skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNN isn't great journalism, but it isn't the only source of information.

The problems with Fox News and Sinclair aren't based on advertising, they are based on ownership. State sponsored media isn't going to be any better under an autocrat and will in fact be worse than the situation in the US because there may not be any other options.
> It seems the crypto community also does not care about the obvious centralization

Again, more lies. Where did you get this information? Everyone in crypto knows the biggest risk are the exchanges.

I'm curious, who takes time out of their day to villainize a database architecture? People are getting desperate.
And these are the Wired videos from last week, which presumably are embedded in the site of the submission (which is also broken for me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNg4fDJC8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhYZy1ugI3Q
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Getting rid of plaintext SNI won't help much.

The domain is there in the certificate itself. There are, of course, some (or maybe many, I don't have statistics) certificates for multiple domains (wildcard and alt. name), but still.
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> the author does not mention many of the highly plausible use cases for trustless and permissionless services such as replacing rent seeking P2P marketplaces like eBay (where the advantage is cost reduction) or online Poker sites (where the advantage is manipulation resistance).

Both of those claims are severely in need of support before you can attack the author for not mentioning them. eBay doesn’t cost what it does because there’s no other way to send money online – it’s things like discovery, fraud protection, etc. which are necessary either way. It’s similarly non-obvious how magic blockchain pixie dust could address the challenges which online gambling actually has.
How about, “Our documented policy is to not collect personal information from users at all.” Assuming it’s true, wouldn’t that be compliant?
I think Spanish is actually a bit more predictable than German. The umulaut can denote a few different versions of vowel sounds, so, as an amateur learner of German, I sometimes have to guess as to which vowel sound I use.

I've dabbled in Japanese, German, and Spanish. All of these languages are easier to pronounce than English - and English is the only language I'm fluent in!
Is there any software that can do this in a very user friendly way? Ideally after entering a key when installing the software, I would never know that encryption is happening.
Huh... I had a Precision 5510 running Linux and I loved it
Here's a great list of blockchain uses from Disney - most of these are NOT a bad vision for the future https://dragonchain.github.io/blockchain-use-cases
What would I recommend? A 2015 MacBook Pro.

Seriously. Until Apple's fixes all it's mistakes, the 2015 model is still the best money can buy.
That doesn't imply the they were storing in plain text. I don't know why you think that.
This is a flawed concept from the outset. You either have appliances, or computational platforms.

Turing-complete systems are arbitrarily flexible as a matter of principle.

If the firmware can be altered; if any addressable memory can be changed, and a system relies on an internet connection for maintenance and support, it is an unreliable system.
IMO, the movie tells the story really badly. The motivation of Hal is not explained at all, and the ending is just absurd.
if you google "AAA game flops 2017" you will get an endless series of listicles naming multi-million dollar flops from last year alone.
Why would it be the engineers and not business leadership? If BP has an oil spill do we blame their engineers?
I used Phoenix to reimplement some features of MercuryMover https://github.com/kemar/phoenix-mercury-mover You can almost do what you want with Phoenix. I'm a huge fan
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I was able to find this site that compares average income by where students went to college.

CSU Stanislaus: $47,000 (early career), $90,300 (mid career)
MIT: $81,500 (early career), $147,000 (mid career)

Early career is 0-5 years experience.
Mid career is 10+ years experience.

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors?pag...

Obviously, we can't say that prestige of college and income are causal but the correlation is definitely there.
Check out https://cryptomator.org
> The domain is there in the certificate itself.

With TLS 1.3, the certificate is in the encrypted portion of the handshake.
Add to the solution of paying anonymously or globally that transfers are generally shorter than bank account transfers.

With banks and checking/savings accounts you have 3-5 business days, mainly due to the ACH and for fraud protection. But some transactions don't need fraud protection or are low enough that it might not matter. In that case bitcoin can transfer funds, verify it within an hour and many times around 20 minutes or so, that is much faster than transferring some money that settles 3-5 days later.

A real world use case for bitcoin is to transfer money into it then buy from third party small products vendors or donations that one may or may not trust with credit card or to maintain privacy on purchases. Paypal usually fills that type of role but some don't use that. In those cases bitcoin and solutions like Bitpay work nicely.

One can use bitcoin (or other alts you like) like a wallet/cash by having a smaller amount in there for transactions that you don't want to share your credit/payment processor information with similar to Paypal. Some might even trust bitcoin wallets more than Paypal and competition is always good. Credit card companies correlate your data through your card email/id to sell your ad data i.e. you order food out you might get competitive food ads. Privacy in bitcoin is a big killer app in those aspects, trust and non-tracked purchases.

Bitcoin is more volatile, if your bank and credit cards are RDBMS then bitcoin is memcached/redis/mongo, more volatile but private. A nice side effect of bitcoin is money may go up in value but alternatively it can lower in value.

Bitcoin could also allow someone to sell products globally without credit processors or other payment solutions that may be blocked or instead of setting those up. This can help entrepreneurs get their products available globally and not just for underground products but small hobbyists, creators, artists, and more. Bitcoin also greatly helps with donations and tips for FOSS and others that setting up a paypal invoice or credit transaction would be more of a pain.
iCloud, as they mainly make their money from Apple hardware purchases.
Scuttlebutt and Dat (https://datproject.org/) are definitely looking like good bets right now.
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I've been enjoying chunkwm as a tiling WM. Hard to go back to non-tiling when you've experienced it.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm
> since all the other news media would be choked out of existence.

There are other private TV outlets in those countries in EU and this legislation will not change it. Lets stop being paranoid and portraying legislation that should protect our privacy as something that will destroy democracy.
I used to be a sober guy with a typical penis and U.S. dollars in the bank. I would often lay awake at night, wondering, “How can I solve this?”

You see, I was stuck in a rut. I wanted drugs, massive boners, and the thrill of a wildly unstable currency, all while shrouded under the cloak of anonymity.

That’s when I became a blockchain enthusiast.
"Today, for instance, we see that a majority of people who install an ad blocker don't actually do it to block ads (that's just an added bonus). They are actually doing it to block tracking"

No, it's the other way around.
It looks to me like this stupid thing they require in the EU tell the user you are using cookies. Now every website has this annoying massage that you have to click on which says that they use cookies, as if we didn't know or really care.

The EU are champions in adding red tape and stifling competition from small players. They do it by mountains of regulations which costs a lot of money to implement and is meaningless.

What we will at the end is mainly annoying messages essentially saying "we are going to do everything the same since that's the way we make money, you will agree because you want our service for free". Only it will cost much more to go through the ceremony so only established big companies will be able to afford the cost.
This is a good example of why you should not start your research into a nascent space with a conclusion.
Pretty good description of the T in Boston as well.
> Why is it more expensive to teach, say, calculus than algebra?

Because educating someone to teach more advanced subjects takes more times and resources.
Thinkpads weren't affected [source] (https://support.lenovo.com/lu/en/product_security/superfish).

You're welcome to boycott the company, but the corporate models are protected.
AFAIK, Apple is the only one storing documents encrypted (with your own keys) at rest.
Same here with the fan. I use Goland as my main IDE and man does it kick up a fuss whenever indexing occurs.
Lay down and place a laptop on your chest, as close to your chin as possible.
That's only true until someone clicks on the ad. Then the advertiser gets to put a cookie in that browser that says "the ad Facebook only shows to gay 18-35 SF dog owners got clicked in this browser."
They shouldn't have to feed information to Google -- they just need to look at the logs on their servers. Y'know... the way we did it before Google Analytics came along.
Most companies seem to be setting up GDPR portals to download/delete all your personal data. I'm waiting for the breach of one of these portals - that will lots of fun to watch.
Buy VPS and install your own VPN. It's much harder to spy on you in this setup and basically requires complicated targeted attack. I'm not sure if common networking setups for VPS record TCP connections, if they do, then VPS provider can record some important metainformation, but it's still not a lot. On the other side with VPN it's much easier to spy on every client.
I don't think it's self-contradicting to understand good ideas are one of the hard things to come up with and validate, but also believe that they shouldn't be patentable for long, if at all. Just because something is hard doesnt automatically make it deserving of large profits and legal protection.
Reading on the Internet to learn about mathematics, physics, computers, and such things.
I think the car culture has a lot to do with it too. I remember seeing the train be the “default” mode of transit for a family of five in Japan and the effects that gave to real estate and government spending.
Make the cigarette buds reusable then (and ban those one-time use buds, if possible).
We need to have a DNA bank so someday we may revive these extinct animals. But that says nothing of microbiome that accompanies a species. I do not know how to adequately preserve or catalog that.
Haven't used it myself, but have heard many rave about Perl's Parse::RecDescent
I don't believe the math patentability rebuttal holds, otherwise it can be readily extended to the real world through assembly instructions for tangible inventions, especially with the advent of 3d printing.

I'm not saying the patent system is bug-free, but I am saying it'll be a lot harder to drive the kind of innovation we're used to seeing here with no patent protection at all (copyright only protects the implementation, and trade secrets are things you don't share e.g. as client-side code).

Full disclosure: I've got a few to my name. I don't think any of the inventors I know would've even bothered inventing the patterns they/we did if the protection didn't exist. Unpopular opinion, I'm certain.
European languages? That’s absurd. Your product could be targeting US Spanish speakers, African speakers of French or newly arrived German speaking US citizens. Using language as a determinant is without any legal basis. Having your website in French doesn’t mean you are selling to French citizens. Language doesn’t equal location. Language does not impart jurisdiction.

If a small hotel in California had a French language information page, that doesn’t make that hotel subject to an EU law. If I am wrong, then where is the case law? Where is the legal precedent?
Is it? I would guess that people already split their traffic between a home workstation connected through a local ISP, a mobile phone connected through a national carrier ISP, and a work computer that is connected with a (third) enterprise ISP. The concerns that linger in the comments here, are about the dangers of exposing even a slice of your metadata can be disastrous.

Therefore, going from three to eight ISPs is arguably worse as your exposed to nearly 3x the risk of exposure.
I have a Precision 5520, it's pretty flawless aside from the TB16 dock having an issue with offloading CRC checksums... but you can work around it pretty easily: `sudo ethtool --offload eth0 rx off`

I mean, the hardware/batterylife/support/build is great, although it does soak up grease from my fingers super easily.
OK, so I guess the problem comes from trying to fuse everything into one screen? In the old days, we would run X with separate screen numbers to get multiple outputs via multiple graphics cards. You could slide your mouse between screens, but you couldn't drag a window across or have a window spanning the two screens. Each window remained confined to one screen, and only a few apps knew how to open windows on more than one screen from the same app instance. (A few, like emacs, even understand opening windows on multiple displays!)

Out of curiosity, what is a non-broken behavior supposed to be if the screens are combined? Do people expect the low-dpi screen to be a blurry version of whatever would appear on the high-dpi screen, or do they expect it to act like a magnifier, perhaps with pan/zoom controls?
When I started learning French, a native speaker told me to exaggerate the sounds. It turns out that I was softening the sounds that are uniquely French because I lacked confidence in my spoken French.

I imagine that the same thing would work for learning to speak English with less of an accent.

That obviously doesn't help you learn the language, but I found that it helped me to speak better (or at least more confidently), so I spoke more. More practice is definitely helpful.
I suppose the fact that, if discovered, it will boost their revenue by -4% :-)
What protections are in place to prevent an internal takeover of the organization by a political party? Let's say the Roger Ailes of Germany finds his way to the top of German public media and uses that position to tilt coverage to be more favorable to his own party, what happens?

If all your eggs are in one basket what happens when something goes wrong with that basket?
Dropbox. They are the only ones to not lose my data, randomly share my private things to the public, or have crappy clients.
I am rather optimistic about blockchain for the exact opposite reasons. I don't believe it is "trustless" but rather "distributed trust" or "decentralized trust".

Depending on entities like banks to determine who could/should be trusted, e.g., for loans, has allowed systematic discrimination against marginalized parties like African-Americans to continue for centuries. Being able to push the determination of trust out to the entities closest to the interested parties - perhaps those in their community who have lent them money and had it paid back - could allow for those people to have the same opportunities as the 'mainstream'.

There have been rumblings about Yelp reviews being manipulated for years. Small business reviews on blockchain don't allow for that kind of manipulation - and could be integrated with smart contracts that verify that only actual patrons of that business could leave reviews.

My personal favorite is the idea of blockchain election systems. It's not that I don't trust the U.S. government _per se_, but Congress has shown astounding indifference to modernizing and securing our election systems on their own. I would vastly prefer a well-designed decentralized implementation over whatever they could implement, securely, centrally.

PS I'm not saying these implementations are trivial or easy in any way, nor are we necessarily ready for them, especially for the general public. But I do feel that removing centralized arbiters of trust could leave us in a better place than where we started.
I did. I recently switched from KDE after more than 15! years to Gnome because KDE on Waykand is broken beyond usability. It comes for a reason that even Neon, which I used back then, doesn't come with Wayland out of the box.

And frankly, X is a dead end.
I made this site to help myself practice guitar / music theory and learn the basics of music composition.

It's all written in Go and hosted on an AWS t2.micro instance right now. I haven't implemented any caching yet so we'll see what happens if it gets any traction...

Feedback / bugs / feature requests encouraged. Thanks!
both of them seem to use the concept of "connect via a fake domain name, then connect to the real domain". i'm not sure how this is scaleable for everyday browsing. you might be able to find the fronting server for wikipedia, but how are you going to find the fronting server for every website you're visiting? this solves the problem of censorship, but not the problem of ISP surveillance.
Interesting. Also have Hashimoto's. But the only thing they give me is Levothyroxine.

Though, I suppose it's in the mild category. I mostly only experience lethargy, swelling in my neck, and itchy calves.
The decentralized Dropbox
What sort of battery life do you get for normal dev activities?
I 100% agree, although I feel like I get better value for my polish effort using a different toolset.
Sandberg appears to have vast culpability for the current mess. She was brought in in 2008 and given responsibility for Facebook's privacy department. [1]

As one example, because Sandberg was at least partially responsible for blocking attempts at reforming data policies inside of Facebook that likely made the Russia tampering mess worse. And then Facebook corporate attempted to cover that up by pushing the NY Times to alter its reporting:

https://lawandcrime.com/exclusive/facebook-forces-nyt-to-qui...

Further, Sandberg was the core architect behind Facebook's ad business and shift to aggressive monetization. She was brought in from Google precisely for that reason, that's why Facebook recruited her from there.

[2008] "Ms. Sandberg, currently vice president for global online sales and operations at Google, joined the search giant in 2001 and helped develop its immensely lucrative online advertising programs, AdWords and AdSense."

"She will also oversee Facebook’s marketing, human resources and privacy departments — essentially guiding how Facebook presents itself and its intentions to the outside world."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/technology/04cnd-facebook...
Then how do people get home from the bars? That's my major complaint about BART, that it stops running too early. If I'm out late enough in the city, I can't return to the East Bay easily, so I either end up stressing to get the last train, or end up having to use my car, which has its own stress involved.
> And it's not hard to imagine blockchain technology replacing currency and consumerism altogether.

It is for me. How exactly would blockchain replace consumerism? And replace it with what?

> The deprecation of "easy" money, global theft, and warfare-as-the-norm - these are continuing imperatives and are good prayers for our earth. And on long time scales, it seems that blockchain tech tends toward, rather than away from, these things.

Do you have any evidence for such a bold claim? Or at least a rational argument for why blockchain tech would lead to such outcomes?
It's in some ways worse, because with credit card numbers you can and should avoid storing them at all, but if you need an email that's not an option.
In other comments people are stating that Mark was a different person back then, but that he doesn't seem to have learnt from his mistakes.

Assuming that's going to happen. What do you think would be a realistic response to the simple critique "American people deserve better" ?
You are right. Discovery, fraud protection and many other functions need to be there either way. When I say cost reduction, I mean getting rid of any additional premiums which eBay (or any corporation for that matter) levies because of their strong position in the market.

As for the problems of online poker, the Virtue Poker whitepaper is a good starting point about why blockchain is indeed that magic pixie dust[0]

[0]https://virtue.poker/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Virtue-Poker...
> Again, more lies. Where did you get this information?

97% of Bitcoin is held by 4% of addresses - textbook centralization. (http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-97-are-held-by-4-of-a...) Now that can be whales, or it can be exchanges, which isn't clear. However, calling someone a liar for stating the fact that Bitcoin isn't the decentralized utopia you've dreamed of is uncalled for.

> Everyone in crypto knows the biggest risk are the exchanges.

Alot of crypto is purchased and held by people who aren't "in crypto" but are just normal people who have a FOMO.
Charges against Sklyarov were dropped due to jurisdiction. Your example proved my point. And actually he DID visit the US; that’s where he was arrested.
GDPR also expands what is personal data to include things that are collected as a matter of course such as IP address.

You likely have a reason to log that data but GDPR requires that you document it.

Further it reaches into your business even if you aren’t trying to do business in the EU, as EU citizens can come to your site without your control.

There is a lot to like with GDPR but it absolutely is expansive & easy to have many interpretations.
That's not insurance, that's just ridiculous.

An insurance smart contract should require the insuring party hold some fraction of the payout based on the expected number of claims.
The Alabama slur was uncalled for, but still ... what the actual fuck?
'Interesting' interpretation of justice indeed.
Many people don't like electronic viewfinders either. They've gotten better, but it's not quite the same, at least not yet.
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I think you could find a lot of pro Putin people in EU. Some of my family members are pro Putin while I live in probably the most anti-Putin country in EU. I could elaborate more about reasons for that but I don't want to digress too much from original discussion.
Yes. I’ve seen private studies on this. However it’s not the primary use-case BUT it’s still a significant enough reason.
I spent quite a bit of time writing my configuration for Phoenix, if you're thinking about writing your own I think you might find starting from mine useful.

It's easy to customize, there are gifs in the readme, and it comes packed with features, I hope you'll like it:

https://github.com/fabiospampinato/phoenix
That's exactly one of the things that might happen with the ePrivacy Regulation: "By centralising the consent in software such as internet browsers and prompting users to choose their privacy settings and expanding the exceptions to the cookie consent rule, a significant proportion of businesses would be able to do away with cookie banners and notices, thus leading to potentially significant cost savings and simplification."

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=41241
Looks to be legitimate.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar...

Unreal. How long until this takes root in the west?

What happens to people who don't use social media, don't necessarily like being social, and just want to sit at home and play video games or reball some BGP's? Does this mean they're a bad person?