skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People being ignorant or not very intelligent isn't the problem as much as is other people exploiting that willfully. Helplessness does not cause lack of empathy or even sadism, and "Look what you made the bad man do" is something said to avoid responsibility, not to properly place it.

When I see someone who is unconscious in the street, I don't steal from them, I don't kick them, or anything of that kind. At worst I might walk past them, at best I'll try to help. But there are people who would do these things and more. And if they see someone who isn't unconscious yet, but has their back turned, they might knock them unconscious and then do something to them.

Those people matter, as does the fact that they don't just pick up some money on the street that would otherwise get swept down the storm drain. Even if all adults or even teenagers who aren't mentally handicapped became super hardcore critical thinkers, there still would be diseases, conditions or accidents that weaken people temporarily or for good, and there will always be children coming into the world who depend on being able to more or less absorb what the adults around them do, who depend on that not being toxic, and so on.

So, totally orthogonally to it being desirable for people to have autonomy, to be able to make informed decisions and defend themselves: when abuse happens, disarm and quarantine the abuser, then maybe practice enforcing boundaries with the victim... but to just stand on the sidelines and sneer at them because the abuser can't touch you (yet) is quite rich. "Stupidity" becomes a problem because of sociopaths, and those obedient to sociopaths. Start there.
All in one would be the best bet.

Cook-Clean-Deliver
Yes, it is obfuscated, the pairing of real person and random id would be much more work, than pairing phone number with real person, and you can throw away and generate as many as you want, whenever you want - unlike your phone number.

Still beats using your phone number for chats, or your SSN in place of bitcoin wallet.
I wasn't suggesting that the ideologies are identical, just that they share those elements

The way you worded your comment obviously made that implication - between Republicans and the Khmer Rouge, when in fact the Khmer Rouge was a leftist, communist, Marxist government, whose leaders were steeped in academic Marxist "intellectualism" (they studied in Paris, no less).

Deciphering whether you intended it or not is not my motive, so I'll leave that to the readers.

And no, the hatred does not go both ways,but you might think so

I disagree, but I have no horse in this race - my personal politics are boring centrist liberalism.

so because another big part of modern Republican ideology is victimization

Is it opposite day or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
Yes, and Apple might have one of those binary stats coming their way soon. Let's hope, right?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-court/u-s-appeals-c...
It’s kind of like saying that a motorcycle is an “improved bicycle”.
That category of statement cannot be a fact; it's your opinion. It might be true, it might even be obviously true, but it's not a "fact".
Random agreements? Like "hey, let's do something... maybe invade a few random countries"?
Sigh, it is almost as if you're trying to prove my point by putting a label on something and thereby banishing it.

Fria Tider is not "far right extremist", not even in the context of Sweden. In Sweden they'd be "right-wing" or "liberal", in the US they'd be center/liberal. Academic Rights watch is just that, a site which calls attention to trends in academia to limit freedom of expression. Since those who try to limit freedom of expression are on the left side of the political spectrum you'll find many stories of these issues from people who are not on that side.

Nordfront is "far right". I did not refer to Nordfront. But¸ if Nordfront had something interesting to say I'd refer to them as it is the message which counts, not the messenger.
Have you ever heard about Yoda conditions?
And the word "fine" is a human word. If you're saying an ecosystem containing one kind of alga is in any way as fine as an ecosystem comprising billions of organisms and interdependencies, then what can I say.
I think it helps to have been addicted (maybe "dependent" is a better word) on something that has been socially stigmatised to see it for what it is. Friends will quite happily point and label it an "addiction" it out to while ignoring their own "habits".

(I think I would draw the line between dependence and addiction when it starts affecting your normal life, but again that description is pretty subjective).
See what native land you're on
XBox Underground Video Hacker
Mosquitos who feed on humans have developed behavior to bite around the feet because they are less likely to get smacked. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/02/22/4655948...
Signals are the weakest part of Unix/POSIX.

The only sane way to portably handle signals in programs is to write(2) a byte to a "self-pipe" in the handler, which pipe is waited for in a main I/O event loop, thus turning the signal into a standard I/O event.

There is no sane way to handle signals in libraries. You just have to avoid generating SIGPIPE (there are several not-very-portable ways) or hope the program ignores it. A library can risk installing a SIGPIPE handler or ignoring it, but... it is risky.

What we really need to do is standardize file descriptor flags and I/O system calls that allow writing without fear of SIGPIPE, and other things which allow libraries to never have to care about signals. There's not much need to further improve signals themselves because the self-pipe trick is plenty good enough.
Which he did, and they did.
There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry.

If you visit Milan's Chinatown, it is full of textile and clothing shops as opposed to most Chinatowns around the world which are dominated by food and grocery stores.
> From the article -

"Critics point out that ICANN has largely brought these problems on itself, having ignored official warnings from the Article 29 Working Party for nearly a decade, and only taking the GDPR requirements seriously six months ago when there has been a clear two-year lead time."

> From: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/what-2012-02-25-en

"ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.

ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet."

---

Editorial: The disconnect is frightening.
I'm no international relations expert. Still, I think even a modest chance of a catastrophic attack against US civilians becomes a big factor.
To your question: yes it is. You may find it convenient, but it is definitely manipulating as well. And it really depends on where you see that clothing. Is it on the "buy" page? Ok maybe not so bad. Is it on an advertisement in a flashlight app on your phone after you last googled for something similar on your laptop? Is that still just a convenience, or have we entered territory that is creepy for you yet?

Marketing and advertising has not been tracking all of us _as individuals_ for more than the last couple of decades. How could they possibly have done this in the previous eras of dumb broadcasting and dumb print media? Newspapers can't follow you around in department stores to see what you like and target future ads to _you_ as an individual. They can advertise in places that make more sense, e.g. kids toys on a kids TV channel.

So yes this is new and yes this is manipulation, and this isn't the only way it has to be. We can still have convenience and better advertising without the mass tracking of individuals. But as long as we have people defending the current status quo as you have here, then nothing will change.
POSIX is not clear on this. They are generally process-wide, but on Linux it depends on the pthread library.

EDIT: What would be nice is a way to set signal disposition on a process-wide basis as a "default" that could be overridden on a per-thread basis. But there is no flag for distinguishing "the process" from "this thread" in sigaction(2). Another detail to address is what happens when you pthread_create() a new thread from a thread with signal disposition "overrides": does the new thread inherit these, or not? Another detail: on fork(), should the calling thread's disposition "overrides" become the process-wide dispositions for the new process?
What do you think would have happened if Obama had offered talks with North Korea?
"A Valley of silicon, tragedy, and despair..." - sounds like some dark Lovecraft stuff.
Indeed, for a small country, nuclear weapons (and the ability to deliver them abroad) appear to presently be the only way to ensure your country doesn't get mowed over by one of the larger powers.

This is the downside to Mutually Assured Destruction: Everyone not currently a part of it wants nukes so they can be a part of it.
Lessons on product and marketing from the growth of Domino’s Pizza
A web server is a thing people use to make files publicly accessible

False.

There are lots of things on webservers that aren't public. Try to access:

https://github.com/harryh/my-private-repo

You can't, because github hasn't made a mistake and accidentally made all private repos public.

If github screwed up one day and all private repos were temporarily made public it would be illegal for you to run a script that tried to scrape them all down to your personal hard drive.
name.com charges extra for "whois protection." The e-mails I have registered for various contacts are pretty much spam buckets. You pretty much need a separate VoIP account to handle all the scam calls/voicemail too.

I get some calls/e-mails so quickly I wonder if they have some kind of live stream setup for registrations on some TLDs.
Personal addresses are not public record in the UK for the vast majority of people, and neither are phone numbers
Your doubts are well-founded if you intend to use the project as a further dependency for other projects. Arabica is intended to provide a kind of early interim solution to bundle the necessary technology stack for publishing.
Also note that people do not tend to react negatively to the name Joseph. I'd ascribe that to it being much more common name than Adolf, though.
iOS 11.2-11.2.6 kernel pointer leak introduced by Apple's Meltdown mitigation
Or just have your tabs converted to equivalent spaces.
As far as I understand (I haven’t lived in France since 2004), the import and export restrictions are essentially unenforced, and nobody cares (as long as you’re not actively trading with embargoed nations). But if you’re working in cryptography, it might be worth talking to other local experts. There are surely user groups that know the legal situation inside out — at the very least, publicly funded researchers should be able to point you to resources.
Facebook may face billions in fines over its Tag Suggestions feature
High rises in general are designed to sway in an earthquake - that sway absorbs the horizontal forces being applied - similar to a tree. If an earthquake gets sufficiently large, say larger than any known measured earthquake to date, that sway differential would increase enough that buildings would either hit each other, or the building would sway beyond the ability of the structure to recover and fall over. A standard approach for tall buildings is to incorporate either a dynamic weight high in the tower to counterbalance the sway so it doesn't go critical, or incorporate dynamic elements in the foundation system. In general, if a modern high rise is falling over, all buildings without the benefit of this level of modern engineering have already fallen over.
A sigh of relief as Trump cannot tweet.
It has (or at least had, when I ran a server) support for CAS. JASIG CAS isn’t that difficult to set up against AD, I think Shibboleth has a plug-in that implements the protocol too.
Huge Price Reduction on Lake Home for Sale in Middle TN
Russia’s Telegram ban is a big, convoluted mess
Show HN: Decentralized P2P Messaging with Blockchain Verified Identities
huh .. I just checked my own .im domain and got the same response. Interesting. That was fast.
I think you need to understand this kind of blustering makes the people of South Korea more afraid of the USA. It's not as if the history of the USA in S Korea is all roses and honeydew.

South Koreans don't want to be in a constant state of war anymore and they don't want to be occupied by US troops. My feeling is that most South Koreans want a merge like West Germans wanted to merge with E Germans. Look at some of the policies and statements made by their new President Moon, whom was partly elected on a policy of reunification.
Show HN: Consumption Tracker – Android app for tracking consumption and expenses
You don't have phone directories?
True. But it's also important to know what they do with the data. We all knew that FB had our data. What we didn't know is that it was being used to do unethical stuff by companies like Cambridge Analytica.
"I don't need to breath out no CO2. Just less than you."
Don’t have mission
YouTube workers say violent threats have been going on for years
Ask HN: How to respond to client's request for additional integration work?
Hello HN, I have a tricky situation and unfortunately realizing I am very "engineer" minded when it comes to these situations and I need to put my "business" hat on.

We have an API that provides valuable leads to our partners. Currently we have over 50 partners that utilize this API. For all intents and purposes, the API is the product and we sell access to it.

We have one particular client that essentially is a low-tech client (meaning one without many tech resources at their disposal, and anything tech-work related will most likely go through a consultant or contractor for them) making a request that we basically integrate with their API. Although this isn't an unreasonable request (especially at the right price) it is not a service we have the bandwidth to provide (we are a two person team and cannot feasibly provide custom integration for all of our clients) and it isn't in our scope, contract, etc. We are not a software consultancy -- we run an API. (We also provide hosted leads on our SFTP server if clients prefer that method of delivery, but there advantages to using the API in that you can receive leads in real time)

We have tried to explain to this client that if they need our leads sent to their system (I believe they want us to integrate with their CRM solution), they could utilize something like a Zapier, but we do not provide integrations.

We have a phone call coming up with them shortly, and I want to make sure I navigate this situation gingerly. Thank you for all advice, truly.
Wasn't it WhatsApp that sent a key back to Facebook servers? Technically it's end-to-end encrypted, but Facebook could decrypt it if they really wanted to.
Heh, I still remember from the wolf3d release the self modifying code:

https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/master/WOLFSRC/WL...
I bet the name "SD" is no accident...
Android uses the Java language on top of Google's non cross platform framework. That's completely different than using Java with Swing. An Android app is not cross platform.

Web apps on Android May "work" but still aren't as responsive as native Android apps.
Russian here. Good job Roskomnadzor. You just taught quite a few people to use VPN -- including me. And, as a side benefit, you created another image problem for Putin's regime (as if he needed any more of that).

I already had Bitlocker on all my PCs, 2FA everywhere, moved from Gmail to Fastmail, and VPN was one of the last privacy-related things I procrastinated on. Now I have VPN on all my desktops and on my phone, turned on by default. And I also switched to 1.1.1.1 for DNS.

Thank you government, I guess?
I agree that the Canadian government has been negligent in the situation under discussion. It's not an either or situation though. Both can be guilty at once.
This is all very slow on modern systems. I would not recommend it. But it's true that these are neat hacks!
If I was over 65 (and I'm close) I would worry more about what put me in the hospital than what appeared on my death certificate. The two are surprisingly unrelated in the elderly.
Honestly, I'd say it's much worse than using your phone number or SSN. Sure, an SSN makes it easier to tie an identity to a person, but it doesn't instill a false sense of anonymity in the user.

Again, for the practical example, people bought and sold bitcoins with the broad assumption that it was anonymous. It's a widely understood falsehood, yet new people almost universally believed it was anonymous and safe from law enforcement/the tax man.

Pretending that a random yet static ID adds any level of anonymity is simply dangerous. At best, it keeps honest people honest; like locking your door but not the bay window next to it.
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My thoughts exactly. Finding a way out of the inherited war without looking weak to your people is a difficult dance.
I think the previous version was removed because it used The Register's sensational title. Also, I thought you couldn't submit anything from The Register. Every time I've tried I've gotten an error, and their titles are always sensational anyway.
> I suspect some of the founders would have been OK with the franchise being limited to well off males.

In fact, it was originally limited to well off males.
1080 height? Hard pass.
Tesla temporarily halts Model 3 production
Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates for Java Developers
>It's hard to define an ethical standard.

This is nonsense. Attorneys, doctors, accountants, and other professions have long had ethical codes. This isn't some impossible task, programmers just don't want the responsibility.
Interestingly, Kim Jong Un can easily make the argument in hindsight that he inherited the brutal system and then set about to change it for the better (and that it would take time). That first they had to secure nuclear weapon delivery capability to ensure their security; once that was accomplished, they could then negotiate peace on a more level playing field, from a position of strength, with the US. If they want to spin it, that's an easy way to go. Kim Jong Un becomes the benevolent dictator that brought a Vietnam-style boom to North Korea (I reference Vietnam, because it wasn't very long ago that their Communist regime was still very closed and brutally repressive, more like a pre Deng Xiaoping China).
If I install a one of those new fancy IoT locks on my door but it has a bug and unlocks for you when it shouldn't, it's still trespassing if you enter my house.
Inverse Conway Maneuver
They use shittier headlines now, but The Register is pretty old/established; like it's circa early 2000s / Slashdot era.
I did not ay cool earth's core, not did Michio Kaku. Given the amount of people living near fault lines, certainly we should be able to manage e.g. magma flows/ pressures in an ideal, long term future.
There's nothing fundamentally new about the west's approach to NK. They are coming to the table because finally China started properly turning the screws on them last year with sanctions on steel, coal, seafood and even clothing. NK had enjoyed a bit of an economic summer for the last 5 years, but the Chinese clamp down is biting hard, hence Kim's recent trip to Beijing.
I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter
Have they been set to announce this before?

People were reluctant to get excited over recent peace talks, because they had led nowhere before. Is there anything new about this development?
> will flee to other services

That's not something you can do very fast, especially not from google's compute engine or AWS.

Yes, eventually, they will, but that's a massive task for most companies.
No, I guess I meant artisinal.
> their motives are grossly misrepresented

Can you please elaborate on their motives?
Whether it is a cost reduction depends entirely on your variable cost, mostly labor.

If you are paying a laborer $3/hour it may not be cost effective, if you are paying $50 w/benefits it may be a huge cost saver.
Is that the short version?
Current building codes are intended to design to a 10% probability of collapse in the "Maximum Considered Earthquake", which is roughly a 2475-year event. The 2475-year event has a 2% chance of occurring during the (assumed 50 year) lifetime of a building.
Gandi user here. After I read your comment I tried to enable this but it doesn't work.

When I change whois privacy to enabled and press save it just says "Unable to update the contact."

This happens both with my .com and my .net domain.
I was on the Curecoin team as of last year. It's a neat project, but they weren't able to manage a working relationship with Stanford.

There is a unique opportunity here to use digital currencies to fund scientific research through the use of a reward mechanism and distributed ledgers.

Our project is hoping to take a similar idea to scale (research/project-based "work) by utilizing open datasets posted on decentralized technology. We hope to build relationships with institutions, non-profits, and the public sector to track the economic and social value of campaigns similar to the Folding@Home and Seti@Home projects, but with a capacity to on-board projects as they appear.

https://vitae.foundation
Actually, I'm just a teacher/office admin/etc for work - by passion and hobby I'm a writer but that hasn't turned into money and likely never will.

I don't do programming and never have, the closest I ever came was a brief scrape with BASIC back in the days before Windows. I do some web design, but not too much anymore because I don't do Javascript and I don't like off-page CSS (I sometimes use inline, but that's about it).
> For example, if you know that your next public school principal is going to be judged not on the total quality, but solely on the black-white difference, then you know that he will be tempted to game the rating system and make things worse for one group.

I find this claim astonishing. Do you have an example of it happening?