skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on a lot of less-usual stuff. Kiosks, signage display drivers, interactive games running on touch screen walls, etc.

I quite frequently run into the problem of the answer to something simply being "that's not best practice", "that's insecure" or even "that's user-hostile".

I don't /care/. This is getting installed on a Raspberry Pi and installed inside of a touchscreen coffee table and towed across the country. It doesn't matter that this non-internet-connected device may be vulnerable to other websites accessing its webcam. It doesn't matter that hiding scrollbars and cursors is normally user-hostile.

Go ahead and make the point that it's not best practice, insecure, or user-hostile... But don't make that your entire answer.
You can open it in archive.is, in an incognito tab, or from a Google search and see the whole article.
And ecommerce while we're at it.
Ask HN: Is there a delay on Show HN stories?
I am all messed up trying to use Show HN. I am pretty sure I left off the necessary tag the first time, but not the second. I do see the first try without the tag (about my new Who's Hiring browser): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046431 but not the correction. Could the correction be awaiting moderation?
Would you create a wrapper class and member function to make addition less likely to mistype?

num = num.plus(x);

might be less likely to mistype than

num = num + x;

but nobody would ever do that. Once you've done bitwise operators a few times they become just as comfortable and natural as addition or subtraction.
Reminds me of the 'Overheard in the Goldman Sachs Elevator' joke:

#1: I asked him what his life goal is, and he said 'to make the obituary in The Economist.'

#2: Great answer.

https://twitter.com/GSElevator/status/365243105886216192?s=1...
I'd argue that the primary interventions of government in the free market involve the creation and support of currency, and the provision of property rights. It's hard for me to imagine a market of any significant size without those things. The absence of government intervention may not be what capitalism wants.
Unchecked capitalism and barely regulated monopolies? Absolutely. But that's a less flashy headline.
Capitalism isn't a threat to democracy since the main distribution of power is by capitalist elite rule with democratic institutions constrained by capitalist economic power structure, and has been for the whole history of modern democratic political institutions.

The article might more properly ask the question “is capitalism with fig-leaf democracy inherently unstable”?
Note that an important clarification is that person-to-person transactions are still permitted in cash, without limit.

So if you want to sell your house, and someone else wants to pay for it in cash, then you're all fine.
The fundamental problem with guns as a deterrence is I doubt the active shooters care if they die. And where are these guns? Seems like by bringing them into the school you made them more accessible.
Amazon? I've seldom heard bad things about Amazon's support. (amazon.com that is, not AWS; not that I heard bad things about AWS support either)
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Drones used to disrupt FBI hostage situation
No, but greed is.
Business requirements are bullshit
I'd rather drive a car in this weather https://i.imgur.com/i5oLpec.jpg
But make it an option! I don't want voicemails either. If you aren't in my contacts list, you get a busy signal.
Ask HN: How busy are you at work on average?
Here's a strawpoll: https://strawpoll.com/47x15cf1

I ask since this really seems to vary. I've split the questions by seniority level.
Update: You could also have said this about dogecoin in 2013, and been wrong also: (man sells house for $130k of dogecoin)

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/26/tech/innovation/dogecoin-...
I'm curious why you say Slack was undifferentiated. When you use a product many, many times per day in small bursts, small increases in ergonomics and decreases in friction start to add up fast.
Most programmers nowadays just write frontend javascript and have no idea how anything actually works.
AT&T has a Call Protect app which attempts to do this. It misses some, but my spam call volume has dropped quite a bit with it.
Democracy is a threat to capitalism.
Charisma - How to get that special magic by Marcia Grad. I'd probably think it was corny as anything now but it helped a lacking in confidence teenager become somewhat less so.

How to Win Friends and Influence People - made me realise that 99.99% of anything you want to to do, you have to do by working through other people, and the best way to do that 99.99% of the time is to befriend and get on with people as far as possible.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay - Just a great story about a young, bullied kid in South Africa who learns to box.

Lives of the Greeks and Romans by Plutarch - shows you that human nature hasn't changed much in 2,000 years.
Further discussion from Ryan about this topic in a recent EconTalk podcast:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/04/ryan_holiday_on_1.h...

The part about interviews vs. auditions is around the 49 minute mark. The entire podcast was fascinating. The topic of the podcast is his recent book about Gawker and Peter Thiel and a broader discussion about "conspiracies".

edit: separate HN thread for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17048391
Unregulated capitalism, perhaps. However, I don't think the US has capitalism (well-regulated or otherwise) today.

Today we have a system where gains are privatized, losses are socialized, and market-participants can coerce their elected officials to tilt the market in their favor. This is not capitalism.
I found an openly accessible link which gives you at least an overview of each of the security controls. Everything else is behind a login prompt, sorry.

https://www.swift.com/myswift/customer-security-programme-cs...
For anyone who doesn't have time to read the whole article, the conclusion is pretty much "No, as long as we have a strong social safety net."

IE capitalism with some elements of socialism to preserve individual liberties and dignities when economies slow down. Which sounds reasonable to me as a capitalist but also as a human being.
Tracked? Sure.

Prosecuted? Not unless it violates the law

Have their door kicked down at some odd hour in a show of force/intimidation? Whoever's responsible should at least get their ass chewed out by the boss and be assigned shitty jobs for a few months.
They made also the torrent and ed2k protocols look like stuff for pirated content, but at the end the protocols themselves are really valid and strong, maybe today they would have been better and have maybe prevented centralised information.

But no, they got a bad label and then every major ISP has blocked / tracked them since ever
Of course it is! That's like asking, is monarchy a threat to democracy? Capitalist corporations are basically just little kingdoms.
This needs to become a copy pasta + a version where we s/hn/reddit/g and every friggin salty post needs it shoved to them.
This is totally inevitable everywhere and in fact cash itself will probably be gone by 2050. Make whatever principled claims you wish but I would almost bet money that 80%+ of cash purchases over $10k even today have something dodgy about where that money came from. You think governments don't know that? Their whole job is to prevent crime. This will make money laundering much harder and you know that. If the collateral damage is that lone couple of paranoid weirdos in each city who don't trust banks and actually store their savings under the mattress, well so be it.

The appropriate response to this is not to try to ban it in the name of "privacy" because the stats will overwhelmingly not be in your favour. The correct response is to demand and implement appropriate and ironclad data privacy laws which make it literally impossible for agencies to do whole-database searches, go on fishing trips, or other abuses of data collection tech. A police agency should not be able to query every name who made a large-amount purchase. However, they should be able to, given a name, see what purchases that person has made. This is a critical distinction.

Give up with the "the government should not be able to track my money flows!" argument. Might makes right, basically. Instead, focus your energy on legally constraining the use of that data to conform to principles of reasonable freedom and dignity. That is the only approach that will work, IMO.
Slightly disappointed me in that much of it assumes ‘big’ processors (e.g. fast hardware multiply).
Jonah Goldberg has a good take on this in his new book.[1] His basic theory is that capitalism and democracy is not self-perpetuating (kind of like gains at the gym). Societies constantly have to defend and justify it in the face of new challenges and humans' innate tendency toward tribalism.

[1] https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-keiper/in-suicide-of-the...
Oops, I was the one being unclear. I was just going off on a tangent about the HTML ones that some banks use. A native one indeed wouldn't have the problem I'm mentioning.
In the absence of big government, big corporate will become defacto government even more easily.
Thank you for saving me from going on an anti-free speech tirade. And now I see the article has been flagged, presumably because the headline is misleading.
Indeed. A Google engineer stated on Twitter [0] that the shutdown of the service happened because apparently YOLO is only supposed to be accessible to whitelisted partners.

[0]: https://twitter.com/sirdarckcat/status/994867632355577862
So, two questions:

- how many purely above board transactions of this value are there to be affected by this?

- if people are to insist on financial anonymity, how is the tax burden to be distributed fairly?
I think blowski is suggesting the kids are safer because the kids are staying at home, safe from the prowling predators outside.
You claim a slur has been used? Please point it out.
Ask HN: What is HN reading?
Interested in seeing what others are reading.

My pick for now:

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities )
Meet the cancer survivor who's leading the All of Us research program
Check how much MS paid for Skype.
I'm guessing my opinion isn't going to be popular, but you can train your children not to bother you. This requires participation from your spouse/partner.

I've worked from home for four years now. We have a 6-year-old. And she has been taught not to bother daddy when the office door is closed.

If she comes up to bring me food, she is quiet coming in, and quiet going out.

As far as network interruptions, I have two Internet connections coming into the house, and my router fails over when the primary connection goes down.

Every single last issue you mentioned is solvable. If you're going to work from home long-term, then buy equipment that works for you.

In my case, I have a desk that raises and lowers, and my display is mounted on a VESA arm so that I can alternate between sitting and walking (I have a treadmill as well. You need to keep healthy!)
The subtitle:

> The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback.

Makes me disappointed for the state of discourse that occurs today. The article itself is better than the subtitle made me infer - ending essentially with a nuanced 'No'.

But these transparent attempts to make you form an emotional response to an issue by eliciting images of Nazi Germany I find borderline disrespectful.
> should know that TaskA requires 5 hours, and TaskB requires 1 hour.

> This assumes the manager is also some sort of software engineer plus I don't understand why would there be any negotiation:

We have whole methodologies based on the premise that we (software engineers or managers) are incredibly horrible at estimating software.
Yes. Heard of this too, wasn’t top of mind since I don’t have any nurses as friends.

To a lesser extent, there are some government jobs that gives options for 10hr work days so a person works 4 days per week. Shifting the day off for Monday and Friday and add in a few pto days per month, makes it possible to have nearly a week off work every month.
I've gotten downvoted for mentioning paywalls as well. I think this is a very valid call out though.

While there are workarounds, I don't want to spend more than 2 seconds opening an article (most the time it isn't worth going to google cache, some archive, or doing the fb redirect). I dislike that it is effectively a dead link for many people and that it is being shared on the front page of a major aggregator. It is poor user experience to be opening dead links and really trains me against visiting certain sites.

I would absolutely pay 5 cents to read an article. There is no feasible way to do this small of a transaction with our current payment systems. I will absolutely not subscribe for 5 dollars a month.
Advantages of Postgres views and using Hasura’s GraphQL APIs to query them
I don't think peer-to-peer means what you think it means. It definitely does not mean more data or empty batteries.
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for all it's ills, capitalism is very anti-fragile in the sense that regions that that fail (perhaps even because of capitalism) become cannibalized and therefore stabilized by the greater system.

It may not provide much security for individuals, but it is very effective at self-perpetuating the scheme.
They were made optional, as it turned out a very bad idea regarding security.

I just need to call your example function with the right n to corrupt the stack.
How about $370 BILLION dollars laundered through one bank?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico...
Great! Every big company can launch its own cryptcurrency
Dozens maybe, but apparently all on Hacker News! Clearly I've been looking in the wrong places to organise lift shares, when it could have been "Ask HN: Who's going to LSC?" ;-)
I just had a new Kiesel guitar delivered a month ago. They can make custom guitars for you, and since they are factory direct, you can get a great deal. They are made in Southern California in Escondido.
I worked from home very briefly (less than three months) while I was a full-time university student and was sharing a room with another student.

My setup was basically a "scavenged" setup: I carved four holes in the middle of a single-person ANEBODA ikea wardrobe in order to lower the upper shelf to a desk-like height. This way I had what could be called an "office in a closet" setup.

In there i put a 18" monitor and my thinkpad X220. I used the wardrobe doors for post-it, calendars and todo lists.

Frankly, it worked quite well. Consider a similar setup if you're tight on either budget or space (or both).

Also, a nice thing about that setup is that you can close the door and you don't see your "office"anymore".
"Corporatism" and "Crony-capitalism" are more accurate names I've heard for what we have.
I think they meant "apothecarily". As in, I play golf to self medicate.
Believe me, or not. Inside the carding scene, mass decapping is now a thing. That includes decapping of chips that were specifically designed to be decapping-proof. I remember that began at around 2010-2011, when first mass wave of chip and pin cards began to hit carding networks.
I started reading this with strong disagreement but ended with complete agreement.

Which organizations (esp. in bay area) are most effectively advocating for data ethics (including freedom, dignity, privacy)?

EFF.org?

I am looking for organizations focused on a charter of rights and responsibilities for software providers, data processors, etc. We've been terrible at self-regulating as an industry, which is absolutely begging for onerous regulations.
If I had the money, I'd pledge $1B to erase social networks from our lives.
This reads like an onion article. I'll take free market capitalism and any government over socialism. These people represent a kind of "democracy" that wants to threaten Capitalism, which is the real danger.
yeah, just like ieee754 floating point arithmetic. What's the point of your remark?
Please do! I'd love to make a weekend project out of this.
chair, laptop, monitor, standing desk, headphones / mic for conference calls. my wife and son cannot be around, they're too distracting. i end up getting frustrated with them (can't you see i'm thinking?! :)
Caddy web server 0.11 released with Telemetry
I guess you mean in the absence of any government. Neither big government nor anarchy is good for democracy, but there is a whole range in between.
David Marcus moved out messenger [0] recently to focus on blockchain related products. I am sure they must be preparing for the future where a decentralized social network getting traction.

But anything decentralized is diagonally opposite to what FB is, not sure how they will pull it off.

[0] - https://www.recode.net/2018/5/8/17329696/facebook-blockchain...
Presumably there's an ID requirement in the conveyancing somewhere and the transaction goes through a land registry?
Well, I went from being curious to read it for the reasons you mentioned to being a practicing Christian. I just ended up finding it a compelling sort of moral system to think about the universe, I suppose. It took getting to the New Testament before I thought of it as anything more than a curiosity, though.

There are definitely parts that are a slog, especially in the Old Testament, and just picking it up and reading it be tough, especially since it's so long.

You might enjoy just starting with a more focused set of books -- as I mentioned, Ecclesiastes is great. Job is another well-loved bit of wisdom literature. Mark is the shortest gospel and a primary source for two of the others (also, because it was written for a gentile audience, it doesn't assume a lot of familiarity with the OT the way something like Matthew does). Esther and Judges are two that I think are good just from a narrative/excitement perspective.
So, whitelisted partners get the ability to rip your data?

I'm sure that will go down just fine. FB just got into a lot of trouble over something like that (arguably a lot more serious, but still).
Thanks, looking into it now. iOS and Android app. I'm curious to see how this works. Probably can't get in the way of the calls on the device itself; pushes changes to the network maybe?

https://www.att.com/features/security-apps.html
"Is freedom a threat to democracy?" is another way to word the headline.
Actually, we see this with the social media giants live in action: they may decide to terminate your account at any time for arbitrary (or none at all) reasons for your whole life, and you have no way of legal recourse.

There have been way too many stories alone on HN about people losing e.g. their entire mail archives or Youtube deleting evidence videos of war crimes, to let this situation continue for any longer.

Government needs to finally recognize the importance of social media to modern society... after all, telcos are not allowed to arbitrarily cut you off (especially not for life!). Why should social media be treated differently?
The hilarious thing is that moneroapparel.com demands payment in USD
Am I missing something? I don't see anything in the Network panel of my debugging console when I click the cookie consent button.
Anti free market hit piece disguised as an article using questionable interpretation of history. This is propaganda for the middle and upper class.
> One thing that still baffles me is why did the DNC choose a for profit consultant over the United States Government

I think it's really obvious why a political party would want an independent conclusion other than a government conclusion, but that's me. In the end it was the same result.
They still have a couple with wooden treads on the top floor near the bedding section. There are many more in that building with steel treads and wooden "bodies."
Verizon launched startup with $40/month unlimited data, messaging and minutes
So why not just throw the $1M at Diaspora or Mastodon?
I'm glad it worked for you. All the talk of the pain body and the egoic mind just fell flat for me.
>b. that's an argument against big government, not an argument against capitalism

A government that is not large enough to upset an even playing field will also not be large enough to level an uneven playing field.
"Your personal device is your personal space" should be your personal policy, regardless of employer policy. Even if you have complete control over your employer-provided device, you have to assume the network is hostile -- if they aren't tracking everything you communicate over the network today, how would you even know if they started tomorrow?

Any business worth anything has data to protect and insider threats are what frighten them the most.

Use your own device. On the Guest / untrusted network. With a VPN. Should you find yourself somewhere that doesn't let you do those things, and it's not a job involving a security clearance... then it's definitely time to shop for a new gig.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Metamorphosis by Kafka.
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov.
"It's nice for the helicopter parent who also doesn't want their kids exposed to a phone..."

First of all, the dangers of modern phones to emotional health, for adults as well as children, I think is very well established by now.

So this device seems like a decent compromise for overly concerned parents (this is a redundant phrase).

I think there are also benefits for the child. In earlier generations, children would need to run home to ask permission to stay out longer or engage in a new activity. Now they can make those requests with less interruption to their current activities.

"If they comply, great! If not, they learn actions have consequences."

The key is to figure out what level of consequences they are ready to handle at different points in their development.
Google banned him from using their API (instead of fixing the issue). It worked when he posted it, it doesn't work now.
It's unclear if they're giving the money without taking equity, or if they're expecting to get a cut.
Argentina is amidst a potential crisis right now, and one interesting concept I heard was that the only reason it hasnt exploded yet, is that millenials are not prepared to handle with bank runs. They haven't seen one yet and take attitudes that make it easy for the government to keep its overreach.

I cant speak for australia, but if in argentina they made purchases over 10k illegal, it would be impossible to buy property, as they are only made in cash.

Yes, lots if not most of money held in cash or similars has some stink, but its a stink made up by the government. I assure you tax evasion explains the vast majority of cash reserves and that is the reason why the government will always try to cruch on cash: to increase its revenues.

Privacy is not a legitimate defense, but government overreach is not a legitimate attack. Who would you rather win? They guy that avoided taxes or the government that already taxes 28% of GDP?
I doubt there is much gain to be realized here especially when factoring in cost.
> a. that's corruption, not capitalism

This is the same logic used by people who argue "That's corruption, not socialism." If everywhere there is capitalism, there is corruption, you can't simply wave it away.

Edit: I originally asked "How is this argument different from 'that's corruption, not socialism'", which some seemed to interpret as a defense of socialism. I'm just pointing out the flawed logic in both arguments.
To make it into some industries it needs to also be easy to grab a snapshot of all the batteries and do mods and licensing checks/approvals before doing a network unconnected install. Running a crates clone may or may not make sense. For some cases grabby an image on a thumb drive or DVD and doing a standalone install on a single machine makes sense.
it's great if you don't mind sharing all your calls' metadata