skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes Opsec is hard, but not in this specific example: one would just setup a VM with tails [0], and one would only performs its shady actions within this VM, and all one's outgoing network activity would automatically jump threw a TOR exit point, and why not a VPN tunnel above it. No chance (well, almost no chance) to screw here.

Doing something shady from a regular workstation is either a mark of noobiness, or it's someone trying to disguise as someone else. Relying on manually launching a commercial VPN each time when you want anonymity? It's not really opsec per se.

[0] https://tails.boum.org
The gazelle may not be able to reflect on the meaning of its existence but it is certainly capable of experiencing its actions and environment. A lack of self-awareness is not a lack of enjoyment, it may even heighten it. Think of the droves of people working to afford some time to simply live in the moment, to experience the raw beauty of nature or a physical challenge. Without a self or ego projected into the future, every minute of the gazelle's life is like that. As you say, an animal can feel fear and pain but they are also capable of feeling relief, pleasure, and even joy.

If you attempt to quantify life in such terms you may run into issues, our longevity is meager when compared to a giant tortoise or a simple koi fish, for all of our progress and the safety it grants us we still succumb to the same fate, we still suffer and all of our works are washed away by rain and time.
This is so true, in fact you may need to rely on several cloud providers. For example we do question classification with our own model, but rely on Googles Speech Api(norwegian language) for speech to text so we can classify the question and create an answer and then finally Amazon Polly for text to speech in our langauge(norwegian).
If you don't need the more enterprise-y cloud features of something like AWS, then I highly recommend DigitalOcean. Responsive support, excellent API, excellent design, good feature set without getting bloated like AWS.

For backups, I use Backblaze B2 and love it too.
Bumble bans guns, showcases need for content workflow
Your Halloween example is you recognizing patterns:

- on Halloween there are more children on the road than usual
- children are more likely to disobey traffic laws

It’s quite possible that waymo cars are already capable of this.
This is good but what stops the aggregator from censoring results once it gains critical mass?

You literally just described Reddit.
What does that mean? And can you elaborate? (I agree with Mister_Snuggles but would like to hear reasoned counter arguments)
I'm going to duplicate a comment I made in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16652952), because it applies equally well here and I'm quite disappointed that I seem to be the only one pointing this out (after that thread reached more than 340 comments, a mere two other people made a similar comment to mine):

As I type this comment, there are 55 other comments in this discussion, not one of them using the word "union". That's the only feasible method I can see to enact large scale change. CEOs and other executives aren't going to change out of the kindness of their hearts, as evidenced by the fact that they could start at any point and still choose not to.
The reason may actually be that Russia always wanted to be caught. They never thought Trump would win–the prize they were aiming for was general distrust of the election's integrity.

It's very similar to Russia's choice to poison Litvienko with Polonium–an unnatural radioactive element that can easily be traced back to the reactor where it originated. And, similarly, the very recent chemical weapons attack in the UK, using a nerve agent only ever produced by Russia.
The Estonian E-Residency program is under threat
Ugh. The paper reeks of political agenda. The very first sentence is:

> One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil.

What about the Communism? Why would they spread this durable myth? Because I remember hearing the same story in the Soviet school.

The paper does not make a real effort trying to consider different evidence and honestly investigate the subject. Most of the sources are related to the UK (specifically, England) with a couple referring to the US in XIX century. How do we know how much the Dutch, German, French, Russian peasants worked, let alone those in the rice-growing Asia? Finally, how about trying to research 1600s and 1700s in North America to compare apples with apples?

Even in her own paper, the results appear a bit, ahem, uneven:

> 1988 - Manufacturing workers, U.K.: 1856 hours

> 1400-1600 - Farmer-miner, adult male, U.K.: 1980 hours
> Calculated from Ian Blanchard's estimate of 180 days per year. Assumes 11-hour day

Yes, it's 180 days, but 11 hours each. Did she actually try working 11 hours on a backbreaking menial job? Does she actually believe that 11 hours being a miner in 1500s is the same as 11 hours in the office or even a modern assembly line?
>At the same time I think we should be grateful that we live in the best life conditions ever seen by humanity.

What metrics did you use to determine this, other than life expectancy? A zoo animal may have a longer life expectancy, but a free animal arguably leads a more satisfying life according to their nature.
I think so yes, but by that logic you cannot even trust Open Whisper Systems (who provide the encryption for WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger). I mean, with that high stakes there is big enough incentive for global temporary cooperation among some intelligence agencies to lean on Moxie (or someone else’s) family.

Edit: not meant as a whataboutism, Russia would certainly be more aggressive in doing so, and Durov is an easier target.
In winter you still need to care about animals, repair stuff, sew, chop wood, cook, etc. Peasants had to create a lot of things that we buy nowdays. They did not slacked whole winter.
If you consider it from an atom and energy perspective, you only really need to worry about the atoms that are going to cause you problems no matter what you do, like mercury and the other heavy metals. Those are generally valuable, though (the fact that they are valuable is why they are in a landfill at all in the first place, because it had value at one time), so if there was a cost-effective mechanism to remove those things from a landfill for profit, what was left over would not necessarily be a problem anymore.

Garbage getting dumped somewhere is not intrinsically a problem, if the garbage is not as intrinsically harmful as our current garbage.

(This is also why radioactive waste is so difficult to get rid of; it isn't a chemical problem, it's a problem all the way down to the atoms. Were it a mere chemical problem we'd have solved it long ago.)
I'm not sure that it's an area where YT is failing, as this subject has no winning scenario.

If they put restrictions on a sensitive subject, a part of the population is going to complain; if they don't, the other part will.

If they wouldn't put those restrictions, in the light of the current gun-related events, they'll just expose themselves to a string of lawsuits.

I think this is implicit in content providers with extremely large audiences, and it's quite difficult (and interesting) to assess what is failure and what success, from a business perspective.
Depends what services are you after to. If you are into "serverless" - than from my experience most robust/integrated environment is being provided by AWS...
Yes, blockchain powered video service running on own Beowulf cluster of Rassberry Pis, w00t!
I never understood this. Pay people half the wage for half their time, hire twice the staff. Get a significant increase in value produced for the same money.

I, for one, would accept half pay for half work. And I suspect others too.
Venezuela?!?

Venezuela has essentially collapsed. Their people are starving to death and have been rioting in the streets for years.

2016: "food riots show Venezuela crisis has gone beyond politics"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/venezuela-brea...

May 2017 "Venezuela protests: 200,000 march against President Maduro as riots and looting spread across country"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/21/venezuela-protes...

January 2018 "Venezuelans Are Rioting Over Food Shortages"

http://fortune.com/2018/01/11/venezuela-food-riots/
Don't use AWS, or at least don't put all your eggs into the AWS basket.

AWS has gotten to the service and infrastructure footprint it has today by death marching mediocre talent to ship untested and brittle things. This is true all the way down into the physical infrastructure, which often breaks and causes regional havoc. Great examples from the last 6 months include the 40 minute outage in US-WEST-2 in September, or the several hour event in US-EAST-1 during the East Coast wind storms. Bubble gum and baling wire.

They're trying to stabilize things, but leadership and sales are often committing to large spend customers and financing new features with technical debt (when current technical debt is not being serviced). Those at the top are not really concerned with running a solid or innovative platform as much as just pure growth and revenue.
But if you suggest to legalize and regulate it as a means of protecting those who don't wish to participate, you will be seen as a demonic entity who is advocating for sex crimes to be legalized. I don't think one can defend a crusade that so easily and extremely ignores alternative solutions. I suspect a lot of the push is from very conservative or sex negative views who see this as an opening to roll back some of the recently won sexual freedoms.
Amazing, thanks. C3.js has been a real pleasure to use, so I'm glad this fork exists. Cheers.
Considering how many different companies hate Facebook for stealing your attention from them...this is long overdue.

Here's looking at you ISPs, Telcos, Ad Platforms, so-on. Your campaign is working pretty well so far.
Holidays - or time off - usually meant going on pilgrimages to important religious sites (still many routes around Europe that you can follow).

Wars also took place in winter when the peasants had time off!
You might want to take a look at this nearby comment and reassess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16657105
And that it was a marketing campaign produced in partnership with a television show that somehow wound up in Firefox. What it did or didn't actually do is almost beside the point to those of us who care.

Even Google, an advertising company, is not so brazen as to market third-parties in its own browser.
For me it's usually an attempt to not come across as staring. A lot of people grow up hearing "don't stare!" when it comes to people who look different because it's rude. So it's really hard for me to shake that. I don't look away because I'm weirded out by a person or because I think less of them. It's because I don't want my initial glance to be mistaken a stare. It's ironic that apparently that can come across as rude as well. Then again I'm socially awkward and struggle to make eye-contact with non-disabled folks just as much.
And Google is one of the worst. Google Hangout's replacement, Meet, is Chrome only. Can't even fake it out with headers or such, the software doesn't give you a chance.
It creates an incentive to buy autonomous cars that are well programmed.
Ask HN: What are some good books/movies related to AI?
I am a CS student who is growing more and more interest in AI and Neuroscience. I often get burned-out from reading articles that challenges my current technical knowledge. I know this will get better as I will dive into more academic progress with time, but I would like to have some fictional, "artistic" AI related goods to consume on my spare time.

To keep unnecessary personal details aside, what books/movies (actually podcasts too) HN suggests to fuel our enthusiasm?

(My sincerest apologies if this post doesn't meet the average standards of the platform or some brief search would yield results I am seeking, I am fairly new here.)
Setting up swipeable stacked cards
>overweight people eat less nutritious diet in terms of phyto- and micronutrients

Would you mind to explain this a little bit further? It seems paradox at first.
Sometimes, choosing to use a library in the first place may also implicitly increase technical debt (in having to maintain this dependency, and even more so if this library shares dependencies with other dependencies that you have).
The company was never based in Russia. It was based in Berlin and now the headquarters are in Dubai: https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-...
Building a web chat component
Only for 38 years though.

Mexican independence: 1810

US acquires New Mexico: 1848
Slack will allow employers to read your private messages
Visualizing Hardware Business Review Trends Over the Years
From what I've seen, 10 days vacation per year seems to be the norm in corporate US, though I know people who get even less than that.
hey, if you have too much work, I'd be happy to help with some of it (preferably web dev and ML in python) -_- dy (a) deepmagic.io
Advertising and propaganda are basically the same thing. It is reasonable to believe that if one works, the other does too. They are tools to shape preferences, question is how they have been used and will be.
> 2. Telegram is incorporated in Germany (which has some of the toughest privacy laws in the world), not Russia

They moved to Dubai: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/cryptic-r...
they have plenty JavaScript plugins which functionality are you missing?
I saw it coming a few months ago. Didn't you? There is a group of people/organizations acting as puppet masters, dictating what's going to be the next big topic. This is a lot more scarier than the FB story itself. It would be great if someone starts digging it out and uncover what's really happening, who are they and what their motives are.

Media started feeding us stories how social networks are "bad for you", then slowly ramped up to give us the "piece de resistance": your soul (your data) has been sold to the devil.

Come on, isn't anyone else seeing it?!

ps: we have been programmed to believe this is not happening so i won't be surprised if this gets down-voted by the sheeple...

ps#2: it might not be a group or organization but just the result of a poorly built internet eco-system.
For comparison, QtCreator with I'm using right now in one session for a few days, with a full-blown set of C++ tools integrated, consumes 319.1 MB RAM + 140.3 MB RAM for clangbackend. That's less than 500 MB for a complete solution with code analysis, debugger, profilers, form designer and even some QML stuff.

Slack, which is idling in the background in just one organization, consumes 22 MB more than QtCreator :P OTOH, there's also a full-blown IRC client Konversation, connected to 2 servers and 42 channels total, consuming 80.6 MB.
He's trying to be funny by quoting The Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGnFExpup8
I use Messenger Lite for a few years now. It's certainly not perfect, but it's… less cancer-y i guess. At least it's less bloated and doesn't hijack SMS.

Can the Hermit-wrapped web messenger send notifications?
People aren't fine with their state at all in Venezuela. Major protests have happened, along with countless large riots.

"Days after the [Maduro] recall movement was cancelled, 1.2 million Venezuelans protested throughout the country against the move"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests

"Huge marches as Venezuela marks 50 days of protest"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/venezuelan-opposition...

June 2017 "Beginning on April 1, anti-government demonstrators have staged daily protests across Venezuela that continue to devolve into violent clashes with riot police, leaving thousands arrested, hundreds injured, and 66 dead."

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/months-of-anti-gov...
Things to Ponder for a Successful Social Media Venture
I've heard them called "court intellectuals."

The problem with Pinker's optimism isn't that it's wrong. If you look at aggregate statistics everything is getting better. The problem is that the distribution of that wealth is shifting toward an extreme hockey stick. A rising tide no longer lifts all boats. Those realities don't show up in aggregate statistics. You get what you measure.

In fact it's even worse than that. In certain cases a rising tide sinks many peoples' boats. Case in point: exploding asset prices. The savings of the extremely wealthy are re-invested in issuing more private debt, which in turn inflates the cost of things like real estate and college tuition which makes these basic things less affordable to ordinary people. One person can't afford a house because someone else's money has been parked in real estate.

Then there's the fact that advancing technology keeps raising the bar for entry level labor. Eventually the bar gets raised so high that someone with a merely average IQ or who is too young to possess the required experience is no longer profitably employable, leading to mass youth and lower class unemployment.

Basically it doesn't matter if everything is getting better for someone else. It matters if it's getting better for you.

The trouble is that all the solutions we have to wealth inequality are totalitarian and generally against the grain of enlightenment humanism. The most effective economic levelers are authoritarian socialism and warfare. The latter creates a huge amount of stimulus spending that creates a lot of jobs and effectively redistributes wealth to the working class. Without either forcible redistribution or war, wealth seems to just accumulate at the top due to network effects until the richest 0.01% own everything.
As soon as I read the title, I knew this would be the case. Have the media started doing more of this clickbait misrepresentation or are we just now more aware of it. It's so frustrating that it's getting harder to trust media or take them seriously. When the history channel did it, it was obnoxious. Pyramids built by "aliens". The media doing it is pathetic and dangerous.

Wish we could go back to the good old boring objective factual news rather than journalists trying to clickbait or push an agenda.
Telegram's clients are also open-source.
His time calculation is more than friendly to the community! Dedicate 6 hours to non work coding is insane.

Take care of you!
This is probably the most even keeled and concise analysis of this story to date, with a reasonable laymans exposition on the technical subtlety between what CA did starting in 2013 and what the Obama Administration did in 2012.

Not sure that it's a perfectly direct line between [Trump won] > (Facebook is to blame), because the story seems to be mostly about user data, but it's pretty close.
If you have access to a device of some low level employee there is no harm in burning it for a high profile operation like the guccifer story. This was not just a random Twitter bot, but potentially at a global-scandal level. Whoever coordinated this was certainly not a some random fool.
For small projects I like to start with something flat-fee like Linode or DigitalOcean - having to worry about variable costs is a distraction.

I just registered a wildcard SSL certificate using the DO plugin from LetsEncrypt and it worked like a charm.
Agreed. Whilst touring Neuschwanstein Castle and Biltmore Estate, what struck me: for all the luxurious art & fineries & service kings & tycoons enjoyed, what we consider basic necessities were hard to come by, if available at all, for even the super-rich.

Sitting here in my study, I: teleconference with my team continent-wide, practically have more [e-]books than Vanderbilt's 25,000 volume library, enjoy a constant 74°F interior year-round, drink clean running water (so much available I literally irrigate my lawn & flush toilets with it), instant light & power, and can have darn near any product delivered to my door within 2 days flat. I may not have live-in servants but that's more a matter of law than ability (thanks, OSHA & minimum wage). Other luxuries would be nice, but are mostly impractical indulgences. ...and all this is available to practically anyone willing to get up & go to work.

Given all that, a 14th century peasant would consider my life a permanent vacation.
There are more costs to an employee than just their wages
It feels like they're playing whack-a-mole using nukes, killing millions of non-moles trying to take out 1 mole.
then it should be honestly discussed in terms of morality, not 'but slavery and trafficking!'
Frameworks are needed to get developers past disagreements on organization of code and focus on delivering business value. They also help organize work for larger teams of people working together.

If you are solo and your application is going to be small they are probably unnecessary. If you are learning or already know how to use a framework, then it helps in the long run by taking care of lots of things to make your life easier.
Seasonal workers tend to migrate where the work is so most of them do work year round just not in the same place or even field.

You also need to differentiate between just normal rig workers and deck hands and highly skilled professionals e.g. underwater welders.
How DNA can be used to store computer data
When you talk to OMSCS students and they tell you that they implemented their own Augmented Reality system from the scratch, used Deep Learning in classifying diseases in X-ray images of chest, programmed a Lunar Lander automated solution using Deep Reinforcement Learning, reconstructed 3D models from a series of photos in a weekend, I would say they are working on way more interesting things than most people get a chance to work on during their whole career. It seems more like you risk by not taking it, even if it is not really research based, though some people told me they have selective research courses as well, working e.g. with inventor of Google Glass etc.
At what point do you stop the madness?

What if more hospitals fall victim while we're waiting for the one hospital to pay?

And when do we go Full ISIS (tm) on scum who hold hospitals hostage?
GP was talking about this Spring: https://spring.io/ not the Rails preloader...
This is a way to shut down any unmoderated online community using a troll army. The admins on the chans have been warning about this. Notice how this got passed the same week that youtube started banning legal gun and conspiracy videos, etc. It's part of a big online purge against free speech.

There are many unfortunate casualties in the current U.S political cold civil war that's been going on since the last election. They are seeking to eliminate anything that could lead to further unexpected political outcomes by going scorched earth on all kinds of online speech.
I think that’s kind of ignoring the outsized impact these huge companies have on our lives.
That is misleading. Infant mortality was high, but for those who lived past childhood average lifespan was not that far off from what it is today.
https://condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expec...
I'll never use GCE again. Too many services get pulled on a whim.
> The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it.

Some of the non-profits dedicated to fighting this opposed the bill!
The Cardboard Programmer
Yesterday I googled "path loss equation" and I was astonished that the first hit was ipfs:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m...

itshappening.gif
It started a rabbit hole
But tweet was't an existing word.
> As for the modern American worker? After a year on the job, she gets an average of eight vacation days annually.

Is this true? In the UK, 'standard' holiday entitlement for most jobs starts at 20 days annually, and that doesn't include official days off such as Xmas, New Year, Easter etc.
No so they could model accidents better.