skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But Lee’s alleged recruitment may have also led Beijing’s operatives to U.S.-based Chinese nationals.

This part is particularly interesting. If China were to start running a campaign of 'extreme pressure' that adds a dimension to the privacy debate around Facebook and government statistics collection.

A powerful counterargument to 'If you've got nothing to hide'.
I've never met anyone who didn't like 2001, but I've lived a sheltered life.

Could I ask your age?

And maybe, what country you grew up in?

(I'm trying to understand different generations, other than mine(mine is boring). I would like to develop a data sheet noting differing lines/values/morality between different age groups. I'm using 4chan for people under 25, but the different nationalities seem to throw everything off?)
Not knowing what you are looking for, here is a start: https://www.poynter.org/

See training and events. They do have a fee.

Also look at the books & blogs by Jeff Jarvis:
* https://buzzmachine.com/
* https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/author/ref=dbs_P_W_auth?_e...
People don't want yet another close sourced OS like iOS, they want something open like Android. Microsoft has the resources to work with other bigger service providers. Also a lot of corporations use Microsoft's solutions like Outlook and Office 365. They could provide a strong focus on corporate customers sorta like how Blackberry had that reputation. Point is, we got two options for smart phones, we need more.
Sometime in the past year, a contact required that I sign up for WhatsApp. At least on Android mobile, I didn't find how one could complete the sign up without giving them access to one's Android/Google contact db.
That's actually what I was looking for when I found this. Sadly, it doesn't look like there is (but contact me if you find one!)
A lot of bad press for China lately:

* This article on renditions

* IP theft (e.g.: https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/04/04/us-imprisons-chinese-sci...)

* Drug peddling and money laundering (http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article207911324.html)

* Unfair trade practices and trade war (no link needed for this on HN)

And this only covers what happens outside of China.
How many prostitutes have you come across in your daily business (not in your leisure activities)? Many years ago, I was a taxi driver and came across enough doing that kind of work to see that each of them was similarly affected by the business they were in.

I always found them courteous and well mannered. But there was this hardness in them that I could only attribute to the business they were involved in. Almost a kind of lifelessness in them. It is not a victimless crime, it is full of victims - a profound disruption of humanity.

Prostitution has had various levels of acceptability in many societies over the millenia. In some it was a highly regarded position, in others completely unacceptable and everything in between in others.

There are those who choose it as a way of life, there are many others who are forced into it. When we are unwillingly or unable to help these as a society then we, as a society, are failing these vulnerable people as we fail all those who are vulnerable.
When doing buy-outs or acquisations, how often do company consider culture-class as an obstacle? I would think thats not even brought up during discussion.

For a startup, it might make sense. Not for large established companies.
If you read the bill you would know that's bull shit. An FBI report is not a credible source.
I've watched 10 mins - quite interesting - mostly clips of people talking
I'm sorry, but I don't buy it. Prioritizing your users is completely an option. This is simply a choice in which Apple chooses money over it's users.
> I think you're looking for dynamic scopes.

Thanks for writing the comment I now don't have to.
Tips for assessing the safety of a Firefox extension
Keeping my analogy, developers do not spend the whole day at meetings, but meeting to fix bugs are not generally worth it. Also, when there is a high volume of meetings, there is likely something wrong.

I know for a fact that in the Indian Railways, people spend weeks digging up information required to answer RTI queries.

Instead of going by feelings ask government employees (preferably someone with a high level view of things) about it.

I am not saying RTI is useless. However, without a computerized infrastructure for most, if not all, protocols and processes in the government, it is just a game of cat and mouse.
Do you have any idea where their datacentres are?

They claim they're 6x faster than S3 but I'll bet it's 20 times slower with latency unless they have a Sydney datacentre.

You'd think this is info they'd put somewhere findable on their website.
In TXR Lisp, I came up with an anaphoric "if" called ifa which is quite different from Paul Graham's aif:

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-018F39B0

"If two or more arguments are it-candidates, the situation is ambiguous. The ifa expression is ill-formed and throws an exception at macro-expansion time." [Rule 2]
I guess this phishing attack is unfortunate but the dot thing is handy and, perhaps more importantly, people will stop getting their e-mail if they break it now.
As much as I want to blame the hedge fund for running this paper into the the ground, the reality is the paper was financially dead long before the hedge fund came along. The hedge fund ultimately prolonged the paper’s life. Short of a billionaire buying into it as a money losing affair, this paper’s days are numbered.
Normalization of trauma and injury. The red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme. Repetition of bugs, knives, needles, and bodily fluids.
What about text content only? This is free SSL with Let's Encrypt but Cloudfare seemingly charges for SSL.

Edit: Seemingly it could be free, but you must manually handle your certs to some degree.

Edit 2: Cloudfront now comes with "AWS Shield Standard" automatically to protect from DDOS?
This https://archive.org/details/TSLSummer1993 is how you got Open Source software before the Internet (back then called Shareware - although technically they are not the same thing).

BBS's existed but were too slow, and expensive.
>If you're just doing a bit of soldering as a hobby, though, get leaded solder. It works so much better than the modern unleaded stuff. Just don't breathe the smoke.

That is personally not the tradeoff I'd make.

Lead is a special kind of poison in that it makes you stupid before it kills you: This is especially true of children, but I don't want any of it on my adult self, either.

Note, you can also buy lead-free 'low temperature' solder, which has a lot of the same properties of lead solder, though it's more expensive.
I have seen some company use bio metric for login. Visa applications require them as well. Any other mechanisms might still get broken.
Coinbase Wants to Help Seed Crypto Startups
As a layman, I find it surprising that SSRIs were clinically approved for treatment based on a 1 in 7 chance of demonstrating positive effects. Are other medications anywhere near as ineffective? Whether antibiotics, Tylenol, or Viagra, I can't imagine any of those being effective in less than, say, 5 out of 7 cases.
Their point of Aadhaar being secure is only based on the data being encrypted with RSA public-key cryptography. They are totally obvilious to other threat vectors.

Their specifications state that the vendor should ensure end-to-end encryption. Say vendor X uses a kyc API which follows the UIDAI guidelines to the point, there's nothing preventing the vendor from storing the biometrics on the device before sending it to the kyc.

Not to mention that the biometric can be bypassed with OTP SMS & anyone is cybersecurity knowns SMS aren't fool-proof.

India is culmination of different civilizations and hence the diversity. No matter how corrupt the previous governments were, they weren't a direct threat to the democracy like the current government is under the pretext of religion.
Tech industry's missing piece: The humanities
Is this another layer on top of node. It says you can metwor install?
Live React Playground by bitsrc
How would we know if they are real? I'm interested in seeing.
Yeah well plastic is cheap, but I haven't driven a relatively modern toyota/honda/nissan with interior rattles (including my '98 toyota)
The constant strobing from the song has caused my monitor to continue to strobe even though the window is long closed. Weird. Must be a slight burn in or something.
Someone definitely just copied a regex from StackOverflow (frankly if you actually look at the RFC a regex seems like a crazy approach).
A colleague of mine has a windows phone with the dock that lets him use the phone as a desktop computer.

It's super freaking cool.

It's sad that this direction is not being developed more.
You must be fun at parties!
Oh, that Dutch humor!

How I miss that.....
The main problem with these newsgroups is that they have _so_many_ competitors. Most people don't want to and don't have to pay to get around a paywall because chances are someone else offers a similar article for free.
Even for local news you have tv stations, print outlets, and npr. It is a tough business.
> You can't add constraint which conflict with old data, yet you need to check that constraint for current data,

If there was a way to distinguish "old" and "new" data, you could write your constraint to honor the difference.

> therefore you must implement those constraints somewhere else and if you have those constraints there anyway, why bother with additional ones.

IMHO, if you must only have one set of constraints, put it in the data store.

The thing about constraints is that they provide pretty solid guarantees that let you better reason about the data at its base level.

You can't reason well about data that was "checked" by dozens of different versions of validations over time. What you have in that case is garbage in need of cleanup.
Your casual review conveniently left out trying out the app dev platform, which mostly used frameworks that were completely separate from what first party apps got. When wp7 launched the default blank app in Visual Studio took absurdly long to load and didn't have fancy things like ... wait for it ... sockets. There was some gradual and some big improvement over time, so maybe that is a bit of hyperbole, but it is a fairly representative example of the spirit throughout the lifetime of the product.

My thesis is that even if you wanted to make a very good WP app, you needed to work harder and be more of an expert than if you wanted a decent app on other platforms, and some device capabilities would be off the table. Too many people attribute the lack of apps to the lack of interest, which sure is a big factor, but nobody asks if it was technically feasible to have a large number of decent apps.
Relevant: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The convert tool is part of imagemagick and only works on image formats as far as I know. I personally use pandoc to do similar conversions on documents and ssconvert for spreadsheets.
Personally I went off SSRIs because from the start I chose to look at them as a tool. I had no symptoms of depression until my mid 20s so I didn't buy the metaphor that SSRIs were filling some inborn defect in my brain. I got stuck in a rut of bad thinking patterns which I re-framed through therapy and SSRIs.

I don't think going off them had to do with worries over "unnatural" , rather it was just human curiosity to understand my own brain. I've tried other illegal drugs for similar cognitive insights. It just so happens that SSRIs are legal and have some degree of clinical efficacy.

As a side note I think therapy did more for me than SSRIs and I'm still in therapy but ymmv. Finding a good therapist is way harder than finding an anti-depressant prescription.
Eh, but consider online shopping carts. I go to some ecommerce site, enter in my email to buy something. If I have to verify the email first, conversion rates will plummet. Instead, (and this is what we do at my company), we attempt to validate that the email is a real one with MX lookups and even SMTP checks. But otherwise, you just have to trust the shopper.
I clicked and dragged the image to my desktop. Did I do something wrong?
One simple example is that the power of a statistical test is usually modeled using mock experiments.
> The kind of thing that should get picked on is cheaping out and putting an analog section directly on a rippling rail.

Ah, but that section here is a feedback-stabilized amplifier stage; and the power rail is dual-voltage. The ripple in the positive rail swings opposite to the negative one.

Lots of power amplifiers use no voltage regulation for the rails. The amplifier is a kind of voltage regulator already anyway; if you add a regulator, you're basically adding another amplifier to the amplifier.

(Hey, I heard you like amplifiers, so I put an amplifier in your amplifier, ...)
Kubrick doesn’t adapt novels so much as he adopts them as superstructure upon which his films supervene.
There's a cycle in the 20 questions game that allows you to gradually fill your entire screen.
Can we please pass a law to make it criminally negligent if you store passwords in plaintext?

This needs to end. Kinda like building a bank without locks. Insane.
If you live in a major city, perhaps. I get the town newspaper and there is plenty of information published there that will never appear anywhere else.
Look at DigitalOcean spaces. 250 GB storage, 5TB bandwidth for $5/Month. Works with most S3 compatible sdks already
Apparently you're unfamiliar with Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage.
I agree. I like BMWs for what they are but I wouldn’t dismiss Cadillac’s current offerings without taking a real look at them. And really who couldn’t get excited about the CTS-V?
Ehh, no. The definition on Wikipedia - at least the part you quoted, the rest is too jargony for me - is circular (and makes me think it's incorrect/missing something). The GP's sentence would require a third link, which missing means it isn't circular.

Programs that can be typed will not necessarily be typecheck-able successfully.

(I hope what I'm trying to get at makes sense and I'm not causing more confusion... what I have in mind is things like Java's ClassCastException - everything's typed, the typecheck passes, but it wasn't actually successful. Going by the Wikipedia quote, it would mean it wasn't actually possible for this exception to be thrown.)
I recently watched the original Blade Runner with a bunch of friends; none of us had seen it before. Immensely watchable was certainly not the general opinion. A few of us decided it was worth watching only because it set the background for the new Blade Runner. We're probably missing some cultural element that meant it didn't elicit quite the same reaction as it did for you and I'm very curious what that might have been.
> So you stop the program immediately and allow no more transactions while you debug? Unlikely.

You stop the transaction on a constraint violation, not usually the entire system.

> Keep the data. Log that it's weird.

I've worked on systems that do that, and they're nightmares.

The problem with that style can be summed up in "if it doesn't look broke, people don't bother fixing it." No one actually watches those logs, and users don't try to fix data that was "accepted" with no errors. The result is bad data piles up, and often causes problems in other parts of the system.

Maybe you (as a developer) love working on support tickets to manually fix bad data the users entered or a buggy process created, but I sure as hell don't.

The solution to this is to fail fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast.
You should explore this! But if you'd like spoilers or a guide: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1975
Here's the picture of the two authors in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-comp...
Any evidence that Cloudflare will cache even fraction of his 5TB on free plan? While I personally have sites where like 20GB of images were cached on free tier I truly don't expect them to cache as much as even 1TB.

> I don't know how well Cloudflare caches videos.

It's cache files only under 512MB:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200394750-W...
Since it's the Rockies first weekend at home, the Denver Post ran a "Guide to Coors Field" story yesterday. Except the story featured a large photo of... Citizen's Bank Park, which is in Philadelphia. Its an especially embarrassing mistake because, while it's also a baseball stadium, Citizen's Bank Park is branded "Phillies" prominently in multiple places.

People were real quick to point out "this is what happens when you fire half your staff."

The Phillies also couldn't resist a Twitter jab: https://twitter.com/Phillies/status/982260422744027139
Surprised there’s no troll reviews on the harness in question on the Home Depot site yet.
I have two perspectives on this:

1. From what I have found, the hedge fund involved is big into distressed assets. That could mean either trying to turn them around or finding a way to profit from the eventual house clearing. My guess is the deal was structured so they could come out ahead in either result.

2. Being in/from Denver - the post has long just reposted or otherwise used alternate media to be their sources. Meaning their journalistic side has been spotty for quite some time.
I had brain zaps and they were very distracting.

I took 2 SSRIs for about 3 years and went off them close to cold turkey. When I would move my eyes it felt like there was a delay between moving and seeing. This lasted for about a month. In general everything felt very disconnected/fuzzy/unreal. Sometimes it was close to what I imagine people describe as an out of body experience.
It's not one of encryption or tunneling or packet shaping that does the work, but rather all of these techniques together work to reduce an adversary's traffic analysis capability.
Microsoft was definitely a monopoly when the antitrust lawsuit was filed against them. There can be no antitrust lawsuit if you're not a monopoly, it pretty much is a requirement for such a lawsuit to be brought.

It's perfectly legal (and healthy in a free trade economy) to be a monopoly.

What's illegal is leveraging that monopoly to enter other markets, which is what Microsoft attempted to do.
You may be able to set up filters to automatically trash everything sent to incorrect addresses. It might be fairly annoying, but it should certainly be possible. Just set a filter for firstlast@gmail.com to send them to spam. Also, software such as mailwatcher allows you to bounce emails after they've been received by the server if you think it necessary.
I would want to see your calculations on that. Venezuela is dealing with electricity rationing [1] and blackouts [2], and has had issues for years. [3] Further, the hardware needed for effective mining is very expensive in Venezuelan terms, and surely must be difficult to obtain. How much power would they really have to use to pay off often enough to justify the investment?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-blackouts/venez...

[2] e.g., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-blackout/blacko...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/26/americas/venezuela-blackouts/...
They have a history of randomly deciding it's not free and shutting off people's service without notice. It also slows down your site (cache misses)
Came here to say this. Log parser is amazing. Check out Log Parser Lizard for a good IDE.
The root cause is more fundamental than just inflation. In order to form a new business or expand an existing business, entrepreneurs need capital. Rational investors will only give out that capital if they expect a good rate of return (enough to compensate for the risk of losing the investment and not having that money available for other uses). Thus businesses most grow in order to pay back investors. Otherwise potential investors would just hoard their capital and the economy would never advance.

This is literally Finance 101.
A screengrab, a photo of the editor, and a link to a previous NYT article, but no external links in the article itself to the Denver Post opinion [0].

NYT supports embedded tweets and photos - so it supports hypermedia, but does anyone know why there are no external hyperlinks inside articles like this one? Is the abandonment or rarity of external links the key to newspaper success?

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2018/04/06/as-vultures-circle-the...
Sure, the hedge fund is merely doing its job. Which is bleeding as much money as possible from the paper. To benefit its shareholders. Right?
Samsung has the Dex doc for both the S8 and S9. Dock your phone and get a desktop-like Android experience.
Also in Wyoming is the Great Divide Basin, an endorheic basin straddling the Pacific-Atlantic Continental Divide.

In a not-to-distant past it probably drained out northeast towards the North Platte [1], but is now a closed basin with about 43 meters of elevation separation before it would overflow at bedrock. Further complicating this is a bunch of sand dunes over its most likely outflow.

[1] http://geofaculty.uwyo.edu/heller/Papers/Heller%20GSAB%2010....
Can make byte range requests a bit complicated and slows down your site when there's cache misses
According to Wikipedia, AMD CPU's are just as vulnerable to Spectre variant 1 and 2 as is Intel. The confusion that AMD was not vulnerable to variant 2 was due to a mistake made by AMD and later corrected by them 9 days later after verifying they were also vulnerable to variant 2.

AMD originally acknowledged vulnerability to one of the Spectre variants (GPZ variant 1), but stated that vulnerability to another (GPZ variant 2) had not been demonstrated on AMD processors, claiming it posed a "near zero risk of exploitation" due to differences in AMD architecture. In an update nine days later, AMD said that "GPZ Variant 2…is applicable to AMD processors" and defined upcoming steps to mitigate the threat. Several sources took AMD's news of the vulnerability to GPZ variant 2 as a change from AMD's prior claim, though AMD maintained that their position had not changed.
It's striking that the only mention of financials comes at the very end and as an afterthought.

I don't know whether the hedge fund is to blame for the demise of the Denver Post in specific, but in general, it's obvious print media is on a significant, general decline for all the reasons we here know about.

You can't have "quality" journalism without paying people for their talent. You can't pay people for their talent if you don't have revenue. You don't get revenue if your readership is moving to other platforms. Not once was any of this mentioned or alluded to.

Hedge Funds are easy to tar and feather, but doing so will do nothing to stem the Post's financial collapse. Who would they prefer as owner? Which financial decisions will keep high numbers of employees and high quality journalism...with decreasing ad revenue?
Digital ocean has super cheap block storage and currently has no way to track bandwidth usage (currently overages are not billed). GlusterFS is also useful. I cut latency in half switching from s3 to glusterFS
Japan Heads Toward $1M Salaries in Battle for Tech Talent
One of cheapest options with 20TB+ of free bandwidth would be Hetzner auction. These servers might be not super reliable, but they don't have setup fee and still capable of serving your files:

https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
Demo link shows a blank page in Safari iPhone (https://springload.github.io/lic-pattern-library/)
I own a copy of Wizard and have found it valuable on numerous occasions from digging around databases to tinkering with models. It handles non-trivial amounts of data with relative ease, allows you to do joins in the UI, has nice graphical representations that can change based on the type of the column. The list goes on. It does quite a lot of stuff.

Everyone I show this software to goes: "Whoa, what is this?" I would recommend checking it out before dismissing it.
And it sells leases on solar panels that you can never own. Crap deal Elon.