skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"has opinions on present-day implementation details and changes, but is nowhere to be found when it comes to actually implementing anything or dealing with practical, day-to-day problems."

I see that a lot in my company. These guys basically have stopped learning and give advice based on what they did years ago. Only a selected few keep evolving.

In some areas I am at risk to also become the resident expert. I wish I could just hand it off to someone else but what do you do yourself then?
This is good. I'm just not very enthusiastic about the Windows terminal.

I've used PuTTY for a very long time and it works great. Its terminal is good too.

More recently I've tended to use Cygwin instead. Its default terminal, MinTTY, is as close as you can get to a Linux terminal on Windows. And then Cygwin also offers the openssh client, of course.

The notable thing about the recent related news, IMO, is not that openssh-client is shipped with Windows. It's that openssh-server is now an option. A server properly integrated with Windows, and officially supported, that's a good thing to have.
At one company I've worked with, health care costs an extra $50/month unless one complies with their health-tracking system's goals. I recently read of an ADD sufferer who was unable to obtain enough medicine to last a full week due to a DUI infraction decades ago. Massive government control over our health and permanent records are extent and nascent.

Company's goals are absolutely at odds with individual goals in many, many cases. That's why Consumer Confidence is tracked by the government. That's why manipulative advertising is ubiquitous. I'm not saying it's possible, but why would we trust an advertising company with our health, especially one with a lengthy list of privacy violations? At the very least, health programs should originate from trusted health-related organizations.
The TSA is security theater. It does not stop determined parties from smuggling dangerous contraband on airplanes.
Nice your books recommendation, thank you. It seems we are facing similar challenges. I will save them on my personal kanban to read them later.

I recently finished Traction, that was very useful to me, I discovered I was so ignorant that I was blind about the marketing area of my product.

Also, there is a interesting PDF, may you can found useful, if you need to avail other peoples work: https://www.dropbox.com/s/79v5vmprkz7dpb9/Nobody%20gets%20cr...
It's the "gaining money by threat" part that makes it a plausibly successful charge. What they do is publishing it in a way likely to lead to more publicity, more harm to reputation unless you pay them.

Take the Letterman extortion case. Letterman had a relationship with a staffer. Another staffer threatened to disclose to the press unless Letterman paid him. That staffer was convicted.

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

Disclosing to press/public and harming reputation is not extortion. And harming reputation with true facts is totally legal. You can even go to a (trashy) paper and get paid for your story.

Threatening to disclose and/or publicize unless payment is made is extortion.

IANAL and building a case is probably more complicated than I understand.
There used to be pretty cheap stand-alone GPS navigation devices (probably still are, though I haven't bothered to look.) And many cars have built in GPS navigation these days anyway.

You can also get a road atlas for the regions you'll find yourself in. That's how I learned to navigate. It works just fine the vast majority of the time and the remaining time you just pull into a gas station and ask. It's not really a big deal.
When I see one of these I often report it (just one more finger in the dike) -- but Twitter's report options only include "spam" and "abusive/harmful"; I'm not sure what's the closest option for fraud and impersonation.
> Either they keep it under wraps or nobody is trying because they perceive the security to be too high. Or they get caught before they try.

Or, no one really is trying to blow up planes, and we're just wasting money trying to prevent something that never happens.
Well, yes I see your point. But I wouldn't say that it was easy, just not as bad as it had been hyped up to be. Although I think most of that sentiment comes from older Rust versions, when lifetimes were defined in more places and you had to learn some of the more advanced concepts.
Well, a professional software developer should be at least on the same level - and these comments are made by professionals.
Same here, but I have to admit I also from the Odenwald :D
This is a nearly perfect PR hit. Controversial question in the title, about a product category nearly everyone uses, with the product name in the first sentence, for an indie-funded startup, challenging Apple and Google and social media, published in the NYTimes in the middle of the week.

Short of an endorsement from Barack Obama, I don't know how this could have been any better for them. Well done.
I've been eyeing the Latitude 7285, though Dell opted not to refresh it's form factor in the latest product line refresh, so I'm a little worried about if they'll keep the design.

It's a detachable 2-in-1 like the Surface Book, though it's magnetic instead of the Book's slightly overengineered mechanized connector. It's also a lot cheaper than the Book for what you get, far easier to disassemble and service, and has built-in LTE available.

I currently have a Surface Pro 4, and while I'm relatively fond of it in general, the lack of LTE on this model irritates me (newer ones now can get it), and the biggest issue is that the soft keyboard/kickstand design isn't sufficiently lap-usable.
It'll take 6 months to a year to get a CRADA written and signed. They're good for 5 years and can be amended. Budgets are generally side by side, transfer of funds doesn't work well. If you need people on site, working through a DoD staffing agency (e.g. Booz-Allen, one of the military medicine foundations, etc) is worth the overhead because they have the staffing experience.

There are tons of how-tos on line. Keywords are "CRADA", "technology transfer" (T2) and pick a noun or verb of your choice. Every federal department and agency has some sort of "T2" program with people who will even help write the CRADA for you. Commerce, Interior, HHS, all of them.

The key items are to write an effective statement of work and a budget. And understand these things are designed to accomodate big, enormous projects. Act of Congress scale projects. So, if you're going to think, you might as well think big. The paperwork is the same, big or small.
> Are the authorities going to block tumblr or twitter because of all the porn on there? If not then what is the purpose of this law?

No. This is a Brexit-style law, the point is to send a message, through the newspapers. Not to be bothered with any details about how it might actually work.
To multiply your mistake, those Bitcoin transactions in the chart can be multiparty transactions, where, for example, a store issues all the daily refunds to its customers in a single transaction. Basically, a better metric is needed.
Show HN: Download MP3s with YouTube-dl based on radio song metadata
My solution integrates in other networks while having its own private addressing. Think something like a VPN (it's not a VPN but that's a story for an other day). Even if I allocate a random subnet like "10.5.212.0/24" I still take the risk of being unlucky and conflicting with something. On top of that I then only have 256 individual IPs to play with which means that I need to have some kind of dynamic allocation scheme instead of just using the MAC address to have a globally unique ID. This is of course even worse if you want to allocate multiple subnets.

IPv6 is much simpler to deal with.
Physical inventory and IP are analogous in that they are both types of property that their owner intends to use to generate revenue (and hopefully profit).

> it is much more complex process to valuate intangible assets such as ip.

Please note that my argument above assigns a value of $0.00 to the IP itself.

Even at that valuation, you can still commit theft by robbing me of the opportunity to use that IP to generate revenue. By analogy: when you steal a TV, you are charged on the retail price of the TV (the amount you should have paid for it), not the wholesale price (the amount the store paid for it).
The problem with the lock is that people think it means a site is safe (i.e. contents are safe). That's not what it means and you're never going to educate enough people about what it really means, nor should you have to.

It's grossly misleading and it needs to go.
If they are sharing true facts, they can harm your reputation anytime they want. Individuals can harm other people's reputation with true facts too.

Defamation/slander/libel is only when someone harms your reputation with false facts. It's hard to win defamation suits.

Doesn't make it nice of course. But not every cruel thing is illegal.
How do Wireguard and ZeroTier compare?
Or a small group of careless people who "wanted to see if they could".

I obviously have no idea of their intent.
Again, I strongly disagree. Make it a requirement before writing a single line of code. The impact this industry has on the world is such that ethics training is a must.
> Maybe I'm just remembering the past through rose-colored nostalgia glasses, but it seemed back in those days the internet was a mostly positive place -- or at least not a hostile one where you had to constantly watch your back and pretend to be who you weren't lest records of your past come back to haunt you.

It's because back then the internet came with built-in socioeconomic, gender, and racial barriers, due to the expense and location of network access.

These types of things are going to happen whenever you put billions of people on a network. The early internet was not a cake slice; it was basically just rich white dudes with graduate degrees.

We have to deal with the crap that humanity generates regardless; it's not an issue of growth. Within a generation every human alive will be on the network. Let's plan and build for that future.
Have you downloaded Riot.IM? There’s lots of rooms on there that likely have high cross over with HN.
This is the best explanation of how mDNS works that I've ever seen. Thank you!
>And then, what's wrong with asking someone for directions?

completely wasting their time. use your phone.
What about a Discord server?
Isn't that a tautology, though?

My point is that actual[1] investors have an incentive to pour their money into money-burners because if just one of those initially money-burning is the next Google, Facebook, Amazon, or whatever overwhelming winner-take-all breakout profitable company, they will have more than justified dumping all that cash into the losers.

[1] for lack of a better term. I've never quite understood why it's considered "investing" to buy stock in a company if someone other than the company itself previously owned the stock. That cash isn't going into company coffers. This activity seems more like asset ownership/speculating than asset allocation (which is what I think of when I hear the word "invest").
Show HN: GDPR Tracker ChatBot
Elon Musk promises he'll deliver self driving electric cars and reusable spacecraft. It's hard to find things that would get tech enthusiasts more excited.

If he were reinventing the shipping or fertilizer industry while burning as much cash and treating his employees as poorly, no one would idolize him the way he is idolized now.
ccTLDs can have similar issues to the new gTLDs - the administration of those is contracted out by ICANN too, usually to a State level body of some kind. The quality of these varies hugely as well. This is also why countries with desirable ccTLDs like .tv (Tuvalu) abuse their position by charging more for their TLD.

.io as used in this example was a ccTLD, and this issue was directly caused by its mismanagement.
road closed. detours. insane levels of traffic you didn't anticipate. have fun.
I have not seen anyone else mention it, but I think there is a significant factor in the resistance of elites to UBI that they will not admit, but is important to think about. I don't think the cost of UBI is at issue per se, but the social consequences. They may well consider that UBI would lead to a significant increase in the number of idle people, and idle people are more likely to become restive. Not being hungry may prevent riots, but so does having something to do all day. From the point of view of a billionaire, it may not be all about whether they have $10 billion or $11 billion, but rather what maintains the social order.
Do you care to elaborate on how specifically they are not great, how they make drivel? Yours is a low-energy argument in itself, no specifics, just negativity.
GPS doesn't need data, just use an offline maps app on the tablet. HERE is okay, Google Maps nowadays also lets you download areas to use offline, and there are multiple apps that can use OpenStreetMap data.
The question is, is there a technical reason? Are modern refrigeration systems more efficient than CFC systems? If so, then it's a dumb idea. But if there's an actual efficiency gain to be had with CFCs... well.

This is not my field of expertise, and a quick googling didn't turn up really unbiased sources.
I can write a scalable webservice that is able to detect such content with 90%-95% accuracy including locations of offending areas; based on some very recent (2 months old) Deep Learning research. I presume they can do that as well and take 5-10% failure rate as acceptable. If I were running my own social network and wanted to keep it clean, I'd use it without any hesitation. But those are technical means, this is a political issue.
My cousin in the early 2000s worked for a R&D company who did some work on the early generation of sniffer machines that detected trace residue of explosives, and biological agents in airports. He had to go to a meeting and flew from Atlanta to boston with a prototype of the machine. He packed it in his carry on case along with his basic tool kit. When he got to security screening he realized that he also had vials of simulants for anthrax, sarain, various explosives, etc etc in that case. He gets into the security screening line and the TSA guy starts asking him all kinds of questions and he just knows he is about to get detained for the simulants which were not clearly marked as such. Instead the guy is like “You can’t take that screw driver with you”
This "Switchblade® Tactical Missle System" advertised on AeroVironment's website is probably what they were transporting: https://www.avinc.com/solutions/tactical-mission-systems

They emphasize that it's "man-portable" and it's a "precision lethal payload" embedded onto a drone.
Because there are still issues with the idea of PoS. Major one AFAIK is that there's nothing preventing miners mining a fork in addition to the "main" chain, which destroys consensus on which chain is the main chain.
The amount of people working as programmers with degrees in non computer science related fields does kind of imply that, though.
Yeah, I think you've basically hit the nail(s) on the head here.

But it also seems at least partly designed to obscure the fact that parts of pre-trial confinement are tantamount to extrajudicial punishment.
Vim 8.1 is available
Nice man, reminds me of a forum we used to visit ;-)
> in the UK you see the police tweeting to brag about finding the kind of knives you eat with and still struggling with very high murder rates

HN is not the place to spread simple misinformation. Homicide rates in the UK are lower than in the US, and are completely unremarkable internationally:

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

The homicide rate in the UK has also been declining quite sharply for the past 20 years or so, as you can determine via a quick Google search.
TSA is generally a joke. Do you think anyone who is seriously attempting something would be dumb enough to get caught by TSA. Sure it might catch a few loonies who have voices telling them to blow up their shoes, but the TSA won't stop a real terrorist plan. It's going to be intelligence and surveillance that catches real threats.
It's crazy the lengths to which trading firms are going to squeeze nanoseconds out of latency. It makes me wonder what value we're getting, from a societal perspective.
Language changes. Phone now means (primarily) thing-in-pocket, but importantly its _shorter_ than thing-in-pocket so phone it is. Don't think so? I misplaced my ____. Sally is playing games on her ____. Joe is watching netflix on his ____.
Upon reading the headline, there was one question in my mind -- and unfortunately, the article didn't answer it. To wit:

Why was the drone 'rigged with explosives' in the first place??!
The NYT's audience model is to make white collar slightly liberal managerial class and workers that aspire to the managerial class feel smart. These are the people that decide what a "glowing reputation" is, hence NYT gets one.

They then take this reputation they built up and pivot it into foreign policy propaganda, often based on official lies.

Of course, NYT also employs actual and good reporters. However, to a certain degree, they are swimming against the stream and their prestige enhances the prestige of the institution. Just look at how James Risen's stories on Stellar Wind were killed by calls from the White House.
JSON files should not be authored, use YAML instead
He's half-right; Cromwell was not a popular uprising, and was so unpopular during his rule that the UK returned to monarchy afterwards.

I think the crucial thing is that since the eras of Rights of Man and Human Rights we've not had enough of a catastrophe to completely ground-up rebuild the principles of government.
This reminds me of Austria's Reisseck-Hoehenbahn
which sadly closed down a few years ago. It was a 600mm narrow gauge train high up in the mountains originally used for the construction of a power plant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XrOfSNdO4
The only thing I can surmise is that they either just want no part of competing in the music arena (there are definitely folks within Google that want to, are working to compete, and probably have made some great things to boot) but it definitely has never felt like something Google was pushing for in terms of it being it's flagship product / project. In a sense Google+ never really felt that way to me either, beyond just being annoyingly invasive during the rollover and there after.

It feels like with Google's back catalog of audio (via Youtube and otherwise) plus their ability to ID and catalog all types of data makes me feel that their ultimate, final form music service could be the most certain home run / competition killer ever rolled out but to me that doesn't seem AT ALL compatible with Google's new product roll out method which seems to be: quietly release new product / project and hope it catches on for being really great at what it does.

Their method of roll out, from my POV, makes them look smarter when a project without an inaudible roll out becomes a smash hit and also makes them look less "of a failure?" when their roll out of a project winds up being an eventual failure (I think they learned this lesson for the final ultimate time with Google+, if I had to guess).

I don't know if their "ideal roll out method" (from my POV, from my mind) is compatible with releasing a true "Google Music" Project / Product / Service.

In my (our?) mind(s) I (we) can clearly see all the cogs and ability and musical data and artist / music metadata to power and skin a potential "Google Music" so what is or has stopped them from releasing such a product, ultimately?
Does it handle literotica? (Could the UK under the new law?)
This goes in cycles, like everything.
ASVAB is an IQ test. Education correlates strongly with IQ. IQ isn't the only thing you get from the type of degree earned and where it's earned from, but it's a big component.
I've probably not had that exact same experience but I've certainly had other experiences.

As someone who likes science and have an analytic approach I guess I would probably have ended up as an atheist if it wasn't for a number of events that would be really hard to fit into an atheist worldview.

Furthermore I've also come to realize that this position has been really good and useful for me, -and the rest of the world. It has helped me go from an angry boy from a poor family to a reasonable man who's not only able to feed my family but also actually able to help others.

So, for what I know free will and God might be an illusion (I don't think that), but in that case I'd say it's a really useful illusion.
Ban zack !!
There is no real monad in ruby. That why I feel like the article is missing the point.
For a while, when he was at Atari, Steve walked barefoot and didn't shower, thinking his fruit only diet would lead to no body odor. That would roughly coincide with the time period of this anecdote.
More bots more growth!
Examples? Most of them are not offering such service.
I would much rather rehabilitate, but since that's not happening and there are high recitivism rates, I do want to know who lives near me or where I might want to live.

In the instances where you damage your community through a crime, it's OK to lose some right to privacy. I could see the case for getting removed if you do successfully rehabilitate though.
”I think you actually can sue for whatever reason you like but court can say it does not make sense and they will not run the case.”

True.

”It is your responsibility to get enough evidence but it is hard and no one cares enough.”

In this case, every “doesn’t comply with the GDPR” case a company starts will be immediately dismissed because:

a) you can’t start a lawsuit on the GDPR. The only way is through a national data protection authority.

b) even if you could, companies wouldn’t be interested parties in such a case.

(By the way, I think the national data protection authorities are the sore spot in the GDPR. I don’t think it is good that they are both prosecutor, jury, and executioner)
Security theater and also a massive federal jobs program and corruption funnel (pouring money into the suppliers of all the “security technology”)
Yes. That is true. It would be kind of crazy if it weren't.
If you enjoyed this article and especially the parallel between animal populations and human behavior. I recommend reading about [1] Evolutionarily Stable Strategy and specificly the book [2] The Selfish Gene by [3] Richard Dawkins.

The gist of it is that survival strategies are only viable given the distribution of the behavior throughout the entire species or population. Similar to a finicial market, some strategies work only when a small percentage of the population exhibits the behavior.

A bonus is that, like the phrase Too Clever by Half, Dawkins is also British.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
I now only use a huawei watch 2 with LTE as my only phone. I do not pair it with a smart phone.

It allows me to use google maps, call an uber and see my upcoming appointments by syncing with google.

But I can't check my email, facebook or the news, or other websites.

This means it is not distracting, but I have the really useful bits from a smart phone.

The only problem is battery life, and the fact that sometimes it needs to talk to a synced device (I use my zte projector -the os thinks its a phone)