skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re definitely already in the thick of it, no doubt about it. But ultimately capital goes where it is treated best, and governments treat capital worse than thieves, they’ll never play by the rules. It’s not going to happen overnight, and it’s going to be a really rocky road, but eventually worldwide governments will not be in control over money anymore. Now that people don’t have to use fiat that is debased on purpose by governments to fund their operations, they will not. It’s not about a libertarian revolution (although I do believe sound money will result in a more libertarian world), it’s about sound money being an order of magnitude more superior to fiat. People in Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic didn’t stop using debased currency because they were libertarians, they stopped because it was clear their money was becoming worthless and there were superior alternatives.

Those are extreme examples where it can happen overnight, it will take longer for less aggressive regimes, but it’s only a matter of time before the same happens to all other fiat.
> You're holding it wrong.

OK, but .. how exactly? It's going to be Windows Defender, isn't it?
Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern
Zerocracy: A Project Manager That Never Sleeps
Obama didn't use an entire fake news infrastructure coupled with hackers leaking the opposition's emails...
Your equivalency is misguided or misleading, you can't compare Obama 2012 to Trump 2016. You present the topics as separate when they are all linked. The damage comes from data + fake news + Russian APT.
I agree with loss of community and generally speaking those important life event celebrations are what make a community, but have you ever considered that what made those life events important to begin with is the religion itself? Non-religious societies can likely establish new important events and celebrations for those. I'm not necessarily in favor of religious decline but I'm happy to see that people live in a society with a real choice. Most of the world isn't like that still.
I would be super surprised if young muslims were any different than young christians and young-everything-elses in this regard.

The increase in islam in europe is primarily from an influx of muslim immigrants. On the generational time scale, you can probably expect their children to become accustomed to universal culture[0] just like the rest of europe (and north america, and probably everywhere eventually). Because of continued migration, Islam will probably increase in absolute numbers for a while yet. But I doubt it will ever become dominant in regions where it is not already dominant.

Being targets of missionaries from, e.g., Africa or South America (if they're more religious than EU/NA? I don't know?) would be a really interesting (to me) idea. Again, I'd be surprised. But interesting nonetheless!

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/
In the textile town of Lowell, Mass., in 1846, the mill clock slowed down to lengthen shifts and then sped up at night when the workers were off

Holy shit!
I read both Computer Architecture and Computer Organization and Design in college and I really enjoyed them.

I would recommend COaD to any beginner who wants to learn some basic concepts of computer design (and if working with FPGAs why not build one).

CA deals with more advanced concepts but doesn't overwhelm you with math and circuit theory (as you noted) so it's a natural progression (from COaD). I think something more advanced and "hard science" should be part of a post-graduate curriculum
Islam as is has very little desirability to convert for non-Muslim.

It has to be either a hostile takeover (think Egyptians and Copts, Lebanon and christians, or any other kind of religion-based cleansings) or it will be two communities. Muslim and post-christians.

(And proponents of religious tolerance have already promised us that no hostile takeover is ever possible, didn't they?)
Religious decline is a global phenomenon. That's why religions the world over are tending towards regressive policies: they're an increasing majority as other groups decline.
The idea would combine nicely with voting in the elections, too - given a casted vote has more impact than leaving a comment under a news article ;)
It's always good when you write the rules.
School shootings aren't due to moral failings, they're due to dysfunctional or non existent gun control laws giving mentally ill people guns. 83% of Americans, compared to 47% of Britons, said religion was very or fairly important to them [1], whereas school shootings are clearly more common there than in the UK. (I can't find a source comparing them they're so uncommon in the UK. The last one in the UK was in 1996)

[1] http://news.gallup.com/poll/9016/worlds-apart-religion-canad...
Did you have the expectation of privacy (probably not). These are not new issues and there is existing law around them.
While I agree with auditable access to employee DMs, there is a middle ground solution that trivially solves the problem you've presented. Instead of providing the employer with access to the employee's messages directly, logs can be signed at both the blob and message level. Then if an employee selectively turns over only some of their logs, the mismatch will be readily apparent.
I deleted facebook months ago.
That was exactly my problem.

I'm doing work in IoT, and I fully expected to retain that knowledge for the jobs afterward (for the record it was a job offer, not a current employer).

So this company could have really made my life a hassle if I quit them and went to work in a different field but was still doing IoT work. They could shut things down just to make life hard.
AI is the new battleground in geopolitics – Axios
It's been around since the beginning of time itself I guess. You can try something like dnsmasq. One liner in the conf file: address=/.facebook.com/127.0.0.1

edit:
For Ubuntu this should work (one versions from Trusty and newer):

sudo touch /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/local

Put these lines into the above file and save:

address=/.facebook.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.fbcdn.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.tfbnw.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.whatsapp.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.instagram.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.fb.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.edgesuite.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.metrix.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.fbsbx.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.fbcdn.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.facebook.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.edgekey.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.cdninstagram.com/127.0.0.1
address=/.akamaihd.net/127.0.0.1
address=/.fb.me/127.0.0.1
address=/.appspot.com/127.0.0.1

And then:
sudo systemctl restart network-manager
Very true, wasn't there an adage about to find out who your real friends are just post that you need help moving and see how many show up. It's like being a cable cutter, at first you think you will miss out on a lot but you quickly realize that it ain't so bad and that the world didn't end.
I've found Haidt's work very useful. One of the things I've taken from Haidt is how important both sides of the communication are. Blaming everything on "the other side" as you are doing here ("ny discussion, if you're lucky to get one, would be better described as a re-education lecture" and "it's a shame no one's interested") does exactly the opposite, regardless of how accurate you might feel the description is.

If you're looking for nuance and constructive discussion, it's crucial to put that foot forward yourself. And understanding, given the climate, that it's likely going to be a lot of work, as you're working against built-in human psychological biases that are unfortunately being reinforced by many trends in media, both traditional and online. Loading your discourse with the phrases you do here are working against that. I'm glad that you've found Haidt interesting in some way. Step up and work the problem, rather than contribute to it. There's no quick fix.
You have to ask why they wouldn't want to talk to an individual suspected of wrongdoing? Why look at security footage, when you can "just ask" the suspect?
FWIW, YC funded startup Cloud Stitch does something similar https://cloudstitch.com/
Developers build cities. Developers maximize profit. In the USA, the gov't defines where incentives are. That is why we have urban sprawl everywhere (including the bay area).

I always thought this project, S. Lake Union (Amazon), Toronto Waterfront (Google), Diridon Station San Jose (Google) was these large companies' response to no private developer or gov't entity building a city they thought was needed... in other words it's just a normal city built by a large company. It's not too different than one of these crappy master planned communities where I live like http://stonegatereno.com/ or http://damonteranch.com/ .
This is for companies to manage access for their own employees and other corporate users. If you use G-Suite, then you already have this and can login with your company email account to many external apps without a separate password.

It makes sense that Google is extracting it into a separate product but most companies just stick with whatever their productivity software provider is, like G-Suite or Microsoft Office 365. Many companies also use OneLogin or Okta for extra customization on top of G-Suite/O365.
As a manager, if I fire somebody or they leave, I get access to their mailbox via Outlook365 for like 3 months, just in case I need to grab something from it.

So there must be a way to assign ownership of a mailbox to another user.
With their stock ROI over the past year, I expect it will be Domino’s.

A name change and their first burbclave wont be too far behind.
Marvel's Black Panther is top grossing movie of all time in Africa
He says he plays every waking hour of the day unless he's "sleeping, driving, or taking a bath". I think he's wasting a bit more than just money.
Totally agree. When your job is to generate IP, this stuff is kind of important.
Ask HN: Will Google penalize my site if I don't use Google Analytics?
I'm starting a new niche site, and would like to preserve my visitors' privacy for those to whom that's an important issue. For that reason, I'd like to leave out as many third-party tracking links as possible.

According to one of the big SEO firms[1], the top three ranking factors that Google uses are:

1) direct website visits
2) time on site
3) pages per session

To measure these, it seems to me a site would either have to ping back to Google on every page hit, or else the user's browser (i.e., Chrome) would have to do it for them.

Chrome stores it's users browser history on Google's servers[2], so they know this data for all logged-in users. But it can't track non-logged-in users, nor users of other web browsers.

If I leave off my GA code, Google won't be able to measure these three metrics for many visitors. Won't that hurt my web site ranking?

[1] - https://www.semrush.com/ranking-factors
[2] - https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/index.html#browser-modes
Hi, I’m Vighnesh, the co-founder of winefix (https://wine-fix.com/).

winefix helps in 2 ways – it’s offers both, people new to wine and wine lovers, a simple, hassle-free way of selecting wines. Secondly, it removes the risk that the wine will not taste as you expected, since tasting notes in our experience are often complex, inaccurate or both

We started the winefix for 2 reasons:

1.We really liked wine.
2.We were never inclined to go over the top with learning how to choose wines and appreciate them in the manner suggested by experts. It was too time consuming and too complex.

And so with winefix, we offer a curated selection of wines and removed any information that we think is not necessary to make an informed purchasing decision, for the bottles we’re offering. We replaced them with the simplest taste ratings we think is possible. These ratings are continuously adjusted based on customer feedback, ensuring accuracy. And finally, we implemented a recommendation engine, in case you still can’t decide what to get.

FYI, we are based in Singapore (for now), where alcohol taxes are high and there’s no local wine production industry.

We look forward to feedback from the HN community! :)

Vighnesh
As the major religion, or as the major world-view? It looks like atheism/agnosticism/no religion is set to remain the majority world-view in the countries where it already is.

Unless you subscribe to the notion that Muslims will be in the majority in those countries because of immigration and large families. Some extreme right political parties claim this, but the sources for these statistical prognoses seem dubious at best.
Whenever the relevant legal threshold happens. Here's the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_human_personhood
Looking at all positive comments here, this is generally a bad news.

Not sure how much compliant this is with the law, but in this case the law should be more protective towards employees.

I imagine the following situation

I write on a company-owned piece of paper - "My boss is an idiot". Then take this piece of paper put it in an envelope ( owned by the company as well ), write the name of my colleague and seal the envelope. Then put the envelope on the recipient's desk.

I bet it would be illegal for my boss to take that letter, open it and read it.

P.S.

Looks like with e-mails the law is more protective towards employees :

[1] : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-privacy-emails-echr/europ...

[2] : http://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/Employment...

[3] : https://www.womblebonddickinson.com/uk/insights/articles-and...
Hey, folks! I'm a cryptographic engineer at NuCypher and this is a pretty big release for us. I'm happy to answer any questions about this!
Show HN: Poetry – Python dependency management and packaging made easy
There's an infinite space of solutions to your particular problem, but your chosen solution is totalitarian surveillance in the workplace because an intern got offended?

I avoid workplaces which force shit like this. So do all the good developers I know, because they're people who can afford to be choosy.

Bullies are pretty adept at functioning in these environments. Instead of harassing on monitored DMs, they'll make verbal comments with double meanings, use their leverage to put their targets in unpleasant situations, undercut their targets at meetings etc. Totalitarian surveillance doesn't stop bullies. It just makes your workplace a soul-destroying shithole for the employees who are forced to work in it.
I managed to get a clause like this stricken once and I still regret taking the job. It turns out unreasonable contracts means unreasonable people and you want to stay away from unreasonable people.

Better to just tell them to take a hike and (ideally) name and shame the company publicly.
I'm using an unfederated node of Madtodon running on a Raspberry pi with Let's Encrypt certs as a private family social network. Works well and family response has been massively positive.

You can disconnect while staying connected on your own terms.
China is poised to be home to the world’s most valuable startups – Quartz
Poetry is a new tool to help you manage your Python projects.

It is both a dependency management tool and a packaging tool. Most of the reasons why I started this are detailed in the README (along with why I don’t want to use Pipenv) here: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry#why, but if you want to know the advantages of Poetry compared to existing tools, here are a few:

- Exhaustive dependency resolver

- Intuitive CLI (See https://poetry.eustace.io/docs/cli/)

- Emphasis on semantic versioning and constraint specification so that wildcard dependencies (`*`) will be considered bad practice

- Support for dependencies caret, tilde, wildcard, inequality and multiple requirements.

- Only one file: the standardised pyproject.toml which aims at being readable and clear.

- Mandatory compatible python versions specification.

Also, Poetry is Python 3.6+ only but can manage Python 2 projects without any problem.

And finally, Poetry is not completely stable yet so internally things can change but the CLI and commands are pretty much stable so backwards-incompatible changes should not happen too often.
Mass delusion is not relegated to religion.
All of those conversations should take place out of band of employer communications tools.

Never write something you wouldn’t want printed on the front page of a newspaper.
We can have common beliefs independent from religion. Democracy, human rights, freedom, peace. None of these are religious.
Ah, I see what you mean. You're constrained to viewpoints on the sensor, though, no? So usually a small square.
> Why would you not recommend code that checks the hashed password against a local DB?

I would. In fact that's why I have created a product to do exactly that in an efficient way...

Doing the checks online has too many drawbacks:

- availability: what do you do when the service/API is down or you can't reach it?

- determinism: what works today might not tomorrow

- security/privacy/anonymity: ...

I am just uncomfortable with naive code that makes it barely practical:

- if the dataset isn't pre-processed properly, binary searching through it won't lead to the expected results (and that's not always obvious)

- distributing a 30GB+ file on all the DCs

- binary searching through the dataset at runtime means seeking through 30GB... with a O(log n) complexity... in practice that means a very slow response time that gets exponentially worst with load.

If you pre-process the dataset you might as well do it "properly" and make it usable :p
Using old laptop batteries to build homemade powerwalls
you meant "were" instead of "weren't"
>I think if the employer provides the tool, it is their data.

Not really. Just because the employer pays for the office building doesn't give them access to my private conversations with other members of the team.
Debian has had its share of fuck-ups in its package management system. There's very little difference between blindly trusting debian, vs blindly trusting pihole. Don't pretend you check out the contents of all the packages you use.
> And you won't have to wait several decades to find correlations, either. At least as far as violent crime is concerned, the answer seems to be "things will get better":

Considering the stats in the Quora link are only a correlation, is it proper to say things will get better? Indeed, you did precede it with "seems", but I think it's preferable to be explicit when making predictions or offering advice.
Additionally, unless your work environment is sophisticated enough to fiddle with the certificates on your machine, and run a MITM proxy, you should be safe using something like GMail over https. Now I'm sure some companies do manage to intercept outgoing https traffic, but I doubt that most companies do.

OTOH, I still think being paranoid is the safest policy, so if you're plotting to overthrow your boss, or sell secrets to your biggest competitor, I still wouldn't do it on the company networking, and/or using a company computer.
Is this a re-brand of Google's Beyond Corp?
Really happy about this! Their book "Computer Architecture" (along with Tanenbaum's book) played a huge role in my development as an engineer.
> If you link your proprietary software to GPL software, now and forever the binaries you produced with that linking are “tainted”. You distribute the source under the GPL or you do not distribute those binaries (or you violate the law). You can certainly back out the offending change and future binaries will clean and clear, but the GPL does, by design, force the choice between copyright violation and opening up proprietary software.

We are in agreement that you can of course also negotiate another license right? (Assuming the copyright holder(s) go along.) I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but I just want to make sure we're clear about that one thing. Your sentence here seems to present a binary choice when of course it isn't binary.

edit: I only bring this up because another misconception many (not necessarily you) have is that software cannot be simultaneously GPL as well as another license. This should be basically obvious to most when they think about it (basically all business to business software is negotiated under different licenses for example), but most somehow still don't realize it when it comes to the GPL for some reason.
What a nice, paid advertisement to get the attention away from the current troubles. For shame, NYT
If you are employed in the US, your information and device use policy is very likely to say that, or your HR handbook, that you agreed to when you are hired.
*Conscientiousness
The US on average tends to lean more religious than Australia, yet Australia has had an infinitely smaller amount of school shootings during the past ten years.

And you believe that schools are the place where children should be taught morals? Allowing a government, or any other controlling group of people, to teach moral values is a surefire way to increase authoritarianism. The wisest way to go about things is to expose a child to as many different types of people as possible, and let them form their own views.
I'm sceptical of the monthly active users number as it also includes Facebook Messenger users that might not ever use the website or app itself.

From my social circle outside the tech world, Facebook is increasingly being frowned upon - and in the teens age bracket , Facebook is what old people (parents and so on) use. Obviously anecdata, but the general feeling is that people use it less and less. There might be a perfect storm coming for Facebook - or it's just a temporary fart, soon to be forgotten.
This is for companies to manage their own employees and other corporate access. OneLogin is a similar product, or you can use G-Suite or Office 365 if you already have that.

Auth0's main product is for managing public user access to your app. AWS Cognito, Google Firebase Auth, Azure AD B2C are all options that are affordable and even free depending on your scale.

*Auth0 and Okta actually do both public app and corporate user management, so it's not as simple when comparing them but you can research their sites for more info.
I honestly think that the whole oppressed conversion theory is wrong, for the most part. For most of Christian, and Islam the history was a top down conversion.

Furthermore India, and Hinduism stands in stark contrast to this narrative. Especially considering the whole caste system narrative.
The main or even only thing 2 countries like Finland and Italy have in common was belonging to Christendom.
Another thing I’m getting is that the new kids won’t like rails, and it’s being harder to hire.

I'm surprised by this, to me the language used would be a long way down the list when evaluating an employer.
Did you even read the story? It contains screenshots of tweets from the Carol Davidsen, Media Director at Obama for America. Do those screenshots magically become true when reproduced on a different website? The fact that you can only complain about the website I linked to, rather than the substance of the story, only proves my point.

But here, have a link from somewhere else:

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/03/19/why-are...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975
Controlled for equivalent population the murder rate of the US is about the same as that of Belgium.
Yup. I work in medical devices, and a pretty niche area at that. When I left my previous company I joined a company doing essentially the same stuff, but at a much earlier stage. How could I possibly have done my job and also conformed to an agreement such as this? There's no way; I would have had to change industries.