this early stage, Cloudrun still requires some level of WRF expertise, needed to create these input files. We are working on automating these steps so you don't have to, but it will take another 2 months or so.

In the meantime, you can email us at help@cloudrun.co, let us know your region of interest and time window, and we will happily create the input files for you.

We considered not launching the Beta before the input file creation was done, but we wanted to get feedback as early as possible. I really appreciate your interest and feedback!

If by any chance you decide to go creating these files yourself, the process is tedious but well documented here: http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/docs/user_guide_V3/users_...

We do plan to start writing short tutorials on setting up simulations and geared toward non-experts.
Politics That Work
I picked all of these things for my startup 6 months ago except I'm using Vuetify with Vue. just like it doesn't make sense to rebuild everything that Django provides it doesn't make sense to rebuild all the UI components Vuetify provides.
Well, I think your scenario applies to another idea: most often we avoid doing that thing that really is the most important, because we emotionally fear it somehow. It can be just calling a client, or changing a career, or even translates for asking a partner out.

For this, you are right, it is vital to stop from time to time, assess the situation, identify the most important thing, and regardless of how difficult it is, do it.
Over 40 models of low-cost #Android devices shipped with #Triada #banking Trojan
Looking for tool to add Audio to Code
Hey. I find myself teaching a ton. Especially to less technical people. I am looking for a tool or product to embed 30 second audio clips inline to explain what a function is doing.

There's plenty more I'd like to do but I haven't found anything able to do this. In browser would be best. Any ideas?
With attacks like this it would never be safe to use image recognition in any applications where human life depends on accurate results.
> If we can just destroy entire enemy fleets by jumping to lightspeed with one ship, why are not all battles fought that way.

For the same reason naval battles in the real world weren't always fought by ramming ships into other ships. Ships are expensive, hyperdrives are expensive, and more valuable as ships than as ballistic mass. It would be a waste of resources for it to become a common tactic.

It was a lucky gamble that paid off.

>Maybe it's just that the original trilogy slipped in to me before I got old enough to where I think about such things

The OT is just as ridiculous. The trench run on the Death Star makes no sense outside of the context of the World War 2 film it was lifted from, no one in their right mind would design AT-ATs with such a high and vulnerable center of gravity, stormtrooper armor clearly does nothing against teddy bears and small rocks, spaceships bank and make noises in space, etc. Even lightsabers are just "cool laser swords" and metaphors for "space samurai" but don't make a lot of sense as weapons in a universe with telekinesis and blasters. Actual samurai weren't stupid enough to use their katanas if they had spears, bows and eventually guns available, yet I don't recall ever seeing a Jedi sniper, or the lightsaber version of a naginata.

Sound military tactics and plausible design were never really a thing in Star Wars.
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> That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.

Made me LOL.
I agree with you but I think teachers are very important. Good teachers inspire students and help them learn things that they did not know they could.
And you are right, often in hustle mode we go fast and work hard, but don't work intelligently.

I'm trying myself to incorporate forced "retreats or slow-downs" to better assess my progress.
I meant it's also true that Amazon won't ship many thing to The Netherlands, which is in the EU.
My god, the fragile personalities - subtract the harshness and extract his wisdom.
Dropbox paper is only suggestion so far. But that won't let the code execute inline. I have to have python support. Node and angular/react support would be great too.
I miss those days
The mistake made here is assuming the issue is social networks and not people.

Media has gotten increasingly vile with every new iteration of attention absorption.

People and human brains are the issue.
In my opinion, I think the better way to write better is to write a personal journal. Only for you.
Some of these graphs are quite depressing. This one [1] about budget priorities in the US seems completely skewed. Can anyone confirm the truthfulness of the sources?

[1] http://politicsthatwork.com/graphs/trump-budget-priorities
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50 shades of Go: traps, gotchas, and common mistakes for new Golang devs
Personally, I enjoy Linus' rants on a regular basis. They are the perfect antidote to total idiocy that happens in the Linux software world at times. I've very rarely ever found his point of view to be incorrect, and the abrasion that occurs is a great way to rub the shine off a lot of bullshit.

I know people find it uncomfortable or rude, but I think its a necessary feature of a great leader when dealing with an unruly mass of, generally speaking, mostly arrogant, mostly privileged individuals.
I use to buy my electronic from specialty shops. Cameras from B&H and audio from Sweetwater. I switched because my purchases were less frequent and as much. My day to day work is education and I do side work and small videos for work. I know that B&H has had problems with ethical treatment of their workers and were fined $3.4 million by the labor department. One I heard things have been corrected and that things are different there but they actually were the only place I could go to get everything I needed. If you make a Purchase Order you don't want to fill out multiple of ones from new vendors.

Fast forward to last week I was given a budget of about $6,000 to purchase company equipment and I looked at Amazon for 2 minutes and went right to B&H. After I submitted my order to my company I looked up everything on Amazon to see what I was missing. Well everything was bundles or weird price ranges with only 1 or 2 items left for sale. After 45 minutes I realized that it was a mess and I couldn't come up with a clear answer of how much anything was going to cost unless I had a credit card (We do purchase orders) and just looking things up it was a whole $50 less. Glad I went to a single seller.
I worry about when Amazon starts offering medicine, more than anything else. Fake drugs can and will kill people.
Actually, there is Microsoft Office for android now, and it is free (as in beer)
I only ever hear people use jerk to mean rude, or hurtful
Doctor in Kenya performs brain surgery on the wrong person
Could be possible in Jupyter notebooks maybe, at least with some extensions
Tusk Evernote client updated now available as a Snap
He may be a harsh critic, but looking at this [1] you can see why other developers work with him. He praises and acknowledges good work from others. He definitely contributes to the overall discussion, and in the end, I even understand the problem discussed.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/29/449
couldn't agree more. This was from the perspective of a developer-entrepreneur. If I was talking to non-technical entrepreneur the arguments in favour of Wordpress are probably stronger. So much easier to find developers and agencies who are familiar with it. Without spending a fortune. It's easier to pass from one agency to another even. Not to mention easier to sell your business later on... To quote Patrick McKenzie[0]:

"Practically speaking, this means that the market wants your website to be on WordPress and your technology stack to be something very, very mainstream, like Rails or PHP. That ensures that, when they want to hire someone to work with it, that person will exist in quantity and be inexpensive. The market highly dislikes software which is written in something more esoteric (the new Javascript hotness, Golang, Erlang, etc) because that adds substantial risk and cost to operating the business."

[0] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jerk

Definition of jerk

1 a : an annoyingly stupid or foolish person

was acting like a jerk

b : an unlikable person; especially : one who is cruel, rude, or small-minded

a selfish jerk
Thanks! We (at Datawire) are working towards this with both Telepresence and Forge. Part of the premise is that developers also need self-service features in their operational infrastructure, which is why we also have Ambassador. It's a complex problem!
I’ve grown weary of this blog/Nate Silver. They seem entirely too devoted to contrarianism to be constructive.
I would be very curious to see some analytics on how many HN readers actually click the link, rather than just read (or participate in) the comments.
Facebook's algorithm has wiped out a once flourishing digital publisher
Can you entrap a competitor? Aka, produce a counterfeit product and inform them of that status- and lawsuit them for not acting on that info.

I imagine it a pretty easy solution to have a automatic first reporter bot, and have the
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book.pdf
I find your comment ironic, considering the basis of the whole articles was very alternative:

"Brainwaves were first noticed by German psychiatrist Hans Berger. In 1929, he published a paper describing the repeating waves of current he observed when he placed electrodes on people’s scalps. It was the world’s first electroencephalogram (EEG) recording — but nobody took much notice. Berger was a controversial figure who had spent much of his career trying to identify the physiological basis of psychic phenomena. It was only after his colleagues began to confirm the results several years later that Berger’s invention was recognized as a window into brain activity."
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Yeah, me too :-)
Without publishing, it is impossible to write blog posts. Publishing is more important than sentence structure to readers.
This is no secret at all.
for me this is the same flavour as mindfulness (= concentrate on the present, as this is the only thing that truly exists, in contrast to the past or the future).

to learn mindfulness, meditation can help

but this takes a lot of training because you need to rewire the way the brain has always worked. personally, i am not sure if any meaningful progress can be achieved in altering they way you think (thinking more slow/being mindful)
> Restrict processing – in your admin panel where there’s a list of users, there should be a button “restrict processing”. The user settings page should also have that button. When clicked (after reading the appropriate information), it should mark the profile as restricted. That means it should no longer be visible to the backoffice staff, or publicly. You can implement that with a simple “restricted” flag in the users table and a few if-clasues here and there.

The simple hubris in this statement is jaw-dropping. “Just a flag and a few if clauses! Easy peasy!”
Ergonomics? I love rust as much as the next guy but ergonomics was the one recurring pain point for me. So much of the language is inconsistent/incomplete and the debuggers barely work sometimes.
I've also worked with quite a few startups and usually recommend the following:

- Python / Node.js for the backend

- React.js (with Redux) / Angular for the front-end

- MySQL / Postgresql as the db

- Host on a digitalocean or linode VM

- ReactNative (if using React.js) for mobile apps, prefer to write native apps otherwise.

All of the above are proven technologies with Node.js giving an edge when it comes to real-time applications.

The hardest part I've found is in having a consistent design, marketing and branding strategy. Usually the inhouse designers are swamped and it gets really tricky for frontend developers to make the beautiful looking widgets that were designed in Adobe InDesign or whatever...
GDPR and Kappa/event sourcing/message queue based/you name it architecture goes together nicely as you get audit logs of everything and it should be quite doable to propagate "delete this person's data" events around the place.

It's a huge hassle compared to what many companies are doing with customer data now but I think it's for the best.

Most things about GDPR go like "Does it feel a bit shady? It probably is. Don't do that." (depending on your moral compass of course)

One thing is for sure: there's a lot of opportunities for consultants as all the big companies need help to resolve the mess of legacy systems storing customer data.
Python cheatsheet
I honestly can't tell if you're being ironic, given the subject matter.
Honestly, I would probably build it out on WordPress with a slick theme from somewhere, and the app built out as a plugin using jQuery or Backbone on the frontend. See if works and people give me money.

If I get money, refactor frontend to use react/redux.

On the back, if PHP/WordPress weren't a good fit, I'd rewrite in another language and have WordPress proxy the requests and cache the responses smartly (POST/DELETE/etc would invalidate the cache for GET) or something.

I don't understand why you'd want to start out with a complex stack. It locks you into a set of solutions when you don't even know the whole problem set yet. See what people give you money for and figure it out from there.
This is not my first time down the primrose path. I already have a few patents in my basket. I been tempted to try filing it myself masochist that I am.
To be fair, I think the parsec line was supposed to be intentional. Han was making up some obvious nonsense and wanted to see whether or not these two suckers were smart enough to call him out on it. For some reason, this was retconned to the Kessel Cluster being a maze of black holes and parsecs being used correctly, because of how difficult it was to navigate around all of those gravity wells in hyperspace. Even though that makes even less sense.
Amazon is going to stop selling nest products.
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-wont-sell-nest-product...
I love tarsnap as well. Does its thing very well without getting in the way. It's a pleasure every time I use it.
I consider myself a sophisticated internet user and even I can't really tell how to know if a seller is the "real brand" page or not.

I recently bought a Hario coffee grinder. I looked at what I thought was the official page for the item on Amazon (not a third party seller) yet 10-15% of the reviews all complained about receiving a counterfeit. That's when I gave up and bought it at Williams Sonoma.
Thank you for the feedback! At this point we don't target end consumers, but rather small businesses that create these kind of products. However, we do get a lot of requests for specialized and intuitive graphics/visualization and may go further in that direction later this year.
"I think all of the above features can be implemented in a few weeks by a small team. "
how to trust the rest of the article after reading this?
(assuming you meant to write Kafka) Being able to notify every internal service to delete a user's data is always nice, but in the case of event sourcing, the events are the data. Yet you can't delete Kafka events (not sure about other platforms). In my eyes, GDPR is the death of Kafka as an event sourcing store.
> Why did we need that upgrade?

Do you even know how old American missiles are? They are from 1970-80s. US made no new developments here since 1991, when all ICBM programs were canceled.
This article is one of the best I've seen for describing actual features that you need to build.

I agree that the specific language here is poorly chosen ("simple" and "a few if-clauses" are perilously close to the word "just") but I don't think that should detract from the enormous value the article itself provides.
Probably still good enough to saturate the typical American broadband connection though.
> You want to charge based on the value that you deliver.

Charging per key reduces the value in my opinion, exactly for the reason I stated above. It puts blocks at the point where the product is most useful (Adding a key).

I can live with extra cost when a new developer is brought on board. There's already a few things I need to buy to bring them on, and this is a reasonable extra cost. But adding charges when I add key adds friction exactly at the point where I want the product to reduce it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485147
Whichever one you're familiar with - that requirement doesn't provide any meaningful information to decide among the many choices. It's like asking "which path should I take to cross the street".
I don't mind music for work, as long as it is without lyrics. But i can't filter out the lyrics while trying to process some kind of writing in from of me.
previously (original github post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492832
Why This CEO Started a Secret Company to Compete with His Existing One
Why are developers of popular database solutions so reluctant to write secure-by-design software. You would guess that some basic form of authentication should be implemented in any internet-facing service. But here we are, after the MongoDB fiasko, still left with thousands of vulnerable services because someone didn't bother to implement basic auth.
Sorry to embark on a conspiracy theory rabbit hole, but when i read something like that, I am left wondering who really conned whom? Who was the real mastermind? The CIA, in some far fetched scheme to control the world? Or did bohemian artists con the US Government and American people into bankrolling their lifestyle? There is a surface narrative, to cover up the ‘real story,’ but why should i be so naive to believe this telling of the story either? Without a doubt , for any interpretation, the American taxpayer certainly was on the losing team.
And praise from Linus is far more highly valued than praise from your standard overly-optimistic business-type yes-man.

The thing is Linus speaks volumes to people like Linus. And it just so happens that people like Linus are really good at writing the kind of software that goes in an operating system. Most of the criticism either comes from outside or from the type of people who feel they need to protect others from things that they themselves are able to handle. The latter is basically where ideas about censorship come from (I'm going to read this first to decide whether it's suitable for you to read).
It wouldn't matter where funding came from if the basic algorithms used for encryption as well as the rest of Tor source are sound and audited. Are there any past, present or future efforts to audit Tor?

The problem of well funded govts flooding Tor exit node pool with their own nodes and globally inspecting traffic is a real issue that I think the current design of Tor is not equipped to circumvent. This can happen even if Tor hadn't received any funding from any govt. Any darknet has to be hot target for govt infiltration and subversion and Tor is not an exception. If you're planning to do something highly illegal, think if you need to do it at all. Do not assume a few hops through a few machines means you'll forever be out of reach of concerted attempts at finding you.
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Small nitpick: this was not the dawn of the dial-up age. This was the end of 1999. I had been dialing up for at least 5 years at this point and I'm sure there where many who had it before me.
From what I know, If you're self-employed you'll also have to pay payroll tax, which makes taxes end up close to 50% without even taking taking sales taxes into account.
Yes it is. The author presents his dogma as the one and only truth, which you're not allowed to deny if you want to be a "scientist". It's similar to labelling people as climate change "deniers" and "anti-vaxxers" etc etc.
Preschool+Color+Game+Using+Legos
Demonsaw 4 is an encrypted communications platform
I wonder if it is data from Ingress?
So, you are saying that Russian warships never visited Cuba?
Sadly while he may be running the kernel development quite well, he defends some serious idiocies when it comes to his dive log software Subsurface.

Such as defending the bundling of modified libs, thus making it hard (if not impossible) to package for various distros.

And rather than noticing this as being very similar to what he has ranted about others doing in the past in userspace, he joins in attacking said distros...

Edit (because apparently i am "posting too fast"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software)

See the last few parts, and citenotes 9 and 10.
This reminds me strongly of the BLIT series of short stories, in which a category of images is discovered that cause processing problems ‘glitches’ in the human brain with fatal results.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

That’s the first one, others are available online too.
Sms, calling, talking irl.
stuff that only baseball 'historian' gets excited about...
Christ, that's right. "Without publishing, it is impossible to write blog posts." I should just keep on publishing because (this is just my thought process right now, not so sure about this):

- People can figure out points, because I've gotten things from blog posts with so-so sentence composition but brilliant points. As long as the points make sense, an article that's badly written from the technical perspective still has some value.
- Everything can be edited or deleted anyway.

Thanks!