skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just china. You can be fired for offending european sensibilities. You can be fired for offending saudis/muslims/etc. Of course we already have examples of tech workers being fired for conservative opinions. But the most egregious example is israel, where it is illegal for an american citizen to boycott israel.
The problem now is that it's not only the traditional media companies that support this, it's google, twitter, facebook and the like.

They are big enough that they can eat the cost of censorship and don't care if they become worse services, so long as no new services arise to take their place. And with laws like this in place they never will.

The single biggest hurdle I found to building a distributed search engine was the various illegal materials all over the world. Be it insults to religion, hate speech, copyrighted material, child pornography, all need to be copied onto a local machine to be indexed and categorized. In most countries this would lead the police to come knocking. Any case will (probably) eventually be ruled to be legal, but the average user will never be able to deal with the case since they will probably go bankrupt long before a victory.

Even the people who set out to run a system like tor, knowing full well what the risks are, as a form of mild civil disobedience eventually fold [0].

[0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/5394ax/the-operat...
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I think I gifted that book to at least a dozen people by now, it's an absolute must read. I still paraphrase stories from it regularly.
Man, you (Americans) are having the time of your life in regards of Internet freedom. Net neutrality went down, SESTA, CLOUD...

And you're just about to enter a trade war with China!
Talk about a shot in the foot...

I'm not saying that everywhere else is nice, i.e. Deep Learning is barely legal for commercial use in Europe with GPDR!

But man, the weather is not nice...
For those impeded by the paywall:

http://archive.is/DIVlJ
My mission is to play, laugh, dance and not take life so seriously.
Yes. The String stuff is the epotiome of this, IMO.
Wouldn't that imply that Chevron has never produced an ad for the product? But I've seen there ads hundreds of times!

So the lawyer is saying that if a company spends tens of millions on advertising, that it has no effect on the economy that he is arguing is causing global warming?
> what most people, including the Tawainese themselves, agree is a part of China.

I truly cannot distinguish if you're trolling or serious. You continue repeating the same points throughout this thread and they are not true. Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Before the KMT invaded, Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire. Claiming the PRC gets all territory once owned by the Qing Dynasty is roughly equivalent to Germany claiming all territory once owned by Prussia. It doesn't lead anywhere pleasant.

Your comments are reprehensible and I wish for you never have the experience of your home being under constant threat from an increasingly wealthy and aggressive neighbor.
In Urdu, matlab can mean intent or purpose, probably derived from Farsi.
Exactly. That's how we prepped for Putnam

That writing programs to solve problems that someone else has solved elsewhere? That's called IBM Watson and Jeopardy.
Despite going through gifted education programs myself, I'm deeply skeptical of the concept of them in general, and I've only become more skeptical as new research emerged. Here's a good example for why I'm skeptical:

>There is evidence that aspects of gifted education should influence education more broadly. Project Bright Idea, developed at Duke University, saw 10,000 typical nursery and primary-school pupils taught using methods often reserved for brainier kids—fostering high expectations, complex problem-solving and cultivating meta-cognition (or “thinking about thinking”). Nearly every one of them went on to do much better on tests than similar peers.

Another way to phrase this is that this study demonstrated that people may become "high-achieving" because of gifted education programs, and not the other way around. Or perhaps typical pupils can become high-achieving by exposure to high-achieving pupils.

The article's refutation of these ideas is the King's College study that determined that "50% of the variance in intelligence is heritable." Plomin's more recent (2015) research suggests this estimate was far too high, and should really be about 30% phenotypically, which makes me think there's no point in trying to find young Einsteins. If students are of average or slightly above average intelligence, Bright Idea style programs will be best for them, and if they are truly a "young Einstein," they'll demonstrate it on their own, just like old Einstein did.
I always wonder how it is to work in the Edge team.

They probably feel that this at least an exotic tool in the MS ecosystem, and I guess they never know how long it will be supported (by management)
Could you explain what is your view on the acquisition of the Tibetan territory by China?

From what I know about the issue, the transfer of the territory was forced, wasn't it?

What justification do you have for invading and annexation of a previously independent country? Is it that it never was independent in the first place? Do you have any sources to support this?

I come from a country which was occupied in its entirety for over a hundred years - it's arguably worse than what happened to China in the same time-frame. I can understand sovereignty being of prime concern to you. On the other hand, precisely because of a history like that, I can't help but see the Tibetans sovereignty over themselves being denied.

In other words, I'd like to understand: what makes you believe you have a right to take a sovereignty from others as you pursue your own? Is asserting your sovereignty over dead bodies of another nation worth it? (or are Tibetans considered to be 100% Chinese? if so, how come they seem to disagree?)
Ask HN: Most secure IP video camera for expecting parents?
Hey HN!

My wife and I are expecting our first child and we are exploring options for baby monitors. However, the common video baby monitors seem to be a security nightmare, with stories of strangers watching live feeds of other folks' kids all over the internet.

We want to find a solution that is reasonably feature-rich, but more importantly, is highly secure. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
As someone who has been through many forms of 'gifted' and 'enriched' and 'special' education, these articles always sadden me. Does anyone truly believe that optimizing children for their economic output really leads to a good life for their country?

Here's a radical idea: let them have childhoods!

I strongly support letting kids be free to develop and think for themselves. If a 'gifted' child can succeed despite being imprisoned in a school for many years, imagine how much they could grow and contribute if they were free?

For anyone with children, or who cares about the future of western democracy, please look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
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Checkprint, a little Python library for filling pre-printed checks
Because HN's FAQ explicitly says

"But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."
Alsup is a badass - be it patent law, or DACA, etc- he takes a balanced view, and "does his homework"(which might be problematic from a legal POV). I would like it if more judges were like him.
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Is this a new story? Didn’t we first hear about CA right after the election? Nobody seemed shocked at the time.
Show HN: Look at These Kickass Email Marketing Campaigns
Clever emails are fun, personal, and engaging. They do as much for the brand which sends them as they do for the customer who receives them.

In this article, we will cover not just the best email campaigns, we will also tell you why it works.

https://www.engagebay.com/blog/will-love-10-email-campaigns/
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At the moment I am using Wanderlust, to help with the html I have set it up so I can open them in firefox.
And Facebook directly helped Obama in 2012. But rather than getting all partisan about it - the debate needs to be is this OK for any politician of any alignment?
School district's plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks
In Shalamov's "Kolyma Tales" there are some fascinating accounts of how the criminal underworld operated in the Soviet era, and its brutal contact with the political prisoners in the Gulag. 'On Tick' is particularly memorable.

The wikipedia page "Thief in law" is very interesting and a serious time sink if it prompts you to read more about all these characters, and so is https://en.crimerussia.com/
I can strongly recommend the Matrix.org standard for this sort of messaging. I have only been positively surprised by every part of it.
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No, they didn’t. Trump won because people liked his message. Plain and simple. These companies existed long before 2016 and if they couldn’t help other legitimate candidates get elected, what could they have done so magical for Trump?

Is it really so hard to believe that people didn’t like Hillary and didn’t think that another 8 years of the same would be good for them?
Moi aussi, crotte.
Buy something from a somewhat reputable vendor that you can access over LAN, and completely block it from the internet, both directions.
Right, an R&D lab. I imagine this will work similarly, in that Google will have a contract to develop some infrastructure and will have sole discretion to lease space and resources to others for R&D purposes.

They would act kind of like a developer here, but it's not to develop specific things, like commercial or residential space, it's probably a lot more open than that, which is why people are having trouble classifying it using traditional terms.

It's like trying to classify App Engine or AWS before cloud infrastructure became a thing, when everyone ran their own servers; it requires a new category all its own.
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Some stated things sound frighteningly familiar:

- The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe

- Ukraine should be annexed by Russia [...]

- Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."
With the latest job I went from work GMail to company-hosted (and thunderbird) for the first time. I'm pleased to report it is far better than I feared. Thank you, Thunderbird!
My grandmother was olive-skinned French but still considered white. My dad was semi-olive skinned. I’m completely pale af French-Irish with a tiny bit of West African and Asian.

PS: I guess I should monetize my genes: 6’5, gifted, blond to brown w age, blue to hazel. Fuck, I should just visit Brazil and bang some rich ladies trying for preggers. lmao.
Yes, it’s hard to believe that when you consider Hillary won the popular vote.
Could've been phrased as, "if you were to ditch email" no? OPs question is confusing.
Only if you think the customers wouldn't otherwise have bought any oil, which I think is unlikely. Nobody buys oil for fun.

The only purpose of the advert is to make people buy from Chevron instead of their competitors, but the same amount of oil is getting sold either way.
Did colonoalism, at the time, contribute much to industrialization in terms of resources? My impression is that during the age of steam, colonial trade/extraction was mostly limited to luxuries and food, and colonies certainly provided a market for the factories, whereas the building of an industrial base was still mostly a regional thing. Case in point: Germans tried to copy both colonialism and industrialisation, with polar opposite different levels of success.
XMPP is still the protocol of choice for most IM/IM-like client-server services.

The major difference is that all the major players have turned off (or never enabled) federation, and dont advertise that its xmpp.

Honestly I think the non-xmpp open source projects will never succeed to the point of being ubiquitous. NIH strikes again.
I've banished myself to mobile. I am trying out k9-mail and open keychain on Android. They are both available on f-droid and seem to work well. Open keychain is so much easier to deal with than what I remember of enigmail on the desktop.
I haven't run into a feature that I need from either of the paid plans. What features were removed that you find compelling?

As an aside, Liquibase also effectively has a paid tier - it's just that it's marketed on a different web-site than the OSS version (http://www.datical.com/liquibase/).
You could probably build a movement yourself these days with one of those $500 SLA 3D printers, mostly-plastic movements have definitely been done before.

Though it sounds like these people are using CNC mills for the cases, that is definitely not cheap equipment.
Is LVM still relevant in public clouds such as AWS?
I don't understand? Romania and the rest of Eastern was almost all serfs 200 years ago. are you saying because people had clothes (as opposed to I guess indigenous peoples in Africa or something) Romania wasn't poor (and therefore Sweden was actually wealthy?
I don't think work in and of itself is the problem. The problem with modern day work is that it's become so homogenous regardless of desired outcome.

For example:

- If I want meat, I perform task X

- If I want heat, I perform task X

- If I want cothes, I perform task X

In previous generations (more recent than you might assume) many of these desired outcomes had totally different tasks.

Its also a false dichotomy that things are work _OR_ play. Many things are a blend of Work/Play/Hobby or more simply just "living".

It would have been an evolutionary advantage to be interested in and inclined to perform various types of tasks for early humans. Modern work suppresses this human need. This is why we have hobbies and people are depressed.

More "free" time to watch Netflix may not be the pinnacle happiness and fulfillment. This is not to suggest that life was "easy" in the past.
The key thing about all of those is that the technology (and techobabble) is just the setting. The real story is interaction. It always is in good scifi. We may find the technical underpinnings interesting, they may be worth an article or two, they may even help influence the direction science takes (due to the choice of problems that researchers choose to tackle, and the vision they have for the possible solutions), but what makes it compelling as a consumer is the human element. Sci-fi and fantasy are grouped together as genres a lot for a reason, being essentially just constructed settings to explore the human condition.
Uber will appeal a court decision to ban it in Egypt
Nope, I don't mind that. They're definitely not the only ones, and as long as that info is used for improving experiences, I'm okay with it.
Forestry sector needs to embrace technology
I wonder when people will start just renting a 99 Euro server with a GTX 1080 from https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu and sell it for $367.2 / month on Vectordash
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I love Thunderbird, I have used it at several previous jobs and I'm finding joy in email clients again as I now actively avoid using the web client for gmail. I have never understood people's gripes with the client, but maybe I'm just not a power user.

Seems like Mozilla could be a trustworthy mail provider as well.
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Sigh, wishing there was some magic sauce for this. But currently will have to sit through a 14 HOUR downtime while my team upgrades our SonarQube DB to 6.7.
Awesome, straightforward advice. Why I love HN. Thanks!
I think it would be pretty easy to go through life in the US without ever hearing a toilet called a WC; I'm familiar with the abbreviation but I'm not even sure how, because I can't remember ever hearing or reading it.
This is a rather wild conspiracy theory. Note that the lobbyist in question no longer works for News Corp. Lobbyists are basically defined as “opinion for money”, so the reverse should also be true: when you no longer pay them, it’s unlikely they’ll continue to work for you.

The connection becomes even more tenuous when you realize that News Corp isn’t actually “Hollywood”. Yes, they used to own 21th Century Fox, but that was sold last year.

Instead of trying to find some sinister motivation underlying people’s actions, it may be more useful to actually listen to them. It seems entirely believable that people privy to the details of human trafficking and sexual exploitation develop rather strong opinions on the subject. That conviction may lead them to advocating policies you may disagree with, especially when they see companies turning a blind eye to obvious underage sex trafficking on their platforms.

So do engage with their arguments and make a better case. But don’t belittle their concerns with hamfisted conspiracy theories.
OpenKeychain is currently the best way to manage PGP keys on any platform. I don't know why there's no good UI for the desktop, Enigmail is a distant second.
> and if they are truly a "young Einstein," they'll demonstrate it on their own, just like old Einstein did.

I disagree with this. The fact that some young prodigies proved it early and eventually became productive adult geniuses is not, to me, evidence that young prodigies will show themselves. Rather, I would expect that there are more young Einsteins who do not receive adequate mentorship, resources, or opportunities to become old Einsteins.

Some make it anyway. Ramanujan is an interesting case. By Hardy's estimate, he was one of the best mathematical minds of the 20th century, and he demonstrated clear mathematical talent by high school age. And he still barely made it, thanks to a fragile chain of people who recognized his talent and drive. It's very easy for me to imagine a world in which Ramanujan stays in India and remains a bureaucrat doing math on the side.

But as I understand it, pedagogy for young Einsteins is still not that well understood.
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Is there actually any evidence that CA are actually good at data analysis? Everything I read makes it seem like they were one of the many "big data consultancies" of the era that were basically snake oil.

(Which is not to say what they did was not wrong, just that I doubt it was effective)
I'd go even further:
I would not want to swap positions with anybody who was born even 50 years earlier than me.
I don't believe you. firstly rotate the wheel to adjust a level (i.e. level of menu selection highlight) is literally how volume knobs have always worked. secondly clickwheel was in the iPod for 5 years? 8 years? in all the time you never figured out how to use it?
The same position that got you £80-100k gross in London will only get you €40-50k gross in Paris.
Nice to see win XP continues to be a supported platform.
It’s SJW collective punishment mentality. Because something can be used for terrorism, like cars, ban all cars.
SLA printing services also provide a pretty cheap option (Shapeways or dirtySLA). You can also print (and then fire) ceramic parts printed with SLA printers (Vitrolite), I'm not sure very small parts would work well however.

Milling services are also available (and not super expensive in China) but the parts are very small, and there are a lot of them so it might not be a easy option.

The idea of printing the entire movement is certainly interesting though...
Vi is like C, it just ain't going away because it dominates a niche that it is perfectly suited for. I think emacs will decline as other graphical/simple text editors and IDEs keep making inroads.
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I've been to all of those places and only ever heard it called a WC or "water closet" in my high school french class.
Dry-runs and rollbacks (Flyway's undos). Especially rollbacks are useful for development.
My grandma (age 80++) wants:

* A flip phone:

- People that are no longer very dexterous have a hard time with touch screen phones

- It's a phone - she will only be using it as a phone; all the touch screen features are just confusing

* An "SOS" button that texts / dials a list of family numbers for help if she has an emergency that doesn't warrant calling 911. Having dedicated memory dial keys is a passable compromise.

I ended up buying a Voca V530. I bought it just last week, so it is too soon to call it an unqualified success, but it looks like it will do the job we want it to do.
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Reminds me of Dan Spitz (Anthrax lead guitarist) who left back in the 90s to become one of the watchmakers in the world: https://vimeo.com/161489498
I think this is an important point. When prototyping or developing one-off utilities, I'm not looking to shave off CPU cycles or run everything under 6 MB. I wish someone would write a "Rust for <insert-gc-lang> Programmers". :)
They probably won't tell you why you were fired.
Never heard of a loo being called "Patente" in Brazil. Guessing it is a very specific regional thing? Also, "WC" as synonim for a bathroom as read in signs is not as common as once was. Word is "Sanitário" pretty much everywhere now.
> Thunderbird is still the best crossplatform, multi account mail client around.

Have you tried Sylpheed? https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
Yes but is minimal and not sure how it even matters?

Why on earth would someone buy a subscription for content that has NO ads?

Can you explain?
Seriously? Looks reasonably sized on mine and perfectly sharp. I have Windows 1803 though...
I use Hootsuite to "announce" content, published on sites that I manage, to Twitter and FB.

I also use RSS to "syndicate" content from Site A to x sites in the network.
What do believe the content of the "message" was? Is it a set of deliverables? What connection do you think there is between the message and actual policy that Trump has enacted?
Let's not forget to thank the developer for the amazing windows port and the integration with the windows store!
... based almost entirely on votes from one, unusually populous state, with different economics and demographics from the rest of the country. Winning one state by a landslide and losing 48 others (or whatever the exact numbers were) by a hairsbreadth still means you lost in 47 states.

Hillary quite openly stated that she didn't care about the so-called "flyover" states (the "deplorables"), why is anyone surprised that in return, they voted against her?
Amazing. I am looking for something like this for Engineering (Aero/Mech). I think the first part has a lot of parallels so that's great.
My current project doesn’t implement social logins yet.
On my previous one, on a B2C niche site, i’d say maybe 30% used social logins. One thing you want to consider is allow users to login in multiple fashions - like if you recognize an email that is already a social login, offer them a way to create a site password too.
In my case, maybe 80% of support requests we got were people forgetting they signed up with a social login and then wondering why their passwords weren’t working.
"The Gulag Archipelago" is another good book on the Soviet era prison system.
And Media Matters, Correct The Record, Twitter, Facebook, Google, CNN, NBC, Comcast, Dreamworks, Microsoft, Fahr LLC and many others helped Hillary but failed miserably.