skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting article, which suggests that the Mercers are among the funders from the right. I don't know if attacks from the left are as organized.

"New Foils for the Right: Google and Facebook"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/business/media/paul-schwe...
I believe the format of either the registry hives or the the way the password hash is stored changed between Win2K and WinXP, so a modern tool likely wouldn't work. That's why you can use a Windows 2000 CD to boot to a recovery console in later windows versions without a password: It thinks the registry is corrupt and skips authentication.
Facebook is facing hurdles in a lot of arenas but this article is a hit piece that is pretty fluff and misses the big picture.

I really dislike facebook for what its worth, but even with the current issues I dont expect it to be more than a speedbump. The author says that it was a misstep to help with the Trump advert campaign. That is just letting politics blind you, helping Trump and being "friendly" to that administration is likely good for business.
This:
“There's no outside attacker bringing Facebook down. It's a circular firing squad that stems from the company's fundamental business model of collecting data from users, and using that data to sell targeted ads.”

It always was the corporate equivalent of Harvey Weinstein, and now seeing its #metoo moment. The world will be a better place without Facebook.
Don't think that building your whole service on lambda or google cloud functions with tons of code is the best idea, but it's a great shim between clients and backends. Tech changes constantly and you'll always be up against a change agent. Be nimble.
The list is mixing different subject matters.

The security of all the information in your company should be handled by an information security management system, which is normally under the supervision of a CSO or CISO. The ISM gets established by defining (e. g. through policies) roles, processes and requirements for many problems occurring related to information security.

The security of your infrastructure should also be supervised by some management position and your infrastructure should be designed in advance to fulfill your security requirements.

The security of your software should also be supervised by some management position and your the whole software process have to be designed to produce secure software.

I don't believe this can be handled by a CTO with a basic checklist, although it includes important points which should be supervised. This list also feels kinda incomplete.
We use nomad in production for last 3 years. Recently we thought of moving to kubernetes and did a prototype for one of our products because of community is big and growing. After looking at the sheer complexity we decided to stick with nomad.
The best part about nomad is it solves single problem very well and it is very simple to understand and maintain. Developers are able to grok the nomad in matter of minutes which is a big win for us because they are the one who writes nomad files.
I've used Webpack on and off since v2 and I'm still no fan.

If I'm being honest, there's been times that it's perhaps been the worst dev experience I've endured in the last decade.

Can we use Parcel as a replacement yet?
Sure, but it's not like why having them persist is a mystery, or hurts understanding the structure of the repo, as the parent claimed.
Tea tree oil kills MRSA on the skin. All the low dose natural products are causing the bacteria to become resistant. Otherwise, for fungal infections soaking feet in vinegar once a day for a week should work just fine. Smells a little.
Teachers in SF are living in closets, out of cars, two to a bedroom in shared apartments, commuting long distances, etc. Their salaries are comparable to the state average, but the cost of living is dramatically higher here.

The problem in SF is obscene housing costs (and, like everywhere in the US, obscene healthcare costs), not overpayment of public employees. In CA municipal budgeting would also be much more straightforward, effective, and robust without prop 13.

As for unions: the US has seen several decades of intense ideological war on organized labor, with dramatic erosion of workers rights across the board, and in particular legislative and Supreme Court interpretation changes that make labor organizing much more difficult and dangerous than a half century ago. Public sector unions are some of the last hold-outs. The overall result we’ve seen for the past 35 years is continually rising productivity but stagnant wages and working conditions (for all workers, unionized and not), and skyrocketing inequality. The future does not look bright for the bulk of American workers. (Great for the financial sector though, like the hedge fund manager [and Peter Thiel protégé] who wrote this op-ed.)
I did something similar for 2-3 years, then eventually wrote a piece of software that handles specifically this use case: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations

(It actually doesn't repeat automatically, but you can copy monthly tasks down to the day). I also have it doing a little bit extra, tracking completion rates.
These are the problems Detroit had before Toyota forced them to get their act together.
... and all of their ‘friends’, totaling over 50 million
Another major version was again released? Seems like literally just a few months ago when, just after upgrading my team's codebase to Webpack 2, Webpack 3 came out.

Why do front-end application frameworks (e.g. Angular, and even React) and build tools constantly feel the need to reinvent what they just reinvented? Don't people (users and developers alike) recognize and tire of the churn?

Stepping back though, a thread like this appears on HN at least once every few months, so I guess this is just par for the course.
That's a very important and interesting topic. Do you know any literature and standards on how to establish such a "culture of security" (afterwards)?
Why can't you just not use Twitter, and leave it to those of us who like it?
..... Why would you think I was being sarcastic?
I agree with you ...
It did, I'll dig out my Firefox cache and send it to you?
On the contrary, both Chinese and Japanese are very formal as to the written. Ancient Chinese has a high bar between formally written and oral ones. In recent centuries the difference got smaller, but there is still a big difference. On the plus side, most Chinese write emails colloquially.
> We can't expect developers to spend days implementing security best practices before even having a business.

We absolutely can. Otherwise, expect regulation to do it (see: GDPR).
Good luck with that argument.
> friction for workers

Another theory I've seen: As the middle class gets squeezed, fewer families can maintain that standard of living with only one parent working.

In order for both parents to stay reliably employed, you need to be in a location where jobs are dense, so that spouse-A can find a new job without spouse-B quitting theirs... And vice-versa.

In contrast, when you can support the family on just one income it's easier to relocate as employment changes.
Tesla doesn't buy enough units to have real clout with suppliers. Tesla made 737 cars last week. That doesn't get you much clout with the door hinge manufacturer.
etcd does not provide key partitioning/sharding, it achieves linearizable consistency using replica state machine via Raft. Anna provides weaker consistency guarantee (causal or read committed), but has partitioning/sharding.
> Facebook has been deflecting stories about how its platform was used during the 2016 presidential election.

Serious question: on what grounds can a Facebook page be banned? Just because it was “cute cats” page a while ago Andreas suddenly it became a pro-trump or pro-Hillary page?
Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé
People are going to trust machine intelligence in the same way.

Given the xenophobic history of the human race, I have some severe doubts about that. Frankly, the first data scientist who ends up in court because the automated car decided to kill some kid on the sidewalk[1] to keep the death count down is going to find out real quick what a jury thinks of machine intelligence.

Thinking about it, I can see the black box in a car having to record the last minute of instructions run by the car's cpu. The whole idea of unknowable isn't exactly going to sit well with the NTSB. I can truly see this if data scientists testify in a Congressional Hearing that they don't understand how their creation came to its decision.

I guess I am in awe of folks who do not have tools to figure out what model all the learning has built. Where is the DTrace for ML? If your neural network has 50 million parameters then how the heck did the data scientist have a data set to teach it from that is in anyway complete enough to trust it?

I can just not see how it ethically can be unleashed upon people in a final go / no go decision affecting people's lives or livelihood. After reading this thread, I now hope people who are rejected for loans ask for an actual explanation and the exact manner the decision for their rejection was reached.

1) https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/11/23/self-dr...
Now what about companies that have an uneven number of employees in other countries?
Or where they're distributed throughout the US, and costs of living are quite varied?

What median should they be tied to?
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OT-fun: You have 27007 karma points. ISO/IEC 27007 is one standard for "information security management systems auditing".
bring on the downvotes, but it's possible that george soros has a hand in this. He's been outspoke about more regulation for FB and Google [0] and [1]. He has all the money in the world and enough influence with the media to make it happen. He has a history of tinkering with nation's economics to serve his own agenda [2]. He has reason to want FB and Google gone. Traditionally he's used his money and influence to sway elections one way or the other by controlling the narrative. There's theories that he has connections to electronic voting machines which would also make sense. Why is there so much friction when it comes to auditing electronic voting machines and public access to voting machine paper trails? FB and Google reduce his control on the narrative so it makes sense he would want them gone.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHzUlR2MUg
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/26...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
yeah, the deblocked image looks a little softer. Makes sense, the optimization objective encourages it. Sometimes the block boundary aligns with an image boundary. Agree that incorporating a DNN could be a cool solution.
How many opiate addicts does the average person know today (sans internet access)? I know for me it's 0, and I don't exactly run in the most wholesome friend groups.

My guess is it's always been a problem to the same extent, but the extent is exaggerated today, due to increased visibility (internet and media), and fairly recent (since the start of the war on drugs in the U.S.) incentives for bad news to spread.
How many have you been able to find and attract?

Anyone who says "you could easily", wrt business, obviously is either a business genius unlike the rest of us, or has never tried.

Trust me, finding top notch talent that you're willing to trust with the direction of your company is probably harder than finding a spouse.
I wasn't using low dose natural products on my feet.

I had a spray can of 100% tea tree oil that I would spray on my feet. It would sting like hell anywhere I had broken skin but it was effective.

Iodine is much more pleasant to use and doesn't smell so bad, it's cheaper too.
The problem comes up when send tickets in the mail though. Cops game the system by putting motorway cameras in speeding traps to draw money into the court system.

Atleast when a cop gives you an unjust ticket they have to face you. With a machine it's just print a ticket and ship it out. Who do you appeal to?
According to Webpack's donation site, https://opencollective.com/webpack, the creator of Webpack, "Sokra," made $44,164 off of Webpack development in 2017 (and $9,000 so far in 2018).

We're in a new world of sustainable open source software development, enabled by services like Patreon and this one.

Maybe it's petty, but as someone who works on several open source projects without reimbursement, I hope that such "hefty" funding leads to better documentation, better community support, and cleaner upgrade paths. Webpack is notoriously fickle and confusing when it comes to configuration, and at a glance Webpack 4 doesn't seem to have helped with that. Although I certainly appreciate performance improvements.

Can I request that funds be diverted into community support and enforcing clean writing across documentation pages? That's what Webpack needs most, and has always needed, by far over any core API changes.
Possibly of interest to LuneOS developers, whose codebase started with an earlier source drop of webOS.
Grenada is not comparable to Ukraine and Mexico.
Yep, and I consider this one of the main advantages of tools like SASS, even.
The Wizard and the Prophet
I think of it as like a magazine. I follow many people I think are interesting and news companies I like. Usually they are tweeting links to articles or interviews I'm interested.
fossil helps alleviate these issues with it's autosync feature: http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/concepts.wiki
I think this has been much relaxed recently. You just need to prove that you live in Shanghai for more than 6 months (rental is okay) and either pay social security taxes or are registered as seeking employment. Thanks to the one child policy, if they don't relax enrollment policy the schools are going to run out of students.

The condition for enrolling in public schools:
http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/nw2/nw2314/nw2319/nw12344/u26aw55...

The condition for obtaining residency registration:
http://zwdt.sh.gov.cn/zwdtSW/zwdtSW/juzhuzheng/lsjzz.jsp
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You can vote on prioritization here: https://webpack.js.org/vote/
This doesn't contradict my comment.
I think visually speaking, while the deblocked version is smoother overall, the blockiness added extra perception of noise/texture. The extra noise almost always increase the perception of sharpness and level of details, and you can see from the braids coming out of the hat that it does look sharper with the blocking version, although the wall is smoother. Would be great to include more sample images in the page.
If they did this, they would get slammed with lawsuits considering their own rating system competes with Yelp.
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Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?
Whenever anyone follows me on Twitter I check their account. If it's not someone genuine i block them. Wouldn't work for someone famous but for a normal person it's worth it.
All my web platforms searches are now "mdn <web-thing>" cause w3schools is never informative enough for me.
Check out this project: https://github.com/openfaas/faas
UCSB is #2 in California, Chico #3, UCSC isn't even on the first page (#30).

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/top-party-schools/s/ca...
Unacceptable. Even though swiss-german doesn't have any spelling rules, I hereby declare a public vote to deport google from switzerland, because it's clearly spelled "Chnuschperli" in proper swiss-german.

Edit: Sorry, I forgot HN is allergic to jokes, obviously this is turning into reddit. I apologize.
The workings of the triage queue are described in https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278380/help-us-test...

> Behind the scenes, a "quality score" is calculated for each question based on an automated analysis of the content. Those that score well are sent immediately to the homepage; those that score poorly will now be sent to Triage. From there, they'll go to one of three places based on human input:

> 1. The homepage, where they can be answered
> 2. The close or moderator flag queue where they can be reviewed and eventually deleted
> 3. A new "Help and Improvement" queue where they can be edited
Flywaydb does schema versioning and migrations and is pretty simple. Each migration is a single SQL script. It doesn't support rollbacks as the authors claim from experience that rollback scripts tend to be needed rarely, and if needed they tend not to work.

Flywaydb doesn't cover db testing.
Quora too, please.
>Typically, at first everyone assumes I'm an idiot.

Idk man..Humble bragging aside, If every one thinks of you as an Idiot, How did you get the job in the first place then?
Also, how do you infer other peoples perceptions? If at first everyone think of you as an Idiot, how do you get to work on hard problems?

I think you are reading too much into what others are thinking of you. Probably, not every one works with you gives a shit about your "level"...
that seems like a different problem than pentions being inherently unsustainable.
Innocent people are commonly investigated because they were nearby when crimes were committed. Or because they somewhat match a victim's description of the attacker. Or because they're driving a vehicle that somewhat matches a description.

But this is taking it to another level. Here, location and time are the only identifiers. Once you've identified someone who was at the location of the crime when it was committed, they were either a perpetrator or a witness. Or maybe neither, because they weren't close enough in space and time.

But anyway, what happens next? Police hope to get a confession? Maybe some physical evidence. Or witnesses. But then, people often lie. And there's less opportunity for an alibi, except maybe a friend who says he was there with you. But his phone had better agree with yours.

And really, it's hard to imagine that someone doing serious crime would be carrying a smartphone. At least, one that's not turned off, and in a Faraday bag. But then, some criminals are just plain stupid, I guess.
> I have a Chinese passport, but I cannot even buy train tickets online

you can. Just select passport and fill the passport number. I did it multiple times.
Yes, if you realise a capital gain you owe taxes ... That's the way taxes work, the can probably write their losses off in subsequent years provided they last the year without bankruptcy an have some future gain to write it off against.

This is not a new thing here on HN lots of people screwed themselves almost the exact same way during the 90s dotcom boom when they bought their shares (and realised a gain) then just when the IRS came knocking the sitcom bust happened and their shares were worthless .....
Maybe that's true for tech in the Bay. But everywhere else, for any other field, the very first filter applied to a stack of resumes is degree/school.

Your technical/interpersonal skills are definitely more important, but odds are you won't get a chance to demonstrate it.
Yeah. At the risk of digging at a raw wound and trivializing a recent tragedy, this is kind of like saying "We can't expect structural engineers to develop a fundamentally-safe construction plan right from the get-go."

If you're going to do something at all, there are some fundamental standards that you just don't risk by putting them off for later. Not saying you have to start out with all the frills, but there is a minimum acceptable standard of safety and competency that can and should be expected of any new work, and things that don't meet such standards should never exist in a form that could potentially be misconstrued as doing so. Reasonable baseline security practices are certainly part of those inviolable professional standards.
Wiktionary says that yacht stems from the Dutch word for a hunting ship (one you use to pursue other ships), so various Germanic languages having similar or identical pronunciations for the words for yacht and hunt is no coincidence.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yacht#English
... which is a terrible, terrible thing and a recipe for the rise of disastrous politics or even the descent of the majority of humanity into a new dark age.

The phenomenon you describe is a problem. It's one of the greatest problems of the early 21st century.
It doesn't cease to amaze me how a few years ago social media was the beacon of democracy, back when they were part a wave of political revolution in the Arab world.

But now the US has another bad election (IMO not as bad as the one that landed Bush as far as elections go, though which president is worse is up for debate), and social media is trash that have just enabled "global bullshit".

USA, if your population is largely gullible consumers taught to rely on their "feelings" and be egotistic, proud patriots instead of critical thinkers, that's your own fault. Social media, if anything, has been a net positive as far as politics go in my country.
> Such things exist, I'm not just rattling off buzzwords.

you are though ...
Mea culpa. I did not
So what does Knusperli even mean? It seems to mean “crunchy” or something from a Google search but Translate turns up nothing. Is the meaning at all related to the project, or is it just a cute name?
How are either of these numbers okay against the 20k estimate due to land 2 months prior? I'm confused. They missed the target by slightly less than an order of magnitude. That doesn't sound great to me.

I'm just wondering how that's a good thing, it sure doesn't feel like it to me. It honestly sounds like me explaining to my family how I'm pulling my shit together. Sure, I haven't quit drinking or found a real career yet, but I went to the grocery store last week, and that's pretty good, right?

I'm exaggerating, but citing numbers that are perhaps factual but not much better than the hyperbole doesn't a convincing argument make.
Thanks for consultation. It really helped me! :)
This makes no sense to me. Anyone willing to scrape a profile will create dummy accounts to do so. And even if this step somehow prevented data scraping, the network effect will make it extremely hard to compete with LinkedIn.
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Hey Andrew, thanks for the great work on v4.

Webpack is one of these tools I can't imagine working without.
Some people forget or lose their IDs. They can always get temp IDs at train stations or airports.
It's hard to learn critical thinking skills when an angry mob riled up with the support of bots to take america back from ___ defunds school.
Seems a new library could use something besides Lenna...
They have [0][1] ("beta" was dropped from the v4 releases at v4.0.0), and are actually in the process of updating the documentation [2]. It's just odd to do that after a release.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack

[1] https://github.com/webpack/webpack/releases

[2] https://github.com/webpack/webpack.js.org/pull/1905
Link is from 2006.
Surprising this isn’t the top comment and comments made afterwards which seemingly don’t acknowledge that fact are ranked higher.
Ask HN: Non-English programming communities?
I'm interested in studying programming communities whose dominant natural language is not English. This could mean the programming language and code is based on a non-English natural language, or that supporting text like comments, documentation, bug queues, support forums, etc. is not in English. I've found a few interesting posts [1,2] addressing this, but would love connections to communities or projects that are currently active.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ugly-american-programmer/

[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1483/do-people-in-non-english-speaking-countries-code-in-english
I also noticed this in myself, but sometimes Google/the question title misleads me to an answer for another situation. I find that this habit sometimes waste my time