skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that Chinese sponsorship is not a good reason to avoid a library, every part of the reasoning in this comment is bad.

For most people, the threat model that focuses on FVEY includes China (China is a key part of FVEY's remit). If China has backdoored something, the FVEY threat model assumes FVEY has it too.

In particular: while FVEY governments theoretically have local legal limitations to their collection capabilities, they have no formal limitations to foreign collections --- foreign collections are the entire point of SIGINT agencies. Moving your data overseas to hide it from the NSA is thus, ceteris paribus, an extremely dumb idea.

Further, it is extremely difficult to extract cryptographic weaknesses from software, and relative to the scale of the whole problem, source code availability is a marginal factor. If you're going to say "identify all those backdoors", you might just as well say "YOLO".
Also check out nycmesh.net
I just don't see how this can be a successful company long term. If the labels see any profit they will demand more fees at the next deal negotiation. To become music's Netflix they would have to produce their own music which people want to listen to, which is a lot easier said then done. The easiest route is probably to become Tidal and give the company away to a few big artists in exchange for exclusives.
The NYC pension funds total nearly $200 billion.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/financial-matters/pensi...
PWAs are awesome, but we don’t see it as either or. If your app needs access to proprietary native SDKs then you need a native app. Capacitor gives you optionality to do both with the same code.
Watch this gif https://imgur.com/gallery/rQIb4Vw , and at the scene of car with the engine taken out imagine shaving a yak.

But the original story, as far as I know, comes from Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_t...
That's the only usable mobile Reddit IMO.
I recently wanted to buy and sell some furniture and checked out craigslist. Was hugely put off by what was, for me, totally counter-intuitive UX and ugly design. Poked around for a bit, ended up using a different service and was very happy.

From what I understand, Craigslist has been losing popularity recently, and I have no doubt that the 90s feel of the site is a big contributor.

Existing users of sites may be temporarily irked by a redesign, but they can be huge for keeping the site attractive to new users. They should happen infrequently, but they have a purpose. IMO Craigslist has made a huge mistake by leaving the site unchanged for so long.

I know for a fact that Reddit suffers from this as well. They have mentioned it in lots of places, and I'm confident that's backed up by their user studies. Visual appeal has a huge effect on new users, and I'm sure that's why Reddit is doing what they are doing.
it's rust code, you can't even compile it without downloading a binary from the internet.
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Sure we do. Try running multiple VMs or a few Selenium tests and you can see the GBs get eaten by the dozens. Not to mention creative software like Adobe's line of products which are very demanding resource-wise. Load a couple hundred high-res pics on Photoshop and try executing a complicated script and boom your PC gets hammered. It also counts that most laptops cannot feature an advanced GPU so a lot of processing is handled by the CPU and the RAM.

Of course, we can argue how many of these will be executed from a laptop but there are people who use a laptop as their main rig so I guess every possible scenario is on the table.
My understanding is that the underwriters are gatekeepers, not risk managers. If your stock underperforms, you have to pay them back, but if your stock over performs, they keep the extra.

In theory the service they provide is valuation, but in this day and age of instant information, that really isn't necessary anymore. Back in the day when it took a few days for a person to execute a trade, maybe they provided valuable insight, but now, with stock trades for retail investors taking seconds from "I want that" to "I have that", they don't really have better information anymore.
> this was a strange way to do it.

This was done partially because the company itself isn't raising money. If the company executives believed they would need a large cash cushion, they would have tried to raise some cash in the deal, so they must believe they can reverse course before the cash crunch
I think the most interesting part is irungentoo's (only) response in that thread:

"You are fucked if you get your key stolen. There are so many more fun things you can do if you steal someones key that I simply didn't bother trying to handle that case because it would not provide any actual security."

This seems like a pretty flippant attitude in a thread where other collaborators have already built anticipation for your response. I suppose it's possible irungentoo noticed this flaw and explicitly thought "this is outside of the scope of our security model, so I'll just leave that in there by design," but it seems much more likely that they hadn't considered it at all and are simply rationalizing after the fact. After all, if you recognize the negative security implications of a specific design decision and choose not to address it you are not really writing "secure" software. I think "I didn't consider what might happen if a secret becomes compromised" is obviously a bad look for security software.
> I don't get this argument. Don't the underwriters provide an obvious service that will always have utility for some private companies: risk management?

Yes, and furthermore, the Spotify listing is anomaly in a lot of ways due to the idiosyncratic terms under which they raised money previously, and the fact that the major labels (who are their primary vendors) had ownership stakes in them from the very beginning.

In IPOs, companies raise money, and underwriters serve as insurers to guarantee the amount that the company will raise. But Spotify isn't even raising any money today! They're just providing liquidity for existing shareholders. That's dramatically different from IPOs, so of course the underwriters are superfluous for this particular case.

I don't think it makes sense to generalize anything from Spotify, but certainly not the role of underwriters.
The Onion article almost writes itself.
That's just the definition of free market. How can it be be free if the consumers don't have perfect knowledge?
Meh, for true redundancy you need separate vendors with different hardware and software infrastructure. Erasure coding and bitrot guard hit the 5 9s I need.
There's a big difference between posters on the side of a city bus and Facebook surveillance. Zuckerberg is trying to obscure that difference as "nothing wrong with being advertising supported".
That's it for me, I'm off Facebook. This is one area where I see the importance of decentralisation - giving this much data to one company is dangerous. I'm part of the crypto-space and having a look there are quite a few competitors to facebook close to launching (sociall.io, indorse.io, steemit). Hopefully one of these will take down facebook. Data being owned by each individual will ensure a catastrophe like this one will never occurs again.
Your arguments don't hold. The point about blockchains in general is: it's an interesting new technology. Do you disagree?

Since we can agree on that, what is wrong about people trying to put that technology into practice? No one has ever claimed some specific blockchain application would be profitable, but people are trying to put that thing into use. What is the problem with that?
I do love Spotify as a product, however I don't think it will scale the same way Netflix does. Spotify is at the mercy of major record labels, and as their books become more transparent the record labels will squeeze every dollar they can for licensing. That is, unless they find a way to upend the record industry entirely.

Spotify has a unique position with their amazing discovery/recommendations engine- they could potentially start their own "label" and promote their own artists that sign on. Small/independent musicians could see more exposure and Spotify can deliver more music tailored for individual tastes. I've personally found myself listening to lots of small/indie artists as a result of their algorithms, to the point that these now make up the majority of my listening experience.

I think getting into concert tickets/streams, merchandise etc could help them potentially capture quite a bit of value in the future as well.

I know the comparison is similar to original content & Netflix - but keep in mind there's an opportunity cost with media (one can only consume X amount of shows/songs within a period of time). The more attention Spotify can divert away from the major record labels the better.
What laptop are you using, I think my thinkpad W540 is capped at 32GB.
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Well, that and aid with the capital raise. In this case, my understanding is there wasn't a capital raise so much as there was an opportunity for existing shareholders to liquidate their positions.

Edit: yep.

> The digital music company isn’t selling its shares on the stock market, meaning the company isn’t raising any money today. Instead, the event known as a “direct listing,” is a collection of transactions from existing shareholders (like employees and investors) selling shares directly to stock market investors. It took a while for the market makers to sort this out.
I know they didn't go through a traditional IPO model, but from what I understand there's always a certain amount of days imposed by the SEC to restrict short selling on novel securities.
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You're absolutely right! That could very well happen!

With that said, it's perhaps possible that millennial pushing for changes and upgrades and improvements and the fundamental human right of quality education for all might not yield an ideal outcome. Improving schools can very reasonably be expected to be multi-decade project of changing budgets, priorities, staffing, training, expectations, culture, and more. Someone with a toddler might want quality schools in the next three years instead of next thirty. This might, for some, incentivize a different set of somewhat more selfish reactions.

You're completely right. Millenials can, should, and are morally obligated to push for improvements and upgrades. But there may be a wrinkle or three.
That may be, but I tend to see soo many apps now days that just need basic rendering. I almost wish there was a revolution to go back to when the IOS app store just installed links to URLs. It's so terrible inside phonegap apps such that apps simply can't save my f-ing password! Instead of building out more mobile features to complete the progress made by HTML5 we keep going back to native apps for no reason. Yes I get that there is a certain class of apps that MUST be native, but I would argue the bulk of apps don't need this.
Thats fair, but accessing free music is a lot easier than free tv. If they can get people to pay anything for music, thats at least better than zero for labels.
~2x is a decent short for sure, but I have to believe that SPOT is going to tank like TWIT when their claims of profitability by 2019 fall flat.
I don't know if this chain of events actually lines up. The way I see it, autonomous vehicles will allow anyone (not just millennials) to reclaim that lost time commuting, which can be used for work and thus make the idea of commuting from the suburbs not all that bad. Then people won't mind moving far away from the city centers given that the commute is no longer a fruitless activity. Personally I'd be very happy to live an hour away from a city if it meant that I could use the 2 hours round-trip to do work (if I still had to work in an office).
Also, having a private "browsing" mode for apps would be great as well!
My office uses names of famous scientists and engineers for the conference rooms although not all of them are named. At one point, these rooms were listed in Outlook by the person's name instead of the room number. So you would have this massive list of names and have no idea if that room is the one on the next floor or on the other side of the country. They recently redid the conference room directory so now you when you sort alphabetically you can see state, building, floor, room number, then whatever cutesy name the room has.
Interesting, is this just to let shareholders cash out? Im surprised they would do this without making any (or at least a little) money on it given the track record. Seems risky when they are still beholden to the lables for the most part.
why mention slack? didn't see anything in either the article or the comment about slack. Article says this is specific to chrome windows.

Google does way too much tracking as it is, but this is about a supposed AV scan not link tracking, so I'd like to understand the comment.
They are. People stop buying their stuff and they get fired or go bankrupt. A government cannot go bankrupt because it will just steal and print more money. If you think government records are open, try getting the last remaining records on the JFK assassination, unredacted.
That's an argument for good search and discoverability - a sugar-free aisle.
Over 16% of the Swedish population is foreign-born, which is higher than in the USA. Only about half of that is from other European nations, and that is mostly from Eastern Europe. Iraq is the second most common country of origin after Finland.
> My understanding is that the underwriters are gatekeepers, not risk managers. If your stock underperforms, you have to pay them back, but if your stock over performs, they keep the extra.

That's typically not true. The underwriter isn't guaranteed the difference. They're basically an insurer: the company is able to know (before the IPO) exactly how much money they can expect to make on it. In exchange for this certainty, the forego the potential upside (the chance that the opening price will be much higher, in which case the company is leaving money on the table).

In this case, Spotify isn't even raising any money (because this is a direct listing, not an IPO), so there's no point for underwriters, because... well, there's no uncertainty about how much money they'll be raising, since they're not raising any.
A while back I wrote a "Cryptographic Right Answers" document that recommended people use BoringSSL if they could get away with it, otherwise stick to OpenSSL. Today, I'd write "just use OpenSSL". It's a different, better project than it was just a few years ago, and it gets much more attention than alternate libraries.

If you're already using Rust, this looks neat. I'm not sure OpenSSL API compatibility is that much of a win? But if you're porting C code to Rust, sure.
Yev from Backblaze here -> we actually have datacenters in California and Arizona so they aren't too close together! That said, we're also working on multi-region support so that you could move data between regions (no ETA on that yet). Hoping to get more datacenters online in the coming year!

But you're correct - we do recommend diversification, having data in multiple locations is always a best practice, and if you can have it in different vedors, all the better!
Create the bind decorator to help with React events and callback props
after moving from seattle to a smaller city , my wife and I regret it a great deal and plan to move to an urban location permanently, with our young child. It was a voyage of self-discovery.
> Lots would argue that too many shareholders focus on short term growth over long term strategy.

Large public pension funds are, however, not the kind of shareholders at which that criticism is usually directed.
How exactly does one not participate in capitalism while living in a capitalist society?
Banks are very political places too. Not the ideal home for a hacker.
Is "Senior Differential Privacy Research Engineer: Remote" a real thing? I don't see it on any of your listings. I am interested in that position if it does exist :)
Sort of posted this elsewhere, but I think Craigslist is suffering from this as well. It seems to be losing market share from what I can tell. I showed up on their site for the first time about a year ago to buy and sell furniture, and was so turned off by it. Ended up using a different platform.

Visual appeal is extremely powerful, and it's valuable to virtually any product.
FX-6300 over here. Been waiting to upgrade for a while and looking forward one of these new AMD cpus.
This doesn't protect users from snooping by the IRCD admin, which is what e2e encryption/p2p chat is about -- removing the ability of the service provider to see the content of the private messages between users. IMO IRCD in no way qualifies as "encrypted p2p chat".
If you're not failing occasionally or perhaps regularly, you're likely not often attempting anything difficult.

Amazon & Bezos, as one example, has failed at several very prominent efforts over the years, from competing with eBay in auctions, to competing with Google in traditional search, to the Amazon phone.

Companies should not succeed at every venture. Not only is it impossible, it's undesirable for them to succeed like that. By that standard there has never been a successful company, because nobody has managed to own everything yet.

The measure is overall value creation by the business for shareholders. Facebook is one of the greatest success stories in world business history by any reasonable measure of value creation, both in regards to its profit levels and balance sheet value increases. And they've done that in a shorter amount of time than any other company before them, with perhaps only Google a close second.

FB net tangible assets have increased from $41 billion to ~$58 billion in the last year, that's twice the net tangible assets of Microsoft. Not only does Facebook have a healthier balance sheet than Microsoft, they're going to catch them on quarterly profits within about ~18 months. Microsoft is 42 years old, Facebook is 15 years old. Facebook's net tangible assets match that of Walmart.

Here's what the balance sheets of other blue chips look like:

Coca Cola: zero net tangible assets

McDonald's: negative $5.6 billion

Oracle: negative $1.5 billion

Netflix: negative $6.7 billion

Starbucks: positive $831k

Comcast: negative $46 billion

Boeing: negative $7.7 billion

GE: negative $40 billion

AT&T: negative $78 billion

Verizon: negative $84 billion

Procter & Gamble: negative $15 billion

IBM: negative $22 billion

Pfizer: negative $33 billion

Johnson & Johnson: negative $25 billion

Lockheed: negative $15 billion

Home Depot: negative $821k

3M: negative $1.8 billion

Delta Airlines: negative $731k

UPS: negative $4.8 billion

PepsiCo: negative $17 billion

Walgreens: negative $590k
This is going to be one of those threads that I'll upvote and bookmark and then not revisit till years later.

Any idea on how to start setting aside time to take a MOOC?
For those of you taking a MOOC, how do you structure your week? It's been years since I've been in college.
I had the pleasure of meeting Amber at a conference recently and am not surprised she is going out on her own. With her knowledge and contact list, I'd expect her next venture to be a success.

This has been a common occurrence across many of the large classic players of the financial space. Keeping talent is difficult when a startup can be substantially more agile and effective. I know this isn't unique to the blockchain space, but it is certainly very prevalent. Potentially due to the fact that many leaders in the space were early investors in the technology too and a stable salary isn't top of mind compared to freedom and a challenge.
I read this and thought - that's going to be a big culture shift, Jeffrey Dean Morgan taking over Google's AI:
https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/walking-dead-...
You're hitting on something we hear a lot, and that's a use case we are really going after. Even if you use RN today with a webview, there's no core way to expose plugins/modules to that web view (like Cordova does). I think there's a middle ground here where the web layer is first class but it's easier to drop into native code and manage your native project as you wish, while staying as close as possible to the standard tools/APIs that each platform developers typically use. If we can save you 95% of the time on your app, and have simple escape hatches to get full control, that's a win.
> In this case, my understanding is there wasn't a capital raise so much as there was an opportunity for existing shareholders to liquidate their positions.

Yup, Spotify was under contractual requirements to go public, due to the terms of their last fundraising round (or else they had to pay incredibly stiff penalties).

Underwriters serve a role for most IPOs, but Spotify is different because their listing wasn't about raising money - it was about fulfilling their contractual requirements to provide liquidity on public markets so that they could avoid the penalties they would otherwise face.
Ask HN: Why can't I change my android's cellular network DNS without root?
I can set DNS for my WiFi but not for my cellular network on my android device without root.
Ethereum versus ASICs – To Fork or Not to Fork
One of the best algorithms class I have taken. I liked his way of introducing new concepts and intuition behind them. He really enjoys teaching algorithms.
What do you mean DNS provider? DNS is free. Try OpenDNS.com: 208.67.222.222 · 208.67.220.220. Or Google: 8.8.8.8.
you'd have issues during instrument conditions (stars not visible regardless of daylight), but this could be interesting, especially combined with, say, SLAM fed by terrain-scanning radar.
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This is what the whole urban charter school thing has really been about. A cluster of middle class people set up a charter school and steal most of the other high potential kids, leaving the actual public school with even worse performance and students.
> For other reasons, schooling and crime are such that for those that want families, cities are less than ideal than the suburbs.

Translated: White Flight.

There are great (public and private) schools in NYC, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.

Many of the cities with "poor" inner city schools are also cities where white flight and highway riots hit the worst.
Netflix could be in the same position. With Disney launching their own streaming services next year, the situation could get dire for Netflix, too, if Netflix' own productions don't take off as much as they want.
The correct answer. But the question supposes one can know with accuracy what the percent chance that a given statement is a lie, which imo is pretty ridiculous. Fine abstract mathematical problem, but not very useful
Wow, I was not aware that we could do such a feat with small(ish) equipment. Thanks for the link.
Can you cite a source for your definition of breach? If you are including cases where the holder of the data voluntarily shares data, I think that is outside of most people's understanding. The app and its developer were authorized, by Facebook, to access the data.

Also, I'm not sure what "applicable laws and/or policies" you are assuming were violated.

Regarding "breach" and culpability: It's the difference between "Facebook did not successfully defend against bad guys, allowing them to do get your data" and "Facebook gave bad guys your data". They may be culpable in both scenarios, but clearly the latter is worse.